Live Webinar –  September 4th, 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

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

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: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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  Setting Up a PMO is Not for the Faint Hearted!

Live Webinar September 4th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

What Controls Do You Have Over Your CodeBase?

Colin Dembovsky is  going to show you…

• Modern source control approaches and the pros and cons of each.
• How distributed source control systems like Git work compared to centralized source control repositories.
• Discover how Git integrates with Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio (VS).

You will come away from the webinar with an immediate understanding of how to effectively integrate Git distributed version control with TFS and VS to better enhance your team’s productivity.

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 Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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’

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 Enhance Productivity with Distributed Version Control Using Git and Visual Studio 2013

Live Webinar September 2nd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Johanna Rothman shares how to create small world networks that assist your project teams to become more lean and more agile so that your product releases all together, and on time.

Participate in this tutorial to learn how to build our networks for collaboration, to learn how to use our knowledge of people’s intrinsic motivation, specifically to use the knowledge that people like to help others, and that people want their piece of the product to succeed.

Presenter:  Johanna Rothman  (LinkedIn profile, @JohannaRothman) is a Keynote speaker Author & Agile expert

• Johanna has written many popular books including:
  • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
  • Hiring Geeks That Fit
  • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
  • Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
  • Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People
• Johanna has been a part of many conferences and given great presentations such as:
  • The Get-to-Done Mentality: Finish What You Start – from Gil Broza’s Packing List For Your Agile Journey – Earn  10 Cat B PDU’s – For Just $97 USD
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  • Focus keeps you going  from Gil Broza’s Individuals & Interactions Conference – Earn 10 Category B PDU’s For Just $97 USD
    • Get the this conference webcast for just $79 USD 
    • Purchasing this conference at the  $79 USD Special  entitles you to purchase Packing List For Your Agile Journey webcast at just $39.00 – 20 PDUs 2 conferences just $118.00 USD

Click to register for Agile Program Management: Networks, Not Hierarchies

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Live Webinar September 3rd, 2014 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Imagine you had to write a postmortem containing statements like these?

• “We were unable to resolve the outage as quickly as we would have hoped because our decision making was impacted by extreme stress.”
• “We spent two hours repeatedly applying the fix that worked during the previous outage, only to find out that it made no difference in this one.”
• “We did not communicate openly about an escalating outage that was caused by our botched deployment because we thought we were about to lose our jobs.”

While the above scenarios are entirely realistic, it’s hard to find many postmortem write-ups that even hint at these “human factors.”

Their absence is, in part, due to the social stigma associated with publicly acknowledging their contribution to outages. And yet, people dealing with outages are clearly subject to physical exhaustion, psychological stress, not to mention impaired reasoning due to a host of cognitive biases.

This webcast  Dave Zwieback will specifically focus on the effects and mitigation of stress and cognitive biases during outages and postmortems.

This “Human Postmortem” is as important as the technical one, as it enables building more resilient systems and teams, and ultimately reduces the duration and severity of outages.

Presenter: Dave Zwieback (LinkedIn profile) VP of Engineering at Next Big Sound, and author of 3 eBooks  The Human Side of Postmortems,   Antifragile Systems and Teams   and DevOps Hiring, has been managing large-scale mission-critical infrastructure and teams for 17 years.  Dave  writes on Simple Thoughts About Complex Human Systems  and  was previously the head of infrastructure at Knewton, managed UNIX Engineering at D.E. Shaw & Co. and enterprise monitoring tools at Morgan Stanley. He also ran an infrastructure architecture consultancy for 7 years. Follow Dave @mindweather or on mindweather.com.

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

• 4.6 Close Project or Phase
• 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 The Human Side of Business Postmortems

Live Webinar September 3rd, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT Presented by:  Human Capital Institute Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

The Cost Of A Bad Hire Can Be Staggering”

Harvard Business Review states that as much as 80 percent of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions. Recent studies have put the figure as high as the annual salary of the employee. Forbes research suggests that 46 percent of new hires turn out to be bad hires.

What role can technology play in improving these statistics?

Join this webcast for an overview of some of the technologies currently available to drive engagement for the entire recruiting lifecycle and improve the ROI on the firm’s recruiting budget. By focusing on the user experience and the needs of both the hiring manager and team firms will see a drastic improvement. Forbes writer and author George Anders (LinkedIn profile) author of the “The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else” will evaluate the importance of the following topics:

• Social recruiting
• Collaborative hiring
• Advanced candidate assessments
• Video interviewing
• Integrated ATS and L&D software for more efficient onboarding

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing Knowledge Areas: 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 You Had Me at Hello: Engagement with Technology from Sourcing to Onboarding

Live Webinar September 3rd, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: HR.com

Is your organization facing two of today’s biggest recruitment problems:

• Difficulty recruiting qualified candidates and
• Having those qualified candidates whom you want to hire decline your job offer?

No matter how good your recruitment efforts are, they could always be better!

Your organization’s recruitment team must wear many hats: recruiter, marketeer, salesperson, detective, psychologist, social worker, nanny, negotiator, and PR person. Sound familiar?

 With the intense competition, your organization never has enough qualified and competent employees. Your choices are the Band-Aid approach: to curtail new business development, raid your competitors, pay outlandish salaries, premium fees, or signing bonuses or to develop a Strategic Marketing Model which involves and includes input from several departments and lots of people within your organization.