Live Webinar June 6th, 2012 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Take the mystery out of Earned Value Management. If you want to improve your ability to predict your estimate at completion, you need to follow some fundamental principles when building your project schedule.

This seminar focuses on the key concepts you need to know and not the complexity of compliance reporting.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar – June 5th 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

A great idea is meaningless and useless unless it can be communicated properly whether written or orally. The problem with writing down great ideas is you have to trust someone will actually read what you wrote. In today’s business environment, that is something I would you should not necessarily trust. The only true, quick way you can get your idea out is through presenting it.

What does that mean though? Is a presentation something speakers do at events? The reality is you present every time you have an oral communication with someone. A presentation can be one to one, one to two, or one to hundred. It can also be a group discussion with each person contributing to a team or on a panel. The dynamic to focus on, whether you are with one person or a group, is that you are presenting to them. This element creates a number of challenges but can also be used to your advantage.

When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you present you are your words. Your audience creates an instant image of you as you begin, and then that image ebbs and flows during your presentation. That image, when not managed correctly, can overshadow or even block the message you are trying to convey.

In this web seminar we will review very pragmatic skills, tools and techniques to properly prepare and execute a successful presentation. We will look at planning, preparation, delivery techniques and delivery challenges. This is very little on theory. The focus is on actions you can do before and during the presentation to increase the power of your message and the success of your idea

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David 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.

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Live Webinar June 4th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

• The first 90 percent of the EHR system is done; when do we start of the last 90 percent?
• This EHR project is a piece of cake; it’s only software!
• This is all administration stuff!

Back in the Y2K days, Program Management came to light along with the PMO. To this day, many small, medium and large size companies do not really understand or practice program management well.

Yes there is a “standard”…. But we just have to ask the question: “Then why do survey results still indicate approximately 70 percent of projects/program are challenged or fail?” [In 1994 the number was approximately 84 percent – not a dramatic improvement with all the standards floating around.]

With the large and complex projects and programs in the health care sector, especially the Electronic Health Records (EHR) implementation, there has to be a better way than to let 70 percent of the program efforts wind up in the same survey categories.

There are factors with both leadership and individuals in program management positions that could generate a positive or negative outcome to EHR projects.

Learn the mentality, tools, and integration discipline and approaches required to successfully manage the tsunami before you are staring right at it.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Live Webinar – June 6th, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

A lot of companies use “dashboards” to provide an at-a-glance look at how well a particular process or part of the business is performing. But what you measure, how you measure it, and the functionality of the dashboards make a huge difference to organizational effectiveness.

In this webinar, Anu George, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Quality Officer, along with Peter Jan, Director QA, both from investment research firm Morningstar, reveal some of the secrets behind the success of the company’s dashboards and how they help to make quality and continuous improvement front of mind in day-to-day operations.

Join this webinar to:

1. Hear how Morningstar leverages dashboards & measurements to drive a continuous improvement culture
2. Understand the potential pitfalls and how to ensure that you create the right culture for managing with metrics in an organization
3. Identify practical ways to make dashboards effective and incorporate them into day-to-day work
4. See a live demonstration of some of the most sophisticated dashboards in the financial services industry

Presenters:

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

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

• 4.4 Monitor and 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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