Live Webinar Jan 29th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Quality CoP® (REP #S019)

PMI® Quality Community of Practice: Our mission is to increase members understanding of Project Management Quality by exploring the Quality Processes as defined in the PMBOK and encouraging members to network by sharing experiences, knowledge and tools.

In this informative webinar, Robert Wallace will discuss general approaches, common mistakes and good practices to make a successive process map to institute project and organizational change, which by definition, will equal success for any initiative.

Presenter:  Robert Wallace PMP – (LinkedIn profile) ITIL v3, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certified has served in several roles in IT and building/managing PMOs. Speaker at the PMI Symposium in Houston, in 2002, he went to Chicago to build a PMO for VW Credit, Inc. in where he was featured on the March 2005 PM Journal cover. He transitioned back to Atlanta, GA as an IT Director implementing a new ERP & WMS system and obtained his ISO certification. He has been an IT Project & Program Manager with McKesson Corporation.

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

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Live Webinar – Jan 29th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

Click to register for Harmonizing Agility & Discipline

This session has been recorded – Follow link in this article.

You will have to apply for the PDU for the recorded session the automatic awarding of the PDU was for the Live Session.

Live Webinar Jan 27th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Attend this webinar and Optimize your Career as a Project Manager in Government.

Here are some Career Tips and Strategies you will learn if you attend:

• How to optimize your career, in the early, mid or late stages
• How to develop your “personal brand” as a Project Manager
• Typical career paths for Project Managers in government including consulting
• Find out how to develop a simple structured approach to your personal growth

Presenter: Dev Ramcharan (LinkedIn profile) has focused on implementing effective, multi-level Project Management Office organizations in both Private and Public Sectors for the last 20 years. Dev has spoken internationally at PMI sponsored events (Cairo, Egypt, at two P2P (Projects to the Point) conferences, and presented “Transforming your PMO into a Centre of Excellence” at the PMI Global Conference in Washington, DC.

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

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Live Webinar Jan 28th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Why You and Your Organization Need to Change with It

Consumers of media are now generators of media. This paradigm shift is essential for businesses and leaders to understand and succeed in social media.

Discover how you can harness the power of social media to make money for your organization.

Attend this live webinar to learn:

• How to set the stage for business in social media
• The key elements of a successful social media marketing plan
• Where social media hype differs from reality
• What’s next for the future of social media

Presenter : Chris Dessi, (LinkedIn profile) CEO, Silverback Social

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 Jan 23rd, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

There is a vast difference between getting the work done on your own and getting it done through other people.

What makes you great as an individual contributor doesn’t always translate to being a great manager or team leader.

A management role calls for new ways of thinking and a new set of skills. While some managers do receive initial training, others are given little or no support, and despite the best of intentions, mistakes are made.

But what if you had your own group of advisors who could help you avoid some of the pitfalls of managing people?

In this webinar you will learn 10 valuable pieces of advice from managers who have already gone through their own “trial by fire.” These are the 10 things they wished they knew when they first became a manager and what they want you to know now.

Consider this webinar your own personal advisory board!

About the Presenter: Casey Mitchell, (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and Principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc. Casey’s primary focus is on management learning and development and working with new managers who want to make a successful transition into move into leadership roles. Prior to founding Waybridge Associates, Casey was human resource development manager at Marshalls Department Stores.

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Live Webinar January 24th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Purchasing a project solution versus building one internally to avoid the cost and time of re-inventing the wheel is becoming more common on projects. Selecting a vendor through a Request For Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and the project team selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations.

Often project teams make the mistake of jumping straight to the proposal portion of the their project lifecycle before clearly defining the project needs. The resulting RFP sent to vendors is vague and fails to communicate the critical requirements vendors need to propose accurate solutions.

Vendors who respond to the RFP are left with little choice except to make many assumptions on what 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.

Learn the critical success factors of an RFP effort and the characteristics that cause many RFP efforts to fail.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn about:

• Critical Success Factors of the RFP process
• Characteristics of a successful RFP process
• Common pitfalls that cause RFP efforts to fail

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase RFP Critical Success Factors: RFP Series 1 of 4