Live Webinar – April 5th 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.

Disruptive Innovation: What Is It?

Regardless of what industry you’re in, today’s large companies share some remarkably similar characteristics.

We live and die by these common denominators:

• Heavy reliance on technology, IT teams, and software
• Complex, unpredictable organizational dynamics
• Siloed departments that suffer from lack of communication
• Difficulty understanding or predicting what customers and users want
• Constantly changing and uncertain marketing conditions

In the middle of this daunting mix, we are called upon to constantly innovate or fall behind.

But how?

Is it even possible to repeatably and methodically achieve this mythical “innovation” that everyone talks about?

Chris contends that it is!

Chris will introduce you to the following:

• Lean: what is it?
• A brief history of lean management principles
• Lean thinking
• Lean applied in today’s professions (IT, development, DevOps, project management) – Lean as a vehicle for value creation

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)   for a brief primer on Lean Innovation.

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The Lean Enterprise:
Intro To Massively Disruptive Innovation

Live Webinar – April 6th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

Are you an experienced project manager, or new certification holder, looking for ways to take your stakeholder management to the next level?

Last month, RefineM began a series on advanced project management techniques by providing an overview of the technical and leadership skills of advanced project management.

In this month’s Lunch and Learn, RefineM describes advanced techniques in stakeholder management.

Attendees will learn how to go beyond the basics of stakeholder management by integrating stakeholder management with the communication plan.

In addition, attendees will learn how to use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to prioritize efforts to manage stakeholder expectations.

Leave this webinar with a better idea of how to take stakeholder management to the next level.

Who Should Attend: Anyone in a project management role, including project/program managers, PMO leaders, and project team members who have been managing/leading projects and are looking for advanced techniques to strengthen their career.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM (LinkedIn profile) is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach. With over 25 years of experience in project management, NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

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Advanced Stakeholder Management Techniques

Live Webinar April 7th, 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar April 7th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) will drive widespread adoption of IoT devices, platforms and related technology.

However, be wary of “off the shelf” IoT solution claims.

In most cases, you will need to assemble IoT solutions by combining new IoT technologies with existing applications and data.

This will create unique challenges when aligning IoT projects with existing investments in analytics, information management, cybersecurity, etc.

Discussion Topics:

• What are IoT business solutions
• IoT platforms, their relationship to existing applications and systems
• The five crucial competencies needed to build IoT solutions

Join Benoit J. Lheureux (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) and learn the competencies needed to build your IoT solutions.

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define 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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Building An Internet Of Things (IoT) Solution

Live Webinar – April 5th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Thiagi continues to explore techniques for making training design faster, cheaper, and better.

In this session, Thiagi  demonstrates how to locate existing content resources (both archived and live) and wrap them inside effective and engaging learning activities.

This approach saves the time and resources that are unnecessarily wasted in rediscovering the training content.

By using validated templates for the activities, this technique also speeds up the design process.

Topics:

• Content and activities: The two key components of effective training
• Best training templates to use with seven types of archived content (such as videos and text)
• Best training templates to use with six types of live sources of training content (such as subject-matter experts and informants)
• Best training templates to use with eight formats of training content (such as a job aids and posters)

Presenter: Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile) is Resident Mad Scientist at the Thiagi Group, a Bloomington, Indiana-based organization with the mission of helping people improve their performance effectively and enjoyably. Thiagarajan has published forty books, including Thiagi’s 100 Favorite Games (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals) and Teamwork and Teamplay: Games and Activities for Building and Training Teams, as well as numerous games, simulations, and articles.

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

• 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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The Right Template For Right Content Source