Live Webinar – April 15th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU – Free

Part 1 is open to members and Non- Members
Part 2 & 3 are members only events Member Only Event

Part 1 – April 15
Click to register Free to everyone!

In this initial session you will learn the following;

• The questions you need to ask before you begin to plan your schedule.
• Learn how the data components within Project relate to each other.
• Learn how to navigate around the project interface.
• Input a well formed project plan that represents the project work as you know it.

Register for these future sessions as well!

Part 2 – April 22nd
REGISTER HERE (Members Only)

In part 2 we’ll take our schedule from part 1 and do the following

• Enter dependencies, lead times and lag times
• Model any external dependencies that impact our activities on the project
• Enter deadlines for our key milestones
• Assign resources to the plan

Part 3 – April 29th
REGISTER HERE (Members Only)

Part 3 is all about communication and tracking of the project.  We’ll make sure that

• We are able to print off the project, exactly in the format we want to
• The project is updated using the appropriate method and frequency
• We can create and print off relevant reports
• We can add new tasks, and mark ones we no longer need

Presenter: Ben Howard (LinkedIn profile) is author of “Microsoft Project 2013 Plain and Simple” and has worked for IBM, DELL, and Microsoft,and now runs his own EPM consultancy (Applepark Ltd).Ben’s current Microsoft TechNet webcast, User Controlled Scheduling in Project 2010, is ranked in the top 10. Ben is a regular contributor to the Project Server newsgroups, and publishes a blog based on Project Server scenario. Ben is also a Microsoft MVP award for Project Server.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more ….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for The Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Project: Part 1 of 3

Live Webinar April 16th, 2015 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)

Did you want it Good, Fast, or Cheap? Pick two

This may be the most central management decision You’ll ever make on a project.

Presenter : Michael Dobson (LinkedIn profile) is a respected keynote speaker and author of the award winning books, Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals, Practical Project Management: The Secrets of Managing Any Project on Time and on Budget, and  Coping With Supervisory Nightmares: 12 Common Nightmares of Leadership & What You Can Do About Them.

Click to register for Good / Fast / Cheap? Using The Triple Constraints To Define Project Parameters

The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year An Excellent Value!!

Search for “2733” to see other great titles available! Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar April 14th, 2015, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar April 14th, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The Digital Avalanche Continues

Big data, mobile and social all require quick action to take advantage of opportunities, or deliver competitive advantage.

Will project managers go the way of buggy-whip makers by 2020 in a radically new IT ecosystem?

Discussion Topics:

• Whether today’s standards and skills will enable you to be successful tomorrow
• The inflection points and required reactions for future project management success

Learn about the future of project management and where societal directions will take it – Are You ready?

Presenter: Michael Hanford, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research VP

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
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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 Project Management In 2020

Live Webinar April 9th, 2015, 11:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Projectmanager.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

Note: Qualifies for the following PDUs: 1.00 PMP, 1.00 PgMP, 1.00 PMI-ACP

Projectmanager.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

• Do you often find that when something fails in production, the response of a development team member is, “It works on my machine or at our end, you must be having the wrong version“?
• Vice Versa on the other side of the table – do you find that the operations team always feels that the developers are not sensitive to the operational requirements and constraints?

If so, does that mean we are just developing software not a working system ?
Are we just working in Silos ?

DevOps aims at breaking the Silos and bringing in a culture of everyone “getting along”.

In this session Priya discusses how and why DevOps is the force behind the evolution where the development team and operations works together with business sponsors and quality assurance (QA) to deliver software that can be released to production at any point of time.

This webinar will highlight:

• What is DevOps and what is it not?
• DevOps Principles and Values
• Team’s transformation to DevOps
• Typical DevOps Delivery Model
• DevOps Benefit Measurement Mechanism

Presenter: Priya Patra (LinkedIn profile) is a CSM (Certified Scrum Master), TOGAF 9.1 Certified Enterprise Architect, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, IGATE Certified Internal Auditor.  She has extensive experience in managing large scale ERP implementation, product, framework development and Technology CoE projects. Priva also has engaged in Talent , Competency Development Program at the account level to strategize for optimal resource utilization and revenue generation.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

Click to register for Closing the Agile Loop Of Continuous Delivery

Live Webinar April 15th, 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

Once a project has been officially launched it must be planned, the design must begin and the high level testing efforts should be identified.

