Live Webinar – February 15th, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

The Devil is in the Execution!

In today’s competitive economic climate, organizations stand or fall by how well they deliver against the promises they make to stakeholders.

There are two likely causes of the failure to deliver on promises made:

1. either the strategy itself was fundamentally flawed, or…..
2. the process through which strategy gets disseminated and executed was ineffective.

In the majority of cases, it is this execution process that lies at the heart of the problem with the root causes of this being one of the following:

• Lack of alignment between top level corporate strategy and the initiatives which take place at a tactical level
• Management reviews are predominantly focused around lagging measures which measure outcomes, and not leading measures which predict what the outcomes will be
• Organizations are unable to accurately predict the impact that the successful completion of actions will have on the Key Performance Indicators, and ultimately, strategy.

The process of Hoshin Planning or goal deployment, using the powerful X-Matrix, is being implemented by a number of organizations to help address these root causes, however close to 90% of companies are using spreadsheets to manage this and subsequently fail to achieve their goals.

Join Paul Docherty, (LinkedIn profile) CEO of i-nexus, as he discusses the steps organizations can take to address the barriers to effective Hoshin Planning.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work

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 Essential Hoshin Planning Tools For Excellence In Execution

Live Webinar – February 16th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hours 2 Category A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDUs
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

The agile methods don’t seem to support much in the way of preparation or planning—so teams simply dive-in and start iterating towards solutions to their business problems.

It’s a very common pattern.

In some contexts, this works just fine, for example, in smaller scale or simplistic projects.

• But what if your context is outside these areas?
• What if you need to determine a budget for your agile project?
• What if you have a distributed and larger scale project?
• What if you have no requirements and barely a clue as to what you need? What if you need an enterprise level architecture?

In these and many other real-world contexts, establishing a consistent and thoughtful baseline plan or view can be incredibly helpful. And it turns out…you can do that and STILL “be agile”.

In this session join agile practitioner Bob Galen (LinkedIn profile) as he shows you how to use Crystal’s Blitz Planning approach, User Story Mapping, and other more traditional end-to-end planning techniques to establish a “proper beginning” and define a “holistic map” for your agile projects.

This session is not only useful for agilists, but the session will help traditional project managers understand how they can bring crisp, lightweight planning to their non-agile projects as well.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• When and how to effectively charter (begin/start) agile projects.
• Learn various models for end-to-end planning and how to apply them within your agile projects without losing your ‘agility’.
• How to tie goal-setting and delivery measurement to project execution, feedback, and driving success.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personlized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Robert ‘Bob‘ Galen (LinkedIn profile) is the President and Principal Consultant of RGCG, L.L.C and author of SCRUM Product Ownership — Balancing Value From the Inside Out. Bob has held director, manager and contributor level positions in both software development and quality assurance organizations. He has over 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of software technology and product domains.

Click to register for End-to-End Agile Planning: Oxymoron or Powerful Release Planning Method

Live Webinar – February 16th, 2012 3:00 pm-4:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category B PDU – Free PDU
Presenter: Journyx Inc.

Strategic partnerships and alliances have existed as long as there have been businesses. They can be as simple as having a mentor to as complex as creating a joint venture. They operate internally between departments as well as externally.

Statistics show 60% fail but having one is critical to career and business success.

Handshake Strategyâ„¢ provides an effective process for finding, choosing, and managing the right type of alliance for your success.

Presenter: Jan Triplett, Ph.D. CEO, Business Success Center (BSC) The federal Small Business Administration (SBA) honored Jan and the BSC as one of three five-star national programs. She is the author of Thinking Big, Staying Small: Communication Practices of Small Organizations, and she has just released, Easy to Be Green: A Guide for Small Enterprises. She has been profiled in the Austin Business Journal and Austin Woman. She is a guest blogger for the Business Bank of Texas and maintains her own blog.

Click to register for Handshake Strategyâ„¢: How Strategic Alliances Can Grow Your Business

Online Webinar – Presented by: AIIM
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Recorded: Nov 30, 2011

There is no reason for your business process to be mired in paper and inefficient.

Automating your workflow – whatever that business workflow is – will improve your decision-making; and enable those decisions to be made faster. Don’t replicate a bad business process; make it better.

Learn how to automate your workflow:

1. What’s the first step towards improving your business process? – technology is only PART of the answer
2. How does workflow automate decision-making and improve document routing? Discover how workflow can be applied to your business points of pain.
3. How do you ensure that these news tools will be accepted by your workers so that they are more productive and your organization becomes more streamlined and efficient?

Presenter: Nathaniel Palmer, Principal & Chief BPM Strategist (LinkedIn profile) SRA International and author of Social BPM (Bpm and Workflow Handbook Series).

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope

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 Slides of the Presentation.

Click to register and view Learn Better Business Processes to Get Work Done