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

Live Webinar – April 24th 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

Prior to implementing Scrum, many of us are classically trained project managers. We are taught to master the tools and techniques of the profession. Unfortunately, many of us are not taught key leadership skills and we struggle to fulfill the purpose of the ScrumMaster role.

When we manage, rather than lead, our teams can feel controlled and their productivity can suffer.

We need to learn the core behaviors of a leader, so that we can help foster the kind of environment where hyper-productive Scrum teams can flourish.

In this session we will examine the fundamentals of Agile Leadership as they apply to the ScrumMaster role.

Click to register for How to be a Great ScrumMaster

Live Webinar – April 20, 2012 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU Category A – Free PDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest Free Note: Registration ends Apr 19th 2012

In this session we’ll discuss the key features of Project Server 2010, introduce you to some of the great new features, and drill into which items deliver immediate value, and importantly, which ones don’t.

Speaker: Ben Howard (LinkedIn profile) has over 20 years experience of implementing enterprise solutions such as MRPII, ERP, and latterly Microsoft’s EPM (Project and Project Server) solution. During that time he’s worked for IBM, DELL, and Microsoft, as well as several smaller organizations. He now runs his own EPM consultancy (Applepark Ltd), providing Project Server implementation and training services. Learn more from his blog.

Click to register for Introducing Project Server 2010: What’s Real & What’s Not

Live Webinar – April 24th 2012, 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

In today’s challenging business environment organizations are continually looking to do more with fewer resources. To achieve goals leaders have to play an active role in managing employee performance. The challenge is that understanding how to maximize employee engagement is difficult. Each employee wants something different, and every leader has their own style.

In this one hour webinar Michelle Moore (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how leaders can motivate employees and use effective leadership techniques to grow and develop employees and continually improve performance.

The webinar will include the following elements:

• A Leader’s Role in Driving Employee Engagement
• Understanding Motivation
• The Performance Equation
• Using the Right Leadership Style

Presenter: Michelle Moore (LinkedIn profile) is a learning and development professional with in-depth knowledge and experience in Sales, Leadership and Communication Skills. Michelle facilitates Global Knowledge Leadership and Business workshops on a world-wide basis and is responsible for development and promotion of the Global Knowledge EMEA Leadership and Business Skills portfolio.

Click to register for Maximising Employee Performance: Leadership and Business Skills

Live Webinar April 19th, 2012 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.50 PDUs Credits: 0/50 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

PRESENTER: Brad Robbins (LinkedIn profile)

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

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 and view Mitigating the Impacts of Uncertainty of Project Resource Availability