Live Webinar August 3 2011, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free

So you’ve been assigned a complex, poorly defined project concept… now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity. These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.

Let’s say one of these career bruisers/builders is yours What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning objectives:

1. Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2. The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3. Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

Click to register for Fast Tracking Project Concepts

Live Webinar – July 27, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A

In this one-hour webinar, Global Knowledge Practice Lead Craig Brown will provide practical answers to frequently asked PowerShell questions.

He will discuss how PowerShell has become an important presence in the Microsoft Enterprise network and how Microsoft has incorporated it as a primary development process.

He will explain why IT administrators can no longer avoid interacting with PowerShell—nor should they!

You will learn about:

• The Microsoft shift to PowerShell and why it is important to you
• How PowerShell moved from the developer’s domain to the administrator’s domain
• Basic PowerShell configuration, administration, and resources
• Frequently used PowerShell administrative cmdlets
• How to continue using PowerShell in your environment

Presenter: Craig Brown – MCT, MCSE, MCSA, MCITP, MCDST, CTT+, N+, Security+, Microsoft Voice Specialist

Click to register for PowerShell: What You Need to Know

Live Webinar July 29, 2011 – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by CollabNet
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU Free

NOTE : At this time – Collabnet has the WRONG Description of this seminar on the registration page the correct description is as follows.

We often speak about ‘self organizing teams’ in the Agile space without properly defining how such teams behave or the best ways to lead them.

Based on work with Agile teams as well as research on the topic of self organizing teams and leadership, we use an “Agile Team Maturity Scale.”In coaching and training at different organizations these concepts are used to work with Agile leaders and teams in recognizing characteristics of team behavior.

One key factor is when and how an Agile team leader needs to modify his or her behavior to support the team’s movement towards true self organization.

This workshop takes a dual-thread approach by examining both the behavior of Agile teams and the roles and behaviors of effective Agile leaders.

Slides from a previous presentation are available here.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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.’

Click to register for Agile Team Leadership:The Art of Letting Go

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

We would like to send a big Thank You to Josh Nankivel (LinkedIn profile) for finding this PDU opportunity. Josh is known as @pmstudent on twitter where he offers Project Management Career and PMP Study Advice that works! Take a look and follow him 🙂 We also encourage you to visit Josh’s site http://pmStudent.com that helps new and aspiring Project Managers reach their career goals. Thanks Josh!

Have you ever been responsible for a big software project? Did it go as smoothly as you’d hoped? Here are 97 short and practical tips from some of the world’s most experienced software and product development managers.

These are the realistic secrets that are often omitted or under-emphasized in most global approaches, even the agile ones, or in more academic discussions of the project life cycle. They underscore the principles of getting the job done and include just enough direction to carry out this advice in your workplace.

You would need several lifetimes of experience to acquire the wisdom of these established team leaders from all over the world. Based on the new book, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts (256 Pages), edited by Barbee Davis.

This recorded event took place live on September 30 2009

About Barbee Davis

Barbee Davis, M.A., PHR, PMP writes a semi-monthly column for the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Community Post that reaches over 400,000 project managers around the world. She is an international reviewer for training organizations wishing to be accepted or renewed into the Registered Education Program for PMI.

With a background that includes owning a computer software training company for desktop and technical application instruction and certification, it makes sense that she is a Black Belt in Microsoft Project. Barbee has managed projects for companies all over the United States, trained hundreds of project managers for certification, taught extensively at the university level, and is sought after as a guest speaker. Barbee has also authored the book Quick Quizzes for Project Managers 216 pages, October 2010

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 5.5 Control Scope
• 6.6 Control 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.’

Click to view 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know

Live Webinar – July 28, 2011 3:00 -3:30 PM EDT
Presenter: Journyx Inc.
Duration: 30 minutes 0.5 CAT B FREE

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.

This webinar gives attendees a chance to:

• Explore how to get even more out of Microsoft® Projectâ„¢ and Project Serverâ„¢
• Integrate project plans with a lightweight, user-friendly time and resource management system
• Track project and non-project time with rates and expenses
• Understand complete direct costs and allocate indirect costs
• Achieve new levels of productivity

This Webinar will give you that help.

Attendees will receive 1/2 PDU for attendance at this 30-min webinar.

Click to register for Extending Microsoft Project & Project Server

Online Webinar by Journyx
Presenter: Karen McGraw
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 CAT B FREE

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 under-utilizing project resource management tools and processes.

In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact Journyx and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

Click to view Project Resource Management’s Top Tribulations.