Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

The WBS 100% Rule

Creation of a complete WBS for a project can be accomplished when project teams understand and adhere to the WBS 100% rule.

Project teams often confuse the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with the Project Schedule or treat these different project deliverables as interchangeable project elements. The WBS is a pre-requisite project deliverable defining tangible project deliverables while the project schedule depicts how these deliverables will be produced.

The 100% rule ensures that all deliverable components are included in the WBS and helps the project team decompose the WBS into manageable work packets. The work packets represent the level of clarity in the WBS that will allow for a natural transition from tangible deliverables to activities for producing these deliverables.

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Learn how to build a detail WBS that represents 100% of the work to be produced and expand the WBS deliverables into project schedule activities.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The use of the WBS 100% rule
• Techniques for numbering the WBS components to clearly depict relationship of each WBS component to its parent component
• Using the WBS as a blueprint that can be easily tailored to represent smaller project efforts and drive our project schedule activities.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar Although this is a part of a series the information from each session can stand on its own.

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Live Webinar June 17th, 2015 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)

In this webinar, Robin will show you the six functions Proactive SQA™ performs to produce high quality software from the start.

Presenter: Robin Goldsmith (LinkedIn profile) author of Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success

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Online Webinar
Offered by: ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

During this Earned Value Management (EVM) webinar,  Jim Foreman (LinkedIn profile) and Bruce Falk (LinkedIn profile),  will discuss how EVM will improve your project performance.

Covering both project management and contract management principles, this EVM webinar will focus on the key information and the steps required to successfully implement EVM.

Practical tips for determining cost and schedule status and assessing whether your project is in or out of control will be shared. Understand how to quickly pinpoint trouble spots and mitigate their effect on your project before they become major issues.

In this EVM webinar, participants will learn:

• Why EVM is important to your project success and contract success
• Fundamental methods to help determine the status of your projects and contracts
• Vital information and resources needed to implement an effective EVMS
• How to effectively implement EVM in your organization
• Five essential tips for effective EVM

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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Project teams must be able to understand and document the full scope of their project effort and communicate all of the project deliverables that must be built. Without this complete picture of the project outcomes, the risk of project failure increases due to higher probability that requirements and related solutions will missed from the project effort.

Establishing the project’s Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) provides the most comprehensive baseline of expected project deliverables. Building the WBS is not a one time project activity. The WBS is expanded using progressive elaboration to incorporate growing knowledge of the project as the project scope is being defined.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn about:

• Factors that influence the content of the WBS
• Updating the WBS to reflect clarifications provided by Objectives, Context Diagram, Constraints, CSFs and Project Assumptions
• Ensuring the WBS accurately reflects only those deliverables that are in scope for the project

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join them for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn about how the Project Scope Statement provides valuable knowledge to build and adjust the WBS ensuring it represents the full scope of the project effort.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Click to purchase Influence of the Scope Statement on the WBS: WBS Session 2 of 3

Live Webinar – June 19th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Document Sets are a feature of SharePoint that allow an enterprise to manage multiple pieces of content as one single work product.

Think of Document Sets as “Super Folders” because they allow us to group information together, but that is as far as it goes. Folders are something you want to avoid in SharePoint because they have little value in the big scheme of actually managing SharePoint content.

Document Sets have some of the same attributes of folders, but come with other object elements that allow us to perform many different management functions.

Some of the features of Document Sets are: version management, workflow association, Information Management Policy, and metadata.

This webinar will introduce the attendee to Document Sets and will dive in how to create and use them. Document Sets can be used to implement business processes and this goes beyond the normal approach of using them simply as folder replacements.

The topics that will be covered in this one hour webinar:

• What are Document Sets?
• How Document Sets can be used to manage work product
• The components of Document Sets
• Defining a Document Set
• Using Document Sets to implement real business processes

Presenter: Tom Robbins (LinkedIn profile) has 25+ years in the telecommunications and IT industry. A Microsoft Certified Trainer and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer, Tom has been training for more than 15 years on the Microsoft Enterprise suite of products.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 June 18th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category A – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: TheVersatile Project Management Company (REP 1524)

Are you Online Yet With MS Project?

Microsoft is putting all your project management resources in the cloud. Now you’ve got multi-project resource management, portfolio analysis, improved team collaboration and more. It’s the next generation of enterprise project management.

John White will teach you how to:

• Gain high-quality visibility into your project portfolio and everyday work solutions without adding to IT workload.
• Reduce IT Complexity, as using a cloud-based solution is a clear advantage compared to setting up a customized server environment. You don’t need to worry about maintenance, upgrades, or compatibility issues. All the capabilities you need are there, and are easily customizable.
• Effectively manage resources with Project Online to see what your teams are doing across projects.
• Utilize a centralized and common approach to time reporting and task management.
• Strengthen team collaboration and improve project success with enterprise social capabilities, easy communication with instant messaging, team sites and other easy-to-use collaboration capabilities.
• Prevent, identify, and mitigate potential business or project-related risks and issues.

Presenter: John White (LinkedIn profile) MA, PMP, MCT, MCP, MCTS, MCITP is a speaker trainer and co-author ofDynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2007: The Book by and for Professionals. John has over 20 years of insurance, airline, healthcare, military and technology information systems implementation and PM experience. He is an active member of many PMI® & MPUG Chapters, and is past Vice President of PMI® Chicagoland Chapter.

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