Live Webinar – October 27th, 2015 2:00 pm – 2300 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

A digital transformation is occurring in most organizations.

In this session Mike Harris (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how “Social Media, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud” (SMAC) are affecting software development.

Mike will provide some ideas for how organizations should prepare for these changes, particularly in terms of improving the flow of business value.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 view A SMAC In The Face For Enterprise Software Development

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

How to Make Speed Feature #1 &
Take Your Digital Delivery To Ludicrous Speeds

As mobile consumption and responsive design become more integral to your digital strategy, plain old high-speed experience just isn’t enough — you need to work with your team to make speed your number 1 feature!

It’s clear that performance of your digital properties is important for business results.

There’s already a great deal of research on the topic, and techniques for internally selling speed within your company are well known.

But, until you make speed feature #1 and apply it to every part of your end user experience, you will never be able to reach the performance level your customers are increasingly coming to expect as standard — ludicrous speed.

Join acknowledged web performance expert Sergey Chernshev and Aaron Rudger in this informative session.

They will  reveal proven ways to:

• Prioritize speed against other your other features (current, planned, and backlog)
• Avoid common anti-features — features that slow user experience and harm business results
• Make real features both useful and fast

Presenters:

Aaron Rudger (LinkedIn profile, @arudger) currently leads Product Marketing at Dynatrace, shaping and evangelizing the company’s digital performance management technology vision.  Aaron has held key marketing positions at Right90, BMC Software, Remedy Corporation and iPrint.com. Aaron is also a frequent speaker at industry events.

Sergey Chernyshev (LinkedIn profile, @sergeyche) is web performance enthusiast, open source hacker and web addict with 20+ years in the industry. Working at Dynatrace as Web Performance consultant, he helps large clients make sense of their performance needs. Sergey also organizes NY Web Performance Meetup Group, local community of web performance geeks in New York and helps kick-start local Web Perf groups around the globe.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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 When Fast Isn’t Fast Enough: Speed As Your Number 1 Feature

Live Webinar – October 28th 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

Do You Understand Information Security Certifications:
Which is Which?

With data and information security becoming increasingly critical business priorities, we’re offering a one-hour walk-through of the mainstream certifications that are currently active and available in the security space.

ASPE will orient their listeners to the main security credentials available, the requirements for obtaining them, and – most importantly – what to expect in terms of real-world benefit when it comes to protecting the organization.

Security is an area with a lot of technical dependencies. At the same time, salaries for certified professionals are rising fast. Company leaders, project managers and HR departments have to rely on the assurance of credentials to assure them that critical security needs are filled.

Join us for a Q and A discussion of these certifications: the CISM, the CISSP, the CEH, the CompTIA Security+, the CSSLP and others.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources 11 – Risk

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Information Security Certifications: A Guided Tour

Live Webinar – October 27th 2015, 9:00 am – 10:00 am 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.

This is the next webinar in GK’s new Weekly series “The Sales Excellence Webinar Series for Business Outcomes.”

In the journey to enable the customer to achieve their business objectives and goals, understanding the overall strategy and vision is a key element.

Once that is understood, the level of detail required to enable that change within the organisation becomes much greater.

The business changes will drive requirements within the organisation, as will various stakeholders and other groups.

Understanding, validating and constantly checking progress against these requirements is a key step to ensuring the direction taken is correct.

The key techniques and tools covered are:

• Facilitation Techniques
  • Being an effective facilitator
  • Planning and guiding proceedings effectively
• Requirements Discovery Process
  • Identifying system requirements
  • Needs and desires for a system or application
  • Functions, features and constraints

This webinar introduces the key elements required to ensure comprehensive requirements gathering.

Watch for these webinars on PDU Of The Day:

• Changing The Sales Engagement
• Uncovering Customers Business Needs
• Engaging with Customer Stakeholders
• Translating Requirements to Capabilities
• Managing Customer Business Requirements
• Modelling the Customers Business
• Developing Business Acumen
• Creating the Solution Business Case
• Delivering Benefits Realisation to the Customer
• Additional Development Support and Tools

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.6 Control Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.3 Manage 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’

Click to register for PM Strategic Planning & Sales Excellence Series: Managing Customer Business Requirements

Live Webinar October 28th, 2015 – 8:30 am – 9:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – October 28th,, 2015 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By: Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB)

The WebinEYE series demonstrates best practices in oil & gas project management through application. The webinars are presented in an engaging and inspiring storytelling style by industry experts.

The oil & gas project management WebinEYE series aims to bring together good practice in industry demonstrated through application by the presenter and captured through an inspiring storytelling webinar which will be based around a project lifecycle.

The rolling library of events will highlight and challenge common industry issues, promote a knowledge sharing culture and demonstrate good practice where this occurs.

This is fourth webinar in the 14-part series.

This session is  delivered by Industry Professionals with a focus on the critical areas of ‘Values & Behaviours’ throughout the Project Life Cycle.

The monthly presentations will aim to bring together good practice in Industry, demonstrated through application and captured through an inspiring storytelling webinar.

The WebEYE Webinar Series

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) team consists of Senior Project Practitioners from various Oil & Gas Operators, Contractors, Industry Bodies and wider supply chain organisations who come together to work towards a single objective which is to “influence the skills development initiatives that address current project management issues and competency development across the Offshore EC Industry”.

Key objectives of the WebinEYE Series are to:

• Enhance ‘experiential and contextual’ development of PM disciplines rather than just ‘academic’ development.
• Promote a knowledge sharing culture within the community based around good practice, involving all sectors in the Oil & Gas Industry and supply chain organisations.
• Promote development of non-technical competence, specifically around values and behaviours.
• Strengthen cross sector support of the PM good practice initiative by Industry Bodies and Associations.

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 Framing The Right Solution

Live Webinar October 29th, 2015 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

The Traditional Performance Review Process Is Ineffective!

Executives find fault with it, managers rank reviews as one of their most disliked tasks, and employees distrust the process.

The practice needs change; it’s counterproductive, time consuming and, more often than not, de-motivating.

The majority of senior executives believe that their current process is outdated, ineffective and needs a fresh approach.

This is especially true in organizations that follow an agile performance philosophy

Whether you are looking to do away with yours completely or are simply thinking about revamping it, your goal should be to expand the range of feedback employees receive, add credibility and transparency to the process and reduce the time it takes to prepare.

Social recognition aligns perfectly to all of those objectives

This webcast will examine how social recognition …

1. Eliminates the unfairness of a “single evaluator” model
2. Encourages and captures multiple points of view
3. Offers feedback and direction that is more actionable
4. Makes the entire process more efficient and transparent for everyone involved
5. Aligns perfectly with agile performance processes

Presented by: Mike Ryan (LinkedIn profile) Senior Vice President of Client Strategy at Madison Performance Group

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”

Click to register for A Remedy For The “Underperforming” Performance Review Process