Live Webinar – July 25th, 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

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process.

More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.

This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

Click to register for 5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

Live Webinar July 26th, 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)

It’s important to keep stakeholders aligned with the objectives of your project and obtain their support so that, ultimately, you can gain their acceptance of project deliverables and closure.

This is the second webinar in a 2 part series on Stakeholder Analysis. This webinar will discuss how to identify stakeholders that can significantly influence the project either positively or negatively and develop a strategy for obtaining and/or increasing support for the project.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to develop an approach for managing stakeholders, whether their perceptions about your project are negative or positive. Tips will be provided to help you retain and increase the support of influential stakeholders and to reduce or eliminate the impact of stakeholders who perceive your project negatively.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Confirm which stakeholders can significantly influence the project either positively or negatively
• Consider key information about each stakeholder such as level of participation, area/s representing, and key relationships within the organization
• Develop a plan for increasing support and minimizing negative impacts, then implement the plan

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase How to Create a Stakeholder Management Strategy – Stakeholder Analysis Session 2 of 2

Live Webinar July 25th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

Projects are not successful unless they can pass the testing by the ultimate consumer of the product—the client.

Many organizations create test plans in a hap-hazard way without thoroughly understanding the scope of the project. These kinds of test plans lead to scope creep and unsuccessful projects.

Learn the importance of creating test plans and a practical way in which to deliver them that enables the project team to gain acceptance by the client.

Objectives:

• Describe the difference between test plans and test cases
• Articulate the benefits of using test plans within your organization or department
• Describe best practices in creating and using test plans
• Evaluate good and bad examples of test plans
• Determine when certain approaches work better than others

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for Creating Test Plans: Advanced PM Webinar

Recorded July 25th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Cisco Webex

NOTE: There may be a technical issue on the sign up page – typing in the fields may not show up on your screen – (Your typing text is white on a white background).

Put in the information anyway it will accept it and you will be able to view the session.  Once the information is accepted there will be a black line indicating that there is information in the field that you can not see.

Most leaders don’t start out with poor habits and behaviors. (They would never be as successful as they are if they did.) But a lack of self awareness combined with an overactive ego can trip up even the best of executives.

In this webinar, writer, researcher, and program director David Witt (LinkedIn profile) of The Ken Blanchard Companies explores some of the warning signs that an unchecked ego is working against you and your career.

Drawing from some of the best thinking in the field of ego and leadership, you’ll learn:

• The four warnings signs that your ego is hijacking your career and your leadership effectiveness
• The connection between ego and fatal business decisions
• How pride and fear keep executives stuck in a never-ending loop of either promoting themselves or protecting themselves
• Three ways to put ego in its place and maintain a healthy balance

Ego is an essential leadership ingredient, but only when it is kept in balance and not overused to the point where its strengths become a weakness. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn actionable ways to identify, evaluate, and if necessary, rebalance the way your ego is impacting your leadership effectiveness

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 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 and view Don’t Let Your Ego Hijack Your Career: Four Warning Signs