Live Webinar April 26th,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Project managers and executives do not like to talk about ‘problem’ projects; however, the reality is that they do exist.

Most Project Managers are faced with events that result in a troubled or problem project that is in jeopardy with regards to the criteria used to define project success.

This Webinar will discuss problem project symptoms along with successful problem solving strategies including systematic and creative approaches. Attend this Webinar and learn recovery techniques to turn your problem project around for successful completion.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE (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.

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Looking for More Information on Troubled Projects?

Book /Learning Guide
Earn Up to 10 Category C PDUs Reading & Completing
Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure & A Learning Guide For “Rescue The Problem Project” (pduOTD Primer Series)

Are you managing a problem project? Do you want to learn more about the recovery process before you’re managing a problem project? Todd C. Williams’ “Rescue the Problem Project” is the #1 book that details the recovery process for a problem project.

Martin Chernenkoff, Senior Editor at PDU Of The Day (pduOTD.com) has written this companion to the #1 book on Project Recovery. “A Learning Guide For Rescue The Problem Project” is part of the pduOTD Primer series for Project Management.

Many books explain how to run a project, but only Todd C. Williams shows how to bring it back from the brink of disaster. With 65% of projects failing to meet goals and 25% canceled outright, that’s essential information!

With the help of this Learning guide, you will turn the recovery process outlined in “Rescue the Problem Project” into a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Action Item list.

After working through the Learning Guide and studying the book, you’ll be ready to tackle that gnarly project! At the same time … earn PDUs.

What is the purpose of this learning guide?

1. The learning guide navigates you through the recovery process.
2. It supplements the book with a Work Breakdown Structure and Action Items for the recovery manager.
3. The learning guide helps you document the PDUs earned for PMI® certification and earn up to 10 PDUs .

The six parts of this book mirror the steps of the recovery process and the parts of “Rescue the Problem Project”. Each section contains a WBS diagram that lists deliverables required, a WBS Dictionary that defines the deliverables and a checklist with key points to remember.

As you work through the learning guide and customize the WBS, you’ll be creating the recovery plan you need to bring your problem project back from the brink.

NOTE: Category C Recording information is included with the Learning Guide.

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Click to purchase Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure

Live Webinar April 25th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: AtTask Events (REP #2797)

Companies initiate projects because projects are catalysts for change.

Change by its very nature is challenging, difficult, frustrating and disruptive. It requires an organisation and its people to transition from today’s way of working to tomorrow’s business as usual. However a typical project lifecycle focuses on handover not transition.

Transition and transition planning is left to chance, further increasing the gap that already separates a project from the business. Closing this gap is critical to the project achieving operational engagement and acceptance of its solution.

Successful transitions do not happen by default, are not the sole domain of projects or change management teams. They need more than a sprinkling of fairy dust to deliver any of the anticipated or expected business benefits.

In this webinar Deanne helps attendees understand the difference between handover and transition, and discusses the benefits of transition planning and how to go about it.

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Live Webinar – April 25th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, Sr. Consultant, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar – April 25th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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

For years now we have heard that content is king on the web. But how do you write good content for the web?

Writing for the web is a whole different skill, but you’re already 80% of the way there. The attention span on the web is approaching zero. You know your company, now you must also know your audience.

You have to know how to appeal to their needs and wants. You may have written some really solid, thought-provoking content that didn’t generate any engagement or traffic. Good content is useless if nobody ever sees it. Getting people to find your content is what makes good content great content!

In this seminar, Phil Buckley, (LinkedIn profile) Director of SEO at Virante and the organizer of the most successful SEO Meetup group in the United States, will discuss how to write for the web.

Phil will discuss how small changes can make a big difference when attempting to increase the findability of your content through proper search engine optimization. If you are writing content that is posted to the web, but are not a technical SEO professional this event is meant for you.

Copywriters are not the ones building the page or coding up the meta information, but there is a lot you can do to help optimize your content. Once you are “SEO aware” you will see everything differently, what was once a mystery will become clear and understandable.

Learning Objectives:

• Creating catchy and search engine friendly titles and headlines
• Choosing keywords
• Why you should be linking out
• Proper tagging
• Proper keyword usage

Presenter: Phil Buckley, Director of SEO at Virante

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2012 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Today, both employees and managers find themselves in a place of tepid confidence while simultaneously feeling an overwhelming need to remain positive and focused on future growth and productivity. Research has demonstrated that a critical element to achieving sustainable business success especially during tough times is organizational trust, which fosters organizational leadership and collaboration.

Creating and maintaining this foundation among employees is a vital ingredient in ramping up skills, optimism, and readiness for the future. And yet, many organizations still fail to leverage this relationship, perhaps due in part to limited clarity about how it really works.

Interaction Associates has partnered with the Human Capital Institute to further clarify and demonstrate how the level of trust within an organization influences leadership, collaboration, and productivity. Hear about the results from Interaction Associates’ fourth annual Trust in Business survey as we better illustrate how and what elements of organizational trust increase productivity and improve business.

Don’t miss these takeaways:

• Learn what elements define a foundation of trust as we dive into the latest survey results
• Discover what prescriptive measures you can take in your organization to increase trust
• Hear more about how organizational trust is becoming increasingly important in business

Presenters:

• Linda Stewart, (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO, Interaction Associates
• Andrew Atkins, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Innovation Officer, Interaction Associates

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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’

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