Live Webinar – April 9th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

In this webinar, you’ll learn research-based principles and practices for using PowerPoint to train more effectively, meaning that your trainees will understand more clearly and remember longer what you tell them.

You’ll discover ways to use animation and personas to tell stories and portray scenarios. Practical step-by-step examples of slide makeovers will show you how you can create dynamic and engaging slides.

Note: This webinar will also demonstrate the interactive features of PowerPoint.

Presenter: Ellen Finkelstein (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint presentation skills. One of only 37 Microsoft-appointed PowerPoint MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) in the world, Ellen is a lively, confident speaker who freely shares her substantial experience in order to help others. In her books and webinars, she addresses the full range of issues associated with creating effective presentations, including Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes, PowerPoint for Low-Cost Training, Presenting to Teach and Inform, Effective Presenting in the 21st Century,and more.

Click to register for Using PowerPoint to Enhance Learning & Engagement

Live Webinar – April 9th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) – 1 Category C 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

• If only … Borders or Barnes & Noble had the right intrapreneur in their organization, maybe Amazon’s rise wouldn’t have been so impactful to them.
• If only … Yahoo incorporated the position of Intrapreneur into its culture maybe they would be neck and neck with Google instead of on the outside looking in.

In this web seminar we will provide a detailed look at Intrapreneurship. Basically smart organization will seek out individuals who like to invent, innovate and want to be on the front lines of changes. These individuals will work just like entrepreneurs but will work within the structure of a company, and they are Intrapreneurs.

An intrapreneur is someone who has an entrepreneurial streak in his or her DNA but choose to align his or her talents with an organization in place of creating his or her own. These professional are critical to the success of organizations as corporations have to continuously deal with the speed of disruption and disruptive technologies.

Learn what skills and talents are required to be a successful intrapreneur, understand the techniques an intraprenuer can use to distill ideas and focus their efforts and learn how intraprenuers must maneuver to successfully incorporate the right idea into their organization.

Presenters: Brad Lienhart, Fred Hathaway and Scott Baker

Click to register for Intrapreneurship: The Key to Capturing Value out of Major Disruptions for Companies (Large and Small)

Live Webinar April 9th, 2013, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Midmarket CIOs & IT leaders continue to optimize IT costs,
But how effectively?

Too often, cost optimization activities happen myopically when a cost-reduction target is handed down.

The IT leadership team scrambles to put together ideas to meet the cost reduction target. Best-in-class midsize enterprises don’t have access to better ideas.

They focus on cost optimization as an ongoing discipline, ensuring focus, visibility and accountability; and setting targets, utilizing cost optimization and decision frameworks to get the most value from their cost optimization efforts.

Discussion Topics:

• How best-in-class IT organizations effectively optimize costs
• How to utilize the Gartner Four Levels of Cost Optimization framework to set targets and manage optimization efforts
• How Gartner decision frameworks can be used to evaluate and communicate cost optimization initiatives

Presenter: Jim McGittigan, (LinkedIn profile) Research Director

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 Work
• 5.3 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’

Click to register for Spend Less on IT, Drive More Value: How Leading Organizations Do It

Live Webinar April 10th, 2013 – 11:30 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 75 Minutes Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Earned Value Management CoP (REP #L001)

Earned value management (EVM), or Earned value project/performance management (EVPM) is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner.

EVM has the ability to combine measurements of:

• scope
• schedule
• and cost,

in a single integrated system, Earned Value Management is able to provide accurate forecasts of project performance problems, which is an important contribution for project management.EVM research showed that the areas of planning and control are significantly impacted by its use; and similarly, using the methodology improves both scope definition as well as the analysis of overall project performance. – Wikipedia

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity. This session is limited to 1000 attendees – register and arrive early to attend.

Presenter: Dale Boeckman PMP

Click to register for Integrating Earned Value with Risk Management

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Integrating Earned Value with Risk Management

• Earn 1 PDU by watching the PMI Risk Management Community of Practice recorded webinar: Integration of Earned Value and Risk Management
  
• Learn more about the Integration of Earned Value and Risk Management by viewing a SlideShare deck entitled Integrating Risk with Earned Value. This was developed for the Pikes Peak Regional chapter of PMI by Glenn Alleman.
  • Glenn (LinkedIn profile) is an activeSlideShare, sharing over 70 decks. He is the author of the ‘Herding Cats‘ blog and of a favorite article of mine ‘Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects‘

Live Webinar – April 9th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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

In any project development and delivery methodology there is a need to ensure the proper communication of status to the project’s stakeholders.

The need for this communication does not go away when utilizing an Agile approach, but it does change.

In this web seminar we discuss the purpose of communicating status and how best to achieve that expected value through a different mechanism.

Presenter: Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer,with 5 years of Agile experience effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 10.3 Control Communications

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 Communicating Agile Project Status to Executive Management

CANCELLED
Live Webinar – April 9th, 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

See Below for a Great Alternative Session

This webinar discusses how the theories of Lean-Flow can provide insights into how to scale Agile. It provides 3 case studies that demonstrate proper team and cross-team organization and how to feed work to the teams.

Too many organizations have had success at the team only finding themselves being unable to expand across the organization.

The reason is that a team based Agile transition provides little insights into solving enterprise challenges.

The webinar starts out presenting a concise explanation of Lean-Flow. It then uses these insights to solve 3 challenging problems that involve multiple teams.

The cases presented:

1. A 70 person development team that cannot live with set feature teams but doesn’t work well with component teams
2. A 150-200 person development team doing Scrum extremely well but unable to deliver value quickly due to integration costs
3. A 250-300 person IT shop that has difficulty providing work to multiple teams from multiple stakeholders

While in each case different methods were used, there was one underlying set of principles – Lean Product Development Flow.

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 Scaling Agile With Lean

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

Online Webinar Recorded Jan 2013
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:

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

While Scaling Agility is difficult, 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.

Net Objectives has experience with dozens of companies they have helped ourselves and dozens others by our associates, tells a story of three things needed to achieve agility at scale.

These are:

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.

Click to view The Three Ways to Scale Agile and One That Doesn’t Work So Well