Live Webinar – August 14th, 2014 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – August 14th, 2014 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Associaton for Project Management – APM
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Most strategies (90%) have minimal or no impact. Why?

Because most so-called strategies:

1. Aren’t actually strategies
2. Cannot be understood by the majority of stakeholders
   

A major problem in most cases is the ‘linguistics’ of the strategies.

The OpenStrategies system addresses the taxonomy, syntax and semantics of strategies; in other words; what do the strategy words mean, how should they be logically strung together and what do strategic sentences actually mean?

The OpenStrategies system includes the validating strategies process which is built on the logical sequence of what organisations actually do i.e: ‘Organisations run projects that produce results and enable people to see them to create benefits’ (PRUB).

 Validating strategies:

• Defines the causalities between projects, their subsequent results, their necessary uses and their consequent benefits, all linked together in the form of substrategies (i.e. “is the strategy logical?”)
• Requires compelling cause-and-effect-evidence on the links in the substrategy to confirm that the strategy is genuinely doable (i.e. “will the strategy work?”)
• Requires confirmation that the value of the benefits exceeds the combined costs of the projects and the uses (i.e. “is the strategy worth it?”)

So validating strategies is a simple yet profoundly powerful tool for guiding projects to produce results that will genuinely be used to create benefits. In effect, validating strategies is a succinct and powerful tool for driving benefits realisation via end-users and their uses.

Validating strategies is a subset of the overall OpenStrategies system for collaboratively developing, validating, implementing and performance managing (including ‘realising benefits’) of large-scale, multi-stakeholder, multi-topic strategies. Details can be found in Dr Phil Driver’s recently published book ‘Validating Strategies’.

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Live Webinar August 13th, 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)

What Does It Take To Be An Excellent PM?

Yes, it is about knowing what tools to use and when in a project environment you should use them, but how about going beyond the PMBOK® Guide and talk about core skills that can differentiate you in the marketplace.

This webinar highlights one of these eight differentiating skills that move you from good to great.

Objectives:

• Define the ten differentiating skills that improve effectiveness
• Discuss how troubleshooting skills affect project costs
• Learn how to improve your own troubleshooting skills

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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Live Webinar – August 14th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 – August 13th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

So you’ve been assigned a complex,
poorly defined project concept
So now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity. These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.

Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours? What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning objectives:

1. Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2. The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3. Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

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Live WebinarAug 14th 2014,10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the ‘magic’ of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist! Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamabilityâ„¢
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always ‘team’ well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict ‘teaming’ behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

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Recorded Webinar – Recorded March 6th 2013 EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

SharePoint is everywhere, with some studies reporting as many as 78% of organizations currently using it.  When Microsoft released SharePoint 2007, it was the fastest software to ever hit $1B in sales, and that success has continued through the release of SharePoint 2010 and 2013.

SharePoint is easy to deploy, user friendly, and provides a “good enough” approach to developing a corporate intranet, providing document management for end users, and fostering team and social collaboration.

However, all that ease of use and adoption can make us forget that SharePoint is less like an Office product than it is an enterprise platform…yet most places treat it like Word or Excel.

Deploying SharePoint with little to no planning, training, requirements gathering, change management, or governance of any kind, with serious consequences:

• Long-term user dissatisfaction
• Low sustainability
• Less value for SharePoint investment
• Increased operational risk
• Increased compliance risk

In this web seminar, you’ll learn more about the challenges facing the development and use of SharePoint, as well as get an overview of a best practices approach to overcoming them.

Presenter: Joe Shepley (LinkedIn profile @joeshepley) PMP is the Vice President and Practice Leader at Doculabs in the Greater Chicago Area. He specializes in several areas including SDLC (software development life cycle) methodologies, ITIL (V3 Foundation), Project Management, and most importantly Microsoft SharePoint. You can connect with Joe via Twitter by or LinkedIn.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope

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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