Live Webinar – June 10th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Member Only Event
This Webinar Covers:

• Understanding and Defining the PMO Vision and Strategy
• Understanding and Defining Governance
• Understanding and Defining Strategy
• Understanding and Defining Key Project Server Components to match Governance
• Tracking Methods
• Resource Management
• Security Roles and Permissions
• PMO process cycles
• Templates

Presenter: Michael Wharton (LinkedIn profile) PMP, MVP, MBA, , MCT, MCTS, MCITP, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA is a Project/SharePoint Consultant whose passion to improve project management processes. Michael has implemented project server in over twenty-five PMOs.  He is the past President-Elect and past Director of Programs for the NC Piedmont PMI, board member of the Triad SQL Server User Group, Triad Developers Guild and Enterprise Architect Roundtable.Visit his website or his blog at MyProjectExpert.com.

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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!

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Live Webinar – June 11th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

Calling all Project Managers,  Business & IT Managers, and Executives, Whether you’re a decision maker, influencer, implementor, or a purchase agent, this webinar is for you.

Delivering a 21st Century digital business experience to customers and employees requires an influx of new innovative business apps.

In this webinar, Forrester Vice President John Rymer will use new research data to explain how slow and costly development approaches are inhibiting business transformation.

Lizzie Epstein Appian’s Director of Application Platform Marketing, will give an overview of how Appian helps IT and the business rapidly evolve to a digital future.

In the course of this webinar, you will learn:

• Why new digital business demands are pushing IT to the breaking point
• Why Agile needs to be a mentality, not just a development methodology
• How new development approaches and platforms can accelerate delivery to drive transformation

Presenters:

John Rymer (LinkedIn profile) Vice President & Principal Analyst Forrester Research leads Forrester’s Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) coverage of cloud platforms. He is the lead analyst on Forrester’s application development strategy, sourcing, and structure playbook. He is an authority on the enterprise strategies of IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle and contributes to Forrester’s coverage of low-code application platforms and business rules platforms.

Lizzie Epstein (LinkedIn profile) Director of Application Platform Marketing Appian  has spent 9 years at Appian implementing, selling, and researching business process automation and rapid application development at government agencies and large enterprises around the world. Previously, she was a software engineer on various projects for the U.S. Navy. Ms. Epstein holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Stanford University.

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’

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Live Webinar June 10th, 2015, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar June 10th, 2015, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Businesses and IT organizations have spent the past 40 years relentlessly acquiring applications, honing their project management skills to focus on delivery of ever greater value to the business.

The net effect of that effort is that application portfolios are bloated with aging applications, many of which need to be replaced in the next few years.

Unfortunately, too often the “replacement” project successfully implements the new application but fails to eliminate the old application from the portfolio.

CIOs and application leaders need to rethink the process of decommissioning applications, and they will need to instantiate a new role to lead the decommissioning activity – the application undertaker.

Discussion Topics:

• The difference between the application assassin and the application undertaker
• How to create a central point of ownership for the processes and policies associated with decommissioning
• How to optimize the management of “orphaned data” – data that must be retained after the application has been removed

Presenter: Andy Kyte, (LinkedIn profile) VP & Gartner Fellow

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Live Webinar June 11th, 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 firstof a 4 part series series on Project Scheduling by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Unrealistic project schedules lead to chaos and impact decision making.

Project schedules help us to know who needs to be available to work on a project during a period of time. Project schedules also help us to know when products, services, and results will be available for ‘production’ usage.

However, developing project schedules is often considered difficult and/or time consuming. As a result, teams tend to over plan a ‘perfect’ schedule or give up trying.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn why using agile estimating techniques can make developing a realistic schedule a fun team-building activity.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Recognize characteristics of a good project schedule
• Understand the importance of time contingency reserve and impacts from multitasking
• Discover recommended best practices for developing realistic schedules
• Learn how to build a REALISTIC schedule using PERT and planning poker
• Gather practical implementation tips for agile estimating to progressively elaborate realistic schedules

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – June 8th 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

“Business rules are the foundation of any business, and standardizing their fundamentals- their definitions and relationships – is essential for supporting complex operations.” Ellen Gottesdiener (LinkedIn profile @ellengott) and Jim Bruce

In the role of a business analyst, we must elicit the requirements needed to build the solution. Business rules provide the means to make good and consistent operational decisions within that solution.

Gina Schmidt (LinkedIn profile) will describe:

• What are business rules and the various types
• Business rules and how they align to business policies or regulations
• Levels of enforcement
• Hints for eliciting business rules
• Hints for standardizing and documenting business rules
• The future of business rules

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.6 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 What Do You Need to Know About Business Rules?

Live Webinar June 10th, 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar June 10th, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Many organizations are struggling with change, leaving programs and projects disconnected from the people.

In this webinar  Elise Olding (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) presents effective techniques that will arm you with the ability to engage and motivate your employees.

Discussion Topics:

• Why we are challenged with leading change
• What are effective communication practices
• How to start now and build for the future

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.4 Control Stakeholder Engagement

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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