Live Webinar May 9th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)

Despite increasingly complex projects, the topic of Stakeholder Management is often neglected until issues arise. This often results in project delays, increased cost, and/or scope changes.

Because the PMI believes Stakeholder Management requires a stronger focus, it included a new chapter on this subject in the 5th edition of the PMBOK.

This webinar will be led by a member of the team that wrote the new chapter, and will focus on what a project manager needs to do to put theory into practice in their day-to-day projects.

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

Presenter: George Burton PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Manager with experience in the fields of infrastructure & service management and ventures & acquisitions and a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Besides leading global programs, he has managed projects in Europe, the Philippines and India during his 15 year career with Accenture. He volunteered to work on PMBOK 5 & was a member of the team that wrote Chapter 13 on Stakeholder Management.

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Live Webinar May 9th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the second in a three part series series on Collaboration by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Bringing project stakeholders together in collaborative meetings is an effective way to quickly make decisions and complete project work with a high degree of alignment and buy-in.

Use of a brainstorming activity is a high energy and powerful way to uncover hundreds of ideas during meetings. However, there is more to brainstorming than just gathering a list of ideas which can often be misinterpreted or dismissed, after the energy of the meeting subsides.

Understanding what those rapidly collected ideas really meant to the stakeholders, before the meaning is forgotten, is where the real value and power of brainstorming is leveraged.

In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn how to:

• Structure brainstorming sessions to collect ideas in collaborative meetings
• Focus ideas captured during brainstorming to increase relevance to the meeting objective
• Use questioning techniques to guide brainstorming and improve brainstorm quality
• Use questioning techniques to drive clarity and increase buy in of brainstormed ideas
• How to avoid common mistakes which sabotage a brainstorm activity

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join us for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn how to increase the value and effectiveness of brainstorming while avoiding the common pitfalls which sabotage the best intentions of any brainstorming effort.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – May 8th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EDT
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 May 8th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Congratulations, you’re getting users to come to your site or download your product! Now you just need to figure out why they’re leaving without becoming real users.

In this webcast, Laura Klein author of UX for Lean Startups will explain the three ways your product may be failing to convert visitors into users or users into customers.

By improving your real conversion rate, you’ll grow your product faster and more cheaply, because you won’t be wasting time and money acquiring users who will never deliver value to your company.

Presenter: Laura Klein (LinkedIn profile  @lauraklein)  author of UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design has spent years as an engineer and designer. Laura helps lean startups learn more about their customers so that they can build better products faster. Her popular design blog, Users Know, teaches product owners exactly what they need to know to do just enough research and design. Laura offers consulting and training in Lean UX for startups and large companies.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5,3 Define Scope
• 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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