Live Webinar – August 27th, 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)

Every time you move a database from development to production, change a production database, or update schema in an application, there’s a 78% probability your change will break the application or result in critical data loss.

Join Robert Reeves (LinkedIn profile) and Carey Benge (LinkedIn profile) as they share other surprising new research results from Simon Management Group on the true cost of Database change.

• They’ll lay out 5 steps to eliminate change risk in the application release process which are not being addressed by DBA tools.
• You’ll learn how you can eliminate manual scripting errors, break through costly database change bottlenecks which stifle complex application releases, increase release confidence, provide transparency to schema management and more.

No monotone speakers or boring slides here. These two industry veterans will cut to the chase and share their first-hand experiences with a game changing approach to Database Change and Configuration Management.

You will learn how to:

• Eliminate database change risk and bottlenecks in your develop-test-deploy process
• Accelerate releases, eliminate downtime and lower costs by automating deployment processes
• Reduce errors and know how changes will impact production environments – keeping application code, schema, people, and processes in sync
• Improve compliance with auto-documenting change management processes
• Increase quality of service with a holistic, repeatable, database-agnostic approach

NOTE : Attendees will receive the “Cost of Database Change” infographic containing Simon Management Group research results.

Who should attend: Many levels in your organization will benefit from this webcast including: DevOps, CTOs, VPs, directors and managers of application development, database developers , SCMs, IT and IT operations; release and middleware managers and application architects.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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.’

Click to register for 5 Steps to Eliminate Database Change Risk in the Application Release Process

Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: BAW1300

Defining accurate requirements that correctly reflect stakeholder expectations is an essential activity for all business analysts.

In this webinar, you’ll gain insight as to why use cases are a proven technique for eliciting, defining, analyzing, and documenting user requirements.

You will learn:

1. To create high-level use case diagrams in UML,
2. How to effectively document accurate and detailed functional requirements using a methodical approach;
3. To see how use cases can be applied to business process modeling
4. How such business use cases can be used to identify system use cases.

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) is, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, and a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

Click to register for Master Use Cases: Concepts, Techniques, and Best Practices

Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

BA planning is the sequencing and coordination of a series of events to enable the change and is a form of mitigating risk. Is the role of the BA to identify risks once the change is complete? Is planning an activity a BA should be engaged in? These and other questions regarding change, plans, and risk will be discussed by the panellists. Join the discussion and get your questions answered.

Presenters:

Paul Oldfield, Youmanage.co.uk (LinkedIn profile, InfoQ interview)

Julian Sammy CBAP® (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK® Guide, author of many articles and quick tips and the IIBA peer review journal Best Practices for Better Business Analysis

Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tool

Click to register for IIBA: Change, Plans and Risk – Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Episode 8

Live Webinar – August 23rd 2013, 12:00–1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

In this month’s What’s New in SharePoint 2013 Series, ASPE will focus on: Enterprise Search

The next generation of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is right around the corner and introduces new ways for users and organizations to communicate, collaborate and share information.

Beyond its highly promoted features (See Below), including the new user experience and enhanced collaboration through social networking; SharePoint Server 2013 provides many improvements in the support of bottom-line business requirements: workflows, business intelligence, business connectivity services, mobile productivity, eDiscovery and more.

In this web seminar series, we will focus on many of the features of SharePoint 2013 and will explain what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what is new!

Some topics explored, include:

• SharePoint’s new Modern Interface (Windows 8 Style)
• Socialization with SharePoint Server 2013
• Similarities and New Features of SharePoint Workflows
• Business Intelligence Enhancements
• SharePoint’s Expanded Mobile Functionality
• Architectural Changes in the SharePoint 2013 Platform
• Upgrade Options for Previous SharePoint Versions
• Regulatory Compliance and eDiscovery Capabilities
• SharePoint’s Enhanced Project Management Capabilities
• Discovering People, Files, and Information with SharePoint Search
• Utilizing SharePoint’s New Publishing and Design Capabilities
• And more …..

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 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 SharePoint 2013: What’s New and Why You Need It!

