Live Webinar – August 7th, 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 August 7th, 2014, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hour Credits: Up To 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

All high-performing teams benefit from a diversity of styles and abilities.

So it’s critical to be able to recognize styles and ability gaps within your team, and be able to close those gaps.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to channel your team’s collective strength towards greater innovation
• How to recognize if your team members are in the correct roles
• How to identify innovators vs. adaptors

Presented by:  Shannon Bayer (LinkedIn profile)  is the Director of Workshops and a Principal Consultant at Linkage. Shannon focuses on helping organizations drive business results through improved team effectiveness, effective negotiation, coaching, and innovation.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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’

Click to register for 3 Keys For Developing High-Performing Teams

Live Webinar August 7th, 2014, 12:00 pm – 1:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August 7th, 2014, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The strength and clarity of enterprise strategy strongly influences executive perception of IT value.

This presentation describes the steps enterprises must take to transform their IT project portfolios into explicit, highly valued mechanisms for coherent execution of enterprise strategy.

Discussion Topics:

• How successful enterprises will frame benefits realization to maximize returns
• How successful enterprises will incorporate benefits realization into each step of the virtuous cycle of IT value
• How enterprises will use measures of benefits to drive performance higher

Presenter: Richard Hunter (Gartner bio)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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 Getting to Benefits Realization: What to Do and When to Do It

Live Webinar August 7th, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

End users now expect the same performance and experience on their mobile devices as they do on desktops.

This creates a daunting challenge for developers as multiple networks, devices, and iterations can cause a unique set of challenges for developing an application that provides a quality experience for all users.

One Web, a single web experience on all devices, is arriving with the aim to solve this predicament with technologies like responsive web design and context awareness in mobile operating systems.

With these changes, you’ll want to ensure that your users have a quality experience—no matter what device they use or what network they’re on—before releasing the application into production.

Learn firsthand from Neotys & Perfecto Mobile:

1. What’s driving One Web and how it affects your apps
2. Challenges with end user experience on mobile devices
3. What you’ll need to test across various devices and network conditions
4. How NeoLoad and MobileCloud integrate to solve these challenges

Presenters:

Bill Nicholson (LinkedIn profile) Director of Support & Services Neotys – Bill has over 20 years experience in managing software quality assurance projects for industry-leading organizations including Fidelity Investments and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bill is a performance testing tool expert with a number of Trainer/Teacher certifications from Neotys, IBM Rational, and HP.

Carlo Cadet MBA CISA CISSP Product Marketing Director Perfecto Mobile – Carlo is responsible for go to market strategy, product positioning, messaging and manages the customer reference program. Carlo also served his country as a Captain in the United States Air Force delivering command and control software programs.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 Testing Mobile End User Experience in a One Web World

Live Webinar – August 7th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

In 1969, the Project Management Institute (PMI) was founded.

Project Management specialists were building roads, buildings, the new ‘computers’ and lunar modules.

• The AT&T telephone operators still plugged wires into boards to transfer calls!
• Paper memos slowly communicated work to be done. Multitasking was unheard of.

The PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) established a standardized and control-focused approach to doing projects, much like ADDIE brought to the new field of training.

Now, 45 years later our work looks more like a Flashmob: interruptions, unending work, dysfunctional multi-tasking and highly matrixed organizations.

Everyone needs everyone to do their pile of projects. We have to embrace the structure of the PMBOK while looking at our project artifacts and tools in a new way.

Join Lou to learn about short-cuts that help ‘accidental’ project managers organize and adapt to chaos.

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou and her staff deliver learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

Lou is the author of Several highly acclaimed books including: 

1. Managing Projects: A Practical Guide for Learning Professionals
2. Project Management for Trainers Winging It and Get Control of your Training Projects
3. The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook 
4. IT Leadership Alchemy
5. Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change
6. 10 Steps to Successful Project Management
   

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 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’

Click to register for Breaking Training Development Project Rules

Live Webinar August 6th, 2014, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August 6th, 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Moving business applications to the cloud can have a profound effect on the IT department. Data management technical professionals need to understand how cloud computing is affecting their roles and responsibilities and how to build a strategy for staying relevant.

Discussion Topics:

• The data and application implications of business application migration to the cloud
• The impact of application migration to the cloud on data management roles
• The elements of a data management role survival strategy

Presenter:  Jamie Popkin (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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’

Click to register for Apps in the Cloud: Survival for Data Management Professionals