Archive for November, 2011

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Live Webinar December 8, 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

This webinar will cover the basics of earned value management. The terminology, formulas and data interpretation will be covered.

People attending this webinar will understand the basics of earned value management and how it can be easily applied on projects. The presentation will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session afterward.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

Click to register for Earned Value – What’s It All About?

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The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
An Excellent Value!!

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Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar December 7, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar Stephen Cohen looks at the current state of “Best Practices” and presents a way to assess the value of individual practices on your projects.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience 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. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

Click to register for When Best Practices Aren’t the Best Choice

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Live Webinar – December 7, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

We hear the term SEO thrown around all the time -BUT ….

  • What does it really mean?
  • How does it work?
  • How can I get my business started with Search Engine Optimization?
  • And how do I do it well?

In this web seminar, we will look at the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We will explain the basic elements Google looks at when ranking your site, so that you have a better understanding of how to create better pages, and rank higher.

We will discuss:

  • SEO basics
  • How to drive more organic traffic to your website
  • How to rank higher in Google search results
  • The elements of your site that Google (and other search engines) looks at when determining your rank
  • Setting your URLs properly
  • How to adjust web page titles
  • What meta descriptions are and how they are used
  • How to properly use meta keywords
  • Optimizing your page content for Google

Click to register for What the #$!% is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

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Recorded  December 7th 2011 -12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Cisco Webex Hosted By: David Witt

NOTE: There may be a technical issue on the sign up page – typing in the fields may not show up on your screen – (Your typing text is white on a white background)

Put in the information anyway it will accept it and you will be able to view the session.  Once the information is accepted there will be a black line indicating that there is information in the field that you can not see.

Poor leadership practices cost companies millions of dollars each year by negatively impacting employee retention, customer satisfaction, and overall employee productivity.

In this webinar, Blanchard Program Director David Witt (LinkedIn profile) helps you take a closer look at the effect that leadership has in each of these three areas and what you can do to improve performance.

You’ll learn that:

  • Less-than-optimal leadership practices cost the typical organization an amount equal to as much as 7% of their total annual sales.
  • At least 9% and possibly as much as 32% of an organization’s voluntary turnover can be avoided through better leadership skills.
  • Better leadership can generate a 3 to 4% improvement in customer satisfaction scores and a corresponding 1.5% increase in revenue growth.
  • Most organizations are operating with a 5% to 10% productivity drag that better leadership practices could eliminate.

Drawing on proprietary original research, you’ll learn which management techniques generate the best results and also look at some of the common cultural roadblocks that keep companies from implementing them. You’ll also learn how to overcome these obstacles and make the shift from knowing to doing.

Organizations need to make sure that they are getting the best out of their people by providing strong, consistent, and inspiring leadership. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to evaluate and improve leadership practices throughout your organization

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience (include the weblinks) and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register and view The High Cost of Poor Leadership: The 3 Performance Gaps You Have To Address

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Live Webinar December 7, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free Course ID: MDW1250

Once of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and manage relationships with all individuals that the project impacts.

In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.

By effectively managing your stakeholders, you will be better able to keep a lid on scope creep, ensure project requirements are aligned, understand tolerance for risk, and mitigate issues that would otherwise delay the project.

Effective stakeholder management is proof of your influence in an organization, and a key component to a healthy project environment.

Key learning points from this webinar include:

  • How to identify project stakeholders
  • How to conduct a stakeholder analysis
  • How to manage different types of stakeholders

About the presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

Click to register for What You Must Know About Stakeholder Management

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Live Webinar – December 7th, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member FreeGuest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

Learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Project.

What do you need to configure for a new year?

Jacques Goupil, PMP, MCP, MCTS, of MsProjectNow! will walk us through the necessary configuration and recommendations from the industry.Create Fiscal Periods, Project Server cleansing, Archiving Projectsand much more. Come hear what you should be doing before the new year.

NOTE: Remember when registering for this event you must answer the the question “Are you requesting a PDU for this event?”

Click to register for MPUG WebnLearn Preparing for 2012: Configuring Project Server