Recorded Webinar – April & May 2013,
Duration: 2 x 1 Hour Webinars ( Part 1 & Part 2)
Credits: UpTo 2 PDU Category B – Free PDU

Important Notes:

• NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but…
  …… these opportunities are Category B PDU Sessions.
• You must First Register or Sign in to the NetObjectives site.
• Once signed in the Links Below will take you to the sessions.

The Benefits Of Agile?

Part 1:

This Session discusses the benefits you get from Agile, not the how of doing it. Agile is really about delivering business value incrementally, quickly and predictably. It should not be about development iterations. Starting with the “how” of Agile instead of the “why” of Agile often leaves many business stakeholders unclear with the need for Agile.

Part 2:

While not an in-depth study of any of the methods, the webinar will illustrate why one must look at several factors when deciding on your team-Agile approach.

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

Click to register for An Introduction to Agile Part 1 – From a Business / Executive Point of View

Click to register for An Introduction to Agile Part 2 – Overviews of Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban

Live Webinar – November 26th, 2014 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Live Webinar – November 26th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 pm BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by:APM a division of  APMG International

Agile continues to be a hot topic, not just within the project management community but for those who lead organizations.

Agility is a competitive advantage, as it is associated with organisations who are more responsive to change and get products to market faster.

Internally, the advantages are higher productivity and greater collaboration between project teams and their users/stakeholders.

Attend this webinar to find out:

• What does agile project management involve?
• What are the benefits of agile project management?
• How do these benefits translate into wider business management challenges?
• How can you and your organization become ‘more agile’?

This event is a fast-paced tour of the principles, structure and benefits of agile project management, suitable for project managers, programme managers and those in the PMO.

Remember, you cannot call yourself a project professional if you don’t know about Agile Project Management!

Click to register for Agile Project Management Is A State Of Mind, Not A Project Methodology!

Live Webinar November 24th, 2014 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)

Are You A Team?
Or Just A Group Of People Working Together?

A founder’s spirit is often lost over time and growth through M&A can result in a fragmented “Frankenstein” of stitched together organizations.

How can a group of people become a real team?

How can organizations with thousands of people in dozens of countries maintain a strong sense of a shared identity and commitment to shared goals?

By leveraging the roots of their greatness, their organization’s DNA and shared organizational culture – as invisible as the air we breathe, as inescapable as gravity, and more powerful than any Gantt chart.

Leverage the power of your culture in your next project team!

Participants will:

• Understand the power of an organization’s past to shape its future.
• Appreciate the influence that organization culture has on behavior and results.
• Have access to 3 ways of exploring and deepening a team’s shared sense of history and organizational culture.
• Realize that an organization’s culture can be made visible through sharing stories and other practical exercises.
• Be equipped to install the foundation of a shared organizational cultural required to turn a globally dispersed group of people into a real team, with a shared identity and commitment to a future that is bigger than their differences.

Kimberly helps organizations achieve what SEEMS impossible, but is merely difficult. How? By turning managers into leaders and groups into teams. and you can too!  Come and join Kimberly in this energetic and highly engaging presentation!

Presenter:  Kimberly Wiefling (LinkedIn profile) is the Founder and President of Wiefling Consulting, a global leadership and business management consulting firm. She is also Executive Editor of the Scrappy About Series, and is a globally recognized author and business leadership consultant specializing in helping people achieve what seems impossible.

Kimberly currently spends about half of her time working with high-potential leaders in Japanese companies, facilitating leadership, innovation and execution excellence workshops to enable Japanese companies to solve global problems profitably. One of the keys to her success is a focus on not only a winning strategy, but a winning culture. Business culture transformation lies at the heart of all of her work. Kimberly’s book, Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces, was published in 2007 and is the focus of this webinar.

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

Click to register for Building A Shared Team Identity by Exploring Your Organization’s DNA

Live Webinar November 24th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Ethics CoP (REP #S050)

• What does daily project life look like for a GM?
• What are the key challenges a GM faces in this role? What are key decisions?
• What are the principles of leadership behind this?

This session is intended to provide the field perspective of a GM and will be supported by many use cases

Presenter: Michael van den Brand (LinkedIn profile) MBA General Manager, ADP Streamline, has held various marketing and operations positions in different business units. He was formerly the Director of Managed Services in the Netherlands

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

Click to register for Authentic Leadership: A GM perspective On Project Management

Live Webinar – November 27th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
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 November 21st, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW1299

• All project managers want to deliver their projects successfully.
• Most of us define that success as on time, within budget and to the agreed upon scope.
• High customer satisfaction and high team morale are also common measures of success.

But how are these criteria for success actually met?

Hard work and long hours certainly contribute to project success. But savvy project managers know that leveraging the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the way to make sure those long hours are spent working hard on the right deliverables to stay within the constraints of schedule and budget.

The WBS defines what the project needs to produce, and what the team will do to produce it.

The WBS enables more accurate and realistic planning in defining the scope, schedule and budget, and serves as the basis for what is in versus out of scope during project execution. With a well-defined WBS, projects can be delivered more successfully.

In this webinar you will learn:

• A two-step approach for developing a WBS
• How to determine the right amount of detail
• How to produce a project artifact to answer key stakeholder questions

About the Presenter: Roger D. Jennings, CBAP, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience in the IT Project and services industries. Roger progressed through the ranks of business analyst, project leadership, and project management, providing a solid foundation for his excellent instructional skills. .Roger has trained and mentored over 250 professionals in the areas of Project Management, Business Analysis, and Quality Assurance and has assisted organizations in their Process Improvement and Project Management efforts since 2008.

Click to register for How Savvy Project Managers Use The WBS To Achieve Project Success