Virtual Training March 17th – 21st, 2014

2 Sessions each day: 1pm-2pm & 4pm-5pm EDT
Duration: 9-10 Hours Credits: 9 PDU Category B PDUs
Fees: $37.00 Live Listening ONLY – $117.00 USD Pass
Hosted by: Gil Broza, (LinkedIn profile @gilbroza)

Your Host – Gil Broza is Principal Agile Mentor & Founder at 3PVantage and author ofThe Human Side of Agile: How to Help Your Team Deliver. Recordings of last years Agile conference “Individuals and Interactions” are still available. (9 Category B PDUs for $87 – $97) An Excellent Value!

Great Early Bird Registration Savings till February 28th 2014

1. Bronze Pass – $27. 00 A $10 Savings
2. Silver Pass – $67.00 A $20.00 Savings
3. Gold Pass – $87.00 A $30.00 Savings

In this unique virtual training hosted by Gil Broza, 10 leading experts and practitioners share the top items they pack for an Agile journey, so you can reach your destination too.

• Do you use Scrum/Agile/Lean/Kanban, but the results leave a lot to be desired?
  • Dive deep into the aspects of Agility that are most often overlooked, misunderstood, or just challenging, and identify the gaps between your current state and possible Agile success.
• Is Agile turning out to be much harder to implement than you thought?
  • Receive practical insights, explanations, and suggestions for some of the challenges you’ve been having.
• Are you looking for more/advanced Agile training, but budgets and schedules don’t make it easy?
  • Get quality Agile education, for a very low price, on your own schedule, and from wherever you are.
• Would you like your organization to become more Agile, but you’re not sure how to communicate this message effectively?
  • Evangelize Agility successfully by talking about the right challenges and needs.

There Is A Lot More To Agile
(And Becoming Agile)
Than Meets The Eye

You know that Agile is more than meetings, artifacts, and process. You know that an Agile journey bears more resemblance to Columbus’s voyage than to a drive around town.

But what is actually involved in becoming Agile?

Which aspects matter a lot more than others? And why is it that most organizations adopt Agile, but only a few seem to get the amazing results that were promised?

In this training, Gil Broza will interview 10 outstanding authors, mentors, executives, innovators, and practitioners. Every one of them has played a leading role in several successful Agile journeys.

You know some of these experts from books, conferences, and webinars. Other guests are accomplished practitioners who seldom speak publicly about their work. All of them are the real deal. And they have accepted Gil’s invitation to this platform to share their knowledge and experience with you. You will receive real, unbiased education.

You’ll be happy you listened to these folks, because you’ll …

• Receive tons of information and advice, which will be useful and applicable no matter where you are on your Agile journey
• Explore both principles and practices – both what successful teams and organizations do and why they succeed
• Understand just how deep/extreme Agile gets, and the corresponding risks and rewards
• Shorten the journey to success with Agile, which is neither short nor easy

If you can’t attend all sessions, or prefer reading to listening, the recordings and transcripts will be available.

This is an amazing opportunity to earn up to 9 Category B PDUs and get a great understanding of proven strategies to enhance your agile techniques and create outstanding success on your agile projects – enhancing your productivity.

The lineup for this event includes:

• Nick Oddson (LinkedInprofile,@noddson)
  • Organizational Support: Actions Speak Louder than Words
• Tricia Broderick (formerly Wilkerson – (LinkedIn profile, @t_broderick)
  • A Team-Friendly Environment: Making Collaboration Possible
• Ted Young(LinkedIn profile, @jitterted)
  • Stop Sprinting, Start Iterating: Embracing Uncertainty and Learning
• Andrew McGlinchey(LinkedIn profile)
  • Whole Product Thinking: More than a Backlog of Features
• Paul Carvalho(LinkedIn profile,@can_test)
  • A Quality Mind-set: Beyond Defects and Automated Tests
  • Watch for Paul’s new book Put Your Mind to the Test to be released soon
• Arlo Belshee (LinkedIn profile, @arlobelshee )
  • Technical Excellence: Changing the Rules of the Development Game
• Johanna Rothman (LinkedIn profile, @JohannaRothman)
  • The Get-to-Done Mentality: Finish What You Start
    
  • Johanna has written many popular books including:
    • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
    • Hiring Geeks That Fit
    • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
    • Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
    • Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People
• Dan Mezick (LinkedIn profile, @DanMezick)
  • Cultural Fit: Can You Handle the Truth?
  • Author Of: The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager
• Guy Nachimson (LinkedIn profile, @guynachimson)
  • Embracing Change: Turning the One Constant from Foe to Friend
• Ken Rubin (LinkedIn profile, @krubinagile)
  • The Agile Principles and Values: Doing What Really Matters
  • Author Of : Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

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Gain Proven Strategies, Tools, & Insights For Outstanding Success with Agile Webcast
March 17 – 21, 2014

Live Webinar March 3rd 2013 – 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Risk Management CoP (REP #S048)

In this compelling presentation, Carl Pritchard, author of the Risk Management Memory Jogger and the Project Management Communications Tool Kit; examines the four C’s of effective risk communication:

• Control,
• Cost,
• Community and
• Charisma

Carl examines how and when we lose control of the communications experience and specific steps that we can take to ensure we retain control to the degree possible. He looks at the potential political costs of any risk communications experience and how we can marshal them to our advantage.

