Live Webinar August 21st 2013- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.

This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions project managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. Quantify the impact of requirements quality on project time and cost
2. Learn an assessment tool for identifying high risk projects
3. Understand proactive strategies for driving success when faced with odds stacked against you

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes

Live Webinar August 14th, 2013- 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free Course ID: MDW1250

Once of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and manage relationships with all individuals that the project impacts.

In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.

By effectively managing your stakeholders, you will be better able to keep a lid on scope creep, ensure project requirements are aligned, understand tolerance for risk, and mitigate issues that would otherwise delay the project.

Effective stakeholder management is proof of your influence in an organization, and a key component to a healthy project environment.

Key learning points from this webinar include:

• How to identify project stakeholders
• How to conduct a stakeholder analysis
• How to manage different types of stakeholders

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’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.

Click to register for What You Must Know About Stakeholder Management

Live Webinar August 13th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Discover practical and “next-day ready” tools
That will help you focus more
On the work that truly matters.

Attend this live, interactive webinar to learn:

• How to do less Good Work and more Great Work
• How online meetings can make work more manageable
• New ways of managing the Email Monster
• A formula for converting insight into action

Presenter:  Michael Bungay Stanier (LinkedIn profile),  founder  of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work.  He created the eight irresistible principles of fun, a short Internet movie that has been viewed by millions of people, and his first book, Get Unstuck & Get Going… on the stuff that matters, has won a number of publishing and design awards.  His book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busy Work and Start the Work That Matters, contains 15 practical tools to help you find, start, and sustain more great work.

Stop the busy work

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team

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’

Click to register for 9 Essential Work Hacks for the Time-Crunched Manager

Live Webinar August 7th, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

In this webcast Steve will talk about how to apply the recent explosion of research on decision making and behavioral economics to the practical problems of designing software products.

In this webcast you will learn:

• A quick overview of how the mind makes decisions about what to do next (and when it’s on autopilot)
• A step-by-step approach to designing products that help people change their daily behavior (from exercising to checking email)
• Guidance on how to integrate explicit behavioral goals into existing product development, UX, engineering, and QC processes
• Techniques for quickly assessing the behavioral bottlenecks in an application that block its effectiveness

Presenter: Steve Wendel (LinkedIn profile) is the Principal Scientist at HelloWallet, where they develop products that help people take control of their finances. He runs experiments at HelloWallet, providing behavioral feedback on application design. He’s a behavioral social scientist by training, and is fascinated with the rapidly growing experimental evidence on how we humans make decisions. He blogs regularly about product design at actiondesign.hellowallet.com.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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’

Click to register for Designing Products that Help Users Change Their Behavior

Live Webinar August 7th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Information Systems CoP (REP #S010)

Our jobs as Project Managers require many left brain skills; such as solving problems or analyzing data. However, that alone will not necessarily ensure a successful project.

While project results are never certain, we can get a leg up, by partnering with our right brain, to hone our emotional intelligence.

This presentation will give you insights into how emotional intelligence, combined with how you “show up” as a leader, can help you to manage your project team, and other aspects of your life, to a more successful outcome.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Click to register for Exercise Your Right Brain to Maximize Effectiveness

Chat Live with World-Class Project Management Professionals
Live Webinar July 26 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Come Meet Michael Kaplan & Discuss
Project Communications on #PMChat

Michael is “Plugged In” And encourages you to Reach out to him on: Twitter Klout Google+ & Check him out on: LinkedIn Check out other “Plugged In” PM Gurus on SocialPMO.co

An organization’s ability to meet project timelines, budgets and especially goals significantly impacts its ability to survive—and even thrive. As they address the urgent need to improve project success rates, organizations are faced with a complex and risky environment.

This includes:

• A “do more with less” economic climate
• Expanding global priorities
• Necessity to enable innovation

The study also revealed that the most crucial success factor in project management is effective communications to all stakeholders—a critical core competency to all organizations. In a complex and competitive business climate, organizations cannot afford to overlook this key element of project success and long-term profitability.
~ Source: PMI –As reported by PMI’s 2013 Pulse of the Profession TM

It’s Clear That We Should Be Doing A Much Better Job
Communicating With All Project Stakeholders.

Project communications involves planning and delivering information to all project stakeholders.

This includes:

• Actions needed to best handle timely and appropriate gathering, reproduction, distribution, storage, administration, and control of project content.
• Critical connections between people, thoughts, and content required for success.

The underlying need and core capability required for a well lubricated and functioning project team is effective and efficient communications among team members, and all project stakeholders.

A critical risk to project management is to assume that all communication are functioning properly just because people are talking to one another. Delivering a PMmessage doesn’t make sure that it’s received.

1. The PM owns building, maintaining & handling critical project connections.
2. The responsibility for building and maintaining real communication links falls on the PM.
3. The PM should focus on key project communications areas to make sure to meet organizational goals..

Questions which may be discussed during the live #PMCHAT:

• Successful communication of information.
• Efficient movement of communications.
• Adequate communications across boundaries.
• Proper use of technology.
• Application of a virtual office.
• Carry out effective meetings.

#PMChat Guest: Michael Kaplan PMP

Michael Kaplan (LinkedIn Twitter) is the seasoned CEO of SoftPMO (CompanyTwitters: SoftPMO SociaPMO)

Michael has worked with many of the most successful organizations in the world, including Fortune 500 companies and numerous government agencies. Helping them achieve the full intent of their most urgent and critically important initiatives, Michael uses successful communication techniques to meet their project budges timelines and their goals.

Michael is passionate about developing excellent products with impressive UX/UI design. Michael authored more than 70 blog posts, and has created several very popular commercial products. His most recent innovations are the SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit and socialpmo.co—a new kind of social media solution.

Michael has offered readers of pduOTD.com (PDU Of The Day) a Special Time Limited 20% discount off of his Project Management Toolkit Simply click thisSoftPMO Toolkit Discount link to take advantage of this offer!

As certified Project Management Professional Michael builds on a solid foundational research, excellent communication management and extensive consulting experience to assist his clients.

What is #PMChat?

Project Management Chat is a weeklyTwitter chathosted by Robert Kelly (LinkedIn, @RKelly976 ) and Rob Prinzo (LinkedIn, @RobPrinzo) andHala Saleh (@HalaSaleh1) each Friday from 12-1pm (EDT) via hashtag #PMChat. Weekly topics focus on Project Management & Leaderships challenges.

If you are a Project Manager or Business Analyst and haven’t joined twitter yet consider it if only for the once a week #pmchat ! Meet amazing colleagues and enrich your experience with different ideas and perspectives. – EdmontonPM (@EdmontonPM)

If you are new to twitter and interested in project management – check out #pmot (PMs on Twitter) and #pmchat great people there! – IIL ‏ (@IILGlobal)

Join the PreGame Show

Tune into KPS Chatter on Fridays at 11:30am for the Live #PMChatPre-Game Radio Show, as hosts Robert Kelly& Rob Prinzo & Hala Saleh interview today’s leading project management experts. Listen to Past Episodes. For more information check out PM chat Website that also talks about Claiming Category C PDUs

Check Out Archived #PMChats on Storify!

TO JOIN #PMCHAT: You can sign in to your twitter account and Search for #PMCHAT and make sure that all your replies have #PMCHAT within the 142 character response.

For More information Check Out
The PM chat Website

Claiming Category C PDUs for #PMChat

Here Are Some Great SoftPMO & SocialPMO Links

The SocialPMO Website