Online Webinar – Recorded Jan 23rd, 2014
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

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Most Problems With
Project Requirements
Are Result Of Human Errors

Why are good and experienced project managers making bad choices that can dramatically affect the project?

The answers lie in human psychology. Often managers are making their choices not by logical and comprehensive analysis of the problem, but based on their own gut feelings.

This presentation includes a number of examples of how misjudgement can lead to major project failures.

Understanding a few basic concepts, such as how human mental machinery works, helps to improve project manager’s decision-making skills. Often manager’s decisions are affected by illusions, such as the illusion of the project being under control.

But what is the alternative to such intuitive decision-making process?

This presentation includes an overview of the project requirements management process. If a project manager and an organization follow such process, it usually leads to better decisions.

The presentation includes a number of case studies, illustrating how organizations significantly improved their performance through implementing requirements management process: Keystone Oil pipeline from Canada to US, Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, NASA’s Constellation space program, destruction of major power station in Russia, and others.

The presentation also includes recommendations on how requirements management can be implemented in an organization. Requirements management is not only a sophisticated quantitative analysis. First of all, it is a collection of basic principles, which help project managers think their way to project success.

The presentation is based on the books “Project Decisions: The Art and Sciences”, published my Management Concepts, 2007, and “ProjectThink – Why Good Project Managers Are Making Bad Choices!” to be published by Gower in 2013.

Presenter: Lev Virine PhD, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer and project manager. In the past 15 years, he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes. He is the author of Project Decisions & ProjectThink and over 50 scholarly papers.

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

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Live Webinar – Feb 26th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Only – Free

Collaborative Project management is a discipline, and as such can be quite difficult without the proper training. Some project managers have had formal training (for example PMI’s PMBOK or PRINCE2) and some lucky project managers instinctively know how to initiate, manage and close projects to success.

Many project managers however, are thrown into the deep end with little or no training. Other experienced project managers are struggling to train new project managers.

The BrightWork community of customers have assisted such project managers with a step-by-step, how-to guide.

The Collaborative Project Management Guide is simple and easy to follow, and describes the typical stages, steps and sub-steps involved in starting, setting up, managing and closing a typical project.

During this event, you will learn:

• A simple and easy to follow guide for collaborative project management
• A summary of the typical stages, steps and sub-steps involved in managing a project (including steps for Team Members)
• An overview of a positive project management leadership style
• A guide that their organization can adapt to train new project managers

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

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!

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Live Webinar Feb 27th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

What Is Your Quality Like?

Imaginet is going to show you…

• How to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and coverage of your software testing by using Microsoft’s automated coded UI testing tools.
• How to improve your overall software quality by using automated testing to increase the depth and scope of tests.
• Learn how to save valuable testing time that translates directly into cost savings.
• How to effectively leverage Microsoft’s Automated Coded UI Testing tools to make all of this happen!

Presenter: Colin Dembovsky (LinkedIn profile) is a senior ALM Consultant for Imaginet based in East London, South Africa and has been an ALM MVP since 2011. He is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software, and do it more efficiently. Besides consulting and training, Colin is a frequent guest speaker around the world.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar Feb 27th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Surveys reveal that concerns about data quality can create barriers for companies deploying Analytics and BI initiatives.

How can you readily identify and correct data quality issues at every step of your big data analysis to ensure accurate insights into customer behavior?

In this webcast, Karen will discuss how IT and business users can leverage self-service visualizations to quickly spot and correct data anomalies throughout the analytic process.

You will learn how to:

• Continuously visualize a profile of your data to identify inconsistencies, incompleteness and duplicates in your data
• Visualize machine learning and data mining, including clustering, decision tree analysis, column correlations and recommendations
• Create self-service visualizations for business and IT users

Presenter: Karen Hsu (LinkedIn profile, @Karenhsumar ) is Senior Director, Product Marketing at Datameer. With over 15 years of experience in enterprise software, Karen has co-authored 4 patents and worked in a variety of engineering, marketing and sales roles. Karen came from Informatica where she worked with the start-ups Informatica purchased to bring big data, data quality, master data management, B2B and data security solutions to market. Karen has a Bachelors of Science degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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’

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