Live Webinar January30th, 2013 11:00 – 12:00 pm EST
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Join the QuantumPM experts as they take you through their top five tips to keep your project server environment in excellent health.

They will share some of the good, bad, and ugly issues we have seen and let you in on some of our secrets for preventing and eliminating these problems. Tips include both Project Server and Project Professional best practices.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

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

Click to register for PMO Best Practices: Top Five Tips for Keeping Your Project Server Environment Healthy

Live Webinar – January 31st, 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

Scaling Agile Has Been Problematic For Many

There are many reasons as to why it is so difficult:

1. Software development is complex
2. People aren’t motivated or disciplined enough to get it done
3. The business folks won’t engage

While Scaling Agility is difficult, Net Objectives thinks the reason it is so difficult is that the method in predominant use – scaling Scrum with Scrum methods – is rarely challenged as a valid approach.

While these methods may work in non-complex situations (essentially independent projects, single stakeholder) as organizations get more complex (dependencies between projects, multiple stakeholders and releases comprised of inter-dependent products) they will only rarely provide the vision and guidance required for scaling.

Experience has helped tell a story of three things needed to achieve agility at scale:

1. A business driven approach
2. An holistic view shared throughout the organization
3. A systems thinking attitude

Most successful transitions to enterprise agility have used one of three approaches:

1. Agile methods within the context of Lean-Thinking
2. The Scaled Agile Framework
3. A mandate of Agile from the top

The first two approaches incorporate all three of the necessary ingredients mentioned above. The third facilitates these, but is not enough to necessarily be sufficient. All three, however, provide the necessary mindset for agility at scale.

This webinar uses these three approaches to illustrate the necessary ingredients for agility at scale. Attendees will also understand why attempting to scale without a big-picture, holistic, business driven view is unlikely to achieve much beyond local improvements.

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

Click to register for The Three Ways to Scale Agile And One That Doesn’t Work So Well

Live Webinar January 29th, 2013, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

You may have already started unit testing or at least understand the basics. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test. How can you test dependencies and other tangled code?

How do you get out of the death spiral of testing?

Join this webinar and learn:

1. The problems with legacy code
2. How isolation helps
3. Hand rolled mocks
4. Mocking frameworks
5. Writing effective unit tests

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Introduction to Mocking: How to Test Dependencies & Legacy Code

Another Great Category C pduOTD Opportunity

Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking:
Testing Untestable Code

Even if you’re already a unit testing ninja like Gil, this webinar is for you! – EdmontonPM

Earn 1 category C PDU with this terrific video presentation. (Category C Documentation is provided on the page with the presentation).

Everyone is welcome but it is most appropriate for people with a background in unit testing with medium to advanced skills.

Check out Gil Zilberfeld’s, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) 1 Hour Online Webinar By Typemock – Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking: Testing Untestable Code.

Live Webinar January 29th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: CollabNet

Increase Code Collaboration And Deliver Faster With Code Reviews

Initially developed by Google, Gerrit is the leading code review for Git. It provides unprecedented flexibility to define collective code ownership. By integrating Gerrit with Jenkins build server, you can even automate code validation and enforce quality standard in your Agile development process.

Attend this session to learn:

• Code review basics – concepts, goals and roles
• Code review workflows & governance
• Code review automation with Gerrit & Jenkins

Who should attend:

This webinar is for everyone who automates software delivery, and the technical content is appropriate for software architects, quality managers and software configuration managers. Prior familiarity with the concepts of Agile development and Continuous Integration is helpful, although not absolutely required.

Presenter: Luca Milanesio (LinkedIn profile) is Director and cofounder of GerritForge LLP, the leading Git and Gerrit competence center for the enterprise and key technology partner of CollabNet. His background includes 20 years of experience in development management, software configuration management and software development lifecycle in large enterprises worldwide. Thanks to GerritForge LLP and CollabNet, TeamForge is now the most advanced ALM platform with integrated Git support and code-review for the enterprise.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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’

Click to register for Go Agile with Git: Peer Programming & Code Reviews

Live Webinar January 30th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1290a
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

The Project Management Institute’s (PMI®’s) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) is the leading global standard for the project management profession. Regularly reviewed and updated since its first publication in 1983, the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition will be published in January 2013. This webinar will highlight the key changes to the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition

This is an ideal webinar for both new and advanced project managers, so bond with your team and learn together about:

• The addition of a 10th Knowledge Area on Project Stakeholder Management that expands upon the importance of appropriately engaging project stakeholders in key decisions and activities
• A redefining of project data information and information flow to enable greater consistency and alignment with the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW) model used in the field of Knowledge Management
• The addition of four new planning processes: Plan Scope Management, Plan Schedule Management, Plan Cost Management and Plan Stakeholder Management

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

Click to register for A Guide to the PMBOK® Fifth Edition: A Look At Changes & Updates To The Project Management Body of Knowledge

Live Webinar – January 29th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
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

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner is here.

With ASPE’s leadership position in both Agile and Project Management, ASPE-SDLC feels uniquely qualified to provide this primer session to help you prepare yourself to obtain this certification.

Overview:

• Application Requirements
• Fees
• Exam content overview
• Domains and tasks for Agile Certification
• Training options
• Where this certification fits with the Scrum Alliance certifications
• Q & A

Presenter:David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

Click to register for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) Primer