https://www.offpeaktraining.com Business Training Made Convenient Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:08:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Off Peak Training has moved to a new location within the Reston Town Center. Why move right across the street you ask? As one of the newest buildings in the Reston Town Center, the building enables Off Peak Training to provide a state of the art training environment that ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2012/01/weve-moved-off-peak-training-reston-virginia/ Government Contracting Event at Northrup Grumman on January 12 Keys to Procurement with Northrop Grumman Please join Cynthia Hyland, Vice President Contracts, Pricing & Supply Chain of Northrop Grumman; Chuck Harris of Pyramid Systems; and a panel of Northrop Grumman procurement personnel on Thursday, January 12th. This event is for emerging government ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/12/keys-to-procurement-with-northrop-grumman/ Disaster Averted! Avoiding Common Project Management Pitfalls Despite the continuous evolution of the project management discipline, projects repeatedly fail due to common project management mistakes. In a time when project managers are expected to do much more with much less, understanding these common mistakes and proactively preventing them is critical to ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/11/disaster-averted-avoiding-common-project-management-pitfalls-%e2%80%93-november-16-2011-%e2%80%93-reston-luncheon-series/ Differences Between Project Management and Product Management This session will focus on discussing the challenge of working in organizations that do not understand the difference between project management and product management. The two roles often appear to be at odds with each other. A product manager may want to add features ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/10/differences-between-project-management-and-product-management-%e2%80%93-october-19-2011-%e2%80%93-reston-luncheon-series/ Reston Challenge Fall Festival - October 29 Each year Off Peak Training chooses a local non-profit to give back. We are proud to sponsor this year's Reston Challenge Fall Festival to benefit the 4Paws Rescue Team. The Off Peak Training Team is looking forward to volunteering at and sponsoring such a ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/09/reston-challenge-fall-festival-to-benefit-4paws-rescue-team/ Join Off Peak Training at the PMIWDC 5th Annual Career day. Providing chapter members, employers and vendors with an exceptional networking opportunity designed to match the interests, skills and experiences of our members to the needs of the employers. PMIWDC's Career Day is the ideal forum to match quality ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/09/jobs-networking-and-pdus-at-pmiwdc-career-day/ Project Management Doesn't Start On Day One In many institutions, big and small, public and private, the role of a project manager has typically been flanked by bookends; they have a cameo appearance during the final days of proposal development (well…. maybe), have a debut after a contract has been awarded ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/08/project-management-doesnt-start-on-day-one-%e2%80%93-september-21-2011-%e2%80%93-reston-luncheon-series/ This is what Nathan Sanders has to say about his recent experience taking Off Peak Training's Earned Value Management Course. "I wanted to let you know that I found Off Peak Training's two-day seminar on Earned Value Management to be an exceptional learning opportunity. My initial interest in the course ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/08/earned-value-management-evm-training-testimonial/ The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework of Good Practices used for the delivery and management of quality IT Services. ITIL is comprised of five core volumes providing guidance in the following areas: Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and Continual Service Improvement. The goal is the ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/08/what-is-itilv3/ Where Balanced Scorecard Strategic Planning & Project Management Merge Project management professionals must understand the business case of the projects they are managing and may be required to report performance metrics indicating how the project is contributing to overall organizational strategy.  To help ensure proper portfolio management and alignment, it is important ... https://www.offpeaktraining.com/2011/07/where-balanced-scorecard-strategic-planning-and-project-management-merge-august-17-2011-reston-luncheon-series/