Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

There is a vast difference between getting the work done on your own and getting it done through other people.

What makes you great as an individual contributor doesn’t always translate to being a great manager or team leader.

A management role calls for new ways of thinking and a new set of skills. While some managers do receive initial training, others are given little or no support, and despite the best of intentions, mistakes are made.

But what if you had your own group of advisors who could help you avoid some of the pitfalls of managing people?

In this webinar you will learn 10 valuable pieces of advice from managers who have already gone through their own “trial by fire.” These are the 10 things they wished they knew when they first became a manager and what they want you to know now.

Consider this webinar your own personal advisory board!

About the Presenter: Casey Mitchell, (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and Principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc. Casey’s primary focus is on management learning and development and working with new managers who want to make a successful transition into move into leadership roles. Prior to founding Waybridge Associates, Casey was human resource development manager at Marshalls Department Stores.

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Live Webinar January 24th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Purchasing a project solution versus building one internally to avoid the cost and time of re-inventing the wheel is becoming more common on projects. Selecting a vendor through a Request For Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and the project team selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations.

Often project teams make the mistake of jumping straight to the proposal portion of the their project lifecycle before clearly defining the project needs. The resulting RFP sent to vendors is vague and fails to communicate the critical requirements vendors need to propose accurate solutions.

Vendors who respond to the RFP are left with little choice except to make many assumptions on what the project needs are and base their proposals on these, often times, false assumptions. Because the project requirements are so vague, almost any vendor solution appears to adequately address the need.

Learn the critical success factors of an RFP effort and the characteristics that cause many RFP efforts to fail.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn about:

• Critical Success Factors of the RFP process
• Characteristics of a successful RFP process
• Common pitfalls that cause RFP efforts to fail

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Change Management CoP (REP #S056)

This interactive and fun session will focus on tactical experiences motivating change across multiple geographies and cultures.

Dr. Keely Killpack (LinkedIn profile) will share stories from two large software implementation projects and how she approached communication activities in various regions of the world. She will also share some useful tips & tricks from her specialization in work motivation.

Participants will leave the session with helpful tools to motivate change more effectively across cultures or geographies.

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

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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Normal people don’t look at data sets just for fun;
They analyze them to make business decisions.

Business analysts are more frequently finding themselves on strategic projects that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which conclusive decisions and actions can be derived.

Analysis of big data is already a reality today in most IT organizations and will grow in significance as businesses look to gain a better understanding for capturing, structuring, and learning from their data.

In this webcast presentation, Joy Beatty, VP of R&D at Seilevel, offers advice on tackling requirements for business analytics projects. Drawing from the book she co-authored with Karl Wiegers,Software Requirements 3rd Ed., Joy will outline how to elicit strategic analytics decisions to help prioritize requirements work and how to prepare for the future of big data by specifying data needs.

Participants will hear examples of questions they can use to engage businesses to think outside the box about their requirements and consider new possibilities from analytics projects.

Presenter: Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Presenter: Carlie J.Idoine, (LinkedIn profile) Research Director

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 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’

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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 2 Hour s 2 Category C PDU – Free PDUs
Presented by: CollabNet

DevOps is emerging as a powerful way for enterprises to accelerate and streamline the delivery of quality software into production.

Join Kurt Bittner (LinkedIn profile),Laurence Sweeney andKevin Hancock for this two hour, two-part webinar series, where they will examine both the business and technical aspects of the fast emerging DevOps practice.

Part 1 : DevOps Management- Enabling the Continuous Delivery of Business Value (1st Hour)

Business competitiveness increasingly depends on the ability to deliver business value quickly.

Driven by experiences with mobile and cloud-based solutions, customers increasingly expect all solutions to deliver rapidly. Customer loyalty is often maintained only until your competitors deliver something better.

Faster delivery is not a fantasy.

It requires breaking down barriers between Development and Operations to form a new DevOps partnership, and forging a new partnership with the Business.

It means re-thinking the way you approach ensuring quality, and it requires streamlining your delivery pipeline while automating repetitive tasks. The result is faster delivery, as well as improved customer satisfaction, increased quality and dramatically reduced cost.

Kurt Bittner, and CollabNet DevOps Practice Leads as they discuss the Continuous Delivery trends, who’s adopting it, why, and best practices for highly successful DevOps.

Part 2 : Making DevOps Real (2nd hour)

Faster delivery, higher quality, elevated productivity – it all sounds good, but is it realistic? The answer is “yes”.

Companies around the world are adopting practices and technologies that enable DevOps, helping to make the vision a reality.

As a second part of the session, CollabNet will do a technical deep dive into two proven solutions that deliver on the promise of DevOps. They will deliver comprehensive demonstrations of both, one leveraging CollabNet’s partnership with Automic and the other leveraging CollabNet’s partnership with OpsCode.

Participants will gain an appreciation of the advantages of different approaches, and will have a better idea of what might work for their own environment.

Topics Covered:

• Workflow and Technical Architecture
• Collabnet TeamForge + Automic ARA for DevOps with enterprise release automation
• CollabNet TeamForge + OpsCode Chef for DevOps with Continuous Integration and Delivery

Who should attend: This webinar is for everyone who automates software delivery, and the technical content is appropriate for software architects, quality managers and software configuration managers. Prior familiarity with the concepts of Agile development and Continuous Integration is helpful, although not absolutely required.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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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