Live Webinar July 22nd, 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)

A high performing culture is not the product of chance, but thoughtful design.

In this webinar, you will learn what culture is, what the five levels of cultural maturity are, and how the human factors of productivity and innovation allow you to advance from one level to another.

If you need to get a lot more productivity out of your existing staff, or unlock collaborative innovation, then this webinar is for you.

Presenter: Frank Wander (LinkedIn profile, bio) author of Transforming IT Culture: How to Use Social Intelligence, Human Factors and Collaboration to Create an IT Department That Outperforms.

Click to register for How to Build a High Performing Culture: by Design

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Live Webinar – July 23rd, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU/1 CDU Member Free/ Member only event

Learn how world-class schedulers build proactive schedules for all sizes of projects that show actual progress-to-date; reflect estimates to completion; predict completion dates and total cost estimates; and enable corrective action and better decision-making.

Ultimately, the purpose of the project schedule is to enhance the chances of successful project delivery. To be useful then, a proactive schedule should always reflect the true intention (both scope and time) AND actual progress of the project. It should clearly communicate work and priorities to project team members, provide accurate forecasting of remaining effort and durations and identify variances before it is too late for corrective action.

This presentation provides a primer to the principles of Proactive Scheduling as well a practical approach to deploying these principles in Microsoft Project and Project Server.

Presenter: Kenneth Steiness, (LinkedIn profile) PMP/PMI-SP MCP MCT has worked in the project management and scheduling field for over 16 years, and in over 13 countries worldwide. His focus is on process and the discipline of PPM and scheduling whenever he engages with clients to deploy Microsoft Project and Project Server or teaches classes on the subject. Kenneth has presented at world-wide conferences for Microsoft and PMI; and to many Microsoft Project User Groups over the years

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1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
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Live Webinar –  July 22nd, 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

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

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.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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  Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!

Live Webinar July 21st, 2014 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm  SGT
Live Webinar July 21st, 2014 – 3:00 am – 4:00 am  EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category C  PDU Free
Sponsored by: Simplilearn.com (Rep #3147)
NOTE: Due to time zones this is a very early time in North America /  Although SimpliLearn is a Category A Provider – This course may have to be recorded as a Category B or C PDU. Please confirm the category at the time of the presentation.

Attend this webinar & manage your risks effectively
In your upcoming projects!

Risk management is very important in projects and every professional working in projects realize the benefits.

Be it cost, time, scope, resources and so on, a project may face risk at any given point of time.

To overcome such expected and unexpected risks, one needs to follow smart risk management strategies.

Join Hunter Guo as he presents 10 golden rules of project risk management from the experts!

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”

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Online Webinar – Recorded Mar 2011
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU WID00160
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What does it take to run your business efficiently, even as workloads and demand levels become more and more unpredictable?

E-mail, spreadsheets, and phone calls aren’t enough to drive processes anymore – not in a global economy where business is conducted around the clock, seven days a week.

Leading companies know that achieving true efficiency takes agile business processes that blend automation, decision management, and real-time performance monitoring.

That’s a tall order, requiring powerful tools, approaches, and a commitment to process excellence.

How do you begin?

For starters, it pays to learn the proper habits. The culture of an organization is a collection of habits that have a powerful effect on business performance.

Driving long-term business benefit and success with business process management (BPM) often requires companies to develop new ways of looking at familiar challenges.

Join Michael Ficco (LinkedIn profile) for this educational webcast and learn 11 practical approaches to technology, skills, and organizational structure that will help you establish repeatable models for BPM success.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Successful project delivery approaches utilizing process analysis techniques, iterative process delivery methods, and business activity monitoring
• New ideas for growing BPM team competency across both business and information-technology stakeholders
• Approaches to drive BPM across your organization and capture funding for a continuous BPM program, instead of a project-by-project basis

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Transcript of the session is available

Click to register for Learn the 11 Habits for Highly Successful Business Process Management Programs

Live Webinar July 16th, 2014 – 1:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1280
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW1280

Micromanaging a project team is akin to managing each task or deliverable with extreme control.

This suffocating management style is likely to put a damper on creativity and inhibit individual growth. There are many reasons why this happens, but in general, it is not a healthy situation for the project manager, employee or team.

As a program manager, you want to help project managers improve their performance without stepping on their toes or stepping into their projects. As a project manager, you are keen on making the project a success while balancing the needs of the team, the sponsors, and the organization as a whole.

Learning objectives include:

• Identify at least 3 behaviors that look like micro managing
• Review 7 specific tips that a project manager can use to reduce the need for excessive control
• Share some ideas to help combat a micro manager

So, what should you be focused on
While others are tackling the work of the project?

In this webinar, you will learn how to take the basic concepts for how not to micro manage and apply it to a project manager’s world.

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

Click to register for 7 Ways to Avoid Being a Project “Micro” Manager