Live Webinar February 12th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
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 Susan Parente (LinkedIn profile) will go through the steps of identifying, assessing and managing risks and discuss how these pertain to Agile Practices.

Click to register for The Art Of Agile Risk Management

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Live Webinar – February 13th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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

Continuous Operation: the holy grail of a product release!

We’ve seen tools pop up to enable it. Microsoft TFS allows the fully Agile developer environment.

• Stuff like Jenkins and Git allow highly streamlined version control and deployment.
• On the operations side, admins can spool up countless new server instances in the cloud, auto-configure them with ease, and seamlessly collaborate with their developers.

We hear about companies like FaceBook and Etsy releasing software to the production environment so often that it becomes one steady flow of deployment, from development to customer-facing release.

Glitches can be fixed so fast…changes implemented so rapidly…that applications are virtually updated in real time, without customers ever knowing.

Meanwhile, the rest of us struggle with the same old IT project challenges we’ve had for years: delays, inaccurate requirements, version control issues.

Problems during release and operations that didn’t show up in Dev.

• Is it reasonable to think that normal, everyday IT shops can achieve the kind of results we read about on the DevOps blogs?

Join ASPE’s resident Agile release and TFS expert Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile) for an hour of open Q and A .  He will take questions from the audience on all of these issues and more.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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 How To Get From Agile -> To Continuous Integration -> To Continuous Delivery -> To Continuous Operation? An Expert Q & A

Live Webinar February 13th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category C – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

NOTE: Although Watermark Learning is an REP they have chosen to have participants record their sessions as a Category C Activity. For more information contact Watermark Learning or see their “Self Reporting” page.

Do You Understand Requirements Techniques For Agile Projects?

This live webinar is designed for business analysts, agile project teams, and stakeholders who need to understand requirements on agile projects.

User stories are the fundamental unit of activity in an agile approach.  Other techniques that support user stories will be covered as well.

The webinar will explain the role of the BA on agile projects, and techniques for working collaboratively with your business representatives to create user stories, acceptance criteria, and other outputs that developers and testers can use to build a product that meets the users’ needs.

Topics Addressed:

• How to build a vision statement
• How to write user stories to create a product backlog
• How to prioritize user stories for releases using themes and the MoSCoW rules
• How to write acceptance tests for user stories

Join Marsha Hughes (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP, CSM/CSP as she guides you through the best practices for Business Analysts in “Agile Techniques”.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 BA Guide To Essential Agile Techniques

Live Webinar February 10th, 2015, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar February 10th, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Reliance and spend on external IT vendors is increasing, yet the resources, processes, models and technologies necessary to manage vendors often receive minimal investment, and confusion exists in the enterprise regarding who does what to manage external suppliers.

Learn about Gartner’s new vendor management framework to drive more value, reduce risk and define responsibilities for vendor management activities.

Discussion Topics:

• How vendor management can improve vendor performance
• The primary disciplines, roles and responsibilities for vendor management
• How to best utilize the vendor management framework

Presenter: Helen Huntley (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research VP

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 12 -Procurement

• 12.1 Plan Procurements
• 12.2 Conduct Procurements
• 12.3 Control Procurements
• 12.4 Close Procurements

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 Comprehensive Framework For Effective IT Vendor Management

Live Webinar – February 12th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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

In today’s business world, it is necessary to have entrepreneurial zeal, leadership vision, and operational excellence.

Knowledge workers face extraordinary pressures to innovate, manage, and control processes.

Rates of change, industry consolidation, and growth requirements all contribute to the increased demands tied to day-to-day performance. Ambiguity has increased around when to use certain skills.

These pressures have us looking at reassessing the Leader-Manager mode for knowledge workers.

In this web seminar David will look at how to create a balance between using leadership and management skills as a practitioner in any workplace.

The reality is that you, during any given business day, will have to use both regardless of your role.

Understanding what leaders do, why they do it, and when they do it is important.

It is valuable to know what management is and when and where it is appropriate. The worst thing you can do is mix your uses and manage when you should be leading or leading when you should be managing.

This session will:

• Establish the distinction between leading and managing
• Identify the skills and competencies needed to be effective as both a leader and manager
• Demonstrate how to develop management and leadership action plans for individuals and groups
• Discuss how to successfully switch back and forth between leadership and management to drive business objectives

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) –  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

Click to register for Managers vs Leaders: When to be Which & Why?

Live Webinar – February 12th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category B 1 PDU- Free PDU

NOTE: Eclipse will provide a Certificate for attendance upon request.

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!