Live Webinar August 11th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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PVaR (Project Value at Risk) is a new indicator for connecting risks to two of the most important questions in project management: when will the project be completed and at what cost?

PVaR based on the widely accepted VaR (Value at Risk) financial indicator.

This interactive session, with questionnaires and polls, will introduce the amazing progress and mini revolutions currently taking place in risk management: the cognitive and big data revolutions.

The multitude of KRI (Key Risk Indicators) has made it difficult for project managers to communicate risk outputs in a concise, clear way that decision makers could easily understand and use.

The main focus of the session will be on introducing the PVaR (Project Value at Risk) indicator and to demonstrate how you can use it to improve your communication with stakeholders and decision makers.

Join Nicki Kons (LinkedIn profile) BSc., MBA, MA, PMI-RMP, PMI-PMP,as she presents a new way to connect risks to business outcomes.

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PVaR (Project Value at Risk):
A New Way To Connect Risks To Business Outcomes

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Live Webinar August 10th 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar August 10th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc) Free PDU
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Having worked with many organizations over the years, Diane Buckley (LinkedIn profile) PM Expert & CEO of Core Performance Concepts, constantly sees the same issues with these companies – trouble managing resources, unhappy customers, or in need of quality improvement.

In this session, Diane is going to take some basic concepts of lean and six sigma methodologies and discuss how you can use this to help your organization improve.

Benefits:

• Learn lean and six sigma principles
• Implement simple tools fit for any organization
• Discuss strategies for creating quality culture in your organization
• Earn 1 PDU

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

These methodologies are not rocket science, but they do require some discipline and in many cases requires the organization to think and act differently.

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Improving Quality Using Six Sigma Concept

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Live Webinar August 11th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Organizations have long focused on Microsoft’s IE browser and related technologies as their “standard.”

However, modern requirements such as HTML5, SaaS, BYOD, mobile and digital business mean that organizations must provide these capabilities as well as support for their legacy former standard.

With Microsoft revamping its browser strategy and dropping support for legacy, and the rise of Google Chrome and multiple browser strategies, a bimodal approach makes sense for most organizations.

Join David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow (Gartner bio) and take a look at Legacy And Modern Web & Browser Strategies.

Discussion Topics:

• What the modern Web is and how it is impacting enterprise IT
• Strategies enterprises can utilize to deal with requirements for legacy and modern Web

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Legacy and Modern Web & Browser Strategies

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 24 2011
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU
Credits: PMI PDUs: 2.00 / CBAP CDUs: 2.00
Provider: Diversified Business Communications (REP 1811)

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1 in 3 technology projects fail.

• 15% of all technology projects fail because of high cost variance.
• 18% are unsuccessful because they were substantially late.

Why such a dismal success rate? All project managers know this simple fact: Project Success is Difficult. But is it as simple to define what changes are necessary to increase project success?

Topics Covered:

• Precise management of resources. Who is working on what?
• Accurate project tracking. How do I get this project back on schedule?
• Definition of project terms. What does “done” really mean?

During this webinar we will explore five ways to improve your odds of successfully completing projects on time and on budget.

Presenter: Curt Finch (LinkedIn) is the CEO of Journyx, the first company to provide Web-based time-tracking, project accounting and resource management solutions & author of Valuing Time as a Business Resource. Curt earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in 1987 and he has been creating software or managing software teams ever since. In 1997, Curt created the world’s first web-based timesheet application and the foundation for the current Journyx product offerings.

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5 Critical Components Of Project Success

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