Live Webinar May 9th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 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 third in a four part series series on Project Scheduling by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Project Schedules Change On A Regular Basis

Critical path management facilitates the application of management by exception by focusing the project manager on the critical activities.

Additionally, critical path management enables project managers to identify slips earlier and consequently readjust their schedule without impacting the overall completion date.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how critical path management provides techniques to efficiently monitor and control the project schedule and how managing the critical path can minimize the risk of project overruns.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants will:

• Understand the effects of path convergence and joint probabilities on the critical path
• Learn how to protect the critical path and considerations for corrective and preventive actions to ensure deadlines are met
• Discover recommended schedule assessments when monitoring and controlling your schedule
• Gather practical implementation tips

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar May 8th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Process management helps to provide a line of sight from strategy through execution of organizational initiatives.

Akin to the business analysis (BA) requirements discipline, this traceability enables performance maturity, better communication, clearer roles and responsibilities, and good governance.

Clarification of problems or opportunities for improvement is integral to business analysis and process management.

In each, you must elicit and clearly state a specific problem that quantifiably affects business/operation and that ultimately matters to your customers.

Process management is:

• An integral part of business analysis, implementation, improvement, and sustainability,
• Solves problems, and
• Expedites risk identification, mitigation, and impact.

In this webinar Vicki will explain how to:

1. Tie process management to organizational strategy,
2. Use process management as a foundation of good decision making, change management, and governance, and
3. Increase efficiency and value optimization throughout the organization.

Presenter: Vicki Hoard, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, is a Senior Consulting Manager with Robbins Gioia’s Process Refinement & Optimization Practice. Vicki is responsible for developing and tailoring business process management and improvement methods. She is an experienced facilitator and has consulted on projects in the areas of quality management, Lean Six Sigma, business process re-engineering and performance management.

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Live Webinar – May 9th 2014, 12:00-1:00 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

Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.

Experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that  experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations.

The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques.

It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

In This session you will learn:

• How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
• Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
• Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
• Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
• Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
• Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
• Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
• Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Presenter: Dave Caccamo  (LinkedIn profile) MS. Eco, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP (VP of ASPE Inc.’s Project Management Curriculum)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop 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 – May 9th, 2014 7:00 am – 8:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 9th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm BST
Duration: 45 min webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: APMG International

• Do you work on projects in the tourism sector?
• Are you concerned about support and ability to deliver sustainable tourism projects?

This webinar will introduce PM4SD® (Project Management for Sustainable Tourism) – a project management methodology designed specifically for the tourism industry.

PM4SD is the first internationally recognized qualification in project management for sustainable development.

It helps public and private sector organizations (from local councils to central government; from independent tour operators to multi-national corporates) effectively plan and manage sustainable tourism initiatives.

This session will help you understand the benefits of applying PM4SD, how it is linked to tourism policies, best practices and tourism indicators, and how to secure funding and deliver more efficient, sustainable tourism industry projects.

Presenter: Silvia Barbone, (LinkedIn profile) Jlag Europe  Silvia developed the PM4SD methodology and launched the European Summer School “Leadership and Governance for Sustainable Tourism” in partnership with EU and international tourism stakeholders.

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