Chat Live with World-Class Project Management Professionals
Live Webinar July 26 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Come Meet Michael Kaplan & Discuss
Project Communications on #PMChat

Michael is “Plugged In” And encourages you to Reach out to him on: Twitter Klout Google+ & Check him out on: LinkedIn Check out other “Plugged In” PM Gurus on SocialPMO.co

An organization’s ability to meet project timelines, budgets and especially goals significantly impacts its ability to survive—and even thrive. As they address the urgent need to improve project success rates, organizations are faced with a complex and risky environment.

This includes:

• A “do more with less” economic climate
• Expanding global priorities
• Necessity to enable innovation

The study also revealed that the most crucial success factor in project management is effective communications to all stakeholders—a critical core competency to all organizations. In a complex and competitive business climate, organizations cannot afford to overlook this key element of project success and long-term profitability.
~ Source: PMI –As reported by PMI’s 2013 Pulse of the Profession TM

It’s Clear That We Should Be Doing A Much Better Job
Communicating With All Project Stakeholders.

Project communications involves planning and delivering information to all project stakeholders.

This includes:

• Actions needed to best handle timely and appropriate gathering, reproduction, distribution, storage, administration, and control of project content.
• Critical connections between people, thoughts, and content required for success.

The underlying need and core capability required for a well lubricated and functioning project team is effective and efficient communications among team members, and all project stakeholders.

A critical risk to project management is to assume that all communication are functioning properly just because people are talking to one another. Delivering a PMmessage doesn’t make sure that it’s received.

1. The PM owns building, maintaining & handling critical project connections.
2. The responsibility for building and maintaining real communication links falls on the PM.
3. The PM should focus on key project communications areas to make sure to meet organizational goals..

Questions which may be discussed during the live #PMCHAT:

• Successful communication of information.
• Efficient movement of communications.
• Adequate communications across boundaries.
• Proper use of technology.
• Application of a virtual office.
• Carry out effective meetings.

#PMChat Guest: Michael Kaplan PMP

Michael Kaplan (LinkedIn Twitter) is the seasoned CEO of SoftPMO (CompanyTwitters: SoftPMO SociaPMO)

Michael has worked with many of the most successful organizations in the world, including Fortune 500 companies and numerous government agencies. Helping them achieve the full intent of their most urgent and critically important initiatives, Michael uses successful communication techniques to meet their project budges timelines and their goals.

Michael is passionate about developing excellent products with impressive UX/UI design. Michael authored more than 70 blog posts, and has created several very popular commercial products. His most recent innovations are the SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit and socialpmo.co—a new kind of social media solution.

Michael has offered readers of pduOTD.com (PDU Of The Day) a Special Time Limited 20% discount off of his Project Management Toolkit Simply click thisSoftPMO Toolkit Discount link to take advantage of this offer!

As certified Project Management Professional Michael builds on a solid foundational research, excellent communication management and extensive consulting experience to assist his clients.

What is #PMChat?

Project Management Chat is a weeklyTwitter chathosted by Robert Kelly (LinkedIn, @RKelly976 ) and Rob Prinzo (LinkedIn, @RobPrinzo) andHala Saleh (@HalaSaleh1) each Friday from 12-1pm (EDT) via hashtag #PMChat. Weekly topics focus on Project Management & Leaderships challenges.

If you are a Project Manager or Business Analyst and haven’t joined twitter yet consider it if only for the once a week #pmchat ! Meet amazing colleagues and enrich your experience with different ideas and perspectives. – EdmontonPM (@EdmontonPM)

If you are new to twitter and interested in project management – check out #pmot (PMs on Twitter) and #pmchat great people there! – IIL ‏ (@IILGlobal)

Join the PreGame Show

Tune into KPS Chatter on Fridays at 11:30am for the Live #PMChatPre-Game Radio Show, as hosts Robert Kelly& Rob Prinzo & Hala Saleh interview today’s leading project management experts. Listen to Past Episodes. For more information check out PM chat Website that also talks about Claiming Category C PDUs

Check Out Archived #PMChats on Storify!

TO JOIN #PMCHAT: You can sign in to your twitter account and Search for #PMCHAT and make sure that all your replies have #PMCHAT within the 142 character response.

For More information Check Out
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Live Webinar July 26th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Marketing & Sales CoP (REP #S022)

• Are you an innovative company?
• “What are you actually doing to be innovative?”

Our presenter Andrea J. Simon asks the tough questions and helps you become more innovative in your own organization and in the areas that you manage.

Could Innovation Games® become helpful tools in your tool kit?

• Could games, meaningful play, provide you with ways of developing prototypes faster?
• Could a gaming process help get the right people engaged in the process to change the way you respond to new opportunities?

Please joinPMI’s Marketing & Sales CoP if you would like to learn more about “Play at Work” and how to think about games, choose the right games and engage both other staff members and customers in your product development process, your problem solving process and your people management processes.

Presenter: Andrea J. Simon Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile) is President and founder of Simon Associates Management Consultants (SAMC), a certified, woman-owned consulting business designed to help companies grow through change.Andrea developed a ChangeMapâ„¢ process to enable companies discover new ways to “see, feel and think” about their business, their customers and about opportunities to capture changing markets and she is a trained practitioner in Blue Ocean Strategy®.

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

Click to register for Innovation Games!

Live Webinar July 24th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Review the Reporting Capabilities within PS 2010 including:

• The Project Center,
• Resource Center and ….
• The Business Intelligence Center.
• Enhanced reporting capabilities will focus on Dashboards,
  • Excel services,
  • Performance Point services … and …
  • SQL Server Reporting services.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

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

Click to register for EPM – Reporting in Project Server 2010

Live Webinar July 26th, 2013 – 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

Dr. Ginger Levin, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PgMP -Consultant/Educator-Portfolio, Program, and Project Management Professional will share with you her wealth of knowledge and experience of successful practices in Project Management.

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

Presenter: ,

Click to register for Guidelines for Success from over 30 Years in Consulting

Live Webinar July 24th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

How do companies profitably go about harvesting and holding their corporate knowledge?

When you’re dealing with general reference information, it’s pretty easy to use technologies such as Wikis and Sharepoint to push out information on policies to specific user communities. But requirements information is vastly different in structure, as are the uses of information, and user needs for access.

The benefit scenarios for requirements repositories need to be practical and grounded in the unique nature of this information.

This webinar will address how a repository can be used to standardize BA activities, achieve greater analyst efficiency, and deliver better solutlons.

The following topics will be addressed:

• Best practices for Business Analysis knowledge management
• Building a business case for a Business Analysis/Requirements repository
• Challenges faced in building a requirements repository
• Linking the requirements repository to the business architecture
• Promoting standardization through re-usability
• Establishing greater efficiency for business analysis activities through use of a repository

Give-aways: Participants of this webinar will receive a copy of the webinar from the presentation as well as supplemental material to help build a strategic business analysis repository

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop 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 How Requirements Repositories and Reusability can Help Achieve a Competitive Advantage

Live Webinar July 24th, 2013, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar July 24th,, 2013, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Everyone wants to work better together, it seems. Social media is providing new opportunities to improve collaboration with colleagues and beyond the firewall. There are many possibilities, but a cohesive, overall strategy remains elusive for many organizations.

Discussion Topics:

• Why organizations need a social and collaboration strategy
• How should organizations develop their strategy
• What a good strategy looks like

Presenter: JeffreyMann, (LinkedIn profile) Research VP

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resource 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 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 Build a Social Strategy to Encourage and Optimize Collaboration