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.

Click to register for Simplifying Risk Analysis with Acumen Riskâ„¢

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’

Click to register for Practical Project Risk Management

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’

Click to register for Reboot: Successful Organization Evolution w/ special guests Scott Kincaid & Mary Cook

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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’

Click to register for(Now Recorded) Leading Transitions for Emerging Leaders with Roger Young

Live Webinar October 12th, 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)

In many organizations, after an annual investment is made to create the ideal Strategic Plan which will is intended to guide the actions of the staff for 1 – 3 years or longer, many teams feel their planning work is done.

The creation of the Strategic Plan is often viewed as the end point of planning.

Unfortunately, Strategic Plans can become stale very quickly for a variety of reasons:

1. Changes in the environment,
2. New information that becomes available as the plan is being executed
3. And … Feedback for unexpected results from planned projects and initiatives.

The Planning staff and department and team leads need to treat the Strategic Plan as a living document, reviewing it periodically to assess environmental changes that may require adjustments to the plan.

They must evaluate whether the planned initiatives are both clearly defined and prioritized realistically to ensure the right projects are being worked on at the right time and projects no longer viable are removed or canceled.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand factors that influence changes to the Mission and Vision and thereby the overall plan
• Learn techniques for using a SWOT analysis to test and validate internal and external perceptions of Strengths and Weaknesses integral to the Strategic Plan
• Understand ways to prioritize projects and initiatives from multiple perspectives •Learn techniques to collaboratively adjust the plan periodically to ensure it is viable and on target

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Keeping the Strategic Plan Alive: Strategic Planning Series 5 of 5

Live Webinar – October 11th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

Learn what is needed to prepare for a Project Server migration.

This webinar will focus on planning, design, deployment, and best practices when migrating to Project Server 2010. Included in the topics will be possible upgrade paths and also the inclusion of SharePoint content migration as well.

The presentation will cover Project Server 2003 and Project Server 2007 migrations to Project Server 2010 and also review high-level process to prepare for migrating to the upcoming Project Server 2013.

Presenter: Chad Olson, (LinkedIn profile) MCTS MCSE MCP – EPM Technical Architect has focused on the technical aspects of installation, design, architecture, configuration, and customized reporting of the Microsoft Project Server platform. Chad is very involved in distributing the latest technical news of Project Server, and has conducted training classes for administrators, report authors, and project managers on the toolset with processes and procedures for several clients.

MPUG $129 Membership Fee Includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members – FREE
2. Weekly Newsletters
3. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
4. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
5. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
6. Great Value And so much more …….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for Project Server 2010 Migration