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Live Webinar December 2, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

If you are considering going agile or looking to expand your current efforts, this webinar with Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile) will provide invaluable insights into what to look for in order to begin.

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
December 2 & 9, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions/2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDU – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session when it was offered in August and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided! For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful! – Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Fridays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. RBA identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With RBA, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

• Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment at no additional cost
• Four contact hours of training, including all materials
• Readings to be completed during course attendance
• Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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’

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Live Webinar December 2, 2011 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts and Innovative-e, Inc. (Rep #3396)

Microsoft Project is a project management tool widely used by project managers today. Its’ ability to support project managers to define a schedule, assign resources to tasks and track project status has been instrumental in contributing to project success. However, it can be a challenge for a project manager to share project information and collaborate with the project team with Microsoft Project alone.

Office 365 can complement Microsoft Project 2010 and address this gap.

In this session, you will learn how to effectively create a Microsoft Project Plan, create a SharePoint-based Project Management Information System (PMIS) with Office 365 and integrate Microsoft Project information with SharePoint 2010.

In addition, we’ll cover best practices around utilizing SharePoint with Microsoft Office, Lync and mobile devices to empower a project team to share relevant information, facilitate better collaboration and build project management dashboards.

All PMP certified attendees will earn 1 PDU for attending this session.

Presenter: Dux Raymond Sy is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner/PMI REP. Dux authored SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of collaborative tools with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. He has successfully managed the implementation of various SharePoint-based solutions for commercial, educational and government institutions. Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He is very much involved in the greater SharePoint community and is an event chair for SharePoint Saturday, a free community driven conference that has been held worldwide. Dux regularly writes about project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

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Live Webinar – December 1, 1:00-2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Get the goods on Search Engine Optimization from SEO guru and O’Reilly author Stephan Spencer in this information-packed webinar that promises both SEO fundamentals as well as advanced tricks and tactics that only the elite SEO experts know.

Learn how to:

• Check your “Google Pulse” (the metrics that matter)
• Estimate missed opportunity costs
• Ensure Google crawls all of your site, including dynamic content
• Design your pages to dominate rankings
• Avoid getting banned by Google
• Wield invaluable SEO tools you’ve not yet heard of
• Build high-quality links from trusted sites, and boost your PageRank along with your rankings
• Prepare for changes to come
• …and so much more!

Presenter: Stephan Spencer (LinkedIn profile) is founder and President of the highly-respected SEO firm Netconcepts And the author of the best seller The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization (Theory in Practice). Clients include Discovery Channel, HSN, AOL, CNET, and SuperPages.com. He is inventor of Netconcepts’ automated, pay-for-performance SEO technology platform GravityStream which powers the natural search channel for online retailers. Stephan is a sought-after conference presenter who’s spoken on SEO at hundreds of events across the globe for organizations such as the DMA, the AMA, Shop.org, Internet Retailer, SMX, IncisiveMedia (Search Engine Strategies), O’Reilly/TechWeb, PubCon, ECMOD, IQPC and IIR. Stephan is also an avid blogger, “Stephan Spencer’s Scatterings”.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

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

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Live Webinar November 30, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToManage Corporate

Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges–from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader.

The job of an IT manager is always evolving, due to inexorable technological change, but more importantly because of the business implications of new technology-based capabilities.

Join this live webinar to hear Robert Austin (LinkedIn profile), author of Adventures of an IT Leader, discuss the issues every IT manager should be thinking about, including how to become a full-fledged business leader.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn:

• How to manage talent and situations when things go wrong
• Making the right decisions on where to invest scarce IT resources
• How to align IT management with business strategy
• And more…

Speaker: Robert Austin, Author of Adventures of an IT Leader. This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You’ll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events. You can read this book from beginning to end, or treat is as a series of cases. You can also skip around to address your most pressing needs. For example, need to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. You can formulate your own responses to a CIO’s obstacles by reading the authors’ regular “Reflection” questions. This book is an excellent resource and you will turn to it many times as you face IT-related issues in your own career.

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
• 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 December 1, 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 PDU

Implementing a standard methodology for business analysis and project management is the ‘suspension bridge’ to successful projects.

Procedures are equivalent to the bridge towers:

1. The guidelines on how to do the work of the project; they are the foundation supporting the bridge.
2. The bridge deck is the project process, which is the road to successful projects once the bridge is crossed.
3. The templates and forms are the suspender cables holding up the project process.

A suspension bridge, and successful projects, only works if all elements are in place! This webinar is based on work done by the presenter implementing business analysis and project management methodology at many major companies.

This presentation will discuss the lessons learned in implementing a methodology, along with best practices including training of project personnel, typical challenges encountered during implementation and some of the initial benefits normally achieved.

Some bridges do fail, and this webinar will end with specific examples of what can happen that leads to an incomplete (and unusable) bridge, or a bridge that is not maintained and quickly fails.

Don’t Let Your Bridge Fail Register today!

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.

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