Archive for August, 2011

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Recorded Webcast
Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Min Webcast – Up to .5 Category C PDUs

Uploaded: Oct 14th 2010

Microsoft SharePoint is an excellent platform which allows organizations of all sizes to collaborate more efficiently on projects of all types.

When SharePoint is setup the correct way it can be used to manage projects and programs in a really successful manner. We at BrightWork have a solution for managing work and projects on SharePoint and as such have seen many instances of SharePoint used really well and also deployed very poorly for Project Management.

Since Project Management is a business process and a discipline, having sustained and successful project management in place is very challenging for most organizations. BrightWork have looked over hundreds of deployments to find the factors most critical for success.

Learn from Brightwork’s experiences.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 10.2 Plan Communications
  • 10.3 Distribute Information
  • 10.5 Report Performance

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 Using SharePoint to Manage Projects Ensuring User Adoption – The Six Factors Critical for Success

Delivering Happiness

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Live Webinar August 10 2011 – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by Citrix Online

Learn how you can dramatically increase your own success by focusing on the happiness of your customers and employees.

When you judge every move by its effect on the bottom line, you’re sure to miss out on opportunities that could take your business to the next level. Many companies that start by focusing on customers and employees are experiencing breakthrough success.

Join this live webinar to hear Jenn Lim (LinkedIn profile), CEO & Chief Happiness Officer of Delivering Happiness, share how Zappos.com built an enduring and successful brand by spreading happiness through customer service and company culture.

Earn up to an additional 10 Category C PDUs by reading Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (253 pages). Learn how positivity and engagement can drive success.

Speakers:

Jenn Lim, CEO & Chief Happiness Officer, Delivering Happiness
James Hilliard, BNET

Attend this webinar to learn:

  • Why customer service is the responsibility of the entire company, not just a department
  • Why businesses should focus on company culture as the #1 priority
  • How to apply research from the science of happiness to running a business
    * And more…

*Bonus! 50 lucky webinar attendees will receive a free copy of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, written by Tony Hsieh (LinkedIn profile), CEO of Zappos.com.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating Executing

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

  • 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
  • 10.4 Manage Stakeholder Expectations

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 Delivering Happiness

Use Case Creation

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Live Webinar August 11, 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

Use Cases are a requirements documentation method that is gaining in popularity, particularly when an Agile development methodology is in use. Attend this webinar and see how simple the technique is, and learn the various methods and limitations that help define it.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools.

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

Click to register for Use Case Creation

Better Meetings For Better Business

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2 Live Webinars in this Series
August 11 2011 -11:00 am EDT And August 15 2011 -11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour each Credits: Up To 2 PDUs Category C Free
Presented by: GoToMeeting Corporate

SPECIAL OFFER: Till August 9th 2011 With this link Receive the Kindle version of Al Pittampalli’s book Read This Before Our Next Meeting for FREE – This is a Limited time offer so take advantage of this Link Right Away and Read This Book Before Our Next Meeting August 11th – Save $14.99 Before August 9th!

Ensure that you have a kindle reader installed before downloading with this link. For more information on reading your kindle book on your PC see below.

Attend this 2-part webinar series and learn how to:

  • Avoid meetings that kill our sense of urgency.
  • Conduct meetings that supports decision making and action.
  • Proactively make changes in your company through better meetings.
  • And more…

One registration is for both sessions.

 

Webinar #1 – Wipe Out Mediocre Meetings & Become the Office Hero

Thursday, August 11, 2011, 10 AM (PDT) / 1 PM (EDT)

During the first session, Al Pittampalli, author of the bestseller, Read This Before Our Next Meeting, talks about the dangers of our current meeting system and teaches you how to reinvent the meeting to enable growth and speed decision making.

