Live Webinar July 10th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is second in a five part series on People Management by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

After you hire that excellent candidate, it’s important to work with them to establish mutually agreed upon job performance goals.

Everyone wants and needs to know what is expected of them and how their performance will be measured.

Learn how to develop meaningful, measurable, and attainable job performance goals that contribute to project, departmental, and corporate objectives.

In this webinar participants learn about:

• The constant feedback life-cycle
• How to align individual performance goals with the goals of the business
• How to write goals that are specific and measurable
• How to get your employees engaged in writing their own goals

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Live Webinar July 9th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the third in a four part series series on Project Scheduling by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Project Schedules Change On A Regular Basis

Critical path management facilitates the application of management by exception by focusing the project manager on the critical activities.

Additionally, critical path management enables project managers to identify slips earlier and consequently readjust their schedule without impacting the overall completion date.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how critical path management provides techniques to efficiently monitor and control the project schedule and how managing the critical path can minimize the risk of project overruns.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants will:

• Understand the effects of path convergence and joint probabilities on the critical path
• Learn how to protect the critical path and considerations for corrective and preventive actions to ensure deadlines are met
• Discover recommended schedule assessments when monitoring and controlling your schedule
• Gather practical implementation tips

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Live Webinar June 25th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is second in a 4 part series series of Project Scheduling by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Most scheduling software today allows project teams to input raw data, and then automatically calculates the critical path. However, understanding the critical path in MS project can be a relatively daunting task.

Understanding the critical path benefits the project manager by allowing them to focus on priority activities and to identify slips earlier. Understanding the critical path facilitates what-if analysis and decision making.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn why knowing and understanding the critical path is one of the first steps in efficiently and effectively managing a project and how identifying your project’s critical path requires discipline and maturity.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants will:

• Understand effects of path convergence and joint probabilities
• Understand how knowing the critical path enables what-if analysis
• Learn how to determine the critical path manually and using MSProject
• Discover tips and due diligence checklists for developing project schedules

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Live Webinar June 26th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the second part in a series on Status Reporting by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Once you’ve developed your Communications Management Plan, you need to effectively implement the plan.

• How do you ensure you’re providing the right level of detail to the right audience?
• What communication methods and tools should you use?
• How do you retrieve and store information?

In this 1 hour webinar to learn how to implement your Communications Management Plan by confirming the level of status detail required based upon the audience, making decisions on the right communication methods and tools to use, and finalizing how often information should be provided.

In this webinar participants learn about:

1. Identifying who will implement the Communications Management Plan
2. Assessing the level of status detail that needs to be provided based upon the audience
3. Selecting the appropriate communication methods and tools
4. Developing a schedule for providing communication
5. Reviewing and select status report formats

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Live Webinar June 24th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the first  part in a  series on Process Improvement by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Many times team start out on process improvement efforts without enough knowledge of the current state they are attempting to change.

What works well in the current environment that we don’t want to lose and where are the failure points that need attention?

Many teams find that the knowledge of current state processes unfortunately only exists in people’s heads and is not written down. This leads to misinformation and missing information surrounding work being performed.

In this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn how to engage team members in a collaborative meeting to create cross functional alignment on the current state before investing and possibly wasting time and energy on the wrong future state.

In this webinar participants learn about:

• How to distinguish between Logical and Physical process models
• How to build an end to end logical process models that accurately reflects the current state activities
• Techniques for keeping participants on “What” work is being performed versus how work is performed
• Drawing tools and techniques used to clearly represent the flow of information between internal and hand-offs to external processes
• How to gain alignment on the foundation for every process improvement activity

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Live Webinar June 17th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Learn to Manage Requirements Variability
From Analysis, To Development &
All the way through Testing

In this introductory webinar you will learn how the definition of variability in software product lines represents a key to mass customization efficiency.

Learn how being agile while meeting your customer’s needs can differentiate your business and keep you ahead of your competitors as you develop, test and deploy more efficiently.

Polarion and Vector Software support a new way of delivering testing efficiency and mass customization in a world of quickening demands and changing regulations.

When testing multiple configurations, team members could easily create common tests for all configurations or specialized tests for a subset of configurations at the touch of a button.

In this introduction to “Requirements Variability”, you will learn about:

• Understanding Master Specification, Features, Feature Models, Linking and Traceability
• How feature modes are used to describe the full variability of all different product attributes
• Modeling Variability in the Business Process
• Documenting Product Variability across Product Lines
• Using UML to Model System Variability
• Applying Variant Description Model (VDM) and Variant Specifications

Seize this opportunity to learn the benefits of Functional Variability and Cost Saving Testing methods to meet your customer demands so you can outpace your competition without compromising quality or functionality.

Presenters:

Regg Struyk (LinkedIn profile) Product Management Polarion Software

Lynda Gaines (LinkedIn profile) Vector Software Director, Strategic Accounts, North America

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