With Thanksgiving Approaching pduOTD will be featuring
3 Great Offers: From PDUs2Go this week

1. Monday November 12th 2012 – $597 for 60 PDUs
   • “Managing Projects at the Speed of Time“
2. Wednesday Nov 14th 2012 – $597 for 60 PDUs
   • “Communicating for Results: Leadership Skills through Structured Communications“
3. Friday November 16th 2012 – $597 for 60 PDUs
   • “Managing Teams to Achieve BIG Goals“

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PDUs:60 Price: $597.00

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Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Connie Podesta – these speakers give keynote presentations at leadership, management and personal development conferences. You can hear these speakers, and many more, while earning your re-certification PDUs. PDUs2Go has assembled 27 Leadership bundles into one package – Managing Teams to Achieve BIG Goals.

This bundle provides the complete requirements to recertify for your 3 Year PMP cycle. This newly released set of 60 PDUs is offered by PDUs2Go, a Registered Education Provider that gives you Category 3 PDUs. That’s the full 60 PDUs for your recertification for $597.00 USD.

Let an award winning faculty of New York Times best selling authors and legendary speakers guide you on their unique viewpoints on achieving big goals, goal setting techniques and team management skills.

The variety of leaders and speakers in this audio collection will help you gain the perspective from multiple viewpoints on the best methods to manage your teams, employees, volunteers, peers, co-workers, upper management and stakeholders in your projects. There is knowledge to be gained if you are new to management or are seeking to develop your skills with help from the pros.

In this series you will learn how to set and measure big goals, how to keep your teams motivated, time management skills for managers, how to overcome obstacles and understand the science of management change within your organization. This panel of experts is a rare collection of practical advise and management philosophy, designed to help you set and achieve big goals this year.

What I like about this offering from PDUs2Go is listening to these Keynote Speakers during the commute. Instead of listening to the same Top 40 songs or Talk radio day after day, I tune in to presentations such as Achieving Greatness or Leave the Office Earlier. I arrive at the office with a positive focus on leadership and team management and I feel ready to take on the new day. EdmontonPM

LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS & LEADERSHIP EXPERTS in this bundle include:

As an alternative to classroom or online settings, you can Earn n’ Learnâ„¢ through a portable, self-paced course, including audio files allows you to to earn PDUs without sitting in a classroom or at a computer. Beyond online learning, this is learning anytime and anywhere – around your demanding work and family schedule. PDUs2Go is a Registered Education Provider (REP) with PMI® .

Learn & Recertify with 60 PDUs

Live Webinar – November 22nd 2012, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Microsoft have tagged Windows Server 2012 as a “Cloud OS”

This stems from the fact that many of the features have come from running cloud services such as Office 365, Azure and Bing. It doesn’t mean that Server 2012 is just about virtualisation, even if Hyper-V staid as is, there have been more changes in this release of Windows Server since the move from NT4 to 2000.

In this one hour webinar, guest speaker Andrew Fryer (LinkedIn profile); Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, will host a lightning tour of the highlights to this major release, where he aims to accommodate all interests in infrastructure management including; networking, storage, active directory.

Click to register for Windows Server 2012: A Lightning Tour

Live Webinar November 21st, 2012, 8:00 am EST or
Live Webinar November 21st, 2012, 11:00 am EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Each year, Gartner publishes a list of its best and most provocative predictions for the next few years.

These predictions will drive actions for enterprises and individuals preparing current and next-generation strategies.

Join this webinar for predictions that address the Nexus of Forces and the challenges faced by CIOs as they live in a world of consumerization and slow economic growth.

Discussion Topics:

• What key predictions will affect business and IT growth strategies?
• The Predictions that will shape CIO strategies in the Era of the Nexus?
• What predictions will highlight key market changes in IT adoption?

