Live Webinar June 28th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Once you’ve developed your Communications Management Plan, you have to effectively implement the plan. How do you ensure you’re providing the right level of detail to the right audience? What communication methods and tools should you use? How do you retrieve and store information?

This is the second webinar in a 2 part series on Project Status Reporting. This webinar will explain to both project managers and project participants what types of project reporting should be generated, discuss the frequency of status reporting that is appropriate and review various examples of status reports including typical weekly status reports, financial reports, issues logs, and executive presentations.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to implement your Communications Management Plan by confirming the level of status detail required based upon the audience, making decisions on the right communication methods and tools to use, and finalizing how often information should be provided.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Identify who will implement the Communications Management Plan
• Assess the level of status detail that needs to be provided based upon the audience • Select the appropriate communication methods and tools
• Develop a schedule for providing communication
• Review and select status report formats

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase How Do You Roll Out Project Information? Status Reporting Series 2 of 2

Live Webinar – June 27th 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

To achieve optimal business productivity, organizations must continually work to break down the information “silos” that often form amongst business units and prevent knowledge and workers across the enterprise from working together efficiently and sharing information. Often, different business units leverage different technologies, which are neither integrated nor able to communicate with each other.

Until recently, organizations using both Microsoft SharePoint and the Salesforce.com CRM faced such challenges, resulting in inefficient or duplicative processes, increased storage management and data recovery costs, and an inability to generate actionable intelligence for decision makers.

In this seminar, we will review how companies can take full advantage of their SharePoint and Salesforce.com investments by opening up the lines of communication and integration between the two platforms. We will identify some common challenges organizations face when using both platforms in the course of business, and review available methods and tools to help overcome these challenges while utilizing the best of both technologies’ unique capabilities.

This seminar is intended to aid sales and marketing management, IT executives, business process managers, and other stakeholders responsible for ensuring optimal productivity in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient integration strategy appropriate to their organizational needs.

During the seminar, we’ll study several different use cases for integrating data between the two platforms, review tools available to facilitate integration, and available out-of-box options.
Presenter: Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Integrating SharePoint & SalesForce to Drive Business Productivity

Live Webinar – June 28th, 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.

Click to register for Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability

Live Webinar June 27th, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar June 27th, 2012, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

As architects, you have increasing influence in the development of business strategies. But how do you focus, position and communicate the business value of EA’s contribution to ensure continued engagement? The answer is to turn the problem on its head: Don’t focus on value EA has delivered; focus on the value that stakeholders have received.

Discussion Topics:

• How will EA evolve along with the changing dynamics of IT and business?
• What is the role of EA within strategic planning?
• What are the best practices for linking and integrating EA with strategic planning?

Presenter: BetsyBurton, (LinkedIn profile) VP Distinguished Analyst

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define 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 Best Practices to Align EA to Strategic Planning and Drive Value