Archive for April 18th, 2013

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

It’s important to keep stakeholders aligned with the objectives of your project and obtain their support so that, ultimately, you can gain their acceptance of project deliverables and closure.

This is the second webinar in a 2 part series on Stakeholder Analysis. This webinar will discuss how to identify stakeholders that can significantly influence the project either positively or negatively and develop a strategy for obtaining and/or increasing support for the project.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to develop an approach for managing stakeholders, whether their perceptions about your project are negative or positive. Tips will be provided to help you retain and increase the support of influential stakeholders and to reduce or eliminate the impact of stakeholders who perceive your project negatively.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

  • Confirm which stakeholders can significantly influence the project either positively or negatively
  • Consider key information about each stakeholder such as level of participation, area/s representing, and key relationships within the organization
  • Develop a plan for increasing support and minimizing negative impacts, then implement the plan

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase How to Create a Stakeholder Management Strategy – Stakeholder Analysis Session 2 of 2

Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar – April 24th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
  2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
  3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to view a previously recorded version of this opportunity.

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Agile Metrics

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Live Webinar – April 25th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

You Get What You Measure

Metrics drive behavior and implementing the right metrics to measure the right things is imperative to support any improvement initiative.

The metrics used in traditional project management, such as % Complete for Requirements, Code and Test do not tell where we truly are in delivering business value.

The Only True Measure Of Progress Is Working Software

In this session, we will examine the fundamentals of Agile Metrics and how to implement them so that we can more accurately assess the impact that agile methods has on improving the software creation process and where and when we will be done with a project.

Presenter:Tom Wessel (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

  • 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
  • 5.3 Define Scope
  • 6.6 Develop Schedule
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team
  • 10.3 Control Communications

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 – April 25th, 2013 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

During the project intake process all projects are considered critical, all others never get approved. So how do you decide which “critical” projects are most critical? These decisions are typically made politically, emotionally or without consistency.

The Impact:

  • Poor resource utilization
  • Frustrated resources
  • Projects not aligned with strategic objectives
  • Higher risk and lower ROI

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar demonstrating a balanced approach to prioritizing initiatives. Projects affect many aspects of your business; all factors should be considered when taking on a new project. Learn the prioritization secrets of successful companies using a Project Portfolio Management mentality.

The Result:

  • Decreased risk
  • Higher ROI
  • Optimized resource utilization
  • Maximum aggregate value of projects

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 How to Prioritize Projects When Each One is Critical