Curriculum

Introducing Agility into your Mature Project Management Practices

Date:

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 | 1:00 pm ET (1 hour)

Presenter:

Karen White, PMP, Senior Director, PM Solutions

Summary:

You finally have your project teams applying the practices in your project management methodology. Now your organization wants to be “agile.” Does this sound familiar? If so join this webcast to learn how to integrate agile project management into your existing methodology and into practice without discarding what you have already invested in. Discover how to determine which projects are candidates for agility and understand the challenges you might face as you embrace the new techniques. By identifying these challenges in advance, you will also be able to load your toolbox with methods to effectively overcome those challenges.

Upon completion of this webcast, you will be able to:

• Articulate the basic principles and terminology of agile project management
• Identify and describe how agile project management supplements traditional project management
• Recognize common challenges in introducing agile project management into an organization and develop tools to overcome them
• Develop a plan to effectively add agile project management techniques to your management toolbox

Cost:

US $49.95

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Seven Steps to Strategy Execution

Date:

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | 1:00 pm ET (1 hour)

Presenter:

James S. Pennypacker, Director, Center for Business Practices

Summary:

The inability of organizations to effectively execute their corporate strategies is one of the major factors limiting their success. While effective strategy execution can be difficult, it is not impossible to achieve. A carefully planned approach to execution is needed to attain organizational strategic goals and objectives. Seven Steps to Strategy Execution describes such a planned approach and offers organizations a Strategy Performance Management (SPM) framework against which to map their progress.

SPM is an approach to business success that integrates aspects of the organization that too often operate asynchronously. An organization operating under the SPM framework links governance and performance management in each of seven key areas:

• Strategy Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Program/Project Management
• Information Technology
• Structure
• Culture
• People

  This approach, based on Center for Business Practices research, field-tested by PM Solutions' consulting practice, and published in book form in 2007, gives organizations a logical framework to help them communicate strategy to the people and processes that make it a reality. And it further builds organizational capability by continually measuring performance against the organization's selected strategy performance metrics.

  Upon completion of this webcast, you will be able to:

  • Identify the key concepts of Strategic Performance Management
  • Recognize the barriers to effective strategy execution
  • Describe how strategy, portfolio, program/project, and performance management processes can be successfully integrated
  • Show how performance measurement is used to close the SPM loop and demonstrate value

   

Cost:

US $49.95

Earn 1 PDU for attending the live session. For guidance on how to properly record your PDU click here.

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