Live Webinar February 28th, 2012, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

Three paradigm shifts have transformed the way that organizations have approached diversity for the last forty years.

Learn more about them in this free webinar, based on the new book by Howard J Ross (LinkedIn profile) Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance. Learn new insights into an approach that has the potential to fully integrate diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency into organizational cultures.

Attendees will learn:

• How does Globalism impact the way we approach diversity?
• What does the study of the unconscious mind teach us about how we advance our diversity work?
• How do we build systemic culture change efforts that create a truly inclusive organizational community?

Click to register for ReInventing Diversity: A New Approach to Transforming Organizational Culture

Live IIL Webinar – February 23rd, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: LI0006

You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity. This session may fill up quickly so sign up today.

Participants will learn to use the readily available power of acknowledgment to engage, motivate, and inspire teams, employees, and people they lead and to strengthen their personal leadership skills. They will learn to use the tool of acknowledgment in an immediately effective way.

This Webinar will help participants identify and utilize the Power of Acknowledgment throughout their professional lives.

Benefits include:

• Immediately improving relationships with colleagues and team members
• Enhancing employee engagement using acknowledgment as a critical tool and focus
• Developing personal leadership capabilities using acknowledgment in the workplace
• Observing the strong business case for acknowledgment and participating in a case study to drive home the need to incorporate it into the workplace
• Increasing productivity and well-being in the workplace by identifying opportunities to enhance employee engagement

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will be able to:

• To identify and define two of the seven major principles of acknowledgment (as outlined in the book The Power of Acknowledgment, IIL Publishing, New York)
• Understanding the need for acknowledgment in creating a culture of appreciation within an organization or team
• Defining “acknowledgment” and understanding its profound, far-reaching benefits
• Overcoming the barriers to acknowledgment
• Demonstrating the language and subtleties of authentic and heartfelt acknowledgment behavior
• Describing how to coach teams managers, and other corporate stakeholders in using the Power of Acknowledgment to produce breakthrough results

Who Should Attend
Managers, supervisors, staff, or anyone involved in communicating and negotiating with stakeholders, project teams, or other departments would benefit from this webinar. In addition, project managers who must improve their ability to communicate and influence decisions, as well as read out on project progress, should find the webinar interesting and helpful.

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Featured Webinars Tab on the Left and then Choose Leadership and The Power of Acknowledgment – How to Engage, Motivate, and Inspire and Begin Registration.

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Live Webinar February 23rd, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Leon Kappelman (LinkedIn profile) will take a glimpse into the future of IT and will examine an approaching paradigm shift that is radically changing how we manage our technologies and the organizations they serve.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

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Live Webinar – February 21st, 2011 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 41 Minutes 0.50 PDU Credits: 0.50 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Kanban has been a major component of the Toyota Production System that has exploded into the world of software development.

In this webinar, Tom Cagley (LinkedIn profile) will describe a Kanban System and how Kanban relates to software development.

Tom will also explain how to set up a Kanban System for a software development team and will demonstrate how this approach can evolve into a lean development process.

Presenter: Tony Timbol (LinkedIn profile) VP Sales and Marketing, David Consulting Group Tony brings over 30 years experience in the software and IT industries. With an extensive technical background encompasses IT services, Application Development, Application Maintenance, Software project/program management, IT management and operations and management consulting. In his spare time Tony is the author of the popular action adventure series of Cybil Raven Books.

Session Developer: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled “Software Process and Measurement Cast”. The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 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 – February 23rd, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 PM EDT
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)
Presented by: ScaleOut Software
Duration: 1 Hour + Q&A Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Scaling your application across server farms or virtual cloud environments presents new challenges. As workload increases, access to application data can become a significant bottleneck — and adding more servers won’t solve this problem.

Join ScaleOut Software and SDTimes for this one-hour webinar to learn how to address scalability challenges of your applications by using a distributed in-memory data grid (IMDG).

IMDGs, scale data storage capacity and access throughout so that applications can handle growing workloads and maintain fast performance. Storing application data in memory ensures fast access times and eliminates the need for inefficient trips to a database server.

Distributed in-memory data grids use integrated data replication to provide a safe, highly available repository for data, and then can be seamlessly extended to span multiple sites. IMDGs also enable fast query and parallel data analysis using the popular MapReduce programming model.

You and your team will learn how easy it is to integrate an in-memory data grid into your projects and why an IMDG should be a key component of your application strategy for scaling performance.

Topics covered:

• How distributed, in-memory data grids work to scale your applications’ performance
• How to achieve faster access times with distributed in-memory data grids than other “out-of-process” data storage solutions
• Why your data will not get lost even if a grid server fails
• How to integrate virtual and on-premise in-memory data grids across geographies
• How to quickly query and analyze data using an IMDG

Who Should Attend? This webinar is for everyone who has scalability challenges, and the technical content is appropriate for software architects, software developers and software design managers. You will see code samples and get a detailed, under-the-hood discussion of how to deploy distributed in-memory data grids.

Speaker: Dr. William L. Bain — (LinkedIn profile) is founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, Inc. Bill has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University, and he has worked at Bell Labs research, Intel, and Microsoft. Dr. Bain holds several patents in computer architecture and distributed computing.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 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 Learn How To Scale App Performance In A Server Farm Or Computer Grid

Live Webinar – February 21st, 2011 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: The Advisory Council Enabling IT Transformation
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

The past year has been one of intense challenges for Research In Motion as it faces increased competition in smartphones and enterprise services, a difficult transition to its new BlackBerry 10 software platform, the market failure of its PlayBook tablet, shareholder pressure for management changes, and major outages of its services.

All this has created fear, uncertainty and doubt in RIM’s core enterprise customer base, which remains critical to its survival. Many enterprises are nervous about committing further investment to a platform which seems to be under threat, while also seeing new trends such as “bring your own device” policies and more robust cloud e-mail offerings.

This webinar, presented by TAC Expert Caroline Gabriel, will provide a balanced assessment of RIM’s challenges and opportunities, and of the risk of continuing to base your enterprise mobile messaging strategy on this platform.

Hot issues to be addressed include:

• How safe is continued investment in RIM technology?
• How likely is RIM to be acquired, and if it were to be, what impact would that have on users’ current technology investments?
• What are the best alternatives to BlackBerry as an enterprise mobile messaging platform?
• What should you do to meet demand for mobile devices until alternatives are evaluated and deployed?

Presenter: Caroline Gabriel, TAC Expert, specializes in technologies and business models for service providers and vendors, in the broadband wireless, 3G, fixed/mobile convergence and wireline broadband markets. Prior to co-founding Rethink Research Associates, Caroline spent a large part of her career in various senior positions at VNU Business Publishing Europe.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 Is RIM BlackBerry a Safe Enterprise Technology Investment?