Live Webinar September 6th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Reuse Is An Eternal Goal For Organizations
Seeking Higher Software Capability

Reusing requirements can increase productivity, improve quality, and lead to greater consistency between related systems. But effective reuse is hard!

This presentation, based on the newly-released book Software Requirements 3rd Edition, by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty, offers numerous suggestions about how to perform requirements reuse.

It describes several kinds of requirements reuse, identifies some classes of requirements information that have reuse potential in various contexts, and presents some issues around making requirements reusable.

The presentation concludes by identifying both barriers to effective reuse and success factors that can help your organization leverage its existing body of requirements knowledge.

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Live Webinar September 4th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager. Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

You will have to register for either the live or recorded session

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Live Webinar September 4th 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

We all know SharePoint is a powerful platform with excellent Document Management features but do your end users agree?

They have been working with folders and file shares for years and are hard to convince about the power of SharePoint. SharePoint expert, Jasper Oosterveld is going to discuss his view about Document Management in SharePoint and what best practices you can use to convince those stubborn end users with their folders.

Presenter:Jasper Oosterveld (LinkedIn profile) started working with SharePoint in 2007 as a SharePoint Consultant supporting customers with the process of implementing SharePoint. Jasper is an active member of the SharePoint community. In February 2012 he received the Microsoft Community Contributor award for supporting the SharePoint community at the TechNet forums and was named in the top 25 European SharePoint Influencers list for 2013. He is the co-founder of the site SPCNL and the SharePoint Business User Group NL.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.3 Manage 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’

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Live Webinar – September 4th, 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 Free USD

In this session Ben Howard will discuss some of his top tips and tricks for Project 2013, which can all be found in his new book, “Microsoft Project 2013 Plain and Simple”

Presenter: Ben Howard (LinkedIn profile) is author of“Microsoft Project 2013 Plain and Simple” and has worked for IBM, DELL, and Microsoft,and now runs his own EPM consultancy (Applepark Ltd). Ben’s current Microsoft TechNet webcast, User Controlled Scheduling in Project 2010, is ranked in the top 10. Ben is a regular contributor to the Project Server newsgroups, and publishes a blog based on Project Server scenarios. Ben is also a Microsoft MVP award for Project Server.

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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 – September 4th, 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.

Applying the principles of Lean at the team level enables teams to overcome many of the challenges they find difficult to solve using just the Scrum framework. This webinar discusses how Kanban can be applied at the team level to achieve effective Agile teams.

This session covers:

• How explicit policies accelerate learning
• How delays create additional work
• How managing work in progress can lower delays
• Why a positive relationship with management matters
• How product management can lower the amount of dependency management required between teams
• Why you can’t change culture but must change how things are managed
• Using product managers and product owners to coordinate multiple business lines with multiple teams

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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Maximizing Efficiency with Adriana Girdler
#PMChat Aug 9th 2013

Chat Live with World-Class Professionals – Every Friday
Read the August 9th, 2013 #PMChat Recap
With Lean Expert Adriana Girdler
Duration was : 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

What is #PMChat?

Project Management Chat is a weeklyTwitter chathosted by Robert Kelly (LinkedIn, @RKelly976 ) and Rob Prinzo(LinkedIn, @RobPrinzo) author of the excellent book No Wishing Required – The Business Case for Project Assurance, andHala Saleh (@HalaSaleh1).

Join them each Friday from 12:00 – 1:00 pm (EDT) via hashtag #PMChat for a weekly discussion on current topics in Project Management. These topics often focus on Project Management practical issues & Leadership challenges. It’s 60 minutes of lively discussion with practical Project Program and Portfolio management ideas that will stimulate you!

The #PMChat community is made up of the top project management thought leaders today. Adriana is a PMP, experienced Keynote presenter, and a leading expert in educating others in implementing “Lean Methodologies” .

About Twitter & Twitter Chats

In addition to the lively discussion & idea sharing, #PMChat participants are eligible to receive PDU credits. Read the page on The PM chat Website that talks about Category C PDUs.

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Maximizing Efficiency with Adriana Girdler

#PMChat participants ALWAYS tell it as it is
Not what we learn it should be!

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1 Category C PDU Each

Live Webinar – September 3rd, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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’

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

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