Live Webinar April 19st, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

1. Are you asking the right questions when you conduct an interview? How do you know that a job applicant is the right person for the job?
2. If you decide to make that job offer, do you understand what the hiring and on-boarding processes are?
3. What do you need to do to ensure your new employee immediately feels valued and part of the team?

Solutions Cube Group’s Interviewing and Hiring webinar is the first webinar in a 5 part series on Managing People: Real World Tips and Techniques.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn tried and true tips for interviewing candidates, hiring the right people, and establishing that first good impression.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Why a good job description is important
• Tips for reviewing resumes and finding the right candidate.
• The right questions to ask the candidate at the interview.
• How to make an offer the candidate can’t refuse.
• How to prepare for your new employee’s first day.

Who Should Attend This Course:

• Prospective and New Managers
• Business, Account and Product Line Managers
• Executives and Technical Managers
• Human Resource Professionals

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – April 18th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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

ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library®) V3 was updated in 2011. Although it is still “ITIL V3” (2011 Edition), significant changes were made to the framework, to the extent that new certification exams and training courses were mandated. (Relax! Your ITIL V3 certifications are still valid.)

In this web seminar, we will explore the changes in ITIL V3 (2011) from the perspective of a person who has already received ITIL V3 (2007) Foundaiton training.

The ITIL V3 (2011) changes are these:

• Service Strategy’s new purpose and objectives and
  • Strategy Management for IT Services (newly framed process)
  • Business Relationship Management (new process)
  • Service Portfolio process (now in scope for Foundation)
  • Demand Management process (now out of scope for Foundation)
  • Financial Management for IT Services process (renamed from “Financial Management”)
• Service Design’s new purpose and objectives and
  • Design Coordination (new process)
• Service Transition’s new purpose and objectives and
  • Transition Planning and Support process (now in scope for Foundation)
  • Change Evaluation process (was “Evaluation” & is still out of scope for Foundation)
• Service Operation’s new purpose and objectives and
  • Clarificaiton of Application Management function v. Application Development
• Continual Service Improvement’s new purpose and objectives and
  • Seven-Step Improvement Process (now in scope for Foundation)
  • CSI Approach (renamed from “CSI Model”)
  • CSI Register (new concept)

® ITIL® and IT Infrastructury Library® are registered trade marks of the Cabinet Office.

Instructor: Alan S. Koch, PMP, CSM, ITIL (LinkedIn profile) Alan has more than 30 years IT experience, Alan’s education and training are extensive, and he is affiliated with numerous industry-leading organizations, including the Agile and Scrum Alliances.

Click to register for ITIL® Update: It’s NOT V4, But a Lot Has Changed!

Live Webinar April 18th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: CollabNet

By automating integration and load tests in production-like environments, you can achieve the highest quality standards. Continuous Delivery expands on the concept of Continuous Integration by automating releases processes, thus instigating repeatability, transparency and efficiencies.

Attend this session to learn:

• Best practices to industrialize release processes
• Lessons on how to enforce production-ready software quality
• Considerations for provisioning of build, test and run clouds

Who should attend:

This webinar is for everyone who automates software delivery, and the technical content is appropriate for software architects, quality managers and software configuration managers. Prior familiarity with the concepts of Agile development and Continuous Integration is helpful, although not absolutely required.

Presenters:

Brian Dawson Senior Technical Consultant CollabNet (LinkedIn profile)

Darryl Bowler Senior Systems Architect CollabNet (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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 April 18th, 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)

This session provides an explanation of a Project Management (PM) lifecycle. It describes the purpose of a PM lifecycle, the nomenclature (phases, deliverables) used as part of the PM lifecycle, and an overview of PM deliverables.

The intent of the session is to provide the audience with an understanding of the project management lifecycle and a description of the associated PM deliverables.

Who should attend:

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

Click to register for Apply PM Fundamentals for a Successful Project

Live Webinar – April 17th 2012, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Brandon Hall & Cornerstone On Demand

In the next five years, businesses will experience major demographic changes as far as their workforces are concerned.

Workforces will continue to:

• become more diverse;
• millennials are projected to represent more than 50 percent of the overall labor force;
• and the capabilities required to lead in tomorrow’s economy will be different than the capabilities required today.

So, in light of these anticipated developments, how does a company successfully engage and prepare such a diverse workforce?

Many organizations are turning to career management programs to resolve these challenges. For mid-market organizations, is this the right answer? For this segment, the answer may be career enhancement over career management.

Join Stacey Harris, (LinkedIn profile) VP of Research and David Wentworth, (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Learning Analyst for Brandon Hall Group as they share the latest research in creating career enhancing programs that work for mid-market organizations.

Key topics will include:

• Career expectations for today and tomorrows workforce
• Defining career management, career pathing, and career enhancing strategies
• Practical approaches for integrating development and career supporting programs
• Key practices in balancing business value to career development offerings
• Examples of award-winning illustrative practices

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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’

Click to register for Empowering Employees: Sustainable Career Management Models for Medium Sized Businesses

Live Webinar – April 17th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 45 minute seminar attendees will be awarded 0.75 PDU for participating

Agile at its foundation is a way of conducting work governed by a set of principles. Agile has been “productized” (different Agile Flavors) for specific work needs and special practices have been established to get the work done. With that said, most organizations feel they just need to teach their team the practices and get to work. The reality is that is a major mistake.

As a way of working, Agile is a monumental transformation. It requires the worker to engage in their work with a completely different mindset. It requires organizations to monitor and measure itself differently. Finally it requires managers to practice a completely new set of skills when it comes to “managing” their teams (the reality is you don’t manage your team any longer in Agile).

This 45 minute web seminar discusses the transformational challenge Agile presents to an organization. It will go over organizational change strategies necessary to make the jump, as well as cover different start up models instead of complete enterprise adoption. The goal of this presentation is to properly prepare an organization for the “human” challenges associated with the decision to move to Agile methods.

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, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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