Presenter: Daryl C.Plummer, Managing VP & Gartner Fellow

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project 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 Top Technology Predictions for 2013 and Beyond

Power of the Profession: IIL Virtual Event for IPM Day

Live Event & Online Webinars – November 15th, 2012
Presented by: International Institute of Learning (IIL), Inc.
Duration: Up to 15 PDUs Credits: Category A 15 PDU – Free PDUs

November 1st is the 9th Annual International Project Management (IPM) Day. IPM Day was started by Frank Saladis and has become a significant date in the Project Manager’s calendar. IPM Day was established as a way of recognizing the extraordinary efforts made by project management professionals everywhere – across industries and geographies.

To mark this day, IIL is hosting an exciting program titled The Power of the Profession. This event features 25 video presentations and the opportunity to earn up to 15 PDUs. TheThe Power of the Profession video presentations feature global industry professionals, experts, and influencers discussing engaging and relevant project management topics.

The presentations are available during the month of November 2012

View Presentations
Read White Papers, Articles
Connect & Share with Peers

and

Earn up to 15 Category A PDUs!

Four Virtual Locations to Visit:

1. Video Presentations: Here you will be able to watch recorded video presentations led by over 25 professionals from around the world. They will discuss the most current and critical topics in project management today. You can learn more about the presenters and their topics by visiting the “Speakers” section of this site.
2. PowerPoint Slides: Download any of the slides from the video presentations that interest you.
3. Exhibition Hall: Here you will find our Virtual Booths where you can learn more about our Gold Sponsors and IIL. While visiting this area during the LIVE INTERACTION HOURS you can chat with representatives from our sponsors and IIL as well as download valuable takeaways and product information.
4. Networking Lounge: Chat and interact with your peers from around the world in the Networking Lounge.

Interact in the virtual booths with both speakers and GOLD sponsors on:

Click Power of the Profession: IIL International Project Day for the Event Registration page. Once you register for IPM Day 2012, you will be sent a confirmation email with your log-in details.to you.

Click to Access The Event Site once you have registered.

