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

Live Webinar August 6th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI® IT & Telecom CoP (REP #S009)

As per Wikipedia, “Enterprise system software is a multi-billion dollar industry that produces components that support a variety of business functions. IT investments have become the largest category of capital expenditure in United States-based businesses over the past decade. Though early ERP systems focused on large enterprises, smaller enterprises increasingly use ERP systems”

When Enterprise Resource Planning became the next big thing, many large and small organizations jumped in without fully investigating if it was right for them.

Knowing some of the challenges and pitfalls that come with choosing and implementing any ERP can be one of the critical success factors for the project. In addition, if your organization is considering Oracle’s PeopleSoft, the quintessential ERP, information that can assist the business in making thoughtful decisions is key.

Before your organization jumps on the bandwagon, hear Kathy discuss topics along the project lifecycle including the all important business decision to undertake such an effort. Next Kathy will discuss some planning highlights, the role of the project manager, and lessons learned.

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

Presenter:  Kathy Martucci (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for A Deep Dive into PeopleSoft

Live Webinar – August 5th, 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 August 5th, 2014, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August 5th, 2014, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast  – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

There is a sea change happening in technology and in business.  That change is starting to revolutionize the global economy.

The world in 2020 will be a far different world than today’s. So what will happen in the next five years?

This session covers the rise of digital business: what it is and why it is important now.

Patrick Meehan (Gartner bio) will discuss how companies are starting to build their own digital businesses to create the type of competitive advantage that can dominate markets for years and about the technology engines that will propel digital business.

He will also focus on the reality of how to leverage digital business as digitalization becomes complete.

Discussion Topics:

• What digital business is and why it is important now
• How companies are building their own digital businesses to create competitive advantage
• What are the technology engines that will propel digital business

2. A must-see infographic connecting the survey data behind the report

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

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 Digital Revolution

Live Webinar – August 5th 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

PMI (Project Management Institute) continues to meet the needs of Project and SDLC (Software / System Development Life Cycle) professionals by offering another specialty certification.

The industry knows how critical a working relationship between the BA and PM is for project success. Also it is well understood that smaller companies can only afford to have Project Managers yet still need strong business analysis work done. PMI as answered these needs by offering this new certification.

Pilot applications are being accepted through May 12, 2014.

This web seminar will go over in depth the PMI-PBA handbook (costs and application requirements), the examination content outline and the reading/outside knowledge requirements. We will save you the time and energy of reading through the 70+ pages of documentation.

Learn the information, knowledge, and skills needed to achieve the designation.

Click to register for Introducing the New PMI-PBA (Professional in Business Analysis) Certification