Live Webinar March 19th, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Building a new product is like putting a large, complicated puzzle together with a stopwatch counting down to completion.

As you assemble the puzzle, you see progress on one section and discover missing pieces in another. There are so many pieces to keep track of and you’re under pressure to move fast.

Four Keys to Simplifying Complex Product Delivery Problems outlines a time-tested collaboration method that serves your teams’ needs and your company’s business goals.

It’s a configurable, accessible solution that removes complexity and greatly increases efficiency, no matter what you’re building or how you are building it.

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

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 6.6 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’

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Live Webinar – March 18th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

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Live Webinar – March 16th 2015, 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

Adoption of automating tests has not happened as quickly as organizations need.

As more companies move to implementing Agile Development as their software development life cycle, more features are implemented to production quicker.

This leaves less time for full regression testing of the system, but yet this still should occur. Manual testers need to transform into test automation testers as well.

Test automation professionals are largely believed to have deep knowledge of a development scripting language.

Many manual testers believe they have to learn a development language in addition to the functionality of the tool to be effective. Add to that the in-depth or SME knowledge one must have for their system under test, along with development and management support required, and it may not seem clear where to start.

Session Takeaways:

• How to look at the application differently from manual to automated testing
• How to start in automation without a programming background
• Where a manual tester should start with automation, such as test structure, object recognition and results interpretation

Join Jim Trentadue (LinkedIn profile) as he describes how to “Break Into Test Automation Without Programming Skills

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

• 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’

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Live Webinar March 18th, 2015 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

Gain an understanding of project management fundamentals in an IT context.

This session will provide descriptions of basic project management phases and explain how they can be applied for project success.

Discuss how these project management deliverables can be leveraged to contribute to your projects being delivered on time.

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 Apply PM Fundamentals to IT

Live Webinar – March 19th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Annual performance reviews are a given in business. What is not a given is timely and meaningful feedback throughout the year.

Yet research shows that providing ongoing feedback in smaller chunks, while situations and circumstances are still fresh in the employee’s mind, is more effective than a one hour meeting once per year.

Savvy managers know that frequent contact, recognition, and encouragement with honest and direct feedback regularly produce higher performing employees.

Communication with simplicity, a focus on the future and support for employee self-tracking is a winning combination that yields measurable change.

In this workshop, learn how to:

• Improve performance through honest and effective feedback
• Create measurable change through consistent and positive feedback
• Implement employee self-tracking of progress toward goals
• Mitigate roadblocks to personal improvement
• Use coaching strategies to enhance performance.

Speakers:  Al Goodman (LinkedIn profile) has over 25 years of global  expertise in maximizing human resource development. Al Goodman  was Director of Human Resources for FMC Technologies where he had responsibility for providing strategic leadership for global business units. Al is passionate about his responsibility for counseling, developing & mentoring general managers and high potential leaders.

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 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 Performance Improvement: How Savvy Managers Create Measurable Change

Live Webinar March 16th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)

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Project Managers:

• Are doers.
• Make things happen.
• Are some of the most valuable people in an organization.
• Know who’s doing what and when.
• Know what’s holding the company back (people, processes or technology).
• Have process improvement suggestions.
• Understand how to be efficient.
• Have industry knowledge.
• Understand many different business functions within an organization.
• Track information.
• Have insight and valuable knowledge geared to help company leaders achieve their vision through action.

Organizations that listen to their Effective Project Managers
Succeed in the marketplace.
It’s that simple!

This webinar will discuss how to be an effective Project Manager and focus on strategic assets such as the ability to manage yourself and manage others.

Michael Stratton, practicing project manager, will show you how to:

1. Iimprove productivity,
2. Think strategically through the use of mind maps,
3. Produce work that matters and ….
4. How to navigate the power personalities that exist within your organization.

Presenter:   Michael Stratton MS BS (LinkedIn profile) author of the The Effective Project Manager has 15 years of experience as a BA, PM and business owner. Michael is a strong advocate for the clear identification of problems, requirements and processes before the purchase and implementation of technology solutions.

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