Live Webinar – December 5th, 2012 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Planning On Migrating Your Existing Applications
To The Cloud?

Stop, take a deep breath,
and consider that you are about to try to go
Off-Roading With A Toyota Prius.

Organizations that don’t take a long hard look at application architecture and code structure will be extremely disappointed at the results of deploying applications in private or public clouds.

The expected business benefits of cost savings, scalability, and high-availability will inevitably fall short— with the blame targeted at the cloud rather than the application.

In this webinar, SD Times will explore the challenges of migrating existing applications to a cloud infrastructure, then present proven strategies for mitigating the risks

You will learn how to:

• Prioritize application migration
• Plan for “big-blocks”
• Assess your existing applications’ ‘fit’ for cloud
• Leverage a centralized development testing platform to align your business goals with coding decisions
• Create a cloud migration policy
• Use process to mitigate the risks associated with cloud migration

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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 Migrating Applications to the Cloud: Prevent the Most Common Reasons for Failure

Live Webinar December 6th, 2012 – 10:00 am- 11:00 am EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat C Free – Free PDU
Event Code: 144084 A Microsoft Event Presented by: ABCSI

Featured Product/Topic: MS Project

This seminar will cover basic topics in MS Project such as:

1. Listing tasks,
2. Linking, and ….
3. Calendars

Presenter: Ed Avizur (LinkedIn profile)

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

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 6 – Time

• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control 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 MS Project – Beginners.

Live Webinar – December 6th 2012, 12:00-1:00 pm EST
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

Although Agile has proven to provide incredible benefits in software development and delivery, it is not foolproof, nor a “Silver Bullet.” Plenty of factors need to be considered before attempting this highly disciplined approach.

Learn from the mistakes other organizations have made and discover which pitfalls to avoid to ensure that your first attempt at applying an Agile approach will be met with a successful outcome.

This hour-long web seminar will explore these areas and provide clear steps your team and organization should consider to provide a clear set of tools to maximize the opportunity for best results possible.

Click to register for The Top Agile Pitfalls that Lead to Trouble

Live Webinar December 5th, 2012, 11:00 am 12:30 pm EST or
Live Webinar December 6th, 2012, 4:00 pm 5:30 pm EST
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

You know the value change management brings to a project, but how do you convince senior leaders and project leaders to invest in change management?

In Prosci’s final webinar of the year, they will present an exciting new webinar: Business Case for Change Management.

This fast-paced, inspiration-loaded session will pull together the rationale and approach to change management into the structure of a business case.

Learn how to gain credibility, buy-in and the ultimate commitment to apply change management by presenting the Business Case for Change Management.

Agenda:

1. What is a business case?
2. Why a business case for change management?
3. The business case for change management

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 December 5th Presentation of Business Case for Change Management

Click to register for the December 6th Presentation of Business Case for Change Management

Live Webinar 3 Offerings
December 4th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
December 5th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
December 6th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by: Capella University

‘Project manager’ may or may not be your title, but everyone should build skills for getting things done.

In this interactive webinar, you’ll learn the difference between an assignment and a project, then get tips and tools for bringing projects to successful completion.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

• Understand the elements that make up a project
• Understand a framework for addressing projects
• Focus on project requirements and …
• Understanding the importance of project teams

Click to register for the December 4th session of The Accidental Project Manager: Tools and Tips For Unexpected Projects

Click to register for the December 5th session of The Accidental Project Manager: Tools and Tips For Unexpected Projects

Click to register for the December 6th session of The Accidental Project Manager: Tools and Tips For Unexpected Projects

Live Webinar Cancelled December 5th, 2012
This webinar will be presented on Dec 19th, 2012
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 162104 A Microsoft Event Presented by: InCycle Software

SSDT Replaces BIDS & Database Projects

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is a toolset released with SQL Server 2012. It replaces Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) and Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects, and it can seriously improve the way your team works with SQL Server databases.

Attend this session for a series of demonstrations on how to develop, query, compare, debug, refactor and deploy SQL Server and SQL Azure databases using SSDT – including how to put all of your database objects under source control and how use the new LocalDB edition as a sandboxed environment to build, test, and debug your DB project.

If you already use VS 2010 Database Projects, we’ll be covering why you’ll want to upgrade your database projects to SSDT and how!

Objectives:

1. Understand how SSDT solves common problems for team database development
2. Learn how to get started with SSDT and get your DB under source control in TFS 2012
3. Learn how to structure and deploy databases to SQL Server and Azure.

Agenda:

• Common problems for DB Teams and How SSDT solves them
• Key features of SSDT database projects
• Database Lifecycle Management and Workflow using SSDT and TFS 2012
• Creating and structuring SQL Server database projects using SSDT
• Using SSDT to build, maintain and deploy SQL Server databases

Join InCycle Software to learn how SSDT enables rich collaboration between roles involved in database development including developers and administrators.

Enable your organization to keep databases under source control to provide consistent and predictable interface that aligns with proven application lifecycle management practices.

Presenter: Kris Lankford (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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

Also Note: Attendees should be fluent in SQL Server-ese.

Click to register for Team Database Development Using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)