Live Webinar Jun 14th, 2012, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar June 14th, 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

IT is being asked to increase its productivity, and this often means doing “less with less.”

In the current economic environment, it has become necessary to rewrite the rules of IT investment in order to develop a sustainable cost structure for IT. Incrementally cutting costs is not enough.

This presentation will explore how current management practices need to change in order to reach next-stage cost optimization targets, and create a sustainable cost structure for IT.

Discussion Topics:

• The latest techniques for optimizing IT spend
• Discover how best-in-class enterprises achieve continuous cost improvement
• Understand how information technology may be used to improve business efficiency

Presenter: BarbaraGomolski, (LinkedIn profile) Managing VP

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & 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’

Click to register for 2012 IT Cost Optimization Strategies

Live Webinar June 20, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Presenter: Randy Emelo (LinkedIn profile) President &CEO, Triple Creek
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Anyone can claim to help with issues like engagement, retention, productivity, administrative burden, and organization-wide competency improvement. But can they back it up with real data and client examples? Open Mentoring can.

Join Triple Creek for a free webinar on calculating ROI for Open Mentoring to:

• Explore real world client ROI examples.
• Consider outcomes organizations need from Open Mentoring.
• Examine correlations between national statistics and Open Mentoring survey results.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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 Realizing the ROI of Open Mentoring

Live Webinar – June 14th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

Microsoft Project Server 2010 brings a lot of reporting capabilities table, with special emphasis on Self-Service Reporting. User can use the multitudinal capabilities of Project Server 2010, and underlying SharePoint 2010, to build reports quickly and easily without needing to involve the Administrator or a Reporting Expert.

This session will cover the Business Intelligence Capabilities in Project Server 2010, with focus on how you can build quick reports using Excel and Excel Services. We will also look at to how to build dashboards with a combination of features available in the Business Intelligence Suite.

Note: Some familiarity with Excel Pivot Tables, OLAP Cubes is recommended.

Presenter : Prasanna Adavi (LinkedIn profile) PMP, MCTS is a Senior EPM Consultant with EPM Architects, Inc. He is also a subject matter expert in implementing Project Management and Portfolio Management processes for organizations using MS Project and MS Project Server platforms. He has extensive background in IT Project management across multiple domains like ERP Implementations (SAP), Application Development, Creative Services and Automotive.

Click to register for Reports, Dashboards and all that Jazz – Project Server 2010

Live Webinar June 15th, 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)

As teams progress through the journey of becoming a High Performing Team, the Project Manager has several key techniques they can leverage to overcome the barriers the team will face in the areas of communication and decision making. But what are the most effective ways to leverage and learn from the team’s efforts during project execution and ensure that the customer’s needs remain a focal point of the work the Highly Effective Team is accomplishing.

In the Enhance Project Performance webinar, the instructor will teach students about communication barriers and how Highly Effective Teams overcome these barriers. The students will learn how to enhance decision making through the use of consensus based decisions and how high performing teams ensure that they understand the customer’s expectations which drive the team’s every decision and action.

In this webinar, participants will:

• Understand the communication barriers project teams face and how to overcome these barriers
• Learn how to use Lessons Learned activities to continue the growth and adapt the actions of high performing teams.
• Learn how to not only assess the satisfaction of the customer but also engage the customer in communicating what their needs are
• Understand how high performing teams leverage consensus decision making

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Enhance Project Performance: High Performing Teams Session 2 of 2

Live Webinar – June 15th 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

There is a lot of confusion, misconceptions, and heated debates about the role of a business analyst in Agile projects.

Think of it this way: Agile projects, like all projects, have requirements—and requirements are not just “user stories.” There is a need to go from high-level stories to the detailed requirements needed to implement specific functionality.

In this web seminar, we will explore the role of a business analyst in that requirements-development process, and discover other ways a business analyst adds value to an Agile project throughout its life cycle.

Presenter: Kris Ashton (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for The Agile Business Analyst

Live Webinar – June 14th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1.5 Hr  1.5 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.95 USD for 1.5  PDU / CDU
OR …  The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

Things are going terribly wrong! The triple constraints have morphed the project into some sort of monster.

Regardless of why, how or when things took a turn for the worst we must look to the Business Analyst and Project Manager jointly for leadership and partnership to turn things around.

As a continuation of our first webinar in this series A Partnership for Success this installment takes a look at an out of control typical IT-enabled web project with an average budget and medium risk.

Learning Outcomes for this 1.5 hour webinar include:

1. Learn that the best way to avoid project distress is to plan for it by building a foundation for effective planning, monitoring and control.
2. Build effective communication techniques for understanding project health and temperature in real time.
3. Learn techniques for rapid assessment and recovery of troubled projects.
4. Build a foundation for effective problem identification, analysis and building an effective means to solve them.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Realize that the PM cannot be the sole leader of a project. Leadership must fall to the BA and the PM, jointly.
• Build a basis for transparent communication and effective teaming – a project is only as healthy as the team that is running it.
• Reinforce the notion that a project’s margin for success is determined within its first week.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Perry McLeod, (LinkedIn profile) CBAP, ITIL, PMP – Global Knowledge Training LLC is a Management Consultant, Facilitator and Instructor with over 14-years of experience in business analysis, process reengineering, project management, business modeling and strategic alignment. In addition to Perry’s many professional accomplishments Perry was one of the contributors to the IIBA’s BABOK® v 2.0.

Click to register for Project Rescue When Things Go Terribly Wrong – Make It Right

Want to earn up to 10 PDUs &
learn more about Rescuing A Problem Project?

Read Todd C. Williams book Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure & work through its companion Learning Guide.

Are you managing a problem project? Do you want to learn more about the recovery process before you’re managing a problem project? Todd C. Williams’ “Rescue the Problem Project” is the #1 book that details the recovery process for a problem project. The Learning Guide is a companion to the #1 book on Project Recovery.

Many books explain how to run a project, but only Todd C. Williams shows how to bring it back from the brink of disaster. With 65% of projects failing to meet goals and 25% canceled outright, that’s essential information!

With the help of this Learning guide, you will turn the recovery process outlined in “Rescue the Problem Project” into a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Action Item list.

After working through the Learning Guide and studying the book, you’ll be ready to tackle that gnarly project! At the same time … earn PDUs.

What is the purpose of this learning guide?

The learning guide navigates you through the recovery process. It supplements the book with a Work Breakdown Structure and Action Items for the recovery manager.

Earn up to 10 PDUs for working through this guide and reading “Rescue the Problem Project”. The learning guide helps you document the PDUs earned for PMI® certification.

The six parts of this book mirror the steps of the recovery process and the parts of “Rescue the Problem Project”. Each section contains a WBS diagram that lists deliverables required, a WBS Dictionary that defines the deliverables and a checklist with key points to remember.

As you work through the learning guide and customize the WBS, you’ll be creating the recovery plan you need to bring your problem project back from the brink.