Live Webinar – August 8th 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

SharePoint can do just about anything – from collaboration to business intelligence; from shared directories to business processes.

The difficulty with a system this powerful is the delegation of responsibility.

1. Who will create and maintain the infrastructure?
2. Who will create and manage permissions?
3. Who will be responsible for the integrity of your organization’s data?

SharePoint is a widely used product within many organizations. Having your employees properly trained on this system is a must!

The biggest hurdle companies face is the many different experience and knowledge levels employees have in using SharePoint. That’s why it is important to not only train the power users in your organization, but the end users as well. Adoption is less likely to occur if your employees don’t know how to use the product.

This web seminar will cover

• Understanding your training requirements
• Understanding your training requirements
• Common challenges for SharePoint users
• Differentiating between end users and power users
• Steps to creating a training plan
• Tips and Tricks for gaining user adoption

ASPE is a trusted provider for SharePoint training. They train for Power Users and End Users. Join them in this 1 hour webinar to learn how to ensure everyone in your organization is on the same page.

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Live Webinar August 10th, 2012, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

In his research on effective leaders, John Kotter found that one of the things that successful leaders did during their first six months on the job was to create an informal list of the things that they wanted to accomplish. He called this list an Agenda.

Simply put, a leadership agenda answers the basic question, “Where do I want (and/or need) to lead people?”

In this free webinar, Linkage’s Roger Young will share a process and set of tools designed to help you build a strategic, aligned, and balanced leadership agenda and vision.

Presented by: Roger Young (LinkedIn profile) has served as a leadership and organizational development consultant, master facilitator, and executive coach for more than 15 years. Roger’s expertise also includes working and leading across organizational boundaries, executive team alignment and development, and organizational downsizing. Roger is experienced in a wide range of assessments including 360-degree feedback, the Hogan personality suite, Social Styles, DiSC as well as several other individual and team assessments.

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Live Webinar August 9th, 2012, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

For today’s managers and leaders, strategy is no longer a once-a-year output from the annual business planning process. In fact, strategic thinking is an essential lens through which leaders at all levels evaluate and prioritize the daily work of the organization.

During times of change and transition, strategic thinking is a business imperative.

In this free webinar, Linkage’s Rich Rosier will review a simple, yet effective model for thinking more strategically. He will also lead a discussion on the specific application of this model to the change process.

Presenter: Rich Rosier is Senior Vice President and Principal Consultant at Linkage. He works with organizations to help them define and implement a winning strategy and maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their leadership development, coaching, organization development, and growth and innovation investments.

NOTE: There is a mistake on the registration page – the button on the registration page says “Download Recording” instead of “Register”. Choosing the “Download Recording” button will register you for the session. Linkage will be addressing this error shortly.

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Live Webinar August 9th,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Expanding on our 2010-2011 webinar that covered the top 10 scheduling mistakes, this webinar covers effective advanced scheduling techniques.

Attend this webinar and learn useful methods such as:

• How to add resources,
• Split tasks,
• Handle reoccurring events and …
• Show progress on your schedule.

Presenter: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

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Live Webinar – August 8th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

Learning Objectives:

1. Look at the structure of agility and discipline-based methods
2. Provide guidelines for adding agile practices to traditional software development environments
3. Provide guidelines for reapplying traditional development practices to the agile software development environment.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

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Live Webinar August 8th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Businesses choose Agile to speed time to market of their products and stay nimble and responsive to constantly changing customer needs.

As development cycles accelerate, it is more important than ever for project teams to ensure development activities align with business priorities.

The challenge is making sure that everyone has a shared vision of what is being built and why throughout the development process. Both business and development teams need to be able to collaborate on key decisions affecting the product, schedule or budget at any time.

Join this event and learn key ideals of Agile and challenges faced by Business Analysts. Jama will focus on the top challenges of Agile development, and how to solve them.

Questions answered include:

• What happens to the requirements?
• How do we keep everyone in the loop when not in the same office?
• How do we control scope?
• How do we know what the development team will deliver at the end of the Sprint?

Attend this live webinar to avoid the challenges of Agile development. All attendees will receive a PDF of Five Challenges to Agile Planning.

NOTE:

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information

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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