Live Webinar – February 4th, 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Increasingly, people need to work together remotely, yet the research shows that effectiveness dramatically decreases as soon as people are more than 90 feet away from each other.

• In fact, did you know that 39% of people are sleeping during your virtual meetings?
• Some are multitasking; they’re catching up on email, and sorting through their to-do list.
• Others are engaging in Social Media, and some are simply not even paying attention.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

If your virtual project team meetings suffer from any of these symptoms then you need to join us for Fact Vs. Fiction: An interactive session about the myths surrounding virtual teams

This engaging  lunch and learn will uncover the myths surrounding virtual teams, and give you the tools you need to ensure productive and engaging virtual meetings.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Demystify the top 5 myths of virtual teams
• Discuss 3 virtual meeting strategies
• Determine how to build trust in a virtual team

Who should attend?

• Project Managers,
• BA’s
• Team members of virtual teams

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Claire Sookman (LinkedIn profile) the driving force behind Virtual Team Builders, brings to the table 20+ years of corporate & public sector consulting experience, working with over 4,500 Project Managers in the past three years. Specializing in virtual team building and communication strategies, Virtual Team Builders provides consulting expertise that results in virtual project teams working more efficiently. Claire began her career PMSI Project Mentors and worked with project managers and team members worldwide. The common challenge these teams were facing was working in and leading a dispersed teams and 1999 Virtual Team Builders was born. Visit Claire’s website at Virtualteambuilders

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Virtual Teams: Fact Vs. Fiction

Online Webinar – Recorded August 26, 2015
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Boot camps for professionals who need quick, powerful data analytics skills is proving to be quite popular.

With the explosive growth in both the volume of our organizational data and the power of the tools available to harness it,  learners are coming from a wide variety of different situations.

A class should be designed to provide the most pragmatic, broad-based array of data analysis skills that people need to truly leverage data in the real world.

In order to deliver a classroom experience that meets a broad array of needs, it’s important to get a sense of your goals in attending the class, as well as giving the learner a sense of what to expect.

Join Chris Knotts (LinkedIn profile) and Damian Herrick  (LinkedIn profile) Triangle data guru, for this hour of an overview of ASPE’s Data Analysis Boot Camp.

Overview of Key topics include:

• Statistical thinking and analysis
• Distribution
• Probability
• Hypothesis Testing and predictive analytics
• Graphic representation of data
• Modeling and analytics
• Financial calculations

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

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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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Data Analysis Boot Camp: What to Expect

On line Webinar – Recorded August 19th, 2015
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The digital workplace describes an inevitable transition to cloud, mobile, social and information that is transforming industries, value delivery and careers.

But all major transformations come with risk and challenges.

Addressing issues such as a loss of control, hidden threats and ethics are critical to your success.

Discussion Topics:

• How digital business strategies impact information security risk
• Challenges to some long-held conventions in security practice
• How to adapt your security program to deal with these new realities

Presenter: Tom Scholtz (LinkedIn profile),VP Distinguished Analyst

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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”

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Information Security & The Dark Side Of The Digital Workplace

Live Webinar February 2nd, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

API Caching

The extensible reach of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has enabled enterprises to transform countless business processes into web services with seemingly limitless scale and reach.

Or has it?

This talk will introduce unique API caching methods to address the common performance and scalability challenges experienced by providers of RESTful APIs, and also discuss how cached APIs can protect against the latest security threats to web infrastructure at scale.

By gleaning insights from Fastly’s vast insight into the full range of web attacks against both its customers and itself, this talk will update on current web exploits and attacks, as well as analyze some of the latest attack profiles.

It will also cover some of the latest improvements in Web PKI (SSL/TLS) that a website should absolutely be using for their web and API stack.

Attendees will learn what online resources lack in detail about how to configure SSL/TLS amid continued turmoil around governments snooping on end user traffic, including the proper setup to make sure web application end users are protected.

The ability to cache whole APIs, is a relatively new way to extend and scale API-based app architecture, without without sacrificing performance or security.

This talk will offer attendees a first opportunity to learn how to configure and automate API caching for maximum performance and broad protection.

Presenter: Sean Leach  BSc (LinkedIn profile) is in charge of product management, product marketing and strategy as VP of Products at Fastly. Previously Sean held the positions of VP, Technology for Verisign, CTO of name.com, and Sr. Director at Neustar. Seans current research focus is on DNS, DDOS, Web / network performance, Internet infrastructure and combating the massive Internet security epidemic.

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.3 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.’

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Extending App Architecture Performance & Security

Live Webinar – February 5th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course Id: WS072412

What is the role of the SharePoint Business Analyst? &
How does it fit into a successful SharePoint strategy?

The answer to this question will vary depending on the company you work for. A SharePoint Business Analyst is one of the most critical functions in your organization, is often one of the most under appreciated roles in IT.

And yet …

It should be at the forefront of your SharePoint planning strategy and governance.

A SharePoint Business Analyst should be able to:

1. Examine existing business processes
2. Identify gaps in processes, identify areas of opportunities and for improvements
3. Gather requirements
4. Implement the new processes, features, and tools
5. Document improvements, measure, repeat the process

In this webinar Andy Huneycutt (LinkedIn profile) will take a hands-on approach to examine the role of a SharePoint business analyst.

Andy will:

1. Explore what SharePoint can do OOTB with no customization, such as adding designing pages, adding web parts, creating Content Types, and working with columns and views.
2. Explore SharePoint can do with “no-code” solutions such as SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, and workflows.
3. Discuss when custom code is needed and when to use Visual Studio.
4. Discuss the need to use Visio diagrams/charts to map business processes.
5. Discuss what SharePoint can do and what it cannot do.

To build the right SharePoint solution, you must define the business opportunity, and that is why a SharePoint Business Analyst is so important to your SharePoint implementation strategy.

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The SharePoint Business Analyst

On line Webinar – Recorded July 9th 2015
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

SharePoint raises expectations for better collaboration and knowledge sharing. But rushed deployments have led to siloed, underperforming installations.

Technical wiring advice is easy to find, but organizations struggle to find the highest-level strategic guidance on how to approach this complex, sprawling ecosystem.

Join Kyle Davis (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) in this webinar, as he  walks through a four-step plan for SharePoint: enterprise strategy, service portfolio definition, infrastructure planning and platform implementation.

For More Info:

• Download The Presentation Slides (PDF, 1.8MB)
  

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.5 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’

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Establishing an Enterprise-Class SharePoint Service: A Complete Plan