PMLL Episode 0063 PMBOK Communications Managment (PMP Exam Study Subgroup)

Notes and Podcast from the PMlessonsLearned.com Conference Call:
Topic: PMP Exam Study Group
Presentation Title: PMBOK Communications Management
PM Lessons Learned Leader: Henry Will, PMP
PMP Exam Study Subgroup Host: David Radkovich, PMP, EVM
Presenter: Dana Safford, PMP, MCSE

Date: 02Apr2009
Podcast number: 0063
MP3 / Podcast: MP3 or Listen on Internet Archive or Listen on OurMedia or subscribe to our podcast on itunes

If you're studying for the PMP Exam, you may want to listen to the MP3s of past PMP Exam Study Group conference calls. They're located in our Archive (see the link on our website).

Notes from the call:
PMlessonsLearned.com PMPExam Prep sub-group host David Radkovich PMP, EVP leads this monthly call with Presenter Dana Safford; Complex Problem Manager, PMP, MCSE; Global Solutions Engineering; Hewlett Packard Company on Time Management


Visit our Web site at: http://www.pmlessonslearned.com/

Note: Presentation material for this call and past topics are available in the files section of the PMLL yahoo group. The links to join the yahoo group and the link to the files section (you must first login to the yahoo group) are located on the left side of our website. Directions to do all this are located on the pmlessonslearned.com website by following the link on the left to "Files and Presentations."

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PMLL Episode 0062 An Introduction to Agile Estimating and Planning (PMBestPractices)

Notes and Podcast info from the PMlessonLearned.com Conference Call:

Topic: An Introduction to Agile Estimating and Planning (PMBestPractices)
PMlessonsLearned.com founder and PM Best Practices host: Henry Will, PMP
Presenter: Kevin Aguanno, PMP, MAPM

Date of Conference Call: 19Mar2009
Podcast Number: 0062

MP3 / Podcast: MP3 or Listen on Internet Archive or Listen on OurMedia or subscribe to our podcast on itunes.

If you're studying for the PMP Exam, you may want to listen to the MP3s of past PMP Exam Study Group conference calls. They're located in our Archive (see the link on our website).

PRESENTATION:
The presentation is located on the website. Follow the "Presentations and Files" link on the left hand side of the pmlessonslearned.com website

NOTES FROM THE CALL:
In this session, we cover:
* Why we plan in the first place and what makes a good plan
* Why traditional planning fails
* The basics of agile planning including building Release Plans, Iteration Plans and Day Plans
* Estimating with Story Points
* Estimating with Ideal Days
* A 3-step feature prioritization process
* Measuring and forecasting velocity
* An overview of Critical Chain estimating and scheduling
* Why agile planning works

more at: http://www.agilepm.com/presentation-agile_estimating_and_planning.html

PRESENTERS BIO:
With over 17 years of managing complex systems integration and software development projects, Kevin Aguanno is known in the industry for his innovative approaches to solving common project management problems. He focuses on two project management specialty areas: agile project management and troubled project recovery.

Some of Kevin's other notable attributes:
* Keynote speaker, trainer, and coach in agile management methods
* Taught several years at the University of Toronto where he won an Excellence in Teaching Award
* Regular guest lecturer in software engineering and project management classes at several other universities
* Master’s in Project Management from George Washington University
* PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP),
* IBM Certified Executive Project Manager
* International Project Management Association (IPMA) Senior Project Manager
* Member of the Project Management Institute (U.S.A.) and the Information Systems SIG,
* American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (U.S.A.), the Association for Project Management (U.K.), and the Project Management Association of Canada where he is a founding director.
* Kevin Aguanno is the author of over one dozen books and audiobooks.

More at: http://www.agilepm.com/bio.html

PRESENTERS CONTACT INFO:
http://agilepm.com

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Please join us for a future conference call (they're all free and open to all). We currently have several calls a month. See our calendar of future calls via the link on our website.

If you're looking for a PM job, we invite you to join our FREE PM JOB SHOP conference calls.
Join the Yahoo Group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmjobshop

We highly recommend that you join the free PM Lessons Learned Yahoo group in order to get announcements of our calls and other information to further your PM career.
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Join our Yahoo group for details, reminders of the calls, and information to help you in your PM Career. Visit the website for details.

