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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3. Access to more than 400 podcasts with HR Gurus and Industry Leaders (downloadable files available 24 hours after the live broadcast) as well as access to our blogs, polls, surveys, 25,000+ article library, Business Book Reviews and so much more!

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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Live Webinar July 12th, 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)

Whether your project is large or small, it’s important to know who your stakeholders are and what they expect from the project. How are they going to be involved in the project and what kind of communication do they need? How do you figure out who the people and organizations are that need to be engaged in your project and what their perceived impact of the project is on the area they’re representing?

This is the first webinar in a 2 part series on Stakeholder Analysis. This webinar will discuss how to identify your stakeholders and obtain information about those stakeholders required to ensure that the project is a success.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to perform a stakeholder analysis, document the results of your analysis in the Stakeholder Register, and use the information to determine what key stakeholder expectations and communication needs are.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Identify all stakeholders impacted by the project and who have influence on the project
• Gather critical information about each stakeholder
• Develop the Stakeholder Register

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase How to Perform a Stakeholder Analysis – Stakeholder Analysis Session 1 of 2

Live Webinar July 11th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Businesses choose Agile to speed time to market of their products and stay nimble and responsive to constantly changing customer needs.

As development cycles accelerate, it is more important than ever for project teams to ensure development activities align with business priorities. The challenge is making sure that everyone has a shared vision of what is being built and why throughout the development process.

Both business and development teams need to be able to collaborate on key decisions affecting the product, schedule or budget at any time.

Join this event and learn key ideals of Agile and challenges faced by Business Analysts. We’ll focus on what we’ve heard as the top challenges of Agile development, and how to solve them.

Questions answered include:

• What happens to the requirements?
• How do we keep everyone in the loop when not in the same office?
• How do we control scope?
• How do we know what the development team will deliver at the end of the Sprint?
• How to avoid the challenges of Agile development.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information

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’

NOTE: All attendees will receive a PDF of Five Challenges to Agile Planning.

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Live Webinar – July 12th, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

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.

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 Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!