Live Webinar OCtober 5th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Most projects have limitations they must operate within, pre-determined success criteria they must deliver on and unknown decisions that influence project work.

Finding out what these are after a solution is defined results in a waste of valuable project budget and schedule due to costly retrofitting or likely project failure.

It is crucial to understand the project limitations, regarding work being performed, and success factors the project is being measured on, as early as possible in the lifecycle.

Solutions Cube Group’s “Defining Project Constraints, CSFs and Assumptions” webinar provides an in depth lesson on developing three key Project Scope Statement deliverables: Project Constraints, Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Project Assumptions.

Students will learn how these deliverables help define the boundaries of the project work and the value they provide throughout the project lifecycle for making informed scoping decisions.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn to:

• Understand how to document Project Constraints to influence the manner in which the project is run and clarify the limitations the project solution must conform to:
  • Develop Critical Success Factors that define the key factors used to measure the success of the project
  • Define Project Assumptions to keep the project moving forward when decisions outside the control of the project team are yet to be made
  • Communicate why work has been included or excluded from the project effort
  • Understand how to use the CSFs and Project Assumptions to reduce subjectivity in determining when change requests are in or out of scope for a project

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar October 3rd,, 2012 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 ) – Event Code:161612
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Review the task and time reporting submission process in PS 2010.

Topics to be discussed include:

• Single entry mode,
• Prerequisite server settings,
• New UI capabilities,
• Submitting time options,
• Tracking methods,
• Administrative tasks, and approvals.

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 October 3rd, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Businesses choose Agile to speed time to market of their products and stay nimble and responsive to constantly changing customer needs.

As development cycles accelerate, it is more important than ever for project teams to ensure development activities align with business priorities.

The challenge is making sure that everyone has a shared vision of what is being built and why throughout the development process. Both business and development teams need to be able to collaborate on key decisions affecting the product, schedule or budget at any time.

Join this event and learn key ideals of Agile and challenges faced by Business Analysts.

We’ll focus on what we’ve heard as the top challenges of Agile development, and how to solve them.

Questions answered include:

• What happens to the requirements?
• How do we keep everyone in the loop when not in the same office?
• How do we control scope?
• How do we know what the development team will deliver at the end of the Sprint?

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information

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’

NOTE:

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information

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 Align Agile Development with Business Priorities

Live Webinar October 3rd, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT or
Live Webinar October 4th, 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 today’s environment, few core competencies are as important as how change is managed.

Leading organizations are beginning to invest the time and energy into institutionalizing change management and building organizational capabilities and competencies (or, said another way, deploying change management broadly across the enterprise).

Enterprise Change Management (ECM) is about making change management the expectation rather than the exception.

This webinar presents an overview on institutionalizing change management using the Project ECM framework – an approach for treating and managing the effort to institutionalize change management as a project and as a change.

Agenda:

1. What is Project ECM?
2. The case for Project ECM
3. The status of Project ECM
4. Current state, Future state, Transition state
5. Prosci ECM Suite

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 the October 3rd Presentation of Institutionalizing Change Management: Project ECM

Click to register for the October 4th Presentation of Institutionalizing Change Management: Project ECM

Live Webinar – October 2, 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

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?
COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource 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: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Develop Human Resources Plan
• 9.2 Acquire 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 Resource Capacity Management