Live Webinar – March 23rd, 2016 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

It’s time to start a new project – what should you do to set it up for success from the start?

Join Govind Agarwal in this session as we discuss what you can do to start your project off on the right foot, have a stellar kick off every time, and make that critical first impression with your new customer the best it can be.

Learn what you need to do to go beyond simple checklists and set your new project up for success!

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the items necessary to make a great first impression with a new customer;
2. Identify the criteria for a successful project kick off;
3. Understand what customers expect from Microsoft to meet their business objectives.

Presenter: Govind Agarwal (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Program Manager with MS  for the last 10 years in various products and services. Agarwal earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Utkal University in India and started his career in TCS, India. He previously worked for Deloitte Consulting and has five years experience in the field, focusing on west coast public sector customers, as well as Cloud services, CRM and IT Transformation.

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!

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Kick Off Your Project For Success!

Live Webinar March 23rd, 2016, 8:00 am – 9:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar March 23rd, 2016, 11:00 am – 22:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Whether you’ve got too much software or not enough, uncontrolled software costs are a drain on your IT department, consuming resources that could be better utilized elsewhere.

Setting up SAM can help IT departments identify and eliminate waste, cutting cost and reducing risk as a result.

Join Victoria Barber (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio)  to assist you with your SAM (Software Asset Management)!

Discussion Topics:

• What SAM is and (why) to do it
• What you need to do to establish SAM
• Tools and resources needed for effective SAM

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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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Fundamental Principles Of Software Asset Management

Live Webinar March 23rd 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

Live Webinar – March 22nd 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.

Breaking The Barriers Between Dev & Ops

DevOps aims to break the barriers between Dev and Ops. This also necessitates breaking the barriers between Dev, Test and Ops.

Testing operations undergo a major change in a DevOps culture. Therefore, everything changes for testing.

• The tester’s skillset,
• Methods,
• The way they test,
• When they test and
• The way they plan and execute.

DevOps brings testing into the mainstream of development processes, and avoids the problems created by having “big-bang” testing left to the end of the cycle, such as release delays, and quality issues.

In this session, Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) will give you a brief overview of DevOps and the impact on Software Testers.

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Intro To DevOps For Testers

Live Webinar March 24th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

A great deal of project and program management is focused on development, operations, and maintenance efforts.

Looking at a Technical Readiness Scale (TRL) most projects fall into TRL 5-9, the more mature end of the scale. T

here is, however, portfolio, program and project management at the earlier TRLs that address early engineering (TRL 4/5), research (TRL 2/3), and fundamental science (TRL 1/2).

There are significant differences in risk, personnel, stakeholder and other areas requiring management.

In this webinar Michael McNair (LinkedIn profile) Research Management: Techniques In Early Maturity Exploration takes a look at portfolio, program , and project management in these early TRLs in with the goal of eventual commercialization and movement of science to product or service.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

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Research Management:
Techniques In Early Maturity Exploration

Live Webinar March 23rd, 2016 – 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Saving 10 minutes a day at work rewards you with
An Extra Week A Year!

Making small changes to the way you go about your day and the important activities within it can help you save those precious few minutes!

In this interactive session, BrightWork CEO (and time management guru) Éamonn McGuinness will guide you through a set of exercises.

The Exercises Will Provide You With:

1. A deeper understanding of time management and its real meaning for you both professionally and personally
2. A 5 step approach to managing your time
3. 18 hints and tips to overcome common time management traps
4. Energy management advice
5. Email management advice

You’ll also get a chance to ask Éamonn any time management related questions you might have at the end of the workshop.

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for this “Hands On Learning” lab (HOL).

Bonus Content: Attendees of this workshop will also receive access to just under 2 hours of free time management training videos. Viewing this content would also qualify for 1.5 more Category C Technical PDU’

Register today and learn how you can get back that extra week a year!

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

• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control Schedule
• 9.3 Develop 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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Interactive Time Management Workshop