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

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

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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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Live Webinar Jan 22nd, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Ethics CoP (REP #S050)

The presentation is about raising awareness about how confronting ethical issues require action plans and practice, just as project management.

William will adapt the methodology described in the book ¨Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right ¨by Mary C. Gentile, to real project management examples.

This method focuses on a practice-based approach for not letting our values succumb to temptations in our professional careers.

Because of this we need to think ahead of possible ethical dilemmas, to develop action plans and scripts.

Presenter: William Ernest (LinkedIn profile) holds a Masters in Project Management, an Industrial Engineering degree and a Motivation and Leadership Specialty. he works with the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank supervising their local technical cooperation portfolio. he is a Chair Professor in a GAC accredited university teaching stakeholder management, scope management, time management and cost management. .

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

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Live Webinar – Jan 23rd, 2014 8:30 am – 5:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Day Credits: Up to 7 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By: Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

How can leaders have more confidence in the ability of their organizations to withstand disruptive events?

This CERT webcast will showcase the application of resilience models to operationalize risk management and solve hard problems in enterprise security.

The CERT Cyber Resilience Center will highlight the use of models to benchmark and compare peer organizations across government and critical infrastructure.

This will include tools such as the DHS-sponsored Cyber Resilience Review and the Department of Energy Electricity Subsector Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (ES-C2M2).

The Panalists will discuss different approaches to operational resilience, organizational maturity, and how to be a shrewd consumer of cyber security models.

The event will include a panel discussion where leaders in government and industry – from the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the defense industry – will discuss their experiences.

Finally, the webcast will close with a discussion of recent federal efforts to improve critical infrastructure security in the United States.

What attendees will learn:

• How to assess and improve operational resilience in an enterprise
• The maturity of organizations from a resilience perspective . . . Can your organization deal with disruptive events, and how can you be sure?
• Innovative ways that resilience models were developed in collaboration with private industry and have been used to solve government-sector challenges
• How a model can be used to assess and drive real improvement across groups of organizations
• The progress of U.S. national efforts to improve critical infrastructure resilience and what it means for your organization

Who Should Attend?

• CIOs
• CISOs
• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Directors
• Risk Managers
• Crisis and Emergency Managers

Schedule of Events (subject to change)

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Live Webinar January 24th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hr webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $5 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

As with many things in life, all projects are subject to uncertainty, however all uncertainty is not the same as “risk”. Project Risks can be “threats” to be minimized as well as “opportunities” to be exploited.

Effective Project Risk Management recognizes both types of risks and is the key contributor to “project success”.

This webinar will introduce participants to techniques for defining a Risk Management Process and using this process to progressively build a Risk Register including: identifying risks using a Risk Meta-Language, Assessing Risks with quantitative techniques, understanding the 8 risk responses and selecting the appropriate Risk Response for the project risks and monitoring risks throughout the project.

Learn how to implement a more effective risk management effort that balances the impacts of project uncertainties occurring with the effort needed to prevent or encourage the uncertain event.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The difference between Project Risk and Uncertainty
• How to define the scope of a Risk Management Effort
• How to use Risk Meta Language to identify project risk
• How to use Qualitative Techniques to assess project risk
• Techniques to “minimize” Risk Threats and “exploit” Risk Opportunities

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar Jan 22nd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
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

Waiting until the project is delivered to the customer is not the time to confirm, or not confirm, that objectives of the project are met.

Project managers and business analysts must understand how to analyze the various risks of the project objectives and develop ways to intermittently validate the attainment of those objectives. Learn the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, business analyst and quality assurance teams in successful project delivery.

Objectives:

• Define what Validation means as it relates to project delivery
• Define team roles and responsibilities as it relates to validation
• Identify the types of validation necessary for your project
• Develop action plans to validate key components of the project

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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