Live Webinar – June 12th 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 amount of data available to software teams and the tools available to utilize it can easily become mind-numbing if you don’t know how to ask the right questions.

Fortunately, you don’t have to be a data guru or a technical specialist to understand this fundamental truth: your data is only as valuable as the questions you ask.

This is good news for project teams and business analysis professionals because it means you can quickly and realistically begin harnessing insights offered by data that’s readily available, as long as you understand how to frame the questions that yield those insights.

In this one-hour web seminar, data guru and veteran enterprise consultant Darrel Raynor will take your questions on how you can immediately begin framing the useful questions that will yield useful insights for your organization, using data analysis resources you probably already have in place.

Join Darrel for this open Q&A in which we take as many of your questions as possible.

Presenter: 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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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 & A – Your Data: How to Ask the Right Questions

Live Webinar June 11th 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Live Webinar – June 10th, 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

Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.

Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.

During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:

• Improved project predictability
• Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
• Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
• Reduced effort spent resolving project issues

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: 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”

Click to register for  Practical Project Risk Management

Live Webinar June 10th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT or…
Live Webinar June 11th, 2014 6:00 AM – 7:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Today’s industry leaders are thinking about website performance in a new way.

It’s not just about load times and page speed, but also about optimizing digital experiences.

An optimal experience now requires a multi-layered look at what is impacting overall performance for your website visitors and app users.

In this webcast, Steve will review best practices for conducting performance trials while showing real-world metrics for meaningful performance testing.

In addition, Steve will demonstrate techniques for accelerating dynamic content. We’ll show how to compare unoptimized and optimized pages by using timing, waterfall, and command-line tools.

You’ll also learn:

• How to identify the performance metrics that matter most to your business
• Why availability, throughput, storage infrastructure, and cacheability should be part of the conversation for every organization today
• Why just relying on the Time-To-Last-Byte is no longer sufficient
• Why, when, and how important data points can hide beneath the surface
• How Synthetic and Real User testing help you define meaningful KPIs

Performance expert Steve Miller-Jones (LinkedIn profile) will use real-life testing results to demonstrate different testing methods and explain what various measurements actually mean.

Steve will also point you to tools you can use to conduct your own performance tests.

If your website’s performance is important to your business then reserve your seat now. And make sure you bring some questions for the live Q&A session that will follow the presentation!

Registrants will have the opportunity to download Limelight’s ebook “Optimizing the Digital Experience: A Step-by-Step Guide to High Performing Websites and Web Applications” free with registration, courtesy of Limelight Networks.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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 either offering of  Website Performance Testing: Meaningful Best Practices

Live Webinar June 10th, 2014 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Burn Your Social Media Policy Handbook
And Start Over

21st Century recruiters, sales, and marketing professionals are engaging, collaborating, and innovating online while you’re in an office writing a list of social media policies.

There’s a better way to guard against social media blunders.
Rules are for fools. Understanding, the wise. – Dionne

Rules will be bent, twisted, and broken.  At the root of every social media disaster was one person’s poor decision. Treat the disease, not the symptom.

Learn how to safeguard your organization’s social media efforts by infusing critical thinking into the strategy.

Attendees will learn:

1. The demographic make-up of today’s social employee
2. The key skills lacking in next generation social media users
3. The RED Model approach to smart social media activities
4. How to build a critical thinking organization from the ground-up

Presented by: Breanne Harris (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Architect and Social Media Strategist for Pearson TalentLens

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.4  Manage Project Team
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Burn the Social Media Policy Handbook

Live Webinar June 12th 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW1266

Effective delegation is at the heart of good management,
Yet many managers hesitate to entrust work to their employees!

Some of reasons:

1. They don’t know how to delegate;
2. They don’t want to burden their staff;
3. They believe they can do it better than their employees;
4. They fear an employee may make a mistake;
5. … Or worse, they fear that an employee may outperform them.

The result?

Managers suffer burnout, employees’ skills remain untapped, and morale suffers. The good news is that you can acquire the art of the handover!

This webinar will help you:

• Identify the symptoms of a disempowering organization
• Explore your own mindset about delegating work
• Identify what work can be delegated (and what should not)
• Choose the right person for the task
• Develop a plan and a process for delegating effectively
• Add a critical skill to your manager’s tool kit

Presenter: Casey Mitchell (LinkedIn profile), is founder and principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc., a consulting practice devoted to helping people achieve peak performance. Her primary focus is on management learning and development and works with new managers who want to make a successful transition, along 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.

Click to register for Delegation: The Art of the Handover