Journyx Webinar Archive

Recorded Webinars

Is Government Contracting Right for Your Business?
Wes Fue, CEO/Founder, Timberwolf Enterprises, LLC

In 2010, the government spent $500 billion on private contracts. About 23% of that was awarded to small businesses. Get familiar with the process. Learn how the government works, determine if contracting is right for you and prepare your business for government contracting. During this hour you will learn about the Federal government as a potential customer and how to register to do business with them. We will define the size of the market, discuss your unique opportunity(s) as a small business, and provide you initial guidance on how to begin doing business with the Fed. You'll walk away from this webinar with the following valuable information:

  • The basics of government contracting
  • The types of businesses that contract
  • The industries and specialties of government contracting
  • How the government does business
  • Businesses that have found success in contracting

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How to Modify Quickbooks for DCAA Compliance
Sarah Glass, President, AimSourcing, Inc.

This webinar covers the fundamentals of Federal Contract Cost Accounting as it applies to QuickBooks. We demonstrate how QuickBooks should be configured to accommodate these cost principles so as to pass a DCAA Accounting System Review. This webinar goes beyond the limits of QuickBooks, however, because QuickBooks by itself cannot handle some of the required elements necessary for a compliant system. Consequently, we will discuss policies and procedures related to topics such as indirect cost allocation, time keeping, and allowability of costs. We will also show alternative ways how indirect rates can be computed and indirect costs can be allocated to final cost objectives, using add-on systems. Topics will include:

  • Organizing the Chart of Accounts into Cost Pools
  • Job Costing
  • Timekeeping and Labor Distribution
  • Creating a Customized Report for Labor Distribution
  • Fully Loaded Job Cost Reporting
  • Managing Unallowable Costs

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You've Got The Contract - Now What? Successful Kickoff Meetings
Dr. Cynthia Kalina-Kaminsky, President, Process & Strategy Solutions

It’s true: your business has the talent and ability to perform the contract work that you’ve been hired for. So how do you guarantee that you and the contracting agency are on the same page from the very start? No matter how well your proposal was written, there will be differences in interpretation between what you thought you wrote and what the contracting agency understands you will deliver. To coalesce all the diverse opinions, to get buy in on critical items you need for project success, and to develop common understanding of project deliverables, you need to conduct a well-planned, well executed kickoff meeting. Join this webinar to learn how to structure a kickoff meeting, the politics of conducting the meeting, and what you need to ask for before everyone leaves the room.

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Compensation Compliance for Federal Contractors: The Rules Have Changed!
Jim Jutzin, VP Business Services, HR-3D | HR Solutions

The Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) expects to have a Web portal ready to collect compensation data as early as February 2012. Most federal contractors will be required to submit data. Also, the DCAA is expanding audits for unallowable expenses. You must understand what your data says before you submit it or you may be inadvertently handing government auditors everything they need to take action against you! Attendees of this webinar will walk away with a clear understanding of:

  • The recent changes in auditing procedures and regulations for federal contractors
  • What exactly federal auditors are looking for and how to easily provide it
  • How to be fully prepared for an audit - and sleep well the night before!

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How to Win & Successfully Execute on Defense Contracts
Laura Faulkner, PhD, Strategist, FalconDay Consulting

Defense contracting is about two things: serving the ultimate end customer—the soldier, and securing your ability to continue that mission in the future. Dr. Faulkner is an expert in both Project Management and Customer Experience Design, having negotiated and lead successful Defense contract ‘wins’ and project turn-arounds for the last decade. In this webinar, you will:

  • Learn to hear the ‘secret code’ in what your defense customer is saying
  • Discover the critical factor to successful project deliveries and proposals
  • Understand simple keys to delivering happiness in the complexity of defense contracting

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How Journyx helps our DCAA Clients Manage Employee Time & Projects
Meredith Zachritz, Director of Product Management, Journyx, Inc.

