Live Webinar September 10th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Sustainability CoP (REP #S046

Scenarios are different ‘what if?’  accounts of the future.  Instead of being predictions, they help decision makers and researchers acknowledge future uncertainty and explore the dynamics of different but plausible future worlds.

This makes scenarios an excellent tool for policy guidance, as well as for investment and research in the public and private sector.

This webinar focuses on the construction of socioeconomic scenarios through backcasting and the use of these future contexts to guide policy and investments for agriculture, food security and climate change adaptation.

It also outlines the importance of scenarios for project developers in the definition of routes to follow in order to enhance their chances of a successful planning for the future.

Presenter: Marieke Veeger (@MariekeVeeger) is a geographer with a Bachelor in Development Studies and Master in Organization and Management of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She works in Costa Rica as Innovation Officer at the University of International Cooperation (UCI) and Scenarios Coordinator for a socioeconomic scenarios project of the research program for Climate Change Agriculture and Foodsecurity (CCAFS) of CGIAR and Future Earth that UCI implements together with CCAFS in Central America and the Andes.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

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Live Webinar – Sept 12th 2014, 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

In an ever increasing litigious world, it is more important than ever for organizations to have clear policies for managing information.

It’s not an option any longer in your information management system to avoid having clear policies and procedures for how information is regulated.

Policies that govern who can access your information, what they can do with the information, the retention periods of records, and the auditability of information must be in place. Regulators and examiners have very specific guidelines about how retention and auditing must be implemented.

SharePoint 2013 provides very specific tools for regulating the creation, interaction, and disposition of content using Information Management Policies.  These Information Management Policies are a set of rules that are assigned to content within SharePoint.

These rules will define the retention schedule, auditability, and bar codes and labels. These policies can be defined for multiple content types within a site collection, a list, a library, or folder (location-based retention policy). Policies can be deployed across site collections for enterprise-wide policy deployment.

The topics that will be covered in this one hour webinar:

• What is Information Management Policy in SharePoint 2013?
• Why is it critical to have these policies in place?
• Creating policies for retention, auditing, and markings (bar codes and labels)
• Applying policy across site collections
• Exporting and importing policies

This web seminar will introduce you to the Information Management Policies feature in SharePoint 2013 for managing your enterprise content to guarantee you are compliant with business, industry, state, and government regulatory requirements.

Presenter: Tom Robbins (LinkedIn profile) has 25+ years in the telecommunications and IT industry. A Microsoft Certified Trainer and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer, Tom has been training for more than 15 years on the Microsoft Enterprise suite of products.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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 – September 9th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

The path to a better bottom line is paved by large numbers of operational decisions made by people, by processes and by software applications.

Systematically improving each operational decision – at scale – is at the core of Decision Management. Business Architects and Analysts identify, describe and model operational decisions in Decision Discovery.

In this webinar, James Taylor,(LinkedIn profile)  CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and Dr. Juergen Pitschke, (DMS interview) Founder and Managing Director at BCS, will show you how to get started with Decision Management on your next application development or business process improvement project with Decision Discovery.

Learn how to:

• Identify decisions, sub-decisions and information and knowledge resources (including rules and analytics)
• Describe decisions in detail (Decision Tables and other Metaphors)
• Model decisions in a DMN-conformant decision modeling tool for communication and documentation
• Link to execution environments

This webinar is targeted to Business Architects and Business Analysts familiar with the current OMG standards – from DMN, BPMN, CMMN to BMM, SBVR and more.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 – September 11th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?

COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource Managers

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

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire 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.’

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