IIL International Project Management Day

Speakers and Presentations

Click for the Speakers and Presentations page

• IIL Welcome Message
  • E. LaVerne Johnson, (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO, IIL
• The Integration of Project Management into Strategic Planning Activities
  • Dr. Harold Kerzner, Senior Executive Director, IIL
• Trust, Ethics, and Values: Critical Foundation for Success
  • Greg Balestrero, (LinkedIn profile, YouTube) Strategic Advisor on Corporate Consciousness, Leadership, and Sustainability, IIL
• The Soft Skills of Project Management
  • Joanna Durand, (LinkedIn profile) Program Management Council Chair and Global PMO Head, Citi
• Project Management: The Power of the Profession
  • Frank Saladis, PMP (LinkedIn profile) – Senior Consultant and Trainer, IIL and Founder of IPM Day
• Grateful Leadershipâ„¢: Using the Power of Acknowledgment to Engage All Your People and Achieve Superior Results
  • Judith W. Umlas, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Vice President, Author, Trainer – Publisher, IIL Publishing and allPM.com
• PM Development in Wärtsilä Corp.
  • Osmo Härkönen, (LinkedIn profile) MSc (CE)-Vice President, Group Quality, Wärtsilä
• Women in Project Management
  • Beth Partleton, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, Immediate Past Chair, 2012 PMI Board of Directors
• How a PMO Can Make a Difference
  • James Brown, (LinkedIn profile) Research PMO Senior Manager, Dupont Pioneer
• Project Portfolio Management: Metrics That Work
  • James Brown, (LinkedIn profile) Research PMO Senior Manager, Dupont Pioneer
• The Importance of Resource Management
  • James Brown, (LinkedIn profile) Research PMO Senior Manager, Dupont Pioneer
• Translating Project Management into Practice in Government
  • Jennifer Aiello Quaglietta, (LinkedIn profile) 2012 Kerzner Award Recipient, Sr. PM Consultant, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Canada
• Leadership Principles for Project Success
  • Dr. Thomas Juli, (LinkedIn profile) (PMP, CSM) – Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Leadership Principles for Project Success
  • Adrian Pagdin, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CSM – Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum
  • James T. Connors, Executive Vice President for Operations – National September 11 Memorial and Museum
• The Brave New World of Second Order Project Management
  • Carl Belack, Director, Complex Projects Practice, IIL
• Leverage the Power of Coaching in Your Projects!
  • Jane Morgan, (LinkedIn profile) PMP – Trainer/Consultant/Coach, IIL
• Five Things Every Agile Project Manager Needs to Know About Facilitation
  • Bill Richardson, (LinkedIn profile) Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Five Things Every Project Manager Needs to Know About Leadership
  • Bill Richardson, (LinkedIn profile) Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Conflict Management
  • Dr. Roberta Grossi, PhD, DBA, DM, MBA – Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Six Sigma and Sustainability – Business Survival in a Challenging Economy
  • Harry Rever, Director of Six Sigma, IIL
• Nine Guidelines to Successfully Executing Portfolio Management in Your Organization
  • Dr. Ginger Levin, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PgMP -Consultant/Educator-Portfolio, Program, and Project Management
• Portfolio Management: The Key to Organizational Excellence in Today’s Complex and Competitive World
  • Dr. Ginger Levin, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PgMP -Consultant/Educator-Portfolio, Program, and Project Management
• Questions the Boss Should Ask
  • Mike Watson, Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Integrated Project Management
  • Jose Manuel Boccardo, (LinkedIn profile) Head of PMO in the Direction of Exploration & Production of Repsol
• Organizational Efficiency Initiatives and PMOs
  • Gene Bounds, (LinkedIn profile) President of Bounds Associates, LLC
• Agile Planning: The Three Horizons
  • Marsha Hughes, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP, CSM – Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• SharePoint 2013 – What’s new for Project and Portfolio Management
  • Éamonn McGuinness, (LinkedIn profile) CEO, BrightWork
• Two for the Price of One
  • Steven Blais, Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Manage Expectations Before They Manage You
  • Steven Blais, (LinkedIn profile) Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• The Basics of Project Evaluation and Lessons Learned – Based on the book The Basics of Project Evaluation and Lessons Learned (purchase Link)
  • Dr. Willis H. Thomas, (LinkedIn profile) Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Get Your Head in the Cloud! Managing Projects with Project 2013
  • Mario Landa, (LinkedIn profile) Director of MSP Services, IIL
• Competencias Clave del Director de Proyectos (Key Competencies for Project Managers)
  • Isabel Ortiz, PMP Trainer/Consultant, IIL
• Interview: IIL Europe-APM Group
  • Alan Harpham, (LinkedIn profile) Chairman of the APM Group
• OLA Movement: The Importance of People in PM
  • Vilca Damian, General Manager at IIL Brasil
• Gestión del Portafolio: De la Estrategia a la Táctica
  • Rodolfo Ambriz, (LinkedIn profile) LATAM Regional Manager, IIL

PDUs:

IIL will provide one (1) PDU number that applies to the overall event. Upon filling out the surveys at the end of each video, the “same” PDU number will be provided. IPM Day 2012: Power of the Profession will include over 30 presentations with up to 12 hours of content. If you watch all of the videos you may claim 15 PDUs with PMI®. If you only watch 2 hours of videos, you can claim 2 PDUs. This process is set up on the honor system in accordance with PMI®’s Code of Ethics

Click Power of the Profession: IIL International Project Day for the Event Registration page. Once you register for IPM Day 2012, you will be sent a confirmation email with your log-in details.to you.

Click to Access The Event Site once you have registered.

Live Webinar November 22th, 2012 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST OR
By: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hr 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.95 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

Requirements Are Dynamic & Ever Evolving

Though constant change can often feel chaotic and unproductive. The Business Analyst constantly feels the pressure to complete requirements and confronts many obstacles to hinder progress.

Whether you’re dealing with stakeholders who are oblivious to one another’s needs or a project manager who suffers from lead singer disorder, meetings can seem like one step forward and two steps back.

Roles and responsibilities collide, quality deliverables are difficult to produce, conflicting expectations arise, and day to day BA activities become difficult. With any team – whether a project team, a music group or a sports team – it takes more than one person to deliver a project, produce a best-selling song or win a championship.

