Live Webinar October 29th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 162118 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

The newest release of Visual Studio 2012 is rich with new tools that enhance standard developer activities.

In this session, Imaginet will review and demonstrate some of these new features, such as Unit Testing, Code Reviews, Code Clones, and other developer tools.

Come join them for this free Webinar!

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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’

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 October 30th, 2012 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Tune into this webinar to become a GhostBuster
And rid your organization of its disengaged spirits.

With Halloween right around the corner, there has never been a more perfect time to explore the scary aspects of employee engagement.

Many of us know how beneficial engaged employees are for an organization. Now is the time to focus on how scary the disengaged employees can be.

In this amusing webinar, Kevin Sheridan will provide detailed best practices to rid your workplace of the ghouls and goblins holding your employees back from being fully engaged.

He will examine popular Halloween costumes and themes in the context of the workplace, and help attendees better understand how haunted their organization really is.

Attendees will leave with a sense of:

1. The scary truth about disengagement in the workplace
2. How Halloween can help you understand the importance of employee engagement
3. Techniques for removing the cobwebs and barriers to increase engagement

Presented by: Kevin Sheridan, (LinkedIn profile) is the Senior Vice President – HR Optimization of Avatar HR Solutions. Kevin has over thirty years of experience in the field having consulted to some of the world’s largest corporations. Kevin has earned several distinctive awards and honors. His newest innovation, PEER®, has recently been nominated for the “HR Product of the Year” award. PEER is consistently recognized as an industry-changing innovation in the field of employee engagement. Kevin is the New York Times Best-Selling author of Building a Magnetic Culture®: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce and the author of The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees.

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’

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Live Webinar Workshop – October 30th, 2012 – 2:00 Pm – 5:00 Pm EDT
Duration: 3 Hrs Webinar Credits: 3 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Facts and measures are the foundation of true understanding,
But misuse of metrics is the cause of much confusion.

In this virtual workshop, Rex will share some things he’s learned about metrics that you can put to work right away. You’ll work on some practical exercises to develop metrics for your testing, and have a chance to discuss those with Rex and with other attendees.

Learn:

• How can we use metrics to manage testing?
• What metrics can we use to measure the test process?
• What metrics can we use to measure our progress in testing a project?
• What do metrics tell us about the quality of the product?

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

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

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT presentation of Testing Metrics: A Virtual Workshop

Live Webinar October 29th, 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 #S009)
Presented by: David Hillson (Amazon profile)

Innovation is risky

It requires a unique combination of novelty and practicality to deliver something new and better in uncertain and challenging circumstances.

This presentation shows how risk management can support innovation projects by focusing on both upside opportunities as well as downside threats.

The Innovation Ecocyle is introduced as a framework to address both exploration and learning, and the role of risk management in supporting both loops of the Innovation Ecocyle is explained.

Practical approaches are presented showing how the risk process allows us to find innovative opportunities, pick the real winners, and make it happen.

Discover how a simple integrated risk process can help to stop things going wrong in your innovation projects, as well as help things go right.

Presented by: Dr. David Hillson (known globally as The Risk Doctor), is recognised internationally as a leading thinker and expert practitioner in risk management, and he writes and speaks widely on the topic. David is active in PMI® and has received the PMI Fellow Award, the PMI Eric Jenett PM Excellence Award and the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his work in developing risk management over many years. He is an Honorary Fellow of the UK Association for Project Management (APM), and a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM). David was elected as a Fellow with the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) to contribute to its Risk Commission, and he is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

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

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Live Webinar October 26th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

In many companies, the Requirements Definition process fails to define the “REAL” Business Need for a project.

What may appear to be a great solutions are often developed without any tie to the real project needs. Unfortunately, the discovery of missing, out of scope, or poorly defined requirements often happens much too late in the project lifecycle leading to project failure.

Avoiding these costly mistakes requires a clear understanding of the requirements definition process and the right tools and techniques to define complete requirements for a project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Building the Foundation for Clear Requirements webinar enables participants to recognize the barriers preventing project teams from defining clear requirements.

Participants will learn how to create a requirements definition foundation that engages the right stakeholders, alignment on the project scope and progressive elaboration techniques for maintaining the right level of focus throughout the requirements definition lifecycle.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to use the Project Scope Statement deliverables to guide the team’s creation of “real” project need and project solution statements
• How to use collaborative techniques to lead team members through requirements creation activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to progressively build requirements using collaborative techniques
• Techniques for ensuring the Requirements Definition efforts are on the right track, from the onset of the project

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – October 30th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?
COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource 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: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Develop Human Resources Plan
• 9.2 Acquire 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.’

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