Live Webinar Sept 19th, 2013 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 30 Minutes Credits: 0.50 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Competitive Solutions Inc.

How Do You Build Your Scorecard?

Although using metrics is common, what is not common to most organizations is the implementation of a continuous improvement and an auditing process to ensure that the scorecards have the right kind of metrics.

In order to track overall business performance, most organizations have some form of business scorecard or balanced scorecard in place.

Whether using a simple spread sheet or a comprehensive scorecard software technology, scorecards are driven by the development and leveraging of specific, tactical measures commonly known as metrics.

When done correctly, metrics allow leaders to know both the expected results (goals), the actual results (outcomes) and give leaders an opportunity to focus future efforts on continually improving performance.

The first step in improving your scorecards is to have the ability to identify and eliminate the metrics that you simply don’t need.

Learn about the 3 Kinds of Business Metrics:

1. The Meaningful
2. The Nice-to-Know
3. The Stuff filling up my screen

Join this webinar to learn some great tips on how to develop effective scorecards.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage 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 Sept 18th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)

The U.S. and the world as a whole spends one fourth of its GDP on projects, and many of those are related to healthcare. Employers list project management skills behind only communication and technical skills for new college graduates.

Many companies and academic programs in business, information technology, and engineering now require courses in project management, and it’s time for healthcare organizations and programs to do the same!

Kathy Schwalbe has written several books on project management, including a new one targeted for healthcare professionals.

• See how key project management concepts can be applied to important healthcare initiatives with detailed examples on a case study to reduce hospital acquired conditions.
• Discover what is different about projects in the healthcare industry and discuss approaches to teaching important project management skills to healthcare professionals.

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

Presenter: Kathy Schwalbe, Ph.D., PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. She is the author of Information Technology Project Management, now in its seventh edition, An Introduction to Project Management, now in its fourth edition, and Healthcare Project Management.

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Live Webinar Sept 20th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

This webinar will shed light on how the Logical Framework Approach can blend with Earned Value Management to provide progress reporting for development projects.

The Logical Framework Matrix is a planning tool that is mostly used for development projects. It provides information concerning project Goals, Outcomes, Outputs and Activities which map to PMI’s terminology of Program Benefits, Project Objectives/Final Product, Deliverables, and Activities.

The key points here are the indicators for each of the 4 aforementioned concepts. The indicators are a way of verifying whether the project is on track or not, and thus they can be mapped to the EVM indicators to provide better progress reports.

This is a collaborative webinar between ID CoP and EVM CoP on the application of Logical Framework Approach and Earned Value Management in project management.

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

Presenters:

Afif Tabsh, PMP, CBAP (LinkedIn profile) is a Consultant at CMCS, Project Management Instructor at the American University of Beirut, Cofounder & President at Aie Serve (a youth empowerment NGO), Vice President at the PMI Lebanon Chapter and Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum. Afif has participated, organized, trained and been a guest speaker in numerous conferences, camps, workshops, conventions and seminars including: Aie Serve, PMI, UNDP, UNESCO, Rotary, World Economic Forum, Arab Economic Form and The Universal Peace Federation.

Efrain Pacheco, PMP (LinkedIn profile) has 24 years of project/program management experience. He has taught multiple courses in Earned Value, Risk, PMO and Project management to audiences in the US and throughout the world. Mr. Pacheco is also well versed in re-engineering of process and procedures for the support of Project Management Life Cycle, EVM oversight, PMO, Systems Life Cycle, Help Desk/Support, Training, QA, CMMI and business process. Currently he is serving as the manager for the PMI EVM Community of Practice.

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Live Webinar Sept 18th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

How can IT Methodology contribute to organizational process governance, quality assurance and metrics?

This session identifies how utilizing IT lifecycles and deliverables can be beneficial.

Receive a general overview of organizational process management and how consistent application can lead to overall improvement.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Live Webinar – September 19th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) 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 Sept 18th, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcast

Come join us at the dawn of an age of discovery as we explore how Big Data can help personalize healthcare.

This is a call for the believers in Big Data, as well as the skeptics and non-data healthcare people, to come together to learn about the “Healthcare Big Data Landscape”.

For non-data people, we will explain the background on Big Data and the recent data deluge triggered by wild growth in the use of mobile devices by providers, patients and consumers.

Bonnie will develop a story around three case studies of how Big Data is being harnessed to improve healthcare:

1. Supporting Research – Genomics
2. Transforming Data to Information – Cancer Research
3. Supporting Self-Care and Increasing Consumer Awareness – Mobile Social Games for Health

This webcast will also examine and answer the questions:

1. Who is doing this? Why does this matter?
2. How are Big Data and data analytics going to improve healthcare?
3. What are the future implications?
4. Why do we care?.

….. While we explore the promise of improvement in the emerging ecosystem of personalized medicine.

Presenter: Bonnie Feldman (LinkedIn profile) As principal of DrBonnie360, most recently, she is set to publish “Big Data in Healthcare -Hype and Hope” in collaboration with Rock Health. Prior to this original research, she created a first of its kind industry overview “Mobile, Social and Fun: Games for Health,” published by MobiHealthNews, which was well received as a presentation at the Games for Health Conference. She holds a BA in Economics, a Doctor of Dental Surgery, and an MBA in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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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A Great Webinar & Some Additional Videos On
Lean Healthcare

Recorded Webinar – Compliments of the Gemba Academy
Presented by: KaiNexus
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Kaizenis a collaborative improvement platform that engages every person in the organization in a structure and an effective continuous improvement process. Whether the focus is daily improvement, “kaizen events,” or even major projects, Kaizen drives, shares and sustains measurable improvements that matter for patients, staff and leaders.

Click to learn more about “A Physician’s Perspective on Kaizen: Employee Engagement & Continuous Improvement In Healthcare” and also Enjoy Some Additional Videos On Lean Healthcare