Live Webinar January 29th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI® IT & Telecom CoP (REP #S009)

Take control of your projects and build a reputation that opens doors. Michael Kaplan will present an introduction to mobilizing projects using SharePoint Online cloud.

In this one-hour webinar, you’ll learn how to:

• Deploy a project collaboration environment in the cloud
• Manage the collection of detailed project information
• Provide a solid base of information for decision making
• Maintain a central record of project documentation

If you’re ready to level up your project management skills, take control of how your projects are implemented, and translate the productivity you gain into action, this is the webinar for you!

How to Get Your Project Off to the Right Start:
You have an awesome project to run, now what?

Perfecting how you setup your processes and systems are crucial to the successful outcome of your project. If you can reduce the time, effort and cost needed to mobilize projects, customers and clients will be more likely to develop an affinity to your approach and will remember you down the road.

Presenter: 

Michael Kaplan (LinkedIn Twitter) is the seasoned CEO of SoftPMO (CompanyTwitter: SoftPMO).  Michael has worked with many of the most successful organizations in the world, including Fortune 500 companies and numerous government agencies. Helping them achieve the full intent of their most urgent and critically important initiatives, Michael uses successful communication techniques to meet their project budges timelines and their goals.

Michael is engaging keynote speaker and is very passionate about developing excellent products with impressive UX/UI design. Michael has created several very popular commercial products. His most recent innovations are the SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit (sample) and socialpmo.co—a new kind of social media solution.

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

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Live Webinar January 29th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on 15 April 1912. She struck the iceberg four days into the crossing, at 23:40 on 14 April 1912, and sank at 2:20 the following morning, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
-Wikipedia

If you’ve been handed a project that is off course, Jana Axline (LinkedIn profile) webinar will teach you how to change direction before it’s too late.

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Earn Cat C PDUs with Titanic Lessons Learned

If you are interested in the Titanic
There are a lot of project management lessons to be learned!

April 2012 was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. pduOTD commemorated this by compiling a list of great resources to earn Category C PDUs and develop your project management knowledge and skills.

For Example:

1. READ: Titanic Lessons for IT Projects (the first and second chapters are available for download), 160 pages
2. Read: Avoiding Project Disaster: Titanic Lessons for IT Executives (Lessons from History), 312 pages.
3. View: You can view a 20 minute video called Titanic – Project Management Blunders on YouTube. An interview with Mark Kozak-Holland is available online, also on YouTube.

The Sinking of the Titanic on April 14/15, 1912 offers many valuable lessons for the Project Manager, from both a popular perspective and from a more serious academic perspective.

Various authors have used the sinking of the Titanic to illustrate popular lessons, such as Icebergs are only 1/7th above water (hence the expression “tip of the iceberg“). Blog entry Management Lessons from Titanic on the Taming the Software Dragon blog lists 10 such lessons learned.

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope – Human Resources 11 – Risk 13 – Stakeholders

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses
• 11.6 Control Risks
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

Click to View the Complete List Of Titanic Project Management Lessons (and Resources) To Create Your Own Self Directed Learning Plan.

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Live Webinar January 30th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Purchasing a project solution versus building one internally to avoid the cost and time of re-inventing the wheel is becoming more common on projects. Selecting a vendor through a Request For Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and the project team selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations.

In order for vendors to effectively propose a viable project solution, they must have all of the necessary information regarding the project environment and needs. To prepare a complete RFP document, the project team needs to include information for 7 distinct components of the RFP.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The 7 components of an RFP
• The role each of the RFP components plays in selecting the right vendor
• The critical project information that should be given to the potential vendors in an RFP.

Join Solutions Cube for this 1 hour in-depth webinar and learn what the 7 RFP components are and how they are used to influence the decisions associated with selecting the right vendor and solution.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Anatomy of an RFP: RFP Series 2 of 4

Live Webinar – Jan 29th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category B 1 PDU- Free PDU

NOTE: Eclipse will provide a Certificate for attendance upon request.

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