Live Webinar – June 3rd, 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.

Click to register for  Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability

Live Webinar – June 10th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Can A Virtual Team Be As Effective
As A Co-located Team?

This is a question that organizations are debating, and the arguments on both sides are very compelling.

Factors like work-life balance and organizational savings need to be balanced with the value of face-to-face collaboration and managerial oversight.

Whether you personally embrace the concept or not, chances are you will participate as a virtual team member during your career.

Virtual teams can be very effective
If the correct conditions are met and maintained.

It’s about putting together the right personalities, ensuring they have the right tools, and leading the team successfully.

InSync Training began as a virtual team when you didn’t hear about working from home, and in 15 years has expanded to a virtual team with 60+ members working all hours from all over the world.

After discussing the arguments for and against establishing a virtual team, this workshop will use real-life examples to address six key enablers for success:

• How to form the virtual team: Identifying the profile of an effective virtual team and its players, and how to engage existing team members in selecting new team members
• How to enable the virtual team: Ensuring the right technologies and processes are in place to ensure success
• How to maintain the virtual team: Creating inter-reliability, trust, and teamwork
• How to protect the virtual team: Identifying and managing issues before they become destructive
• How to lead the virtual team: Establishing credibility while maintaining the right balance of oversight and empowerment
• How to reward the virtual team: Creating team building opportunities across the distance

Speakers: Jennifer Hofmann,  (LinkedIn profile, @InSyncJennifer) is the president of InSync Training, and soon to be featured in Forbes Most Powerful Women issue (June 16, 2014.  She has most recently co-authored, with Dr. Nanette Miner, Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend That Fits, a book focused on taking advantage of distributed technologies to create the best blended training solution possible.  Jennifer is also is the author of The Synchronous Trainer’s Survival Guide: Facilitating Successful Live and Online Courses, Meetings and Events, Live and Online! Tips, Techniques, and Ready-To-Use Activities for the Virtual Classroom ), andhas contributed chapters to The Handbook of Blended Learning, The AMA Handbook of E-Learning, and The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals.  Follow Jennifer at her blog, Body Language In The Bandwidth.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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’

Click to register for Creating Highly Effective Virtual Teams: A Case Study

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

Pattern libraries are a great source of inspiration and education for designers. But common practice doesn’t always equal best practice.

In this webcast, Theresa will look at why many common tutorial patterns are ineffective and how you can leverage game design principles to increase user engagement.

Presenter: Theresa Neil (LinkedIn profile) make products intuitive, direct, and interactive. Theresa is author of Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition. In the past 11 years, she has led the design for more than 100 web, desktop, and mobile applications, working first as the Usability Lead at Sabre Airlines Solutions, then on her own as a User Experience consultant. Clients include a diverse mix of Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, and local Austin start-ups. REad about her experiences as a UX designer at theresaneil.wordpress.com and visit site at www.theresaneil.com.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 Rethinking Mobile Tutorials: Which Patterns Really Work?

Live Webinar May 30th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is first in a five part series series on “Meetings That Work”by Solutions Cube. Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

For many people, meetings are viewed as a dreaded evil
Far too little gets accomplished and a lot of time is wasted.

The problem isn’t that meetings, in general, are ineffective for making decisions or completing work; however meetings are often held without consideration for the basic characteristics needed for success.

Solutions Cube Group’s “Characteristics of a Successful Meeting” webinar is the first webinar in a 5 part series on Making Every Meeting Successful.

This webinar will help your teams understand the characteristics of every successful meeting.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Learn how to differentiate between 5 different types of meetings
• Understand how to utilize each meeting type effectively
• Recognize the critical characteristics of every successful meeting
• Understand the concepts and value of a Facilitated Meeting

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Characteristics of Successful Meetings: Meetings That Work Series Session 1 of 5

Live Webinar – May 29th 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

Technology evolution and rapid change means projects get more complex every day. A big part of that complexity revolves around data.

As project managers evolve to keep up, they face a dual dilemma:

1. First, how do they avoid getting overwhelmed in their projects by the proliferation of data dependencies?
2. Second: how can they actually leverage that data to increase their effectiveness?

Darrel will cover:

• The Basics, your Project Management Information System
• Status Reports should be Data, not Opinion…
• Data Modeling and how it can help you
• Why you should start Data Analysis & test Data Conversions Early!

In this one-hour web seminar, expert data guru and project turnaround veteran Darrel Raynor presents the top five data-related skills every project professional should be adopting.

Presenter: Darrel Raynor (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director, Data Analysis & Results Darrel is a veteran project consultant and turnaround expert. He owns and runs www.dataanalysis.com and has provided consulting services to many dozens of Fortune and enterprise

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities

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 Top 5 Data Skills for Project Professionals

Live Webinar – May 29th, 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

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?
COOs, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource 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: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire 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”

Click to register for  Resource Capacity Management