Live Webinar -August 29th, 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

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Live Webinar August 29th, 2012 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Microsoft Project Server 2010 is chock full of features, and because it is embedded in the SharePoint 2010 platform it is doubly feature rich. Here are some tips and tricks for customization in Project Server right out of the box.

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

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Live Webinar – August 29th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

SharePoint has been a major player in the enterprise collaboration market over the last six years. From team sites to manage project documents, to intranets, portals, wikis, and blogs, there’s hardly an organization out there that isn’t using SharePoint in some capacity to enable collaboration between employees.

Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Yammer, a cloud-based social collaboration tool, introduces both great opportunity and great risk into the SharePoint equation, and organizations across all industries are wondering what their next move should be.

ASPE will discuss the Yammer acquisition and the risks and opportunities it presents to organizations, including:

• The relationship between the enterprise collaboration and social media domains, and how SharePoint does and doesn’t enable each
• The evolving coexistence between SharePoint (MOSS, 2010, SharePoint 15) and other enterprise software platforms
• The best way to determine what enterprise collaboration functionality your organization really needs
• What the available options are those who have SharePoint in place and those who don’t

Presenter: Joe Shepley (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar August 28th 2012 – 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category B PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Acumen – Proven Project Analytics

A sound schedule is the key to a successful project.

This free one-hour webinar Acumen will introduce nine schedule checks to use as the first steps to evaluating schedule soundness. Based on the proven Fuse Schedule Indexâ„¢.

These checks:

• Evaluate use of logic,
• Constraints,
• Float,
• Lags and …
• Duration within a schedule

To provide a clear and concise picture of how well you’ve planned the work.

1. Learn the nine metrics that make up the Fuse Schedule Indexâ„¢ along with their thresholds
2. Understand the correlation between a high quality schedule and successful project completion
3. See how the free Schedule Index Calculatorâ„¢ can score your schedule and help you pinpoint where to focus improvement efforts

Although this session uses Acumen’s Fuse Schedule Indexâ„¢ to illustrate Measuring Schedule Quality this session provides valuable information on the constraints of quality measurement.

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Live Webinar August 28th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm EDT
Duration: 75 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Diversity CoP (REP #S018)

The heightened pace of global integration, brought about by technological and economical forces, suggests that managers will increasingly have to deal with counterparts from cultures quite unlike their own.

This is particularly true for the project environment, interdisciplinary by vocation, which often presents Project Managers with the constant challenge of learning to operate in diverse cultural settings.

Although very popular in the recent decades, studies in cross­cultural management have not a long history. Many international projects have undoubtedly been carried through without anyone ever noticing that cultural differences may have caused unanticipated problems and unnecessary frustrations or hurdles.

As a consequence quite a number of projects never reached optimal levels of operation, successful turnover to the local authorities or indeed customer satisfaction, because cultural differences have amplified the “normal difficulties” that any project may encounter.

The presentations focus on these aspects: the challenges and the opportunities of project management across cultural boundaries; the lessons learned from a real projects and the models and theories behind the scene of “cross­cultural best practices

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

Presenter: Giuseppina Meloni

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Live Webinar – August 28th 2012, 9:30 am – 10:30 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.

In today’s fast-paced and complex business environment employees are continually asked to achieve more and expected to actively contribute towards business results.

The challenge is that research shows that most employees do not have a clear enough understanding of their company’s goals and priorities to make the right decisions about where to focus their efforts.

In the Developing your Business Knowledge webinar, Michelle Moore (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how to gain the insight you need to maximise your productivity and contribution to organisational success.

The webinar will include the following elements:

• The Need to be Business Relevant
• Understanding your Company’s Business Model
• The Strategic Planning Process
• Interpreting Business Results

Presenter: Michelle Moore (LinkedIn profile) is a learning and development professional with in-depth knowledge and experience in Sales, Leadership and Communication Skills. Michelle facilitates Global Knowledge Leadership and Business workshops on a world-wide basis and is responsible for development and promotion of the Global Knowledge EMEA Leadership and Business Skills portfolio.

Click to register for Developing Your Business Knowledge: Leadership & Business Skills for IT Professionals