Live Webinar November 24th 2015, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar November 24th 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Measuring aspects of your business, marketplace, customers and partners is more important than ever.

Well-designed metric frameworks, yardsticks and communication mechanisms can avoid the many pitfalls that lead to confusion, misdirection and lack of collaborative performance.

Discussion Topics:

• The importance of metrics in measuring business performance
• How to construct a well-designed metric framework
• Best practices to implement and pitfalls to avoid

Presenter: Kurt Schlegel, (Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP

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

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 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 Make Your Metrics Meaningful

Live Webinar November 23rd 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

• Your customers are more demanding, uncompromising, and unrelenting than ever before.
• They expect your applications and systems to deliver an exceptional experience every time, wherever they are on whatever device they chose.

However, when your system fails to perform because of complex infrastructure, mobile network connections or any other reason, your customers get frustrated and quickly become former customers.

In the world moving at Cloud and DevOps speed, how can you stay ahead and deliver the exceptional experience your customers expect?

Don’t let performance be an afterthought that you attempt to address in final testing. Rather, consider how to engineer for performance from the very beginning.

Effectively, “Performance Engineering” enables you to ensure you deliver quality, scale, and performance throughout your products and services; so you delight customers with amazing experiences.

Learn about the 4 primary elements of Performance Engineering  practices:

• Architect & Design: How to engineer configuration and applications up front before starting development.
• Build: DevOps aspects for continuous integration, for effective and fast delivery.
• Deliver: Continuous deployment and operations.
• Monitoring: Predictive, growth, features, and continuous feedback.

How will you apply these proven practices to deliver business results?

Presenters:

Todd DeCapua, Chief Technology Evangelist HP Software,  & co-founder of TechBeacon.com; has 20+ years experience in IT applications development, IT operations, technology integrations,  in several domains including: Mobile, Agile, Cloud, and Performance Enhancement. Over the years Todd has transformed organizations to Agile / DevOps, consulted with organizations worldwide, and been recognized with several industry certifications and awards.

Shane Evans, (LinkedIn profile) Sr Product Manager & Evangelist for Performance Engineering at HP,  is an experienced IT Manager with 12+ years in industry. His primary focus has been Performance Engineering / Management.   Shane is an active member of the Performance Engineering community, and regularly contributes to the discussions on the Forums, Google Groups, Yahoo, & LinkedIn.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities

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 Performance Engineering: Proven Practices

Live Webinar – November 24th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour 1 Cat A PDU/1 CDU MPUG Members Only
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Resource Engagements is a recently introduced feature in Project Online, and also Project Server 2016.

In a typical organization, resource managers and project managers find it challenging to agree on and assign resources for specific projects and tasks.

With no clear way to track who is working where, who is over-allocated—and with crossed lines of communication, things can start to break down.

Resource Engagements aims to clear the confusion and help streamline this process.

This session will cover Resource Engagements feature set in detail, and will try to answer the questions like:

• How are Resource Engagements different from Resource plans
• What will happen to my resource plans if I start using Resource Engagements?
• How can I use Resource Engagements for Support Work?
• Will Resource Engagements and Portfolio Analysis work together
• How can I report on Resource Engagements?

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!

Click to register for Deep Dive: Resource Engagements

Live Webinar November 25th, 2015 – 7:30 am – 8:30 am EST
Live Webinar – November 25th, 2015 12:30 PM – 1:30 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 fifth 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 DEFINE Phase: What is Good Definition?

Live Webinar November 24th, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Live Webinar November 24th, 2015 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET
Live Webinar November 24th, 2015 – 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm AEST
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Electronic signatures will be your most successful SharePoint project: your staff and customers will be delighted to sign documents online, securely and safely. The adoption rate for your SharePoint system will go way up when it is used by everyone to sign and approve documents. Your business managers and CEO will appreciate how much faster contracts are signed.

Please join us to learn about Digital Transaction Management, e-signatures, real customer experiences with DocuSign, and to see a demo.

Presenter: Larry Kluger (LinkedIn profile) Marketing Manager Docusign,  is an award-winning speaker, and currently serves as the Marketing Manager for Developers and Connections at DocuSign. As an evangelist for e-signature technology, Larry blogs for AIIM, and has driven numerous projects for DocuSign, leading the company into greater investment in SharePoint integration.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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 Your Most Successful SharePoint Project: e-Signatures

Live Webinar – November 24th, 2015 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by:APM a division of  APMG International

Want to avoid common mistakes when moving to the Cloud?

The Cloud Computing Foundation Certification scheme can help you gain the expertise needed to support your organization’s migration to cloud-based computing.

Want to find out more? APMG  is holding an informative webinar to introduce their new APMG certification.

This session  will be presented by Bernard Golden, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Examiner and author/co-author of four leading publications on cloud computing.

Bernard will outline who the Cloud Computing Foundation guidance and certification is suitable for, the certification process and what you will learn upon completing training and certification.