Live Webinar – June 17th 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

The information and decision-making duties of project professionals and business analysts get more complex every day.

Data resources – and concerns – have become ubiquitous, and it’s critical to stay on top of them.

While BAs and PMs don’t need to suddenly transform into data scientists, they must understand the data resources currently available, what they offer, and how they’re being used.

Most importantly, every BA and PM should understand how data can be leveraged to deliver business value and project solutions in their own work.

This one-hour open Q&A session gives you a chance to get answers to common real-world data challenges. Join Chris as he talks with top-tier data expert Darrel Raynor.

Presenters:

Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) ASPE Creative Director

Darrel Raynor (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director of, Data Analysis & Results  and has decades of experience consulting with Fortune companies on uncovering useful business insights and turning around troubled projects using data-driven resources.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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”.

Click to register for Q and A – How Can Business Analysts & Project Managers Do Better With Data?

Live Webinar – June 17, 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

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 Effective PPM Change Management

Live Webinar June 19th, 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)

The Logical Framework Approach is emerging as a best practice tool to design and manage successful IT projects of all types.

In this webinar Terry Schmidt (LinkedIn profile) will demonstrate how IT groups in organizations such as Boeing, Trader Joe’s, and the Department of Energy have used this method to improve their processes and deliver outstanding project results.

Click to register for Turning Strategic Goals into Successful Projects

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Premuim Memberships are only $199 USD per year
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Live Webinar June 17th, 2014 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar June 17th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Last year, Rex did a series of tweets over a few months, each one calling out a specific test management, testing, project management, or lifestyle best practice—or worst practice.

Rex has collected these practices into a two-part series of webinars.

At the beginning of the series, Rex will discuss the concept of best practices and refute the software testing canard that there are no best practices.

Next, in each webinar, he’ll describe a dozen or more of these practices, including examples of why it is a best practice—or a worst one.

Finally, at the end of the series, Rex will give some ideas on how you can remove worst practices and institute best practices in your organization.

Tune in and take part in the discussion.  After all, continuously improving your skills and knowledge is one of the best practices!

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of   Testing Best–and Worst–Practices: Part 1

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of Testing Best–and Worst–Practices: Part 1.

Live Webinar June 16th, 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)

Effective management of resources is pivotal in
Project Management.

A big buzz word these days in public sector and in technology is Big Data, however most organizations (especially government) lack the analytics skillset most needed to harness this data to aid in decision and transformational efforts both external and internal to government.

Big Data in Human Resources (HR) can directly affect the following 3 disciplines in HR:

1. Labour Planning e.g. Attrition prediction
2. Recruitment e.g. Identify and predict factors most conducive in recruiting high performers
3. Development e.g. Training, Talent Management

Gregory Richards will present to you his latest research on Workforce Analytics applied to Project Management in Government.

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

Presenter: Dr. Gregory Richards,  MBA, Ph.D, FCMC is the Professor of Performance Management at the Telfer School of Management for the University of Ottawa and has done extensive work in Human Resources and Analytics.

Click to register for Workforce Analytics: As Applied to Project Management in Government

Live Webinar June 17th, 2014,10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the ‘magic’ of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist! Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamabilityâ„¢
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always ‘team’ well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict ‘teaming’ behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

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