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For many years, there were two major approaches for structuring
Information Technology (IT) development projects - traditional
waterfall or iterative development. New approaches are now
available that fall under the general category of “light” or
Agile methodologies. Calling them methodologies is probably too
broad a word. It might be better to refer to them as development
approaches, or even philosophies. |
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We should all have a pretty good idea of what a project is. These are the temporary endeavors that allow us to get new work done. Portfolios, on the other hand, are collections of work. The work could all be projects, in which case we would be practicing Project Portfolio Management. But other work can be in the portfolio as well. There are processes used to manage projects and manage portfolios. The problem in many organizations is that these processes are not in alignment. We refer to this as "dysfunctionality". Usually it means that there are portfolio processes that get in the way of project management processes. This results in project managers struggling to complete projects successfully. Usually these struggles are unnecessary. It is a matter of recognizing and removing these misaligned processes. The purpose of this webinar is to identify some of these common dysfunctionalities, and discuss what needs to be done to get the processes aligned. We look forward to you joining us. |
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Recently over 20 global TenStep managers came to Atlanta for a two-day class on organization assessments using the aPRO model from the asapm - the member affiliate of the IPMA organization. This is a simple yet holistic assessment of your ability to implement projects successfully. It takes into account strategic alignment of projects, executive leadership, allocation of resources, use of methodology, skills and development actions, and more. We think this is a great organization assessment model for projects and project management. Armed with assessment results you can rapidly make more effective decisions that increase overall organizational performance. |
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How do you build a PMO that drives business value and benefits realization? If you already have a PMO, what can you do to ensure the business is getting the “right value” from its investment in the PMO? If you are just in the process of designing the new organization, how can you make certain that you are aligning your services with the needs of your business partners? And how do you successfully implement the new organization in a way that models best implementation and organizational change management practices? In this one hour webinar presented jointly by Tom Mochal, President and Founder of TenStep, and David Nielson, Managing Director of Implementation Management Associates (IMA), we will share practical tips and techniques you can apply in your own organization. |
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The world is going green. We are collectively realizing that we do not have an unlimited amount of air or water or space to continue to utilize resources as we have done in the past. How can we apply these “green” concepts to our project management discipline? One obvious way is that we can manage green projects more efficiently. The sooner that project ends, the sooner the green benefits will be achieved. Most project managers however, do not manage these kinds of projects. Most of us manage projects such as installing a new software package or upgrading network infrastructure. How can these projects become more environmentally friendly? The answer is Green Project Management (GreenPM). Green Project Management is a model where we think green throughout our project and make decisions that take into account the impact on the environment – if any. It is a way to ingrain “GreenThink” into every project management process. |
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Organizations have goals and strategies to help them reach their future state. Projects are the way to achieve these goals and strategies. (Support and operations are important, but they do not help you reach your future state.) This makes it essential that your organization is able to execute projects successfully. This webinar is focused on helping organizations successfully execute projects by implementing scalable project management practices. It is interesting and informative - perhaps even eye-opening. We will also spend a few minutes describing how TenStep can help companies in this important effort. |
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Implementing Value-Add, Scalable Project Management Processes |
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Project management processes must provide value to a project, and the way to make sure that they provide value is to make sure they are scalable. Large projects need more rigorous processes. Small projects need lighter, agile processes. This webinar will explore the concept of implementing value-added, scalable project management processes. It is a must-view webinar for PMOs and organizations trying to implement good project management without getting too bureaucratic. |
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PMOs generally focus on building environments where projects can be successful. The nature of PMOs, however, is that they can quickly be viewed as an overheard organization that create processes and templates and is a barrier to the swift completion of projects. Of course, that is the opposite of what they should be doing. In fact, the focus of the PMO should be to help projects execute better, faster and cheaper. The way to avoid this is by adopting the philosophy of a "value-add PMO". Of course, your PMO may have one idea of value and others may have a different idea. The purpose of this webinar is to explain the context for understanding what "value" is so that the PMO is truly aligned toward value-add work. |
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Most organizations implement project management in an ad-hoc manner. These organizations focus on the project managers and provide them with training and templates. This is a good start, but it is not going to result in a strong project-driven culture. In fact, the majority of problems encountered in culture change initiatives of this type originate in the management ranks. These managers typically think it is up to the project managers to deploy project management successfully, but in reality the success or failure of the initiative is within their control. All of the management hierarchy has a key role to play in ensuring their organizations successfully implement the project management discipline. This webinar describes the role of management in creating this project-driven culture. |
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Outsourcing project work is more common today than ever. In the past many managers felt that if they outsourced the work, they also outsourced the problems. Most managers today know that this is not the case. Even though you outsource work, you cannot outsource your obligation to make sure the project is progressing smoothly.
Unfortunately, in many instances, the vendor does not perform
against expectations. |
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Much of the work that you do can be organized as a project. When
the projects are large, they But many projects are not large. They are small work efforts that need to be organized and managed efficiently, but not with the full rigor and structure of formal project management discipline. These are the projects of accountants, teachers, administrators and many others. These projects represent the vast majority of all work executed in businesses all over the world. This webinar describes fundamental work management techniques and skills for these non-project management professionals. Attendees will see how to understand the work that is requested, how to organize the work, how to manage the work and how to execute the work. |
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We often state that a PMO must provide value to the organization or else it is likely to be cut or eliminated. Many PMOs struggle trying to show this value. This is generally for two reasons.
