Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Peter Is A Very Accomplished Communicator & Leader!

As a professional speaker as well as the author ofThe Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early (Infinite Ideas) and ‘Leading Successful Pmos: How to Build the Best Project Management Office for Your Business‘ (Gower) and his newest book The Project Manager Who Smiled: The Value Of Fun In Project Management

Background:

Organizations demand that the projects that they commission these days are successful in order to meet their increasingly aggressive strategic goals, and for this to be possible the project managers that lead these strategic projects need to be the very best that they can be. But these very projects are also becomingly more challenging.

Method:

So what are the issues that the ’21st Century’ project manager faces that can be very different from projects in the past, or at least more difficult?

A look at five of these will be taken to provoke thought and begin discussions on what we all need to do now.

Here in the 21st Century:

• Profile of projects
• Complexity of projects
• Virtuality of projects
• Sponsoring of projects
• Benefits from projects

Results:

The presentation aims to stimulate thought from the audience about where we should all be focusing our efforts in order to deal with the ’21st Century’ challenges that project managers face.

Conclusions:

Join me in saying ‘goodbye’ to the ‘Accidental Project Manager’ and ‘hallo’ to the ’21st Century Project Manager’.

Presenter: Peter Taylor (LinkedIn profile, @TheLazyPM) is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management. With over the 26 years experience in various business areas Peter has excelled in MRP/ERP systems with various software houses, Business Intelligence (BI) , and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor.

Peter is also an accomplished communicator and leader speaking at PMI Chapters/Congresses and the author of several books including The Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early and ‘Leading Successful PMOs‘ (Gower) and teaches leadership to business professionals with ‘The Lazy Winner‘. Check out his terrific website and listen to his free podcasts in iTunes.

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

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Live Webinar August 20th, 2013 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Organizational Project Management CoP (REP #S043)

This”Value of OPM: Executive Value /Positioning and Organizational governance” Track Webinar will be presented in English by Mr. Abdel Ghani Yamout (LinkedIn profile), MBA, PMP, will discuss Executive Value in terms of strategy execution, Best position within the organization and governance methods.

The webinar will start by describing the main components of Organizational Project management (OPM) and what value do they bring to the organization in terms of strategy execution and projects delivery.

Those components include Portfolio management processes, program/project management practices and performance management/reporting.

To conclude, the webinar will discuss the best-fit position of OPM within the organization in order to centralize/standardize practices among all entities and effectively achieve its purpose.

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

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Live Webinar August 20th, 2013 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

• Are you are looking to break into Business Analysis?
• Do you want to know what your career options are beyond Project Management?
• Are you a Senior Business Analyst looking to make a change from software focused organizational change?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions then this session is for you.

During the one hour webinar, Maureen McVey (LinkedIn profile) , Head of Learning and Development at IIBA, will walk you through the IIBA BA Career Roadmap.

She will describe each job family and the key skills and competencies needed for each career choice. You may discover the right BA role for you or your team members and the path needed to reach the goal.

At the end of this session you will:

• Describe the various career options for a business analyst
• Explain the differences between the different BA roles
• Describe the development path needed to move to the BA role that interests you

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage 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 20th, 2013, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

The journey to automate testing and enable developers to efficiently test their code as they write it is no easy feat, but the long-term benefits automation can provide by far outweigh the short-term discomforts.

By automating testing during development, software defects are identified earlier in the process, when they take a fraction of the time, cost, and resource to fix, while minimizing the number of defects that escape into the field or production.

Attend this web seminar and learn how Andreas Kuehlmann (LinkedIn profile), Senior Vice President of R&D at Coverity, drove this transformation to automate testing within his development team and managed the internal culture change.

Andreas will discuss:

1. Insourcing QA to gain more control over resources
2. Reducing time delays and eliminating cultural barriers
3. Changing the skill set of the team

Andreas will also explain how he decreased the amount of time for hardening minor releases from two weeks to three days, reduced the number of manual testing days from seventeen to four, and increased the number of automated tests for a critical component from zero to over 3,400.

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
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 20th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

Learn a practical approach to working with developers, improving communications and the effectiveness of software teams.

John Fox recently authored a book entitled Digital Work in an Analog World that discusses how to leverage psychology in software engineering. He will share these and other valuable insights.

Presenter: John R. Fox (bio at Digital Work website) is COO at SWAT Solutions, a software quality consultancy. With over 30 years of experience in the software industry John has developed a well-rounded technical knowledge base by holding nearly every job in the software development arena at one time or another.

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

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Live Webinar August 21st 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 provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.

This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions project managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. Quantify the impact of requirements quality on project time and cost
2. Learn an assessment tool for identifying high risk projects
3. Understand proactive strategies for driving success when faced with odds stacked against you

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes