Online Webinar – Recorded
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – FREE PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Purchasing a project solution versus building one internally is becoming more common as organizations focus on implementing projects quicker and try to avoid re-inventing the wheel.

Selecting a vendor through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and you selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations. Project teams make the mistake of jumping straight to the proposal portion of their project lifecycle before clearly defining their needs. The resulting RFP sent to vendors is vague and fails to communicate the critical requirements vendors need to propose accurate solutions.

Vendors have little choice except to make many assumptions regarding what they think the project needs are and base their proposals on these, often times, false assumptions. Because the project requirements are so vague, almost any vendor solution appears to adequately address the need.

Solutions Cube Group’s one hour recorded Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join them for this presentation and learn how to build RFPs that spell out the complete needs of your project and improve the accuracy and completeness of your vendor responses.

In thisone hour recordedWebinar participants learn about:

• 3 Critical Success Factors of the RFP process
• The components of the RFP process lifecycle
• • The anatomy of a Request For Proposal document
• Characteristics of the successful RFP

Click to register & view Why Don’t RFP Vendors Provide Solutions We Expect?

Online Webinar – Recorded -August 22nd, 2012
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Many enterprises are considering significant SharePoint investments.

This strong interest has acted as a forcing function, causing enterprises to strategize on related issues such as how to enhance performance, optimize resource investments, and explore coexistence options with other enterprise content management (ECM) systems, as well as office productivity applications and overall governance.

Learn how to avoid the pitfalls and deliver clear benefits to the business.

Discussion Topics:

• What SharePoint is, and how it is affecting the portal, content and collaboration markets
• The strategic role SharePoint plays in enterprises as information infrastructure, and whether it can coexist with other applications
• How enterprises can best manage their SharePoint installations for efficiency, effectiveness and proper governance

Presenter: Mark R. Gilbert, Research VP

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

• 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 Making Microsoft SharePoint Deliver

Online Webinar – Recorded – September 2012
Duration:46 min Webcast – 0.75 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Note: Although this webinar is a bit salsey for the openspan technology and uses call center examples – There are some excellent lessons learned on the point where people and technology meet and creating a better way to understand and create impressive performance experiences for your business.

• You have made huge investments in technology, people and processes. But are you getting the results you expected?
• Is the corporate strategy hashed out in the corner office being fully executed on the shop floor and the front lines?
• Is your vision of organizational excellence being fulfilled?

Join the PEX Network and OpenSpan for this executive strategy session focused on how to gain both visibility and control over user processes, while actually reducing the burden on workers at every level.

Presenter: Raun Kilgo (LinkedIn profile) Director of Process Improvement OpenSpan is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with extensive experience in front-office and back-office operations. He has been in management and executive roles in leading communications and contact center companies for two decades, with senior roles at AT&T, GE, Premier Global and Aspect Software. Kilgo has advised OpenSpan customers on operational efficiency and process excellence in the front and back-office operations of Global 2000 companies on four continents, impacting hundreds of thousands of workers.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 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 register and view How The Shop Floor Holds The Key To A Successful Corporate Strategy

Online Webinar – Recorded -November 15th 2012
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

One of the most important foundational components for effectively utilizing an Agile approach is the team retrospective, yet it is often poorly executed by teams, resulting in little to no value.

Conducting an effective, efficient team retrospective isn’t difficult, but many teams and Scrum Masters forget to focus on a few key areas essential for an effective forum.

This hour long webinar will share with you the secrets employed by successful Agile teams and great Scrum Masters in their mission for continuous, incremental improvement.

Click to register for How to Facilitate Effective Retrospectives

Online Webinar – Recorded September 6, 2012
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 47 min Credits: 0.75 Category C PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) 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’

Click to register for Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability

Online Webinar – Recorded – November 8th, 2012
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

What’s more important?

Your daily activities or ….
The results they produce?

Your ability to execute results is many instances a direct measure of your leadership impact.

Rich Rosier will share:

• Strategies to shift your thinking and focus from one of activities to one results
• Tactics to delivery outputs that will give room for flexibility
• Improvement innovation and overall leadership effectiveness techniques.

Presenter: Rich Rosier is Senior Vice President and Principal Consultant at Linkage. He works with organizations to help them define and implement a winning strategy and maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their leadership development, coaching, organization development, and growth and innovation investments.

Click to register for Executing Results: A Leadership Brand Series