Live Webinar June 13th, 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 third 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.

As organizations fund and initiate project after project, teams often work off of sketchy project charters, unsure of the focus or expected outcome of each effort.

Often times, teams feel that the list of prioritized projects is a result of random selection and are left wondering how the project fit into the overall corporate direction, if at all.

What’s lacking are the tools and techniques for clearly describing high level changes the organization wants to achieve and lower level department goals that will provide purpose and focus for the upcoming year.

Staff members who are engaged in establishing the future direction of the organization or individual departments within the organization, need to leverage Mission and Vision Statements and the organizational assessment to create Objectives and Goals.

In order for Objectives and Goals to be valuable and useful to everyone they must be SMART.

Ambiguity and broad vague statements of direction serve no other means than to add confusion for future project activities.

Attend this presentation to learn how to make your objectives and goals SMART.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Transform the Mission and Vision statements into measurable and realistic Objectives
• Understand how to document Goals specific for each Function of the Organization •Use techniques for ensuring that the new Goals are relevant and in scope for the Strategic Plan

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar June 13th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

One way to improve the management of international development projects is to learn from common problems that happened on past projects.

The World Bank does ex-post evaluations on all projects and publishes those results every year. Interestingly those problems are quite consistent year after year and project after project.

Also interestingly these problems are very similar to problems encountered on projects in the United States.

This webinar will present these common problems and provide specific actions that can help prevent problems and lead to better management and results.

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

Presenter:  Robert Youker (LinkedIn profile) is an independent trainer and consultant in Project Management with more than thirty-five years of experience in the field. Roberts project management experience includes new product development and project management consulting for many companies. He is retired from the World Bank where he developed and presented Project Management courses in Washington DC as well as Africa, China, Pakistan, The Philippines, Turkey and Iraq.

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Live Webinar June 13th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

We’ve seen lengthy discussions about the position of women in technology for the past several months, to the point where Wired is covering debates about civility on the LKML.

While it’s been useful to raise awareness of issues within the open source and technical communities, I haven’t seen anyone discussing why evaluating and checking one’s privilege is actually good for the individual.

In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will discuss why it’s worth your while to understand your own innate privilege – or, as she likes to think of it, ‘stuff’ you get that other people don’t – and how doing so will make you more successful in your career and as a human being.

Amongst other matters, Leslie will discuss:

• Understanding bias – what it is, why it is and why it is worth examining your biases
• How to handle it when other people are “angry”
• How to be a useful ally and why this makes your way much smoother
• How to ask for more information without being an uneducated jerk
• How to have more useful conversations with each person you meet

The purpose of this talk is to reexamine the topic through the lens of concrete things individuals can do to check their privilege – and to put it to work serving themselves and others.

Presenter: Leslie Hawthorn (LinkedIn profile) an internationally known, speaker and author, Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating and enabling open source communities. She created the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development, launched Google’s #2 Developer Blog, received an O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2010 and gave a few great talks on many things open source. In August 2013, she joined Elasticsearch as Community Manager, where she leads the company’s developer relations efforts.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 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 Why Checking Your Privilege is Good For *You*

Live Webinar June 12th, 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)

In this webinar, Jack Ferraro  (LinkedIn profile  @jpferraro)  will explore three critical leadership competencies that project managers must be keenly aware of to manage complex software projects.

Move beyond your PMP® , from  tracking tasks, to true Project Leadership.

Click to register for 3 Leadership Competencies Every Project Manager Needs

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Live Webinar – June 11th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU Mpug Member Free – member only event

In the third of the four-part “Digging Deeper” series of MPUG webinars, the “Learning More about Using Task Mode and Task Dependencies” presentation will help you to gain in-depth knowledge about the Task Mode feature in Microsoft Project 2010 (Manually Scheduled tasks vs. Auto Scheduled tasks) and will show you how to use the different types of task dependencies most effectively.

This presentation will include the following topics:

• Manually Scheduled Tasks: Friend or Foe?
• Understanding Task Mode
• Auto Scheduled vs. Manually Scheduled Tasks
• Accidentally Creating a Manually Scheduled Task
• Problems with Manually Scheduled Summary Tasks
• Alternatives to Manually Scheduled Tasks
• Using Task Dependencies
• What are Task Dependencies and Why Do We Use Them?
• Avoid Linking Summary Tasks
• Be Aware of Circular Logic in Your Schedule

Presenter:  Dale Howard (LinkedIn profile)  MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP, MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP Director of Education at Sensei Project Solutions.  Dale manages educational services and is an enterprise project management trainer/consultant with more than 15 years of training experience. Dale volunteers many hours each week answering user questions in the various Project news groups in the Microsoft Communities. Dale received the prestigious Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2004 for his expertise with the software and for his contributions to the user communities.

Dale is an author of many great MS Project books including:

• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2013
• What’s New Microsoft Project 2013
• Implementing and Administering Microsoft Project Server 2010 | Second Edition
• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2010 (Exam 70-178)

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MPUG Membership also includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Live Webinar June 11th, 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

Why Use Earned Value Techniques?

Earned value is used on many government projects but hasn’t gained support in commercial or non-profit organizations.

This webinar will give an overview of the application of earned value to project management and how it can help get projects under control.

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.

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