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Live Webinar September 14 2011 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by: PDUs For Lunch – The Project Whisperer
Speaker : Rick Valerga, PMP
Certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees upon request.
Topic: “Integrity in Project Management”
Projects are the initiatives that enable us to thrive, to succeed, and to better our organizations. But it can be hard to stay on course in today’s competitive global project environment. Project teams need a way to ensure that their principles don’t get lost in the chaos. They need integrity.
Author Rick Valerga will be discussing Projectegrity: Using Integrity to Make Your Project Great, a set of high-integrity project team behaviors that make project management processes more effective, especially in challenging and chaotic project environments.
Most people possess a high degree of integrity. But projects can be chaotic. Not everything is conveniently black and white. It’s important to have a system that will promote integrity in both good times and bad. There are five practices that will specifically help you ingrain integrity into your project. Projectegrity: Using Integrity to Make Your Project Great explains these practices and shows you how to use them within even the toughest projects.
Speaker: Rick Valerga is a project leadership author who has been a featured speaker at local and regional project management events. Prior to writing Projectegrity, Rick wrote The Cure for the Common Project: Five Core Themes That Transform Project Managers into Leaders, a book for project managers looking to make the jump to project leadership. He has also been a contributor to several online project management magazines and podcasts. His experience spans several technologies and industries, including high-performance electronics hardware, software, aerospace/defense, robotics, and civil engineering. Rick obtained his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2003 and holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the US Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD) and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Live Webinar – September 14th, 2011 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free
The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome.
We will discuss:
The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
Myth Busting: There are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.
Live Webinar September 16 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A $15 USD
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)
Many project teams lack a consistent method of ensuring their business requirements document which identifies the project What’s†is complete before delving into detail design activities, associated with the project solution. Use Cases and User Interfaces should be developed by the business stakeholders prior to finalizing their requirements document.
Both these deliverables are transitional deliverables between defining project What’s and How’s. They provide an alternate way for stakeholders to look at project needs and gain insight into unclear requirements and missing requirements as well as head off potential scope creep.
Learn techniques for expanding business requirements with Use Cases and User Interfaces. Participants learn how to describe intended end user interaction with the system being modified to clarify business needs. They also learn how to describe high level requirements associated with entering, modifying and accessing information in the system being developed.
In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn about concepts for:
Defining scenarios which depict how the end users intend to use the project solution
Conducting business driven collaborative Use Case activities identifying actors and their requests, system interactions and normal “happy path†and exception path processing
Drill down business requirements into User Interfaces to finalize types of information associated with the business needs
Generating conceptual graphical Screen Mockups to clarify user interfaces
For more info contact:
Carly Burek at 972.786.0900 or carly.burek@solutionscubegroup.com
http://SolutionsCubeGroup.com
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Live Webinar September 14 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Dave Ulrich
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.
Great individual leaders may come and go, but great leadership capability endures over time.
Great leadership is defined more by the value created than actions taken.
Similar to a brand that customers rely on and that stands the test of time despite individual products that don’t succeed, leadership value can be assessed by the extent to which leaders personal actions reflect customer expectations. Leaders need to build on their strengths to strengthen others.
In this program, Dave Ulrich will discuss his extensive research about leadership and focus on one of the key principals of effective leadership using an “outside/in†approach.
What You Will Learn:
Two major trends in leadership
Six steps to creating a leadership brand
Unique leadership differentiators that can make the difference
How Successful leaders continually tie their brand identity to the changing expectations of customers
How to examine your company’s leadership competency model to see if it reflects your customers’ expectations
Why it’s necessary to assess your leadership brand at different stages of development
Specific practices that instill the leadership brand
Presenter: Dave Ulrich is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and co-founder of The RBL Group. He has written a number of influential books covering topics in HR and Leadership, including his latest HR Transformation: Building Human Resources From the Outside In. Dave is currently on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources, and is on the Board of Trustees of Southern Virginia University. He has been ranked the No. 1 Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek, selected by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative and creative leaders and named the most influential person in HR by HR Magazine.
The discussion will be followed by an interactive session, where we will address specific questions asked by members of the audience. While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Live Webinar – September 13th, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn UK ( REP 1369 ) Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.36 USD Fee
Wondering if Enterprise-wide Project Management could work in your company?
Concerned about the cost for MS Project Server, the expertise required to run it and the time needed for training and implementation?
Is there some way to do Enterprise-wide Project Management on the cheap?
The answers to these questions are respectively: “almost for sureâ€, “I know what you mean†and “Yes indeed!â€
Enterprise-wide Project Management for Dummies will help you determine if enterprise-wide PM can help your organization, and if so, do you need to go to a full implementation of Project Server or can you do a poor man’s application instead. What type and size organizations can use the non-Server implementation will be discussed, the steps required to implement such an application, and examples of how to set up projects and enterprise-wide resource pools will be shown.
Participants will be able to determine if their organization could go to enterprise-wide project management using the simple data-base capabilities of the standard tool. Suggested steps to take within the organization to prepare for and implement this application will be shared. Some suggestions on how to implement Project Server will also be shared to aid those participants who find their organization cannot use the poor-man’s version.
Target Audience: PMs, Senior PMs, Project Officers in small to intermediate size organizations
Speaker: Roy Pool – Roy has 30 years of Project Management and scheduling experience, having lead 20 projects ranging in value from $100,000 to $77M. He has maintained a very high project success rate and won the 1997 Bells Labs President’s Silver Award for project leadership when managing a DoD project. At the heart of all of Roy’s PMO implementations has been an emphasis on scheduling. Roy is a Black Belt in MS Project, is also proficient in Primavera P6 and has implemented enterprise-wide scheduling tools in 2 PMOs. Mr. Pool was selected to teach Project Management and MS Project to Managers in China, India, France, England, Canada, Chile, Mexico and various US cities. Mr. Pool is has been a certified Project Management Professional since 1993, is a Black Belt in MS Project and a Jonah in Theory of Constraints.
. Dave is currently on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources, and is on the Board of Trustees of Southern Virginia University. He has been ranked the No. 1 Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek, selected by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative and creative leaders and named the most influential person in HR by HR Magazine.