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

• Have you ever had an important meeting with your boss and diligently took notes as if you’re transcribing the entire conversation?
• Have you ever anticipated taking notes at a conference keynote session because you were looking forward to the person speaking?
• How often do you go back and read your own notes, though?

Chances are we don’t revisit our notes very often.

So why do we take notes if we don’t intend to do anything with them?

Our intentions and our motivation are there, but most often we end up looking hazily at our own handwriting trying to decipher a note.

In this webinar Kevin will start by looking at the building blocks of visual communication and discuss what sketchnotes are by looking at various styles of sketchnoting.

He will look at ideas on how to organize your sketchnotes in a logical flow for later recall.

He will discuss whether it’s best to sketch live with a pen on paper or a tablet app, or a loose sketch and clean up your notes later with a pen and color. Finally, we’ll look at the 5 categories that make up a well-rounded sketchnote.

For Some Great Bools on Sketchnoting see:

• The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking – by Mike Rohde (LinkedIn profile)
• The Sketchnote Workbook: Advanced techniques for taking visual notes you can use anywhere – by Mike Rohde
• The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently – by Sunni Brown (LinkedIn profile)
• Sketchnotes Field Guide for the Busy Yet Inspired Professional – by Binaebi Akah (LinkedIn profile)
• The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide: How to use your listening, thinking and drawing skills to make meaning – by Brandy Agerbeck (LinkedIn profile)

Speakers:  Kevin Thorn BSc (LinkedIn profile, @LearnNuggets) is a designer & developer with a passion for the art of visual communications and an award winning elearning designer.  Kevin is the owner and Chief NuggetHead of NuggetHead Studioz, a design, development, and consulting business including elearning design & development, illustration & graphic design, and training & consulting. He can be found around learning communities on Twitter  or at LearnNuggets.com . Check him out!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 10.3 Control Communications

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 Sketchnoting: Capturing Ideas & Concepts With Visual Narratives

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

The IoT; a network of connected industrial devices, has increasingly captured the imagination of technologists and manufacturers.

However, outfitting healthy human beings with sensors as though they were industrial products is a new idea made possible by rapid advances in miniaturization and wireless communications.

Assuming an IoLT for our bodies is feasible, what makes sensoring and monitoring data emanating from our bodies unique and why would we elect to participate in this seemingly Orwellian mistake?

Presenters:

Brigitte Piniewski (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) as the Chief Medical Officer for PeaceHealth Laboratories, Brigitte leads several innovative projects. She is skilled in assembling and impassioning a diverse team of stakeholders anxious to transform health outcomes through crowd-based intelligence, medical device integration, and informatics-driven new business models

Hagen Finley (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio, @datasundae ) has a BA in Philosophy and Sociology from UC Berkeley and remains a closet sociologist and student of corporate cultures. His current role provides a unique window into the symmetry between corporate function and dysfunction. Hagen’s expertise integrates his fascination with healthcare, corporate culture, enterprise technologies and analytics. Hagen also works with SI partners and enterprise clients on big data projects across healthcare, financial services and the telecommunications business verticals.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Life Streams, Walled Gardens & The Internet of Living Things (IoT -> IoLT)

Live Webinar – MAy 28th 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 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.

Change managers and project managers come at the same goal of maximizing ROI for their organizations, but from different perspectives and approaches and with different skill sets.

While project managers are responsible for achieving specific objectives on time and on budget, the change manager’s role is broader.

Change managers apply a structured approach to helping individuals, teams and organizations negotiate relentless change.

A project manager turns ideas into reality. Increasingly, project managers are required to take on the role of change manager as well.

Business today can’t afford to carry out tasks without considering the larger picture. Today, integration is unavoidable – and expected.

In this hour-long interactive session, Global Knowledge will discuss the similarities and differences between project management and change management.

They will also identify the occasions when both a project manager and a change manager might be needed.

Click to register for Project Managers Are Makers, Change Managers Are Shakers!

Live Webinar – May 27th 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

DevOps is all the rage as a trend for aligning IT assets, teams, and deployment tools as a movement for more effective utilization of IT as a strategic business capability.

But like any buzzword, the reality behind the movement is fraught with obstacles and pitfalls.

DevOps does work, but if an organization does not have realistic expectations about its implementation and adoption, it can become just another misunderstood trend that fails to deliver on the promise.

So what does it take to deliver on the promise of DevOps?

Join use   and Richard Jenny, PMP, PM-Agile Practitioner and DevOps Leader will collaborate with the audience on common issues and hurdles that can stand in the way of implementing truly effective DevOps practices.

Join ASPE’s Chris Knotts, PMP (LinkedIn profile) Richard Jenny (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PE, PMI-ACP veteran Program Manager and DevOps Director as he take questions from you and has a candid discussion of what works, what doesn’t work, and what to expect as an enterprise organization considers adopting a DevOps way of work.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Management 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 Real World DevOps Implementation Strategies & Hurdles

Live Webinar – May 28th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

Advanced Analytics is not just for data scientists anymore.

Many businesses adopt their analytics by degree of complexity, limiting business professionals to reporting and dashboard views of their business.

But recent research has found that with modern tools and techniques it is of much higher value to adopt the analytic capability needed where needed, enabling business professionals access to the business insights of advanced analytics answering “Why?” and “What Next?” questions, not just “What Happened?”

In this live event, James Taylor, CEO of Decision Management Solutions and Dan Melcher, Internet Application Architect at OpenText Analytics, will present findings from Decision Management Solutions’ recent research, “The Analytic Capability Landscape”, outlining a new approach to analytic adoption: Decision-led, Role-centric and Style-base.

Together these combine to successfully shift the analytic focus from reporting and monitoring to decision making, and providing these important competitive insights to business professionals across the organization.

Presenters: 

Dan Melcher (LinkedIn profile) has over 23 years of experience in the software industry in various roles. Dan joined Actuate in October 1999 and has been responsible for providing technical assistance, technical certifications and architecting applications.

James Taylor (LinkedIn profile) is the CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and is the leading expert in how to use business rules and analytic technology to build Decision Management Systems. If you are looking for information on decision Management Systems Sign up for his newsletter – Decision Management News. Read his blog: JT on EDM; or Follow him on Twitter: jamet123. James is passionate about using Decision Management Systems to help companies improve decision-making and develop an agile, analytic, and adaptive business. He has more than 20 years working with clients in all sectors to identify their highest-value opportunities for advanced analytics, enabling them to reduce fraud, continually manage and assess risk, and maximize customer value with increased flexibility and speed.

For more great information read James’ books Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics and Why You Need Smart Enough Systems.

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Advanced Analytics For The Business Professional

Live Webinar May 28th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

From cross-channel engagement to the Internet of Things (IoT), context is becoming more complicated for digital design.

Drawing from his book, Understanding Context, Andrew Hinton shares insights on taming these challenges with models for how context works, and how users comprehend it.

Andrew will look at models that help you understand the principles behind context, as well as models that help you analyze and create the environments people use.

Presenter: Andrew Hinton (LinkedIn profile, @inkblurt) is an Information Architect at The Understanding Group (TUG) and author of Understanding Context: Environment, Language, and Information Architecture. Since the early 90s, he’s been helping clients and employers of all shapes and sizes make better information environments. Andrew is co-founder and past board member of the IA Institute, and is a frequent speaker at UX conferences. MAke sure to check out Inkblurt where you will find all kinds of great content!

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

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope

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 Context For Information Architects, UX Professionals, & Web App Designers