Project Manager Fun – Portrays Valuable Project Management Lessons
Duration: 4 min 14 sec Credits: Does not Qualify For PDUs

As summer is coming to a close and projects are ramping up again – enjoy this bit of Project Manager Humor With Dilbert.

What Project Management Lessons do you see?

• I noticed the “Watermelon Reporting”* in the Testing session 🙂
  * Term coined by Marc Löffler (@Scrumphony)

Enjoy
Why Projects Fail – Working With Stakeholders
As Experienced by Dilbert

Dilbert is written by Scott Adams
Please visit The Official Dilbert site

Although I do not officially know Scott Adams I have joked for years about the similarities between the comic strip story lines and the positions/projects I have been a part of.

Scott Adams simply knows the life of a Project Manager
and what life is like with “Problem Leadership”

I founded pduOTD to help Managers and Stakeholders with their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – so they might learn supportive techniques to work with their teams.

This increases productivity in a positive way.

Thank you Scott for ALWAYS making me smile
Before I was following my passion,
When I was working for Pointy Hair’d Bosses!
EdmontonPM

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD 1 PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Project Closure is not only required activity,
BUT …
Is also a valuable activity required of every successful project.

Whether the project team is ending a project meeting, completing a project phase or coming to the end of the project – closing activities are critical to the organization and all future project efforts.

Developing skills in project closure techniques helps maintain project successes and energy as well as provide learnings on all other project efforts.

Solutions Cube Group’s Webinars address many relevant project issues.

Learn how to record lessons learned even when a project is being cancelled versus when the project was successfully implemented, to improve work on all future project efforts.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• End of each project meeting with clarity and capitalizing on momentum and alignment gained during the meeting
• Structure a Lessons Learned activity as a tool to leverage successes and avoid repeating mistakes as the project moves between phases
• Get a head start on the next project by archiving and reusing valuable project deliverables form the current effort

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Achieving Closure on Projects

4 Live Webinars + 1 Coaching session
Tuesdays September 11, 2012 thru October 2, 2012 + October 16th
Tuesdays – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Duration: 4 + 1 Hour Credits: 5 Category B PDUs – $94.00 USD for 5 PDUs
Presented by: eLearning4PMs.com

Complete your next SWOT analysis, on YOU with a coaching expert
and earn 5 PDUs all for $94

Leading others without understanding yourself is like taking a trip with a destination and no directions. Why would you take that risk when the destination you seek is called success?

It’s time for you to do some internal risk analysis while you earn 5 PDUs (professional development units).

In this mixed media class, Margaret Meloni of eLearning4PMs.com walks you through your own personal SWOT analysis.

Your goal, to learn about Y-O-U:

• How to determine your temperament.
• How YOU resolve conflict.
• To what degree are you emotionally intelligent?
• How do you perceive yourself as a professional?
• How do you deal with difficult people?
• What is your communication style?

You really will KNOW yourself, but YOU will not stop at knowledge. YOU are going to take action!

You are going to:

• Understand how others perceive you.
• Define who YOU want to be.
• Create your own self-risk management plan.
• Create your own project plan.
• Create your own strategies to deal with difficult people.

Margaret Says: When and how does class meet? We will work together during 4 special class webinars starting on Tuesday September 11, 2012 thru Tuesday October 2, 2012. — That’s right we meet via webinar every Tuesday from noon until 1 pm pacific starting on Tuesday September 11, 2012 and ending on Tuesday October 2, 2012.

Plus – Join a BONUS coaching webinar or coachinar on Tuesday October 16, 2012 to help you really increase the benefit of your SWOT analysis and receive Supplemental materials such as video, audio and eBooks to guide you as you conduct your SWOT analysis.

Remember there is a bonus group coaching session 2 weeks after the last class. This allows you to think about your SWOT analysis and come back for coaching on your specific points of interest.

Reading Margaret Meloni’s book Emotional Intelligence: Stories from the Workplace would earn you an additional Category CPDU. The Kindle version is ONLY $1.99 USD! – an excellent value! You can download a Kindle reader for your PC or phone for FREE.

Speaker: Margaret Meloni MBA, PMP (LinkedIn profile, @MargaretMeloni) spent over 18 years in Corporate America observing how individuals who learned to cope with conflict succeeded and recognized their full potential, while others became road blocked.

Margaret acted on her vision by founding Meloni Coaching Solutions, Inc. As a former Information Technology Executive, Margaret always knew her preference was for the people behind the technology. Now Margaret brings those beliefs to individuals from many professional backgrounds.

Click to register for How to Conduct Your SWOT Analysis

Live Webinar – September 5th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

You’re juggling a million things but you know it’s important to have some strategic time and learn new things.
How can you facilitate brief sessions with your staff to keep learning and strategy alive?

Join Lou to learn:

• Ideas for learning within the chaos
• Ways to leverage technology to create communities
• Thoughts on how to chunk out existing resources into sound-bytes

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and author of 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. Lou and her staff deliver learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand. An accomplished author in the training field Lou has also written The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook, (inc Music CD): Making the Instructional Process Fast, Flexible, and Fun, Project Management for Trainers, IT Leadership Alchemy, Leadership Training (ASTD ), and Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change. She is a frequent contributor to CCA’s The Link, Computer World, Career College Central and Inside Indiana Business, among others, and publishes the monthly Learning Flash electronic newsletter.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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 for No Time For Training? Options that Work

Live Webinar September 6th, 2012, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar September 6th, 2012, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Network Access Control burst on the scene in 2003, as the answer to Sasser, Blaster and the worm era. It was derided as an overhyped concept. Now that BYOD has emerged as an unstoppable trend, NAC is back in favor again – this time as a solution for gaining back control of the network.

Discussion Topics:

• Why is NAC a good solution for supporting BYOD?
• Which vendors are leading the way with NAC?
• What are the key elements necessary for planning a NAC adoption strategy?

Presenter: LawrenceOrans, (LinkedIn profile) Research Director

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project 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’

Click to register for Protect Your Network in the Era of BYOD

Live Webinar September 5th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Review the Reporting Capabilities within PS 2010 including:

• The Project Center,
• Resource Center and ….
• The Business Intelligence Center.
• Enhanced reporting capabilities will focus on Dashboards,
  • Excel services,
  • Performance Point services … and …
  • SQL Server Reporting services.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

Click to register for EPM – Reporting in Project Server 2010