Live Webinar – August 25th 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Project Triage provides you with an independent view of potential difficulties lying ahead and serves as a key diagnostic tool to enable you to get things back on track – if possible.

The Project Triage solution will determine if a software project is deliverable, when it can be delivered and at what cost.

Join Alan Cameron (LinkedIn profile, DCG bio) or a webinar to learn:

• How Project Triage works – at any stage of a project’s development
• How you can apply the principles of Triage to position your organization for success.

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• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

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

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

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Live Webinar August 26th, 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August 26th, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

When your business model is upended, so are all pre-existing notions of leadership and culture.

Embracing digital business leadership and culture transformation attracts the right and relevant talent, demanding new forms of multidisciplinary and cross-functional organizational structures.

Discussion Topics:

• What the new leadership paradigm for success in digital business is
• Why culture is so important, and what you can do about it
• What type of talent digital businesses require, and the organizational structures that best suit them

Presenter: Patrick Meehan, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research VP

Click to register for Digital Business Impacts Leadership & Culture

Live Webinar August 26th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

This presentation is based on the book Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Creating Great Digital Products by Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, Trace Wax

The Design Sprint is a flexible framework for starting new product design and development work.

The Design Sprint is the first, and for some projects the most significant, phase of a design thinking process. It gets the entire product design and development team on the same page, reduces the risk of downstream mistakes, and generates vision-lead goals for the team to measure their success.

In this webcast, you’ll learn both why and how Design Sprints work and how you can use Design Sprints to enhance your own design process.

• Get an eye-opening approach to the product design process that results in better, faster outcomes
• Learn the design sprint process from start to finish, including essential tools, tips, and best practices
• Learn about successful examples of design sprints from across the industry

Presenters:

Richard Banfield (LinkedIn profile, @freshtilledsoil) Co-Founder of Boston-Based User Experience Agency Fresh Tilled Soil, wears the strategic hat around the office. Richard worked his way up the web marketing food chain, being in the thick of it during the heady dot-com years, founding Acceleration, an international e-marketing business headquartered in London. Along with authoring  Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Creating Great Digital Products Richard also wrote Design Leadership: How Top Design Leaders Build and Grow Successful Organizations

C. Todd Lombardo (LinkedIn profile, @iamctodd) As an Innovation Architect at Constant Contact’s InnoLoft, Todd stands in the intersections  of hyper-specialization, and sees the connections that revolve around us. Todd facilitates product and service design sprints for a wide range of external startups and internal product teams.and is  a member of the adjunct faculty at Madrid’s prestigious IE Business School where he teaches courses on Creativity, Innovation, Design-Thinking and Communication.

Trace Wax (LinkedIn profile, @tracedwax) After a career in user experience design and research at companies like Microsoft and Nuance, he then became a developer at Pivotal Labs, and is now a Managing Director at Thoughtbot.  Trace has facilitated numerous product design sprints, and is an developer and maintainer of thoughtbot’s design sprint methodology repository. Bringing “Lean & Agile Methodology” to many large companies and small startups, he has helped teams teams to focus, prioritize, and become happily productive.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 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 Design Sprint: A Fast Start To Creating A Great Digital Product

Online Webinar – Recorded April 10th 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID:  WS041014

There are some big changes happening in the way large companies approach project and program management. In many ways the profession of project management is being “reloaded.” Join us to explore this trend.

Panelist Info:

• Chris Knotts, PMP  (LinkedIn profile) ASPE Creative Director
• David Mantica, (LinkedIn profile)  has  has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.
• Jennifer Valdez, Valdez (LinkedIn profile)
• Dave Caccamo, (LinkedIn profile) MS. Eco, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP (VP of ASPE Inc. Project Management Curriculum)
  

Click to register for Project Management 101: Why Enterprise PMs are Getting Back to the Basics

Live Webinar – August 25th 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Businesses today are more dependent on technology than ever before.

Now more than ever, they’re looking to IT for ways to improve employee productivity, customer service and innovation.

The challenge is that in order to achieve results with technology, IT and the business have to work collaboratively.

IT needs to be able to develop the right relationships and communicate with different stakeholders from a business perspective, and not a technical one.

As a result, the transformation of the IT department has become a top-level priority for many leading organizations.

At the same time, business leaders need to strengthen their business technology IQ and play a more significant role in the governance of IT.

This 1-hour complimentary webinar will discuss the skills and knowledge required to help IT and the business collaborate and perform in this new environment, and will share industry best practices for making the transition.

Click to register for Aligning IT & Business For Better Results

Live Webinar – August 25th, 2015 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – August 25th, 2015 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Associaton for Project Management – APM

In many organisations, projects are “co-ordination” rather than “secondment” based – that is, not all of the team members report to the programme manager.

This matrix of responsibility means that functional managers are key stakeholders.

This cause a number of issues and tensions between the project and functions, and also across multiple projects.

This webinar examines these issues and suggests stakeholder management tools and techniques to deal with them including:

• Building your stakeholder map.
• Creating a support v authority matrix.
• Effective stakeholder communication, understanding you audience.
• Prioritising your requests.
• Stakeholder persuasion techniques, bulding stakeholder support.
• Dealing with difficulties senior stakeholder rivalry, multi-supplier politics, etc.

Jake will illustrate the seminar with examples taken from projects and programmes he has worked on.

Presenter:  Jake Holloway  (LinkedIn profile) of Xceed Group is an experienced programme manager, and author of A Practical Guide to Dealing With Difficult Stakeholders. He  was responsible for designing and implementing project management systems and methods for customers. Jake’s interest is in the difference between the reality of how people behave at work and how it is described in management theory.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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 Stakeholder Management In A Matrix Organisation