Live Webinar – June 25th, 2015 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Live Webinar -June 25th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by:APM a division of  APMG International

Agile PM Is Growing In Popularity

As so many organisations begin their move from waterfall to agile, common themes and challenges are starting to emerge.

Primary amongst these is that adopting agile is a cultural change.

It involves more people than just the project teams, meaning that if we want to use agile we have to be able to get the buy-in of senior managers.

Melanie has extensive experience in helping firms ‘become agile’ and will share her knowledge of the practicalities, likely successes and possible pitfalls.

Click to register for Changing Culture: What Does It Take To Become Agile In Project Management

Live Webinar June 26th, 2015 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the second part in a series on Status Reporting by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Once you’ve developed your Communications Management Plan, you need to effectively implement the plan.

• How do you ensure you’re providing the right level of detail to the right audience?
• What communication methods and tools should you use?
• How do you retrieve and store information?

In this 1 hour webinar to learn how to implement your Communications Management Plan by confirming the level of status detail required based upon the audience, making decisions on the right communication methods and tools to use, and finalizing how often information should be provided.

In this webinar participants learn about:

1. Identifying who will implement the Communications Management Plan
2. Assessing the level of status detail that needs to be provided based upon the audience
3. Selecting the appropriate communication methods and tools
4. Developing a schedule for providing communication
5. Reviewing and select status report formats

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar June 24th, 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

Pretty much every project manager has encountered a project where the scope got out of hand and caused the project manager to have one of those difficult discussions with the customer or senior manager.

Ouch!

Once scope has creeped, there is little or nothing you can do to get the budget back in line. And if you spend a lot of time trying to gain control again, you usually spend more time and money adding to the already over budget project.

Scope creep can happen so easily.

All it takes is one person to be “nice” and agree to something that wasn’t initially promised, or somebody making a mistake that delivered something that wasn’t required or necessary. Now you’ve set a precedence on the project.

In This session  PROJECTinsight will look at the Work Breakdown Structure, or WBS and the WBS dictionary.

They will discuss its importance to managing scope and strategies to use this tool to gain an understanding of the project scope.

One of the most frequently asked questions by our students is, “how detailed should we make our WBS”?

Bonus: As a result of this session, attendees will have an opportunity to submit their WBS documents to our panel of experts.

Have this question answered and more.

Benefits:

• Explore your options when the scope has creeped on your project
• Discuss the importance of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS
• Leverage the WBS during project execution
• Earn 1 PDU

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 The WBS: Getting Your Customer to Commit

Live Webinar – June 26th 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

Recently Microsoft confirmed that SharePoint Server 2016 will be released in Q2 2016, with a public beta planned for Q4 2015.

They are focused on delivering value to customers as part of their on-premises deployments, while at the same time making it easier to take advantage of cloud innovation thru hybrid deployments of SharePoint Server with Office 365.

With SharePoint Server 2016 Microsoft hopes to deliver enhancements and new capabilities in these three major areas:

• Improved user experiences
• Cloud-inspired infrastructure
• Compliance and reporting

In this webinar we’ll talk about the future of SharePoint Server 2016. We’ll cover the top 3 sessions about SharePoint Server 2016 from Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

• The Evolution of SharePoint
  • This session is an Overview and Roadmap for the next version of SharePoint On–Premises designed to give a preview of SharePoint 2016 and it’s capabilities.
  • If you are a Business Decision Maker who is looking to understand the vision, strategy, and high-level investment areas in SharePoint Server 2016, this session provides a broad level overview.
• What’s New for IT Professionals in SharePoint v.Next
  • This session is intended to understand SharePoint Server 2016 capabilities in detail to including architecture, deployment and provisioning, and post installation configuration.
  • If you are an Admin, IT Implementer, or IT Professionals this session will provide insight into the on premise deployment road ahead.
• Overview and Implementing Hybrid Search with the New Hybrid Search Crawl Appliance
  • Hybrid SharePoint deployments are here and here to stay. A hybrid SharePoint environment is composed of an on-premises deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and a SharePoint Online tenant in Microsoft Office 365.
  • In this session,  the options and considerations to make when configuring hybrid search, including best practices shared by Microsoft’s engineers and product managers at Ignite are reviewed.
  • This session is intended for Admins, IT Implementers, and IT Professionals looking to understand the advanced hybrid search capabilities included in SharePoint Server 2016.

If you’re interested in learning more about SharePoint 2016, we invite you to join us as we review all of the exciting information from Microsoft Ignite 2015.

Presenter: Andy Huneycutt (LinkedIn profile)

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define 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 What’s In Store For SharePoint 2016 From Microsoft Ignite