PDU White Papers
New Leaf is pleased to offer this convenient service for PMPs: PDU White Papers. Read a white paper and complete a brief self-test. Then e-mail, mail, or fax your answers to us with your payment. Score 70% or higher and earn from 1 to 6 PDUs. It’s that simple!
The white papers are free – you pay only when you submit your test for grading. To begin, click on any title below. (E-mail answers to: info@newleafpm.com.)
Earned Value: Ideas and Exercises (4 or 6 PDUs)
($39.95 or $59.95) Earned value calculations can give project managers a picture of the project’s progress to date. This information lets you forecast the total project cost and schedule, then make appropriate adjustments. Exercises illustrate how to predict where your project is going so you can modify it in a timely fashion.
An Economic Look at the White Collar Project Portfolio (6 PDUs)
($59.95) Companies struggle with a limited pool of resources to accomplish an exploding number of projects, each one vying for attention. With all the competition, assembling and maintaining a sensible collection of projects – a solid project portfolio – is a challenge for the best of organizations. Applying Nobel-laureate economics to portfolio analysis can improve your results in important ways.
Embracing the Dragon’s Tail (4 PDUs)
($39.95) White-collar project management is beset with external problems: not enough resources, overly ambitious deadlines, last-minute scope changes, and unpleasant technical surprises. But many problems come from within the project itself, frequently originating in a plan that was poorly put together. The estimation techniques explored in this paper will help you build a robust plan and enable you to manage your project more effectively.
An Earned Value Tutorial (2 PDUs)
($19.95) Since 2000, PMI® has included the earned-value method in The PMBOK® Guide and has added earned-value questions to the PMP® Exam. Using a simple project, this tutorial shows you how to use earned value to measure project progress.
Earned Value Benchmarks for Re-baselining a Project (4 or 6 PDUs)
($39.95 or $59.95) To re-plan a project, you must integrate many concerns: lessons learned to date, scope changes, stakeholder expectations, schedule demands, staffing conflicts, and technological changes. The discussion and exercises in this paper will show you five earned-value benchmarks to help you create a re-baselined plan that works. Note: this piece is a sequel to 'Earned Value: Ideas and Exercises.' You may want to download and read Ideas and Exercises from our site first. 'Benchmarks' begins with the simple example featured in the earlier paper.
How Not to Run a Meeting (1 PDU)
($9.95) A meeting is a golden opportunity to waste a great number of people's time. Here is a humorous look at how to take full advantage of the situation.
Multiple People on Multiple Projects (1 PDU)
($9.95) This white paper introduces the MM spreadsheet (MultPeopleMultPjctsV2), designed to help a council of project managers balance the workload of their joint staffs on multiple projects over a 3-month period. The spreadsheet displays an easy-to-grasp view of the allocated work, along with two handy summaries.
The Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) (1 PDU)
($9.95) Among the many tools used to manage a project, the RAM stands out. It is especially useful to projects that cross functional boundaries. Once established, the RAM is usually a very stable representation of the project, often changing less that the project plan. Even on a small project, the RAM can improve everyone’s understanding of each participant’s role.
From ROI to Eureka (2 PDUs)
($19.95) Developing project managers raises some immediate questions for CEOs. What are the business benefits? Do the benefits accrue only to the individual participants or do they extend beyond? How long do the benefits last – months, years, or decades? And how can we measure any of these benefits in a business-like way? Over the years, New Leaf has found answers to the CEOs’ questions – answers that add up to a strong business case for developing project managers.
StSI and RbSI Compared (1 PDU)
($9.95) A few years ago, New Leaf introduced two earned-value indexes, the Staffing-to-Schedule Index (StSI) and the Re-baselined Staffing Index (RbSI). In certain circumstances the two indexes appear to have the same value. Are the two indexes the same? The answer turns out to be that they are equivalent. However, each index’s formula remains convenient in its own context and awkward in the other’s, so both have their uses. Note: this piece is a sequel to two earlier white papers: "StSI and the Remaining Work Index" where the Staffing-to-Schedule Index (StSI) is defined, and "Earned-Value Benchmarks for Re-baselining Your Project" where the Re-baselined Staffing Index (RbSI) is defined and used. You may want to download and read these earlier papers from our site first. This paper begins with the simple example featured in the previous articles.
StSI and the Remaining Work Index (1 PDU)
($9.95) Frequently, part way through a project, a team will discover that things have not been going exactly according to plan. The deliverables have not all been completed on schedule, a major milestone may have slipped, the people working on the project are not the ones envisioned in the plan, and extra work has already been done to keep the project from falling further behind. This paper answers the question: How do you add sufficient staff to recover the original schedule while preserving the shape of the original staffing plan?
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