Live Webinar – September 29, 2011 3:00 -4:00 PM EDT
Presenter: Journyx Inc.
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category B PDU – Free PDU

Have you ever considered outsourcing your finance & accounting? If not, perhaps you should. Outsourcing can not only provide better cash flow, accurate forecasts and more time, but also peace of mind for the small/medium-sized business owner. If you have ever found yourself in one of these scenarios than maybe you should consider the benefits of outsourcing:

• You are on vacation and you can’t get internet access to run payroll for your staff.
• Your financials show you are profitable but you are struggling to have enough cash to make payroll and pay vendors.
• Your long-time bookkeeper came in this morning to give their two weeks notice.
• You had a computer crash and you’re not sure when the last time your QuickBooks file was backed up.
• You are not sure what your staff are working on and can’t easily distinguish between idle time and productive activities.
• You have won a government contract and need to get ready for a DCAA audit.

Join us for an intriguing look at the benefits of outsourcing your finance & accounting operations. We think you’ll be surprised.

This webinar is 1-hour long and attendees are eligible for 1 PDU.

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Live Webinar September 22, 2011, 12:00 – 1:30 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, Dan Galorath (LinkedIn profile) will show how to properly estimate and plan costs, schedules, risks, and resources. A complete method for developing project estimates and plans will be provided.

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Live Webinar September 13, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Ema / ASG
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free

IT is costly, and in the current economic climate must improve its financial transparency so business partners can better understand cost drivers and tradeoffs.

Hardware and software assets, IT staff time, and contracts represent massive enterprise expenditure requiring effective management.

Cloud sourcing models promise greater flexibility but also complexity to match.

Join EMA Research Director Charles Betz and ASG Senior Product Manager Patrick Wolf to learn:

• How your company can better communicate the costs and benefits of IT to its business partners
• The benefits of modeling and allocating IT costs back to IT services
• How to manage the increasing variety of IT assets, along an increasing variety of objectives
• The implications of Cloud for IT financial management

This is a can’t-miss Webinar if you are involved in IT financial management, portfolio management, or asset management.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 7 – Cost

• 7.1 Estimate Costs
• 7.2 Determine Budget
• 7.3 Control Costs

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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Recorded Webinar
Presented by the Project Management Bookstore
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category B PDU

Project Management in the Real World covers five key areas for project managers:

• Budgets,
• Teams,
• Scope,
• Plans and
• Personal productivity.

In this webinar, Elizabeth explores the first of those—Managing Money on Projects.

More than one third of projects have a budget of over $1.5 million so knowing how to handle the finances is an essential part of a project manager’s repertoire.

During the webinar, Elizabeth will discuss:

• How to create a realistic budget for the project.
• Managing budget tolerance.
• Managing a contingency budget—and get your project sponsor to agree to one!
• Sharing the project budget with the team and encouraging collective responsibility.

Join Elizabeth to see how clever budget handling can benefit you and your projects.

Presenter: Elizabeth Herrin:

Elizabeth Harrin (@pm4girls), MA, MBCS (LinkedIn profile) is an author and project manager living and working in London. She has a decade of project experience, and has led a variety of IT and process improvement projects including e-commerce and communications developments. She is also experienced in managing business change, having spent eight years working in financial services.

Elizabeth is a member of PMI’s New Media Council and writes the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. She is also a member of PMI, the British Computer Society, as well as a staff writer for The Glass Hammer—an online magazine aimed at senior women in business.

In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact Project Management Bookstore and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C
Presented by : PmSolutions

Organizations spend a lot of money on projects. In the last year alone, the average firm closed $200 million in projects, according to a just-released study conducted by PM Solutions Research. And more than a third of those projects were troubled. That means $74 million of those projects were at risk of failure. The good news is that project recoveries are common and firms that proactively undertake successful project recoveries report saving $50 million on average per firm.

Whether a troubled project ultimately succeeds or fails depends on the effectiveness of the actions taken to recover these projects. And an effective project manager can play a significant role in mitigating or eliminating the causes of troubled projects.

Specifically, you’ll learn:

• The cost of troubled projects to organizations – how much is at stake
• The root causes of troubled projects – where to focus your efforts on improving
• Case studies on how other companies have successfully recovered projects on the brink of failure
• Key success factors in recovering troubled projects – top five actions most often taken
• The importance of the project manager to the recovery effort

Presenter:
Kent Crawford (LinkedIn profile) is the founder and CEO of PM Solutions, as well as the founder and CEO of the firm’s training subsidiary, PM College. In addition to his executive role, he is an influential member of the project management community, highly respected as a thought leader. He is a sought-after speaker at business conferences worldwide and the award-winning author of The Strategic Project Office, Second Edition.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.5 Control Scope
• 6.6 Control Schedule
• 7.3 Control Costs

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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Online Webinar
Offered by: Global Knowledge (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A

Using earned value management (EVM) on your projects is like turning on the lights. It provides project managers with a clear and complete view of project performance. It illuminates where a project is–and should be–at any given time.

EVM is a cost-accounting system for projects. It is a monitoring tool that integrates the planning of time, scope, and cost to ensure that all three constraints are monitored and controlled in concert– rather than isolation. Running a project without EVM can be like operating a business without a bookkeeper.

This seminar will explain how EVM is used in the reporting and control of projects. It illustrates how EVM integrates time, scope, and cost for performance analysis. Attendees will learn just how easy it is to adapt project plans for use with EVM. They will be provided with detailed rules for EVM adoption. Along with the strengths of EVM, this web seminar will also outline its limitations.

Seminar Outline

• Introduction to Earned Value Management (EVM)
• Brief history of EVM
• Role of EVM
• Reasons for adopting EVM
• Rules of EVM
• Planning in an EVM environment
• Reasons for not adopting EVM

I learned Earned Value methods for the PMP exam, but I found the acronyms awkward and a little confusing – BCWP (Budgeted Cost of Work Performed), BCWS (Budgeted Cost of Work Performed) and ACWP (Actual Cost of Work Performed). I often noticed clients getting that ‘glazed-over-eyes’ look when I was trying to explain the numbers to a client during a status meeting. As a result, I didn’t use EVM as effectively as I could have.

This webinar demonstrates the new terminology, which I find easier to understand – Planned Value (PV), Earned Value (EV) and Actual Cost (AC). The webinar includes illustrations of EVM calculations and a history of earned value management.

After viewing this webinar, I feel more comfortable and confident in presenting EVM to clients during status meetings.
– EdmontonPM

Presenter:

Brian Egan is the CEO of the Book Box Company and principal of Briny Deep Consulting. He has been involved in strategic management since 1985 as both a project manager and a management consultant.

Brian refers to himself as a “serial entrepreneur”. He has started several companies in such diverse fields as:fish farming, furniture design, gift manufacturing, and, most recently, catering. He is the author of three training courses in management science and several white papers.

Click to view the online webinar EVM – Management with the Lights On

Global Knowledge also has an excellent description of Earned Value concepts.

Click to view Global Knowledge’s Whitepaper on Earned Value