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How-To Mini-Courses
Advance your project management career and expand your personal knowledge base with ProjectConnections How-To Mini-Courses! All courses, whether audio-only or web-based presentations, include:
- Course recording that covers fundamentals, tools, and application to different situations
- Related templates and resources you can use on the job
- Written transcript for each mini-course; Slide set copy for each webinar
- Instructions for requesting Category A (formerly Category 3) PDUs for your participation
Note: We release one new mini-course a month exclusively to Premium subscribers, as part of their subscription benefit. Visit our Premium Home Page to see this month's complimentary mini-course. Other mini-courses can be purchased below.
Agile Development: Core Methods
Agile Methodologies: Overview of Scrum
Assessing Project Risks
Change Management for Working with Partners
Communicating Up the Chain to Resolve Big Issues
The Crystal Approach to Agile Projects
Dealing with Conflict
Dealing with Schedule-Killing Scope Creep
Deciding How to Respond to Risks
Defining the Project Work (Creating a WBS)
Evaluating New Projects
Getting More Flexible with Project Processes
Getting the Right Project Team, the First Time
Getting Started with New PM Techniques
Identifying Project Risks
Introduction to Earned Value (2-part mini-course)
Leadership from Every Seat at the Project Table
Little ITIL®, Big Results: 10 Steps for Kicking Off ITIL in Small Shops
Making Tough Project Trade-offs
Measuring Process Improvement Success
Overview of Agile Development
Planning the Project When Things Are Uncertain
The Project Manager's Leadership Role
The Project Plan, and the Process to Get There
Recognizing and Dealing With a Lack of Urgency for Meeting Deadlines
Rewarding, Recognizing, and Energizing Your Team Members
Speaking Up! Influence Skills for Getting What You Need
Staying In Touch and Staying In Sync: Planning Project Communication
Stopping the Endless Requirements Gathering
Tracking and Managing the Performance of Virtual Teams
Which Project Leadership Hat Should I Wear This Week?
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Kent McDonald
This mini-course provides a fast introduction to four major methods collectively referred to as "Agile development": Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal, and Feature-Driven Development.
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Agile Methodologies: Overview of Scrum
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Kent McDonald
There are many different Agile methodologies, from Extreme to Crystal Clear. But when most people say "Agile," they mean Scrum. This mini-course provides a high-level overview of Scrum, including the guiding values, the main principles and techniques, and the chief roles it requires.
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Assessing Project Risks
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Carl Pritchard
In this course, Carl Pritchard explains how to assess each risk's likelihood and potential impact, how to rank risks, and how to see the most important places to spend money and time to minimize risks and maximize your chances of project success.
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Change Management for Working with Partners
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Michael Aucoin
Mike Aucoin helps you learn techniques for approaching a new project or partner relationship and laying the groundwork for success.
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Communicating Up the Chain to Resolve Big Issues
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: DeAnna Burghart
This course explains the importance of issue escalation processes and the many ways they can help your team, beyond just faster issue resolution.
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The Crystal Approach to Agile Projects
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Kent McDonald
In this mini-course, Kent McDonald introduces the key roles, practices, and principles of Crystal project teams.
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Dealing with Conflict
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Michael Aucoin
This course by Mike Aucoin, author of Right-Brain Project Management, covers how to prepare for typical sources of conflict and deal with them constructively and quickly, before they damage the team or your chances of project success.
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Dealing with Schedule-Killing Scope Creep
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
You can control scope creep, or at least its impact on your project. But in order to do that, you have to see it coming, understand the real project goals, and know how to talk to executives and customers in their language. This mini-course explains how to do all that and more.
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Deciding How to Respond to Risks
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Carl Pritchard
In this session, Carl illustrates the different risk strategies you can employ on your projects and recommends ways to select the best approaches for your situation. Then he shows how you can present alternatives to management based on a thorough assessment of the risks so they can make an informed choice.
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Defining the Project Work (Creating a WBS)
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
Founder Cinda Voegtli explains the purpose and functions of doing a work breakdown, with a special emphasis on staying practical, relevant, and efficient. Best of all, you don't have to do it all by yourself; in fact, if you're doing it alone, you're doing it wrong!
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Evaluating New Projects
$24.95
1.25 PDU
1.25 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
Learn techniques you can use to create and use selection criteria for your project portfolio. Evaluate the importance of various projects based on their strategic and regulatory impact, then rate and prioritize them based on how critical each project is to your organizational goals.
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Getting More Flexible with Project Processes
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
This mini-course examines how several companies have communicated different project profiles to their teams without scaring them off or overwhelming them.
