Live Webinar – December 14, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

Click to register for Harmonizing Agility & Discipline

Live Webinar – December 15th, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

In our society, technology continues to rapidly outpace our culture’s ability to keep pace. From the challenges of internet taxation to privacy concerns brought on by Facebook and Google, legal and ethical practices lag seriously behind the pace of the technology. The inherent necessary changes cause significant problems and challenges.

In this web seminar ASPE will discuss the legal and professional challenges brought about by internet marketing’s empowerment of personal brand development. It is astonishing how fast and effectively someone can gain near instant creditability when building and maintaining a personal brand. But with everything good comes a bad. The bad in this case revolves around employees. Contractors have no issues in this matter, however, with employees comes employment law and issues of work product ownership. Along with this come issues of loyalty and intent. Both these issues can put the employee in a precarious position.

ASPE will cover the issue of loyalty and intent when building a personal brand and will also discuss some basic legal precedents that are out there, such as how employment law and work product ownership can potentially increase the risk involved in personal brand development. Finally ASPE will look to the future and what may ultimately happen long term in this area.

In the end, both employees and employers need to understand that personal brand development is real. It is possible, but it involves risk to both parties.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, covering topics in the software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

Click to register for Personal Brand Challenges – Loyalty and Legality

Live Webinar December 15, 2011 – 11:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Presented by: Shunra
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Millions of dollars are being spent on reactive application performance monitoring technologies, yet 80% of the total cost of an application is still incurred as a result of finding and fixing performance issues in production.

Ways in which peak application performance is managed and ensured are no longer sufficient; some would even consider them broken.

“Partnering for Performance: How to Automate and Build in App Performance – An Agile Approach” is the last of a Six Part Webinar Series on creating performance on client’s applications.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution

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 How to Automate and Build in App Performance – An Agile Approach

Live Webinar December 15, 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

Too many projects are plagued with too much work and not enough time or resources.

A simple step is available to offset these problems – prioritization of the requirements!

Come and learn about how to do this using techniques such as Kano, timeboxing and MOSCOW analysis. You will also learn some of the problems inherent with Prioritization on a project and how to overcome them.

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

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.

Click to register for Prioritization – Which Requirements Are Most Important?