Live Webinar – August 20th 2013, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

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If a project manager’s role is to be the facilitator and administrator of the project, how does she/he facilitate herself/himself and remain objective?

When project managers serve a dual role on the team (project manager and subject matter expert, for example), they may need to assign the PM role to another person on the team. This webinar will explore options for project managers who serve a dual role.

Presenter: Dan Treadwell – (LinkedIn profile) Dan is the author of the book Money Isn’t All That Matters – Strategies for Attracting & Retaining Technical Professionals.

Click to register for Dual Roles & Responsibilities on a Team – Mgmt Techniques PMs Should Know

Live Webinar August 20th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Famous for her avant-garde outfits, over-the-top per­formances, and addictive dance beats, Lady Gaga is one of the most successful pop musicians of all time. But behind her showmanship lies another achievement: her wildly successful strategy for attracting and keeping insanely loyal fans.

She’s one of the most popular social media voices in the world with more than 33 million Twitter followers and 55 million Facebook fans. And she got there by methodically building a grassroots base of what she calls her “Little Monsters”—passionate fans who look to her not just for music but also for joy, inspiration, and a sense of community.

Lady Gaga didn’t become the success she is today based solely on her talent. She did so by engendering immense loyalty from her fans ‒ and not just through her music ‒ but through the community she has built around that music.

In Monster Loyalty marketing expert Jackie Huba explores Gaga’s biography and fan philosophy and iso­lates the seven lessons any business can learn from her. For instance…

1. Focus on your One Percenters:
   • Lady Gaga is investing today in the audience she hopes to have twenty-five years from now. She spends most of her efforts on just 1 percent of her base, the highly engaged superfans who spread her message.
2. Lead with values:
   • Gaga stands out not just for her music but also for her message that it’s okay to be yourself and to love others for who they are. When you connect with customers beyond just providing a product or service, you create a lasting bond.
3. Give them something to talk about:
   • Whether she’s wearing a meat dress or delivering jaw-dropping performances, Lady Gaga knows what will get people talking. Making your business word-of-mouth-worthy cuts down on advertising costs and spreads buzz faster than anything else.

Love her or hate her, you can’t ignore Lady Gaga. And while not all businesses want to stand out the way she does, any business can win big by creating monster loyalty.

Join Jackie Huba (LinkedIn profile), author of Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics, as she reveals how Lady Gaga did it. Jackie will explore 5 essential loyalty lessons and provide the playbook for building that kind of loyalty in your organization.

Join this live webinar to learn:

• 5 Customer Loyalty Lessons from Lady Gaga
• How to build loyalty in your organization
• Intuitive customer loyalty strategies

Plus 3 lucky attendees will win a signed copy of Huba’s book!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 13 – Stakeholder

• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
• 13.4 Control Stakeholder Engagement

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 5 Customer Loyalty Lessons from Lady Gaga

Live Webinar – August 15th, 2013 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – August 15th, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: APMG International

Agile methods and frameworks are increasing in popularity as organizations and individuals seek increased flexibility when managing change initiatives.

Agile approaches are often seen as rivals to waterfall methods including PRINCE2®, when in reality they complement each other.

This webinar will show how the speed of delivery from Agile and the quality of project definition from PRINCE2® satisfies those seeking excellence and flexibility in project deliver, whilst maintaining strong project governance.

The session will:

1. Define what agile working means and how this has been captured in the APMG Agile Project Management qualification scheme
2. Use the PRINCE2® process model to explain how agile project management can govern development, with PRINCE2® governing the overall project.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

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 August 15th, 2013, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

In 2011, Forrester Research stated that “it’s time for software development professionals to stop sitting on the fence where Agile is concerned”.

If your organization has not taken the plunge yet, it doesn’t mean you’re out of luck.

There are many practices you can start doing today with your team, that will not only give you a head start, but also help convince management that the effort is worth it.

In this webinar, Typemock’s Product Manager, Gil Zilberfeld, will discuss the how to roll out a practical agile plan.

How to get started – Different Rollout Strategies:

• What agile flavor should I choose?
• Supporting technical practices
• Why communication is at the basis of all practices
• How to maximize visibility

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.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule

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 Step-by-Step Guide to Building Effective Agile Development Processes

Live Webinar – August 15th, 2013 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 30 Minutes Credits: 0.50 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Competitive Solutions Inc.

How do you build your scorecard?

In order to track overall business performance, most organizations have some form of business scorecard or balanced scorecard in place.

Whether using a simple spread sheet or a comprehensive scorecard software technology, scorecards are driven by the development and leveraging of specific, tactical measures commonly known as metrics.

When done correctly, metrics allow leaders to know both the expected results (goals), the actual results (outcomes) and give leaders an opportunity to focus future efforts on continually improving performance.

Although using metrics is common, what is not common to most organizations is the implementation of a continuous improvement and an auditing process to ensure that the scorecards have the right kind of metrics.

The first step in improving your scorecards is to have the ability to identify and eliminate the metrics that you simply don’t need.

3 Kinds of Business Metrics:

1. The Meaningful
2. The Nice-to-Know
3. The Stuff filling up my screen

Join this webinar to learn some great tips on how to develop effective scorecards.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholder Expectations
• 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 Driving Business Performance by Maximizing Your Scorecard Effectiveness with More Meaningful Metrics

Live Webinar August 14th, 2013, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar August 14th, 2013, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The traditional “control” mindset of information security cannot keep pace with technological and behavioral change, resulting in policies and technologies that cause frustration and impede agility.

A new approach is required – one that recognizes how the relationships between IT, the business and individuals have been transformed irrevocably.

Discussion Topics:

• Why the status quo approaches to information security are untenable
• If a less control-intensive, more people-centric strategy makes sense
• The elements of a potential people-centric approach

Presenter: TomScholtz (LinkedIn profile),VP Distinguished Analyst

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage 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 Consider a People-Centric Information Security Strategy