Archive for May, 2012

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Live Webinar – May 31st, 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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No Project Left Behind?

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Live Webinar May 30th, 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)

Project-driven organizations have focused on planning and execution as their core project management activities, but many are overlooking essential disciplines related to the intake and closure of project work.

In this session, Info-Tech’s Barry Cousins will expose the critical success factors related to the full work management lifecycle.

Presenter: Barry Cousins
(LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Research Analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, specializing in Help/Service Desk, Project Management, and Business Intelligence. He brings an extensive background in technology, IT management, and business leadership.

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Live Webinar – May 30th 2012, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT RESCHEDULED
Live Webinar NOW – June 27th 2012 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999) Apologizes For Any Inconvenience
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) provides a common reference model for the identification of the skills needed to develop effective Information Systems. It is increasingly becoming the standard for professional IT competencies and it is widely used in the UK and in many other parts of the world.

This webinar provides an overview of SFIA and how it can be used to support the training and development needs of a wide range of businesses. Using examples of work undertaken with some major blue chip organizations; speaker Simon Vallance (LinkedIn profile), explores the business benefits of using a common and consistent language to describe the skills and capabilities that an organization requires.

With reference to the Global Knowledge skills management methodology, Simon looks at how the identification of core SFIA skills, the creation of role profiles and the assessment of the current skills in a business needs to be supported by recommended catalogs of activity that align development to capability gaps. Doing so ensures that organizations can ensure that investment in skills development and acquisition aligns to their strategic objectives.

Click to register for Using Skills Framework For The Information Age (SFIA) To Manage Skills

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
June 1st & 8th, 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDUs – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!

– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Fridays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

When work requires close collaboration, even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of Teamability will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

The Gabriel Institute has created technology that reveals how people will perform when working with others to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve common goals. In short, it measures Teamability: the ability to connect with others to form a productive team.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With Teamability, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

There are many ways to measure skills, talents, and traits, but teaming metrics are unique. It took 25 years of research and testing – including 9 years of software development – to produce TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ reports, which are the foundation of TGI’s Role-Based Approach to selecting, structuring, managing and motivating teams.

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

TGI Teamability was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

TGI Teamability can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team. It is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of Teamability and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of TGI Teamabilityâ„¢, and to apply for an optional Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

  • Participant’s own Teamability Report at no additional cost
  • Four contact hours of training, including all materials
  • Readings to be completed during course attendance
  • Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications (optional to complete)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.2 Acquire Project Team
  • 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 What Is Your Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

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Live Webinar – May 31st, 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

Organizations today must implement change more frequently and reliably. But adapting IT systems and processes pose challenges both to your core infrastructure and staff. Value-Driven BPM has demonstrated its ability to help translate Strategy into Information Technology (IT) and People-Based execution at pace and with certainty.

Join this webinar to learn how you can tighten the integration between business strategy, IT and people-based execution, enabling them to gain critical competitive differentiation in a changing world.

In this webinar you will:

  1. Identify why Value-driven BPM provides greater agility and immediate competitive advantage
  2. Learn how to turn business processes into real assets
  3. Gain practical insight into charting a path for stronger and more strategic capabilities in the long term
  4. Understand how the key to achieving value-driven BPM is to develop and nurture it as a process itself

Presenter: Peter Franz (LinkedIn profile) is the Managing Director for Business Process Management Accenture (BPM) at Accenture. Through Value-Driven BPM, organizations realize immediate value, deliver measurable results and establish a lasting BPM capability. With more than 28 years experience in the areas of technology and the use of process to solve business problems — the two areas where BPM is converging today— he maintains a focus on balancing theory with realistic goals and concerns.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

  • 5.1 Collect Requirements
  • 5.4 Verify Scope
  • 5.5 Control Scope

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 The Value-Switch: From Strategy to Execution with Value-driven BPM

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Live Webinar May 30th, 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

Join the QuantumPM experts as they take you through their top five tips to keep your project server environment in excellent health.

They will share some of the good, bad, and ugly issues we have seen and let you in on some of our secrets for preventing and eliminating these problems. Tips include both Project Server and Project Professional best practices.

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

Click to register for PMO Best Practices: Top Five Tips for Keeping Your Project Server Environment Healthy