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PMLL Episode 0061 The New Job Search Mentality (PMJOBSHOP)

Notes and Podcast info from the PMlessonLearned.com Conference Call:

Topic: The New Job Search Mentality (PMJobShop)
PMlessonsLearned.com founder and PM Best Practices host: Henry Will, PMP
PMlessonsLearned.com PMJobShop hosts: Mike Chrepta and Scott Percival
Presenter: Kim Shand and Maggie DaRonco

Date of Conference Call: 12Mar2009
Podcast Number: 0061

MP3 / Podcast: MP3 or Listen on Internet Archive or Listen on OurMedia or subscribe to our podcast on itunes.

If you're studying for the PMP Exam, you may want to listen to the MP3s of past PMP Exam Study Group conference calls. They're located in our Archive (see the link on our website).

NOTES FROM THE CALL:
The process of a successful job search has changed in just the past year: it requires a new outlook and a new method.

The job search mentality has changed from asking for help to giving help. The change in the job search process is from the old job boards to new social networking websites. Websites covered include Linkedin.com, twitter.com and tweetdeck.com

PRESENTERS:
Maggie is a long time friend of PMlessonsLearned.com having spoken on our calls and helped many members in their job search including at least one PM placement. Maggie represents Vegaconsulting.com where Kimberly is the CEO and founder. Kim shares the new trends in job search techniques and new developments in how to conduct your job search.

The PM Lessons Learned/PM Job Shop group provides a professional forum for participants seeking new career opportunities in project management. Our goal is to provide a space for networking, exchange of resources, contacts, information, mutual support and learning, as well as job leads for those seeking new career opportunities.

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Please join us for a future conference call (they're all free and open to all). We currently have several calls a month. See our calendar of future calls via the link on our website.

If you're looking for a PM job, we invite you to join our FREE PM JOB SHOP conference calls.
Join the Yahoo Group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmjobshop

We highly recommend that you join the free PM Lessons Learned Yahoo group in order to get announcements of our calls and other information to further your PM career.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmLessonsLearned

Join our Yahoo group for details, reminders of the calls, and information to help you in your PM Career. Visit the website for details.

PMLessonsLearned.com - Project Managers helping Project Managers. Open to all.

PMLL Episode 0060 Special Announcement about PMP Study Group

Notes and Podcast info for a special PMlessonLearned.com announcement:

Topic: Special Announcement for podcast Listeners about PMP Exam Study Group (PMPExamPrep)
PMlessonsLearned.com founder and PM Best Practices host: Henry Will, PMP
PMlessonsLearned.com PMPExamPrep host: David Radkovich PMP
Presenter: Henry Will, PMP

Date of Conference Call: 12Mar2009
Podcast Number: 0060

MP3 / Podcast: MP3 or Listen on Internet Archive or Listen on OurMedia or subscribe to our podcast on itunes.

Special Announcement about the transition of the PMP Exam Study Group to a weekly group!

Notes: Since this recording was made, it has been decided:
1. The weekly Virtual PMP Study group will meet on Tuesdays. You can still join. Use the "Contact Us" link on the website if you're interested in joining.
2. We could start another Virtual PMP study group that meets on another day if you're interested in leading it. Contact us via the contact us link on the website if you are interested in leading or joining a second virtual PMP study group.
3. The Weekly virtual PMP study group will not be podcasted
4. We will continue the monthly PMP Exam Study calls and podcast them

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Please join us for a future conference call (they're all free and open to all). We currently have several calls a month. See our calendar of future calls via the link on our website.

If you're looking for a PM job, we invite you to join our FREE PM JOB SHOP conference calls.
Join the Yahoo Group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmjobshop

We highly recommend that you join the free PM Lessons Learned Yahoo group in order to get announcements of our calls and other information to further your PM career.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmLessonsLearned

Join our Yahoo group for details, reminders of the calls, and information to help you in your PM Career. Visit the website for details.

PMLessonsLearned.com - Project Managers helping Project Managers. Open to all.

We are catching up on podcasts and NEWS!

Hello everyone.

We are catching up on Podcasts at this time. We just posted #57 and #58 from February.

See all the recordings (MP3 podcasts) posted on our archive.

Our team of Podcast Volunteers is working to get caught up.

Keep in mind that you can also listen to the latest conference call by phone (details on the top left of our website just above the links).

Also, I wanted to let everyone know the following:

• Our new PMLL Weekly Virtual PMP Exam Study group is starting up - these calls will NOT be podcasted
  
• We have changed plans again and have decided to keep the monthly PMP Exam Study group call going (because Dana offered to do that for everyone). It will be mostly on PMP Exam Study and Test taking Tips. And, we plan to continue to podcast it! Our presenter, Dana Safford, just told me he plans to talk about the PMP Exam Test taking Tip of "Doing a Brain Dump" on the Thursday 07 May 2009 conference call.
• Of course, we plan to keep the monthly PMJOBSHOP call going (I hope you voted in our recent poll, if you haven't yet, there is still time) - and it will be podcasted. There have been great Career topics on the recent calls.
  
