Live Webinar – September 19th 2018 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 19th 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Despite committed effort and improvements across many aspects of project delivery, business results are poor. This webinar will introduce the ‘TOP Value Equation’™ to improve project value.

For more than 30 years, we have been fixing projects. Yet despite the committed effort by some of the brightest people on the planet and improvements across many aspects of project delivery …

For example:

• Adoption of project management methods and disciplines;
• Installation of project management software and tools;
• Increased numbers of highly skilled ‘specialists’:
  • architects,
  • change managers,
  • business analysts,
  • benefit managers allocated for even small projects;
• Finally, some increased focus on getting benefits and value from projects.

The results are, frankly, still not good.

When measured against the conventional success measures of “on time, on budget”, the generally quoted statistics indicate that around 30% to 40% of projects are successful.

But when measured against “did we actually get business results and value” as the measure of success, the results are far poorer (indeed depending on whose statistics are used, less than 5% or projects are successful in delivering value and results).

1. So, what is going wrong?
2. What do we have to do to improve the value delivered by projects?

in this webinar Alexandra Chapman will walk the attendees through where and how value is destroyed and therefore start to lay out a pathway to improve the value delivered.

It will explain how a simple mental model, the TOP Value Equation™, can be applied to make improved project value something that every business and project manager can achieve.

Presenter: Alexandra Chapman (LinkedIn profile) is a 30+ veteran with vast experience delivering major technology projects for organisations. With her late partner she has pioneered new learnable and teachable modls, tools, techniques and processes – TOP (Totally Optimized Projects) Thinking which was recognised for its innovative intellectual property by Gartner with a “Cool Vendor” award in 2011. She  teaches at Melbourne University on innovation and entrepreneurship with IT, writes for The CEO Magazine and was recognised by Cranfield School of Management as one of its 50 notable faces for its 50th anniversary celebrations.

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Why Better Project Management Can Never Fix Results
From Poor IT & Business Projects

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Live Webinar – September 19th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Practically every IT organization does annual budgeting for major projects and operational efforts, and then monthly forecasting using a cost breakdown like Labor, Hardware, Software, T&E, Contingency, etc., and then they use a scheduling tool like Microsoft Project with detail tasks which isn’t organized that way.

Often the initial budget is prepared long before a task level plan even exists, sometimes before a project manager is assigned!

In this webinar Rich Murphy will address a method of solving this problem which is consistent with an organizations normal processes, essentially integrating spreadsheet based financial planning with a detail schedule.

The presentation will explain the benefits of having the budgeting, forecasting, and actual cost tracking process configured to suit corporate accounting while being able to integrate with the detail schedule planning and progress tracking approaches used by project managers.

This approach can be used with traditional “waterfall” project scheduling and techniques such as Agile.

Presenter: Rich Murphy has 35+ years of experience in the project management, commercial software development, and engineering fields. He began as the project controls engineer for a $4 billion power plant engineering and construction project. Since 1980, he has led the development of many leading commercial project management software systems. After Microsoft’s acquisition of one of his systems, Rich joined Microsoft, and participated in the development of Project Professional and Project Server. He was the original Solution CEO for Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management system. In 2002, Rich & his team formed EPK Group LLC, to build a comprehensive portfolio and resource management system based on Microsoft’s platforms. Their new product eventually became the EPM Live system. Rich continues as an independent consultant assisting clients with PPM systems. Currently he gives presentations and training sessions.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Integrating “Top down” Budgeting & Financial Tracking
With Microsoft Project

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Live Webinar September 18th, 2018 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

A comprehensive well-being strategy leads to increases in performance and decreases in costs by focusing on people – the heart and engine of an organization.

Well-Being at Work is achieved when organizational well-being culture and individual well-being positively reinforce each other to allow both the company and its employees to thrive.

To sustain this thriving state, companies need to consider a variety of organizational and individual well-being factors, recognize the dynamic nature of these, and acknowledge the current well-being maturity of the organization and its workforce.

Join Dr. Autumn Krauss (LinkedIn profile) from SAP SuccessFactors’ HCM Research Team and Kristen DiOrio, (LinkedIn profile) founder of MIND Your Business, as they discuss ways that organizations can truly embed well-being into the workplace to achieve positive cultural and business results. If you are looking to drive performance in your organization through a positive well-being culture, this session is a must-see.

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

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Drive Organizational Performance By Fostering
A Thriving Well-being Culture

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Live Webinar September 18th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Data and analytics leaders are often caught in a conundrum on how to balance cost optimization and the advent of new technologies to renovate infrastructure.

In this webinar Ehtisham Zaidi (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) guides you through the most innovative pricing trends, licensing models and vendor negotiation best practices. Learn to optimize costs across the most popular and essential data and analytics disciplines and technologies.

Discussion Topics:

• The data and an analytics pricing and licensing landscape
• What’s working for customers and what’s not
• Pricing trends and new licensing models that you should know
• Best practices to negotiate with data and analytics vendors to save millions

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Best Practices To Negotiate With Data & Analytics Vendors

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