SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR – Highly Recommended!
Live Webinar – September 6th 2023 12:00pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Live Webinar – September 6th 2023 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

One of the most fundamental components change delivery is communication. Whether that’s the communications between project teams, to project sponsors or the impacted users, how effective we are as practitioners can have lasting impacts.

In this session, we are going to review how communication is used to set and manage peoples expectations to minimise the chance of perceived failure. Looking at case studies provided by APM and ChgMI practitioners we will explore the following considerations

1. What capacity does the recipient have and how should that shape our comms approach – Pertinence
2. How crucial is there action at the time we send – Proximity
3. How can we ensure what we communicated was received and understood as intended and how do we course correct.

Presenters:

Harriet Taylor, (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant, Atkins a member of SNC Lavalin is the Technical Authority for Business Change and Engagement capability within Atkins and a principal consultant. Initially beginning her career as a project manager, Harriet has over a decade of experience as a change professional supporting organisations with business transformation and change.Harriet has been a volunteer with the Change Management Institute since 2014. During this time Harriet led the UK’s South-West chapter and more recently is one of three co-leads building industry, professional body, and academic collaborations within the UK.

Donna Unitt (LinkedIn profile) is the APM Enabling Change Specific Interest Group (SIG) Chair. As Head of Delivery with experience in managing business relationships across an array of levels and cultures through large IT, organisation and process change projects and programmes; Donna has a proven track record of successful project delivery of multi million dollar projects.  She is a change management practitioner with 25+ years of IT solutions implementation experience, including multi-implementation lifecycles across the supply chain industry to the SIG.

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Making Communications Land: Pertinence & Proximity

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Live Webinar September 6th, 2023 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: PMTA  Project Management Training Alliance

Project Managers have always been taught to focus on the Triple Constraint, Time, Cost, and Scope. That is a good thing as in order to successfully manage a project it is important to plan for, execute, and track these variables.

This focus has been reflected in PMBOK®s from the 1st through the 6th edition with PMI® taking a prescriptive approach to generally accepted project management practices.

As such, the PMBOK® editions have had an emphasis on predictive and iterative life cycles which usually follow a waterfall sequence of project phases.

In the 7th edition of the PMBOK®, PMI® decided to change the focus of the material to an outcome based format, more in line with ANSI, and ISO standards.

The focus is now on Project Management Principles and Performance Domains that are relevant to any project management life cycle.

This Webinar will cover the following topics:

1. A brief history of PMBOK® edition changes
2. Why Agile is different
3. Explanation of Project Management Principles
4. Explanation of Project Management Practices

Presenter: Pete Matassa, (LinkedIn profile) MBA, PMP, PMI-ACP President of Techknowledgy has been creating custom project status reports for diverse stakeholders of IT infrastructure, accounting, system implementation, and process reengineering projects over a twenty-year project management career. Pete leverages his hands-on leadership experience at Techknowledgy, Inc., a Project Management Training and Consulting company. Pete has been developing and leading training programs in project management and business soft skills courses for large and mid-sized organizations for 25+ years.

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Going From Waterfall To Value Delivery

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Online Webinar  – Recorded December 19th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

This webinar is an exploration of the key transformational questions being asked of PMO leaders experiencing a changing business landscape from a predictive (traditional, command-and-control) model to an adaptive (agile, product-oriented) model.

• Does my PMO include the right mix of functions, services, and offerings that add value?
• What is the impact to the applications I need/use?
• Who is the target audience for my PMO services?

Bonnie will cover these learning goals:

• Types of PMOs and their purpose
• Criteria to consider for project and portfolio management tools
• Role of the PMO in supporting executives, product managers, and project and agile teams

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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PMO Tipping Point

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Online Webinar  – Recorded January 10th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Projects are the mechanism to realize business strategy, create competitive advantage and achieve organizational transformation.

Important stuff, but most often, projects are being done in addition to ongoing business operations with constrained resources.

Therefore success is dependent on getting the right resources, spending your budget wisely, and keeping people focused and motivated to execute.

Warning signs that a project is headed to failure include missed deadlines, confusion, conflict and churning. All this can contribute to project manager and team burnout.

Effective project managers look for these early warning signs of failure and burnout so they can take corrective actions, but more importantly, they proactively work to avoid them.

In this webinar you will learn tips and techniques to:

• Cultivate a healthy environment for your project, your team, and yourself
• Create best practices you can rely on to drive the project forward
• Leverage relationships to support and motivate

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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How To Avoid Project Failure & Burnout

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 7th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has published the 6th edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) and a companion guide dedicated to agile practices.

The impetus?

According to the PMI 2017 Pulse of the Profession^® report, a full 71% of organizations say they are using agile approaches for their projects sometimes, often, or always. And yet, for many practitioners the adoption of agile practices often means a diminished role for the project manager.

Join Bonnie Cooper in this webinar to explore the agile infusion in the PMBOK^® Guide and the companion Agile Practice Guide, as well, and the reality of trying to integrate traditional project management and incremental, adaptive development practices.

Learning goals:

• Review of the PMBOK Guide – Sixth Edition changes and Agile Practice Guide
• Discuss what it means to be an agile project manager
• Discuss the reality of the integration between traditional project management and agile development practices

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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PMBOK® Guide Goes Agile

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Online Webinar  – Recorded November 8th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Agile project management is a game changer, especially for IT project managers.

That is because, typically, when agile is embraced by an organization, the role of project manager is de-emphasized in favor of self-organizing teams, and large strategic projects are decomposed in favor of shorter more frequent releases.

The business Project Management Office typically handles the strategic efforts, and the IT organization pivots to improving infrastructure and processes for managing code releases into environments.

So, what do these shifts mean for the IT project manager and their career path?

Using research and practical experience, this webinar introduces the agile concepts that most affect IT project managers and their options moving forward.

Main learning points include: 

• Agile concepts in relation to project management processes
• The shift from IT project manager to scrum master or product owner or subject matter expert.
• Relationship between scrum master and product owner
• New skills to succeed in the agile universe with an emphasis on:
  • Facilitator: Coaching and team development
  • Change manager: Emphasis on flexibility
  • Innovation cheerleader
  • Business story writer and backlog management

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructo for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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It’s an Agile World: The Road Ahead for Project Managers

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