Live Webinar December 13th, 2012 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Duration: 1.5 Hours 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDUs
Presented by: Praxis (REP #1231)

NOTE: Although Praxis is an REP they have stated that this opportunity will not be registered with PMI® as a Category A opportunity. If you have any questions contact Mrs Jamie Morris with Praxis. See below for Category C documentation details.

Auditing a software vendor can seem like an expensive, time-consuming, and unnecessary undertaking. However, when performed within the framework of risk-based validation approach, vendor audits can provide significant payback!

This webinar shows you a practical approach.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 12 -Procurement

• 12.1 Plan Procurements
• 12.2 Conduct Procurements

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 – December 13th 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

Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

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 …..

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 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.

Live Webinar December 14th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A $15 USD
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

User acceptance test criteria provides a project team with valuable insight as to how well the project solution meets the expectations of the business stakeholders.

Unfortunately for many project efforts, this valuable information is created too late in the project’s lifecycle to uncover gaps in the business requirements and the therefore the project solution being built.

Learn why the creation of User Acceptance Test Objectives prior to finalizing business requirements will help uncover requirement gaps and as well as end product expectations that may actually be out of scope for the project.

Participants will learn how to guide the project team through the right level of definition for future user acceptance tests and use this knowledge to close the gaps in requirements that are likely to be missed until much later in the project.

In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn about concepts for:

• Utilizing transaction Inputs and Outputs to clarify the types of processing that will be performed once the project solution is implemented
• Describing acceptance test objectives and mapping these to business requirements to drive out clarity and completeness of currently documented need statements
• Creating the foundation for producing in scope detail test plans and test scripts to be executed during the later testing phases of the project

For more info contact:

Carly Burek at 972.786.0900

Earn 1 PDU by attending this Webinar. SPACE IS LIMITED. To secure a seat Register Now.

Click to Purchase Taking Requirements to the Next Level Series: Defining User Acceptance Test Objectives (this link will add the course to your cart)

Live Webinar December 12th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Today’s business analyst struggles with getting the right data, the right results to the right people at the right time.

Most analysts rely too much on IT throughout the analytical process – this can be time consuming.

Others may not have the right tools to complete the multiple tasks required to get their analytic results.

This webinar will discuss how using cloud-based strategic analytics tools:

• Empowers the line of business analyst
• Eliminates the many layers to deliver accurate results to decision makers
• Allows organizations to gain a competitive edge with faster and better analytics

Register now and experience the power of Strategic Analytics.

Presenters:

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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 – December 13th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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: 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 Project Portfolio Management Simplified

Live Webinar December 12th, 2012 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webinar – 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 162113 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