Live Webinar October 4th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDWxx
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

The best project managers know that managing the expectations, goals and objectives of key stakeholders is critical to project success.

If the stakeholders aren’t satisfied, even the most efficient and well-executed project won’t be deemed successful in the eyes of those that matter most. The best way to ensure stakeholder needs are met is to establish them up front, along with clear and mutually agreed upon communication and project completion requirements. By considering stakeholder perceptions while developing the project charter and project plan, you can avoid unnecessary readjustments during project execution.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to initiate projects that help your organization achieve its goals
• How to develop a project charter and a project management plan
• How to identify and analyze project stakeholders and determine their information needs and communication requirements
• How to manage stakeholder expectations and ensure their satisfaction

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About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Live Webinar – October 4th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95

Business Analysts and Project Managers spend too much time in long, inefficient, ineffective meetings.

Worse yet, oftentimes they are leading them!

We all know that meetings are a “necessary evil” in the world of business analysis and project management, but the question is – How can we do it more efficiently?

Most people don’t realize that there are specific techniques that anyone can employ to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in their meetings. This webinar is filled with tips and techniques to help you make your meetings much more efficient.

This two hour webinar reveals 5 key secrets you can use to reduce the length of your next project meeting (live or conference call).

Learn how to manage lengthy discussion, develop agendas to encourage brevity, artfully manage difficult meeting personalities like the “dominator”, “the rambler”, “the multitasker”, and get team members to come prepared and actually get involved in the meeting facilitation.

You will learn facilitation techniques that balance the leader’s focus on task with a desire to build/maintain relationship.

These techniques will not just reduce your meeting time but also enhance your credibility as a leader and improve the morale of the team. The session is filled with tips and techniques that you can begin implementing immediately.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• How to establish a PAL for your meeting to provide necessary structure
• How to artfully and tactfully manage difficult personalities like the dominator, the multitasker, and the rambler
• How to keep the meeting focused and on track

With the Course You Will Receive:

• White Paper – Managing the Meeting from Hell
• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Dana Brownlee (LinkedIn profile) a speaker and trainer garnered critical team leadership and management consulting experience through her years with AT&T Bell Labs, AT&T, IBM Consulting, and EMC Corporation. She possesses an impressive array of credentials including an MBA (Emory University), BIE (Georgia Tech), BS (Spelman College), IBM Business Transformation Consulting Certification, Project Management Professional, and Myers Briggs Type Indicator Qualification.

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Live Webinar October 5th, 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)

There are many ways for teams to achieve the Objectives and Goals of an organization.

Part of the Strategic Planning effort is determining the appropriate actions to be taken to enable the objectives to be met.. These actions should be based on conditions associated with the current environment as well as changes associated with the future environment.

Unfortunately, many teams feel the list of prioritized projects is a result of random selection and are left wondering how their projects fit into the overall corporate direction, if at all.

Planning and change management staff as well as department and team leads require appropriate tools and techniques to define Action Plans for implementing future change. They can use these tools to define plans for tactical and strategic projects which will enable the organization to successfully perform its mission and achieve its vision.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Understand the relationship between initiatives and projects
• Develop an Action Plan establishing direction and accountability for achieving documented Goals
• Update the Strategic Plan to reflect shifts in the organizational environment
• Understand the use of a Communication Plan in keeping a Strategic Plan alive

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – October 4th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

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’

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.

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Live Webinar October 4th,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

What is Agile?

Attend this Webinar and learn what Agile is, along with a brief history of iterative development, the core Agile values and principles and the business case for Agile.

This Webinar will also provide a brief overview of a few of the more common frameworks within the Agile space including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) and Feature Driven Development (FDD).

This Webinar will also address when it make sense to use Agile versus a Waterfall approach on projects.

Attend this Webinar and obtain some ideas on incorporating Agile techniques into your organization. This webinar will be 30 min. long followed by a live Question and Answer session with the instructor.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile) is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

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Live Webinar October 4th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Stephen Cohen (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the specific project indicators and measures that can be used to determine a projects viability BEFORE you commit.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that pagefor the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

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