Live Webinar November 7th, 2012 11:00 – 12:00 pm EST
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Join the QuantumPM experts as they take you through their top five tips to keep your project server environment in excellent health.

They will share some of the good, bad, and ugly issues they have seen and let you in on some of our secrets for preventing and eliminating these problems.

Tips include both Project Server and Project Professional best practices.

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 – November 7th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

So you’ve been assigned a complex, poorly defined project concept… now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity. These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.

Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours? What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning objectives:

1. Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2. The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3. Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

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Live Webinar November 7th, 2012 – 9:30 am – 11:00 am EDT or …
Live Webinar November 7th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm am EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Note: Although RBCS is an REP this course may not have an activity number Contact RBCS for more information.

This is another webinar in a series on advanced software testing, excerpted from Rex’s popular books, Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing, and Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager, a book for test managers.

In this webinar, Rex will discuss test policies, strategies and plans. Rex will cover various topics that test managers must consider to make sure that test goes as smoothly as possible.

Testing Managers Should Consider:

• What should testing accomplish and how do we recognize success?
• How should you approach testing?
• What specific activities need to be planned for each project?
• What risks can affect testing, and how can we manage those risks in our test plans?
• How does lifecycle affect these documents?

Join this webinar, illustrated with examples throughout, to learn techniques that you can apply to your work right away.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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 the 9:30 am – 11:00 am EDT presentation of Advanced Software Testing: Test Policies, Strategies, and Plans

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Live Webinar November 7th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Social & Mobile Technologies
Are Rapidly Changing The Business Landscape

Every customer has a global publishing platform in their pocket or purse. Positive and negative word of mouth can cascade rapidly through social networks around the world.

To keep pace with today’s connected customer, your company must become a connected company.

1. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers,
2. Changing how work is done,
3. Changing how you measure success, and ……
4. Changing how performance is rewarded.

It requires a new way of thinking about your company: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system that can learn and adapt over time.

You will learn that the connected company is not a theory or an idea and that the future of work is already here!

By attending this webcast, you’ll discover how your company can use these principles to adapt—and thrive—in today’s ever-changing global marketplace.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter: Dave Gray (LinkedIn profile) SVP Strategy, Dachis Group, is a management consultant, focused on innovation and change, and is also a founding member of VizThink, an international community of Visual Thinkers. He is coauthor of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, and The Connected Company. For more information, follow Daves Blog.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope

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 – November 8th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

• On one hand, we say we honor evaluation, that we are eager for evidence and data.
• On the other hand, most reported practice is far from enthusiastic about metrics.

Today’s economic climate has increased accountability in organizations and required training and performance professionals to look in a data-driven way at their influence.

At the same time, technology-delivered training, learning management systems and a host of tools has increased possibilities for data collection.

• Are organizations using these tools?
• And if so, to what ends?

This session will tour evaluation promises, practices and barriers and provide an opportunity for participants to examine their efforts in light of the possibilities. How do you compare to the reported efforts of our respondents? How can we all do better?

Speakers:Dr. James Marshall (LinkedIn profile) is a faculty member in the Department of Educational Technology at SDU teaching graduate-level courses in instructional design, organizational performance, and evaluation. His large-scale research studies for federal and state government agencies have evaluated over $20M in funded projects.

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Live Webinar November 7th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 75 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Human Resource CoP (REP #S045)
Presented by: Kevin Ciccotti (LinkedIn profile), CPCC, ACC

One Of The Biggest Challenges To Successful Project Implementation
Is The Evolution Of The Project Team

A company will invest time, money, and effort in detailing the scope, selecting relevant experts for the team, choosing a project manager, and will leave them on their own to “make it work.”

The challenge of taking a diverse group of individuals, with varying backgrounds and experience, from different functional areas, and placing them on a project team with a Project Manager who is not their direct supervisor, can severely undermine the success of any project.

In “The Human Factor in Project Management,” Kevin explores some of the common mistakes Project Managers and companies make and offers strategies for creating highly functioning teams, guiding them through the team development process, and getting them to work together more effectively from the outset. He also discusses the powerful forces at work in our lives that determine our thoughts, actions, and ultimately the course and quality of our lives.

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

Presenter: Kevin Ciccotti CPCC, ACC, is a Certified Professional Coach and founder of Human Factor Formula. For more than 25 years Kevin has focused on the key behavioral elements that drive human performance and decision-making, and provides Project Managers with tools to better understand themselves, their coworkers, their teams.

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