Live Webinar May 23rd, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category A – Free PDU/CDU
Presenter: Versatile Project Management Company (REP 1524)

Successful projects begin with achievable goals!

Accurate estimates play a critical role in every project. They are used to justify the project, to coordinate activity, and to evaluate the success. Consistently accurate estimates are a sign of mature project management practices.

In this webinar you’ll learn:

• The factors that make estimates accurate – and where to focus your attention to improve your accuracy.
• How phase gates can calibrate your confidence.
• The most important success factor for accurate estimating.

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Live Webinar – May 21st, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Business Process Management (BPM) helps to optimize your business processes, empower your people, and ultimately reduce costs across the enterprise. However, enterprise-level BPM has traditionally been a lengthy process. As we move towards a world where rapid change and flawless delivery are key parts of survival, how can you adapt your approaches to BPM to better support your business?

On this webinar, Rob Speck, VP, Consulting for K2 will discuss 4 key strategies to make your BPM implementations more agile and scalable, resulting in a faster return on investment.

These strategies include:

• Deploying change-based models to rapidly adjust, when the business changes
• Limiting code development for fast, flexible deployments
• Building processes that connect and leverage, existing systems
• Reusing forms, workflows, data, and reports, across multiple processes

Also hear from Jaime Flores-Lovo, IT Manager at The City of San Francisco ­Department of Public Works, who leads a team that built and deployed a contract change process that saved the city $17MM. Jaime’s team leveraged K2 to develop prototypes with less code – allowing the organization to quickly validate the business processes, deploy to the business, and yield a rapid return on investment.

Presenters:

Live Webinar – May 23rd, 2013 2:00 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’

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

What Makes A Truly Great Leader?

In today’s business world of fast-and-furiously changing global competitors and precarious economic conditions, determining the answer to this question—and finding people who embody it or could—is urgent.

One of today’s most respected experts on identifying and developing high-potential leaders, John Mattone defines great leaders by the strength of their strategic and tactical capabilities as well as their character.

In this webcast you’ll hear about his unique leadership self-assessment and development tools and discover how leadership is built on a foundation of three equally critical components: outer-core competencies, inner-core values, and maturity.

For leaders who striving to overcome their own limiting thoughts and habits and who want to become more effective, strategic, and balanced.

Join us to learn how to:

• Assess your capability in nine core strategic and tactical competencies
• Evaluate where you stand and how naturally you act on six critical elements of character: courage, diligence, gratitude, honesty, modesty, and loyalty
• Understand your predominant leadership trait and style
• Build rapport, trust, and credibility with individuals who exhibit different predominant traits from your own
• And much more.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter: John Mattone (LinkedIn profile) has been recognized by the prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading management thinkers and by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the world’s top independent leadership consultants, executive coaches, and speakers. He has written for The Huffington Post, CEO Magazine, CLO Magazine, CIO Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Harvard Business Review, among others. John Mattone and his work are the subject of a 30-minute documentary produced by PBS.

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 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’

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Live Webinar May 23rd, 2013 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

How to document constraints, assumptions, risks and dependencies and how they inform requirements will be discussed in this session.

Julian Sammy will explore the meaning of risk and why the BA must engage stakeholder in risk discussion.

You will leave this session with a better understanding of the difference between PMI and IIBA description of CARRDS.
(Constraints, Assumptions, Risks, Requirements & Dependencie)

Share your thoughts and experience and questions during this one hour presentation.

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

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Live Webinar May 23rd, 2013 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

New product development engineers promote agile development and adaptive prototyping as methods to manage unpredictable engineering development.

However, some project managers reject the business challenges, risks and uncertainties of the adaptive development environment.

Adaptive Product Management (APM) bridges the gap between unpredictable, adaptive technology development and predictive, practical product management techniques.

The fundamental APM tasks are:

• coordinate
• quick-draw innovation
• collaborate to innovate
• enable flexible growth options
• and encourage an APM culture

These bring value to both product development and project management.

The technical merits and management challenges of using adaptive development in today’s customer-centric business environment are discussed. APM forces a product development paradigm shift from execution of known constraints to learning of unknown product potential.

A “pull” development strategy creates a lean, value-add product development cycle. APM uses time-phased product demands to map development. APM implementation strategies, best practices and performance control warnings are outlined.

Participants will learn how to effectively deploy APM in their organizations and new technology development applications.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Vince Socci, is a product manager and cross-disciplined systems engineer. His technology expertise includes embedded systems, sensors and signal processing, power control systems, and diagnostics. Vince has over 15 years of experience in aerospace, automotive and defense systems. He has applied the APM concepts described in this presentation in aerospace, automotive, communications, services management, utility and medical applications.

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