SharePoint 2013 The 10 New Features You’ll Love

1. Search Engine Optimization – is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview runs different analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user actions that were performed on a site to identify items that users perceive as more relevant than others.
2. My Documents — My “SkyDrive for Work” – Storing all your documents in the cloud via your MySites was always a good idea – but a bit clunky. SharePoint 2013 greatly improves the MySites capabilities and defaults to saving to SkyDrive. You’ll love the ability to save and sync documents directly to SkyDrive.
3. Rich Workflows – If workflows were a sore point, they’ve gotten a lot better and seem much more able to handle more complex activities including looping and working with webservices (anyone thinking orchestration?).
4. App Store – Microsoft is introducing the new App Store model to SharePoint! Users will find dozens and hundreds of pre-built applications you can easily add to SharePoint.
5. Social Enterprise – Micro blogs, activity feeds, community sites, Following, Likes, and Reputations are some of the new social features being added. The ability to follow users or content will be especially helpful.
6. Mobility – Microsoft has recognized the importance of mobile optimized views for SharePoint. You will see greatly enhanced mobile capabilities.
7. Site Permissions – SharePoint 2013 offers a simplified sharing-based model for site permissions management. This will give users easier ways to manage site security.
8. Themes – SharePoint 2013 brings much richer theme functionality and the ability to add background images.
9. Content Search Webpart – A really cool webpart. This can be thought of as the next generation of Content Query webpart. Content Search Web Part displays content that was crawled and added to the search index via a query. This query is automatically issued, and it returns results from the search index when users browse to a page that contains the Content Search Web Part.
10. Metro Interface – The new metro interface sports a much cleaner and concise look. Less clutter. And optimized for touch devices.

Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 – 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

Project Management Is Both An Art And A Science

Advancement with Project Management approach to capture desired results efficiently & effectively every time in business demands a good “FIT” of managerial & leadership skills.

Professionals working on projects/program/portfolio/PMO do not have a choice to only acquire PM skills and leave leadership skills for some later point in time, – No … No … No … That would only lead to failure.

Implementation of projects lead to change management where application of assortment of technical tools require managerial competence and managing human aspects in the process is only possible with effective leadership skills.

Project Management is an art because ,,, project management requires the skills, tact, and finesse to manage people.

Project Management is a science because … it demands an in-depth knowledge of an assortment of technical tools. It drives change to move in strategic direction and demands leadership skills to manage human factor most effectively.

Misunderstanding of leadership skills for different levels and often confusing it with technical skills for moving managers to important commanding-roles that leads to disastrous outcomes and end results. The damage is not limited to poor outcomes of initiative/project but penetrates discretely & subtly for long term impacting organizational image, reputation for managing HR and keeping & maintaining high performers.

All project professionals/managers are not automatically great leaders because they took a few courses in PM, critical path schedules, resource planning or objective setting. There isn’t a certification for leadership, nor is there a guaranteed development path one can follow to become effective leader.

Learning Objectives:

1. Managerial skills are NOT enough for success in PM
2. Required Good FIT of Managerial/Leadership Skills
3. Understanding of Human aspects for Advancement in PM

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

Presenter:

Click to register for The Hard & Soft Skills of Project Management: Project Management Requires Good FIT Of Managerial & Leadership Skills

Live Webinar – August 22nd 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Ask 10 people to define a nasty and difficult person
And you will get 10 different definitions.

There are many types of difficult people. Do you get frustrated and don’t know what to do with whiners, braggarts, negativity, passive aggressive behavior, or people who are on emotional roller coasters? If you answered yes, then this web seminar is for you.

Everyone encounters difficult and nasty people, but it’s how you deal with them that makes the difference.

Ignoring these problem behaviors will only make things worse.

In this web seminar, discover the top 10 ways to deal with nasty and difficult people and how you can bring out the best in people

Presenter: Kelley Bruns PMP (LinkedIn profile) has over 25 years of experience in the learning and development industry and is a PMP and a certified Development Dimensions International Facilitator. Kelley’s expertise lies in her extensive experience in a wide range of industries including banking, construction, energy, engineering, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

Click to register for The Top 10 Ways to Deal with Nasty & Difficult People