Live Webinar June 21st, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Agile Project Management has driven successful results throughout thousands of projects across the globe through various frameworks like Scrum,

Extreme Programming and others. Agile development, quality and project-level practices are allowing teams to react more quickly to changing market and business conditions, meeting customer needs more directly, and driving profits or cost savings sooner.

Most organizations are experimenting with agile approaches on one or more projects within their portfolio.

This webinar shares Agile Project Management best practices to guide project managers in large or small organizations to deliver complex results.

Learning objectives include:

• Learn about the agile manifesto as a key starting point
• Determine the role of the project manager on agile projects
• Provide an overview of agile frameworks
• Support and empower agile teams through training and coaching
• Track project portfolios using agile tracking techniques
• Bring lean discipline to project prioritization
• Move towards a stable teams model of resource management

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.

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Live Webinar June 21st, 2012 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Technical and business groups have famously tense relationships and project managers frequently find themselves in a mediating role.

Join Paul Glen (LinkedIn profile), author of Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology, and explore why it is all so difficult and what you can do about it.

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Live Webinar – June 21st, 2012 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 expend much time, money, and effort in a bid to improve their business processes. But these efforts can be met with less than desirable results if a few key issues aren’t considered right from the start.
There are a multitude of reasons that process improvement can fail to meet objectives including:

• underestimating the difficulty of sustaining the changes,
• inadequate or inappropriate communication between teams,
• not involving the right staff in the change –

but the pitfalls are predictable and easy to avoid once you learn to recognize them.

In this webinar, Brian M. Schramke draws on extensive practical experience leading process improvement at companies like La-Z-Boy, Fujifilm Sericol, Ingersoll Rand, and Kennecott Utah Copper and explains the most common reasons business process improvement projects fall short of expectations and what your organization can do to avoid these common traps.

Join this webinar to:

1. Identify the critical success factors necessary to achieve Business Process Improvement (BPI) goals and understand the impact that each factor has on helping you achieve your process improvement objectives
2. Learn to recognize the key pitfalls of process improvement projects that could be about to derail your BPI efforts
3. Get practical insight into how to avoid the most common pitfalls and what you should be doing right now to set your efforts up for success

Presenter: Brian M. Schramke Senior Technical Consultant- Operational Excellence Practice
Kepner-Tregoe primary areas of focus are: major project facilitation, organizational culture change, business process improvement, and operations excellence interventions in client organizations

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Plan Communications

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 – June 20th, 2012 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT
Duration: 30 min 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presenter: Journyx Inc.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program was created thirty years ago to provide small businesses access to federal agency research and development (R&D) projects.

Eleven federal agencies (DoD, HHS, NSF, NASA, DoE, DHS, DoC, USDA, DoEd, EPA, and DoT) provide over $2 billion of grants every year in a competitive proposal process that funds innovative R&D on projects that support the agency’s mission.

The SBIR is, in fact, the ONLY federal grant program that supports start-up businesses on a merit basis. Only 10% of the applications get funded, so with the intense level of competition to win a proposal, it’s important to carefully consider the necessary steps it takes to get there.

Over the years, thousands of companies have gotten their start with SBIR funding, including such current giants as Qualcomm and Symantec.

This webinar will help you identify whether the SBIR Program is appropriate for your business. We’ll discuss the “When, Why, and How of SBIR Funding” and discuss each of the federal agencies, who provides the funding, and exactly the kind of projects they fund.

Presenter: Fred Patterson, “The SBIR Coach®â€ (LinkedIn profile) Fred worked with the SBIR Program and all of its aspects since its inception. Fred consults nationwide as “The SBIR Coach®â€, and guides many of his entrepreneurial clients in leveraging the SBIR opportunity into company growth and contributing to the innovation economy.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 7 – Cost

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 7.2 Determine Budget

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 June 21st, 2012, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar June 21st, 2012, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

We’ll address key inflection points, changing assumptions and major trends occurring within the disciplines of project, program and portfolio management.

These “hot” concepts will define a future very different from the present. We’ll help you prepare for the future by taking action today.

Discussion Topics:

• What about today’s common wisdom for PPM is quickly becoming incorrect or insufficient?
• What scenarios will describe the future foundations of PPM?
• What actions should PPM leaders take today to prepare for the future?

Presenter: Audrey L. Apfel, (LinkedIn profile) Managing VP

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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