Live Webinar – August 19th, 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

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?
COOs, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource 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: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire 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  Resource Capacity Management

Live Webinar August 19th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Today’s world doesn’t wait for stragglers. You need effective leadership to get ahead and stay ahead. But how do great leaders think? What practices fuel their success?

Discover what defines a leader who can inspire — and embrace — change.
Attend this live webinar to learn:

• How the best leaders get comfortable being uncomfortable
• How to let go of whatever is holding you down or holding you back
• A powerful method for building and sustaining relationships
• Why a leader’s job isn’t to do everything

Presenter: Gary Bradt (Linkedin profile) Psychologist, Consultant, and author of  the bestselling book The Ring in the Rubble: Dig Through Change and Find Your Next Golden Opportunity.

“Bradt’s message in this excellent and inspiring book is a Golden Ring‘ itself amidst the rubble often permeating our lives. It not only speaks true but makes you strive for more.”

–Stephen R. Covey, author of, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness and  The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

“Beautifully written and full of wisdom, The Ring in the Rubble is a gem.”

– Ken Blanchard, author of many best selling tittles including: The One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level.  Ken also  has an excellent collection of his latest 3 books the “The Essential Ken Blanchard Collection“ on amazon which includes the titles Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy, Leading at a Higher Level, and Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success. They are an excellent read!

Click to register for 10 Qualities of Effective Leadership

Live Webinar – August 19th, 2014 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Information Technology (IT) has many useful models for addressing the complexity of developing, delivering and running software. Well-known models include:

• The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®),
• The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) and
• The Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi®), to name just a few.

The TMMi is a framework designed to help practitioners and IT executives understand and improve the quality of the products they deliver through improved testing.

In this webinar Tom will provide an overview of the framework and how it leads to better testing.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled “Software Process and Measurement Cast”. The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 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 view Better Testing or Pay The Price: TMMi

Live Webinar August 19th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

Innovation  consultant Mike Dalton makes a bold claim:
50% or more of your new product innovation capacity is
Hiding In Plain Sight.

That’s right – even in the best of companies, half of new product resources (Marketing, R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing Scale-Up and Sales) end up as waste.

In this highly interactive and engaging session, you will experience some of the root causes for this waste as well as learn steps you can begin taking to double new product throughput with your existing resources.

Key Takeaways from this session:

• A real life understanding of the root causes for innovation taking longer than it needs to and delivering less than you want including:
• Why new products finish late and under-deliver
• How to build plans your team can execute on-time
• An approach to visualize real status of new product projects
• How to manage priorities in a multi-project environment
• A set of tools and principles you can use to address these core problems
• A blueprint for doubling speed to market and new product profits without added costs or resources

Target audience:
The presentation is focused on the executives leading growth & innovation efforts for their corporations and the senior innovation drivers they depend on to get new products to market (Technical Directors, Engineering Directors, Directors of Product Management, Senior Product Managers, and other technical managers)

Presenter: Mike Dalton (LinkedIn profile) has over 24 years of product development, marketing and executive leadership at the multi-billion dollar SC Johnson family of companies. Mike is also the founder of Guided Innovation Group, whose simple mission is helping companies turn their new product innovation into bottom-line impact. Mike  holds an MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago and a degree in chemical engineering and energy technology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He speaks on innovation and growth for trade and executive groups.

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

Click to register for Simplifying Innovation: Framework For Finding Hidden Innovation Capacity

Live Webinar August 19th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The dramatic growth in mobile and wearable computing activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a wide variety of user behavior in the digital world.

Whether mobile users are communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting others to their location, purchasing goods or services, redeeming coupons or reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Compounding this data generation is the imminent adoption and usage of different kinds of wearable computing devices.

Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself to deeper explanatory and predictive models in the realm of customer analytics.

Anindya Ghose (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from the use of apps and advertising on mobile devices and their integration with wearable computing devices, in the course of meeting some strategic goals and tactical issues for firms.

A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the “mobile shopper” using tools from business analytics that combine statistical and econometric modeling with randomized experiments “in the wild”.

3 learning points:

1. Understanding audience behavior and advertising effectiveness on mobile devices
2. Understanding how consumers respond to geo targeting and geo fencing strategies using smart phone technologies.
3. Exploring the implications of wearable computing devices on marketing.

This webinar will cover several projects that Anindya has undertaken in multiple countries in Asia and Europe as well as discuss the state of the art knowledge in this space.

Presenter: Anindya Ghose

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 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 IIBA: Mobile and Wearable Computing: Using Data Analytics to Understand the Mobile Shopper

Live Webinar – Aug 18th 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

Regardless of industry, thousands of technology investments are made every day. Get a glimpse into how you can use a business blueprint to organize your enterprise and to make the right technology decisions.

Get a cursory view of the benefits, such as; navigating through the complexity of information, visibly exposing opportunities for improvement and ensuring a common understanding for quick decisions. Improve the way you capture, validate and communicate various stakeholder views by understanding what is out in the industry to help you in this effort.

What you will get out of this webinar:

• Importance of having a business blueprint
• Ways to classify the information through the use of frameworks and methods
• Key tools for communicating the information (models and notations)
• Example use of automated tools to capture the information.

Presenter: Gina Schwalm (LinkedIn profile), PMP, CBAP,  has also been in various other roles throughout her career; requirements workshop facilitator, release coordinator, project sponsor, PMO manager, quality assurance manager, and methodology expert as well as the PM & BA roles she is certified for.  Recently, Gina has worked to build a competency center for project managers and business analysts.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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 The Business Blueprint: Organizing your Chaos