Category: Announcements

Contract Management: A Case Study

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Building an effective and transparent contract management system to support a project should be considered as a core value and a must. Utilizing a strict contract management process protects organizations from disputes and also provides administrative comfort. It also helps shield and protect organizations and can also be used as [...] Read More

Safety, Health, and Environmental Metrics and Risk Management

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details "Traditional Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) metrics in relation to the overall Risk Management Plan as defined in PMBOK"  Safety and Health are tracked through leading and lagging indicators and US-OSHA has specific quantification requirements that can be used in your risk management planning.  Environmental risks can lead to catastrophic [...] Read More

Strategies for Managing Construction Contracts

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details A construction project of any significance involves contracts. A team member or manager's understanding of how construction contracts define work responsibilities is crucial to any successful project. Topics shared in this lecture include: Understanding the truth and nature of construction contracts Key terms in the conditions of contract Strategies for managing [...] Read More

Requirements Elicitation Techniques

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details "If you don’t get the requirement right, it doesn’t matter how well you execute the rest of project". Many projects still fail to meet goals, and poor requirements elicitation accounts to 37% of project failure. There are various requirement elicitation standards and techniques, but will fancy techniques increase the chance [...] Read More

Project Benefits Realization in the Flux of Changes

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Textbooks used to say that project success is to finish the project on time, within budget and with defined quality. This is no longer the case. Today focus is on creating benefits. The project should bring value to their initiators, their stakeholders, and maybe to the society. However, it is [...] Read More

Project Management: A Cash Management Case Study

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Cash is undeniably regarded as the lifeblood of any company. An appropriate amount of cash on hand reflects a healthy business with an adequate liquidity level, which is attractive to investors. Cash management involves a wide area of corporate processes in managing cash, ranging from payables, receivables, and liquidity management, [...] Read More

President Barack Obama Signs the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act

WASHINGTON D.C. – 16 DECEMBER 2016 Legislation to improve program management practices and bolster workforce development becomes law President Barack Obama has signed into law S.1550, the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 (PMIAA), which will enhance accountability and best practices in project and program management throughout the federal government. The legislation, strongly […]

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‘Must Haves’ When You Plan To Set-Up A PMO

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Project Management standards help us making projects efficient and their deliverables reliable. This leads to measurable savings for a company. Those savings materialize in a real cooperation – no matter if it is big or small – by building up a Project Management Office (PMO). This speech focuses on the main deliverable one [...] Read More

The Life Project – Running Your Life Like a Project

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details If a project is important enough to use a structured Project Management approach to identify goals, make the right decisions, understand and influence stakeholders, and plan for and manage performance to achieve success, isn’t our life as important to apply a similar structure in managing it better? Would it be beneficial [...] Read More
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