Journyx has been providing time & project management solutions to government contractors for 15 years. Over 1000 companies utilize our solutions to ensure that they fully comply with DCAA guidelines. In this webinar you'll see how Journyx provides efficient and accurate time tracking, resource scheduling and project planning with managerial controls, customization options and reporting features that ensure effective bidding and compliance. A short Q&A session is included so you'll have an opportunity to get your questions answered about how Journyx enables you to:

  • Quickly & accurately track time for DCAA compliance
  • Prepare for upcoming audits without stressing
  • Capture a full audit history of any changes made
  • Cut down on labor expenses through efficient planning and allocation
  • Integrate with financial systems for applying contract billing rules and invoicing
  • Know what your staff is working on and who is available for the next project
  • Track expenses and leave time for all employees
  • Monitor contract status with project dashboards for quick visual updates

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5 Steps to DCAA Compliance with Time Management
Meredith Zachritz, Director of Product Management, Journyx, Inc.

Are you interested in exploring ways to lessen your overhead and stress regarding adherence to DCAA Time Regulations? These days, who isn't! Journyx is here to help you accomplish this mission through our innovative approach to time and cost management that any defense contractor can easily adopt. There's no time like the present to implement the kind of changes in your organization that will show results almost immediately! Through case-studies and practical examples, this webinar will teach you how to streamline processes, abide by DCAA time guidelines, and pursue and expand upon the most profitable areas of your business.

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DCAA Audits are on the Rise for Federal Contractors - Are You Prepared?
Jim Jutzin, VP Business Services, HR-3D | HR Solutions

The Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) expects to have a Web portal ready to collect compensation data as early as February 2012. Also, the DCAA is expanding audits for unallowable expenses. You must understand what your data says before you submit it or you may be inadvertently handing government auditors everything they need to take action against you! Attendees of this webinar will walk away with a clear understanding of:

  • The recent changes in auditing procedures and regulations for federal contractors
  • What exactly federal auditors are looking for and how to easily provide it
  • How to be fully prepared for an audit - and sleep well the night before!

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Top 10 Reasons to Outsource Your Finance and Accounting Operations
Sarah Glass, President/CEO, AimSourcing, Inc.

Have you ever considered outsourcing your finance & accounting? If not, perhaps you should. Outsourcing can not only provide better cash flow, accurate forecasts and more time, but also peace of mind for the small/medium-sized business owner. If you have ever found yourself in one of these scenarios than maybe you should consider the benefits of outsourcing:

  • You are on vacation and you can’t get internet access to run payroll for your staff.
  • Your financials show you are profitable but you are struggling to have enough cash to make payroll and pay vendors.
  • Your long-time bookkeeper came in this morning to give their two weeks notice.
  • You had a computer crash and you’re not sure when the last time your QuickBooksTM file was backed up.
  • You are not sure what your staff are working on and can’t easily distinguish between idle time and productive activities.
  • You have won a government contract and need to get ready for a DCAA audit.

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Jumpstart Your Way to Efficiency: Scope & Requirement Management for Projects
Darrel Raynor, PMP, MBA. Managing Director at Data Analysis & Results, Inc.

Your first chance to fail, or at least make your projects harder and longer than they need to be, is to not productively manage your Scope and Requirements processes. Allowing a relationship based approach or a force-feed approach will not optimize the precious time you have with your customers and sponsors, much less your teams. Without the right mindset about and the right set of prioritized requirements, excellence in execution is not and will never be enough. Trying to shave time off an inefficient Scope and Requirements process will only worsen your results. Only by stepping back and truly assessing what you are trying to accomplish, then mapping your team and customer time to your highest value efforts, and planning and driving those to finish will you succeed.

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Change is Coming! What Project Managers Should Know to Prepare their Organizations
Tim Rahschulte, PhD. Executive Director, Program Management Academy & Assoc. Professor at George Fox University

Organizational change continues to challenge executive leaders and project managers in all sectors of work. Those who can more effectively plan, lead, and sustain change have a distinct competitive advantage. This workshop provides that advantage to you. This webinar provides the summary of case study research on how best to plan, lead, and sustain change.

Attendees will be able to:

  • Understanding the dynamics of organizations and why organizational change is so difficult.
  • Learning unique skills of successful change agents and a more effective leadership approach to change.
  • IDiscovering practical models, processes and success factors required to effectively manage change.
  • Learning how to develop a comprehensive and understandable plan for the needed changes.
  • Learning to effectively apply organizational change readiness tools to increase your probability of success.

