Live Webinar May 3rd, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1282
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

The goal of this webinar is to provide a “best-practices” approach to the effective and efficient planning and management of projects. The importance of a well-developed plan and putting in place effective project controls will be emphasized. Techniques for alignment of the project’s goals to organizational needs will be discussed, along with methods to better manage resources.

Participants will also be given an overview of how to successfully facilitate the creation of project charters, work breakdown structures, network diagrams and keeping project plans current using proven project management techniques; additionally, best practices for effective project control methods will be reviewed.

Learning objectives include:

• Establish a framework for planning and control
• Learn how to organize a joint planning session
• Understand how to effectively use matrix resources
• Recognize the importance of a RACI chart
• Measure and report progress using variance analysis

About the Presenter: Terrell Smith, MPA, PMP, CBAP (LinkedIn profile) With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

Click to register for Project Planning and Control: A Contemporary Approach

Live Webinar – May 3rd, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
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 existence of IT has always been dependent on its ability to substantiate the value it can deliver to its organization and quickly recognized a need to incorporate and apply a set of management principles and practices they could rely on to help deliver “value” to their organizations.

Effective Project Management is the tool/discipline successful organizations rely on to ensure the delivery their products, projects, and services.

This webinar establishes a context for the discipline of Project Management, reviews (origins, purposes, objectives) several industry recognized Project Management Methodologies, establishes a widely used nomenclature (lifecycle, phases, deliverables/artifacts) relied on by the leading Project Management Methodologies, and cites specific examples of how the deliverables/artifacts/work products of a Project Management Methodology can be scaled and leveraged to deliver projects and organizational “value”.

The session concludes in discussing how a Project Management Methodology can be applied in the context of a specific and unique IT project or in the context of being applied to all IT projects across an organization (introducing quality, governance and improvement perspectives)

Upon its conclusion, attendees will have a greater general understanding of Project Management Methodology, and a foundation they can utilize to further their Project Management Methodology knowledge and expertise.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Establishing a context and general overview of IT Project Management Methodology
• Providing descriptions and samples of specific deliverables/artifacts/ work products applicable to a Project Management Methodology
• Illustrating how a Project Management Methodology can be applied in the context of a specific project or as an organizational process that is utilized by all organizational IT project teams

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• QAIassist Context Diagram
• QAIassist Deliverble Descriptions
• QAIassist Deliverble Descriptions

Presenter: Cameron Watson is the President of QAIassist (LinkedIn profile), the standard in scalable SMB IT Methodologies. Cameron is recognized as an expert in IT methodologies and how they can be leveraged within small and mid-sized organizations – his 25 years of experience ranges from programming and analysis (Canada Systems Group, ADP) to project management and consulting (Bank of Canada, Fujitsu Consulting) to education director (Data Kinetics) to a number of senior management positions guiding corporate PMO’s (OAO Technologies – PMO Manager, Aviva Insurance – PMO Director).

Click to register for Without a Map Your Destination Can Be Anywhere: IT Methodology (Project Management) Part 2 of 4

Online Webinar – Presented by: Pillar Technology Group
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Recorded:

Can your team or stakeholders easily tell:

1. How your project is doing?
2. Will it be done on time?
3. What the pain points are?

Measuring the right things and displaying the measurements will communicate to the team and to stakeholders that these are the behaviors the organization wants to encourage.

Big Visible Charts (BVCs) can communicate information:

• Increasing team Effectiveness
• Provide required feedback to the team by making issues more visible
• Make status reporting more reliable And …
• Increase the confidence in the team as progress is shown

Telling people something is important is one thing “Measuring It” and “Displaying The Measurement” is another. – Matt VanVleet, Pillar

In this Webinar, Matt VanVleet (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the uses and benefits of Big Visible Charts (BVC;s) when managing an agile project.

Pillar Technology Group cares about the community. Individual training costs are “VERY Reasonable” and the proceeds of the training go to charity inspired by the “Agile Manifesto” and many other foundational works in the industry. Check out their training page.

As Angelo Mazzocco, President of Pillar explains “We live in an economy where access to “free” or not for profit is becoming a part of our every day lives. It is in this spirit that we would like to launch the Pillar Training Series. It is our passion that we should not profit from the distribution of knowledge. So our courses will be unique. All proceeds generated from a course will be donated to charity. All work done in the course will be for a charity.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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.’

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 Managing an Agile Project: How to Build Better BVC’s

Live Webinar – May 3rd 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

Microsoft is being predictably tight-lipped about specifics around the next release of SharePoint, but that doesn’t mean folks across all industries aren’t anxiously awaiting it. Today, two years after the release of 2010 and five years after the release of MOSS, dynamic document management is at an interesting crossroads.

Those of you who have SharePoint 2010 in place (particularly if your footprint is large or usage is mature) are wondering whether you should continue full-steam ahead or wait for some indication of where Microsoft is taking the product with the next release.

Those of you who have older versions in place (MOSS, WSS, etc.), and are feeling the increasing pain of being a version (or more) behind, are wondering whether you should bite the bullet and upgrade to SharePoint 2010 or continue limping along to wait for the next release.

And those of you who have no SharePoint in place are wondering whether you should finally dive in now (and begin reaping the benefits of using SharePoint rather than shared drives) or stick it out a little longer until the next version.

Learning Objectives:

• What’s the best way to minimize the risk associated with the next release of SharePoint to an organization?
• What factors make staying put with an existing version of SharePoint a good idea versus a bad one?
• How can an organization balance the need for document management capabilities now with the benefits of waiting for new capabilities of the next release?

Presenter: Joe Shepley (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for SharePoint at the Crossroads