Live Webinar May 22nd, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1303
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Business Analysts have to analyze new opportunities and make the business case for new project initiatives.

That requires quantitative analysis of costs, benefits, risks, alternative solutions, and the net return on investment so that the proposed investment can be compared to other opportunities and a sound business decision can be made.

Learning objectives include:

• Discover fixed, variable, and other costs and benefits
• Quantify costs and benefits in their present value
• Calculate net present value, net cost-benefit, net risk exposure, and ROI
• Assemble a convincing business case

This webinar is an overview of the skills needed to perform cost-benefit analysis and assembling a business case.

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect.

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2012 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: InfoTech (Rep 1223)

Statusing is the focus of project controls during the project’s execution phase. It like all other aspects of projects must be planned and planned well. Statusing should provide information that compares planned project performance to actual performance. However without a good plan, “actuals” have little meaning.

Topics will include:

• The planning tools that can and should be used as part of status
• Establishing appropriate completion credit rules
• Aligning completion credit rules to different task types
• Determining frequency of statusing

Who should attend: This webinar is designed for project managers and those who are responsible for updating and statusing project work.

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Live Webinar – May 22th, 2012 1o:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 2 hour + Q & A 2 PDU / 2 CDU
Mpug Member Free – This is a members only opportunity

Note: Signup for this activity ends May 21st

EARN AN MPUG Certificate:
Microsoft Project Reporting
(upon completing three 2 hour sessions)

• Level 1 Basic Project reporting, was – 24 April 2012, 10:00 AM ET
• Level 2 Intermediate Project Reporting, was –8 May 2012, 10:00 AM ET
• Level 3 Advanced Project Reporting, 22 May 2012, 10:00 AM ET

This event requires a paid MPUG membership. Click here to join MPUG.

Course Details: Level 3 – Advanced Project Reporting – Microsoft Project Reporting Using Project Server, SQL Reporting, Excel Services and SharePoint – Configure reporting for Project Server 2010

Microsoft Project Server 2010 integrates the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Center Web application, which provides a central point for hosting the reports, dashboards, and report connections that can be auto-created or manually authored to provide access to reporting data in Project Server for your users.

The Business Intelligence Center can be used to host content created with Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Visio Services in SharePoint, PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint, PowerPivot and SQL Server Reporting Services.

Come see the powerful Project Server 2010 Reporting options:

• Understand which reporting tool can be leverage for your needs.
• Discover the possibilities of report configuration

JOIN MPUG FOR ONLY$119 per year and receive

• Access to in-person chapter meetings worldwide
• Access to weekly WebnLearns from industry leading experts and Microsoft MVPs
• Earn Weekly PDUS with the WebnLearns
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• Opportunities to participate in beta testing, webcasts, product surveys and discounts on Project-related events
• PMI and Microsoft Project educational credits for participation in meetings, special events and volunteer activities
• Search and post Project-related job openings through the Career Center

Speakers:
Jacques Goupil, PMP, MCP, MCTS, is Director of Business Development at MsProjectNow! Jacques was the Lead SME and writer for the Microsoft Project Certification Exam 70-178, Project 2010, Managing Projects, a board member of the Boston and South Florida MPUG Chapters, and an MPUG Project 2010 Certification Instructor. He has over 15 years of professional experience with very strong background in project management. He has considerable experience in creating and delivering instructor-led, PMI aligned, Project Management training i – including webcasts, and sessions for both PMI and MPUG.

Daniel Bell is the founder and Principal of MsProjectNow! Dan is MCTS certified in Microsoft Project Server 2010, Microsoft Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010, as well as being a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Dan also has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from PMI®. Dan has been working with the Microsoft Project Portfolio Server application since it was first acquired from UMT by Microsoft. He has led some of the most complex portfolio server implementations in the United States

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Live Webinar – May 22nd 2012, 1:00-2:00 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

In an effort to improve their planning efficiency, Agile teams utilize leaner, lighter written requirements to document the needs for their product.

This approach allows teams to focus on creating effective, working software sooner, but also presents a challenge for these teams when they are required to effectively size their project work and predict when they will complete their development.

In order to address this dilemma, Agile teams must employ an enhanced estimation technique that allows them to evaluate the level of effort required to deliver their product.

This one hour webinar will discuss the method today’s Agile teams use to solve the common problem of creating estimates when the complete set of requirements are not known.

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Live Webinar – May 22nd, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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’

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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

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