Live Webinar October 18th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1266
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Effective delegation is at the heart of good management,
Yet many managers hesitate to entrust work to their employees!

Some of reasons:

1. They don’t know how to delegate;
2. They don’t want to burden their staff;
3. They believe they can do it better than their employees;
4. They fear an employee may make a mistake;
5. … Or worse, they fear that an employee may outperform them.

The result?

Managers suffer burnout, employees’ skills remain untapped, and morale suffers. The good news is that you can acquire the art of the handover!

This webinar will help you:

• Identify the symptoms of a disempowering organization
• Explore your own mindset about delegating work
• Identify what work can be delegated (and what should not)
• Choose the right person for the task
• Develop a plan and a process for delegating effectively
• Add a critical skill to your manager’s tool kit

About the presenter: Casey Mitchell (LinkedIn profile), is founder and principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc., a consulting practice devoted to helping people achieve peak performance. Her primary focus is on management learning and development and works with new managers who want to make a successful transition, along with existing managers who want to move into leadership roles. She has eighteen years experience in the training field and a wealth of management experience, which helps her relate to her clients’ needs.

Click to register for Delegation: The Art of the Handover

Live Webinar October 17th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager. Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

You will have to register for either the live or recorded session

Click to register for the Live Presentation of Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

Recorded Webinar Information:

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Live Webinar October 15th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

You may have already started unit testing or at least understand the basics. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test. How can you test dependencies and other tangled code?

How do you get out of the death spiral of testing?

Join this webinar and learn:

1. The problems with legacy code
2. How isolation helps
3. Hand rolled mocks
4. Mocking frameworks
5. Writing effective unit tests

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.’

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.

Click to register for Introduction to Mocking: How to Test Dependencies & Legacy Code

Another Great Category C pduOTD Opportunity

Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking:
Testing Untestable Code

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

Earn 1 category C PDU with this terrific video presentation. (Category C Documentation is provided on the page with the presentation).

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

Check out Gil Zilberfeld’s, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) 1 Hour Online Webinar By Typemock – Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking: Testing Untestable Code.

Live Webinar – October 16th, 2011 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Presented by: Conscires Agile Practices
Duration: 1 hour 1 Category C FREE – Free PDU

In this interactive webinar, the participants will get an overview of the fundamental principles and mechanics of Scrum, thereby understanding the benefits of adopting Scrum principles and values in an organization.

As a customer, I want:

• The ability to go to market faster
• Faster return on investment

As a Project Manager, I want:

• To measure the progress of my project in terms of real progress made and product ready to be shipped.

As a team member, I want:

• A sustainable pace
• Satisfaction of quality product delivered

Bachan will be focusing on the following goals and relate it to how Scrum and Agile will help you achieve these goals.

Presenter:Lisa Montaño MBA, CSM, CSPO (LinkedIn profile) has over 15 years experience in start-up and entrepreneurial companies working as a business analyst and functional lead which includes leading cross-functional teams to implement customized web interfaces, e-commerce capability, and workflow automation projects. Lisa has extensive in agile roles including the Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master, and is a trainer and Scrum coach with Conscires Agile Practices.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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.’

Click to register for Introduction to Scrum-Agile: ”What Is In It For Me?”

Live Webinar – October 16th 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

In today’s fast paced work environment, we all face the ever present challenge of juggling career, personal time, family, and so many other aspects of life.

A life long workaholic addresses years of attempts to bring balance between work and having a life.

This webinar will discuss the various ways to navigate the path to greater balance as well as find some solutions to common problems that take us all off track.

Presenter: Tawnya Sawyer (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage 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’

Click to register for Out of Wack? How to Get Work/Life Balance Back