Live Webinar – Feb 4th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Learn Key Characteristics OfHigh Performing Teams

One of the most important Characteristics of high performance teams is that they learn:

• from each other,
• from their leaders,
• from their customers,
• from… just about anyone and anything

Learning doesn’t mean that they do everything they learn. Rather, it means that everything they do is informed by what they learn.

In this session, Doc will help you develop a core foundation of understanding about levels of mastery, styles of learning, personality types, and how those are significant contributors to teams moving from just-a-team to a high performing, self-managing team.

Presenter: Doc List (LinkedIn profile, @athought) is an “Agile Enthusiast” and Keynote speaker who inspires Agile PRactices wherever he goes.

Click to register for Fundamentals of Self-Organized/Self-Managed Teams

Live Webinar Feb 4th, 2014 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Duration: 1 Hr webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Scheduling CoP (REP #L002)

Are you studying to take the PMI-SP® exam?

Are you looking to have a credential that recognizes that you are a specialist in Scheduling practice? Did you know that PMI’s Role Delineation Study (RDS) aligned the terminology with the current PMBOK?

PMI ® recognized the need for a credential that acknowledges your competence and unique expertise in project scheduling as well as a recognition that you are competent in all other areas of Project management.

The exam currently bases its content on the New RDS completed Aug 31st 2013.

Learn about the revised role of a Scheduling professional:
(Old RDS /New RDS )

• Schedule Mission Management / Schedule Strategy
• Schedule Creation / Schedule Planning and Development
• Schedule Maintenance /Schedule Monitoring and Controlling
• Schedule Analysis / Schedule Closeout
• Schedule Communication – Reporting / Stakeholder Communication Management

For more information see PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® Handbook

Presenters – Kristy Tan (LinkedIn profile) & Elaine Jackson (LinkedIn profile) will answer all your questions and share their personal experiences about how they prepared for the PMI-SP certification exam, and which resources they found most useful in the process.

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

Click to register for Preparing for your PMI-SP Certification Exam

Live Webinar – Feb 4th, 2014 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) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

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’

Click to register for Effective PPM Change Management

Live Webinar Feb 4th, 2014 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Duration: 2 Hour Credits: 2 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

In mid-February, Strata returns to Santa Clara for its fourth year. Since the conference started, it’s grown in size and scope, broadening its focus to include design, ethics, machine data, and hard business cases that show how a connected world is changing society forever.

In this free online conference, O’Reilly be showcasing some of the hot topics and thought-provoking speakers who will be joining them for the event.

It’s your chance to see what we’re covering and to find those can’t-miss tracks and sessions.

Preview sessions including:

• Data Anthropology, Quantified Self, Machine Data, Human Centered Design, & More with Alistair Croll (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)
• Spreadsheets: The Dark Matter of Big Data with Felienne Hermans (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)
• Expressing Yourself in R with Hadley Wickham (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)
• Big Industrial Internet Data: Connecting and Optimizing at New Scales with Steven Gustafson (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)
• Machine Learning for Social Change with Fernand Pajot (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)
• Design Thinking for Dummies (Data Scientists) with Dean Malmgren (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)
• Soylent Mean: Data Science is Made of People with Cameran Hetrick (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio) & Kimberly Stedman (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)
• Bedtime Stories: Learning from Sleep Data with Monica Rogati (LinkedIn profile, Strata bio)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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.’

Click to register for Data Everywhere: A Preview of Strata Santa Clara 2014

Live Webinar Feb 3rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Project surprises—be they on government or commercial projects—happen more than most organizations know or are willing to admit.

The financial, opportunity and political costs can be staggering. For example, one in six big IT projects go over-budget by an average of 200%, according to a landmark 2011 study by Oxford University and McKinsey & Company.

The Oxford study found that spending on technology projects was three times more likely to go out of control than construction or other major projects. The study also found that large IT project spending was 20 times more likely to get out of control than organizations expected. Many, if not most, of the projects that “surprisingly” crash and burn are, in fact, predictable surprises: the signs of failure were all around but not acknowledged.

In this webinar, Dr. Robert N. Charette will discuss project surprise, the various costs of surprise, and how they can be reduced by focusing on pro-actively managing the critical risk questions related to a project’s real – win – worth evaluation which is applicable to both government and commercial projects. In addition, Dr. Charette will discuss ways to “surprise proof” your projects.

The webinar’s agenda is as follows:

• Surprises Can’t Happen to Us – Or Can They?
• The Destructive Direct and Hidden Costs of Project Surprises
• Predictable “Surprises”: The Anatomy of a Project Surprise
• Minimizing Project Surprises: Asking the Three Critical Questions
• Surprise Proofing Your IT Project and Program Management

Dr. Robert Charette (bio) is the President of the ITABHI Corporation, an international high technology company involved in enterprise and program risk management consulting. He is the author of a number of books on software, systems, and business management including:

• “Software Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology” (1986),
• “Software Engineering Risk Analysis & Management” (1989),
• “Applications Strategies for Risk Analysis” (1990),
• “Introduction to the Management of Risk” (1994, “A Unified Methodology for Systems Development” (1987)

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

Click to register for Govt IT Project Managers Guide to Pro-active Risk Management

Live Webinar Feb 4th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Most companies don’t have a clear idea of their business processes, which makes project managers indispensable. This webinar will focus on project management as the foundation for adding business process.

Presenter : Wes Balakian PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a PMP prep instructor, speaker and author of both books and materials. His products include:

• Harnessing the Power of Project Management – Book
• Project Management Templates – 101 Forms – CD
• Ultimate PMP Exam Prep Guide – Book
• PMP/CAPM Exam Prep Flash Cards 5th Edition – Flash Cards
• ULTIMATE PMP Exam Prep Audio CDs – Audio CD’s

Click to register for The Power of Project Management

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