Live Webinar – September 2nd, 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

Please Note :  At this time the date on the webpage is wrong the page states the webinar is on June 3rd 2015, but when you register for the session on the page you will see:

You have successfully registered for the following Webinar:Top 10 Things About Business Architecture – Wednesday, Sept 2, 2015  2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Business architecture is a strategic differentiator. However there are practical applications of tools and techniques that will support and link business strategy to the tactical outcomes.

By applying models and standards the business analyst and the project managers benefit from the alignment, clarity and re-usability of the business architecture.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain why bother doing business architecture
2. Describe business architecture as a complementary and supporting methodology to analysis deliverables
3. Demonstrate some cool tools PMs and business analyst could use
4. Show you how to be a hero to your business, developers, testers and customer
5. Provide a description of value Participants will acquire a functional knowledge of business architecture. The adoption of business architecture tools and techniques will support the management of requirements & risk by establishing clearer scope.

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 28th, 2015
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by Cisco Webex Online

Susan Fowler  (dubbed “Motivation Expert Extraordinaire” by PDU Of The Day)  will share the three skills for creating a highly productive and actively engaged workplace. – Don’t miss this one!

In this webinar, motivation expert Susan Fowler will share the three skills for creating an actively engaged workplace by examining what leaders intentionally or accidentally do that either undermines or facilitates people’s intentions to perform beyond standard expectations—and sustain that performance over time.

Drawing from the design of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ new Optimal Motivation training program, Susan will explore what leaders can do to enhance and develop every individual’s natural inclination to grow and excel.

Learn 3 skills that help facilitate people’s optimal motivation:

• Identifying an individual’s current motivation by exploring the characteristics of six possible motivational outlooks.
  Shifting motivational outlooks through “why” questions, promoting mindfulness, aligning with values, and connecting with purpose.
• Reflecting and maintaining higher levels of motivation by examining well-being, considering key reasons for shifting or not shifting, and developing the skills to reframe any goal or task.
• Shifting motivational outlooks through “why” questions, promoting mindfulness, aligning with values, and connecting with purpose.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what leaders can do to create a work environment where people are self-motivated to perform at high levels, go above and beyond job descriptions, and work collaboratively toward common goals.

Presenter : Susan Fowler (LinkedIn profile) Senior Consulting Partner The Ken Blanchard Companies is co author with Ken Blanchard of Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Self Leadership. In this captivating business parable, Susan tells the story of a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. During a series of talks with a gifted magician he comes to realize the power of taking responsibility for his situation and not playing the victim. Passing along the knowledge learned from the One Minute Manager, the magician teaches the three skills of self leadership. These three techniques not only empower him to keep his job but show him what he needs to know in order to keep growing, learning, and achieving.

Susan’s other bestselling books are:

• Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work … and What DoesThe New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging
• Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations
• Good Leaders, Good Shepherds
• The Team Leader’s Idea-A-Day Guide: 250 Ways to Make Your Team More Effective and Productive-Every Working Day of the Year (Dartnell Idea-a-day Guides)
• Leadership Genius

BE SURE TO :  Check out Susan Fowlers website  it has great resources including the ability to Download a free  chapter of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work.  Reading chapter is worth up to 1 Category C PDU.

ALSO:  The Ken Blanchard Companies offers training associated with the content of the webinar and the book.

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 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”

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

For years now we’ve had powerful application servers like PHP, Node, and ColdFusion, that could create our web apps.

But there has been a shift recently in terms of how much we do on an application server versus how much we can do on the browser itself, as well as how much is done on a mobile app instead.

Static site generators provide a powerful middle ground between a full app server deployment and a simple collection of static files.

In this webcast Raymond will talk about why you would use static site generators, how they work in general, how one (Harp) works in particular, and discuss how to add dynamic aspects back into the static site.

Presenter: Raymond Camden  (LinkedIn profile, @raymondcamden )  is a developer advocate and Cold Fusion Guru for IBM. His work focuses on the MobileFirst platform, hybrid mobile development, Node.js, HTML5, and ColdFusion. He’s a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. For more mobile development info check out Raymond  Camden’s blog.

Raymond authored these great books:

1. jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, Second Edition
2. Mastering ColdFusion MX
3. Adobe ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit: ColdFusion 10 Enhancements and Improvements
4. Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started
5. Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development
6. Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development
7. Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit

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.’

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Live Webinar – September 2nd, 2015 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 – Members only event

Without an accurate project schedule, it is virtually impossible to manage a project effectively. In this powerful, high-energy presentation,

Dale Howard will show you numerous tips and tricks that project managers and schedulers can use for creating a more accurate project schedule using Microsoft Project. Some of the topics about which Dale will present tips and tricks will include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Using Standard and Custom Calendars
• Setting Nonworking Time for Project Team Members
• Creating Waterfall Schedules using the Proper Task Dependencies
• Overriding the Task Schedule Using Constraints and Task Calendars
• Realistically Assigning Resources to Tasks

Presenter:  Dale Howard (LinkedIn profile)  MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP, MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP Director of Education at Sensei Project Solutions.  Dale manages educational services and is an enterprise project management trainer/consultant with more than 15 years of training experience. Dale volunteers many hours each week answering user questions in the various Project news groups in the Microsoft Communities. Dale received the prestigious Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2004 for his expertise with the software and for his contributions to the user communities.

Dale is an author of many great MS Project books including:

• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2013
• What’s New Microsoft Project 2013
• Implementing and Administering Microsoft Project Server 2010 | Second Edition
• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2010 (Exam 70-178)

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!

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Live Webinar September 3rd, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Test and QA teams face unique challenges testing apps on mobile devices.

Unfortunately, many current tools diminish efficiency, impacting test coverage and negating opportunities to benefit from DevOps practices.

Learn

1. How to configure mobile devices to maximize test resources
2. Where DevOps fits in mobile testing and ways to get there
3. How to manage a secure, robust infrastructure in the cloud
4. The most impactful techniques and places to direct test coverage for mobile

Join this web seminar to find out about environmental and process factors that make mobile testing so tricky, and discover cloud-based strategies for recapturing that lost efficiency.

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

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 Mobile App Device Testing: Faster & Better With The Cloud

Live Webinar September 2nd 2015 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

It is too easy
To do the same old thing &
Get the same old results!

In smaller companies, heavy turnover or rapid growth can turn talent acquisition from a strategic planning initiative to a procedural administrative function.

When positions need to be filled quickly, it’s relatively easy for the process to become systematic and routine.

Periods of growth provide the perfect opportunity for leaders to step up and take a closer look at the acquisition process.

Talent acquisition is, fundamentally, a people process. When that process is broken, when the candidate experience is dissatisfactory, you run the risk of disengagement from the very beginning.

Join this webcast to discover:

1. How to evaluate your talent acquisition processes during times of growth and change to identify gaps
2. Ways to improve the candidate experience from pre-application to offer to onboarding
3. How to optimize engagement among candidates and empower them to stay engaged as they become integrated into the organization

Presented by:  Douglas Howe (LinkedIn profile) Chief People Officer and V.P. of Human Resources & Development at SugarCreek

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire 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 Shape Your Company Culture With New Hires During Times Of Growth & Change