He explores the capacity to build risk communications communities in very short spans of time, and drives home the simplicity of establishing charisma on the subject of risk without being excessive or effusive.

Presenter : Carl Pritchard (LinkedIn profile, @carlpritchard) Project Management Risk Guru & Presenter Extraordinaire Carl has written more that 70 articles on The Fundamentals of Project Management – Applying traditional project management in demanding environment. A bio and a large compilation of article experts by Carl Pritchard on Project Management topics is available on: http://www.projectconnections.com.

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

Click to register for The Four C’s of Communicating Risk

Some Of Carl Pritchard’s Great Resources

Below are some specific links to a selection of his articles:

A Time to Be Project Positive!
The Dalai Lama offers Carl some perspective on our potential for profound influence, both as project managers and as people. If ever there was a time to be “project positive,” this is it! There is so much to be positive about.

Context in Communication
Get others up to speed on your insider stories, and both your team and your communication will be the better for it. As we manage, we have a habit of invoking terms and terminology, assuming that others share our communications context.

In Defense of the Project Management “Perfect World”
We know the textbook doesn’t come anywhere near the real world. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying. One of the most common challenge questions I get when teaching PMP® Exam Preparation courses is “Why doesn’t PMI make the test more real-world? Why do they insist on testing for a world that no one really lives in?”

Do We Really Need the Second Decimal?
Why are we shrouding a common-sense profession in arcane standards? Sometimes a plan is just a plan. When I suggested that our effort in spreading the project management gospel should be simplification and clarification, one team member shot back: “For every complex problem there is an answer which is clear, simple and wrong.” But there are also clear, simple and correct explanations

War of the Worlds – Lessons Learned from the Martian Invasion (A Martian Perspective)
Carl models best practices for your lessons learned reports, with this otherworldly perspective on the most disastrous project of all time. Kickoff Meeting – The kickoff meeting united the political and logistical sides of the house by clearly defining the vision and the approach. Without clarity on that, we probably wouldn’t have been able to get management to drag their tentacles out of the Dark Ages and sign off on the thing.

Project Management Starts with PR – Branding Project Management
Get It Done At Any Cost? Team Lead’s Best Friend? What’s your project management brand, and how can you use it to the best advantage? What’s your brand of project management? Does it vary from client to client? If so, you may have a problem. Branding is, if nothing else, a lesson in consistency

Click here for a selection of Carl’s article excerpts

Live Webinar March 4th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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

Speed …. If you had to summarize in one word what you need to succeed in business in today’s current market and climate, it would be that word. Laggards are treated harshly, just ask anyone who works or worked at Research in Motion (RIM). Once the darling of mobile communications, RIM is now fighting for its very survival.

Software development has become the foundation on which new business services and products are built. Whether you are selling financial services, global logistics, energy, or cars, it is software that is adding either capability or value to your product that increases your competitive advantage and drives sales.

Scope …. is the dirty word in software/systems development. Traditional project managers adhere to it rigorously. Agile evangelists really don’t consider it outside their two to four week iterations. Business Analysts worry more about effectiveness and use than it.

If the traditional PM is on one side and the Agile evangelist on the other the BA ends up smack in the middle when it comes to a mindset on scope.

The reality is unless business conditions adjust, there is no way SDLC professionals can put “change” in a box any longer. This doesn’t mean an organization has to become agile.

What it means is practitioners in the SDLC have to look at alternative methods to controlling “Scope Creep” in the face of rapid pace of change, especially on elongated projects.

In this presentation, David will discuss:

• An executive sponsors prospective on scope in a project
• What sponsors ultimately want and what they don’t care to hear
• The evolving role of the BA and how Project Managers can make better use of the BA position with regard to scope definition and management

With this said, there is still the issue of “in-project” change. Instead of the dreaded change order, we will take a look at agile practice of task boarding to see if there are ways to document “changes” in a highly visible way to potentially get to in project (if time allows) or after prioritizing after the project is completed.

The ultimate goal of this presentation is to highly how PM’s can utilize BA professionals in the Scope process and how elements of agile methods can help deal with change in complex and elongated projects.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

Click to register for The Dynamics of Scope Manager and the Changing Responsibilities of Project Managers and Business Analysts

Live Webinar March 4th 2014, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST or
Live Webinar March 4th 2014, 12:00 pm – :00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Today, many cloud service providers and a growing number of enterprises are failing over data center operations between separate cloud data centers in lieu of using more traditional disaster recovery-centric approaches.

Is managed failover the convergence holy grail for both traditional disaster recovery and availability management?

This session discusses both the opportunities and limitations of managed failover in the public cloud by leveraging the research results from Gartner’s recently completed Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Critical Capabilities and failover management automation research.

Discussion Topics:

• If managed failover becoming more mainstream in the enterprise
• How cloud providers are implementing managed failover
• The best short term client opportunities for implementing failover management across hybrid clouds

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Is Managed Failover the End of Disaster Recovery?