Live Webinar March 1st, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

There are many levels of estimation, including budgeting, high-level estimation and task planning (detailed estimation).

In this webinar Tom challenges the listener to consider estimation as a form of planning.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled Software Process and Measurement Cast The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

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Budgeting, Estimation, Planning, #NoEstimates & The Agile Planning Onion – They ALL Make Sense!

 

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Live Webinar March 2nd, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
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Understanding the Power of Flexible Decision Making

For leaders, changing your mind has always been perceived as a weakness.

But in a world that is changing faster than ever, successful leaders are realizing that the willingness to change your mind is now the ultimate leadership advantage.

In this webcast, you’ll learn that being persuadable helps leaders make better decisions, respond quickly to threats and new opportunities, and utilize feedback to improve their skills at an accelerated rate.

Beyond just discussing why you should be persuadable, this webcast will teach you how. Al will discuss the key practices of persuadable leaders that you can use to improve the quality of your business and life.

Learn:

• How to make more accurate decisions by actively trying to falsify your own thinking
• Ways to get honest feedback from your team so you can improve yourself at an accelerated rate
• Tips for adapting to changing circumstances powerfully by “killing your darlings”

Presenter: Al Pittampalli (LinkedIn profile, bio) is the author of two books, Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World &  Read This Before Our Next Meeting: How We Can Get More Done  Al has helped organizations like NASA, Hewlett Packard, Abbott Labs, Kaiser Permanente and more transform the way they think about leadership. he writes for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Psychology Today.

We encourage you to register for this presentation even if you are unable to attend live; you will receive replay information following the event.

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How Leaders Succeed By Embracing Fresh Perspectives

Live Webinar Feb 26th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Offered by  International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

Agile methods, principles and techniques are core to how many IT organizations develop and maintain software. However, even though techniques like Test-Driven Development and scrum are widely practiced, one common complaint is that it is difficult to scale these practices.

In large projects and programs, this is code for “testing gets squeezed as though it were 1999.”

Scaling Agile, in general, and Agile testing, specifically, requires having a framework to help teams, stakeholders and program managers to identify what is needed to deliver quality and value.

• The Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) is a framework for effective testing in an Agile environment.
• The TMMi is not prescriptive; rather, the model is outcome-focused.

Using such a framework to scale helps teams and organizations to make decisions that ensure that testing is not only cost efficient but also effective.

In this webinar Tom will outline the TMMi and provide a process for using environmental, technical and project context to effectively integrate testing into an Agile development environment, measuring the effectiveness of the process.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled Software Process and Measurement Cast The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

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

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Scaling Agile Testing Using the TMMi

Live Webinar February 25th 2016 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Engage With Video Communication

Because effective communication should be a two-way street, it is equally important that the organization provide an avenue for the virtual workers to be heard!

A dispersed workforce requires a consistent communications program whereby an organization’s leadership can stay in touch with the people that are on the front lines of strategy execution.

Using case studies from organizations that have utilized video and audience engagement communication channels to improve employee engagement and workforce effectiveness, this webcast will open the playbook and share steps to tackle subjects like remote audience engagement, effective content and presenters, and the technology “gotchas” to prepare for.

Join Brian Moore, (LinkedIn profile) Director of Internal Communications, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Scott Cotter, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Marketing Officer, INXPO in this enlightening presentation.

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

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.4  Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.4 Control Stakeholder Engagement

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its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs)

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Engaging A Dispersed Workforce With Video Communication