Live Webinar July 23rd, 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)

• Whose fault is it this time? Its not us, it’s them…
• Does everything stop when things go bad?
• What if errors were caught at first occurrence?

The synergy within a high value team generates greater performance and payback than several dysfunctional teams.

High value teams generate an inspiring degree of internal power and energy, exceeding expectations to deliver value ahead of schedule, under cost, and with minimal scope changes.

The team’s ability to see above and through the fog and muck within organizations generates a shift in culture throughout the entire organization.

One of the many keys to high value teams is an inspirational leader and team members who have no boundaries, and easily communicate and connect all elements of the company to get things done through a Self Directed Workforce.

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.

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Live Webinar – July 24th, 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) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

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 20th, 2011 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)
Presented by: Sally Elatta

Don’t you just love the word ‘Requirements’? It’s so clear isn’t it ….. NOT!

This webinar is dedicated to discussing the 4 levels of requirements and why it is important to gather the right level at the right time and not dive into the details too early.

We will discuss 4 techniques for slicing EPICs into smaller deliverables and also share how you can use Business Value Points for prioritizing features.

Whether you’re doing Agile or not, you will absolutely walk away with tips to help you improve your current requirements approach.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Sally Elatta, (LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun.

Click to register for Breaking Down Agile Requirements Gathering

Live Webinar July 19th, 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 30 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

The webinar will show the Basic concepts of Integrated Project, Program and Portfolio Management (OPM) and PMI’s OPM based maturity model OPM3.

OPM as a concept, changes isolated heroic project managers into evangelists for an integrated organizational project management approach. This transition is certainly the most significant change that organizations can do. OPM3 as continuous maturity model focuses on real benefits instead of implementing something, just to complete a maturity degree. It focuses on strategic alignment instead of traditional time, cost, scope and quality measure.

After the Webinar, participants should be able to::

• Understand OPM – What it is & its relevance for strategic alignment
• Understand how to improve organizational maturity in terms of OPM
• Understand the benefit realization, using OPM3 and its tools OPM3 SAM (Webtool) and OPM3 ProductSuite

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Gerhard Tekes, PMP PMI-RMP (LinkedIn profile) Beside being a PMI OPM3 certified Professional since 2006 Gerhard is an independent consultant as well as the founding principal of 3PTA, Tekes and Associates which helps organizations enhance results by applying proven best practices in both organizational project management and strategic planning. Gerhard was a member of the OPM3 PS Focus Group, Advisory Board, and coordinates the OPM3 User Group at LinkedIn. Today he volunteers at the Organizational Project Management (OPM) Community of Practice as Webinar Lead and as Liaison with the PMIEF and the OPM3PS Advisory Board.

Click to register for PMI Consulting CoP: Basic Concepts of OPM and OPM3

Live Webinar – July 17th, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP (# 3045) but this opportunity is a Cat B PDU.

There are several different ways of doing Agile at the team. Each has its own strengths and scope. Each covers different amounts of the value stream. This webinar discusses the essence and differences of all three.

Scrum

• What is Scrum? The core roles, practices and artifacts.
• Why Scrum works
• Where Scrum is best used

Kanban

• What is Kanban? The guiding principles of visibility, explicit workflow, managing work-in-progress, measure flow, continual learning
• Kanban as a transition method
• Where Kanban is best used

eXtreme Programming

• What is XP?
• The essential technical skills.
• Where XP is best used

While not an in-depth study of any of the methods, the webinar will illustrate why one must look at several factors when deciding on your team-Agile approach

Click to register for Team Agility: Scrum, Kanban, XP – The Essence of All Three

Live Webinar – July 19th, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.

Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.

During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:

• Improved project predictability
• Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
• Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
• Reduced effort spent resolving project issues

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: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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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