Live Webinar – April 25th, 2013 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

During the project intake process all projects are considered critical, all others never get approved. So how do you decide which “critical” projects are most critical? These decisions are typically made politically, emotionally or without consistency.

The Impact:

• Poor resource utilization
• Frustrated resources
• Projects not aligned with strategic objectives
• Higher risk and lower ROI

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar demonstrating a balanced approach to prioritizing initiatives. Projects affect many aspects of your business; all factors should be considered when taking on a new project. Learn the prioritization secrets of successful companies using a Project Portfolio Management mentality.

The Result:

• Decreased risk
• Higher ROI
• Optimized resource utilization
• Maximum aggregate value of projects

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: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project 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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Live Webinar April 24th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1260
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Are you looking for techniques for successfully scoping a project?
Then, this webinar is for you!

You’ll not only explore how to get from a starting point to an end result that satisfies the business goal, but you’ll also examine the requirements process and learn strategies for successfully managing scope changes; in addition, you’ll distinguish between product and project scope, and also discover how your project team can set boundaries and better manage stakeholder expectations.

Key learning points include:

• Best practices for identifying and documenting scope
• Difference between product and project scope
• Techniques for identifying requirements and managing changes

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Business Analyst Helps Business Define
The Value Of Any Given Solution

IIBA Experts n will explore the role of business Requirements and Design. This session will expand the view of design from the traditional information technology perspective.

The panelists will discuss the concept that requirements not only represent the business need but are in fact the design of a solution. Share your thoughts and come with questions for our panelists. When you leave you may just have a different perspective on the role of requirements.

The BABOK^® Guide is the foundation of the business analysis profession, and the starting point for a business analysis career – but it’s not the whole story. In the years since IIBA published version 2, the Business Analysis community has discovered many important implications to the knowledge collected in the book. Many of these realizations are integrated into a new model for understanding the BABOK^® Guide, called the Business Analyst Core Concept Model^â„¢ (BACCM).

Each episode will bring together different thought leaders from the Business Analysis community, to explore some aspect of Business Analysis, and to provide advice to practicing BAs. Each hour-long show will begin with a presentation and discussion of some aspect of the BABOK® Guide, followed about 30 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

Panellists:

Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of the newly published book, Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and is currently working on Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Mary Gorman CBAP, CSM (LinkedIn profile), is VP of quality and delivery at EBG Consulting. Mary works with global clients, speaks at industry conferences, and writes on requirements topics for the business analysis community. In addition to serving on the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® Committee for four years, Mary helped create the first CBAP® certification exam.

Julian Sammy(LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) (EBA, IIBA): Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK^® Guide

Click to register for IIBA: Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Episode IIII – Requirements and Design

Live Webinar – April 24th, 2013 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

How do we make sense of all that data?

Learn how MS Project and SharePoint 2010 provides powerful Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities to enable decision makes with the ability to transform raw data into meaningful and useful information.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the powerful integrated BI capabilities built into Project / SharePoint 2010
• Understand what a Mashup is and how they can create powerful dashboards using Web Parts
• Learn about the Performance Point analytics tools

Learning Outcomes:

• Learners will learn key terms and definitions for Portfolio Analytics
• Learners will learn the key relationships between Portfolio analysis and Business Intelligence (BI)
• Learners will come away with a basic understanding of how Business Intelligence (BI) to transforms raw data into meaningful and useful information.

Presenters:

Mark “Doc” Dochtermann, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-SP, CISSP, MCITP, is the co-author of Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project. During his extensive 30+ years PM career, Mark has managed projects for large organizations including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, MCI Business Systems, and the 1988 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. Mark is currently the Manager of Portfolio Strategy for Xerox State Healthcare, where he establishes Portfolio management strategy for the California MediCAL Management Information Systems (CA-MMIS). Mark is a founding member of the Technology Member Advisory Group (TechMAG) for PMI Global.

Tim Runcie – (LinkedIn profile @Advisicon) MCTS, MCP, MVP, PMPMVP in Project Server, President of Advisicon Tim has over 25 years of experience in information systems and 12 years of construction project management experience and is an established author, having written over 20 books Including:

• Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project – This presentation focuses on some of the great information from this valuable book!
  
• Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 & Project Server (Best Practices in Managing Projects with Microsoft Project)
• Microsoft Access in a SharePoint World
• Microsoft Business Intelligence: Executive Dashboards and Reporting with Microsoft Tools

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT…. Even if you only take the 3 session 6 hour MPUG Project Portfolio Management Masterclass (6 Category A PDUs) the$129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value to get the PPM MPUG Certificate and add it to your resume.

MPUG Membership also includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. 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 Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project

Live Webinar April 26th, 2013 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)

For many people, 50-75% of their work week is spent in meetings that are unproductive, not needed or fail to produce expected results. Valuable people, time and dollar resources are wasted when meeting objectives and expectations are not clear, agendas are not followed, no one or too many people try to take charge of project meetings. Successful meetings that product results don’t just happen, they are planned, prepared for and orchestrated.

Solutions Cube Group’s Planning and Preparing for a Successful Meeting webinar will teach students how to effectively plan and prepare for a successful meeting. They will discover how to engage key stakeholders in the art of planning the success of every meeting that is held.

In the Planning and Preparing for a Successful Meeting webinar, participants learn:

• Why planning is a core element of every successful meeting
• How to leverage the iterative process of planning to uncover and align on the expectations of meeting outcomes
• How to use a planning document as a collaboration tool when preparing for meetings
• How to use a Statement of Work as a tool to formalize the scope of each meeting
• How to create consistency in meeting process and outcomes through the use of standardized templates
• The difference between a published meeting agenda and a facilitator’s agenda and how each contributes to the success of a meeting

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar April 23rd, 2013 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Join O’Reilly for a live webcast presented by project management expert Bonnie Biafore author of Microsoft Project 2013: The Missing Manual. We will get you up to speed fast and put your project management skills to work.

In this webcast you will learn:

• Exploring built-in Project reports
• Customizing reports in Project 2013
• Alternatives to the new Project 2013 reports

Presenter: Bonnie Biafore (LinkedIn profile) is an engineer and project manager, she’s thorough and steadfastly attentive to detail but redeems herself in her writing by using her sense of humor to transform mundane subjects into entertaining reading. Bonnie is an award-wining author of over 25 books on project management, accounting, investing, personal finance, and technology including: Your Project Management Coach: Best Practices for Managing Projects in the Real World, QuickBooks 2013: The Missing Manual: The Official Intuit Guide to QuickBooks 2013, and Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual. Learn more at Bonnie’s website,

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 10.3 Control 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 Exploring the New Reports on Project 2013