Live Webinar August 27th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

No Project Is Successful Without A Plan!

Putting a plan together will certainly ensure that deliverables are defined and tasks are completed.

However as a project progresses and project team members come and go, keeping the project team on task and then closing the project is really the difficulty part, not to mention getting the customer to sign-off on the final deliverables.

Objectives

• Learn the reasons that ending a project is harder than starting a project
• Gain successful sign-off by customers on project completion
• Identify techniques for effectively closing projects

This webinar is meant for those who have seen project target dates slip because final details are delayed.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for The Art of Getting It Done

Live Webinar – August 28th, 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 27th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: HR.com & 7 Geese

Live your Corporate Core Values

You finally found your core values, yet none of your employees are living them.

• What went wrong?
• And why are your employees not aligned to them?

When done right, strong core values can increase productivity, help guide decision making, and boost employee morale. While it may be tempting to steal some core values from companies who are nailing it, they must be authentic to YOUR culture and business, not someone else’s.

So how do you do it, and where do you start?

Join 7 Geese for a  one hour HCRI approved webinar to discover:

• Why core values truly matter
• How to ensure your core values are authentic to you
• How to live your core values daily and ensure they don’t collect dust
• How when done correctly, they can amplify company performance

Presenter:  Kelly Batke (LinkedIn profile) is the Director of Marketing for 7Geese, a continuous performance management platform that is used by over 100 customers. She is a frequent contributor to the 7Geese Blog where she combines her writing skills with her passion for improving workplace communication and employee engagement.

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 the How Core Values Can Help Improve Performance & Alignment

Live Webinar August 26th, 2014, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Whether you’re a developer, tester, or manager, you’ve probably heard, “Test your code as you write it!”

This is a common mantra among development teams today, yet for many, it remains a lofty goal as opposed to a reality.

Three years ago, all of Coverity’s end-to-end tests were manual. After a transformation of the test processes, 97 percent of the end-to-end tests are now automated, and a full round of end-to-end tests can be completed in two days.

Today Coverity uses tools such as Selenium WebDriver and TestNG, and the maintenance release cycle has been reduced from two weeks to three days.

Take back the top three lessons Coverity learned in its automation journey, including initiating a set of passing tests that must be in place before a feature is declared accepted and how to focus automated test development and test execution based on the impact of changes to the software.

In this seminar, Andreas Kuehlmann, will discuss:

1. The value of automated testing during development
2. The impact of test automation on the organization and the business
3. Why code coverage tools are not sufficient to determine the adequacy of testing
4. How to drive accountability for testing across the development lifecycle

Presenter: Andreas Kuehlmann (LinkedIn profile) Senior Vice President of Research and Development Coverity  is responsible for global research and development activity. Kuehlmann has an appointment as adjunct professor at University of California, Berkeley, and served as president of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation and is author/editor of  The Best of ICCAD. He was part of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centeand  received the Dipl-Ing. degree and the Dr.-Ing. habil degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology at Ilmenau, Germany, and is an IEEE Fellow.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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 Test Automation during Development: A Paradigm Shift

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How To Track Your Projects

Online Webinar – Presented by: PDUs2go (Rep 1637)
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category A – Free PDUs

Learn how to track your projects from start to finish!

Course Objectives – Describe:

• Questions to ask,
• Indicators to watch,
• Best practices and tips
• How to scope projects effectively and
• Create an action plan to take the 1st step.

Watch this Project Management Training Webinar and go  through the key steps needed to track your projects and ensure that they are delivered successfully!

Projects can always be a challenge, but if you follow the tips and tricks you learn in this Webinar, you’ll create wins for you and your teams.

Click to register for:
How To Track Your Projects

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Live Webinar August 27th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Ethics CoP (REP #S050)

In this enlightening session  Dr. Deaton will discuss your ethical concerns.

Specifically “How To”:

• Tell whether a project is ethically questionable.
• Consider immediate, short and long-term consequences.
• Ethical ways to handle a morally questionable project.
• Refuse to participate
• Participate but change
• Report (internally or externally)
• Muster your personal courage
• Balance interests
• Live a principled life and …
• He will give Inspirational examples

Presenter: Dr. Matt Deaton (LinkedIn profile) is a former ethics lecturer at the University of Tennessee, and current management analyst at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office, and part-time public speaking coach and high school ethics bowl organizer.

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

Click to register for Is Your Project Ethical?