Live Webinar March 19th, 2013 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Risk Management CoP (REP #S048)

The use of quantitative modelling to set project cost contingencies is not yet a mature discipline.

Practices in common use today range from the most rudimentary methods that predate the use of quantitative modelling to cutting edge techniques that have only come into use in the last decade.

This webinar outlines some of the forces driving developments in these methods and summarises the present situation before offering recommendations on practices to adopt from here on.

Presenter: Dr. Stephen Grey (LinkedIn profile) is the author of ‘Practical Risk Assessment for Project Management‘, and co-author of ‘Project Risk Management Guidelines – Managing Risk with ISO 31000 and IEC 62198‘. Stephen was Secretary of the UK Association for the PM Risk Management SIG for three years and one of the authors of the first edition of the APM’s PRAM guide. Currently Stephen is an Associate Director of Broadleaf Capital international.

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

Click to register for Contingency Assessment Methods and Trends

Live Webinar March 19th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.

This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions project managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes

Live Webinar March 19th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
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

Gain an understanding of project management fundamentals in an IT context.

This session will provide descriptions of basic project management phases and explain how they can be applied for project success.

Discuss how these project management deliverables can be leveraged to contribute to your projects being delivered on time.

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.

Click to register for Apply PM Fundamentals to IT

Live Webinar – March 20th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Manufacturers have known for decades the importance of continually improving processes to improve quality and reduce costs and Lean has been a powerful management tool to achieve these goals.

But Lean, which focuses on delivering value in the eyes of customer, is also an effective way of improving overall business performance when applied to processes outside of the manufacturing arena.

The question is, how can you wield it most effectively in non-traditional areas?

Learn to:

• Recognize the common gaps in the manufacturing process and how you can fill them in
• Understand new and more effective ways that Lean tools can be applied outside of manufacturing all the way to your customer and everything in between (service, distribution, etc.)
• Explore ways that you can apply these concepts to your organization

Presenters:

Bill Waddell (LinkedIn profile, website) is a global supply chain expert regarded as a leading expert in lean manufacturing. Through his consulting practice he has worked with manufacturers of all sizes throughout many continents. He is the author of Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation and Rebirth of American Industry, and many other materials. Bill is also one of the most widely read manufacturing bloggers on the Internet.

Nick Sampson is a Sales Engineer at iDatix Corporation. Armed with his CDIA+Nick wanted to help organizations become more efficient and streamlined so he came on board at iDatix. When he did, he began a deep dive into Process Automation and has helped companies like Lockheed Martin, Goodwill and ClosetMaid improve their processes and increase their profitability.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs
• 8.3 Control Quality

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 Secrets of Applying Lean and Process Excellence to Manufacturing and Beyond

Live Webinar March 18th, 2014 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Organizational Project Management CoP (REP #S043)

For program management success, you must embrace and exploit changes.

Since most people resist change, even if the changes lead to increased benefits, you must establish a program environment conductive to change. An adaptive approach is required.

This presentation, with some case study examples, focuses on some guidelines for success.

Presenter: Dr. Ginger Levin (LinkedIn profile) is also author of several Project Management books and materials including:

• Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers
• Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management Series)
• Implementing Program Management: Templates and Forms Aligned with the Standard for Program Management, Third Edition (2013) and Other Best Practices,
• Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management Series)
  
• PgMP® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide, Fourth Edition (ESI International Project Management Series)

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

Click to register for How Can You Best Exploit & Embrace Change

Live Webinar – March 18th 2014, 11:45 AM-1:00 PM EDT
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

To an untrained eye, an Agile Team Room can look like chaos, however, to the trained eye, an Agile Team Room is a integrated set of Information Radiators that transparently communicate project details, insulate the team from distractions, and support an environment for continuous collaboration.

If you attended last months web seminar, “Options for Illustrating & Documenting the Five Levels of Planning,” then you got exposure to the different types of information radiators that can be used to communicate details about the scope of work an Agile Team has taken on.

While Leslie Morse (LinkedIn profile) will not cover the details of any specific information radiator during this one-hour seminar, she will reference many types of information radiators and walk through various team room layouts that are conducive for building high performing Agile Teams.

If you choose to register and attend this session you’ll leave with a list of Team Room attributes that are classified into must-haves, satisfiers, & delighters as well as understand the pros and cons of an Agile Team Room approach.

To View Last months Webinar Follow the link Options for Illustrating & Documenting the Five Levels of Planning And Click at the bottom of the page to register & View

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
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.3 Control 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.’

Click to register for Setting Up and Maintaining a Sprint Room