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5 Steps to Defining & Implementing a Simple Project Process
Darrel Raynor, PMP, MBA. Managing Director at Data Analysis & Results, Inc.

When you desperately need a project process, the biggest mistake an organization can make is to buy a tool prior to defining, testing, and optimizing your project processes. The second biggest mistake is to have your PMO attempt to implement vague executive direction without that direction going right to business unit managers. In this webinar, we address one of two workable strategies to "Defining & Implementing a Simple Project Process" and cover the 5 most important steps for a successful "grassroots" approach. When teams lay out their deliverables with a clear definition of the value they bring, they are halfway there! We lay out 5 key steps to a successful "grassroots" project process.

Attendees will walk away with the ability to:

  • Lead their teams more effectively by implementing short planning steps
  • Move to a 'value' and other trade-off based communication for their myriad project decisions
  • Initiate and launch a variance based action plan approach with great results

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Overcoming the Obstacles of Resource Management across Cultures and Borders
Bob Eslampour, Owner & Managing Director at MYP Consulting

Whether you manage a 3-person, 3-day project or a multi-million dollar software implementation, you are going to be dealing with people of different cultures – possibly even spread all over the globe. You need to have the tools in place to effectively bring your project in under budget, on-time and within scope – while managing global cultural diversity. In this interactive presentation, Bob Esplampour, an expert in managing projects across cultures and borders, will present some practical ways to overcome some of the most common pitfalls associated with managing globally. He will take the attendees through the process of identifying and overcoming issues involving cultural & geographic differences in:

  • Organizations
  • Operating Processes
  • IT Infrastructure
  • Planning & Staffing Techniques
  • Access to Information
  • Legal & Social Considerations
  • Leadership

Bob will share many real-life examples of problem solving techniques surrounding resource management. Attendees will walk away with some practical solutions they can begin applying immediately to their own projects.

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Project Document Management: How to Save Time, Reduce Workload, and Increase Productivity
Darrel Raynor, PMP, MBA. Managing Director at Data Analysis & Results, Inc.

Project Document Management is an overlooked area where you can easily increase productivity. Using just a few of the many Agile & Integrated Project Management™ methods will increase your team’s satisfaction. Reduce problems caused by misunderstandings and the frustration of constantly changing requirements and other customer interactions. Technology has moved forward, have you kept pace managing your documents? These gains can be had without expensive tools and with no heavy training burden. This webinar teaches attendees how to:

  • Plan their projects using documents as deliverables
  • Reduce the effort toward forcing people to review or acquiesce to document content
  • Reduce the number of and complexity of many of their documents
  • Learn many document management tips geared to easing the process burden on projects

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Ask The Experts: Responses to Your Most Difficult Project Management Dilemmas
Dan Vickers, PMP.  Project Manager/Program Manager/Implementation Leader at CS Stars, LLC.

If you're like most project managers, you have problems managing people on projects. Your many difficulties include conflict management, resource management, and project leadership (or the lack thereof). Are you left wondering how to overcome these issues? Then we have some ideas! We've brought together a panel of leading project management experts to help. During this presentation we will explore 5 key issues that we all face as project managers.

  • Group Think versus Project Leadership – How many people does it take to change a light bulb?
  • Communicating all the risks versus communicating only the pertinent risks – How much does the client need to know?
  • Delegating Tasks versus Controlling Tasks – To delegate or micro-manage? That is the question.
  • Team Conflicts and Conflict Resolution – Dealing with diverse personalities and personal issues.
  • Resource Allocation versus Resource Availability – How to avoid getting yourself into resource trouble and what you can do to get out.

Interact with our panel of PM gurus who will share real-life examples of problem solving techniques. Be prepared to discuss these topics and ask them your toughest questions. Attendees will walk away with some practical solutions they can begin applying immediately to their own projects.

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Project Priorities: How to Determine and Execute to Them
Don Muller, Systems Engineer / Program Manager

When it comes time to make a decision, how do you know what is important? Have you heard any of these truisms?

