Live Webinar August 20th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDWxx
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW259

Do you need help building, leading, and positively influencing unified, high-performing project teams?

In this webinar, you’ll learn why interpersonal effectiveness delivers project success—and how you can have both!

Key learning points from this webinar include:

• Increase buy-in from team members and stakeholders by understanding the connection between trust, conflict, and accountability
• Understand how to develop and maintain accountability with project team members and stakeholders
• Learn to influence project participants on all levels of the project who do not directly report to you including: clients, team members, stakeholders, and vendors

Presenter: Eileen Twichell, (LinkedIn profile) is a dynamic and accomplished presenter and is highly regarded in the project management community for her expertise and knowledge of the field. She brings to you over twenty years of project management training and design experience and has developed and facilitated classes in project management, time management, presentation skills, coaching, and communications.

Click to register for The Missing Link: Interpersonal Effectiveness for Project Success

Live Webinar – August 21st 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU – 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Today’s organizations must integrate and align people, processes, structures, culture and strategy to successfully transition individuals and/or groups from a current state to a future state to achieve their desired business outcomes and objectives.

It is how we define change management today, which directly affects everyone from the entry-level employee to senior management.

Everyone must learn how to make organizational changes, where managers are charged with the additional responsibility of making these changes happen in and through the different levels of strategic execution.

This one-hour webinar focuses on change management in the areas of organizational development and human resource management combined with standardized portfolio, program, and project management practices (i.e., PMBOK® 5th Edition).

Presenter: Alexander Stanisic PMP is a seasoned business professional  delivering best-practice based strategic execution solutions within both public and private sectors. Alexander is currently teaching 10 university-accredited business courses for Global Knowledge in association with McMaster University in Canada. Alexander has a postgraduate-level education from the Graduate School of Engineering, Stanford University  Six Sigma Green Belt, ITIL and Change Management certifications.

Click to register for Take the Fear Out of Change: Why You Need Organizational Change Management

Live Webinar – August 21st, 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 August 21, 2014, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August, 2014, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

• Where does the world stand on cloud computing risks?
• What should we be most worried about, what can we do about it today, and if we can’t do anything about it today, when can we?

This webinar summarizes the latest research into the best practices for cloud risk management, including survey data on risk assessment practices and the Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing Security.

Discussion Topics:

• Which cloud risks should most concern you
• How to assess the risks of a specific cloud-based service
• What we can do to manage cloud risks

Presenter:  Jay Heiser (Gartner bio, LinkedIn profile) Research VP

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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.’

Click to register for Understanding & Controlling the Risks of Cloud Computing

Live Webinar – August 21st, 2014 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Performance benchmarking typically involves the collection, analysis and reporting of quantitative data. As a result, organizations can identify and track their levels of performance regarding productivity and software quality.

DCG’s benchmarking model incorporates a qualitative analysis component along with the quantitative analysis, which provides further insight into why certain projects are experiencing lower levels of performance.

Learn how this benchmarking model can work for you, providing you with the data you need to improve your software development practices.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.3 Control Quality

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 view Exploring the Qualitative Side of Benchmarking