Live Webinar – July 26th, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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: 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’

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Live Webinar – July 25th 2012, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Over the last few years we have seen virtualisation revolutionise the Data Centre not only on server platforms but also virtual switches and load balancers. The ability to be able to move a virtual server between physical platforms has given us the capability to dynamically balance our server requirements across the available hardware platforms.

The logical extension of this is to expand this to have multiple data centres in different physical locations, nice idea, but not without a number of new challenges,

• How do you move a virtual server between physical locations, keeping the same IP address and MAC address, when you don’t have a dedicated layer 2 network between the sites?
• How do you route traffic to the alternative site directly without it having to flow through the primary data centre, dynamically?

These new challenges have spawned a new suite of technologies like OTV, TRILL, Fabricpath and LISP.

It’s important to know what these new technologies can do for you in your data centre design. There is a big difference between knowing how they are used together to ensure your infrastructure can cope with whatever disaster may fall it, or fail because what you really have is an expensive mistake, whose whole design is in fact reliant on device continuing to function, in what is a now non operational data centre.

Click to register for IPv6 part 4: Data Centre and LISP

Online VideoCast
Presented by: Bernardo Tirado from The Project Box
Duration: 17 minutes 0.25 PDU Credits: 0.25 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Bernardo Tirado, PMP (LinkedIn profile, @thepmobox) has launched a Web TV series called Meet the Experts TV, a program where experts from around the world are interviewed. In this episode, Bernardo interviews Peter Taylor (LinkedIn profile, @TheLazyPM) author of The Lazy PM.

During this 17 minute interview, Peter and Bernardo discuss Productive Laziness, the importance of communication and how to get started on the path to Lazy PM.

About Peter Taylor PMP– (LinkedIn profile, @TheLazyPM) is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management.

His background is in project management across three major business areas over the last 26 years, MRP/ERP systems with various software houses and culminating in his current role with Infor, Business Intelligence (BI) with Cognos, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor.

Peter is a very accomplished communicator and leader. As a professional speaker as well as the author ofThe Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early (Infinite Ideas) and ‘Leading Successful Pmos: How to Build the Best Project Management Office for Your Business‘ (Gower) and his newest book The Lazy Project Manager and the Project from Hell (This link is the kindle edition – currently available FREE on Amazon – A Must Have!).

Check out his terrific website at www.thelazyprojectmanager.com – and listen to his free podcasts in iTunes. Peter has recently added two terrific articles “50 Shades of Lazy” and “Giving Feedback”

PDU Category C documentation details for The Lazy PM:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 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’

The Meet the Experts Series launched January 20, 2012 and will feature a new episode every month. From Agile to Virtual Team Management, the series provides insights that you can immediate use as a Project Manager.

Click to view Meet the Experts TV on The Project Box

Earn Another Great PDU with Peter Taylor

After you’ve viewed this interview, you can see more of Peter Taylor, the Lazy PM through his webinar The Art of Productive Laziness and earn another PDU 🙂

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” – Robert Heinlein

Learn about the art of productive laziness with The Lazy Project Manager!

During this webinar, Peter Taylor will help you:

• Understand the definition of productive laziness and the science behind the theory
• Learn and apply the “productive lazy” approach to your projects (and life)
• Become twice as productive and still leave the office early!

Click to learn more about The Art of Productive Laziness and register to view.

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