Live Webinar May 28th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Lean Scope Project Management (LSPM) combines:

• Human-Centered Design,
• Lean Startup Methodology, and
• Agile Project Management concepts

to create a project management methodology for highly innovative design projects.

In the webinar, William will discuss how he created LSPM and will demonstrate LSPM through a hypothetical government project case study.

Presenter: Dr. William Brantley , (LinkedIn profile) PMP (Data Scientist, PM, & OpenSource Developer) Innovative Federal government professional currently involved in building the data science and project management capabilities for the Office of Personnel Management. Strategic thinker in public policy, investigative, analytical, qualitative/quantitative research, and information technology. Highly-accomplished university instructor, presenter, and trainer. Knowledge Management Lead for Government Community of Practice.

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

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Live Webinar – May 27th, 2014 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EST
Live Webinar – May 27th, 2014 3:00 am – 4:00 am BST
Live Webinar – May 28th, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM AEST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: APMG International

Have you ever wasted time at a meeting?

The author of the Facilitation chapter in the recently launched Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK)   will explain why all managers need to know how to facilitate workshops and meetings effectively.

The webinar will explain:

• The impact of well facilitated group events
• The impact of poorly facilitated group events
• Typical uses for the team approach
• Why and when the team approach is the right tool for solving problems and planning ahead
• The risks inherent in a workshop approach and how these can be managed
• Why and how anyone can learn the simple techniques of effective workshop facilitation.

Click to register for Why All Managers Need To Be Able To Facilitate Workshops & Meetings Effectively

Live Webinar –  May 27th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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  Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!

Live Webinar – May 27th 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

MapReduce is a programming framework introduced by Google in the early 2000’s.  It is targeted at solving problems that have to work on huge datasets.

Rather than devising an algorithm that works on the entire dataset, the map reduce framework works on several chunks of the same dataset in parallel during the map phase and combines the results together during the reduce phase.

MapReduce can take advantage of locality of data, processing data on or near the storage assets to decrease transmission of data.

In this  session Sriram Mohan (LinkedIn profile) will lead you through the following:

1. Introduction to the MapReduce paradigm in Hadoop
2. Code-walkthrough in Java
3. How does MapReduce work in Hadoop? – This part will provide an explanation for the internal workings (Shuffle-Sort) of MapReduce, job scheduling and failure handling in classical MapReduce.

Here are some other great resources on Map Reduce:

• Amazon Elastic MapReduce Developer Guide
• An Overview of MapReduce and Its Impact on Distributed Data Processing
• MapReduce Design Patterns: Building Effective Algorithms and Analytics for Hadoop and Other Systems
• Instant MapReduce Patterns – Hadoop Essentials How-to

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop 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’

Click to register for Introduction to MapReduce