Archive for December 19th, 2013

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Online Webinar – Recorded -November 15th 2012
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

One of the most important foundational components for effectively utilizing an Agile approach is the team retrospective, yet it is often poorly executed by teams, resulting in little to no value.

Conducting an effective, efficient team retrospective isn’t difficult, but many teams and Scrum Masters forget to focus on a few key areas essential for an effective forum.

This hour long webinar will share with you the secrets employed by successful Agile teams and great Scrum Masters in their mission for continuous, incremental improvement.

Click to register for How to Facilitate Effective Retrospectives

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Online Webinar – Recorded September 6, 2012
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 47 min Credits: 0.75 Category C PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

  1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
  2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
  3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

  • 11.1 Plan Risk Management
  • 11.2 Identify Risks
  • 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability

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Online Webinar – Recorded – November 8th, 2012
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

What’s more important?

Your daily activities or ….
The results they produce?

Your ability to execute results is many instances a direct measure of your leadership impact.

Rich Rosier will share:

  • Strategies to shift your thinking and focus from one of activities to one results
  • Tactics to delivery outputs that will give room for flexibility
  • Improvement innovation and overall leadership effectiveness techniques.

Presenter: Rich Rosier is Senior Vice President and Principal Consultant at Linkage. He works with organizations to help them define and implement a winning strategy and maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their leadership development, coaching, organization development, and growth and innovation investments.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
  • 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 Executing Results: A Leadership Brand Series