Live IIL Webinar -September 22, 2011 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A $19.95 USD
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: SS0004
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Uncertainty. It is a word often used to describe risk. It is also the best word to describe consumer behavior relative to spending in the next 12-24 months.

What must be done to survive in an economy with such a high degree of uncertainty?

This webinar will logically lay out the steps that must be taken from the top of an organization to the bottom.

Benefits:
Utilizing the proven concepts within the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Process Improvement Methodology, participants will hear real-world examples of how companies have dramatically reduced costs will simultaneously improving quality. Lean Six Sigma is a proven formula for surviving times of economic uncertainties and reducing non-value added costs.

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

• How the concepts of Lean Six Sigma can quickly allow participants to improve processes associated with delivery of products and services
• How companies from diverse industries have used these concepts to survive tough times
• What skill set you will need to remain marketable in this economy
• What three things you can do immediately to take out costs

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Lean Six Sigma Tab on the Left and then Choose “The Secrets to Surviving a Challenging Economy”.

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Live IIL Webinar -September 16, 2011 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: MP0011
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Correct resource over-allocation by using best practices to assign resources to tasks, analyze resource assignments and level resource workloads with Microsoft Project 2010.

Use the Interactive Team Planner to visualize the right mix of resources and assignments with a simple and intuitive resource view. Simply drag and drop to effectively plan tasks and optimize resources for your entire team and project.

Learn how to communicate team assignments and apply optimization techniques to realign workloads based on limited resource availability. Quickly identify unassigned or unscheduled tasks and proactively solve problems: the new Team Planner creates a visual alert to potential problems and allows you to manually level resources as you work. You can also choose to automatically level over-allocated resources on a task-by-task basis or use the Task Inspector to instantly see options.

Simplify planning with inactive and active tasks and perform “what-if” analysis on different scheduling scenarios to review impacts of over-allocations on schedule and resources.

Benefits: Easily identify resource over-allocations, plan and communicate team assignments more effectively and apply optimization techniques to realign workloads based on limited resource availability. With Project 2010, you can use the Team Planner to quickly visualize over-allocated resources; then simply drag and drop to move tasks from one resource to another to distribute assignments more effectively. Set scheduling options in the new Microsoft Office Backstageâ„¢ view and apply resource leveling functionality with a click on the Ribbon.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

• Identify resource over-allocations
• Use Team Planner to visualize the ideal mix of resources
• Automatically level your resources in Task Inspector
• Use inactive / active task functionality and “what-if” analysis
• Take advantage of the new Fluentâ„¢ User Interface and simplified navigation

Who Should Attend: This webinar is designed for individuals who use Microsoft Project regularly, including those who use it on a day-to-day basis: project schedulers, project team members, project managers, project controllers, project control officers, and project engineers.

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Click to register for CORRECT RESOURCE OVER-ALLOCATION! Optimizing Resources in the Schedule Using Microsoft® Project 2010

Live Webinar – September 20 , 2011 11:30 AM -12:00 PM EDT
Presenter: Journyx Inc.
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category B PDU – Free PDU

In this webinar we’ll investigate many of the difficulties project managers are having with traditional project management methodologies and suggest (based on hundreds of customer case-studies) solutions to these problems.

We will answer many of the common questions we hear from PM’s in the trenches, questions like:

• Why has traditional project management left value on the table?
• How do we make fewer compromises?
• When will we be able to be proactive instead of reactive?
• How do we improve resource planning?
• Where can we increase forecast accuracy & profitability?

Join us for a thought-provoking and possibly a game-changing look at how to modify your project planning processes in order to achieve project success!

This webinar is 30-min long and attendees are eligible for 1/2 PDU.

Click to register for Dynamic Project Planning: The Real Way to Execute Projects

Live Webinar – September 16, 1:00-2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

The new movie “Moneyball” starring Brad Pitt is about to be released. Based on the bestselling book of the same name, the movie explores the use of “sabermetrics” to build winning baseball teams.

In this webcast, Jonathan Alexander (LinkedIn profile), author of Codermetrics: Analytics for Improving Software Teams, suggests that these same ideas be applied to software teams.

Jonathan will discuss how you can apply similar ideas to improve your software teams, giving examples of specific metrics and techniques to help you identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of your software engineers and to help make the team a more cohesive and productive.

If you manage or lead teams of software developers and engineers, and want to make sure that your focus is on success, you can’t afford to miss this entertaining and instructive event.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 9.1 Develop Human Resource Plan
• 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 Moneyball for Software Teams?

Live Webinar September 19th, 2011 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Linkage
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free

Through our innovation work with organizations, we hear about the need for a common innovation process and requests for how to create a culture of innovation. While both of these are important, are they enough? If you have both, is your organization really capable of innovating?

Based on our experience, to be effective, organizations need to align eight major areas in order to create an innovation-capable organization.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• The 8 ways to make your organization innovation capable
• Experience our assessment that will help you evaluate these eight major areas
• Key questions that leaders need to address to create an innovation-capable organization

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Linkage at 781-402-5555.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 11 – Risk

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Eight Ways to Create an Innovation-Capable Organization