It’s no different with requirements. Each team member has a role to play. For the Business Analyst it’s about sifting through the requirements chaos. Successfully eliciting and articulating business requirements ensures business analysis activities produce high quality deliverables and solutions.

This webinar explores approaches to managing requirements chaos and reigning in disruptive sources of chaos.

Learning Outcome:

1. Learn to avoid requirements chaos through planning.
2. Recognize the importance of setting and managing expectations.
3. Understand the stakeholder role and the reality of conflicting stakeholder needs.
4. Build a foundation to effectively recognize stakeholder intentions and to plan around high risk areas and saboteurs.
5. Highlight the importance of the relationships between the Business Analyst, the project manager and stakeholders and the corresponding impact on requirements.
6. Grasp the role the Business Analyst plays in creating chaos and understand the means to resolution.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the drivers of moving requirements.
• Recognize the importance of working in partnership with project stakeholders.
• Understand how to stabilize requirements and filter through the chaos.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Michelina DiNunno, MBA (LinkedIn profile) Michelina DiNunno has been in the Telecomm Industry for over 10 years, working in Marketing, IT and as a Business Analyst. She currently works for Telus and is providing consulting services through Global Knowledge.

Click to register for Managing Requirements and the Chaos Theory

Live Webinar – November 20th 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

The next generation of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is right around the corner and introduces new ways for users and organizations to communicate, collaborate and share information.

Beyond its highly promoted features (See Below), including the new user experience and enhanced collaboration through social networking; SharePoint Server 2013 provides many improvements in the support of bottom-line business requirements: workflows, business intelligence, business connectivity services, mobile productivity, eDiscovery and more.

In this web seminar series, we will focus on many of the features of SharePoint 2013 and will explain what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what is new!

Some topics explored, include:

• SharePoint’s new Modern Interface (Windows 8 Style)
• Socialization with SharePoint Server 2013
• Similarities and New Features of SharePoint Workflows
• Business Intelligence Enhancements
• SharePoint’s Expanded Mobile Functionality
• Architectural Changes in the SharePoint 2013 Platform
• Upgrade Options for Previous SharePoint Versions
• Regulatory Compliance and eDiscovery Capabilities
• SharePoint’s Enhanced Project Management Capabilities
• Discovering People, Files, and Information with SharePoint Search
• Utilizing SharePoint’s New Publishing and Design Capabilities
• And more …..

Presenter: Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for SharePoint 2013: What’s New and Why You Need It!

SharePoint 2013 The 10 New Features You’ll Love

1. Search Engine Optimization – is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview runs different analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user actions that were performed on a site to identify items that users perceive as more relevant than others.
2. My Documents — My “SkyDrive for Work” – Storing all your documents in the cloud via your MySites was always a good idea – but a bit clunky. SharePoint 2013 greatly improves the MySites capabilities and defaults to saving to SkyDrive. You’ll love the ability to save and sync documents directly to SkyDrive.
3. Rich Workflows – If workflows were a sore point, they’ve gotten a lot better and seem much more able to handle more complex activities including looping and working with webservices (anyone thinking orchestration?).
4. App Store – Microsoft is introducing the new App Store model to SharePoint! Users will find dozens and hundreds of pre-built applications you can easily add to SharePoint.
5. Social Enterprise – Micro blogs, activity feeds, community sites, Following, Likes, and Reputations are some of the new social features being added. The ability to follow users or content will be especially helpful.
6. Mobility – Microsoft has recognized the importance of mobile optimized views for SharePoint. You will see greatly enhanced mobile capabilities.
7. Site Permissions – SharePoint 2013 offers a simplified sharing-based model for site permissions management. This will give users easier ways to manage site security.
8. Themes – SharePoint 2013 brings much richer theme functionality and the ability to add background images.
9. Content Search Webpart – A really cool webpart. This can be thought of as the next generation of Content Query webpart. Content Search Web Part displays content that was crawled and added to the search index via a query. This query is automatically issued, and it returns results from the search index when users browse to a page that contains the Content Search Web Part.
10. Metro Interface – The new metro interface sports a much cleaner and concise look. Less clutter. And optimized for touch devices.