Live Webinar December 11th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Risk Management CoP (REP #S048)

While every project is unique, project managers encounter common problems that are sources of stress, risks, and project delays.

Harry Hall feels your pain. He’s been managing projects for more than fifteen years. Harry will give you practical tips you can immediately apply to your challenging projects.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• Six common project problems that sink project managers (and what to do about each one).
• A simple trick to identify significant stakeholders and how to decrease stress and time.
• The heart of risk management. If you get this wrong, you and your teams will struggle throughout the life of your projects.
• How to turn a fuzzy projects into a clear, compelling projects.
• The single fastest, easiest, and best way to improve project communications.

Take a break from your busy lives. Invest one hour that can save you countless hours in return. Walk away from this presentation with tips, tools, and simple-to-use templates.

Presenter: Harry Hall PMP, PMI-RMP, & ARM-E (LinkedIn profile) is a speaker, trainer, and blogger with PM South  and is the Director of Enterprise Risk Management for the Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company.With over 15 years of project management experience, Harry trains employees,  in software development, health care, agriculture, and finance fields. Harry regularly speaks and facilitates workshops for organizations  on topics ranging from Project Risk Management, The Soft Side of Project Management, and Managing Enterprise Transitions.

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

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Live Webinar December 10th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Service and Outsourcing CoP (REP #S020)

All PMs Have To Buy Either Goods Or Services

• Have you ever found yourself responsible to buy something for your project?
• Did you know what to do? Or even how to get started?

When you have a procurement professional on your team, you can manage the procurement as a subproject. But when you have to do the procurement yourself, you need to know exactly what has to be done, and when.

Join Diana Lindstrom, (LinkedIn profile) author of “Procurement Project Management Success: Achieving a Higher Level of Effectiveness,” for an enlightening conversation about procurement within projects.

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

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Live Webinar – December 11th, 2014 7:30 am – 8:30 am EST
Live Webinar – December 11th, 2014 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Association for Project Management – APM

This webinar will provide an introduction to the basic concepts of earned value management (EVM).

Earned value management is a project control process based on a structured approach to planning, cost collection and performance measurement.

Earned value helps us manage a project by:

• Providing data to enable objective measurement of project status;
• Providing a basis for estimating final cost;
• Predicting when the project will be complete;
• Supporting the effective management of resources;
• Providing a means of managing and controlling change.

Earned value provides information which enables effective decision making by knowing:

• What has been achieved of the plan;
• What it has cost to achieve the planned work;
• If the work achieved is costing more or less than was planned;
• If the project is ahead of or behind the planned schedule.

Good planning leads to good project execution and good management information.

This is a back to basics presentation, there is no need for any previous knowledge about earned value or experience in project controls. Using worked examples and drawing on Simon Taylor’s experience.

It will cover the following topics;

• The earned value management principles
• Calculating and reporting earned value
• Understanding S curves and Bullseye charts

Anyone who is thinking about starting or has just begun a career in project controls and wants to know more about earned value should attend this webinar. It will also serve as a useful reminder for anyone wanting to refresh their knowledge on earned value.

Presenters:

Simon Taylor (LinkedIn profile) is the head of planning, Transport for London Simon is responsible for the maturity and effectiveness of planning within capital projects across all transport modes at TfL covering rail, heavy engineering, vehicles, power & communications, signalling, software, IT, people & business change as well as planning and controls career development and the TfL planning apprenticeship which is in its 3rd year. Simon is also the vice chairman of the Specific Interest Group (SIG) for Planning Monitoring and Control. 

Stephen Jones (LinkedIn profile) is a  project manager,Chartered Engineer and an APM Registered Project Professional with 13 years’ experience in the nuclear industry and 17 years in the manufacturing industry currently with at Sellafield Ltd (responsible for safely delivering decommissioning of the UK’s nuclear legacy & fuel recycling management). He is also a lecturer at the University of Warwick, a professional supervisor on the worked based Learning Masters Degree in Professional Engineering at both Aston University and Kingston University London.

Click to register for Back To Basics: Earned Value Management For Beginners

Live Webinar – December 10th, 2014 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By:  Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

Soldiers and front-line personnel operating in tactical environments increasingly make use of handheld devices to help with tasks such as face recognition, language translation, decision making, and mission planning.

These resource-constrained edge environments are characterized by dynamic context, limited computing resources, high levels of stress, and intermittent network connectivity.

Cyber-foraging leverages external resource-rich surrogates to augment the capabilities of resource-limited devices. In cloudlet-based cyber-foraging, resource-intensive computation and data are offloaded to cloudlets.

Forward-deployed, discoverable, virtual-machine-based tactical cloudlets can be hosted on vehicles or other platforms to provide infrastructure to offload computation, provide forward data staging for a mission, perform data filtering to remove unnecessary data from streams intended for dismounted users, and serve as collection points for data heading for enterprise repositories.

This webinar presents the tactical cloudlet concept and experimentation results for five different cloudlet provisioning mechanisms.

The goal is to demonstrate that cyber-foraging in tactical environments is possible by moving cloud computing concepts and technologies closer to the edge so that tactical cloudlets, even if disconnected from the enterprise, can provide capabilities that enable enhanced situational awareness and decision making at the edge.

Presenter: Grace Lewis (LinkedIn profile) is a Principal Researcher at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and coauthor of Modernizing Legacy Systems: Software Technologies, Engineering Processes and Business Practices (SEI Series in Software Engineering) She is the deputy lead for the Advanced Mobile Systems (AMS) initiative and the principal investigator for the Edge-Enabled Tactical Systems research project. Her current interests and projects are in mobile computing, cloud computing, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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 December 11th, 2014 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Focus On Agile Performance Management

Recently Adobe completed a deep dive into their annual performance management processes and discovered that managers were spending more than 80,000 hours per year just on reviews!

Given the nature of once a year feedback these reviews were found not to be impactful or at least not creating the intended effect. Performance management needs to be continuous; setting goals, reviewing progress, and updating with new tactics or directions once established goals have been achieved.

Firms need to focus on agile performance management – the processes, culture, and tools that connect desired business outcomes and aligns employees to those outcomes. It’s the only way to mobilize an entire workforce toward work, projects, and innovation that reflects an organization’s most current priorities.

Join this webcast to learn:

1. How to build an agile performance management culture
2. How to move away from static talent procedures (compensation planning, performance management, and one-way recruiting) to dynamic and flexible processes
3. How to design and manage goals that are flexible in the face of uncontrollable factors that impact your business
4. How to use social, interactive, cloud-based technologies and systems to support real-time continuous feedback across the organization
5. How to use video to engage employees with visual impact to communication company goals and progress

The disconnect between the frequency of performance reviews and the pace of business is one of the primary causes of employee misalignment to organizational goals, which in turn causes angst for all.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4  Manage Project Team

Presented by: Meghan Biro (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Chief Executive Officer Talent Culture Consulting Group

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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