Live Webinar May 8th, 2013 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
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

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Live Webinar – May 8th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

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Live Webinar – May 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.

There are several different ways of doing Agile at the team. This seminar presents the three most popular Agile methods. Each has its own strengths and scope. Each covers different amounts of the value stream. This webinar discusses the essence and differences of all three.

Scrum:

• Describes the core roles, practices and artifacts.
• Why Scrum works
• Where Scrum is best used

Kanban:

• Describes the core guiding principles of visibility, explicit workflow, managing work-in-progress, measure flow, continual learning which define Kanban
• Kanban as a transition method
• Where Kanban is best used

Scrumban:

• Scrumban was designed as a transition method from Scrum to Kanban
• Scrumban can be used in its own right
• Understand how Scrumban can be a great hybrid, Agile method to use

While not an in-depth study of any of the methods, the webinar will illustrate why one must look at several factors when deciding on your team-Agile approach

NOTE: –Net Objectives has teamed with Digite for this webinar series. Digite is a leading provider of collaborative enterprise software and solutions for AALC. Each webinar is followed by a 15 minute session by Digite to describe how their tools help you improve your software development methods. Each of their sessions is tied to the topic covered by the webinar.

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.

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Live Webinar May 10th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Meetings can be highly effective for making decisions or completing work. But, many times the person running the meeting may not have the right skills and tools needed to maximize the group’s effort.

Solutions Cube Group’s Tools for Running Meetings Effectively webinar will give you the required tools and techniques you can immediately use to start each meeting on track, keep participants engaged and discussions focused throughout the meeting and bring a successful meeting to closure.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to design and run an effective meeting
• How to take control of the meeting and open a meeting with POWER
• How to utilize Ground Rules to manage behaviors
• How to incorporate Open Ended Questions during Brainstorming activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to kept discussion on track
• How to Close a meeting with intention and evaluate the success of each meeting

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Tools for Running Effective Meetings – Meetings That Work Series 3 of 5

Live Webinar May 8th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 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

Make The Most Of Your Meetings!

Are you one of those people that feel like the meetings you attend or conduct is wasted time?

Recent data suggests that 25-50% of meeting time is ‘wasted’, per the attendees view. Learn to conduct and/or be an effective contributor to meetings.

The focus of this session is on learning the correct elements of meeting anatomy, how to go about planning a good meeting, how to facilitate and win during meetings, and lastly, how to determine your approach to executing meeting to value time, get results, and have effective meeting follow-up and assigned action items get the attention they deserve!

Objectives:

• Set meeting agendas
• Identify roles & participants for meetings
• Determine the meeting set-up/environment
• Handle questions, reactions & distractions

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.

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