Live Webinar May 22nd, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

The Project Manager is responsible for managing all facets of a project, end-to-end, including the build of the product or service being developed as a result of the project, the testing of the product or service, and finally the implementation of the product or service into the production environment.

View this 1 hour live webinar to learn the steps the Project Manager must follow to ensure the success of the Build, Test, and Implementation phases of a project.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Recommended steps for building the project solution
• Recommended steps for testing the project solution
• Things to consider for the implementation phase of the project.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1281
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

How do you get everyone in the organization moving together toward business goals? How do you focus people toward performance? The answer lies in performance management, a systematic approach that aligns employee behavior with organizational strategies.

Without it, employees lack direction and motivation. They feel disconnected from the organization and may lack the will and the energy to make a real contribution.

This webinar will equip you with the skills and knowledge to create a process that will develop your employees, shape the culture of your organization (or work unit), and increase productivity.

Learning objectives include:

• Write targeted performance goals
• Diagnose and correct performance issues
• Use coaching techniques to bring out the best in people
• Provide effective feedback on performance
• Deliver performance appraisals that matter

Presenter: Casey Mitchell, (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and Principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc. with her primary focus being on management learning and development. Casey works with new managers who want to make a successful transition, and with existing managers who want to move into leadership roles. She has eighteen years experience in the training field and a wealth of management experience, which helps her relate to her clients’ needs.

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Live Webinar May 20th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)
Presented by: Jesse Fewell, PMP

Every few years the Product Development and Management Association conducts a survey of Product Development practices and identifies best practices.

Stephen invites you to join him to learn more about:

• How the best companies get 100% higher sales and profit from new products and services
• How new product development cycle times have changed
• What tools are the most effective to improve NPD output
• How strategy impacts new product success
• How social media is being used in NPD
• What you can do now to help your company develop more successful products faster

Presenter: Stephen Uban (LinkedIn profile) has been a practitioner in research and new product development for over thirty years. He is am a Certified New Product Development Professional and have been a member of PDMA for over 20 years.

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

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Live Webinar – May 22nd, 2014 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

User stories are a simple technique to help capture requirements and build a product backlog.

Simple does not mean unsophisticated. User stories, when well written, are powerful descriptions of the conversations REAL users WANT to have with the proposed system and the benefits they want to receive.

This web briefing, by DCG’s Tom Cagley, provides a primer on User Story definition, usage, structure, style and content with examples including the role of user stories within Epics and Themes.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled “Software Process and Measurement Cast”. The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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.’

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

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Live Webinar – May 21st 2014, 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

• Everybody talks about it.
• Everybody wants to understand it.
• Supposedly all the Fortune companies are using it to reap exciting benefits.
• But what does big data mean for the rest of us?

Rarely has there been so much buzz yet so little obvious substance around a business topic.

The reality is, big data capabilities are very real, and they offer very real rewards for those who know what they’re doing.

In this one-hour web seminar, data guru and veteran enterprise consultant Darrel Raynor will get past the obvious buzzwords and into the practical promise offered by big data.

Darrel will touch on:

• When is data considered big data?
• What can be done in your own situation and how do you start asking the right questions?
• What is Apache Hadoop and what can it do for you?

Founder and Managing Director of, Data Analysis & Results  Darrel Raynor (LinkedIn profile) will join Chris Knotts, (LinkedIn profile) ASPE’s Product Development Manager to present the basics of big data and how you can get going on a practical strategy in your own organization.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule

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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