Live Webinar September 23rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Organizational Project Management CoP (REP #S043)

This high energy session introduces a ground-breaking approach to thinking about communication as an organizational design parameter to support the effective use of core organizational enablers.

Successful program delivery is critical. High performing programs, successfully delivered, power efficient day-to-day operations and drive long term, strategic growth.

High performing program organizational environments deliver needed solutions that drive competitive advantage. However, even the most mature enterprise can fail to execute high performing programs, impacting operations, strategy and long-term success, particularly in competitive environments.

This presentation is focused on the underlying principals at work within organizations that deliver high performing programs and a revolutionary new way to understand and utilize the power of communication to create an organizational environment using the core organizational enablers which ensures long-term success and the delivery of competitive advantage.

Learning Goals:

1. An enhanced awareness of the importance of communication as an organizational design element to support the core organizational enablers and determine program outcomes.
2. Case studies from U.S. Defense programs, UK civil works and global projects where effective communication design across all stakeholders led to successful delivery.
3. Case studies where ineffective communication within the organization team led to disastrous outcomes.
4. Introduction of a new, robust method for using communication to support the effective use of core organizational enablers to design, lead and manage organizations that deliver high performing programs.

Presenter: Mark Phillips (LinkedIn profile) is an accomplished CEO and the author of Reinventing Communication: How to Design, Lead and Manage High Performing Projects, a book about project management, system design and complexity.  Mark has written articles for the APM Community Blog including Having no plan beats a bad plan and Be a better leader by picking the metrics.

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Live Webinar – Sept 24th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CEST or…
Live Webinar – Sept 24th, 2014 5:00 am – 6:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

• Finding it difficult to realize the true benefits of your Lean transformation?
• Or maybe you’re finding it hard to sustain results?

Either way, you want to anchor

Lean as a sustainable way-of-working that delivers real value to you and your customers and this webinar is here to help you get there.

Join this webinar to come away with powerful and practical ideas on:

1. How to move beyond training and tools to achieve measurable results
2. The optimal sequence of activities to introduce lean thinking at all levels
3. New ways to anchor lean as a sustainable way-of-working

Join the experts from Hitachi Consulting, Mark Hughes Vice President (LinkedIn profile), Jonathan Gray Vice President (LinkedIn profile), and Darragh MacNeill Director, EMEA Operational Excellence Lead (LinkedIn profile) for this informative session.

In this engaging session you’ll find out the common reasons that companies fail to achieve measurable results from Lean and what you can do to avoid them.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs
• 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.’

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Live Webinar – September 23rd, 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

Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.

Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.

During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:

• Improved project predictability
• Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
• Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
• Reduced effort spent resolving project issues

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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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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Live Webinar September 23rd, 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)

How can your PMO become a change management powerhouse for your organization?

You will walk away from this presentation understanding the key building blocks that will make your PMO an effective and sustainable change management solution for your company. Join us as we explore the art and science of PMOs.

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Live Webinar September 23rd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI® IT & Telecom CoP (REP #S009)
Note: This presentation does not require any technical knowledge and will be easy to follow.

Did you know that Transition management practitioners have suggested that over two thirds of failed outsourcing relationships are due to transition-related challenges?

  – Beulen, Tiwari, van Heck, 2011

The lack of specific literature on this subject, has led to many misconceptions, starting with vocabulary, which can sometimes lead to misunderstandings when discussing transition with non-experts.

An IT Outsourcing relationship always starts with a Transition, which is typically a complex program composed of several interrelated projects which can affect nearly every key aspect of the client business.

The goal of this webinar is to give you a high level understanding of transitions challenges in the context of an IT Outsourcing relationship.

Stephane will first describe the key phases of an IT Outsourcing and the associated vocabulary. We will then focus on the Transition, looking at what makes it different from many IT projects.

Presenter: Stephane Chalvin (LinkedIn profile) PMP is a French citizen that lived in the USA and UK. He has over 20 years of international IT experience. He has been leading IT Outsourcing Transitions and Transformations for large global accounts since 2006, most recently as a Transition Director for a global IT service provider.

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Live Webinar September 23rd, 2014 – 7:00 am – 8:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

The webinar is centered around Ethics, the PMI code of ethics and the roles and responsibilities that the practitioners, project and program managers need to understand and appreciate when engaging in the domain of international development.

In summary the webinar objectives are:

1. To help the webinar attendees to understand the complexity surrounding Ethics in the context of international project and program delivery in varying business, not for profit, government and other types of workplace environments.
2. To highlight the importance of the PMI Code of Ethics in international project delivery.
3. To help the webinar attendees understand where you draw your Ethical line in the sand.

The webinar is intended for scholars, researchers, professional consultants in project and program management, quality assurance, quality improvement and general management, small and large-scale businesses, Governmental and Non-Governmental and other international organizations involved in the implementation of projects around the world.

Presenter: Don Joyce (LinkedIn profile) as VP Implementation, at Sogema Technologies (STI) Don is involved in all aspects of the project lifecycle. In the past two years Don has visited and worked with clients and potential clients in; Nigeria, Senegal, Anguilla, Papua New Guinea, the Bahamas, Burkina Faso, Liberia, St-Kitts, Liberia, Curacao and Timor-Leste. Previously been Vice President of IT Strategy and Architecture at National Bank of Canada and the IT sponsor for critical projects such as Enterprise Architecture, BASEL Compliance, VOIP Deployment and Smart Card Implementation.

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