Live Webinar – April 2nd 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hr 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.

Today, every project comes with limited resources and an impossible timeline.

You have to prioritize,
But how do you determine what’s most important?

The answer is to do more than just prioritize. You have to fully understand your company’s strategic direction, and make every action align with that strategy.

Project management expert Yvan Bastien will show you how to reach that full understanding and make the kinds of informed decisions that lead to success.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 6.1 Plan Schedule Management

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 Prioritization: Start Working Strategically

Live Webinar April 2nd, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

This webcast talk will be an all-demo session 

Sumit will cover several development tools built into the browsers (Chrome Developer Tools, IE F12 Developer Tools, and Safari Web Inspector).

Debugging code, as well as diagnosing performance problems will be discussed.

Demonstration of the tools will include — analyzing memory footprint and leaks, CPU Profiling and Heap analysis, network throughput analysis to capture GET and POST calls, UI responsiveness, composited layers, and paint events will be discussed. Goal will be to diagnose for UI performance issues.

In the last 5-10 minutes of the talk, performance best practices will shared

Presenter: Sumit Amar (LinkedIn profile) is a Director of Engineering at Electronic Arts and leads the cloud development and extensibility. Spending 9 years in Microsoft optimizing several Microsoft products for performance and usability, including adCenter (now Bing Ads), Bing Shopping, Microsoft.com, and Cloud TV (Mediaroom), he has worked in Microsoft Redmond, Vancouver, Copenhagen, and Silicon Valley campuses. Sumit is currently working on his dissertation for a PhD in Computer Information Systems.

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

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 9.3 Develop 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 JavaScript Development & Debugging Tools: A Deep-Dive

Live Webinar – April 2nd 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hr 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free PDU

In this hour-long webinar, Global Knowledge instructor and ITIL Expert Michael Scarborough (LinkedIn profile) will share his knowledge and expertise on various aspects of incident management and problem management processes.

Michael will help you understand the difference between incidents and problems and between incident and problem management, providing examples from his own experience to drive the concepts home.

Michael will also provide an overview of who performs various incident and problem management activities in an organization.

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.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities

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 Understanding the Difference Between Incident Management & Problem Management

Live Webinar April 1st, 2015 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)

Agile and Scrum techniques are increasingly being used across America and the world to advance better software development and implementation of systems.

This webinar is a high-level overview that addresses the business value as well as the organizational adoption considerations of implementing Agile.

This webinar will deliver information on:

• What’s all the Agile buzz?
• Essentials of Agile methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, etc) and Lean principles
• The Roles, Rituals and Results of Agile
• Benefits of Agile
• Adoption and culture

Join Geof Lory (LinkedIn profile) a senior Fissure guide and certified ScrumMaster from the Scrum Alliance for this insightful webinar.

Click to register for An Introduction to Agile and Scrum

Live Webinar – April 1st, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.

According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success.

Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher.

For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measurable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity

Learning Objectives:

1. The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives.
2. The Requirements Maturity Model.
3. A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities.

Click to register for Managing Requirements Maturity

Online Webinar – Recorded June 25th, 2014
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Staff Turnover Causes Loss of Institutional Knowledge

Over the next decade, organizations will experience the largest wave of retirements in history. To further impact turnover rates, Gen X and Gen Y workers on the average are leaving after only 5 and 2 years of services respectively.

Without a solid and ongoing information succession plan to capture, transform, align and track your employees’ tacit knowledge, your company’s ability to maintain and/or increase its performance will be affected.

Register to hear more about this challenge and to learn about strategies you could implement at your company to protect your institutional knowledge.

Speakers:

Gwen Tracy (LinkedIn profile) With over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, information technology and software, Gwen has worked with companies of all sizes in multiple industries and has extensive experience in helping business leaders transform day-to-day talent management processes into highly configurable and collaborative engagement experiences infused with social, video and analytic capabilities.

Jeff Fissel is recognized as an expert in streaming media technologies, Jeff also leads PeopleFluent’s Video interoperability initiatives, ensuring the company’s industry leadership position working with Communication, Collaboration and Learning systems. Previously Jeff founded a webcasting company producing hundreds of global video productions over a 5 year period.

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 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 Institutional Knowledge: Is The Loss Hurting Your Company?