Archive for November 1st, 2011

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
November 9 & 16 , 2011 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions of 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDU – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session when it was offered in August and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided! For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful! – Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Wednesdays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. RBA identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With RBA, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

  • Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment at no additional cost
  • Four contact hours of training, including all materials
  • Readings to be completed during course attendance
  • Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 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 Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure

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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!!

Search for “2733” to see other great titles available!
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 November 8, 2011 4:00 pm – 5:30 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 with Pam Morris provides techniques for demonstrating the value of IT to the business and for prioritizing IT investment so that it is aligned with changes in organizational strategic direction.

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 Starting the Decision Making Process Before the Business Case

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Live Webinar – November 8th, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Note:Registration Ends Nov 7th, 2011 members Nov 8th Guest
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free PDU – Guest – Free PDU

Learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Project.

Looking for ways to make your projects more efficient, wow your co-workers, and learn some new skills?

This session should walk you through how to create custom calculated fields and graphical indicators that allow you to easily identify tasks that need to be updated, building project status indicators using red/yellow/green graphics, as well as creating simple, useful macros and custom toolbars that will save you a great deal of time and effort when working in your projects.

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 Tips, Tricks, & Best Practices: Using Microsoft Project

Managing Technical Debt

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Online webinar
Presented byConstrux Software (REP 1424)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: Category C PDU – 1 PDU Free

“Technical Debt” refers to delayed technical work that is incurred when technical short cuts are taken, usually in pursuit of calendar-driven software schedules.

Technical debt is inherently neither good nor bad. Just like financial debt, some technical debts can serve valuable business purposes. Other technical debts are simply counterproductive. However, just as with financial debt, it’s important to know what you’re getting into.

In this one-hour webinar, Steve McConnell explains in detail the different types of technical debt, when organizations should and shouldn’t take them on, and best practices in managing, tracking and paying down debt. You’ll gain insights into how to use technical debt strategically and how to keep technical and business staff involved in the process.

Professional Biography

Steve McConnell is CEO and Chief Software Engineer atConstrux Software where he writes books and articles, teaches classes, and oversees Construx’s software engineering practices.

Steve is the author ofCode Complete (1993, 2004) andRapid Development(1996), both winners ofSoftware Development magazine’s Jolt award for outstanding software development books of their respective years. In 1998, he publishedSoftware Project Survival Guide, in 2004 he publishedProfessional Software Development (2004), and in 2006 he publishedSoftware Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. Steve blogs on professional topics at10x Software Development and also has apersonal blog.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 11 – Risk

  • 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 11.2 Identify Risks

Click to register for Managing Technical Debt

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Live Webinar November 9th, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: John Beeson (LinkedIn profile)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Although companies do a poor job of articulating them, in most organizations promotions to the executive or “C-suite” level are governed by a relatively few factors.

What are those factors and how can you both develop and display them to the satisfaction of the senior executives who make executive promotion and placement decisions in your organization?

What You Will Learn:

  • The core selection factors used in most organizations to decide who does and doesn’t get promoted to the executive level.
  • The key questions you need to answer in the affirmative in the minds of your organization’s decision makers to build confidence that you can succeed at the executive level.
  • How to tease out “the feedback that really counts”: how you are viewed by senior-level decision makers in terms of the core selection factors.
  • Career development strategies to pursue.
  • How to navigate some typical career dilemmas along the way.

Presenter: John Beeson is Principal of Beeson Consulting, a management consulting firm specializing in succession planning; executive assessment, coaching, and development; and organization design as well as the author of The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level. In addition to his consulting experience,he worked at Hallmark Cards and Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. At both companies, his responsibilities included succession planning, talent development, and organization design on a company-wide basis. Over the course of his career,Beeson has assessed and coached scores of executives and participated in numerous executive-level promotion and placement decisions.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 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 Decoding the Unwritten Rules of Executive Career Advancement