Live Webinar – August 7th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hr 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

The past 15 years has seen the advent of enterprise-wide project schedule consolidation – that works!;

Project Management and Business Management Training is more than just preparing for an exam.

• 5 new versions on PMBoK,
• PMOs and Centres of Excellence across the country,
• program management,
• portfolio management,
• The inclusion of the Business Analyst in our project development life cycle and
• PMI that has grown from 25,000 members in 1996 to over 400,000 members today
• ……………. So what happens next?

What Will It Take To Be Noticed
As A PM Over The Next 10 Years?

This presentation will give you an opportunity to reflect on what has gone before us and to think about the next 5 to 10 years and how we can all be a part of the changes to come.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• What are the trends we should be paying attention to?
• As an organization, what should we be looking at to stay ahead of the game?
• As a project manager, how can I enhance my career – what will employers be looking for tomorrow?

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: David Barrett (LinkedIn profile) – Diversified Business Communications Canada David is the founder and now Managing Director of ProjectWorld, ProjectSummit and BusinessAnalystWorld. He is the founder and Program Director of the PM & BA Masters Certificates offered through the Schulich Executive Education Centre, in partnership with nine other universities across Canada. He is the founder of ProjectTimes.com and BusinessAnalystTimes.com

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Live Webinar – August 8th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

MOOCs are the talk of the town in the higher education space, but what can they mean for corporate training?

In this session we’ll go over:

• The ‘state-of-the-MOOC’ : the MOOC phenomenon has taken the higher education world by storm, and seems to trigger as much debate as participants.
  • What are the emerging trends, platforms, proof of impact, statistics and business models?
• What’s in a word?
  • What does MOOC mean to you?
  • What is the essence behind the acronym?
  • What could it mean for corporate training?
• Imagine all the MOOCs
  • A few imaginary cases for MOOCs in corporate settings
• What will it take?
  • What do we need to introduce a successful MOOC in corporations?
  • Some golden advice given to us by early MOOC adopters as we were designing our LeaderMOOC (coming in September)

Speakers: Bert de Coutere (LinkedIn profile) professional life is all about competent people. Author of Homo Competens (Latin for ‘competent person‘). Bert thinks, publishes, consults, speaks and sets up learning and development projects for corporations. Bert has been an instructor, course designer, project manager, consultant and development manager. He has worked at IBM Learning Development Europe where he was responsible for commercial e-learning development projects across Europe, and now works for the Center for Creative Leadership as a Solutions Architect, designing a variety of custom leadership development experiences.

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Live Webinar August 8th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 170497 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

The newest release of Visual Studio 2012 is rich with new tools that enhance standard developer activities.

In this session, Imaginet will review and demonstrate some of these new features, such as Unit Testing, Code Reviews, Code Clones, and other developer tools.

Come join them for this free Webinar!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: 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

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

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Live Webinar – August 7th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

How often have you heard that “too much time is spent on planning”? Or, you might experience “lots of plans” yet still encounter blown schedules and budgets.

In this presentation, Lynn will share his observations from many “Years in the Trenches” of managing projects using Microsoft Project.

He will touch on what seems to work, what doesn’t, best practices as wells as capabilities being used and not used.

Some items covered will include work breakdown structure, naming conventions, tasks vs. action items, issues, decisions, risks, Project vs. Excel, estimating work and duration, resources, dependencies, scheduling and weekly status data gathering.

At the conclusion of this event, attendees should be able to answer the following questions:

• How do you manage projects using Microsoft Project.
• What seems to work, what doesn’t, what best practices and capabilities are used and not used.
• How do you:
  • develop a work breakdown str?
  • set up naming conventions?
  • differentiate tasks vs. action items, issues, decisions, risks?
  • estimate: work and duration?
  • Set up resources, dependencies and weekly status data gathering?
• When should you use Project vs. Excel?

Presenter: Lynn Heatley, PMP (LinkedIn profile) serves as PMO leader on a large Oracle implementation and has been an instructor for Microsoft Project 97, Project 2003, Project 2007, Project 2010. Lynn served as subject matter expert for development of Element K’s courseware. Lynn has worked in various industries sharing his impactful insights.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT…. Even if you only take the 3 session 6 hour MPUG Project Portfolio Management Masterclass (6 Category A PDUs) the$129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value to get the PPM MPUG Certificate and add it to your resume.

MPUG Membership also includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Live Webinar – August 7th, 2013 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Mobility Is No Longer Optional
It Is A Competitive Requirement

It’s not enough to just do the basics; you must have a comprehensive strategy in order to keep pace with the evolving platforms, operating systems, manufacturers, vendors, application conditions and more. But don’t worry, SD Times is here to help!

Join this webinar to understand how layering functional and performance testing with security is the key to mobile app success.

Join us to learn:

• How you can leverage existing knowledge, processes and work flows to automate testing within a mobile environment
• How to make sure your app works on a wide variety of devices and operating systems
• How to prepare your mobile application for usage spikes
• How to protect mobile applications against security vulnerabilities using static and dynamic scanning
• How to make sure your mobile app continues to work as the devices and networks change
• Which considerations enterprises should take into account and which pitfalls should be avoided
• Achieve a faster time to market/service
• How to prove the ROI of IT, mobile application development and testing

SunTrust Bank is an early adopter of mobile technologies for financial applications. The mobile applications it deployed require significantly more testing than traditional applications because mobile platforms vary and change much more rapidly.

Adapting both development and QA processes to compensate became a major effort for this Fortune 500 organization.

During a portion of this webinar:

• You will learn about right-sizing a mobile functional testing solution for your organization.
• You’ll come away knowing about selecting a mobile functional test tool that fits you.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 11 – Risk

• 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’

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Live Webinar August 7th, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

In this webcast Steve will talk about how to apply the recent explosion of research on decision making and behavioral economics to the practical problems of designing software products.

In this webcast you will learn:

• A quick overview of how the mind makes decisions about what to do next (and when it’s on autopilot)
• A step-by-step approach to designing products that help people change their daily behavior (from exercising to checking email)
• Guidance on how to integrate explicit behavioral goals into existing product development, UX, engineering, and QC processes
• Techniques for quickly assessing the behavioral bottlenecks in an application that block its effectiveness

Presenter: Steve Wendel (LinkedIn profile) is the Principal Scientist at HelloWallet, where they develop products that help people take control of their finances. He runs experiments at HelloWallet, providing behavioral feedback on application design. He’s a behavioral social scientist by training, and is fascinated with the rapidly growing experimental evidence on how we humans make decisions. He blogs regularly about product design at actiondesign.hellowallet.com.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 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’

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