Live Webinar January 18th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
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

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Live Webinar January 18th, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI IS CoP (REP #S010 )
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) 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.

About PMI Information Systems Community of Practice; PMI IS CoP delivers knowledge and provides virtual networking for project professionals interested in, working in, or impacted by developments in information systems project management.

The Information Systems (I.S.) CoP provides its members with industry leading content and collaboration through a wide variety of mediums. From monthly webinars and newsletters, to daily updated blogs and discussion boards this community is centered on its members needs. In addition to webinars and podcasts, our professional development team provides its members with PhD programs, scholarships and, coming soon, mentoring opportunities.

Click to register for Tearing Down Project Barriers Between The Business And IT — PMI® Information Systems CoP Webcast

Online Webinar – Offered by Daptiv
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

PMO Professionals Webinar Series: Defining & Optimizing Your Portfolio is an excellent session that has yet to be noticed by the Project Management Community. The Session was recorded March 15th 2011 but Posted on YouTube November 29th, 2011.

What You’ll Learn:

• How do I improve strategic alignment?
• How do I get more visibility into active project performance?
• How do I help my organization see projects as investments?

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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’

To view PMO Professionals Webinar Series: Defining & Optimizing Your Portfolio Either:

1. Hover Over the link to view & leave your mouse in the window OR ….
2. Ifyou wish to view the presentation on YouTube instead
   Click PMO Professionals Webinar Series: Defining & Optimizing Your Portfolio

Daptiv’s Press Release “Daptiv Forecasts Top Predictions for Project Portfolio Management in 2012” (November 29th 2011 Seattle Wa.) contains great insights on the changes coming to PPM in the year ahead – It is worth definitely reviewing – EdmontonPM

About Daptiv:

Founded in 1997, Daptiv’s PPM solution has over 80,000 subscribers. Daptiv has helped thousands of companies improve their strategic planning and business execution by offering flexible PPM solutions and expert professional services.

Daptive provides industry-leading PPM functionality, but unlike vendors that force you to change your processes to fit their tools, they have designed their solution with you and your team in mind. Daptiv is flexible and easily configured so that you can introduce powerful new PPM capabilities – when and where your organization is ready for them. Daptiv’s customers include world-class organizations such as BASF, Chase Paymentech, Harvard University, Honeywell, La Poste and Virgin Blue

Online Webinar – Offered by Daptiv
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

PMO Professionals Webinar Series: Enabling Team Collaboration That Drives Project Results is an excellent session that has yet to be noticed by the Project Management Community. The Session was recorded February 15th 2011 but Posted on YouTube October 31st, 2011.

What You’ll Learn:

• How do we get our organization all moving in the same direction?
• How can I centralize collaboration in fewer tools?
• How can we manage unstructured work?

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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.’

To view PMO Professionals Webinar Series: Enabling Team Collaboration That Drives Project Results Either:

1. Hover Over the link to view & leave your mouse in the window OR ….
2. Ifyou wish to view the presentation on YouTube instead
   Click PMO Professionals Webinar Series: Enabling Team Collaboration That Drives Project Results

Daptiv’s Press Release “Daptiv Forecasts Top Predictions for Project Portfolio Management in 2012” (November 29th 2011 Seattle Wa.) contains great insights on the changes coming to PPM in the year ahead – It is worth definitely reviewing – EdmontonPM

About Daptiv:

Founded in 1997, Daptiv’s PPM solution has over 80,000 subscribers. Daptiv has helped thousands of companies improve their strategic planning and business execution by offering flexible PPM solutions and expert professional services.

Daptive provides industry-leading PPM functionality, but unlike vendors that force you to change your processes to fit their tools, they have designed their solution with you and your team in mind. Daptiv is flexible and easily configured so that you can introduce powerful new PPM capabilities – when and where your organization is ready for them. Daptiv’s customers include world-class organizations such as BASF, Chase Paymentech, Harvard University, Honeywell, La Poste and Virgin Blue

Live Webinar – January 10th, 11:00 AM EST
Offered by: Roeder Consulting ( REP 2453) 1 Category A PDU
Duration: 1 hour Attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participation – Free PDU

As Project Managers we ‘Negotiate Everything’ – Scope, Schedules, Time, Resources and so much more. The development your Project Management Negotiation Skills can allow you to more easily create successful outcomes to your projects.

If you choose 1 topic this year to focus on for career development consider honing your negotiation skills!

You are invited to a special edition webinar. Roeder Consulting is devoting the full hour to project negotiation stories from the front line. All of us negotiate, but not all of us do it well. We’ll share tremendous successes, monumental failures, and the lessons learned.

We welcome you to share your story (big or small, success or failure) via the webinar registration page or Roeder Consulting’s LinkedIn Group. Story or not, please join us for an hour that’s sure to be talked about.

Note: Seating is limited – Register Today

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Online Webinar Presented by: NetObjectives (REP 3045)
Duration: 1 HourCredits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Given 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT. Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Note: Although the NetObjectives is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact them for further information.

This webinar presents an introduction to a key methodology which allows Lean to connect Agile practices with delivery of business value to achieve end-to-end agility throughout the business.

This is essential with scaling of teams and enabling an Enterprise wide transition to Agile that can overcome many of the problems faced by teams attempting a bottom up approach.

What does LEAN mean to you?
Lean-thinking is the combination of applying known software development principles with lean-management and lean-learning work in order to speed time-to-market while improving quality and lowering costs. It provides insights from project initiation through development, deployment and consumption by the customer (internal in IT and external in product companies). Lean focuses on helping people improve the environment and systems in which they work.

NOTE: In order to view the NetObjectives presentation you must register and sign in to the NetObjectives website.

Presenter: Yuval Yeret (LinkedIn, @yuvalyeret) Yuval brings substantial Management and Leadership experience with focus on building new teams / groups and organizational optimization/changes to his clients. He coaches individuals and organizations in their path to Agility and Engineering excellence, focusing on Scrum, Lean, and Agile Engineering practices and has lead R&D organizations providing management and technology leadership. Yuval specializes in Scrum( CSM, CSP, CSPO) , Lean/Agile Development, QA/DEV Relationship and Optimization, Test Automation, Storage, Networking, Distributed Systems Architectures, Security, Project Management, Development Methodologies, Organizational Improvement, and Team Building.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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/login and view Intro to Lean Product Development Flow