Live Webinar August 13th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Discover practical and “next-day ready” tools
That will help you focus more
On the work that truly matters.

Attend this live, interactive webinar to learn:

• How to do less Good Work and more Great Work
• How online meetings can make work more manageable
• New ways of managing the Email Monster
• A formula for converting insight into action

Presenter:  Michael Bungay Stanier (LinkedIn profile),  founder  of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work.  He created the eight irresistible principles of fun, a short Internet movie that has been viewed by millions of people, and his first book, Get Unstuck & Get Going… on the stuff that matters, has won a number of publishing and design awards.  His book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busy Work and Start the Work That Matters, contains 15 practical tools to help you find, start, and sustain more great work.

Stop the busy work

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 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’

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Live Webinar August 14th 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code:170499 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

1. Why should your business focus on Application Lifecycle Management?
2. What benefits will you see to your overall business?
3. How does ALM impact your bottom line?

Come attend this free webinar to discover all the answers!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage 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’

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 Top 10 Business Benefits of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Live Webinar August 14th, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

During the first part of this exclusive webcast eventO’Reilly® Webcasts welcomes Eric Ries author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses for a fireside chat with Ash Maurya author of Running Lean to learn the story behind “Running Lean” and how the material was chosen for the book.

While running experiments is a key activity in a Lean Startup, running effective experiments that lead to breakthrough insights is still considered more art than science.

At the earliest stages of the product lifecycle, when we have relatively few customers, we struggle with making sense of seemingly small scale and qualitative customer feedback.

Even though the mechanics of running experiments are quite straightforward, most lean practitioners fail to run effective experiments.

In this webcast talk, Ash Maurya will teach you how to avoid these pitfalls and instead use a systems approach to craft the right next experiment no matter the stage of your product.

Presenters:

Ash Maurya (LinkedIn profile, @ashmaurya) is the founder of USERcycle. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, which he frequently writes about on his blog, and which turned into his newest book: Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

Eric Ries, (LinkedIn profile @ericries) entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Control 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’

Click to register for The Art of Lean Testing

Live Webinar August 13th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

The Government Community in collaboration with the International Development Community are pleased to present a joint webinar for our subscribers on Agile Methodology applied for Government Projects: A Case Study from from the State of Minas Gerais Brazil.

Join Rogerio in exploring how the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil applied Agile/Scrum on projects and achieved a more citizen focused government through promoting transparency, clear priorities, crowdsourcing and focus on collaboration.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Rogerio Ribeiro (LinkedIn profile) is a Project Manager in the Ombudsman’s office for the Government Secretariat for the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Rogerio works as an ITC consultant for World Bank and Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) where the last 10 yrs he has managed government projects in various Ministries (e.g. Culture, Construction, Justice, Financial) with budgets over $400M.

Click to register for Agile Methodology applied for Government Projects II

Live Webinar August 14th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

What is the number one job of the project manager? Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!

Everyone says it’s important and yet good communication can be hard to come by. What can you do to avoid communication pitfalls and keep everyone in the loop?

Webinar Objectives:

1. Identify symptoms of poor communication
2. Use the communication model to assess breakdowns
3. Describe steps to improve project communications
4. Define best practices to implement within Project Insight

Who should attend:

• Project managers
• Project team members
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Portfolio managers,
• Project Leads,
• Subject Matter Experts
• Business Analysts,
• Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for Avoiding Communication Pitfalls

Live Webinar August 15th, 2013, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar August 15th, 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The dramatic, rapid convergence of communications, collaboration and social media, accompanied by new cloud delivery models, poses a critical challenge for CIOs and planners.

Significant opportunities and risks exist as Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Google and Avaya all compete. Enterprises must rethink their strategic vendor relations and business models.

Discussion Topics:

• What will be the key unified communications and collaboration (UCC) technology trends through 2013?
• Which solutions will deliver the greatest value to enterprises?
• How should enterprises develop their UCC road map?

Presenter:

• BernElliot, (LinkedIn profile) VP Distinguished Analyst

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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 Unified Communications and Collaboration: Driving Business Value