Live Webinar – April 26th 2012, 1:00 pm – 2:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification pilot program is complete, and as of January 31, 2012, the exam is open to all candidates.

In this hour-long webinar, ASPE president David Mantica will fill you in on the basics of PMI-ACP certification. He will cover application requirements and what you can expect on the exam, and he’ll provide options for exam prep training. He will also provide insight into how the PMI-ACP certification relates to the Scrum Alliance certifications.

Outline:

• Application requirements
• Fees
• Exam content overview
• Domains and tasks for Agile certification
• Training options
• PMI-ACP vs. Scrum Alliance certifications

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile)  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

Click to register for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Primer

Live Webinar – April 26th, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 April 26th, 2012 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Presented by: Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category C Free

Support Summit 2.0 : New Strategies for Elevating Your Support Team’s Performance

If you manage a customer contact operation, you already know what your biggest issues are: coaching, performance measurement, training and onboarding. But did you know there is an effective, new approach known as “strength-based communication” that can you help move ahead in all these areas?

What is a strength-based practice?

• The power of a positive attitude;
• Strength based communication techniques including:
  • reframing communication,
  • asking solution-focused questions,
• using inspirational metaphors;
• enhancing empathy and the need to avoid pejorative labeling;
• self-esteem building; creative self-management strategies;
• when and how to use incentives;
• respectful limit-setting; and
• helping young people who appear cognitively inflexible.

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’

Click to register for Coaching Your Support Team with Strength-Based Communication

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.

Click to register for How To Handle Problem Projects Effectively

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.

Click to visit the Learning Guide FaceBook Page created by Todd C Williams Like the guide & get notice of surprise specials.

Click to purchase A Learning Guide For “Rescue The Problem Project” (pduOTD Primer Series)

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.

Click to register for How to Pass the Baton Without Dropping the Ball

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)

Click to register for Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success