Live Webinar -June 21st 2012, 1:00-2:00 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

One of the most important foundational components for effectively utilizing an Agile approach is the team retrospective, yet it is often poorly executed by teams, resulting in little to no value.

Conducting an effective, efficient team retrospective isn’t difficult, but many teams and Scrum Masters forget to focus on a few key areas essential for an effective forum.

This hour long webinar ASPE will share with you the secrets employed by successful Agile teams and great Scrum Masters in their mission for continuous, incremental improvement.

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Live June 21st, 2012 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by : Accurev
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

With all the buzz around Agile and the iterative, fast delivery that Agile methods promise, many software development teams have adjusted their processes accordingly to stay competitive.Yet, many Agile teams have adopted methods simply because they have become best practice, without fully understanding what the benefits are.

Cyrus Innovation’s Moss Collum and AccuRev’s Chris Lucca (LinkedIn profile) will explain:

• The reasons behind Agile’s popularity
• Six common Agile methodologies and the benefits behind each
• The approaches and tools needed to ensure that adoption of these methods is successful

Specific practices explored will include continuous integration, co-location mixing time-boxed iterations and waterfall projects, time-driven development, refactoring/incremental design, and rapid delivery.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.3 Develop 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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Online Webinar
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: TypeMock

This is a technical presentation
You should have a basic working knowledge of unit testing.

Everyone is welcome but it is most appropriate for people with a background in unit testing and medium to advanced skills.

Read Gil’s Blog “Geek Out of Water – Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings” It’s full of great ‘Agile stuff’, ‘People stuff’ & Other Cool Cool Stuff!

LIKE….

Gil recently interviewed Lisa Crispin (LinkedIn profile, @lisacrispin ) a leading expert in the ‘Testing World’, Agile Testing Practitioner, Coach & co-author of “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”. Read Gil’s interview with Lisa “A Product Owners Perspective” on Lisa’s Blog or visit her website LisaCrispin.com.

Even if you’re already a unit testing ninja like Gil, this webinar is for you!

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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.’

OR Click to View this recorded webinar on TypeMocks Site

Live Webinar – June 21st, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management 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’

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Live Webinar Jun 19th, 2012, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar Jun 19th, 2012, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The hype and media exposure surrounding social media and social networking is deafening.

• Facebook has more than 800 million active users and was integral to the recent revolution in Egypt.
• Twitter has 200 million users, and there are 200 million tweets per day.

Most people in the IT organization have exposure and probably use social media and social networking in their personal lives. Many businesses engage in social initiatives with their customer base as part of a larger customer growth and retention strategy.

However, it is perplexing to many of us in the IT organization on how we can use social initiatives internally to promote IT services, engage better with our customers (the business and end users), drive productivity and lower costs.

In this presentation, Gartner offers strategic and tactical insights into how social media and networking can be leveraged within the IT operations organization.

Discussion Topics:

• Why leveraging social media is imperative for the IT operations organization
• The three social media use cases to focus on
• The five success plan recommendations

Presenter: JarodGreene, (LinkedIn profile) Sr Research Analyst

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