Live Webinar March 21st 2012 – 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. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes

Live Webinar February 28nd, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Western Management Consultants

Join Western Management Consultants in a free webinar to learn about the top pitfalls to managing projects, as well as the characteristics of successful projects.

Based on research and extensive experience, we will review the top reasons most projects fail, the characteristics and solutions used in successful projects, and provide some recommendations that you can take away and use in your own projects.

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’

Click to register for Avoiding Project Pitfalls

Live Webinar February 29th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: AtTask Events (REP #2797)
Presented by: Todd C Williams and eCameron Inc (@eCamInc)

At the end of the webinar, attendees will understand the benefits of and methods for fostering early stakeholder involvement and methods measure and maintain alignment. This advanced webinar conveys techniques that executives and PMO managers can implement.

With the current rate of IT project failures, estimated anywhere from 40% to 70%, improving project success rates must be one of every project manager’s primary goals.

There are no silver bullets….

Therefore, reversing the tide of project failure entails more than applying process. Process only addresses a small fraction of the problems plaguing our projects. A major missing component is a thorough comprehension of the project’s value to the customer. This is exacerbated by the standard organizational structure placing IT in an isolated silo away from the business.

Dismantling the walls between IT and the business is a responsibility far from the reach of any given project, but is single area where the most benefit can be seen.

It requires using a number of techniques, learned while recovering red projects, to improve the chances of their success. It requires using the concept of Guidance Teams, quantitatively measuring stakeholder alignment for portfolios long before the project is started. These techniques get the project delivery people involved with the project during the customer’s inception.

This presentation covers:

• The concept and responsibilities of a Guidance Team.
• Involving the delivery team at the customer’s project inception.
• Measuring and maintaining stakeholder expectations from inception through delivery.
• Simple tricks to improve communication with the project team.
• Defining the proper methodology for the project.

The focus is customer and stakeholder relationship. By creating and maintaining alignment at a point long before the project actually starts, greatly improves the chances for success.

Todd C. Williams, PMP (LinkedIn profile @BackFromRed) is a professional audit and turn-around specialist in IT and manufacturing, and author of the bestseller Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure. Todd is a speaker, blogger, helping mature companies & start-ups alike.

Project failure is prevalent in all projects. Todd’s Back From Red TM blog addresses the reasons for project failure along with methods to avert and correct the problems that cause the failure. Follow him on Twitter @backFromRed and read his blog. I highly recommend following his work – EdmontonPM

To See Todd Talk about his new Book Hover over this link

Doing it right the first time

About eCameron Inc: eCameron is a management consulting firm specializing in projectand organizationset-up, turn-around and recovery services. Excelling in methodologies forrescuingtroubled ‘red’ Projects, they provide senior-level professionals to analyze issues and deficiencies, suggest corrections, and assist with personnel reassignment. eCameron has the personnel and experience to create plans for major acquisitions, restructuring organizations or turn-around and can prevent ‘red’ projects before they happen. They implement changes to get your organizationsand projects on track. See the ECameron Events Calendar for their latest session information.

Click to register for Tearing Down Project Barriers Between The Business And IT

Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
March 2nd & 9th, 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EST
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDUs – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session when it was offered in August and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!

– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Fridays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. RBA identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With RBA, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

• Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment at no additional cost
• Four contact hours of training, including all materials
• Readings to be completed during course attendance
• Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage 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 Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure

Live IIL Webinar – February 22nd, 2012 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: SS0002
You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity.

One of the most valued skill sets a project manager can develop is the ability to predict an outcome. Whether it is the outcome of a test, a process, a service, a product or all of the above – there are a few foundational concepts within Lean Six Sigma that will improve your ability to predict project outcomes.

This session will demonstrate how the concept of variation applies to problem solving, and why management by fact is not just a luxury – it’s a necessity. It will also demonstrate that while it is good to expect workers to do things right the first time, it is smart to make it impossible for them to do things wrong the first time.

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will be able to:

• Define Lean Six Sigma from a high level
• Identify Vital Inputs to Improve Outputs
• The Concept of Variation
• How to determine the difference between Common Cause and Special Cause Variation
• How to error proof project processes using Poka Yoke
• How to use Control Charts versus Standard Business Reports
• Improving Outcomes – Management by Fact

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Featured Webinars Tab on the Left and then Choose Improving Project Management Skills with Lean Six Sigma and Begin Registration.

Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
February 15 & 22 , 2012 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDUs – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session when it was offered in August and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!

– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Wednesdays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. RBA identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With RBA, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

• Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment at no additional cost
• Four contact hours of training, including all materials
• Readings to be completed during course attendance
• Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage 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 Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure