Live Webinar – Feb 25th, 2013 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.

Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.

During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:

• Improved project predictability
• Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
• Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
• Reduced effort spent resolving project issues

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.

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’

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Live Webinar Feb 25th 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)

Your Gantt Chart is NOT a Project Plan!

In this webinar Stan will examine the differences between a Gantt chart and a project plan.

To be successful in a project requires a project plan: a detailed description of what will be accomplished on the project and exactly how that will be done.

Presenter Stan Katz (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar Feb 24th, 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)
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The Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) was faced with a

challenge; To deliver in just one year, a project that was estimated to take 3 years, that was technically complex and had already been stalled for 2 years. A monumental challenge for any organization.

Tasked with delivering a three-year project in less than a year, the project team knew that traditional waterfall methods were not up to the task and decided a new approach was needed—Scrum.

Agency executives worked with project team and gave the Scrum approach their full support.

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

Presenter: Joseph Flahiff (LinkedIn profile) PMP is a project planning coach, speaker and trainer with 15 years of PM success. Also Certified in Six Sigma methods and a Certified Agile Scrum Master, Joseph has experience in a wide range of market verticals including Telecommunications, Healthcare, Government, and Small Business.

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Improve your team’s agility in 10 minutes!
Video – by Joseph Flahiff 4:28

Notes: Use this new 10 minute exercise to increase your teams knowledge and skills in agility. Ensure you watch the full 4 and a half minute video as there are some very good suggestions near the middle and end of the video.

Back to Basics [3]: Points Estimation (Agile Estimation)

Notes: Points Estimation is supposed to be simple. But as we are often inclined to do we as human beings tend to over complicate things. In this brief (4 minute) video I present you with a concrete explanation of points estimation. Hope you enjoy it. NOTE: There is some background noise in the video.

Live Webinar Feb 25th 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Does everyone understand what Business Analysts do for a living? Wouldn’t it be nice if the rest of the organization did?

This session will offer advice, tips and ideas on how to build up an awareness of the BA or PM cultures within your company. Selling to the CIO or CEO. Promoting the role to the staff you work with.

Creating an internal awareness of the value a PM or BA can bring to any project.

Dave will discuss the use of information sessions, internal webinars, ‘lunch & learns’, a community of practice, public meetings and more. Attendees are encouraged to come with their own stories of marketing success or failures.

Learning Points:

1. Tools for internal marketing
2. Ideas for better internal communications
3. Thoughts on Centres of Excellence or PMOs or BAOs

Presenter: David Barrett (LinkedIn profile) is a Founding Member IIBA and Professional Speaker.He is also the Project Director for the Centres of Excellence in Project Management and Business Analysis at The Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University, the co-editor of ProjectTimes.com and BATimes.com.

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Live Webinar Feb 26th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

You Need a Sponsor to Fast-Track Your Career!

What’s the difference between a mentor and sponsor?

Think of mentors as the friendly guides who dispense helpful information, offering up input and advice to mentees.

Sponsors, on the other hand, are defined by their organizational clout and ability to open doors; they will personally advocate for a cause, project or promotion on a protégé’s behalf.

Women, it’s time to get a sponsor.

And, while it is commonplace for a protégé to initiate a mentor relationship, in sponsorship the dynamic is often reversed. Here, it’s the sponsor who often does the choosing.

This webcast outlines what a sponsor is and explores the short-term and long-term benefits of building a sponsor relationship.

Best practices will also be shared from women leaders who have successfully engaged sponsors to drive their career advancement.

This program addresses what a sponsorship is—and isn’t—using specific examples of sponsors and high-performing employees currently being sponsored.

Join Selena to learn how you can find and develop a sponsor relationship, including:

• Why sponsorship is a career and business imperative
• Steps to engage potential sponsors: one inside your company and one outside the firm
• The etiquette of cultivating and managing the sponsor/protégé relationship

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter: Selena Rezvani (LinkedIn profile)is a recognized authority on women and leadership and is a leading author, speaker, and consultant regarding women and the workplace. She Assists companies to elevate women into leadership through assessment, the design of gender-inclusive policies, and coaching. She writes columns on women and leadership for the Washington Post and Forbes, she is the author ofThe Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won’t Learn in Business School, and Pushback: How Smart Women Ask-and Stand Up-for What They Want..

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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 21st 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

NOTE: Although this session is a part of a larger series – this session can be taken as a stand alone module.

Many project teams describe their Risk Management effort as a Risk Mitigation activity to overcome negative project risks.

Risk Mitigation is only one of the 8 different responses considered by project teams who are successful in their risk management effort. Teams who consider all 8 risk responses when creating their risk register are more effective in exploiting risk opportunities as well as minimizing or preventing risk threats.

The Risk Management Series of in depth webinars 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.

Solutions Cube Group’s Selecting the Appropriate Risk Responses webinar will help your project teams understand the differences between the 8 risk response types and when it is appropriate to use each response. They will learn how to increase the likelihood of positive risk opportunities occurring and how to reduce or avoid the impact of negative project risks.

This session will help you Select the Appropriate Risk responses.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to complete the risk register with appropriate risk responses
• Why relying on risk mitigation as the only response to risk creates more risk exposure
• How to differentiate between the Risk Response types available for managing project risk
• Techniques for creating contingency plans as part of the response effort
• When to use each response type when planning the risk management effort

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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