• We will still keep the monthly PM BEST PRACTICE call going too and they will also be podcasted.
• A few stats:
• 1359 in PMlessonsLearned.com Yahoo group - join today, tell your friends
  
• 98 in PMJOBSHOP yahoo group
• 442 in Linkedin.com PMLL group
• 75 in Linkedin.com PMJOBSHOP
• 65 Conference calls held so far
• approx 75,000 downloads of MP3 recordings
  

PMLL- It's all about PMs helping PMs

Until next time, God Bless and Keep on Learning!

Free Confcall April 16 (Thurs.) Successfully Manage Your Project Risks

This is the topic that our group voted to be presented!

What: FREE PM Lessons Learned PM Best Practice conference call
Topic: "Successfully Manage Your Project Risks"
Who: presented by Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE Vice-President, PMCentersUSA (pmcentersusa.com)
When: Thursday Apr. 16, 2009 at 9pm Eastern time
Where: Conference Dial-in: (269) 320-8300 Access Code: 767 616#

"Successfully Manage Your Project Risks"

Presentation: The presentation is available online - follow the Files and Presentations link on our website for directions to download it.


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Abstract of the presentation:
Most project teams do not consider the potential risks that may impact their project. This talk will cover the fundamentals of the risk management process that project teams should follow on every project. Topics covered will include risk identification techniques, risk analysis methods and risk response planning. Actual project examples will be used to highlight various risk management tools that can be applied to your project.


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Bio:
Joe Lukas has been involved in project management for over 30 years. His jobs span engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating, contracting and both Program and Project Management. His projects experience includes information systems, product development, capital construction and manufacturing. Joe joined PMI in 1986 and has held many Chapter Board positions in Rochester, NY including two terms as President. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Project Management Professional and Certified Cost Engineer.
Joe is Vice-President for PMCentersUSA, a PMI Global Registered Education Provider and the 2006 PMI Professional Development Provider of the Year. Joe teaches and consults for PMCentersUSA clients and has written over 30 articles on project management topics.


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About the Conference Call:
Conference call participation is free and questions are encouraged. Long distance charges may apply depending on your carrier - some cell phone companies allow free long distance after certain times in the evenings.

Conference Dial-in: (269) 320-8300 Access Code: 767 616#

PMlessonsLearned.com is all about Project Managers helping Project Managers and open to all.

FREE confcall Apr. 9 - "The Job Market and You" - PMJOBSHOP

What: PMJOBSHOP conference call

Topic: "The Job Market and You"
Presented by Charlene Watler
When: Thursday Apr. 9, 2009 at 9pm Eastern time
Where: Conference Dial-in: (269) 320-8300 Access Code: 767 616#

On this call Charlene will discuss having a plan "B" , Cultivating a positive attitude and where you may find your next opportunity. Our goal is to make this as interactive as possible so your participation is very important. Visit our Web site at: http://www.pmlessonslearned.com/.
Follow the "files and presentations" link on our website for directions to the presentation. There is a lot of valuable information in this presentation so please download prior to the call.

Charlene Watler has held senior positions in Human Resources for over twenty years.

Formerly, the Director of Human Resources at Dow Jones & Company, Charlene aided executives in sales, news, IT and finance at their flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal. Her areas of expertise include: strategic planning, talent management, leadership development, conflict resolution and training program assessment. Earlier assignments at the Company included Director or Training & Development and HR Business Unit Consultant.

Before joining Dow Jones, Charlene held positions in sales at IBM, and claims operations and HR management at Allstate Insurance. She earned a BA in Psychology from Newton College of the Sacred Heart. She obtained SPHR, Senior Professional Human Resource certification in 2003.

With an extensive background in HR Charlene began consulting in 2007. She works with private companies and enjoys working with local colleges.

Charlene Watler, SPHR
Human Resource Consultant

Conference call participation is free and questions are encouraged. Long distance charges may apply depending on your carrier; some cell phone companies allow free long distance after certain times in evenings.

We look forward to having you on our call this coming Thursday evening.

Mike Chrepta
Scott Percival

PM JobShop: "Project Managers helping Project Managers".