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Getting the Right Project Team, the First Time
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
This course will help you identify a strong, cross-functional core team for your project, along with any other resources you'll need, and to make sure the team has the skills and experience needed to complete the work successfully.
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Getting Started with New PM Techniques
$24.95
1.25 PDU
1.25 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
This how-to course by Cinda Voegtli explains practical ways to get new and helpful project management techniques in use on new or existing projects.
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Identifying Project Risks
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Carl Pritchard
Learn how you can start a productive risk conversation with your team; one that includes real risk statements, strips away the blinders, and fills your risk register to overflowing, so you know exactly what you're up against.
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Introduction to Earned Value (2-part mini-course)
$45.00
2 PDUs
2 PDUs
Presented by: Carl Pritchard
This 2-part course by Carl Pritchard of Pritchard Management Associates provides an overview of the Earned Value approach to tracking project progress.
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Leadership from Every Seat at the Project Table
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Michael Aucoin
Mike Aucoin discusses how each team member can exercise personal ownership and initiative throughout the project to avoid or solve typical project problems.
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Little ITIL®, Big Results: 10 Steps for Kicking Off ITIL in Small Shops
$39.95
1.25 PDU
1.25 PDU
Presented by: Alan S Koch
You don't have to do everything at once. In this session, ITIL Expert, Alan S Koch will apply his decades of experience to this common problem, providing you with a roadmap that can help you to open communication channels and get your improvements moving.
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Making Tough Project Trade-offs
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
Cinda Voegtli shows you how you can lead your team in understanding, communicating, and making tough choices so the most important project goals are accomplished.
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Measuring Process Improvement Success
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Alan S Koch
This course by Alan Koch covers how to measure, communicate, and adjust as an organization undertakes changes to its processes. Learn the 4 steps you need to follow in order to monitor any process change for real effects, how to find the missing metrics you need to make those decisions, and how to make measurements that mean something.
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Overview of Agile Development
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Kent McDonald
Agile teams don't do this. They don't use that. What do they do? What, exactly, makes a project or a team "Agile"? In this session, Kent focuses on explaining the overall value system behind the various Agile approaches and techniques, and why those values can lead to better projects.
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Planning the Project When Things Are Uncertain
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Mike Aucoin
You can still have a plan with meaningful dates and deadlines, even if your project doesn't conform to neat, predictable waterfall models. This sessions explores spiral development, time-boxing, and other iterative methods that can help your team close in on the project's end point.
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The Project Manager's Leadership Role
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Michael Aucoin
This course provides an overview of the full breadth of the "leader-and-manager" role of the most effective PMs. If you're curious what makes others seem like "born leaders" or how to move beyond mere paper management as a PM, the advice in this mini-course will help.
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The Project Plan, and the Process to Get There
$24.95
1.25 PDU
1.25 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
This course by ProjectConnections CEO Cinda Voegtli walks you through what's included in a useful project plan (and what isn't) and explains how to get the most out of this critical project management document.
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Recognizing and Dealing With a Lack of Urgency for Meeting Deadlines
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
When insidious daily slips are threatening your project's critical deadlines, learn how to get everyone in sync and moving fast on what matters. Great team techniques for use by project managers and group leaders.
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Rewarding, Recognizing, and Energizing Your Team Members
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Mike Aucoin
There are better and more effective ways to motivate your team than bribing them for good work. Learn new ways to motivate your team, inspire them to succeed, and get them excited about the potential results.
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Speaking Up! Influence Skills for Getting What You Need
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: DeAnna Burghart
This short course and related guideline will help you bolster confidence and develop the most effective case possible in every venue available to you.
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Staying In Touch and Staying In Sync: Planning Project Communication
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: DeAnna Burghart
Planning a project is a job and a half, so why would you sign up for yet another plan? How about making sure that you're talking to everyone who needs to know, when they need to know, about what they need to know.
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Stopping the Endless Requirements Gathering
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
This session explores how to engage your customers with a few powerful tools and a mutual quest to identify what matters most, to help any project stay out of or get out of a schedule-killing requirements gathering morass.
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Tracking and Managing the Performance of Virtual Teams
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Cinda Voegtli
This course from Cinda Voegtli addresses the unique challenges of tracking and managing distributed team members. No matter where your team members are located or who they report to, there are several easy forms of tracking and communication you can use ensure that the right work is getting done at the right time.
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Which Project Leadership Hat Should I Wear This Week?
$24.95
1 PDU
1 PDU
Presented by: Michael Aucoin
This session by Mike Aucoin, author of Right-Brain Project Management, covers this challenging variation in the project manager's role during different project phases.
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