Live Webinar April 15th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Do You Understand Financial Statements?

This webcast explains and helps you understand financial statements, digging into the nitty-gritty of the Balance Sheet, P&L, and Cash Flow.

For an hour, you’ll get practical examples and learn tips you can easily use to read financial statements in your organization, whether a large publicly-held company or a start-up.

You will identify the main parts of financial statements, distinguish the main functions of each statement, and interpret the numbers to make sound financial decisions.

This program focuses on the key challenges facing start-up founders, small business owners, and managers with P&L responsibility in reading financial statements and using them to make sound financial decisions.

This session will address the following questions:

• Why is it important to understand and interpret the financial statements in your business?
• What is an income statement and why is it important?
• What is a cash flow statement and why is it important?
• How can the balance sheet show your company’s worth?
• What is the financial statements dashboard?
• How can you use the financial dashboard to speak to your banker and accountant?
• How can you use a financial dashboard to make profit?

Whether you are a project manager still struggling to come up for air or a new start-up founder, this webcast offers you specific, practical, applicable tips to conquer financial statements before they conquer you!

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required – However most AMA webinars are recorded for later viewing.

Presenter:  Dawn Fotopulos (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of BestSmallBizHelp.com, an award-winning blog and resource site for small-businesspeople.  She has helped turn around over 300 small businesses. A former banker, she is currently an Associate Professor of Business at The King’s College in Manhattan.  Her book Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners  is a practical survival guide for small business owners and start-ups alike.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 7 – Cost

• 7.1 Plan Cost Management
• 7.2 Estimate Costs
• 7.3 Determine Budget
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 Read Financial Statements

For another great professional development learning opportunity Check out Blair Cook’s Recorded Accounting Online Course.   Presented as a Free Category C  PDU or a paid Category B PDU this fast moving dynamic presentation will provide you with everything you need to know from analyzing business transactions to creating income statements and balance sheets!

Click to view (as 1 cat C PDU) or purchase (as 1.5 cat B PDU) 
Learn Accounting In 1 Hour– Really!

Live Webinar April 14th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

A Wise Man Proportions His Belief to the Evidence

– David Hume,
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

A major shift in Don Kim’s career occurred when he discovered the field of project management.  It seemed to integrate and reconcile technical knowledge, emotional intelligence and business management skills into a perfect marriage. 

Don has never looked back.

Passionate about sharing Project Management Best practices with others and encouraging them to succeed, Don’s entrepreneurial pursuits have never left him.  It provides him with a position uniquely suited to driving and delivering business value to his clients and customers.

In this session, Don will make a bold proposal that the current frameworks or paradigms only represent at most 5% of the actual human cognitive processes. This explains why the current PM dogmas don’t always live up to their expectations.

Many of the methods, tools and techniques outlined in such frameworks as the PMBOK, Agile, Prince2, EVM, etc., do an adequate job of outlining the processes to capture such evidentiary information that have become industry standards.

However, inevitable problems arise when attempting to follow such paradigms:

• The “real world” is complex, uncertain and in many ways, irrational
• These simplified models presume a simple, certain and rational world.

So how do we know what works?

Don will discuss a new PM framework (epistemological – theory of knowledge) that accounts for the remaining 95% of human cognition that propels us to know, act and make decisions.

Learn how theories in behavioral economics, complexity theory, cognitive patterns, and Jungian psychology pave the way for a brand new PM framework epistemology!

Manage your projects like a business so that your “project solutions are realized” – Don Kim

Presenter:  Don Kim (LinkedIn profile, @protweetation) Founder/Owner of one of the most popular International Project Management  websites. Don has been involved in the field of project management initially as corporate employee and now as an independent consultant, trainer, coach, educator and writer.  As a instructor at four universities and colleges, writer for several industry publications and event speaker, Don’s core competencies are to consult, train and educate your organization, department  & teams to better manage people and projects, act as a catalyst for change, and to push new boundaries.

Check out Don’s Projectation.Com 
A Must Have Resource for all Project Managers

Click to register for A Radically New Project Management Framework

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Live Webinar – April 15th, 2015 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – April 15th, 2015 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

The British government’s major projects portfolio has a total lifetime cost stretching over £500 billion.  Major government projects carry a high risk and require capable management to increase the chances of success and delivery confidence.

