Live Webinar February 22nd, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Successful project teams understand the importance of incorporating ongoing Risk Management and Monitoring activities through out the life of a project. Treating risk management as a one time identification and assessment activity leaves the project effort exposed to many avoidable and manageable project risks. Developing and utilizing a Risk Communication Plan further enhances the Project Manager’s ability to engage the right level of stakeholder involvement throughout the risk management effort.

The Risk Management Series of in depth webinars will introduce participants to techniques for defining a Risk Management Process and using this process to progressively build a Risk Register including: identifying risks using a Risk Meta-Language, Assessing Risks with quantitative techniques, understanding the 8 risk responses and selecting the appropriate Risk Response for the project risks and monitoring risks throughout the project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Monitoring and Managing the Successful Risk Plan webinar will help your project teams understand the characteristics that lead to effective project risk management. They will learn how to evaluate the success of risk responses and what to do with Secondary Project Risks as they occur. The will learn the difference between managing risk and responding to problems and issues resulting from risks that occur.

In the Monitoring and Managing the Successful Risk Plan webinar, participants learn:

• How to recognize the organization’s Risk Maturity level and use this knowledge to manage risk appropriately on projects.
• How to develop a Risk Communication Plan that identifies the unique needs of each project stakeholder
• How to engage the right stakeholders in risk management activities
• Which Critical Success Factor has the most impact on successful risk management actions
• How to identify and respond to Secondary Risks as they occur throughout the project

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Live Webinar February 21st, 2012 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Duration: 1.5 Hours 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDUs
Presented by: Praxis (REP #1231)

NOTE: Although Praxis is an REP they have stated that this opportunity will not be registered with PMI® as a Category A opportunity. If you have any questions contact Mrs Jamie Morris with Praxis. See below for Category C documentation details.

The prospect of a software quality audit can be intimidating and the work to prepare can seem daunting.However, audits are not generally conducted according to random processes, nor do auditors ask random questions.By learning what to expect, you can be prepared!

In this session, you will receive an overview of standard audit terminology, roles and processes. You will learn how to prepare your validation documentation,standard operating procedures, facilities, and personnel for the software quality audit.

Praxis will review frequently asked questions and checklists from international regulatory guidance. The session will also address approaches to handling problemtopics.

You will learnbest practice tactics for use during the audit. And finally, to help you determine where to focus your preparation efforts, this session will provide statistics from FDA inspections on the most prevalent software quality topics and the most cited typed of computer systems.

• Fundamental audit terminology, roles and practices
• Key US and international regulatory guidelines regarding software quality audits
• Audit preparation for staff, facilities, and documentation
• Common software quality audit questions
• Best practices during an audit
• Accommodating requests for access to computer systems and data
• Most frequently inspected systems and software quality topics

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.3 Control Quality Control

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.’

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Live Webinar – February 20th, 2013 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

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, Sr. Consultant, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar February 15th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Selecting a vendor through a Request For Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and the project team selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations.

Once the short list of vendors has been determined, the project team needs to look more closely at how well the proposed solutions meet the stated project requirements.

This is the critical time to gain alignment on the gaps that exist and the appropriate adjustments required by the vendor to close the gaps. This will help minimize the padding vendors typically incorporate to address project unknowns.

Learn how to engage the vendor and the project team, in collaborative meetings, to ensure the selected solution will be able to deliver the expected outcome.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn about:

• Conducting a preliminary and secondary evaluation of vendors to create your “short” list
• How to conduct detailed evaluations of vendors on the short list
• Techniques for collaboratively performing a Gap Analysis of the proposed solution with the project team and the vendor

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Live Webinar February 13th, 2013 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, ITMPI will review an analysis of 6000 software projects to reveal how good or bad we are, as an industry, at estimating, and offer practical steps you can take to determine how realistic your own estimates are.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Start to record your PDU – on Step 2 place the Rep # 2733 (in our listing) in the “Provider Number” area and the title of the webinar in the “Activity Name” and hit search. Select the code and continue to record the event. If you need further assistance contact us at Hello at pduOTD.com

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Live Webinar February 8th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Selecting a vendor through a Request For Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and the project team selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations.

Scoring a comprehensive RFP document doesn’t have to be a slow and subjective process. An auto-scoring electronic RFP document that incorporates objective score values and weights can be used to aide in differentiating one vendor’s proposal from another. Additionally, assessing the viability of a vendor to effectively deliver their proposed solution can be part of the scoring process.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The value of creating an electronic scoring RFP document
• How to create and use an electronic scoring RFP document
• How to assign scores and weights to Requirements and Vendor Questions to take the subjectivity out of the RFP process

Join Solutions Cube for this 1 hour in-depth webinar and learn how to create and use an electronic RFP document to take the subjectivity out of your vendor proposal evaluations.

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