Live Webinar October 12th, 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)

Project methodologies recommend assessing the current project environment and building the project plan early during Project Initiation.

When teams gather to assess their project Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) they often struggle because everyone’s perspective of the environment to be assessed often differs.

It is equally challenging to define the development approach activities for the project plan without alignment on the boundaries and breadth of the project.

The solution to these project activity disconnects is to complete the SWOT analysis and Proposed Product Service Statement after the team has created the Project Scope Statement.

Solutions Cube Group’s “Using the SWOT Analysis and Proposed Product Statement” webinar provides an in depth lesson on leveraging the knowledge gained from the Project Scope Statement to create focus for developing the both the Proposed Product Statement and the project SWOT Analysis.

Attendees will learn how the Project Scope Statement enables the team to make informed decisions for their approach for running the project (buy, build, phase, prototype). They will learn how to improve the quality of their assessment of the current environment with a SWOT analysis that is based on the clearly defined project boundaries.

At the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the role the Project Scope Statement plays in providing clarity when deciding how to plan the project effort
• Develop a Proposed Product Statement to describe the project development approach
• Use techniques for pinpointing relevant strengths to be retained and recognize weaknesses to be eliminated or minimized as part of the project solution
• Understand how to use the SWOT analysis to uncover Opportunities and Threats which lead directly into the creation of the Project Risk Plan.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar October 11th 2012 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category B PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Acumen – Proven Project Analytics

Project risk analysis doesn’t have to be complicated.

See how Acumen Riskâ„¢ uses a more intuitive approach to evaluating risk to achieve truly integrated cost and schedule risk analysis.

Using this simpler method:

• The analysis considers both risk events and the team’s evaluation of cost/schedule uncertainty,
• The team receives more accurate risk-forecasts,
• The team can identify the true drivers of both cost and schedule risk and ……
• Gathering team input and generating meaningful risk analysis reports has never been easier.

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Live Webinar – October 11th, 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

Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.

Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.

During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:

• Improved project predictability
• Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
• Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
• Reduced effort spent resolving project issues

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: 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’

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Live Webinar – October 11th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Lou Russell’s guest, Mary Cook, RMA Facilitator Extraordinaire, has been working with a private college to evolve their support organizations into trimmer, more efficient and customer-centric organizations to help the university meet its strategic goals.

Starting with IT and branching into other support areas, Mary has used surveys, profiles, assessments, facilitated sessions and blood, sweat but no tears to identify where each organization is now, and how jobs must change to become the future organization required to drive university success.

These projects follow the following process:

• Pre-Project Planning / Charter: establish the business concept, expectations, scope
• Discover: establish the current state including strengths and opportunities for improvement
• Initial Design: Leverage an organizational survey and talent audits to create a high level gap analysis
• Detailed Design: Benchmark key positions to create new hiring and succession planning models
• Final Design: Create a proposed strategy for phased roll-out of new organization

This session will be part sharing of the Project Plan and how the ‘real’ project went. It will also include Q&A with key roles on the project.

Speakers:
Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile)is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou and her staff deliver learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand. She focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

Mary Cook (LinkedIn profile) has over fifteen years experience in meeting facilitation, leadership training and team development, strategy development, coaching leaders over twenty years’ leadership experience in the healthcare field. She is certified in the DISC behavioral styles, Workplace Motivators®, Emotional Quotient® and TriMetrix® Job Benchmarking and Talent Assessment System and uses a variety of other assessments for 360 feedback, cultural and team insights, and job benchmarking.

Scott Kincaid (LinkedIn profile) is the Chief Information Officer at Butler University and is responsible for IT strategies and services for administrative and academic computing. Scott has held various leadership roles, including CIO, at OneAmerica, a diversified financial services company with $15 billion under managementas well as IT roles, and has taught as an adjunct professor at IU Kelley School of Business-Indy campus, University of Evansville, and Butler University.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope

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’

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Live Webinar October 11th, 2012, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

It is clear that this is a time full of changes in strategy, technology, product mix, and culture—and with many of them, reorganization and redeployment. Many of these changes will be planned with little concern for how they will impact the people involved.

Data suggests that the psychological process that change initiates is more like distress and disruption than adjustment.

Do you have the ability to manage the psychological transition –
To effectively impact operational change?

In this free webinar, learn a framework for transition management and collect a set of tools that will help reduce stress and disruption during times of change and, ultimately, make change work for you.

Presented by: Roger Young (LinkedIn profile) has served as a leadership and organizational development consultant, master facilitator, and executive coach for more than 15 years. Roger’s expertise also includes working and leading across organizational boundaries, executive team alignment and development, and organizational downsizing. Roger is experienced in a wide range of assessments including 360-degree feedback, the Hogan personality suite, Social Styles, DiSC as well as several other individual and team assessments.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Plan Communications

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’

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