Live Webinar September 27th, 2012 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)
Presented by: Dawn Henwood

Many non-expert readers find the amount of technical detail in a requirements document overwhelming. Faced with a series of long lists and elaborate diagrams, their eyes tend to glaze over. Consequently, they may not examine your document thoroughly enough to be able to provide you with the feedback you need.

The key to creating requirements non-experts can easily read is to think like an web designer and make usability a key factor in your writing. This webinar will introduce you to four simple, easy-to-implement strategies for producing user-friendly requirements:

• Provide an overview highlighting the business goals and benefits
• Use summary statements to introduce sections
• Manage long bulleted lists by using parallelism and subdivisions
• Integrate use case diagrams and other visuals so they are easy to interpret

As with web design, subtle adjustments can make a big difference to the user experience. Working within your organization’s template for requirements, you can easily apply user-friendly writing strategies to improve your communication with colleagues as well as stakeholders.

Presenter: Dr. Dawn Henwood is a published author of A Writing Guide for IT Professionals, columnist, associate professor and program developer/director. She specializes in helping technical experts bridge the gap in knowledge and values that so often separates them from their customers. Her methods have even the most reluctant writers producing clear documents with ease and confidence.

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Live Webinar September 26th, 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 with Nat Boughton (LinkedIn profile), Nat will explore a proven IT Management approach that integrates business prioritization with IT delivery and execution so that:

1. IT projects are accurately prioritized based on enterprise capability
2. The risk of project failure is reduced and your projects are completed on time and within budget.

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Live Webinar September 27th, 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)

You probably know lots of different managers, all of whom have different management styles. Some run a tight, strict ship. Some are more casual.

• What is your management style?
• How does your style and behavior influence performance of your team, impact communication, and determine decision-making processes?

Solutions Cube Group’s Management Behavior and Style is the third webinar in a 4 part series on Management Philosophy in a Global Society. This webinar will provide to managers insights on how their personal management philosophy influences their approachability, communication style, and decision making techniques, and how that philosophy impacts the management of relationships.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn the impact of different management styles and behaviors including how a dictatorial style versus a democratic style affect decision-making and organizational relationships.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• To recognize different management behaviors
• How management behavior influences the behavior of team members
• To recognize different management styles, including dictatorial and democratic
• How the manager’s style influences communication and use of decision-making methods
• How management behavior and style influence relationships, negatively and positively

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Live Webinar – September 25th, 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

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.5 Control Scope
• 6.6 Control Schedule
• 7.3 Control Costs

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Live Webinar – September 25th, 2012 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

Knowing how to create better, more profitable customer relationships starts with an understanding of the strategic and day-to-day operational decisions your company or organization is making about those customers.

If you can better manage these decisions, you can apply them in smarter, more purposeful ways sure to boost the value you reap from each customer.

This webinar reveals specific tips that you can use to optimize your customer relationships, including:

• Targeting customers more accurately,
• Reacting to customers in real-time, keeping up with rapid business change,
• Insuring consistency in a multichannel world and keeping costs down with scalable solutions.

Presenter: James Taylor (LinkedIn profile) , CEO, Decision Management Solutions and with more than 20 years working with clients James is an expert in how using business rules & analytic technology to build Decision Management Systems. If you are looking for information on decision Management Systems Sign up for his newsletter – Decision Management News. Read his blog: JT on EDM; or Follow him on Twitter: @jamet123. James is passionate about using Decision Management Systems to help companies improve decision-making and develop an agile, analytic, and adaptive business.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope

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