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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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Legal Project Management CoP (REP #S049)

What is Legal Project Management (LPM)?

• Where would LPM fit in your current model for managing outside counsel?
• What are the typical benefits? And
• How are corporate law departments and law firms practically implementing it?

Join Pratik Patel, (LinkedIn profile) VP of Legal Business Solutions at Elevate and Rick Kathuria, (LinkedIn profile) National Director of Project Management and Legal Logistics at Gowlings for an educational session on this rapidly emerging practice and what works, and what doesn’t when making LPM successful for your corporate law department or law firm.

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

Click to register for ‘Just Enough’ LPM: 5 Simple Ways to Get the Benefits

Live Webinar May 21st, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Join the QuantumPM experts as they explore tips and tricks for making sure that your Microsoft Project schedule is a good representation of the project you are managing.

From simple to complex, find the right techniques to fit your needs!

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

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

Click to register for Good, Better, Best Practices for MS Project Schedules

Live Webinar – May 21St & 22nd, 2014
Times: 12:00 am – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 2 x 1.5 hour Sessions – 3 Cat A PDUs
Mpug Member Free – This is a members only opportunity
This event requires a paid MPUG membership. Join MPUG Today!

EARN AN MPUG Certificate:
Project Online/Server 2013 Workflows
(upon completing 2 sessions – 3 hours total)

Note:  Both sessions must be completed for certificate to be issued

These two sessions will cover:

1. Introduction / About PPM Works
2. Agenda
3. Benefits of Workflows (Ideation to Portfolio Analysis)
4. Workflow Capabilities for Project Online/Server 2013
5. Workflow Building Blocks
   • PWA: Understanding all the components (Enterprise Fields, Workflow Phases / Stages, Business Drivers, and Enterprise Project Types
   • Leveraging SharePoint Designer: Actions, Activities, and Stages
6. Recommended Workflow Checklist from Business Process Mapping Template to Workflow Testing and Error Correction
7. Advanced Workflow Actions (Portfolio Approval and Modifying Project Fields)
8. Ideation from SharePoint Lists (if time permits)

Participation and questions are strongly encourage

JOIN MPUG FOR ONLY$129 per year and receive

• Access to in-person chapter meetings worldwide
• Access to weekly WebnLearns from industry leading experts and Microsoft MVPs
• Earn Weekly PDUS with the WebnLearns
• Full access to theWebnLearn archive,tools / templates, knowledgebase, and interactive features of MPUG.com
• Opportunities to participate in beta testing, webcasts, product surveys and discounts on Project-related events
• PMI and Microsoft Project educational credits for participation in meetings, special events and volunteer activities
• Search and post Project-related job openings through the Career Center

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