The Major Projects Leadership Academy (MPLA) [created in 2012] is run in partnership with the Saïd Oxford Business School and Deloitte.

The MPLA was established to build the skills of senior project leaders across government and thereby grow the capability of the public sector to deliver complex projects and programmes effectively.

In turn this should reduce the need for advice from outside government and strengthen skills within the civil service. HM Government’s intention is that all major project leaders will have at least started the MPLA’s programme by this year.

In the future, no one will be able to lead a major government project without completing the MPLA programme.

So how is it going?

Building on Tim Banfield’s (LinkedIn profile) presentation in November 2014, MPA Some Perspectives on Project Delivery, this webinar will explore in more detail how the MPLA complements the MPA in building capability to successfully deliver HM Government’s Major Projects Portfolio [approximately 200 projects].

Dr Paul Chapman (LinkedIn profile) BEng, MSc PhD is a Fellow in Operations Management at Saïd Business School, a leading expert on leading the delivery of major programmes / major projects typically valued at £1billion+, and industrial megaprojects . Paul is currently responsible for Oxford’s MSc in Major Programme Management, a two-year, part-time programme and the UK Government’s MPLA, a one-year, part-time programme for the major project leaders responsible for delivering the UK Government’s portfolio strategic projects valued at over £500bn.. These roles include engaging teams of faculty and experienced practitioners to create the design and content required to ensure an engaging learning experience. Paul is an amazing instructor and has twice been elected teacher of year on the EMBA.

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

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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 Building Project Leaders To Deliver HM Government’s Major Project Portfolio

Live Webinar April 14th, 2015, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Gartner clients continue to report increasingly frequent software license audits, resulting in undefended, unbudgeted and unmanaged costs.

This webinar takes attendees through the audit process, helping them to understand how to respond to an audit letter and manage the audit effectively, both internally and externally, to mitigate risk.

Discussion Topics:

• Why you need to plan for software audits
• How to respond when a software audit letter arrives on your desk
• How to manage the software audit to minimize business risk

Presenter: Victoria Barber (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research Director

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 We Received A Software Audit Letter: What Do We Do Now?

Live Webinar April 9th, 2015 – 5:00 am – 5:30 am EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Note: This is an early morning session

Give senior executives the insight they need to make real-time decisions and efficiently manage a large portfolio of projects using metrics-driven dashboard reports.

See how you can easily extend SharePoint to deliver:

1. Program / department level dashboards
2. Organization-wide dashboards including exception reporting
3. Key performance indicators and metrics
4. Automated cross-project reporting

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Presenter: Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 Create Metrics-Driven Portfolio Management Dashboards Using SharePoint

Live Webinar April 8th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Those of us who have been writing software for a while know that if you don’t get the requirements right, it really doesn’t matter how well you execute the rest of the project.

Eliciting, Analyzing, Specifying, Validating, and
Managing requirements is hard.
Not everyone understands why it’s so critical.

This presentation describes seven critical success factors that will go a long way toward making the requirements activities in your organization pay off for the many project stakeholders.

The success factors are:

• A shared understanding of what requirements are and why we care
• Clearly defined business objectives
• Trained, skilled, and motivated business analysts
• A collaborative partnership with customers
• Rigorous and ongoing requirements prioritization
• Taking an incremental and iterative approach to requirements development
• Anticipating and accommodating change

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers PhD (LinkedIn profile,  @KarlWiegers)  Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software process consulting and education company in Portland, Oregon; Karl’s interests include requirements engineering, peer reviews, process improvement, metrics, and project management.

Previously, Karl spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company as a research scientist, software developer, software manager, and software process & quality improvement leader. Karl received a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. Author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds articles on many aspects of software development, management topics, chemistry, and military history, Karl is also the author of a Consulting Tips and Tricks blog.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Software Requirements (3rd Edition)   Co-authored with Joy Beatty
• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice
• Pearls from Sand: How Small Encounters Lead to Powerful Lessons

Click to register for Software Requirements: 7 Critical Success Factors