Portfolio & Project Management
Strategies, Trends, Tools and Tips
Webinar Track
 Explore how to systematically manage enterprise IT intiatives, projects and services to ensure your whole portfolio of IT projects get done and get done right. Learn best practices for defining, executing and quantifying IT efforts to enable measurement and evaluation of these investments. Discover ways to successfully manage system development life cycle (SDLC) management, quality assurance, planning, policy and testing. Webinars will cover topics incuding
- Test data management
- Project leadership and communication
- How to optimize project delivery methods
- How to manage project costs
- How to manage legal ramifications of projects gone bad
- Portfolio and project management best practices in a down economy, and more!
All corporate member attendees can receive a Certificate of Completion for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit.
Call for Speaker/Sponsors: Contact Tina Sieben at 847-837-3900, x2 for information.
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April 14, 2010
Dispelling the Maturity Myth: How to Focus PPM on Business Value
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Just about every business discipline has its own variation (or variations) of the familiar 5 stage process maturity model, and IT PPM is no different. The problem with this popular rubric is that it implies achieving "level 5" is always the ultimate goal. Ironically, this largely ignores any assessment of the relative benefit of such an undertaking vs. its effort & risk - thereby violating one of the very tenets of successful portfolio management!
In this insightful webcast, PowerSteering's Jay Hoskins will present an alternative framework: the PPM Capability Model. It recognizes that the umbrella of PPM actually covers many distinct processes, and that within any organization different maturity levels may be optimal for each. Focusing on a "crawl-walk-run" approach, it emphasizes the top-down processes of Governance and Demand Management to deliver a practical action plan for realizing immediate business value.
So if you're an IT executive responsible for delivering measurable, sustainable benefits from the IT portfolio, you'll want to attend this webcast to learn how to:
• Achieve an optimal level of portfolio oversight without imposing excessive overhead
• Assess your IT organization's current capability for each PPM process
• Identify & pursue those improvement areas which represent the greatest incremental value
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Jay Hoskins, Director of Solution Consulting, PowerSteering Software
Jay helps companies improve the value and return of their portfolios, programs, and other business investments through efficient and effective business processes, change management, and system automation. Jay has helped many business leaders successfully implement enterprise-wide Portfolio Management processes for Business PMOs, IT Governance, Six Sigma, Merger and Acquisition, and New Product Development programs.
With over 25 years of experience, Jay has been a portfolio management professional for 9 years with an extensive background in aerospace, manufacturing, supply chain, financial services, IT, and enterprise applications. Jay also has experience in managing enterprise deployments of ERP systems, project management, and software development methodologies.
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May 12, 2010 |
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June 16, 2010 |
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September 29 , 2010 |
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October 20, 2010 |
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Completed Webcasts
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| Apr 15, 2009 |
The Essentials of Test Data Management
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Eric Naiburg, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, IBM Integrated Data Management
Learn how you can reduce storage costs and speed agile and iterative testing cycles by creating "right-sized" test environments and how you can automate the comparison of baseline data against successive test run results to quickly identify application errors while securing the privacy of the data.
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| Nov 5, 2008 |
The Power of Project Leadership
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Monica Croy, Senior Associate Point B
Explore the differences between project leadership and project management, aiming to explain how to apply the “art” of our discipline.
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| Jan 14, 2009 |
Communication: Don't Overlook the Obvious
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Paul Aubrecht, Sr. Project Mgmt Associate, Magenic
Many projects fail, or are perceived to have failed, due to poor communication. Learn how to open the channels of communication and increase the success rate of your company's projects.
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