Live Webinar March 30th, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Your title may not illustrate it.
Your job description may not sufficiently describe it.

But you are known as a trusted advisor
Who delivers business value through projects and services!

You are a prime liaison between service provider and business leadership.

If you are a project manager, business analyst, account manager, or a functional manager within a corporate shared service department like IT, Finance, HR, Legal, Customer Service – you need to attend this webinar, and learn how the role of business relationship manager is helping organizations realize value from day-to-day operations and project investments.

As a strategic partner, and overall valued consultant, the business relationship manager is the advocate who brings credibility to the table when business goals are at stake.

Key learning points include:

• Describe the responsibilities of a business relationship manager.
• Learn how business relationship management contributes to organizational success.
• Understand what business transition management is and why it’s important.
• Practical examples of effective business relationship management.

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

Click to register for:
The New Kid on the Block:
What’s the Role of a Business Relationship Manager &
How Do You “Fit In”?

Live Webinar – March 29th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

BA’s Have A Crucial Role To Play

DevOps focuses on being lean and eliminating waste by retaining the fundamental principles of Agile.  At the same time, it improves the collaboration between dev, IT and ops.

So how does all of this impact the BA?

BA’s have a crucial role to play in coordinating between teams.

DevOps is a cultural change. It’s about sharing business objectives and getting all the stakeholders working towards a common objective.

The BA role can be a key DevOps player and the go-to person for business success.

In this session, Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) will give you a quick introduction to DevOps and the impact it has on the BA and how the BA role can be a factor for organizations.

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Intro To DevOps For Business Analysts

Live Webinar March 30th, 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar March 30th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
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’

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Make Your Metrics Meaningful

Online Webinar – Recorded June 30th 2011
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Note:  The current  SD times session is also sponsored by CM Crossroads and IBM but does not have a registration page link  at this time – but this may change soon – You can check here for the current webinar scheduled for March 29th, 2016 1 PM EDT.  Enjoy the recording of this presentation!

Do your software projects stumble over the deployment hurdle?

If so, you are not alone. Many software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments — from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. Successful deployments must account for differences between environments; coordinate development teams and environment owners; balance schedule pressures; and create the requisite audit trail.

When these challenges are compounded by error prone, inconsistent and inefficient manual processes, achieving a consistent deployment can seem impossible. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty.

The good news is that you do not need to choose between a careful, rigorous approach and a speedy but slapdash one. It is possible to implement a solution that provides consistency and audit trails while improving productivity for your release engineers, operations personnel, and testers.

In this webinar, we go beyond the whys of consistent automated deployments and examine best practices, helpful tools and common pitfalls encountered when seeking consistent deployments across environments.

In This Session Eric Covers:

• The pitfalls of manual deployments;
• Cultural barriers to improving deployment processes; and
• Best practices, such as self-service deployments.

Presenter: Eric Minick (LinkedIn profile) is a technical evangelist and consultant at UrbanCode. He has nine years of automation experience throughout the application lifecycle as a developer, test automation engineer, and production support engineer. Keep up with Eric’s latest insights on the UrbanCode blog.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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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Death To Manual Deployments!
Achieving Consistent Deployments Across Environments