Live Webinar July 18th 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or…
Live Webinar July 18th 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
Offered by: Rally Software ( REP 3156 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Category A

Note: This session will fill up fast – Allan is a terrific presenter with a lot of great information to share – Sign up today!

Product portfolio management is not simply about identifying the most important things to create and then focusing on them. Portfolio Managers and Program Managers need to also understand how this work must be managed across the responsible teams as well as how multiple projects or components come together prior to deployment.

In this webinar Alan Shalloway and Rally’s Ann Konkler will discuss how to manage multiple projects with multiple teams across an enterprise while avoiding command and control hierarchy including:

• The real-world challenges they’ve seen
• The limits of a completely flat organizational structure and the challenges of team dynamics at scale
• How teams can be organized to share product backlogs to improve completion of work will be presented.

Presenters:

Ann Konkler, (LinkedIn profile) Agile Coach, Rally Software. Ann began her IT career as a developer working on mainframe applications. Her later roles included Business Analyst, Technical Lead, Project Manager, and Development Manager for infrastructure, eCommerce, and PMO teams. Ann is a Certified ScrumMaster and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. She is also certified in Project Management and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Portland State University.

Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

Click to register for Agile Product Portfolio Management: What to do When You Have Many Large Projects

Live Webinar – July 11th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, Sr. Consultant, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar – July 12th, 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

Doug MacNeil, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) will walk you through five time-saving tips to transition from using Microsoft Excel to using Microsoft Project to manage tasks and dates.

Topics covered in this talk include:

1. Work breakdown Structure
2. Task assignment
3. Resource scheduling
4. Critical path analysis
5. Cost estimating

See what transformational changes you can have in your daily project management duties when you start using the powerful project management tool.

Click to register for From Excel to Project in 5 Easy Steps: How to Save Time and Improve Performance with One Easy Tool

Online Webcast – Recorded June 19th 2012
Webinar Duration 1 Hour – 1 Category C Free PDUs
Presented by: HR.com

Also check out The WOW! Workplace (Recognition) by Mike Byam (LinkedIn profile). A Business/Management book for Human Resource Professionals, Business Leaders, and front line supervisors. It is a great mix of real-world examples and the theory behind why recognizing employees for their contributions. Step by step, The WOW! Workplace will show you how to build a nimble, vitally responsive recognition culture with the power to improve your organization from the inside out.

Employee recognition programs are usually implemented with good intentions, but they can ultimately fall short of the desired impact if they are not aligned with your corporate objectives.

• How does employee recognition support your business objectives?
• How do your business objectives influence recognition?
• What recognition strategies have the most impact on aligning your employees with corporate objectives?

When it’s correctly implemented and carried out, recognition is the best way to engage your employees with the mission, vision, and values of your organization.

Giving appropriate recognition for the contributions you value will inspire your employees’ enthusiasm, loyalty, and engagement.

It is important to have a mission that your employees feel is worth investing in. Leaders need to think through how their employees perceive the business goals. In order to achieve that, you need to create a culture where individuals in your business feel personally capable of contributing to the mission, and valued for the role that they have in moving the business forward.

This session discusses how employee recognition supports your business objectives, and vice versa, how your business objectives should influence recognition. We’ll also talk about what recognition strategies have the most impact on aligning your employees with your organization’s corporate objectives. The most successful businesses have employees that “Own” the organization’s mission.

During this session you will learn:

Fundamental groundwork for establishing a recognition initiative that accurately reflects your organizations objectives and that helps you set your employees on the right course.

• Fundamental groundwork for establishing a recognition initiative that accurately reflects your organizations objectives
• Learn how to set your employees on the right course with effective and appropriate recognition that leaves them engaged and enthusiastic.
• Learn how to give recognition in a way that helps your employees ‘own’ your organization’s mission.

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PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Develop Human Resources Plan
• 9.2 Acquire 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.’

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