Events: Project Assistants' 2008 Webinar Series
Executive Track
- Evolve or Die: How Organizations Use Project and Portfolio Management to Adapt to Change
- Making It Stick: The Project Management Adoption Challenge
- Enterprise Transformation: What Your Executive Team Needs to Know about Project and Portfolio Management
Project and Portfolio Management Strategy Track
- Achieving Your Business Objectives: Best Practices for Integrating Portfolio Management Strategies with Project Management Excellence in Execution
- Building a Strategy for Integrating Program Management, Project Management and Knowledge Management
Webinars with Content Summaries:
- Evolve or Die: How Organizations Use Project and Portfolio Management to Adapt to Change - Click the link to view an archived recording of this presentation from March 13, 2008
Darwin's Theory of Evolution, written over 150 years ago, remains a rock-solid scientific theory for how organisms adapt to their external environment. Just as the Theory of Evolution defines a framework for dealing with environmental change, PPM brings to the business environment the science required by organizations to successfully adapt to change and to thrive with that change.
In this webinar, Gus Cicala will show how an organization’s strategy is doomed to fail without a clear way to execute this strategy – a well-defined approach to PPM. The presentation will include an overview of the framework, including PPM best practices, required to enable effective initiative management that supports the execution of corporate strategy. Mr. Cicala will also review methods of developing a convincing business case that will obtain the investment necessary to drive these changes in an organization.
- Making It Stick: The Project Management Adoption Challenge - Click the link to view an archived recording of this presentation from May 14, 2008
Driving adoption is a critical, and often under-estimated, component of any project management improvement initiative; simply put, changes have to stick to realize the return on your investment. During this webinar, Mr. Cicala will focus on a critical component of the Adoption Process – the necessity of creating and effectively auditing an organizational adoption/change management process.
- Enterprise Transformation: What Your Executive Team Needs to Know about Project and Portfolio Management - Click the link to view an archived recording of this presentation from November 12, 2008
Portfolio management is a set of management techniques used to optimize return on project investments. While there are challenges with implementing portfolio management, the interest in adopting these techniques is increasing in many organizations.
In this webinar, we will first review the portfolio management process model. We will discuss how to use this process model to create a language for driving alignment between business strategies and goals and the specific initiatives that should be chosen in order to support these strategies and goals.
- Achieving Your Business Objectives: Best Practices for Integrating Portfolio Management Strategies with Project Management Excellence in Execution - Click the link to view an archived recording of this presentation from July 17, 2008
More and more businesses are striving for well-defined portfolio management and project management practices. These practices, which are highly dependent on each other, must be purposefully integrated to best achieve your organizational goals. During this webinar, Mr. Cicala will discuss best practices for identifying, developing and implementing key integration points between the portfolio and project management processes.
- Building a Strategy for Integrating Program Management, Project Management and Knowledge Management - Click the link to view an archived recording of this presentation from September 18, 2008
Traditional project management theory defines successful project completion as completing a project on-time and on-budget. But first an organization needs to have a process for ensuring the selection of the right projects and then executing those projects to efficiently meet its goals according to specified standards. In this webinar, we will show how an effective combination of portfolio management, project management and knowledge management best allows an organization to accomplish its goals.