  • If You Meet the Schedule, You Will Meet the Budget. It is the Marching Army That Kills You
  • Protect the Money. You Can Get More Time, But Not More Money. When the Money's Gone, It's Over
  • Take The Time You Need to Make it Great. They Will Forget That You Missed a Deadline, but a Poorly Performing Product will be Remembered Forever
  • If I Can Get The Right People, Co-Locate Them, and They Are Left Alone, We Will Be Successful
  • There Is Nothing More Important on a Job Than a Good Spec
  • If the End Product is Too Expensive, the Business Plan is Broken, and the Effort is Wasted
  • Process Yields Success. Any True Process Yields Reusable Products and Can Be Steadily Improved

Which of these is true? Depending upon the circumstances, all of them. Any of them may be the most important thing to consider when making design decisions. So how do you decide which is most important in a particular case? This webinar gives attendees a chance to walk away with:

  • A method of determining proper project priorities
  • Clear understanding of how to spend your time on a project
  • Communication strategies for sponsors & team members
  • Strategies for executing on project priorities

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PMO Strategies to Become & Remain Relevant in Today’s Fast-Paced World
Darrel Raynor, PMP, MBA. Managing Director at Data Analysis & Results, Inc.

To become and remain relevant in today’s fast-paced world, PMOs must move from a C-Level partially sponsored layer of governance to a desired partner providing real and immediate value for projects of all sizes. Knowledge management for both culture and mechanics aspects of project and program management are critical. Providing another layer of vaguely directed management by rules is not desired by business units. The bottom line: if projects take longer or cost more with PMO assistance than without, relevance is in high jeopardy. We will discuss two A&IPM™ strategies with tactics for each you can apply now. After this presentation, participants will be able to persuasively describe and prepare an implementation plan for these two powerful strategies:

  • Front load your projects with conflict via 'Mandatory' tailoring project processes using the "Process Slider" concept
  • Ensure all your processes have value by 'Rating' each process and process steps for ROI - guaranteed to lean up your processes!

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The PMO: Strategy – Discipline – Execution – Value
Orlando Lugo, Director of Instructor Scheduling, Credentialing & Quality at PMI Tampa Bay Chapter

This presentation looks beyond a project by project approach and views the PMO from four different yet closely related perspectives: an important center for strategic leadership, where “best practices” are followed, initiatives are completed and business benefits are realized.

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Turning Around Failing Projects
Rick Morris, PMP.  Owner and President of R2Consulting, LLC.

One of the most sought after topics for project managers is how to deal with failing projects or even how to turn them around. When industry figures show a variation of 60-82% of projects failing, it is easy to see why so many seek this information. In typical Rick Morris style, this session will not be full of theories or textbook options. Instead, it will be an introspective look into actual experiences and a telling of true lessons learned. Rick made a name for himself at Fortune 100 companies for his ability to quickly analyze, understand, and put plans in motion to turn around failing projects.

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Implementing an Enterprise PMO for Competitive Advantage
Orlando Lugo, MPM, PMP, CBM. Director of Instructor Scheduling, Credentialing & Quality at PMI Tampa Bay Chapter.

During this presentation we will look at the implementation of an Enterprise PMO following a process improvement – change management approach.  The main premise is that the PMO can bring competitive advantage to companies that embrace its strategic value.  In this presentation, real life experiences, with successes and areas of improvement are shared.

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What Does it Take to be a Great Project Manager?
Michael O’Brochta, MPM, PMP. President at Zozer, Inc.

What does it take in project management to be the best-of-the-best, the top dog, a superstar, or world-class? What does it take to practice project management at the high-end? What does it take to be a great project manager? Thanks to recent studies and research the answers to these questions are closer now then they have ever been before.

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How to Acquire & Exercise Project Authority
Dan Vickers, PMP. Program & Project Manager at CS STARS.

Have you ever heard or said the phrase, "I have all of the responsibility but none of the authority”? Without the proper authority it is difficult to bear the responsibility for a project. Yet this is what we are asked to do many times. As a Project Manager we are responsible for our projects. By virtue of that responsibility we can assume the authority we need for our projects. In this session we will explore various ways to assume authority on a project and how to exercise this authority.

