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Live Webinar July 21, 2011, 11:00 – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

• Have you ever felt powerless to implement an important new idea?
• Have you ever been “blindsided” at a meeting?
• Have you ever lost two good team members because you could find no way to keep them from attacking each other?

These are some of the issues of organizational politics. Many of us have become enmeshed in politics, but we’ve also known some people who seem to be able to engage and prosper.

How is that done?

Leading meetings effectively, and participating in meetings effectively, requires much more than agendas, conference rooms, flip charts, markers, speakerphones or projectors. You also have to know how to use them, and that’s where politics enters.

People need to feel heard, they hate to waste time, and the chair needs to know how to handle sticky situations.

This insight-filled program deals with political dimensions of issues such as:

• What to do when powerful people “sit in”
• Where to sit in the room
• How to craft an agenda that drives the meeting
• How to prevent duels and how to intervene when necessary
• How to prepare and run tele-meetings
• How to handle handouts
• How to plan and run an “issues-only” meeting
• How to avoid playing “Serial Status Report”
• How to get the right volunteers
• How to ask for (and receive) the right kind of help from the meeting attendees
• How to establish a sound political foundation for the meeting before it even starts
• How room geometry and seating position affect human behavior
• How and when to intervene in toxic conflict
• The seven most deadly logical fallacies and how to prevent their use
• How to manage the effects of hardware: projectors, laptops, smart-phones, etc.
• How to use a “parking lot”

In this webinar workshop with Rick Brenner (LinkedIn profile), Principal at Chaco Canyon Consulting, we will provide a general framework that helps meeting leaders focus on leading the people in the meeting rather than getting enmeshed in their politics.

Click to register for The Politics of Meetings (for People Who Hate Politics)

Live Webinar – July 21, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

Pair programming, or even more generally pairing, is often misunderstood and rejected without consideration or understanding of the immense benefits it brings to a team and organization.

Management will often react with “Why am I paying for two resources to do the work of one?” We will discuss how to address management and individual resistance to pairing by discussing the immense benefits pairing can bring to an Agile team.

If your team is suffering from resources constraints, limited domain knowledge, low productivity, or simply completing your stories within the Iteration, don’t miss this web seminar.

We will discuss how this works for developers, testers, business analysts, and more. We’ll discuss how pairing can help to solve this impediments and get your team and project on track.

Presenter:

Andy Painter (LinkedIn profile) has over 15 years of professional software development experience. Andy has coached individual agile teams and actively involved in large-scale Agile Enterprise transformations. He has a unique ability to work at a very detailed level, coaching project teams while still communicating effectively and building trust with senior executives.

Andy has experience with XP techniques and practices, such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Pair Programming. With over two years of Agile Implementation, Coaching and Training experience, he has worked with agile teams of varying size and maturity, from Fortune 50 to startup. Andy is currently a Certified Scrum Master

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Live Webinar July 21, 2011 1:30 am – 2:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

Agile isn’t a single method, it is a collection of methods that share a common philosophy.

The reality of agile implementations is that they are often:

• Partially implemented
• Poorly implemented
• Inconsistently Implemented
• Fail to deliver the promised benefits

This presentation focuses on understanding the agile fundamentals. It starts with a quick look at the most commonly used agile methods and then provides a structured approach for selecting the most effective agile methods for your organization and their projects.

Key considerations are:

• Will your methods scale up to the requirements of your current and future projects
• With the many agile methods, how do you empower the developers in making appropriate agile process selections while maintaining a consistent and manageable organizational standard

This presentation will summarize the latest research associated with successful agile adoption. It will discuss an optimal agile solution combining organizational consistency and project scalability.

About the Speaker:

Timothy A. Chick (LinkedIn profile) is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) where he works on the Team Software Process (TSP) initiative. Chick is responsible for defining, developing, and transitioning into practice high-performance software and systems engineering practices based on the principles and concepts in TSP and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). His work includes applied research, product and training development, education/training delivery, and consulting in the domains of software engineering and systems engineering process improvement. Chick is currently an SEI-Certified CMMI Instructor and TSP Mentor Coach, and he also holds a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Live Webinar July 21, 2011 – 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

Are you a confident and competent project manager? What’s next?

Take a look at PMI’s Program Management Standard and the next step in your career growth, the Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification. Take a quick peek at our new Program Management course, in which you master what lies beyond project management – topics such as Benefits Management and Program Governance.

This presentation will be 30 minutes long followed by a live question and answer session.

Subject Matter Expert: Bruce Chadbourne, PgMP®
Bruce Chadbourne (LinkedIn profile) with more than three decades of experience in engineering project and program management, Bruce is a long-standing PMP and one of the first to complete the Program Management Professionals (PgMP) credential. As a contributor to the PMBOK® and BABOK® guides, Bruce has lectured on business analysis, requirements management, system testing, and Agile project management techniques. As former Region 1 Director of the PMI Risk SIG, he co-authored the book The Professional Guide to Risk Assessment (2004).

Click to register for Getting Started In Program Management