Online Webinar – Recorded August 19th, 2014
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

The digital skills gap is hardly news to American workers!

Of the more than 200 million adults in the US digital workforce, only one in 10 consider themselves very proficient with the digital tools they use every day.

As companies move quickly to adopt new cloud-based platforms, such as Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps, and Adobe Creative Cloud, as well as new types of tools for marketing, analytics, communications, and more, employees and managers are hard-pressed to fit digital skills training into jam-packed schedules and tight budgets.

Meanwhile, a recent study by Deloitte found that the rapid pace of technological change in the workplace is leading to a skills half-life of just 2.5 years.

Even the most adept employee can quickly fall behind.

Workers, businesses, and the entire economy are paying the price. Every year, the digital skills gap drives a loss of nearly $1 trillion for the US economy. For a firm with 1,000 employees, this translates to a $10 million loss each year on a compensation basis alone.

We need not stand idly by as our organizations bleed productivity. By laying out the 8 core competencies of digital skills, this webinar provides an action plan for addressing the digital skills gap in your team.

Speakers:  Alex Khurgin (LinkedIn profile) is the Creative Director at Grovo, a cloud-based training platform that identifies digital skills gaps within an organization, and provides development plans to close those gaps with highly engaging, 60-second videos.  Alex works with the Product and Content teams to help implement Grovo’s learner-first training method, which combines elements of holistic learning, competency-based learning, and microlearning to drive quick, meaningful, and lasting performance improvements.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 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 How the Digital Skills Gap is Killing Your Team’s Productivity: And What You Can Do About It

Online Webinar  – Recorded May 8th, 2014
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Process management helps to provide a line of sight from strategy through execution of organizational initiatives.

Akin to the business analysis (BA) requirements discipline, this traceability enables performance maturity, better communication, clearer roles and responsibilities, and good governance.

Clarification of problems or opportunities for improvement is integral to business analysis and process management.

In each, you must elicit and clearly state a specific problem that quantifiably affects business/operation and that ultimately matters to your customers.

Process management is:

• An integral part of business analysis, implementation, improvement, and sustainability,
• Solves problems, and
• Expedites risk identification, mitigation, and impact.

In this webinar I will explain how to:

• Tie process management to organizational strategy,
• Use process management as a foundation of good decision making, change management, and governance, and
• Increase efficiency and value optimization throughout the organization.

Presenter: Mark Barnett, PhD, MBA (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Executive Consultant, at Robbins-Gioia, LLC and has more than 15 years of experience leading complex business transformations within multiple industries, including oil & gas, high-tech R&D and manufacturing, telecommunications, and insurance and financial services.

Click to register for IIBA: Overcome Risk Using Process Management And Improvement

Live Webinar – August 14th 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Successful transformation initiatives are driven by Business Architecture.

The Business Architect plays a key role in bringing all of the portfolio components together and consistently reinforcing senior management’s voice throughout the ADM lifecycle.

This begins with establishing strategic goals and outcomes that set the context for the entire program and service transformation.  Establishing context serves as the basis for strategic project portfolio definition and integrated execution.

This approach mitigates the risk of executing projects in isolation without considering the needs of the entire portfolio as a whole.

This session will boost your knowledge of these concepts and help you and your team to achieve the best possible outcomes for your organization.

Bashar Qader is a Business Architect with over 25 years of Business and IT Management experience. Working with Zachman and TOGAF frameworks as well as Industry reference models such as the Public Sector Reference Model and the Government Strategic Reference Model, he has assisted  companies such as RBC, TD, the Office of the CIO Ministry of Labour, , CRA and Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 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 Maximize Organizational Success With Precision Guided Enterprise Architecture

Live Webinar August 15th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: CollabNet

In this session, Caleb will cover topics that you and your colleagues request, improving adoption and success at your organization.

Register for the live Agile Guru coaching session with Caleb Brown. I

Who should attend:

This webinar is for everyone who automates software delivery, and the technical content is appropriate for software architects, quality managers and software configuration managers. Prior familiarity with the concepts of Agile development and Continuous Integration is helpful, although not absolutely required.

Presenter: Caleb Brown (LinkedIn profile) is the Product Owner for ScrumWorks, an Agile Project Management tool.  Six Years ago Caleb learned Agile inside & out and is able to diagnose and address organizational problems. Caleb is now an Agile coach and trainer.  He also works with a development team in Chennai, giving him practical experience coping with one of the most challenging aspects of Agile at Scale; global distribution.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 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 Agile Guru Series: Frustrated? Curious? Anxious? Be calm – Caleb Is Here To Help!

Live Webinar August 14th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

At some point, we all need to design and implement APIs for the Web.

• What makes Web APIs different than typical component APIs?
• How can you leverage the power of the Internet when creating your Web API?
• What characteristics to many “great” Web APIs share?
• Is there a consistent process you can use to make sure you design a Web API that best fits your needs both now and in the future?

In this webcast Mike Amundsen (LinkedIn profile) describes a clear methodology for designing Web APIs (based on the book “RESTful Web APIs” (Richardson & Amundsen) that allow you to map key aspects of your business into a usable, scalable, and flexible interface that will reach your goals while creating a compelling API for developers.

Whether you are looking to implement a private, partner, or public API, these principles will help you focus on the right metrics and design goals to create a successful API.

Presenter: Mike Amundsen lecturer and author of RESTful Web APIs, and Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node,  Mikes recent work focuses on the role hypermedia plays in creating and maintaining applications that can successfully evolve over time.

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
• 5.2 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 API Design Methodology

Live Webinar August 13th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Assessing level of risk involves the five key project Project Management variables.

The Risk Variables Are:

1. Size,
2. Cost,
3. Schedule,
4. Quality and
5. Productivity.

If the five variables are not in balance – then management risk is created.

Recognizing and dealing with management risk is covered in the presentation.

Click to register for An Introduction To Risk Management