Live Webinar June 3rd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar will demonstrate how Agile can be used to rescue troubled projects. You will learn how to recognize that a project is in trouble and how the discipline, focus, and transparency of Agile can promote recovery.

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.

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Live Webinar – June 3rd, 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

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating  & Executing, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1  Plan Risk Management
• 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”

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

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Live Webinar – June 10th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Can A Virtual Team Be As Effective
As A Co-located Team?

This is a question that organizations are debating, and the arguments on both sides are very compelling.

Factors like work-life balance and organizational savings need to be balanced with the value of face-to-face collaboration and managerial oversight.

Whether you personally embrace the concept or not, chances are you will participate as a virtual team member during your career.

Virtual teams can be very effective
If the correct conditions are met and maintained.

It’s about putting together the right personalities, ensuring they have the right tools, and leading the team successfully.

InSync Training began as a virtual team when you didn’t hear about working from home, and in 15 years has expanded to a virtual team with 60+ members working all hours from all over the world.

After discussing the arguments for and against establishing a virtual team, this workshop will use real-life examples to address six key enablers for success:

• How to form the virtual team: Identifying the profile of an effective virtual team and its players, and how to engage existing team members in selecting new team members
• How to enable the virtual team: Ensuring the right technologies and processes are in place to ensure success
• How to maintain the virtual team: Creating inter-reliability, trust, and teamwork
• How to protect the virtual team: Identifying and managing issues before they become destructive
• How to lead the virtual team: Establishing credibility while maintaining the right balance of oversight and empowerment
• How to reward the virtual team: Creating team building opportunities across the distance

Speakers: Jennifer Hofmann,  (LinkedIn profile, @InSyncJennifer) is the president of InSync Training, and soon to be featured in Forbes Most Powerful Women issue (June 16, 2014.  She has most recently co-authored, with Dr. Nanette Miner, Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend That Fits, a book focused on taking advantage of distributed technologies to create the best blended training solution possible.  Jennifer is also is the author of The Synchronous Trainer’s Survival Guide: Facilitating Successful Live and Online Courses, Meetings and Events, Live and Online! Tips, Techniques, and Ready-To-Use Activities for the Virtual Classroom ), andhas contributed chapters to The Handbook of Blended Learning, The AMA Handbook of E-Learning, and The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals.  Follow Jennifer at her blog, Body Language In The Bandwidth.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 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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Live Webinar June 3rd, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Pattern libraries are a great source of inspiration and education for designers. But common practice doesn’t always equal best practice.

In this webcast, Theresa will look at why many common tutorial patterns are ineffective and how you can leverage game design principles to increase user engagement.

Presenter: Theresa Neil (LinkedIn profile) make products intuitive, direct, and interactive. Theresa is author of Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, Color Edition. In the past 11 years, she has led the design for more than 100 web, desktop, and mobile applications, working first as the Usability Lead at Sabre Airlines Solutions, then on her own as a User Experience consultant. Clients include a diverse mix of Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, and local Austin start-ups. REad about her experiences as a UX designer at theresaneil.wordpress.com and visit site at www.theresaneil.com.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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’

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