Live Webinar – September 9th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

Companies have for years tried to create the processes and organizational culture to drive operational excellence throughout the business and enhance customer satisfaction. However, there was one essential ingredient missing: data.

Having the right information to hand at the right time is essential to allow your frontline staff to make the best possible decisions about what to do next. Moreover, data can give you important insight into what you need to improve in order to drive operational excellence.

For that, data not only has to be embedded within your processes but in also a form that is easily interpreted by your staff. In this webinar, join experts Jim Sinur and Jarrod Poynton to explore a revolutionary new approach to data analysis and process excellence that will allow you to bring real-time insight to your front-line decision makers to drive effective decision making and high performance.

Join this webinar to:

1. Learn how you can bring the power of analytics and process together to drive business performance
2. Understand what it really means to move to more intelligent processes
3. Explore a new technique called compound analytics and how it can help you deliver improvement to end-to-end processes

Presenters:

Jim Sinur  CEO of Flueresque (LinkedIn profile) is a BPM expert who researches areas  business process innovation, business modeling, business process management technology (iBPMS), process collaboration for knowledge workers, process intelligence/optimization, business policy/rule management (BRMS), and leveraging business applications in processes. Mr. Sinur was critical in creating the first Hype Cycle and Maturity Model, which have become a hallmark of Gartner analysis, along with the Magic Quadrant.

Jarrod Poynton (LinkedIn profile) is Head of Solutions for DST Business Process Solutions in EMEA and specialises in solving customer engagement and operational control problems by blending business process, application data, the customer journey and organisational design.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.4 Create WBS
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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 From Insight to Action: Bring Data & Process Together For Powerful Business Performance

Live Webinar September 9th, 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)

In 2013, David Barrett (LinkedIn profile, bio) and fellow author, Derek Vigar (LinkedIn profile, bio) sought out 25 of our leading project managers to find out the answer to the question – what is the key to your success?

The result is a new book  The Keys to Our Success: Lessons Learned from 25 of Our Best Project Managers best stories, lessons, and takeaways.

In this multi-media, interactive hour, David will share some of these lessons learned and facilitate the discussion on those featured lessons and some from the audience.

 Presenter:  David Barrett  is the founder and past Executive Director of ProjectTimes.com, ProjectWorld, ProjectSummit and BusinessAnalystWorld conferences held around the world.  As the National Program Director for all Project Management training out of the Schulich Executive Education Centre, Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada and in partnership with nine other universities across Canada, he published several books including The Power of the Plan – Empowering the Leader in You!.

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

Click to register for The Keys to Success in Project Management

Live Webinar – September 9th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM 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

Security Certifications Are No Longer Adequate Assurance of Protection

Right now, the threat landscape for companies and their information is unlike anything most business unit leaders have seen before.

Organizations are having sensitive data stolen every day, and suddenly everybody bears some responsibility for maintaining security in their area of responsibility.

Corporate data is at stake, and so are the jobs of many in charge.
So who is really in charge of security now?
And how can they “Manage It”?

In this one-hour presentation, Mike Beevers, CISSP, (LinkedIn profile) walks us through where your head should be if you touch anything in your organization that’s connected to sensitive information.

Mike will touch on why:

• The security certifications of the last 15 years are no longer adequate assurance of protection,
• Why we are seeing the traditional IT security role dissolve into a need for someone more literate in:
  • overall security goals,
  • more connected to the business side of incident avoidance,
  • risk management and
  • intelligent response when something happens.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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 The New Security Landscape: Who’s in Charge?

Live Webinar – September 9th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00pm 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”

Click to register for  Project Portfolio Management Simplified

Live Webinar September 9th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Improve your confidence and effectiveness at the bargaining table with a disciplined, collaborative approach to negotiation.

Join negotiation expert Jeff Weiss (LinkedIn profile, HBR bio) author of the “HBR Guide to Negotiating,” in this interactive Harvard Business Review webinar where he will share a disciplined, collaborative approach to negotiation that produces better outcomes and stronger relationships.

This approach works in any situation where two parties need to come to terms despite competing interests — from complex multimillion-dollar deals to informal conversations with colleagues.

Attend the live webinar to learn how to:

• Prepare for negotiations
• Uncover your counterpart’s real interests
• Develop high-value solutions
• Set the right tone and manage the relationship

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.6 Control Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 12.2 Conduct Procurements
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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 How To Navigate Any Negotiation

Live Webinar – September 5th 2014, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD 1 PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Project Closure is not only required activity,
BUT …
Is also a valuable activity required of every successful project.

Whether the project team is ending a project meeting, completing a project phase or coming to the end of the project – closing activities are critical to the organization and all future project efforts.

Developing skills in project closure techniques helps maintain project successes and energy as well as provide learnings on all other project efforts.

Solutions Cube Group’s Webinars address many relevant project issues.

Learn how to record lessons learned even when a project is being cancelled versus when the project was successfully implemented, to improve work on all future project efforts.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• End of each project meeting with clarity and capitalizing on momentum and alignment gained during the meeting
• Structure a Lessons Learned activity as a tool to leverage successes and avoid repeating mistakes as the project moves between phases
• Get a head start on the next project by archiving and reusing valuable project deliverables form the current effort

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Achieving Closure on Projects