Live Webinar March 22nd, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1252
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

• Have you ever been caught off guard by an event you didn’t expect in your project or …..
• You realized too late that you missed an opportunity to get a better result?
• Do you want to get better at spotting red flags or opportunities?

Effectively managing risks is a core project management discipline, and this webinar will introduce you to some tools and techniques for identifying risks, prioritizing them, analyzing their impact and devising responses.

Practical tips will be shared for how to develop your own abilities to spot red flags, and assess people and situations beyond their appearances.

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Live Webinar March 22nd, 2012 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by: ProjectTimes.com (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
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Description Of The Course:

We can all agree that the Business Analyst collaborates with business stakeholders throughout the organization to ensure high quality, on-time deliverables and seamless communication.

A key element of a Business Analyst’s proficiency is being aware of the array of techniques, tools, and deliverables that are available and selecting the ones that are appropriate to a particular problem.

Ultimately, business analysts want to achieve the following outcomes:

• Reduce waste
• Create solutions
• Help complete projects on time
• Improve efficiency
• Document the right requirements

The presentation reviews how you can successfully deliver these outcomes with your stakeholders.

Get answers to these questions:

• How do you determine which technique is used for which problem/opportunity or scenario?
• How do you know that are you using the “right” skills?

To learn the essential skills required for Business Analyst, they will cover the following topic areas:

• Analyze and understand the business problems Communicate effectively (written and spoken)
• Identify and document requirements
• Communicate effectively (written and spoken)
• Manage client relationships
• Model data and processes

Included in the course:

• Access to the Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

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Online Webinar Offered by: ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Adopting agile project management is more than a change in methods, it’s a change in metrics and mindset. Is your organization ready and able to support a switch to agile PM? Are you using a different set of tools and metrics to report your progress?

Key learning points:

• Agile approach to the requirements process
• Where to find metrics
• How to show progress

Speaker: Nancy Nee (LinkedIn profile), PMP, CBAP, CSM, ESI Executive Director of Product Strategy

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Online Webinar – Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.50 PDUs Credits: 0/50 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

During this webinar you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

The Webinar Agenda:

• What is a PMO
• Variants on a theme
• Why is establishing a PMO a popular approach
• Common PMO services
• Common causes for PMO failure
• Seven secrets of successful PMOs
• The rise of the ‘Virtual PMO’
• and how eclipse can support a PMO

Presenter : Kiron D. Bondale, (LinkedIn profile) Manager of Client Services

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.5 Control Scope
• 6.6 Control Schedule
• 7.3 Control Costs

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’

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Live Webinar March 22st, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Projects create unique products, services, or results. Thus, the inevitability of change is an inescapable factor resulting from every project. Every project creates opportunities that must be seized or forever lost. Without attention to organizational change, these products, services, and results may never be used.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to increase your awareness and start to acquire the skills to manage resistance to organizational change resulting from your projects.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Concepts of organizational change management and the differences in change versus transition
• Typical responsibilities of change agents
• How change disrupts expectations
• Reasons for and causes of resistance and how to manage resistance
• The importance of respecting differing frames of reference
• Emotional responses to change

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

NOTE: Session two March 29th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Making Change Last – is 1 more PDU and another $15 USD.

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Live Webinar March 22nd, 2012 – 12:00 am – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Cat A
Presented by :Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Risk managers keep their jobs under control by deciding which risks are worth tracking. In most cases, any risk having an extremely low probability is excluded from their list. But extremely low-probability events happen every day.

In this webinar, Riley Rice (LinkedIn profile) will explain the mathematical realities behind highly probable low-probability events.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

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