Archive for March, 2014

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Live Webinar April 2nd 2014 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

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

  1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
  2. Where do you focus for improvement?
  3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Maintaining Aging Infrastructure

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Live Webinar April 4th, 2014 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Duration: 75 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Utility Industry CoP (REP #S014)

The critical condition of many parts of US infrastructure has been a topic of considerable public interest over the last several years, brought into national focus with the 2007 collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis.

The 2013 Report Card published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) found that one in nine bridges in the United States is structurally deficient.

Budgets continue to be tight, requiring efficiencies wherever possible and prioritization of the most critical tasks. This often means choosing from among several “must-dos” with a common need to make structures last as long as possible.

This is also true for the nuclear industry, which is in the midst of licensing renewal applications for decades-old nuclear reactors to be extended well beyond their original design lifetimes.

The 2009 discovery of ASR concrete degradation at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire alerted the NRC to the potential for similar problems in other nuclear plants as well.

Concrete degradation mechanisms such as ASR and DEF are particularly insidious because of their tendency to propagate within a susceptible structure, and cause a reduction of properties.

Improper consideration of these reduced material properties can undermine the accuracy of engineering calculations used to design anchorage systems or can lead to ill-advised replacement decisions when a much-less expensive repair strategy can be applied.

So while the foremost skill set in many concrete projects is structural engineering and risk assessment, the detailed calculations of stresses to identify or address critical areas of concern, require accurate knowledge of structure-specific material properties.

In these scenarios, “book” values often have little value, and even well-kept construction records may have limited applicability if the age and the service conditions have caused material property degradation. As a project manager, it is critical to know when a detailed materials evaluation is necessary, and how to increase the confidence in the engineering basis of repair/replace decisions to maximize the value received with limited budgets.

Real world examples will be presented to demonstrate the important role of material properties in concrete engineering assessments and repair projects.

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

Presenter: Matthew J. Perricone, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar April 2nd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 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)

The decision to reshore isn’t as simple as you might think.

In this webinar, Rosemary Coates (LinkedIn profile) look at the reshoring decision from several perspectives: cost, innovation, market access, skills, supply base, public sentiment, and the political environment.

Click to register for Bring Manufacturing Back: The Rush to Reshore

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Making Microsoft SharePoint Deliver

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Live Webinar April 3rd, 2014, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar April 3rd, 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Many enterprises are considering significant SharePoint investments.

This strong interest has acted as a forcing function, causing enterprises to strategize on related issues such as how to enhance performance, optimize resource investments, and explore coexistence options with other enterprise content management (ECM) systems, as well as office productivity applications and overall governance.

Learn how to avoid the pitfalls and deliver clear benefits to the business.

Discussion Topics:

  • What SharePoint is, and how it is affecting the portal, content and collaboration markets
  • The strategic role SharePoint plays in enterprises as information infrastructure, and whether it can coexist with other applications
  • How enterprises can best manage their SharePoint installations for efficiency, effectiveness and proper governance

Presenter: Mark R. Gilbert, Research VP

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

  • 10.1 Plan Communications Management
  • 10.2 Manage Communications
  • 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 1st, 2014 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

Organizations like yours are improving results, streamlining operations and personalizing customer transactions by automating the repeatable decisions central to their operations.

These organizations are using the time-tested and proven decision management approach to effectively apply business rule, predictive analytic and optimization technology to these operational decisions as an agile service in their enterprise architecture framework.

Decision Management intersects with and complements business process, case management and technology -based approaches.

In this webinar you will learn:

  • Why defining decisions improves enterprise architecture transparency and agility.
  • Why explicitly modeling decisions complements and enhances business process management/adaptive case management.
  • How to get started with decision management and the new beta Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard.

Join James Taylor,(LinkedIn profile) CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and Dr. Juergen Pitschke (DMS interview), Founder and Managing Director at BCS Enterprise Modeling for this engaging webinar.

If you are looking for information on decision Management Systems Sign up for his newsletter – Decision Management News. Read his blog: JT on EDM; or Follow him on Twitter: jamet123. For more great information read James’ books Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics and Why You Need Smart Enough Systems.

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.’

Click to register for Getting Started with Decision Management

 

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Live Webinar – April 1st 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

When working on projects, no matter what role you fulfill there will be numerous types of stakeholders.

Getting stakeholders to trust you and engage with you is not easy.

That is why it is important to learn how to transform yourself into a trusted advisor to stakeholders of all levels.

In this web seminar, we will begin with strategies for earning the trust of stakeholders which is a critical necessity of successful projects.

The discussion will then lead to the effective traits trusted advisers use and display when interacting with a variety of stakeholders.

Kelly will conclude with the top 10 behaviors that are essential for transforming yourself into a trusted advisor on projects.

This web seminar will be helpful to any project role you perform in any type of project approach.

Presenter: Kelley Bruns PMP (LinkedIn profile) has over 25 years of experience in the learning and development industry and is a PMP and a certified Development Dimensions International Facilitator. Kelley’s expertise lies in her extensive experience in a wide range of industries including banking, construction, energy, engineering, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

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
  • 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
  • 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience a

Click to register for Transforming Yourself into a Trusted Advisor on Projects