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’

Click to register for Avoiding the Pitfalls of Business Process Improvement

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’

Click to register for The Keys To Government Grants for Technology Startups

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’

Click to register for Be Prepared for the Future of Program and Portfolio Management

Live Webinar -June 21st 2012, 1:00-2:00 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

One of the most important foundational components for effectively utilizing an Agile approach is the team retrospective, yet it is often poorly executed by teams, resulting in little to no value.

Conducting an effective, efficient team retrospective isn’t difficult, but many teams and Scrum Masters forget to focus on a few key areas essential for an effective forum.

This hour long webinar ASPE will share with you the secrets employed by successful Agile teams and great Scrum Masters in their mission for continuous, incremental improvement.

Click to register for Strategies for Effective Retrospectives

Live June 21st, 2012 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by : Accurev
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

With all the buzz around Agile and the iterative, fast delivery that Agile methods promise, many software development teams have adjusted their processes accordingly to stay competitive.Yet, many Agile teams have adopted methods simply because they have become best practice, without fully understanding what the benefits are.

Cyrus Innovation’s Moss Collum and AccuRev’s Chris Lucca (LinkedIn profile) will explain:

• The reasons behind Agile’s popularity
• Six common Agile methodologies and the benefits behind each
• The approaches and tools needed to ensure that adoption of these methods is successful

Specific practices explored will include continuous integration, co-location mixing time-boxed iterations and waterfall projects, time-driven development, refactoring/incremental design, and rapid delivery.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.3 Develop 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 Six Agile Methods You Don’t Know Why You Are Following

Online Webinar
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: TypeMock

This is a technical presentation
You should have a basic working knowledge of unit testing.

Everyone is welcome but it is most appropriate for people with a background in unit testing and medium to advanced skills.

Read Gil’s Blog “Geek Out of Water – Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings” It’s full of great ‘Agile stuff’, ‘People stuff’ & Other Cool Cool Stuff!

LIKE….

Gil recently interviewed Lisa Crispin (LinkedIn profile, @lisacrispin ) a leading expert in the ‘Testing World’, Agile Testing Practitioner, Coach & co-author of “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”. Read Gil’s interview with Lisa “A Product Owners Perspective” on Lisa’s Blog or visit her website LisaCrispin.com.

Even if you’re already a unit testing ninja like Gil, this webinar is for you!

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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.’

OR Click to View this recorded webinar on TypeMocks Site