This can be accomplished through leveraging the following deliverables: project plan, project deliverables, project schedule (work breakdown structure), CM Plan, QA plan, project procedures, project risk log, project issue log, change request log, user acceptance (UA) test plan, user acceptance (UA) evaluation criteria, user acceptance (UA) defect log and requirements traceability log.

After this webinar, you will understand the purpose and use of each of the listed deliverables.

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 Project Planning & Design with IT in Mind

Live Webinar April 16th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

5 Amazing Women Discuss STEM!

There is a tremendous gender gap in the data, IT and STEM ecosystem.

Of late, however, many Silicon Valley companies — and others outside the Valley as well — have become aware of the imbalance in gender and are taking steps to realign their internal gender distribution on a more gender smart, gender aware basis.

The future ahead is bright and promising for women who are smart, well trained and have the skills to compete in the information age data revolution. Passion, commitment and focus on getting the job done is a sine qua non criterion.

Getting the job done means not getting derailed by any residues of outdated gender bias and stereotyping that may crop up to thwart the progress being made.

On the horizon, there are great work opportunities where women can deploy our creativity, spirit of innovation, intellectual curiosity, communications and relationship building skills and problem solving and analytical abilities.

This is what you call a paradigm shift. We are living it.

In this webcast  female data practitioners discuss their work, their achievements, and the attitudes that have propelled them forward to career success.

The 5 Amazing Women Presenters Are:

Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton (LinkedIn profile, @bencheton) is a principal of CLB Strategic Consulting, LLC.,  and on the Board of The Data Warehouse Institute Cornelia’s focus is on the impact of disruptive technologies and their associated cultural challenges that open up new opportunities and necessitate refreshed strategies. She concentrates on big data, IT, Women in STEM, social media and collaborative networking.

Laurie Skelly (LinkedIn profile, @laurieskelly) PhD is a Data Scientist at Chicago-based data consulting firm Datascope, and a curricttaulum developer and instructor for the Data Science bootcamp at Metis. Laurie has developed a deepened passion for mentorship, and is currently exploring ways to help open the doors wider for others to the profession that she has found so fulfilling.

Renetta Garrison Tull PhD (LinkedIn profile, @Renetta_Tull)  Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs at the University of Maryland, Renetta is also Co-PI and Director for the National Science Foundation’s PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) for the University System of Maryland. Dr. Tull’s research on broadening participation in STEM using social science concepts and cultural competencies, has been presented across the World. She trains stakeholders around the world on issues related to diversity in STEM and she co-led the Puerto Rico “ADVANCE Hispanic Women in STEM” project, and co-chaired both the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions’ (LACCEI) “Women in STEM” forum and the Foro Estudiantil (Student Forum) in Latin America.

Michele Chambers  (LinkedIn profile, @mcanalytics)President and COO at RapidMiner, and co-author of Big Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging Business Intelligence and Analytic Trends for Today’s Businesses is responsible for marketing, products and global strategy offering a predictive analytics platform.  Her Book helps businesses and IT managers/executives understand the value of big data through practical, applied analytic stories along with consumable descriptions of the enabling technology.  Chambers held executive leadership roles at database and analytic companies Netezza/IBM, Revolution Analytics and MemSQL. She has been responsible for strategy, sales, marketing, product management, channels and business development.

Alice Zheng PhD (LinkedIn profile) is the Director of Data Science at Dato (offering powerful large-scale machine learning and graph analytics tools) Alice loves playing with data and enabling others to play with data. She is a tool builder and an expert in Machine Learning algorithms. Her research spans software diagnosis, computer network security, and social network analysis. Prior to joining GraphLab, she was a researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond. She holds Ph.D. and B.A. degrees in Computer Science, and a B.A. in Mathematics, all from U.C. Berkeley. Make sure you check out Alice’s Website.

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

• 9.1 Develop Human Resources Plan
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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 Operationalizing Women in Tech: Facts, Ways & Means