Live Webinar OCtober 19th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – FREE PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Over 66 % of projects fail never making it to implementation or deliver less than expected capabilities.

What stands between the project team’s efforts to understand and communicate project needs and a successful project implementation of those needs?

Learn how to recognize and overcome these far too common barriers regarding project requirements development.

In this webinar participants learn about :

• Barriers to stand in the way of communicating project needs
• Pre-requisite project work necessary to develop clear requirement statements
• Common problems associated with writing requirement statements

Solutions Cube Group webinars are presented by experienced staff members and partners who have over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing and running facilitated project meetings and delivering project management training courses.

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Live Webinar – October 18th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs2 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
Please enter Referral Code 576587

Join Greg, Lee & Steven on October 18th for a detailed discussion on how your organization can use project and product management to achieve better market results.

This webinar is presented by Greg Geracie, president of Actuation Consulting and author of the global best seller Take Charge of Your Product Management Development; Tips, Tactics, and Tools to Increase Your Effectiveness as a Product Manager and Lee Lambert, CEO of the Lambert Consulting Group and PMI Fellow.

In the recent Study of Product Team Performance, 2012 sponsored by Diversified Communications, respondents cited a “collaborative partnership between project and product management” as a key factor in creating value in the product development process. However, the relationship between these functions remains poorly defined in most companies and in industry literature.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Clarify the leadership roles for both product and project managers in product development projects from planning to execution
• Outline the importance of fully documenting the process used to produce your products and ensure appropriate alignment, hand-offs, and increased effectiveness
• Introduce the 3 C’s of project management and demonstrate the interrelationship between the product and project management life cycles from conception to retirement

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenters:

Greg Geracie, (LinkedIn profile) is the President of Actuation Consulting, providing product management training and advisory services to organizations nationwide. Greg is the author of the global best seller Take Charge of Your Product Management Development; Tips, Tactics, and Tools to Increase Your Effectiveness as a Product Manager â„¢ and was selected by the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) to lead the industry effort to develop The Guide to the Product Management and Marketing Body of Knowledge© (ProdBOK©). Greg is an adjunct professor at DePaul University’s College of Computing and Digital Media where he teaches a course on high-tech product management.

Lee R. Lambert, PMI Fellow, (LinkedIn profile) has established the standard against which educators and practitioners in the field of Project Management are measured. In 1981 he was invited to join the team that created the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Program. He is a Past President Central Ohio PMI. Lee Lambert is the author of Project Management: The CommonSense Approach.

Steven Starke PMP is the author of S.T.O.P. The Project Management Survival Plan: A proven project management framework complemented with tools, tips, and techniques to ensure you’re not the reason for stopping the project, Steven has more than 15 years of experience in project/program management, specializing in solving business problems with technical solutions by delivering multi-million dollar projects and programs on time and within budget while maximizing project value.

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Looking for a great Project Management Simulation?

Check Out ALLERTON’s
Connector Highway Project Management Simulation

“This simulation is a winner! I would highly recommend the Allerton Connector Project Management Simulation to anyone looking for a capstone experience to test their knowledge and judgment in a real world project management environment.”

— Lee R. Lambert, PMP, CEO, Lambert Consulting Group,
Project Management Institute Fellow, 2009

Challenge Yourself – Grow your Skills – With this great 10-hour In Basket Project Simulation. It will allow you to test your current skills and build new competencies. This is an excellent opportunity to challenge yourself by applying Project Management skills to the highway project – an environment that may be unfamiliar to you!

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Live Webinar – October 17, 1:00-2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Scrum and Visual Studio 2012 make for a powerful combination.

Organizations that can leverage both will see an increase in the quality of their products as well as the velocity of their teams.

In this webcast Richard will explore the Scrum framework, the Visual Studio Scrum process template, and the planning and tracking tools in Team Foundation Server 2012.

Presenter: Richard Hundhausen (LinkedIn profile) Richard is the president of Accentient, and author of Building Web Applications with ADO.NET and XML Web Services. Accentient helps software development teams understand and leverage Microsoft ALM tools and Scrum. With over 30 years of software development and training experience, Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual Studio ALM MVP, and author of Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 by Microsoft Press.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 9.3 Develop 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’

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Live Webinar – October 18th, 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

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, 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

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 Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!

Live Webinar October 18th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1266
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Effective delegation is at the heart of good management,
Yet many managers hesitate to entrust work to their employees!

Some of reasons:

1. They don’t know how to delegate;
2. They don’t want to burden their staff;
3. They believe they can do it better than their employees;
4. They fear an employee may make a mistake;
5. … Or worse, they fear that an employee may outperform them.

The result?

Managers suffer burnout, employees’ skills remain untapped, and morale suffers. The good news is that you can acquire the art of the handover!

This webinar will help you:

• Identify the symptoms of a disempowering organization
• Explore your own mindset about delegating work
• Identify what work can be delegated (and what should not)
• Choose the right person for the task
• Develop a plan and a process for delegating effectively
• Add a critical skill to your manager’s tool kit

About the presenter: Casey Mitchell (LinkedIn profile), is founder and principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc., a consulting practice devoted to helping people achieve peak performance. Her primary focus is on management learning and development and works with new managers who want to make a successful transition, along with existing managers who want to move into leadership roles. She has eighteen years experience in the training field and a wealth of management experience, which helps her relate to her clients’ needs.

Click to register for Delegation: The Art of the Handover

Live Webinar October 17th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager. Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

You will have to register for either the live or recorded session

Click to register for the Live Presentation of Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

Recorded Webinar Information:

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