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

Live Webinar August 7th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Webcast – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Colin Dembovsky of Imaginet will show you…

1. How agile planning, management, and tracking are streamlined with Visual Studio 2013 and how to best leverage this functionality.
2. New Enterprise Agile Management capabilities that are only available within Team Foundation Server 2013.
3. How to effectively manage your Agile projects across all your teams, and avoid the 4 mistakes most team leads make on a daily basis.
4. How to effectively conduct release and iteration planning with TFS.

You will come away from the webinar with an immediate ability to improve portfolio and release productivity with TFS 2013.

Presenter:  Colin Dembovsky (LinkedIn profile) is a senior ALM Consultant for Imaginet based in East London, South Africa and has been an ALM MVP since 2011. He is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software, and do it more efficiently. Besides consulting and training, Colin is a frequent guest speaker around the world.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 6.1 Plan Schedule 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”

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 How to Get Control Over Your Portfolio Of Projects With Agile & TFS

Live Webinar August 5th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Browser test automation can be intimidating, leaving developers to spend their time manually testing browsers (many times in VMs) or opting to simply not test a range of browsers.

Join John-David Dalton as he discusses browser test automation, removes the roadblocks/gotchas, and shows lots of awesome things you can do (code coverage, perf testing, tagging, & more).

Presenter:   John-David Dalton (O’Reilly bio) is a Program Manager at Microsoft, working on the Chakra JavaScript engine, helping make your web applications, animations, and games run faster and smoother in Internet Explorer. He’s also the creator of Lo-Dash, co-maintainer of jsPerf and Benchmark.js, and contributes to other open source projects to help developers be more productive & write better JavaScript.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 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 Fearless Browser Test Automation