Live Webinar August 22nd, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)
Presented by: Sally Elatta

Most people know what social media is and are at least familiar with its most popular applications (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, etc.). However, the majority of people using social media tools aren’t confident they’re using them well.

In this webinar, Barbara will discuss how project managers can use social media to enhance and promote their skills and expertise.

Review how to use social media more effectively, including:

• Select the best social media tool(s) to meet your specific needs
• Expand your network and enhance your relationships
• Research resources and identify new professional opportunities

You’ll leave the webinar with easy-to-apply information and ideas you can put into action immediately. Don’t miss this chance to learn how to use social media to advance your business and career goals.

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

Presenter: Barbara Alevras, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) in 2003, Barbara, founded Sage Consulting Services to serve businesses and non-profits with big ideas and limited resources. Focusing on strategy execution, social media, and Mastermind group services, she specializes in developing and implementing realistic action plans that meet each client’s specific business goals.

Click to register for Branding “You”: Using Social Media to Promote Yourself

CANCELLED – Live Webinar August 21st, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
CANCELLED – Live Webinar August 21st, 2012 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm BST
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

You may have already started unit testing. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test

Join this webinar and learn different methods and tools that help create unit tests that can mock dependencies.

How do you apply unit testing to code that wasn’t designed for testability and normally breaks when testing?

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Take an application
2. Add tests to it
3. Refactor the code
4. Discuss readability, and where to begin.

This is an intensive demonstration of automated testing hard-core legacy code. If you are a programming ninja, or want to truly understand the value of powerful and professional unit testing, check it out.

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, (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.

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 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.

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.’

Click to register for Real Life Unit Testing: Testing Hard to Test Code

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

Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.

Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.

During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:

• Improved project predictability
• Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
• Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
• Reduced effort spent resolving project issues

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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: 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 Practical Project Risk Management

Chat Live with World-Class Professionals – Every Friday
August 17th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Follow some of the great #PMOT (PMs on Twitter)!

If you are a Project Manager or Business Analyst and haven’t joined Twitter yet – consider it – if only for the once a week #pmchat ! Meet amazing colleagues and enrich your experience with different ideas and perspectives. – EdmontonPM (@EdmontonPM)

If you are new to Twitter and interested in project management – check out #pmot (PMs on Twitter) and #pmchat great people there! – IIL ‏ (@IILGlobal)

Here is an EXCELLENT article posted on Gantthead
“Making the Most of #PMOT”
by Andy Jordan (@RoffensianPM).

What is #PMChat?

Project Management Chat is a weekly Twitter chat hosted by Robert Kelly (LinkedIn, @RKelly976 ) and Rob Prinzo (LinkedIn, @RobPrinzo) author of the excellent book No Wishing Required – The Business Case for Project Assurance.

Join them each Friday from 12:00 – 1:00 pm (EDT) via hashtag #PMChat. Weekly topics focus on Project Management & Leaderships challenges. It’s 60 minutes of lively discussion with practical Project Program and Portfolio management ideas that will stimulate you!

Always with
A sense of humor,
A reality check, and ….
Lots of support
#PMChat will will be the highlight of your week.

The August 17th Show will celebrate the 1 year Anniversary!

It has been a whole year of connecting with other World Class Project Managers and learning their secrets to success! The conversation revolves around Project Program & Portfolio Management topics. Questions discussed have varied from what to look for when hiring a project manager to how to handle a surprise project or recover a problem project.

#PMChat participants ALWAYS tell it as it is
Not what we learn it should be!

The #PMChat community is made up of the top project management thought leaders today.

#PMChat PreGame Show: Tune into KPS Chatter on Fridays at 11:30am for the Live #PMChat Pre-Game Radio Show, as hosts Robert Kelly & Rob Prinzo interview today’s leading project management experts. Listen to Past Episodes

In addition to the lively discussion & idea sharing, #PMChat participants are eligible to receive PDU credits. Read the page on The PM chat Website that talks about Category C PDUs

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 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’

Be sure not to miss these upcoming programs:

• August 24th –@TheLazyPM – Peter Taylor – (LinkedIn profile) LAZYPM Lazy Project Management
  The Author Of: 
  1. The Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early (Infinite Ideas)
  2. Leading Successful Pmos: How to Build the Best Project Management Office for Your Business‘ (Gower)
  3. And his newest book The Lazy Project Manager and the Project from Hell (This link is the kindle edition – currently available FREE on Amazon – A Must Have!).

• August 31st – Antonio Nieto-Rodriquez, (LinkedIn profile) The Focused Organization

To learn more about some of the world class Project Managers that participate in #PMChat and to learn who to follow on twitter see our article about #PMChat

TO JOIN #PMCHAT: You can sign in to your Twitter account and Search for #PMCHAT and make sure that all your replies have #PMCHAT within the 140 character response.

BUT WE RECOMMEND: http://tweetchat.com/room/pmchat Just click on the link and sign in with your Twitter account. Tweetchat makes the Twitter chat easy.

Come & Join Some Of The Worlds Best
Project Managers and Business Analysts
in a Lively Weekly Discussion!

Live Webinar August 17th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Strategic plans are typically created annually for many organizations, often times as a result of management or their staff scrambling to pull together budget numbers and a quick list of projects to justify spending the budget dollars. The Strategic Plan then sits on a shelf and becomes stale or outdated rather than influencing future work.

Join us for this free 1 hour webinar and learn about 4 cored components that will allow your Strategic Plans to become flexible vehicles for change.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Creating and leveraging a current state organizational assessment
• Why its important to differentiate the corporation’s mission from its vision
• Creating action plans for achieving realistic objectives
• Keeping the Strategic Plan relevant and current

Solutions Cube Group webinars are presented by experienced staff members and partners who have over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing and running facilitated project meetings and delivering project management training courses.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase 4 Core Comonents of a Living Strategic Plan

Live Webinar – August 16th, 2012 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

During the project intake process all projects are considered critical, all others never get approved. So how do you decide which “critical” projects are most critical? These decisions are typically made politically, emotionally or without consistency.

The Impact:

• Poor resource utilization
• Frustrated resources
• Projects not aligned with strategic objectives
• Higher risk and lower ROI

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar demonstrating a balanced approach to prioritizing initiatives. Projects affect many aspects of your business; all factors should be considered when taking on a new project. Learn the prioritization secrets of successful companies using a Project Portfolio Management mentality.

The Result:

• Decreased risk
• Higher ROI
• Optimized resource utilization
• Maximum aggregate value of projects

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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’

Click to register for How to Prioritize Projects When Each One is Critical