Live Webinar August 15th, 2012 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Take the mystery out of Earned Value Management. If you want to improve your ability to predict your estimate at completion, you need to follow some fundamental principles when building your project schedule.

Take a look at QuantumPM’s EV (Earned Value) Manager
Taking MS Project Way Beyond Scheduling!

This seminar focuses on the key concepts you need to know and not the complexity of compliance reporting.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar – August 14th 2012, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

Note: You may have to “Public Sessions” tab on the top of the page for this opportunity to appear.

Systemation will answer all your questions about user stories:

1. What are user stories?
2. Who writes them?
3. How are they written?
4. When are they written?
5. How do they differ from traditional, functional requirements and use cases?

Understand the format of user stories and acceptance criteria, discuss hints and tips for writing them, and review ways to “discover” them through collaborative techniques.

Presenter: Laura Robinson (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.3 Estimate Activity Resources
• 6.4 Estimate Activity Duration
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 August 14th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 160993 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

The next version of Visual Studio is rich with new tools that enhance standard developer activities.

In this session we’ll review and demonstrate some of these new features, such as Unit Testing, Code Reviews, Code Clones and other developer tools.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar August 14th, 2012, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar August 14th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Big Data is rapidly becoming a recognized market term for the growth in the volume of data in organizations. Understanding how to use Pattern-Based Strategy to seek, model and adapt to patterns contained in big data will be a critical IT and business skill.

Business leaders have traditionally focused structured data seeking efforts on answering two questions:

1. What happened and …
2. Why did it happen.

For the most part, investments in BI delivered reports that helped in this area.

But …… Business leaders are asking new questions:

1. What is happening right now,
2. What is likely to happen and …
3. What events could affect the future.

Technology exists and more is emerging to help with these new questions. By connecting technology to business leaders needs, there is an opportunity for CIO’s to take a more entrepreneurial role in business.

Discussion Topics:

• The Quest for (and Value of) Better Insight and Information
• Understanding the Business Opportunity of Information
• Why IT and Business Leaders Should Act Now

Presenter: RoxaneEdjlali, Research Director

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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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