Live Webinar February 15th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Selecting a vendor through a Request For Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and the project team selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations.

Once the short list of vendors has been determined, the project team needs to look more closely at how well the proposed solutions meet the stated project requirements.

This is the critical time to gain alignment on the gaps that exist and the appropriate adjustments required by the vendor to close the gaps. This will help minimize the padding vendors typically incorporate to address project unknowns.

Learn how to engage the vendor and the project team, in collaborative meetings, to ensure the selected solution will be able to deliver the expected outcome.

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

• Conducting a preliminary and secondary evaluation of vendors to create your “short” list
• How to conduct detailed evaluations of vendors on the short list
• Techniques for collaboratively performing a Gap Analysis of the proposed solution with the project team and the vendor

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Live Webinar – February 15th, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Just Do Projects or Achieve Real Results?

Ultimately your biggest opportunity to maximize the impact of your investment in Lean Six Sigma is to pick the right projects. However, traditional approaches to project selection do not ensure that the projects that are selected are the ones which will drive the biggest impact on business results.

In this webinar you will:

• Learn practical approaches you can immediately put to use to ensure projects are better aligned with business objectives
• Get ideas on how you can engage executives in actively driving execution of operational excellence projects
• Hear best practice examples from leading organisations to get the practical guidance you need to implement a robust and sustainable improvement system

Join Enzo DiNunzio (LinkedIn profile), CEO of Six Winners and Paul Docherty (LinkedIn profile), Founder and Executive Director of i-nexus as they share how you can combine best practices such as Hoshin Planning and Balanced Scorecards with Operational Excellence to create an improvement system which ensures projects are aligned with business objectives and executives actively drive execution of those projects.

If you are still using weighted evaluation grids and executive ‘project hopper’ workshops to select your projects then this webinar is for you.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution

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’

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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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For Another Great Hoshin Learning Opportunity

Essential Hoshin Planning Tools
For Excellence in Execution

Recorded Webcast -February 15, 2012
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDUs Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

The focus of this webinar is on Project Selection and PPM. These two webinars contribute to your understanding of Hoshin techniques. These complementary webinars covers the PM processes of Initiation and Execution.

NOTE: Our article was for the live event February 15th 2012 but the link in our article will take you an archived recording of the event – simply register to see the recording.

To Access our article on Hoshin with a focus on Project Execution, see …

Essential Hoshin Planning Tools for Excellence in Execution

Live Webinar – February 19th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Agile at its foundation is a way of conducting work governed by a set of principles. Agile has been “productized” (different Agile Flavors) for specific work needs and special practices have been established to get the work done. With that said, most organizations feel they just need to teach their team the practices and get to work. The reality is that is a major mistake.

As a way of working, Agile is a monumental transformation. It requires the worker to engage in their work with a completely different mindset. It requires organizations to monitor and measure itself differently. Finally it requires managers to practice a completely new set of skills when it comes to “managing” their teams (the reality is you don’t manage your team any longer in Agile).

This seminar discusses the transformational challenge Agile presents to an organization. It will go over organizational change strategies necessary to make the jump, as well as cover different start up models instead of complete enterprise adoption. The goal of this presentation is to properly prepare an organization for the “human” challenges associated with the decision to move to Agile methods.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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 Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Manage 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 Agile Adoption: The Organizational Change Dilemma

Live Webinar February 19th, 2013 – 11:00 am- 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat C Free – Free PDU
Event Code: 151335 A Microsoft Event Presented by: ABCSI

Featured Product/Topic: MS Project

This seminar will cover basic topics in MS Project such as:

1. Listing tasks,
2. Linking, and ….
3. Calendars

Presenter: Ed Avizur (LinkedIn profile)

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

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 6 – Time

• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control Schedule

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 MS Project – Beginners.