Live Webinar November 19th, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Nearly 40% of business leaders are prioritizing cost optimization for 2020.

Proactive cost optimization is one way that lead organizations set up for long-term success.

Join this webinar with Scott Engler (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Principal Executive Advisor to learn how the best HR leaders leverage external labor market intelligence to support cost optimization initiatives across the C-suite.

Discussion Topics:

• Break the cycle of reactionary workforce decisions
• Make data-driven location decisions
• Reduce external agency reliance and common hiring team delays

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4 Steps To Successful HR Cost Optimization With
Global Labor Market Data

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Live Webinar – November 13th, 2019 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Microsoft Project offers a robust and powerful model for managing project costs.

In this one-hour webinar, Dale will take you on a “deep dive” of all aspects of the cost model, including each of the following:

• Creating Work, Material, and Cost resources to prepare for modeling project costs
• Understanding how the Standard Rate, Overtime Rate, and Cost Per Use fields contribute to task costs
• Understanding the resource cost accrual method
• Understanding the behavior of the Fixed Cost and Fixed Cost Accrual fields
• Understanding the formula used by MS Project to calculate task costs
  • (HINT: there is much more to the formula than you might realize)
• Using Cost Rate Tables to track multiple resource cost rates

NOTE: This webinar does not include content on Earned Value Analysis (EVA), a topic that could consume an entire hour all by itself.

Presenter:  Dale Howard (LinkedIn profile)  MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP, MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP Director of Education at Sensei Project Solutions.  Dale manages educational services and is an enterprise project management trainer/consultant with more than 15 years of training experience. Dale volunteers many hours each week answering user questions in the various Project news groups in the Microsoft Communities. Dale received the prestigious Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2004 for his expertise with the software and for his contributions to the user communities.

Dale is an author of many great MS Project books including:

• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2013
• What’s New Microsoft Project 2013
• Implementing and Administering Microsoft Project Server 2010 | Second Edition
• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2010 (Exam 70-178)

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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Understanding The Cost Model In Microsoft Project

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Online Webinar  – Recorded September 18, 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Is available to PMI® members.

Of Course NOT!
What World Do YOU Live In?

In this world, there are only so many hours in a day. We cannot travel through time and we cannot clone our resources.

Accepting these realities is a key to successful project management and the ticket to ensuring your team still wants to work with you after your current project.

Project managers need to collaborate with resource managers:

• All work needs to be accurately modeled for project and non-project work (operations), in current and new projects.
• All work needs to be aggregated across all projects and operations.
• Over-allocations need to be avoided or resolved.

Resource managers need to collaborate with Portfolio Managers, who need to prioritize their projects: The higher-priority project gets their resources first.

At the end of the day, proper resource management comes down to either adjusting capacity to demand (Capacity Planning) or adjusting demand to capacity (Demand Management).

Kimberly Johnson (LinkedIn profile) & Eric Uyttewaal (LinkedIn profile) is Canadian and the author of the book Forecast Scheduling with Microsoft Project 2013  will discuss both avenues and illustrate how these can be accomplished using some state-of-the-art tools (mostly from Microsoft). This presentation is a deep‑dive into dealing with limited resources.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the main concepts of resource management and how it relates to project and portfolio management.
2. Awareness of the business processes required for resource management and some tools that support them.
3. Be able to handle the challenges of limited resources in a variety of organizations and situations.

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Do You Have Access To Unlimited Resources?

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Live Webinar October 23rd, 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The cost of financially unsound decisions is staggering, and the current finance-business partnership model is only making matters worse.

The Gartner finance research team studied 70+ finance-business partnership practices worldwide to uncover how the best organizations solve this problem.

Gartner discovered how to build finance decision experts that are specialized in supporting particular operational decision types, and how these experts teach decision-making insights to the business while embedding this into reports and tools.

Join Nick Duffy (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Directory Adviser & Melanie O’Brien (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Team Manager to gain guidance on why and how to transform your organization’s finance-business partnership.

Discussion Topics:

• The staggering cost of financially unsound decision-making
• Shortcomings of the finance-business generalist strategy
• Benefits of and steps for shifting to a finance decision expert model

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Reduce The Costs Of Poor Operational Decisions

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Live Webinar October 22nd, 2019 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar Tom Cagley  will provide tips to develop Value Stream and Process Flow Maps and explore the differences.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled Software Process and Measurement Cast The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

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Value Stream & Process Flow Mapping

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Live Webinar October 15th, 2019 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar,  Ian Brown (LinkedIn profile) Director of Operations & Systems Analysis , Galorath; will describe analytical techniques for objectively analyzing the costs of software development proposals submitted by vendors.

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How Much Should This Cost?

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