Archive for June, 2011

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Online or Portable Webinar (downloadable .wmv file)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C
Presented by : Modern Analyst

As a Business Analyst asked to help improve operations and customer services, you may be aware of terms such as BPM, KPI’s, and Web Services. If not, you will be.

During this Webinar Todd and Thea take you through how a modern BA develops and navigates a large-scale business process automation project. This BA will be asked to interface between business users and IT to help create a Web-based application that streamlines the business process.

Subjects we will discuss include:

  • What do I need to begin the project?
  • Who needs to participate?
  • What concepts should I understand?
  • What questions should I be asking business users?
  • What does IT need to understand about budget and timing?
  • How do I capture and track metrics?

Learning objectives:
1. Successfully participating in a BPM project
2. Questions to ask, pitfalls to avoid
3. Explaining how to apply technology toward process automation
4. Harnessing the power of technology

Presenter:
Todd Miller Director, Solutions Delivery and Training
Handysoft Global, Inc.

Thea Turay Business Analyst
Handysoft Global, Inc.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 5.3 Create WBS
  • 10.1 Identify Stakeholders

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 here to download How the BA can Succeed in a BPM World

  • 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
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Online Webinar by Journyx
Presenter: James Brawner
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 CAT B FREE

Learn how to smooth the resource utilization curve, understand where your project is, determine the “I” for the ROI of your project, and maximize your most valuable asset – your employees.

Click to view Improve Project Execution with Better Resource Management.

Change Management Myths

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Live Webinar – Choose From 2 Offerings
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration: 1 hour + 30 Min Q & A 1 Category C PDU FREE

July 6th, 2011 11:00 AM EDT
July 7th, 2011 4:00 PM EDT

Myths about change management come in all different shapes and sizes.

Over the last several years the myths practitioners here are different than they were in the past as change management has grown as a discipline.

In this webinar, learn about five of the most pressing myths you may face, the sources of these myth and how you can effectively address them.

Five Myths:

  1. I’m responsible for the “hard” side of the project, not the “soft” stuff.
  2. We are introducing change and managing the project, so aren’t we managing change?
  3. I have a communication plan, isn’t that enough?
  4. We assigned a change management resource for the project, isn’t that enough?
  5. Our project is struggling, change management is the silver bullet.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
  • 10.2 Plan 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’

Click to register for the July 6th Change Management Myths

Click to register for the July 7th Change Management Myths

Project Management in the Real World

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Recorded Webinar
Presented by the Project Management Bookstore
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category B PDU

Project Management in the Real World covers five key areas for project managers:

  • Budgets,
  • Teams,
  • Scope,
  • Plans and
  • Personal productivity.

In this webinar, Elizabeth explores the first of those—Managing Money on Projects.

More than one third of projects have a budget of over $1.5 million so knowing how to handle the finances is an essential part of a project manager’s repertoire.

During the webinar, Elizabeth will discuss:

  • How to create a realistic budget for the project.
  • Managing budget tolerance.
  • Managing a contingency budget—and get your project sponsor to agree to one!
  • Sharing the project budget with the team and encouraging collective responsibility.

Join Elizabeth to see how clever budget handling can benefit you and your projects.

Presenter: Elizabeth Herrin:

Elizabeth Harrin (@pm4girls), MA, MBCS (LinkedIn profile) is an author and project manager living and working in London. She has a decade of project experience, and has led a variety of IT and process improvement projects including e-commerce and communications developments. She is also experienced in managing business change, having spent eight years working in financial services.

Elizabeth is a member of PMI’s New Media Council and writes the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. She is also a member of PMI, the British Computer Society, as well as a staff writer for The Glass Hammer—an online magazine aimed at senior women in business.

In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact Project Management Bookstore and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

Click to view Project Management in the Real World

CMMI for Services

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

In this webinar, Jorge Boria (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the newest model in the CMMI constellation: the CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC).

The CMMI-SVC allows you to rethink your process improvement program from the perspective of service delivery, service continuity, incident resolution and prevention, capacity and availability management and other proven practices that will enhance your productivity and push your business forward.

