Live Webinar March 1 2012 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST
Presented by: Value Train
Duration 1 Hr Credits: 1 PDU Category C PDU – Free PDU

An overview and comparison of the three popular process improvement methodologies in use by companies today.

Value Train provides training for professionals. We provide certification training for Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Black Belt, Minitab, Quantitative Methods, PMP Exam review and Lean Enterprise. Headquartered near Atlanta, Georgia, We hold classes in Gerogia, Dallas, Philadelphia, Princeton, Morristown, NYC, Jersey City, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati. Our Six Sigma and Lean courses meet Georgia State Board of Accountancy CPE requirements and may also in other states. – Bill Bentley (LinkedIn profile), Owner/President Value-Train

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 – February 29th 2012, 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

Most businesses have processes relating to specific activities and typically, the steps of these processes are documented in repeatable procedures.

A Workflow is an automated business process incorporating repeatable tasks, often performed in a specific order. Workflows provide an easy way to improve effectiveness by predefining the necessary steps and actions needed to complete tasks. And, workflows are flexible and can be reconfigured to meet the needs of an organization. Human error is eliminated, actions are consistent, responses can be tracked and user responsibility is minimized. Users can focus on doing day-to-day work instead of focusing on how the work needs to be done.

In this web seminar, Richard will discuss some common scenarios where SharePoint’s workflow capabilities can be utilized to increase business productivity. We will discuss the multiple ways that workflows can be created, including using the built-in workflows, custom workflow creation in SharePoint Designer, using Visual Studio 2010, and the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Presenter: Richard Stewart is a systems consultant and IT trainer (since 1994) with more than 15 years of experience designing computer systems and network infrastructures for small business applications. Richard has extensive experience with of the Microsoft Windows client server platforms, and an understanding of the Macintosh and Linux operating systems. Currently, Richard serves as a senior consultant and trainer for The Mercury Professional Group, based in Charlotte, NC, and specializes in curriculum for SharePoint 2007 Administration, SharePoint for Project Management, and SharePoint 2007 Customization.

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Live Webinar February 29th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: AtTask Events (REP #2797)
Presented by: Todd C Williams and eCameron Inc (@eCamInc)

At the end of the webinar, attendees will understand the benefits of and methods for fostering early stakeholder involvement and methods measure and maintain alignment. This advanced webinar conveys techniques that executives and PMO managers can implement.

With the current rate of IT project failures, estimated anywhere from 40% to 70%, improving project success rates must be one of every project manager’s primary goals.

There are no silver bullets….

Therefore, reversing the tide of project failure entails more than applying process. Process only addresses a small fraction of the problems plaguing our projects. A major missing component is a thorough comprehension of the project’s value to the customer. This is exacerbated by the standard organizational structure placing IT in an isolated silo away from the business.

Dismantling the walls between IT and the business is a responsibility far from the reach of any given project, but is single area where the most benefit can be seen.

It requires using a number of techniques, learned while recovering red projects, to improve the chances of their success. It requires using the concept of Guidance Teams, quantitatively measuring stakeholder alignment for portfolios long before the project is started. These techniques get the project delivery people involved with the project during the customer’s inception.

This presentation covers:

• The concept and responsibilities of a Guidance Team.
• Involving the delivery team at the customer’s project inception.
• Measuring and maintaining stakeholder expectations from inception through delivery.
• Simple tricks to improve communication with the project team.
• Defining the proper methodology for the project.

The focus is customer and stakeholder relationship. By creating and maintaining alignment at a point long before the project actually starts, greatly improves the chances for success.

Todd C. Williams, PMP (LinkedIn profile @BackFromRed) is a professional audit and turn-around specialist in IT and manufacturing, and author of the bestseller Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure. Todd is a speaker, blogger, helping mature companies & start-ups alike.

Project failure is prevalent in all projects. Todd’s Back From Red TM blog addresses the reasons for project failure along with methods to avert and correct the problems that cause the failure. Follow him on Twitter @backFromRed and read his blog. I highly recommend following his work – EdmontonPM

To See Todd Talk about his new Book Hover over this link

Doing it right the first time

About eCameron Inc: eCameron is a management consulting firm specializing in projectand organizationset-up, turn-around and recovery services. Excelling in methodologies forrescuingtroubled ‘red’ Projects, they provide senior-level professionals to analyze issues and deficiencies, suggest corrections, and assist with personnel reassignment. eCameron has the personnel and experience to create plans for major acquisitions, restructuring organizations or turn-around and can prevent ‘red’ projects before they happen. They implement changes to get your organizationsand projects on track. See the ECameron Events Calendar for their latest session information.

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Live Webinar – February 29th, 2011 6:30 am – 7:45 am EST or …
Live Webinar – February 29th, 2011 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm IST
Duration: 1 Hour + Q&A Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: TechGig

Agile Methodologies create a conceptual framework that promotes foreseen interactions throughout the development cycle.

Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.

It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery, a time-boxed iterative approach, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.

Scrum and XP have been very popular agile methods being used in good number of organizations at present. While these methods are perfectly suitable at team level, when it comes to adopting agile at enterprise level, it is becoming challenging to integrate the Business and Development teams.

Lean principles which are best practices from Industries like Toyota are being used in agile development currently in some of the IT Organizations.

This Webinar Will Cover:

1. Agility in the software development
2. An overview on Agile, Lean -Agile methods
3. The Webinar ends with their comparison in agile implementation.

This webinar aims at giving an overview on Agile Methods such as Scrum, XP , Kanban and Lean Methods and their comparison in the Agile Implementation.

Presenter: Niranjan N. V. (LinkedIn profile) has extensive implementation experience in, Agile -Scrum, CMMI and SQA Processes. Niranjan provides Consulting, Coaching, Mentoring & Training in Agile Project Management, Transitioning to Agile Successfully, CMMI-Agile, Project Management, Software Estimation Techniques and is the founder of ExelPlus Services. He is a PMI certified Agile Certified Practitioner (PM—ACP), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 – 2 Successive Fridays
March 2nd & 9th, 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EST
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDUs – 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 February 28th, 2011 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Duration: 3 hour live webinar + Q&A Credits: 3 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

On February 28, 2012, the SEI will host Architecting Software the SEI Way: Essential Steps toward Mastery, a free, three-hour, live webinar for technical professionals.

For nearly two decades, the Software Engineering Institute has been at the forefront of innovation in software architecture technologies, such as:

• The use of scenarios to express quality attribute requirements
• Architecture evaluation methods to predict, achieve, and control quality attribute behavior and make practical trade-offs early
• Architecture documentation methods to promote software reuse and support better communication with all stakeholders

You’ll start on a journey to using architecture practices more effectively to build better systems more efficiently and productively.

Agenda:

• 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
  • Software Architecture Fundamentals: Technical Business & Social Influences
    • Robert Wojcik (LinkedIn profile)
• 2:10 pm – 3:10 pm EST
  • Architecture Evaluation: A Tool For Designing Systems That Meet Users’ Needs
    • Felix Bachmann (LinkedIn profile) author of Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (2nd Edition)
• 3:20 pm – 4:20 pm EST
  • Analyzing & Evaluating Enterprise Architectures
    • John Klein (LinkedIn profile)

If you are a Technical Professional, Team Lead, Software Architect or developer of software; this is a session not to be missed!

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’

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