Live Webinar August 14th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

SharePoint is used as an enterprise collaboration platform in almost every organization, yet many organizations are still in the process of deciding why and when they should implement some of the new SharePoint 2010 social capabilities. While many organizations understand the benefits social technology can provide it’s not clear how SharePoint measures up against other social technologies, and perhaps more importantly what the true benefits social capabilities in SharePoint provide to real business scenarios.

Join Richard Harbridge as he provides an objective overview of what works well, and what works poorly in SharePoint 2010 and how it can help your SharePoint implementation be more successful.

Learn:

1. Strengths and weaknesses of SharePoint’s native social capability and how you can tackle those weaknesses.
2. Real world risks that SharePoint social capabilities can introduce and how to tackle them.
3. How to begin planning a social strategy and roll out with SharePoint.

Presenter: Richard Harbridge (LinkedIn profile) is an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft SharePoint and is a technology and business evangelist with deep expertise in information architecture, enterprise content management, and technology strategy. He has defined, architected, developed and successfully implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations on a single server to over 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations. Richard is a contributing author ofMicrosoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook and has a great blog you wont want to miss –Richards blog.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 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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Live Webinar – August 9th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

Resolving Resource Overallocation between projects is a common requirement for several organizations.

At the same time the techniques for resolving Overallocations in a Project Server Environment are not understood well enough. W

hile the techniques themselves do not vary too much from the ones used for stand-alone projects using MS Project 2010, it is important to keep the Server environment in perspective.

The goal of this session is to cover these techniques in depth, as applicable to an organization using Project Server 2010.

Some of the topics that will be part of this discussion are:

• Identifying an Overallocation of Resource, within your project and across projects
• Manual methods of resolving overallocation
• Using Resource Leveling in a Project Server Environment
• Tips and tricks on designing an efficient Resource Allocation process

Speaker Profile: Prasanna Adavi (LinkedIn profile) PMP, MCTS is a Senior EPM Consultant with EPM Architects, Inc. He is also a subject matter expert in implementing Project Management and Portfolio Management processes for organizations using MS Project and MS Project Server platforms. He has extensive background in IT Project management across multiple domains like ERP Implementations (SAP), Application Development, Creative Services and Automotive.

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