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® IT & Telecom CoP (REP #S009)

Data is the new “natural” resource

Enabling actionable insights from the ever-increasing velocity, volume, and variety of data has become a top priority for many organizations.

Big Data technologies have created a paradigm shift by enabling analytics on large and complex data sets that had not been possible until now with traditional tools.

While this new world of Big Data provides enormous opportunities, it also introduces new challenges.

In this webinar, Chandra will present five practical strategies that will ensure success of Big Data Projects.

Based on his real world experience in delivering Big Data projects for multiple clients, Chandra will discuss how project and program managers can implement these strategies in planning, executing, and successfully completing their projects.

Presenter: Chandra Papudesu is a Software Services leader and coauthor of Project Valuation Using Real Options: A Practitioner’s Guide. Chandra oversees Big Data project delivery for customers in multiple industry verticals such as financial services, healthcare and manufacturing and  holds engineering degrees from Indian Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Live Webinar – June 26th, 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?

COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource Managers

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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.’

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Live Webinar – June 25th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

What opportunities are you looking for to improve your business performance?

In this webinar you will learn six opportunities that are readily available when you adopt a decision management approach to business rules and predictive analytics.

These are opportunities to:

1. Simplify business processes and so reduce costs and increase business agility by externalizing decisions from them.
2. Increase straight through processing and so reduce costs by applying decision management technologies to automate decisions.
3. Increase the speed and accuracy of tactical and managerial decision-making through decision modeling and improved decision support systems.
4. Use analytics to eliminate “one size doesn’t really fit anyone” handling of customers, partners, suppliers or transactions.
5. Radically re-assess staffing needs where decision management technologies allow automation so that only exceptions require manual intervention.
6. Maximize the value of assets and people by replacing first-in-first-out and other mechanical approaches with decision-centric risk- or opportunity-based approaches.

Presenter: James Taylor  (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Decision Management Solutions has more than 20 years experience improving the decision-making process and developing methods to create an agile, analytic, and adaptive businesses. Working with clients in all sectors he identifies their highest-value opportunities for advanced analytics, enabling them to reduce fraud, continually manage and assess risk, and maximize customer value with increased flexibility and speed.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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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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