Live Webinar – October 2nd, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

‘SharePoint Governance’ means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and for the most-part they are all wrong!

This session is part of the global re-education of what ‘SharePoint Governance’ REALLY is and how it is the essential element to enable your organization to deliver business value through the SharePoint platform.

Ant Clay will talk about the ingredients needed for a holistic approach to SharePoint Governance.

Ant is known to ask clients repeatedly “Why they are doing their technology projects?” until they breakdown and admit “they just don’t know”.

Ant works extensively on client projects using collaborative play techniques, to help them innovate and align technology to organizational outcomes, whilst changing the way they work through facilitation, visualization, Game-storming and storytelling.

Learn:

• He will take your through the 3 primary ways of applying Governance in your organization and
• He will look at how to align SharePoint with your businesses vision in both project delivery and on-going into the future.

The content of this session is based upon the highly acclaimed book “The SharePoint Governance Manifesto”.

Presenter: Ant Clay (LinkedIn profile) is Founder & CEO of Soulsailor Consulting Ltd, a micro-consultancy enabling organizational value by positively disrupting your technology projects. He is the author of ‘The SharePoint Governance Manifesto‘, Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor, Certified Collaboration Architect, trained facilitator and one of a new breed of SharePoint business technology consultants. Find out more about Ants positively disruptive work at his website.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 Disruptive Governance Thinking For The Masses

Live Webinar – October 2nd, 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

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

Live Webinar October 2nd, 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)

Most measurements in software development are notoriously difficult and assessing productivity is no exception.

There are an enormous number of factors that could or do affect productivity, and it is challenging to identify and characterize what they might be.

The effort involved often deters organizations from even attempting to quantify how effective they are at building systems.

This webinar will present a useful and practical approach to productivity measurement based on a mathematical model of systems development and over thirty years of research.

It will also describe the core mathematical functions that relate to the major attributes of systems development, show how a useful productivity metric can be calculated from project history, and demonstrate how QSM’s database of over 10,000 projects support this view of software development productivity.

Click to register for A Practical Approach to Measuring Software Development Productivity

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Live Webinar – October 3rd 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

A business stakeholder has discovered a new business opportunity they want to pursue, or has described a problem that needs to be solved. Projects are born from either of these strategic initiatives, and Business Analysts are assigned to those projects.

Some of the first activities that we perform as BAs are to determine and agree the scope of the project and the solution approach we might take.

Along the way, we need to discover the stakeholders who will be impacted by the solution.

And finally, we need to describe the high-level and mid-level requirements that will help our stakeholders understand the extent of the investment they are about to make.

Join ASPE and Kris Ashton, (LinkedIn profile) of The Center for Requirements Excellence, in this one-hour webinar to explore the elicitation techniques and models that can best help us.

Discover high – and mid-level requirements that describe::

• The boundaries of the system (project scope)
• The interfaces of the system
• Key inputs and outputs
• Rules that govern the system and its users
• The processes or use cases contained within the system boundary

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage 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 Project Initiation: Eliciting High-Level and Mid-Level Requirements

Live Webinar October 1st, 2013, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The hype about 3D printing is high – and masks the viable consumer and enterprise uses that exist today.

3D printers produce children’s toys and plastic guns, fine jewelry and life-saving medical devices, avatars and sophisticated aircraft components and much more.

Our webinar removes the veil of hype surrounding the market and illuminates the opportunities – and risks – that hardware and software technology and service providers face in the fast growing global market for consumer and enterprise 3D printing.

Discussion Topics:

• Why the hype around consumer 3D printing is driving growth in enterprise 3D printer use and purchases
• What the consumer and enterprise 3D printer market drivers, inhibitors and growth rates are
• The risks technology and service providers face by participating – and the opportunities lost by not participating – in the 3D printer market today

Presenter: PeteBasiliere, (LinkedIn profile) Research Director

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements

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 3D Printing: The Hype, Reality and Opportunities Today

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.

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!

Click to register for Driving Speed to Value in Portfolio Management