Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Most Problems With
Project Requirements
Are Result Of Human Errors

Why are good and experienced project managers making bad choices that can dramatically affect the project?

The answers lie in human psychology. Often managers are making their choices not by logical and comprehensive analysis of the problem, but based on their own gut feelings.

This presentation includes a number of examples of how misjudgement can lead to major project failures.

Understanding a few basic concepts, such as how human mental machinery works, helps to improve project manager’s decision-making skills. Often manager’s decisions are affected by illusions, such as the illusion of the project being under control.

But what is the alternative to such intuitive decision-making process?

This presentation includes an overview of the project requirements management process. If a project manager and an organization follow such process, it usually leads to better decisions.

The presentation includes a number of case studies, illustrating how organizations significantly improved their performance through implementing requirements management process: Keystone Oil pipeline from Canada to US, Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, NASA’s Constellation space program, destruction of major power station in Russia, and others.

The presentation also includes recommendations on how requirements management can be implemented in an organization. Requirements management is not only a sophisticated quantitative analysis. First of all, it is a collection of basic principles, which help project managers think their way to project success.

The presentation is based on the books “Project Decisions: The Art and Sciences”, published my Management Concepts, 2007, and “ProjectThink – Why Good Project Managers Are Making Bad Choices!” to be published by Gower in 2013.

Presenter: Lev Virine PhD, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer and project manager. In the past 15 years, he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes. He is the author of Project Decisions & ProjectThink and over 50 scholarly papers.

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

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Live Webinar – Jan 23rd, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD
Cost: PMIWDC Member Free – NonMember $15.00 USD
Sponsored by: PMI® chapter – PMIWDC (REP #Co46)

This webinar is presented byPMIWDC

Different chapters offer different opportunities and benefits for chapter members. We encourage you to take a look at the this wonderful webinar presented by A PMI® chapter . Please Consider joining PMIWDC.

This Exciting Webinar Is No Boring Presentation!

Chris Daniel, PMP (Author of Consult in Jeans) delves into a study he conducted of high-level project managers in both the public and private sectors, and show participants what both sides agree needs to take place to:

• Gain Repeat Business (Cha-Ching!)
• Impress The Federal Client (Smiling Decision-Makers)
• Form Sustainable Relationships (Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money)

This insightful webinar has participants in awe of the BFO’s (Blinding Flashes of the Obvious). Daniel illustrates with energy and intuition the 10 themes that both audiences constantly agree to forge ahead in business.

Presented by: Chris Daniel “The Consultant in Jeans” (LinkedIn profile) Founder Regroup Consulting Chris holds certifications in Project Management and Instructional Design, and a Green Belt in Six Sigma, among several certificates in executive leadership from the National Leadership Institute, The Brookings Institution, and Learning Tree International.

Choose the PMI Chapter (s) That are Right For You.

Project Managers can join any number of chapters that may suit their needs (not just their local chapter). Different chapters offer different opportunities – We encourage you to find the chapters that meet your specific needs.

The PMIWDC has a webinar Education series designed to highlight the latest trends and techniques in project management. The webinars will be hosted by PMIWDC and feature some of the top experts in the field who will collaboratively share their expertise and integrate with the online audience.

You should consider joining
PMIWDC – Membership is only $35.00!!
OR any other PMI® Chapter that Suits your needs.

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Live Webinar – Jan 22nd, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

So you’ve been assigned a complex,
poorly defined project concept
So now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity. These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.

Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours? What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning objectives:

1. Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2. The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3. Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

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Live Webinar – January 23rd, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 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’

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Sustaining ROI in the face of accelerated change, moving targets and competing resource demands is no easy task.

Only by planning for sustainability, with a long-term line of sight, can your ROI efforts endure and excel.

Attend this live, interactive webinar to learn:

• How to assess an organization’s evaluation process and practice maturity
• How to address common barriers that can derail ROI momentum and sustainability
• Best practices for implementing and sustaining the ROI process in the face of perpetual change
• And more…

Discover core characteristics of a sustainable ROI measurement process and what you need to ensure its long-term value and success.

Presenter: Dr. Holly Burkett (LinkedIn profile) of Evaluation Works is author of several books including Change Capacity and Sustainable ROI Implementation in HRD Practice: Characteristics and Determinants of Sustainable ROI Process Implementation and The ROI Fieldbook (Improving Human Performance)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 7 – Cost

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 7.3 Determine Budget

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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