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Events: Project Assistants' 2010 Webinar Series

Following is a list of webinars offered in our 2010 Webinar Series:

Executive Track

Project and Portfolio Management Strategy Track

Project and Portfolio Management Technology Track

Webinars with Content Summaries:

Most EPM solution implementations (by our experience, over 85%) are destined to suboptimal outcomes due to their heavily tool-focused approach.  In reality, however, a more balanced deployment is required to drive the change that is needed to achieve the maximum return on your implementation investment.  Executive mandate alone is not enough to drive this change; instead, a careful approach that includes planning, implementation and adoption is required to remove the common barriers to success and achieve a successful enterprise deployment.

In this webinar, Mr. Cicala will address typical challenges that hinder your ability to achieve the desired results from your at-risk EPM implementation. In the process, Mr. Cicala will share our time-tested methodology that will allow you to Get beyond the Gantt Chart to realize the full potential of your technology investment.

Congratulations!  Your company has finally taken the plunge and has decided to invest in a PMO….now what?

When organizations invest in project management, there is typically some level of reticence over concerns that this spend is a luxury earmarked as what some might consider unnecessary overhead.  Many PMOs are created with the expectation that they will quickly deliver a significant ROI, and with this expectation often comes a sense that the PMO is already a target for the next budget cut.

In this webinar, Mr. Cicala will address how to identify and manage these sometimes overly optimistic expectations.  We will discuss what these expectations are, why they are probably warranted, and how to translate these expectations into a realistic approach (i.e. develop a plan for incremental increases in ROI that will help create a mood that promotes continue investment).

On May 12th, 2010 Microsoft released the latest version of Microsoft Project. So what's in it for you and your organization?

In this webinar Gus reviewed many of the new features and functions of the Microsoft Project family of products with a focus on demonstrating how this functionality can improve project and portfolio management results and demonstrate ROI. Highlights of this presentation included:

  • A concise summary of new features and functionality
  • How to unleash the power of these breakthrough improvements

There is a broad base of information available for organizations that are looking to assess their current project management maturity state, with the eventual goal of improving their track record of delivering projects.

These assessment methodologies often can provide a clear definition of what project management maturity is and how to measure your organization against these established standards.  However, they often come up short when it’s time to close the gap between the current state and the desired future state, thereby impacting the PMOs ability to deliver projects and ultimately the organization’s success.

In this webinar, Project Assistants CEO Gus Cicala will address the practical next steps to achieving your organization’s project management execution goals.

Click HERE to download archived recordings of the webinars offered in our 2008 Webinar Series.

Click HERE to download archived recordings of the webinars offered in our 2009 Webinar series.

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