Meeting Professional Development Unit (PDU) Requirements

Synopsis:
This 2-hour workshop presents a project management approach to accumulating the PDUs needed to satisfy Continuing Certification Requirements (CCRs). This workshop applies the PMBOK framework to creating and executing a strategy to enable certification holders to complete requirements within schedule and budget. Using the Talent Triangle, this approach looks at ways to balance technical, leadership, and strategic and business management types of education and practical experience to the cycle of certification retention. At the end of this workshop you will have created a strategy for accumulating the PDUs needed to maintain your certification.

Speaker: Dr. Cheryl Anderson, VP Education & CEO Anderson Consulting, LLC

Addmission Fee: Non-members: $85  Members: $55

PDU: 2
  

Science Project Management of the USA and Russian Returned Lunar Materials

Topic Description:
Discussion of a special project (Analysis of Lunar Materials) with a large number of unknowns, must have data by a given date to present to the international community, all materials to be reviewed for sensitivity and classification prior to publication and presentation. All data conclusions to be ‘worked’ with all data from the 100 world-wide analysis teams. This author will use the data he generated from the lunar sample analysis program to discuss the problems listed and encountered above. Problem example is ‘how to transport and secure lunar materials when the carrier has kilograms of materials representing over a billion dollars of government spending’. How to avoid conflict from the news media relative to Science vs Engineering.

Speaker: Dr. Ned Wogman, Chief Scientist, National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Early bird: members $25 / non-members $30
Walk-In: members $30 / non-members $35
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Students: additional discount $10 off *
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PDU: 1

Six weekend days: August 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, & 27
Time: 9am - 5pm
Location: 5241 Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas, NV
36 Contact hours

Last Opportunity for PMP Exam Prep on PMBOK Guide, 5th Edition!

This PMP Prep Course is offered by your PMI Southern Nevada Chapter and will help you prepare for the PMP exam at an unbelievably low cost. This six-day course, held on three consecutive weekends, has a high success rate of students passing the PMP Certification Exam the first time. The course is conducted by PMBOK -knowledgeable instructors who are PMP certified, with years of practical project management experience.  

The PMP Prep Course covers the PMBOK processes and knowledge areas and other information needed to pass the PMP Exam and qualifies for your needed education units. This course will help you understand the PMBOK information and what the test will cover as you study to prepare for taking your exam on the PMBOK Guide, 5th edition.

Admission fee:
Members: $750 / Non-Members: $850

Synopsis:
This three-hour workshop provides a perspective on how innovation represents change in an organization.  Using a project management perspective this workshop explains innovation as both a compelling reason for change, as well as an outcome of change.  Dr. Clemmons addresses how innovation presents organizations with opportunities to embrace or reject challenges to people, processes, and culture, along with an overview of the nature and process of innovation concluding with recommended readings of the ‘classics’ of innovation and provide a cognitive understanding of the difference between Adaptors, Creators, Inventors, and Innovators (very important), as well as the perils of innovation.  
Various models of the innovation process will be explained and then will be applied to a case study in innovation.  The audience will break out into four groups to analyze the case study using the various academic models they have just learned.

Speaker: Dr. Maureen Clemmons, President at Transformations

Addmission Fee, buffet dinner included: $85

PDU: 3