Live Webinar August 4 2011 – 12:00 – 12:30 am EDT
Duration: 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU Cat A
Presented by : PM Centers USA (Rep 1016)

This webinar will describe the four basic personality styles, including strengths, weaknesses and reaction to stress. This webinar will also explain how to identify and effectively work with the styles of project stakeholders.

Attending this webinar will help improve your interactions with people associated with your projects, and will lead to better project performance.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

Click to view a previously recorded version of this session.

This presentation will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session following the presentation.

Click here to register for Pardon Me – Your Personality is Showing.

Live Webinar August 2, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C
Presented by: PushToTest

When an organization moves to agile software development methodology it becomes easier to forget about agile performance testing. Agile got developers and testers talking to one another. Agile performance testing gets business managers and technical team members communicating.

Business managers need inputs to their risk analysis. For example, PepsiCo uses the results of a load and performance test to assess the risks of running national advertising campaigns on IT system operations. The business manager asks “Are we ready?” and test results contain the answer.

Join Todd Bradfute of PushToTest for a discussion on the following topics:

• Using Open Source Testing (OST) as the common language between managers, testers, developers
• If your confidence is low in test results, use TestMaker to run the tests yourself
• Certifying and hiring testers based on their OST certifications
• How to apply test results to business risk analysis
• People fungability – the ability to move from one role to another – using OST methodology and tools
• How OST enables Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Using OST tools and methodology as a natural solution between testing and test management

The Workshop agenda:

• The why, what, and how of Open Source build and test tools
• Performance Testing Methodology
• Demonstration Of Open Source Test Tools and Functions
• Integration of OST Tools into Agile Test Management Tools
• Q&A, and networking session with the panel

This is a practical and hands-on Workshop for technical team members -Software developers, Testers, IT Managers, and managers -CIOs, CTOs, project managers, and business managers.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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’

Click to register Agile Performance Testing With Open Source Testing (OST)

Online Course
Presented by Enterprise Management Association-International (EMA-I)
Duration: 1 Hour – 1 Category C PDU Free

This 3 part course on Building an Optimized Project Portfolio will be featured on pduOTD.com from July 27th to July 29th 2011.

Part 1 July 27th – Why are Complex decisions so difficult and time consuming?

Part 2 July 28th – From Strategic Plan to Prioritized Objectives and Project Candidates.

Part 3 July 29th – From Prioritized Projects to Optimized Portfolio Given Constraints and Risk

Armed with understanding from Session 1 of the use of AHP for complex decisions, project portfolio candidates will be assessed against organizational objectives.

At the end of this session, participants will understand how to priortize strategic objectives and projects that are candidates for the portfolio. The results is a list of portfolio candidates that is priortized in a mathematically sound and organizationally accurate manner.

The session will include a brief introduction to PPM to ensure a common definition, introduce the AHP and software for portfolio selection, identify specific areas of the PPM process benefiting from the use of the AHP and discuss and demonstrate the use of AHP to enhance portfolio decision-making.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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’

Click to view Part 2 of 3: From Strategic Plan to Prioritized Objectives and Project Candidates

Live Webinar – August 4, 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

Most companies today recognize the value of marketing through online video. And everyone with a connection to the internet has watched some semblance of a viral video. But while many struggle to create marketing campaigns that resonate and generate word-of-mouth, most don’t recognize the simple principles that all viral videos follow to get people to search, click, watch and share.

In this web seminar, Arik Abel will show you recent examples of successful marketing campaigns and the viral videos that inspired them, like:

• Old Spice’s “Man Your Man Should Smell Like / Old Spice Guy”
• Levi’s “Walk Across America”
• T-Mobile’s flash mobs

…and many more.

Get an in-depth look at the principles that drive word-of-mouth marketing and create viral potential. In just one hour, you’ll go from thinking like the average marketer to thinking virally, and getting more out of all of your marketing communications – online or off.

Presenters: Arik Abel & JT Moore (LinkedIn profile), Director of Marketing

Click to register for Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Viral Videos