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Social Media for Project Managers
Michelle Cullison, Social Media Speaker and Consultant at Daystar New Media

It is a given that communication is mission-critical to project success. Social media, while most known for its casual implementation on sites like Facebook and Youtube, provides the project manager with some of the most powerful business communication tools in history. From micro-blogs and video streaming to wikis and social networking, Michelle will demonstrate how project managers can efficiently leverage social media to create dialogue that will strengthen team and stakeholder relationships toward project success.

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Agile is Not Only for Software Projects: Getting Agile Right the First Time
Jose Solera, MBA, PMP®, CSM and Timm Esque, CPT from Railinc & Ensemble Management Consulting

This presentation demonstrates specific practices for applying Agile concepts to all sorts of projects. It startes by reviewing the Agile concepts and then provide examples of Agile practices (and tools) applied to both software and non software projects. It will also describe how this particular set of Agile practices (called Commitment-based Project Management - CBPM) evolved at Intel Corp. in the mid-1990’s.

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Top 5 Ways To Alleviate the Chaos of Managing Multiple Projects
Dan Vickers, PMP.  Project Manager/Program Manager/Implementation Leader at CS Stars, LLC.

Managing multiple projects simultaneously and effectively can be very demanding and stressful. There are multiple best practices to keep in mind regarding time management, risk management, task management, and stress management in addition to project management. In this webinar we will explore various ways to control the chaos, leave the office on time and maintain a happy disposition. We will also discuss how to be ready to deliver meaningful project snapshots, at a moments notice, to your stakeholders.

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How to Accelerate Executive Support for Your Projects
Michael O'Brochta, PMP.  President of Zozer, Inc.

Even world-class project managers will not succeed unless they get their executives to act for project success. The trap of applying best practice project management only to have the project fail because of executive inaction or counteraction can be avoided. Increasing numbers of project managers are looking for ways to deal with this reality.

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Extending Microsoft Project
James Brawner, Director at Journyx, Inc.

Planning a project is only the first step in getting things done. The right project manager knows how to take these plans and make them a reality. While Microsoft Project is an important project planning tool, it does not enable project execution without a little help. We'll give you that help.

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3 Critical Components of Project Success
James Brawner, Director at Journyx, Inc.

Gartner reported that in 2008, 1 in 3 technology projects failed. Explore 3 ways to improve your odds of successfully completing projects on time, within budget, and to scope as planned.

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Successful Project Execution
Bryan Peterson, Customer Success Manager, Journyx, Inc.

How do successful project managers take projects from abstract plans to concrete results? This webinar focuses on the ways in which PMs can build a bridge between project planning and resource management to ensure successful project execution every time.

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Improve Project Execution with Better Resource Management
Bryan Peterson, Customer Success Manager, Journyx, Inc.

Learn how to smooth the resource utilization curve, understand where your project is, determine the "I" for the ROI of your project, and maximize your most valuable asset - your employees.

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The 2009 Results Are In: Project Resource Management's Top Tribulations
Dr. Karen McGraw, CEO, Cognitive Technologies, Inc.

Hear Dr. Karen McGraw, CEO of our partner, Cognitive Technologies, highlight the findings of the 2009 Project Resource Management Survey, including surprising insights on how organizations are utilizing and underutilizing project resource management tools and processes.

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Services/Project Mashup: Blending Professional Services and Traditional Project Management for Enhancing Customer Experience
Bryan Peterson, Customer Success Manager, Journyx, Inc.

Development and professional services are becoming more intertwined in order to must manage and deliver a successful customer experience. Learn how to reduce non-billable hours, streamline processes, and increase overall efficiency.

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From Reactive to Proactive: Moving IT from a Ticket-Driven Cost Center to Organizational Alignment
Bryan Peterson, Customer Success Manager, Journyx, Inc.

IT organizations are being required to align with organizational goals and strategies and thus need to be more proactive. Explore how to bridge the gap and transform your IT organization.

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