Click to register for CMMI for Services

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Webinar And Book
Live Webinar June 30, 2011 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT

Presented by: The Training Magazine Network
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free
Book – Earn Up to 7 PDUs for reading Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, & Get Results 284 pages

Courage Goes To Work gives the conviction that ordinary individuals can achieve extraordinary results. – Joe Forehand retired Chairman and CEO of Accenture

Please NOTE: The Video shows Bill HighDiving while on fire.

Webinar Information

This workshop will provide practical strategies for building workforce courage so workers can become “opportunity seekers”.

A step-by-step approach for using courage to improve performance and counteract the negative impacts of workplace fear will be introduced. When everyone is working with more courage, the entire organization is transformed for the better.

Research shows that courageous workers seek out leadership opportunities, step up to challenges, offer innovative ideas, passionately embrace change, and are more productive. In short, courageous workers get work done!

Key concepts covered in this workshop include:

  • Three distinct types of courage and how to differentiate among them
  • How to create an environment that supports courageous behavior
  • The differences between two different leadership dispostions, Fillers (encouragement) and Spillers (discouragement)
  • Tips on how to be more courageous and how to inspire more courageous behavior among those you lead

Learner Outcomes:

  • Knowledge of current research about the negative impacts of fear on performance, and how courage can be used to overcome them.
  • How to distinguish between three different, but equally important types of courageous behavior.
  • Specific actions you can take to promote and encourage more courageous behavior within your own work environment.

Who Should Attend:

  • Executives who wish to transform their organizations.
  • Independent consultants who wish to build courage in the organizations they serve.
  • New leaders who want to have more confidence, or are struggling with a lack thereof.
  • Emerging leaders or those aiming to have more leadership influence.

PDU Category C documentation details for Webinar Or Book:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
  • 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
Courageous Leadership: Using Courage to Transform the Workplace

Book Information

Earn Up To 7 Category C PDUs for Reading:
Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, & Get Results

  • How can you fill people with enough confidence that theyll set aside their fears and do extraordinary things?
  • What can you do to put courage to work for you and the people you lead?

Courage Goes to Work focuses on building workforce courage. Why? Because when courage goes to work, workers they take on more challenging or complex projects. When courage goes to work people actively seek out tasks that stretched their skills and capabilities. When courage goes to work speak up more frequently, forcefully, and truthfully. When courage goes to work people say “yes” to company changes with more enthusiasm. When courage goes to work people are less risk-averse, less self-conscious, and less apathetic.

Courage Goes to Work categorizes courageous acts into three large “buckets.” These courage buckets are:

  1. TRY Courage:TRY Courage is the courage of initiative and action. It’s what you’re talking about when you say you want people to “step up to the plate”. TRY Courage can be seen in “first attempts”—for example, whenever you attempt a new, skill-stretching, or pioneering tasks. Volunteering to lead a tough or risky project is a demonstration of TRY Courage.
  2. TRUST Courage:TRUST Courage is the courage that it takes to relinquish control and rely on others. When you talk of wanting employees to embrace company changes more enthusiastically, it is TRUST Courage that you want people to have. When you have TRUST Courage, you give people the benefit of the doubt, instead of questioning the motives and intentions of those around you.
  3. TELL Courage:TELL Courage is the courage of “voice,” and involves speaking with candor and conviction, especially when the opinions expressed run counter to the group’s. When your TELL Courage is activated, you assert yourself more willingly and confidently. Your TELL Courage is at work when you tactfully but truthfully provide tough feedback to others, or when you raise your hand and ask for help, or when you fess up about mistakes you’ve made before others find out.

About Bill Treasurer- Bill Treasurer is founder of Giant Leap Consulting, and the author of Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results, an internationally bestselling book about how to build workforce courage. Bill is widely recognized as pioneer in the new organizational development practice of “courage-building.” Bill is also a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team, and performed over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet. His insights about workplace courage have been featured in over 100 national newspapers and magazines.

Bill has worked with many renowned organization including, Accenture, NASA, Spanx, the US Forest Service, CDC, PNC Bank, Highmark, American Family Insurance, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.