Live Webinar June 26th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Project Management (PM) is a vital globally accepted tool that provides best practices to help ensure successful project delivery. Requirements relating to cost and value require special attention.

Based on professional research, this presentation will discuss the integration of value engineering and project management to increase understanding and improve project delivery.

Value engineering, a technique developed in the late forties in the U.S., contributed substantially to project value by improving quality, enhancing performance and reducing unnecessary cost.

This presentation will focus on:

• Why projects stumble and fail in many countries
• Business strategies for competing firms
• Traditional project management versus other management techniques
• Value Engineering differences
• Building a project value engineering integration model

Participants will benefit from:

• Strategies and techniques used increase the probability of project success
• How Value Engineering can be used as a significant problem solving tool
• How integrating Value Engineering and Project Management can increase project value
• The relationship of TQM , BBM, BPR, BSC, and Six Sigma to the integration model
• Case studies from the GCC countries

Presenter: Prof. E W Shublaq , (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D ( Civ – Leeds ), CPEng., CVS-L, F.SAVE, F.IEAust., F.ASCE President , Shublaq Management Consulting

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Live Webinar June 27th, 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 fifth in a five part series series on “Strategic Planning” by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

In many organizations, after an annual investment is made to create the ideal Strategic Plan which will is intended to guide the actions of the staff for 1 – 3 years or longer, many teams feel their planning work is done.

The creation of the Strategic Plan is often viewed as the end point of planning.

Unfortunately, Strategic Plans can become stale very quickly for a variety of reasons:

1. Changes in the environment,
2. New information that becomes available as the plan is being executed
3. And … Feedback for unexpected results from planned projects and initiatives.

The Planning staff and department and team leads need to treat the Strategic Plan as a living document, reviewing it periodically to assess environmental changes that may require adjustments to the plan.

They must evaluate whether the planned initiatives are both clearly defined and prioritized realistically to ensure the right projects are being worked on at the right time and projects no longer viable are removed or canceled.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand factors that influence changes to the Mission and Vision and thereby the overall plan
• Learn techniques for using a SWOT analysis to test and validate internal and external perceptions of Strengths and Weaknesses integral to the Strategic Plan
• Understand ways to prioritize projects and initiatives from multiple perspectives •Learn techniques to collaboratively adjust the plan periodically to ensure it is viable and on target

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Live Webinar June 26th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Not all projects are wars, but all wars are projects: temporary and unique. And your project can be at war even when there’s no military action involved; you’re at war when you have enemies (negative stakeholders) who want your project to fail and are willing to work to achieve their goals.

How do you recognize when your project is a war, and most importantly — what do you do when it is?

Presenter : Michael Dobson (LinkedIn profile) is a respected keynote speaker and author of the award winning books, Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals, Practical Project Management: The Secrets of Managing Any Project on Time and on Budget, and  Coping With Supervisory Nightmares: 12 Common Nightmares of Leadership & What You Can Do About Them.

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Live Webinar June 26th, 2014 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

Multilateral and international development organizations have been heavily criticized by governments and donors for not realizing expectations due to lack of accountability leading to corrupt practices, waste of resources, bureaucracy and poor service delivery.

This trend has continued to plague development in the third world for decades, according to evaluations conducted on previous projects and programmes.

Many of the existing programming and monitoring tools used by development organizations do not have built-in mechanisms for highlighting shortcomings, discrepancies and financial irregularities and hence cannot effectively expose mismanagement or corrupt practices.

Although Earned Value Management (EVM) has been utilized mainly as a performance measurement tool in the corporate world, it may possibly be employed in development programmes as a tool for accountability and highlighting mismanagement of financial resources.

The first challenge will be to identify and establish the appropriate EVM tools that can be employed within the context of development programmes bearing in mind that development results and outcomes are not expressed as benefits in financial terms.

Suffyan will then explore a couple of scenarios whereby he will demonstrate how to apply EVM in monitoring and controlling development projects to ensure better accountability of project team members while also ensuring funds are not misused.

It is important to recognize that EVM alone will not be sufficient to resolve financial mismanagement or wipe out corruption.

It must be part of a broader framework that includes various programming, monitoring and auditing techniques that collectively strengthen accountability, enforce regulations and develop business processes that will reduce or greatly minimize illicit financial practices in development projects.

Presenter: Suffyan Bashir MBA PMP is a specialist in strategic planning, project and programme management with several years of experience working for international organizations and private sector institutions in various capacities. He has worked extensively with PRINCE2 and is well versed in Agile methodologies.

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