Webinar #2 – Embrace Change with Modern Meetings

Thursday, August 18, 2011, 10 AM (PDT)/ 1 PM (EDT)

During the second session, Al Pittampalli will be joined by change expert and best-selling author Seth Godin of Poke the Box and Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? for a discussion on why embracing change is more critical now than ever – and how the Modern Meeting can help.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing Monitoring & Control

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

  • 10.2 Plan Communications
  • 10.3 Distribute Information
  • 10.4 Manage Stakeholder Expectations
  • 10.5 Report Performance

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 this 2 Webinar Series – Better Meetings For Better Business


Notes About the Kindle Reader

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You do! Great … Go ahead and download the Free Kindle Version of the book with this link before August 9th 2011! (That’s right – IT’S FREE). This book is normally valued at $14.99 USD

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Online Webinar
Duration: 30 minutes Credits: 0.5 PDU Category C Free
Hosted by: Competitive Solutions Inc.
Presenters by: Seth Davies

Managing Partner, Seth Davies (LinkedIn profile) delivered a live Webinar (now Recorded) on how leaders and employees can create bring visibility to accountability and raise employee engagement levels.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 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 Employee Engagement: Achieving High Performance with Accountability Processes

 

 

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This course has 2 sessions, each offering a specific perspective:

  • For Project Managers, CIOs, and CTOs
  • For Testers, Developers, IT Managers

Presented by: PushToTest

August 9, 2011 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hours For PMs CIOs and CTOs
Credits: 1.5 PDU Category C Free

August 11, 2011 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 2 Hours For Testers Developers & IT Managers
Credits: 2 PDU Category C Free

Medium and large organizations are challenged to rapidly build, test, and operate always-on services. Our teams are feeling the effort when schedules are short, budgets are tight, standards are few, and much of this is new technology!

Find out how Franklin American Mortgage, Emma, Velos, Sportsbet, Sprint, Tribal DDB, PepsiCo, AMD, and NTT Verio succeed with open source test technology and methodology as a more affordable and flexible option to the proprietary test vendor.

This 1.5 hour Management or 2 hour Technical Webinar features Open Source Test (OST) including Selenium, soapUI, HTMLUnit, JUnit, TestMaker, dynaTrace, Glassbox, Spring, Collabnet TeamForge, and continuous integration tools.

At the Workshop you will learn how these tools were made to work together. For example, repurpose a Selenium test into a data-driven load test. Then learn how to analyze service interdependenices and their resource usage by viewing the application’s PurePath using dynaTrace. Look inside your Java enterprise application using Glassbox. Then integrate the solution into your continuous integration environment.

Special focus on the presentation for
PMs CIOs and CTOs

This Open Source Test Workshop is for senior IT and business executives needing visibility and management tools and methodology into all the demand for IT. The Workshop will answer your issues:

  • How to mitigate the expense of running a QA lab.
  • Learn our expert insight on the latest initiatives, including Cloud Computing, Application Monitoring, Application Development Using Ajax, and Continuous Integration.
  • How to reduce the risk of service interruptions.
  • Avoid Unplanned Downtime, reduce downtime costs, and increase your developer and tester productivity.
  • How to orchestrate your team’s resources into a test that delivers actionable knowledge.
  • How to get your developers, testers, and IT managers to work together towards service reliability.
  • How to use a single approach to quality in Web applications, Rich Internet Applications (RIA, using Ajax, Flash, Flex) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM)
  • Make smart decisions that put your team in a position to rapidly respond to service interruptions and functional and performance issues.
  • How to add integrated project, demand and portfolio management to managing your organization’s projects across their lifecycles

(Click for the a deep technical dive Workshop for Selenium,soapUI, Sahi, HTMLUnit,JUnit,TestMaker,dynaTrace)

Click to register for the August 9th presentation of Ajax,SOA, WebService Applications Free Open Source Build and Test Workshop

Special focus on the presentation for
Testers, Developers, IT Managers

This Open Source Test Workshop is for QA testers, software developers, and network and server managers needing visibility, tools, and methodology into all the demand for IT. This is a deep-technical Workshop to answer your issues:

  • How To Use Selenium in Rich Internet Application (RIA, using Ajax) Environments
  • How To Build Test Suites of SOAP and REST-based Applications using soapUI
  • How To Data Enable Selenium Tests Using TestMaker
  • Testing in Flash/Flex Environments Using AMF Protocols
  • Integrating TestMaker Tests Into Your Continuous Integration Environment
  • How To Analyze Test Results Into Actionable Knowledge
  • Using Glassbox and DynaTrace for Root Cause Analysis

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 for the August 11th presentation of Ajax,SOA, WebService Applications Free Open Source Build and Test Workshop