Live Webinar – November 27, 2012 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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’

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

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Live Webinar November 27th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToAssist

Join Paul Glen (LinkedIn profile), author of Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology, as he delves into the key issues and best practices of rolling out new hardware and software to users.

Learn:

1. How to assess what users expect from technology
2. Common missteps and omissions in the QA process
3. What you can do to make users feel more confident
4. And more…

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 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 Introducing New Technology to Your Users: A Make-or-Break Moment

Live Webinar November 27th, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm EST
Duration: 75 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Diversity CoP (REP #S018)

1. How can we understand culture in non-essentialist ways, avoiding neo-colonial liabilities and labels, …
2. While at the same time recognizing the flow of discourse that blends our collective and individual experience?
3. How we can use culture to peacefully cohabit the planet?

George will pursue these questions by training ourselves to listen to the flow of discourse in and around us, identifying the primitive and prevailing conversations and the streams of discourse that construct the realities we choose to live in.

George will appreciate culture as the flow of conscious and unconscious, the story telling, interpretative and map-making process that creates such fantasies as the nation state, the economy and empirical science

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

Presenter: George Simons

Click to register for Understanding Cultures In the Flow: I am the creator and destroyer of worlds ….

Live Webinar November 26th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Join Jeff Johnson (LinkedIn profile) discusses his book
Designing with the Mind in Mind:
Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules.

The IIBA ABC Webinar Series showcases books that are in the IIBA Library. The library hosts over 300 books related to business analysis and is exclusively a free benefit to IIBA members. The content of this library has been reviewed and selected by the IIBA Professional Development team and includes most of the books used in the development of the BABOK® Guide, making it a key reference for anyone who is studying for the Certification exams.

This session will focus on the Psychological Basis for User Interface (UI) design rules. By understanding the underlying psychology for the design rules, designers and evaluators enhance their ability to interpret and apply them.

If you are new to user interface design or have experience you will discover from this session that UI design rules are not simple recipes, and that applying them effectively requires determining their applicability in specific situations.

You will also be presented with information regarding. balancing the trade-offs that inevitably arise in situations when design rules appear to contradict each other.

Click to register for IIBA: Designing With the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson, Ph.D.

Live Webinar November 26th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

• Are you really satisfied with how your business operates?
• Do you know what your End Game is and how the final moments of YOUR Super Bowl will be played?
• Since Plan A and B didn’t work do you wonder if the problem will be solved at Plan Z?

Building the Business is about the general basis, goal and reason of establishing a company and not specifically about marketing, PR, SEO or other areas. It’s about building sound sustainable infrastructure of assets and leadership for improved performance and profit while building the organization’s vision and continuously clarifying the mission.

The business must identify and create the path to the “perfection” of the organization while enlisting the entire organization in the quest.

Learn methods, tools, standards and processes that will ensure you can sustain your vision to your End Game.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for Building the Business – End Game the Ultimate Strategy

Live Webinar November 27th, 2012 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webinar – 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 162111 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Incycle Software

Visual Studio 2012 Improves Developer Productivity
By Introducing a Number of New Capabilities

This session provides an overview of capabilities such as the new Team Explorer experience, Code Review, Code-Clone Analysis, and Continuous Unit Testing.

Objectives:

• Improve productivity by learning new capabilities in Visual Studio 2012.
• Focus on the tasks that are necessary to develop quality software.
• Learn about the new quick and easy mechanisms for collaborating with other developers in your project.

AgendaTopics:

1. Interacting with Team Foundation Server through the new Team Explorer.
2. My Work, Source Control Explorer, Shelvesets.
3. Collaborative development through Code Reviews.
4. Find duplicate code with the new Code-Clone Analysis.
5. Enhance code quality with Continuous Unit Testing.
6. Surface bugs in your application with Exploratory Testing.
7. Get your customer involved, get their Feedback!

Presenter: Leo Vildosola (LinkedIn profile, @TechieLeo)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 9.3 Develop 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 Improving Developer Productivity with Visual Studio 2012