Live Webinar October 21st, 2015- 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free Course ID: MDW1250

Once of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and manage relationships with all individuals that the project impacts.

In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.

By effectively managing your stakeholders, you will be better able to keep a lid on scope creep, ensure project requirements are aligned, understand tolerance for risk, and mitigate issues that would otherwise delay the project.

Effective stakeholder management is proof of your influence in an organization, and a key component to a healthy project environment.

Key learning points from this webinar include:

• How to identify project stakeholders
• How to conduct a stakeholder analysis
• How to manage different types of stakeholders

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Live Webinar October 21st, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

Prior to reaching a successful conclusion, the functionality that was designed, developed, and tested by the project team must receive the proper authorization before being handed over to the user community in a production environment.

This can be accomplished through leveraging the following integrated methodologies:

1. Requirements traceability log,
2. Unit test authorization,
3. System integration test (SIT) authorization,
4. User acceptance test (UAT) authorization and project closeout.

The purpose and utility for each of these deliverables will be discussed during this tutorial.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Live Webinar – October 20th 2015, 0:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

This is the next webinar in GK’s new Weekly series “The Sales Excellence Webinar Series for Business Outcomes.”

A successful engagement with the correct stakeholders will result in a full understanding of what the vision, challenges and opportunities are, as well as confirm the current state of the organisation.

Understanding how the organisation currently looks and what it can achieve is the starting point to help the customer meet their strategic goals and objectives.

This allows an assessment of their current capabilities, which when compared to an analysis of the target state, enables a gap analysis to be carried out.

The gap in these business capabilities is the opportunity to demonstrate how to deliver solutions tailored to the customer’s needs.

The key techniques and tools covered are:

• Capability Modelling
  • Modelling services
  • Business Conceptual layer
  • Fulfilling objectives and responsibilities
• Capability Gap Analysis
  • Gap between current performance and future performance
  • Capability Gap and Complex Transformation Programmes
  • Organisational Design

Watch for these webinars on PDU Of The Day:

• Changing The Sales Engagement
• Uncovering Customers Business Needs
• Engaging with Customer Stakeholders
• Translating Requirements to Capabilities
• Managing Customer Business Requirements
• Modelling the Customers Business
• Developing Business Acumen
• Creating the Solution Business Case
• Delivering Benefits Realisation to the Customer
• Additional Development Support and Tools

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.6 Control Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 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 October 22nd, 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar October 22nd, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Getting started with advanced analytics is as much about changing mindsets and culture as it is about tools and skills.

Business intelligence (BI) and analytics leaders can use these best practices to get their advanced analytics initiatives off the ground.

Discussion Topics:

• Getting started with advanced analytics doesn’t necessarily require a lot of resources, but requires ingenuity
• Service providers and packaged analytic applications can be good choices for getting started quickly
• The skills and tools needed to build the capability internally

Presenter: Lisa Kart, (LinkedIn profile) Research Director Gartner

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 10.2 Manage 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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