Live Webinar – October 2nd, 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

Healthcare companies need to see results quickly, and they need to embed new processes and technologies to capture the benefits and optimize their resources.

Paul and Sean will profile the approach they used to implement portfolio management at MSHA and how they were able to jointly deliver in 6 months what Paul had seen take years to accomplish in other organizations.

Learning Objectives:

During this event, students will learn the specific steps MSHA took to implement portfolio management, their roadblocks and challenges as well as lessons learned that can be leveraged by other organizations.

About the Presenters:

Paul Merrywell (LinkedIn profile) is the Chief Information Officer at Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) is a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Johnson City, Tennessee that operates a family of hospitals serving Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Southeastern Kentucky, and Western North Carolina, employing some 13,500 staff.

Sean O’Brien (LinkedIn profile) is a VP at Pcubed, the largest independent global consulting firm uniquely focused on program portfolio and change management. Sean has 30 years of experience delivering complex programs and business transformation for his clients with deep industry expertise in healthcare and the public sector.

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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 October 1st, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

How can leaders and Human Resources professionals use effective, simple and research-based talent management practices to contribute to their organization’s success? Too many leadership development theories provide complex and confusing answers.

Join Jocelyn Bérard as he shares the core practices introduced in his new book, Accelerating Leadership Development, which reflects his extensive research and years of experience in making leadership development uncomplicated and practical.

This free, one-hour webinar that will uncover:

• Six High Potential Leadership factors: What they are and how you can observe them.
• Critical steps and actions to accelerate the development of leaders: How to leverage assessment, self‐awareness and a “learning while working / working while learning” approach.
• Practical ways to improve your communication, influence others and create alignment of resources to business strategy.
• The tactical and the strategic utilization of delegation and feedback

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Live Webinar – October 1st, 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.

This webinar serves as both an introduction to design patterns as well as why they are important in the Agile world.

It also presents a more powerful way of looking at patterns than mere solutions to recurring problems in a context.

Patterns have long been thought of as a means of handling variation, which they are. But this variation can be more than just two ways of doing things at a current time.

It can be how we do it now and how we’ll need to do it in the future. This insight enables patterns to be a great approach to drive emergent design.

Patterns can be understood at three levels:

• Patterns as solutions to recurring problems in a context
• Patterns as solutions to recurring problems in a context
• Patterns as a conceptual approach to solving particular problems
• Patterns as a way of resolving forces in your problem domain

Most folks think of patterns as one of the first two types. However, the real power of patterns start when one considers them as a way to better understand one’s problem domain and then craft solutions geared toward the challenge to be solved.

This webinar discusses:

• The thinking underneath design patterns
• How they can be used to help understand one’s problem domain
• How this approach is essential in in Agile development

Outline:

• The thought process of design patterns
• Looking at 2 common patterns conceptually – Strategy, The Template Method
• Patterns as a way of encapsulating variation

Attendees will:

• Understand the thought process behind design patterns
• Deepen their understanding of design patterns
• See why patterns are so useful in in Agile development

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

The real challenge of programming isn’t learning a language’s syntax—it’s learning to creatively solve problems so you can build something great. In this one-of-a-kind webcast, author V. Anton Spraul breaks down some of the ways that programmers solve problems and teaches you how to Think Like a Programmer.

In this webcast we answer the questions:

• What is “problem solving” for programmers, and why is it so important?
• Can it be learned, or do some people just “get it”?
• How can someone develop his or her problem-solving ability?
• What are some of the basic techniques of problem-solving for programmers?

Presenter: V. Anton Spraul (LinkedIn profile) has over fifteen years of experience teaching introductory programming and other topics in computer science. His latest book, Think Like a Programmer, is a distillation of the techniques he has honed over many one-on-one sessions with struggling programmers. He is also the author of Computer Science Made Simple.

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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