Live Webinar April 24th 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Management Concepts (Rep #1124)

• Are you interested in learning about moving from traditional waterfall techniques to Agile best practices?
• Are you a Project Manager that is looking to transition into managing Agile projects?

If so, you should attend this webinar.

Agile project management methods differ significantly from traditional approaches, affecting how projects are planned and managed.

With a clear understanding of these concepts, learn how to gain the cooperation and acceptance of stakeholders who must approve and participate in your Agile project.

You will learn how to:

• Overcoming obstacles to implementing Agile in your organization
• Best practices to prepare for using Agile in your organization
• What it takes to change your organization’s culture to an Agile one

There will also be an opportunity for you to ask your most pressing Agile questions, so come prepared.

Click to register for Going Agile: Getting Over the Waterfall

Live Webinar April 24th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm EDT
Duration: 75 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Diversity CoP (REP #S018)

This webinar will focus on inclusive behaviors that will help project managers be more effective as leaders of diverse teams.

This may include:

• Communication styles
• Culture
• Work styles
• Ethnicity
• Gender

When it comes to managing projects and teams to achieve desired outcomes, philosophy and theories of diversity and inclusion are not enough. We have to define the behaviours that project managers need to practice in order to fully engage each individual, and ensure that the team is in snyc with each other.

By knowing how to include other people, uncover and leverage their skills, you can get more done, in less time, with less stress

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Click to register for Inclusionist Leadership Behavior for PMs

Live Webinar – April 24th, 2012 1o:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 2 hour + Q & A 2 PDU / 2 CDU
Mpug Member Free – This is a members only opportunity

EARN AN MPUG Certificate:
Microsoft Project Reporting
(upon completing three 2 hour sessions)

• Level 1 Basic Project reporting, 24 April 2012, 10:00 AM ET
• Level 2 Intermediate Project Reporting, 8 May 2012, 10:00 AM ET
• Level 3 Advanced Project Reporting, 22 May 2012, 10:00 AM ET

This event requires a paid MPUG membership. Click here to join MPUG.

Course Details:

Level 1 – Basic Project reporting – Microsoft Project Reporting using Project Desktop and Office (Using Project desktop, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). This session covers built in reports, getting data out of project, formatting reports – understanding what you can get out of the default tool. .

Creating Reports – Learn:

• Selecting, Editing, and Creating Basic Reports
• Configuring Print and Page Setup Options
• Setting Options to Correct Printing Issues
• Exporting Reporting Data
• Creating and Modifying Visual Reports
  1. Viewing a Visual Report
  2. Customizing a Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Visual Report
  3. Customizing a Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Visual Report
  4. Saving Local OLAP Cube Data
     1. Creating Visual Report Templates
        1. Editing Visual Report Templates
        2. Managing Your Visual Report Templates

* Viewing basic information across multiple projects including resource allocation – understanding Project Standard’s limitations and when you need to leverage Project Server or another reporting tool.

JOIN MPUG FOR ONLY$119 per year and receive

• Access to in-person chapter meetings worldwide
• Access to weekly WebnLearns from industry leading experts and Microsoft MVPs
• Earn Weekly PDUS with the WebnLearns
• Full access to theWebnLearn archive,tools / templates, knowledgebase, and interactive features of MPUG.com
• Opportunities to participate in beta testing, webcasts, product surveys and discounts on Project-related events
• PMI and Microsoft Project educational credits for participation in meetings, special events and volunteer activities
• Search and post Project-related job openings through the Career Center

Speakers:
Jacques Goupil, PMP, MCP, MCTS, (LinkedIn profile) is Director of Business Development at MsProjectNow! Jacques was the Lead SME and writer for the Microsoft Project Certification Exam 70-178, Project 2010, Managing Projects, a board member of the Boston and South Florida MPUG Chapters, and an MPUG Project 2010 Certification Instructor. He has over 15 years of professional experience with very strong background in project management. He has considerable experience in creating and delivering instructor-led, PMI aligned, Project Management training i – including webcasts, and sessions for both PMI and MPUG.

Daniel Bell (LinkedIn profile) is the founder and Principal of MsProjectNow! Dan is MCTS certified in Microsoft Project Server 2010, Microsoft Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010, as well as being a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Dan also has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from PMI®. Dan has been working with the Microsoft Project Portfolio Server application since it was first acquired from UMT by Microsoft. He has led some of the most complex portfolio server implementations in the United States

Click to register for MPUG Certificate Program: Level 1 – Basic Project Reporting (1 of 3)

Live Webinar April 23rd, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

• Experiencing the “domino effect”?
• Projects and Programs stymied due to the need of the same resource at a time?
• Starting a lot, and finishing few?

An enterprise is really a portfolio of work.

The portfolio represents a basket of integrated products and/or services that is believed to be the right mix to satisfy the enterprise strategy to generate an acceptable range of profit within an acceptable level of risk. The health of the portfolio is no better than the enterprise capacity to carry out the work and perform for customers on time and with the desired level of quality.

The goal is to identify the strategy, approach, and tactical elements to develop and maintain an Enterprise Portfolio Management System (EPMS).

This allows the best mix to be accomplished faster and enable shorter, easier, more reliable initiation, evaluation and prioritization to identify, select, kill, and support a balanced mix of products and programs.

This session is based on VBPM’s expertise in designing, evaluating, implementing and the turnaround of Program Portfolio Management systems in diverse industries.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts,
• Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for PPM: Controlling & Measuring Enterprise Work

Live Webinar April 24th, 2012 2:00 AM – 3:00 PM EDT
Presented by Sticky Minds
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category C Free

Risk-based testing helps address the rise in business and technological complexity and the growing amount of applications in testing by prioritizing test cases based on the defined criticality of a function, encouraging impact assessment of an application functionality failure, and increasing testing effectiveness. Despite these benefits, risk-based testing is still used or deployed in a limited manner across organizations.

In this web seminar, speakers Russ Queen and Vasudeva Naidu (LinkedIn profile) discuss the two most common reasons that limit the adoption of risk-based testing. You’ll also learn in full detail how Infosys addressed these challenges and developed a risk-based testing framework that helps improve quality, time to market, and reduced testing costs.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Making Risk-Based Testing a Success

Live Webinar April 25th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT or
Live Webinar April 26th, 2012, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

In 2012, Prosci will release the seventh edition of the benchmarking report Best Practices in Change Management.

The seventh edition combines findings from the latest round of research with 650 participants with findings from the previous studies to create the most comprehensive body of knowledge available on managing the people side of change.

This webinar presents the six greatest contributors to success and the seven biggest obstacles, with a deeper dive into how you can use each finding to become a better change management practitioner.

Agenda:

1. Research foundation
2. Question formulation
3. Greatest contributors to success
4. Biggest obstacles to success

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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 the April 25th Presentation of Change Management: Greatest Contributors & Biggest Obstacles

Click to register for the April 26th Presentation of Change Management: Greatest Contributors & Biggest Obstacles