Live Webinar – September 12th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest Free

Do you know the right way to approach and structure portfolio management?

This session will show several examples of portfolio management, the right way to approach it, and the top 3 critical success factors. At the end of this 1 hour session attendees will have an understanding of how these portfolio engagements are best approached, the value they provide to the business and the basic vocabulary used.

The Challenge:

Today’s economic challenge requires companies to rethink how they align their project investments to support their business strategy and optimize their return on investments. In addition, understanding the balance between investment risk versus executional risk through portfolio optimization helps organizations be better positioned to make the “right” investment or reallocation decisions.

Course Overview:

Project Portfolio Management is about ensuring you have the correct mix of projects that are focused on taking the business where it has decided to go. It is about being able to respond quickly to identified changes in the environment, enabling the business to set the direction and then create a series of tactical steps to get there.

This one hour session is a foundation course to provide an overview of what is project portfolio management, why do companies need to adopt the portfolio management process, who will be involved within a company and real case studies on benefits organizations gained in deploying project portfolio management process.

Objectives:

• To give an understanding of what is portfolio management and why companies need to adopt this process
• To discuss the value of portfolio management and its contribution to business
• To share company case-studies of best practice of deploying project portfolio management process in different industries.

Course Outline:

1. Understand the Project Portfolio Management (20mins)
   • Defining the PPM
     • Relationship between portfolio, programme and project
     • Relationship between strategy, portfolio and shareholder wealth
   • Identifying areas of pain
     • Challenges and best practice consideration
   • The 10 Commandments of PPM
2. What are your Value and Benefit propositions when you introduce Portfolio management process (15mins)
3. Case Studies in deploying Strategy, Portfolio and Benefits Framework in Manufacturing, Oil and Gas and Healthcare sectors (20mins)
4. Q&A (5mins)

Who Should Attend : Business executives, sponsors, PMO staff, programme managers, project managers, resource managers, project team members, and all those who are responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of projects.

Click to register for Introduction to Project Portfolio Management

Live Webinar – September 13th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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

As teams constantly develop small incremental features by adding, modifying, refactoring, and re-designing existing software, many challenges emerges with each and every iteration. Among these challenges is ensuring previously delivered functionality is still correct and newly created functionality works as expected within a single iteration.

Test Driven Development (TDD) can help address issues with greater safety and confidence while supporting the team to create better quality software and simpler designs. TDD is built on a set of values that testing and quality are paramount, change is expected and both are constantly embraced.

In this web seminar, we will discuss these benefits, the TDD Cycle, how to get started and challenges facing teams adopting TDD.

Click to register for Test Driven Development

Live Webinar September 12th, 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)

The PMBOK® Guide is expected to have a new knowledge area in the upcoming edition: Stakeholder Management.

Explore why this topic has become so critical to the success of projects that it deserves major attention in the PMBOK® Guide.

Learning Objectives:

• Define proposed process in the PMBOK® Guide Stakeholder Management
• Describe how stakeholders impact projects
• Use a stakeholder management tool
• Define best practices to implement within Project Insight

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 A New Focus on Stakeholders

Live Webinar – September 11th, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

During the project intake process all projects are considered critical, all others never get approved. So how do you decide which “critical” projects are most critical? These decisions are typically made politically, emotionally or without consistency.

The Impact:

• Poor resource utilization
• Frustrated resources
• Projects not aligned with strategic objectives
• Higher risk and lower ROI

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar demonstrating a balanced approach to prioritizing initiatives. Projects affect many aspects of your business; all factors should be considered when taking on a new project. Learn the prioritization secrets of successful companies using a Project Portfolio Management mentality.

The Result:

• Decreased risk
• Higher ROI
• Optimized resource utilization
• Maximum aggregate value of projects

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: 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’

Click to register for How to Prioritize Projects When Each One is Critical

Live Webinar September 12th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT or
Live Webinar September 13th 2012, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

In 2012, Prosci released the seventh edition of the benchmarking report, Best Practices in Change Management.

The seventh edition combines findings from the latest round of research with 650 participants with findings from the previous studies to create the most comprehensive body of knowledge available on managing the people side of change.

This webinar presents the six greatest contributors to success and the seven biggest obstacles identified by respondents, with a deeper dive into how you can use each finding to become a better change management practitioner.

Agenda:

1. Research foundation
2. Question formulation
3. Greatest contributors to success
4. Biggest obstacles to success

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution

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 the September 12th Presentation of Research Results: Greatest Contributors And Biggest Obstacles

Click to register for the September 13th Presentation of Research Results: Greatest Contributors And Biggest Obstacles