If you fit this second category (providing value but don’t know how to measure) this webinar will help. |
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The Project Charter and Scope Statement describe "what" your project will achieve. The schedule tells you "how" you are going to achieve it. This webinar will focus on the project schedule and how to make it more valuable to your project. We will start with some fundamentals that you know but have probably forgotten. Then we will proceed into approaches and techniques to provide new insight into scheduling. We think you will find some new ideas and new motivations for the traditional project schedule. This is a joint webinar presented by Tom Mochal, President of TenStep and Jason Westland, President of Method123. |
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Organizations all over the world are trying to get better at project management. For the vast majority of companies this means using their own employee backgrounds and experiences to map a course for improvement. This approach is fine but it also limiting. Different people have different views for what an optimized project management organization looks like. In this webinar we will discuss assessments in general, and three models in particular - OPM3 from PMI, aPRO from asapm and CMMI. You will learn the value associated with an organization assessment, plus an overview of these three project management standards. |
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No company has the resources to meet all of its business needs. This is true in the best of times. It certainly is even truer when times are tough. Even if your company is a rare one that has all the money it needs, you definitely do not have the people to complete everything you would like. Portfolio management is a process to ensure that your company spends its scarce resources on the work that is of the most value to your company, and work that is most closely aligned to your business goals and strategies. This webinar shows attendees the many aspects of portfolio management that must be understood before the concepts can be deployed. |
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One of the greatest challenges that company management faces is how to successfully achieve its mission (reason for existing), move toward its vision (desired perfect future state) and achieve its goals (higher-level business outcomes) consistent with its strategy (how the goals are achieved). It can only be done through a coordinated effort from the entire company. Each division - Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, HR, IT, etc. - must do its part for the entire enterprise to be successful. Alignment is a very powerful process for making sure everyone is pulling the same direction. Full alignment is not easy, especially at first. In fact, it is very difficult, which is why few organizations achieve it. Like all culture change initiatives it takes management focus, perseverance and courage. The purpose of this webinar is to explore the challenges and value toward fully implementing an Aligned Enterprise. |
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Projects are the way that your company moves toward its desired future state. Project management is an enabler to help you execute these projects successfully. This session looks at the value of project management as a general discipline. We then discuss how each project management process contributes to and enables project success. It seems project managers get kicked around a lot by clients, sponsors and team members that do not understand project management. This session also serves as a pep talk to project managers and reminds us all of the value project management provides to projects and to the organization. Let’s hear it for project managers! You will feel much better about yourself at the end of this session. |
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One of the primary reasons that projects struggle is that the project team does not fully understand the customer requirements. This leads to rework, missed expectations, extensive changes and ultimately missed deadlines and budgets. The project team must meet the needs and expectations of the client to be successful. These client needs and expectations are set through the gathering and agreement on the requirements of the final solution. Gathering requirements involves more than just asking a few questions and then building the solution. Projects with any degree of complexity need a formal process to ensure that all of the requirements are accurately gathered, reviewed, documented and approved. In this webinar, we will discuss the TenStep model for gathering requirements - elicitation, validation, specification and verification. You will see it is a logical model that you can implement on your projects. |
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Let’s face it. Most of us don’t work in best-in-class project organizations. Most of us don’t work in worst-in-class organizations either – although many of you might say you are closer to this designation. The fact is that too many organizations have basic problems executing projects. Let’s just call them “challenged”. In other words, projects seem to get done in spite of you. The projects rely on heroics from project managers and team members. They have to since your organization does not have good processes that you can repeat over and over again for project success. In this webinar we will discuss some characteristics of challenged organizations. That is the easy part. The webinar will also provide insight into some ways to elevate your organization to a higher level. That is the hard part. We won’t set expectations that there is one technique or approach that will magically make everything perfect. But there are logical techniques and approaches that can help you improve. This webinar will help you decide which ones make sense for your organization. |
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Headquartered in Bahrain, Zain is a leading telecommunications service provider across the Middle East and Africa providing mobile voice and data service to nearly 70 million customers in 24 countries. Group IT and Zain partnered with TenStep Middle East and cordin8 technologies, llc on a combined project management methodology and technology solution. Now Zain has established a common base of project management methodology and metrics; initiatives are under way to:
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Some people think that a program is just a large project. That is not the case. The program is an umbrella organization designed to coordinate the work of many, many projects to ensure that the projects end up delivering a common, integrated solution. There are unique work processes that are used to manage a program. There are also changes to the project management processes for projects that run within a program.
In this webinar you will see the differences between projects and programs. You
will also learn an overall model for establishing, planning and executing
programs. |
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Use a Strategic Execution Office (SXO) to Align Project and Program Processes |
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The Strategy Execution Office (SXO) is an office that supports and integrates strategic performance management, portfolio management, program/project management, and operational process improvement across the organization for the senior management teams. It can (and should) be cascaded to lower level units as required. This office integrates a number of management tools and competencies to ensure synergy and communication are optimized. This webinar will provide an overview of the SXO. We will also demonstrate an SXO software tool - cordin8 collaborative. This product supports key sets of functionality for the SXO as well as helps to integrate them into one seamless strategic execution tool that can address both performance management and help realize strategic plans. View this webinar to learn more about this exciting new concept and supporting tool. |
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Organizations around the world are implementing formal project management processes and disciplines to deliver their work initiatives on time, within budget and to an agreed upon level of quality. Many organizations have focused this effort using a Project Management Office (PMO). Unfortunately PMOs can quickly be viewed as an overheard organization that are a barrier to the swift completion of projects. Of course, that is just the opposite of what they should be doing. In fact, the focus of the PMO should be to help projects execute better, faster and cheaper. The focus of this webinar is the “Value-Add” PMO. A few years ago we held a webinar that described how to build a Value-Add PMO. This webinar will update the topic with new best practices that we have implemented in the past few years. |
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