Live Webinar – February 23rd 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

This session will walk the attendee through 9 practices that are sure to be problematic.

Topics will include but are not limited to:

• Including summary tasks in project sequencing;
• Assigning resources to summary tasks;
• Constraining activities rather than sequencing dynamically;
• Scheduling project tasks as late as possible;
• Leveling resources without analysis;
• Inadequate baselining techniques;
• Using elapsed durations for team schedules;
• Incorrect calendar association resulting in incorrect schedules;
• Organizing project tasks incorrectly forcing incorrect reports.

After attending this session the attendee should be able to:

1. Identify inappropriate practices in their MS Project schedules.
2. Resolve issues created by these practices
3. Leverage their learning in future project plans by avoiding the recurrence of “Inappropriate Practices”.

Presenter : Sam Huffman (LinkedIn profile) PMP MCITP MCT is a Project MVP and has been delivering training for The Versatile Company since 1996. Sam gained insight into Microsoft Project while working at Microsoft as a member of the Microsoft Project development and support team. Sam is considered a leading authority on the tool, and provides great insight to project Managers on the newest enterprise features of all versions of Microsoft Project and Project Server.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT…. Even if you only take the 3 session 6 hour MPUG Project Portfolio Management Masterclass (6 Category A PDUs) the$129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value to get the PPM MPUG Certificate and add it to your resume.

MPUG Membership also 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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Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts

Live Webinar – February 24th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

In this session Alvin Richards (LinkedIn profile) VP of Product, Aerospike will review what Docker is and why it’s important to Developers, Admins and DevOps when they are using a NoSQL Database such as Aerospike, the high performance NoSQL Database.

Persistence is a critical element for a successful multi-Container strategy.

Alvin also cover the following topics:

• Using Docker to Orchestrate a multi container application (Flask + Aerospike)
• Injecting HAProxy and other production requirements as we deploy to production
• Scaling the Web and Aerospike clusters to grow to meet demand

This presentation includes an interactive demo showcasing the core Docker components (Machine, Engine, Swarm and Compose) along with Aerospike’s integration.

See how much simpler Docker can make building and deploying multi-node Aerospike based applications.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.1 Define Activities
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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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Using Databases & Containers: From Development To Deployment

Live Webinar February 24th 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Building a scalable application that has high availability is not easy and does not come automatically.

To that end, this webcast focuses on five keys that will help build applications that, as their use scales upwards, availability remains high.

Here are the five keys:

• Build your applications keeping availability in mind.
  • Consider availability concerns during all aspects of your application construction.
• Always think about scaling.
  • While building your application, consider how it will perform when it has 10x the traffic it currently does.
    • Do you need a different database strategy?
    • What about state management? Caching?
• Mitigate risk.
  • All systems have vulnerability. Understand the risk your application has, and implement mitigations to reduce the likelihood and severity of the risk occurring.
• Monitor availability.
  • You can’t keep your application running if you don’t know how it is performing.
  • Use application monitoring to keep an eye on how your application is performing, and generate notifications when the application performs in abnormal ways.
• Respond to availability issues in a predictable and defined way.
  • When a problem occurs, do you know what to do to fix the problem?
  • Does everyone on your team know what to do?
  • Do you have playbooks written that have standard procedures and practices for fixing common problems?
  • Have you verified your pager rotation works as expected?

Presenter: Lee Atchison (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) Principal Engineer and Architecture Lead at New Relic, has experience in  architecting and building high scale, cloud-based, service oriented, SaaS applications. Lee led the building of the New Relic platform; a solid service-based system architecture that scales and infrastructure products  growing New Relic from a simple SaaS startup to a high traffic public enterprise. Previously  as a Senior Manager / Principal Program Manager at Amazon.com he led the creation of the company’s first software download store (app store), he created AWS Elastic Beanstalk offering (Platform as a Service), and lead the team that managed the migration of Amazon’s retail platform from a monolith to an SOA-based architecture.

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
• 5.2 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’

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5 Keys To Building High Availability Web Applications

Live Webinar – February 23rd 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

In this session Ben will explore and demonstrate how Project Online and O365 can be used to manage NPD projects in an organisation.

The demonstration will show how Project Online can be configured to follow a simple NPD process, use pre-defined NPD templates, track and manage issues and risks and then use the reporting features of PowerBI to provide dashboards across the whole NPD portfolio.

Presenter: Ben Howard (LinkedIn profile) is author of “Microsoft Project 2013 Plain and Simple” and has worked for IBM, DELL, and Microsoft,and now runs his own EPM consultancy (Applepark Ltd).Ben’s current Microsoft TechNet webcast, User Controlled Scheduling in Project 2010, is ranked in the top 10. Ben is a regular contributor to the Project Server newsgroups, and publishes a blog based on Project Server scenario. Ben is also a Microsoft MVP award for Project Server.

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!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 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’

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Using Project Online To Manage
New Product Development (NPD) Projects

Live Webinar – February 23rd 2016 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EST
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

Team retrospectives are an important part of Scrum and a way to implement the Lean-Agile philosophy of Kaizen – continuous improvement.

However, many of us have experienced the feeling of the value of team retrospectives falling off over time.

We too easily fall into the habit of agreeing, explicitly or implicitly, that there is nothing worth discussing this time.

In this webinar, Mike Harris (LinkedIn profile) will demonstrate how to run facilitated, quarterly, strategic retrospectives that will produce hard data about the soft issues that your Agile team needs to improve.

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

• 4.6 Close Project or Phase

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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How To Reboot Agile Retrospectives

Live Webinar February 23rd 2016 – 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm EST
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

The goal for any project is a successful outcome. A properly defined project will greatly increase your odds for project success.

A major part of successful project management is communication and asking the right questions.

Discover these 4 basics of successful project management:

1. Asking the right questions
2. Checking the criteria for a successful project
3. Producing the project artefacts
4. Performing a project health check

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Presenter: Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Eamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

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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PM 101: One Page Plan For Project Basics