Archive for January, 2012

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Online Webinar Presented by: The Project Management Bookstore
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Recorded: August 2010

What if you treated the next year of your life like a project?

That’s a question Joseph Philips asked himself years ago and nothing has been the same since. Granted, your life is not a project, but you can use the principles of project management to make your life richer, more energetic, and full of joy.

The first step to any project is defining the purpose to launch a project. Is your life so different? All projects begin with a vision: a mental image of how the current status can be changed into some distant future status.

  • Do you have a vision for your life?
  • What characteristics of your life need improvement, removal, or addition?
  • What are you looking for?

A few years ago Joseph was at one of the lowest points in his life, but realized this was not an end, but rather a beginning. He asked what tools, what characteristics, and what skills do I have to leverage to get out, get on, and move forward? Joseph identified constraints holding him back, as well as the challenges waiting ahead.

He wrote his own requirements needed in his life, and created a plan to get from point A to point B. The Lifelong Project is a concept presented to and used by individuals throughout the United States and in Europe. It is proof positive that anyone can set and achieve goals using the proven principles of project management. Learn how with The Lifelong Project!

Joseph challenges the participants to treat the next year of their life as a Project with all the PMBOK phases – Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Monitoring and Closing. There were two quotes during his presentation that really inspired me – “Talking does not cook rice” and “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time to plant a tree is Now.” In January 2011, I challenged myself to treat this year as a Project. For me, the last year has been about contributing to the Project Management community by helping other PMPs earn their PDUs and ease the stress of the recertification process. I hope you become challenged to meet your goals this year as I was – Thank You – EdmontonPM

Joseph Phillips Bio:

Joseph Phillips (LinkedIn profile) is the Director of Education for Project Seminars and is an active member of the Project Management Institute. He has managed and consulted on projects for various industries, including banking, technical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and architectural, among others. He has taught courses for corporate clients and several Universities. He is a Certified Technical Trainer and has taught over 10,000 professionals and contributed as an author to more than 30 books on technology, careers, PM and program management. His book and focus of this webinar,The Lifelong Project, was published in November 2009.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to view The Lifelong Project: Using Project Management to Make Your Life Richer, More Energetic & Full of Joy

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Live Webinar – January 11th, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

There is no denying that SharePoint Server is a fantastic tool to increase business productivity, but are your users effectively trained to properly use SharePoint’s capabilities? There are several best practices and built-in tools that can increase user acceptance and increase overall SharePoint productivity.

In this web seminar, Aspe will cover several of the best practices to improve overall user acceptance of SharePoint, and will review several of SharePoint’s built in features, such as the seamless integration with the Microsoft Office client applications.

The key to getting users to accept a new technology like SharePoint is to allow them to benefit from the tool’s capabilities, without requiring them to learn new skills. Instead, they can perform their jobs, just as they always have, but have the additional advantages of SharePoint working for them behind the scenes.

Presenter: Tom Robbins (LinkedIn profile) has 25+ years in the telecommunications and IT industry. A Microsoft Certified Trainer and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer, Tom has been training for more than 15 years on the Microsoft Enterprise suite of products.

Click to register for Top 10 Things for Improving SharePoint Productivity

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Live Webinar – January 11th, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: The Flippen Group

Organizations become more productive, competitive and profitable when every employee ismotivated and equipped to reach his or her full potential and advance the efforts of the team.

The trouble is thatmany organizations aren’t clear on what it takes to build high performing teams.But what ifthere was adata-based, scientific approachthat companies and individuals could applyin order toovercome personal constraints and take their performance to the next level?

In this webinar, Dr. Chris White, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Flip Side: Break Free of the Behaviors That Hold You Back” reveals the secrets behindjust such an approach:

  • Learn howto apply a data-basedapproach to performance management that can help you grow yourself and others
  • Identifythe commonpersonal constraints that contribute to underperformanceandhow you can break them
  • Understand how certain behavior and expectations set usup for conflict
  • Get insight on howyou can play to your strengths in order to overcome personal and organizational constraints

This Webinar takes place 11:00 AM EST (New York)/16:00 GMT (London)/17:00 CEST (Paris)/00:00 HKT (Hong Kong)/ 00:00 EDT (Sydney). For additional time zones, please use the time converter at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html.

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Management Masterclass: The Science of Human Performance

Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar January 11 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager. Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

  • Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
  • Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
  • Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

You will have to register for either the live or recorded session

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Online Webinar – Presented by: GoToMeeting Corporate
Duration: 1 Hour1 Category C PDU – FREE PDUs
+ up to 2.5 PDUs for Reading Scott’s Sample Chapters

Hear bestselling author Scott Berkun ( @berkun) as he uncovers the best lessons from the history of innovation to reveal powerful and surprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations – truths you can easily apply to the challenges of today. Is what you think you know about innovation fact? Scott will separate the fact from the myths of innovation by telling you the real stories of how the worlds greatest innovators achieved their success. What you learn might surprise you.

In this webinar Scott will cover:

  • Why problems are more important than solutions
  • How to overcome resistance to new ideas and …
  • How to be an Innovator yourself

Although this session covers some of the ideas contained in his bookThe Myths of Innovation, Scott ensures that he tells stories and provides information that is NOT in his book! Scott also provides you 2 chapters of his book . Reading these Chapters (31 pages) would qualify for up to 1.5 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs.

Enjoy Some of Scott’s best selling books:

Scott Berkun is a highly respected author in the fields of Project Management and Innovation. pduOTD featured his book (worth up to 15 Category C PDUs) The Art of Project Management (Theory in Practice (O’Reilly)) as a Category C opportunity January 24th 2011.

CLICK HERE for the CHAPTER of the book The Art Of Project Management – This Chapter is 18 pages. Reading this Chapter would qualify for up to 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs (formerly Category 2 SDL PDUs).

(PDF) Book Review of The Art of Project Management by Craig Murphy (11 Pages) Book receives 5 Of 5 stars – A MUST READ.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 11 – Risk

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 11.1 Plan Risk Management
  • 11.2 Identify Risks
  • 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register and view The Myths of Innovation: How Ideas Really Happen

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Live Webinar January 12, 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

This webinar will describe practical quality tools both PM’s and BA’s can utilize to better manage projects.

Specific techniques with examples that will be discussed include controls charts, cause & effect diagrams and Pareto charts.

Attend this webinar and learn how a focus on quality management can improve the success of your projects. This presentation will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session afterward.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

Click to register for 7 Tools for Quality Management