Live Webinar Feb 18th, 2014 – 10:30 pm – 11:30 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.

Arun Seetharaman will share his knowledge”All about CMMI & PMBoK” by providing:

• A glimpse of CMMI,
• The road map of CMMI,
• Maturity levels of CMMI,
• How CMMI is structured,
• Comparison of CMMI & PMBoK and
• Sample mapping of one CMMI process area with PMBoK.

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

Presenter: Arun Seetharaman PMP (LinkedIn profile) part of program / project management team of HCL Technologies Ltd. Arun has experience in Quality related processes and CMMi process mapping and involved in Internal Quality audits. His Specialties are – SME on Oracle Financials – Capability Building and – Quality Management Processes

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Live Webinar Feb 18th 2014, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

You may have heard of Agile teams achieving amazing results, turning near-disasters into victories, delighting customers with rapid, regular delivery of high-quality features.

Surely, they must be doing something right!

Have you ever wondered if some Agile habits might come in handy in other areas of work?

In this session, we’ll explore a few examples of ways of thinking and organizing work that have proven to be very useful in non-software settings as well.

Horia Slușanschi (LinkedIn profile, @KiwiHoria) is an Agile Coach and Strategist leading the HP Agile Mentoring Office. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, and has a fairly eclectic background inspired by the Agile mindset, Enterprise Architecture, Lean Six Sigma, ToC and many other ways of thinking. Horia serves as co-organizer of AgileWelly, and as New Zealand Chapter Engagement Representative and co-lead of the Knowledge Management team of the PMI Agile CoP.

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

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Live Webinar Feb 18th, 2014, 10:00 am to 12:00 am EST
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the ‘magic’ of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist! Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamabilityâ„¢
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always ‘team’ well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict ‘teaming’ behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

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Live Webinar – Feb 18th 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

Communication and collaboration are keys to success with both building high-performing Agile teams and bringing Agile projects to fruition.

One critical element lies within transparency of active commitments, upcoming plans, and targeted completion dates.

During this one-hour web seminar, Leslie Morse (LinkedIn profile) will explore critical information radiators that can be used to visualize information across all five levels of Agile planning.

Less focus will be placed on levels 1 & 2 (vision and roadmap) as the critical information radiators truly lie within the ability to properly manage stakeholder expectations.

You will specifically learn about illustrating and documenting artifacts of Level 3 (release planning):

• Through Digital & Tactile Release Plans,
• Cumulative Flow Diagrams,
• Release Burn-Up Charts, Release Burn-Down Charts.

You will also learn about techniques for levels 4 & 5 (iteration and daily planning) in the form of:

• Task Boards, Iteration
• Burn-Down Charts, and
• Task Card appenders that create transparency of work in progress.

Next month ((March 18th) “Setting up and Maintaining an Agile Team Room,” where you will learn how all these techniques can work together for collaborative success.

PDU PMBOK (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage 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.’

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Live Webinar Feb 18th 2014, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

Delivered by Microsoft Gold Partner Projility, this session will provide an overview as to how the Microsoft Project platform can help large enterprises improve work management and collaboration efforts.

This session will include a detailed overview of the Microsoft PPM platform and its ability to support multiple groups, business units, and methodologies within the same organization.

Presenter: Rob Hirschmann, Corporate Vice President – Projility, Inc.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 6.1 Plan Schedule Management
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 6.7 Control Schedule

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 Manage More Work with Less Effort with Project 2013

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD 1 PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

NOTE: Although this is a part of a series each session completely covers the topic it addresses other topics on “Developing High Performance Teams” are available as apart of the series

Even a well planned meeting can be unproductive without the right facilitation skills. To “facilitate” a meeting means to make it easier for others to participate.

Every team member can use the skills of facilitation to help others participate and to improve his/her own communication skills.

Contrary to popular perception, the best communicators are the best listeners, not the best talkers.

They are effective communicators because they ask good questions, show genuine interest in the other person, and respond positively to the contribution of others.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to to create the effective team where effective communication occurs.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants will:

• Understand key components of facilitation skills and how to ‘run’ an effective meeting
• Recognize the importance of diversity on teams and the impact of styles on the facilitator
• Learn skills that encourage participation in team meetings
• Practice sharpening your facilitation skills for active listening, asking questions, and showing empathy
  •Gather practical implementation tips

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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