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’

Click to register for Better Project Selection Using Hoshin Planning and Balanced Scorecards

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.

Live Webinar February 15th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Many project teams describe their Risk Management effort as a Risk Mitigation activity to overcome negative project risks. Risk Mitigation is only one of the 8 different responses considered by project teams who are successful in their risk management effort. Teams who consider all 8 risk responses when creating their risk register are more effective in exploiting risk opportunities as well as minimizing or preventing risk threats.

The Risk Management Series of in depth webinars will introduce participants to techniques for defining a Risk Management Process and using this process to progressively build a Risk Register including: identifying risks using a Risk Meta-Language, Assessing Risks with quantitative techniques, understanding the 8 risk responses and selecting the appropriate Risk Response for the project risks and monitoring risks throughout the project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Selecting the Appropriate Risk Responses webinar will help your project teams understand the differences between the 8 risk response types and when it is appropriate to use each response. You will learn how to increase the likelihood of positive risk opportunities occurring and how to reduce or avoid the impact of negative project risks.

In the Selecting the Appropriate Risk Responses webinar, participants learn:

• How to complete the risk register with appropriate risk responses
• Why relying on risk mitigation as the only response to risk creates more risk exposure
• How to differentiate between the Risk Response types available for managing project risk
• Techniques for creating contingency plans as part of the response effort
• When to use each response type when planning the risk management effort

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Selecting the Appropriate Risk Responses: Risk Series 3 of 4

Live Webinar – February 14th 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

Many of today’s project managers are finding themselves leading and managing Agile development teams, only to find that many of the tools and techniques applied when utilizing a traditional project management approach no longer work as effectively or at all.

In order to do more than survive in this iterative development environment, today’s PM must employ additional project management tools and techniques to effectively lead their teams and deliver their projects.

Learning how to transition from a traditional project manager to an effective Agile Project Manager is going to be an essential step for today’s software development leaders to remain relevant. This hour long web seminar will explore how today’s PM can easily and successfully make the transition to an effective Agile PM.

Presenter:Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer,with 5 years of Agile experience effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities.

Click to register for The Agile Project Management Professional (PMP)

Live Webinar – February 19th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Presented by: KaiNexuss
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Note: Registration is limited and these sessions fill up very quickly!

Although this session includes product specific information the session is also an excellent introduction to “kaizen” and lean continuous improvement initiatives in the healthcare industry.

In these challenging and uncertain times, it’s vitally necessary that we engage everybody in improving our health systems. Join KaiNexus CEO Greg Jacobson, MD (LinkedIn profile) and chief improvement officer Mark Graban (LinkedIn profile) for an informative webinar to learn about proven methods that improve quality and patient safety, reduce costs, reduce waiting times, and improve patient satisfaction, done so in a way that greatly increased staff engagement and morale. You can also view a recorded version of this webinar.

The webinar will cover:

• Introduction to the “kaizen” style of employee engagement and continuous improvement
• How kaizen applies in healthcare settings, for process and clinical improvements
• How to find, discuss, test/implement, document, and share kaizen improvements
• The role of leaders and managers in supporting staff members and physicians in their improvement work
• A demonstration of KaiNexus’s technology to show how it “makes improvement easier”
• Q&A with Greg and Mark

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 Sign up and KaiNexus will send you information about how to join their webinar “Kaizen” Employee Engagement & Continuous Improvement: KaiNexus