Live Webinar April 14th, 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar April 14th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

In this webinar,   Larry Cannell (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) presents the results of the latest Gartner survey of IT decision makers about their experiences with Office 365 to reveal insights applicable to your enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• The state of Office 365 adoption and the types of enterprises using it
• Office 365 services ranked most important
• The technical problems enterprises are encountering with Office 365
• Where Office 365 impresses and where it disappoints

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 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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2016 Office 365 Survey Results

Live Webinar April 12th, 2016 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 4 Hour Credits: 1 Up to 4 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

This 4 hr online conference explores key infrastructure essentials.

Four seasoned open source technologists cover a range of infrastructure elements from popular open source cloud platforms to Linux tools. You’ll leave this online conference with new strategies and practical approaches for coping with difficult real-world challenges.

Developing Orchestration Services For A Cloud Platform

When it comes to ease of deployment, scalability, and resilience, the cloud and containers seem like an ideal match—but there are challenges involved, including some unique to popular open source projects.

Kenny looks at what’s involved in developing and operating containerized workloads using open source projects such as Apache Spark, Apache Cassandra, and Spring Cloud Netflix.

By the end of this discussion, you’ll have a solid understanding of the cloud platform ecosystem and know how to create platform-provided services from open source tooling.

Presenter: Kenny Bastani (LinkedIn profile) is a technology evangelist & open source software advocate in Silicon Valley. As an enterprise software consultant, and a passionate advocate for the popular graph database Neo4j, Kenny has supported developers from globally recognized companies who have inserted the NoSQL database into their technology stack. As a blogger / open source contributor, Kenny engages developers who are looking to take advantage of newer graph processing techniques to analyze data.

Ten Steps To Linux Survival

Prerequisite: Participants should be Windows systems administrators / programmers. Familiarity with Windows shells (CMD.EXE and PowerShell) is preferred but not absolutely necessary.

As a Windows administrator or programmer, you’ll occasionally come face to face with a Linux system that needs your attention, and you need to know your way around.

With this lightning-fast introduction to Linux and other Unix systems, Jim Lehmer makes the experience much easier for you, outlining 10 core essentials for logging into and looking at a Linux system with an aim at quick and simple diagnoses.

Jim arms you with just enough familiarity with the bash command line to be able to do some simple system diagnostics on the Linux “appliances” that may be in your environment.

Jim will focus primarily on nondestructive read-only commands, but he’ll also cover a few commands—such as restarting services or the server itself—that can alter system state.

Click to be notified when Jim’s “Ten Steps to Linux Survival” report becomes available.

Presenter:  Jim Lehmer (O’Reilly bio) has been “in computers” for over three decades. He has held various software development roles, including programmer, systems programmer, software engineer, team lead, and software architect, and worked on a variety of operating systems with a number of programming languages. Jim currently works in a Windows shop coding primarily in C#, but with his background in cross-platform development, he often gets tapped to deal with any *IX boxes that enter the environment.

tmux: A Developer’s Swiss Army Knife

 One of the greatest inhibitors to developers and system administrators embracing Unix-derivative operating systems (GMU/Linux, BSD, etc.) is having to operate, design, and provide maintenance at the dreaded command-line interface (CLI).

tmux is a terminal multiplexer that makes it easy to deal with multiple programs from the CLI. When properly understood, tmux transforms working from and within a shell prompt into a more efficient, productive, collaborative, and time-saving experience.

Boyd Stephens offers an overview of tmux that will give you a working knowledge of when and how to put it to use.

Presenter: Boyd Stephens (O’Reilly bio) is the founder of Netelysis. Boyd is a member of Netelysis’s networking services development team, where he primarily focuses on the research and design of Internet working systems & network management services. For the last 26 years, Boyd has worked with information technology, having designed and managed an array of networking systems and services for educational, corporate, and governmental entities.

AppOpps: Building Successful Deployments

AppOps, short for application operations, is a practice developed by DigitalOcean engineers to prescribe a course of actions needed to move a project from development status to production status.

In this session Bryan Liles:

• Introduces AppOpps and outlines the AppOps step
• Examines the importance of having an automated process
  • to determine if a particular code commit is able to be included in a production release, before moving on to continuous deployment,
  • getting insights into operations,
• Examines tools that can give you a comprehensive view of how your application is working.
• And … Bryan ends by discussing potential requirements for modern applications and how they can best fit in modern cloud infrastructures.

Presenter: Bryan Liles (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) works on cloud engineering for DigitalOcean writing OSS for DigitalOcean & others. Bryan helps companies move their software to the public cloud and speaks at conferences on topics ranging from machine learning to building the next generation of developers. When not thinking about code, Bryan builds robots and devices and races cars in straight lines and around very tight turns.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 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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Infrastructure Essentials
From The Command Line To The Cloud

Live Webinar – April 11th, 2016 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration X Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Are you sick of hearing that the difference is that agile BAs use user stories and are more flexible?

Dig deeper into what it takes to get to effective requirements in an agile, traditional, or hybrid model of business analysis.

Angela will explore the detailed differences in the practices, timing, documentation, mindset, and approaches in side by side comparisons.

In this session she will explore the typical day, week, and month of a BA on both types of projects.

Angela will also look at approaches to finding a balance when you need to find an approach that uses elements of both traditional and agile.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the similarities and differences requirements in traditional and agile teams
• Dig deep into differences other than user stories and flexibility
• A deep look into the day, week and month in the life of an Agile BA vs. Traditional BA

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Angela Wick (LinkedIn profile  @WickAng) CEO – BA-Squared, LLC With more than 15 years of consulting, mentoring and teaching, Angela knows that great BAs transform organizations. Angela encourages BAs to be agents of change. She helps BAs develop the skills they need to inspire collaboration, creativity and innovation. Get free BA tips and trends by following Angela on Twitter  or by visiting her site.

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Comparing Agile & Traditional Business Analysis Approaches

Live Webinar April 13th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

We’ve all heard that setting priorities in our personal lives is key to achieving our goals.

Some of us hire personal coaches to get our lives in order, but when it comes to what we do within the office, all that planning goes out the window.

Organizations today are running at a much faster pace than ever before. We have technology glued to us at all times so that we can quickly respond to things.

But should we really?

This month Core Performance Concepts will talk about the benefits of prioritizing our days both at home and at work.

They understand that you don’t always have control over the priorities that may be set for you in the office, but will discuss some strategies and approaches to gaining clarity of purpose when your supervisor says something is urgent or if you are feeling like you have too many projects on your plate.

At the end of this session, they will ask for attendees to submit a scenario they would like to have discussed in their May 27th panel. They will share experiences and strategies for helping you get your time in control.

Benefits

• Learn how to prioritize both at home and work
• Identify key strategies to gain clarity
• Plan your projects accordingly
• Submit your scenarios to discuss next session
• Earn 1 PDU

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Managing Multiple Priorities

Live Webinar April 13th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm  EDT or
Live Webinar April 14th, 2016, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm  EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center (PROSCI)
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU –  Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes.  With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

Leverage Experience Of Other Practitioners!

In all nine of our best practices studies, we have asked participants to identify the top contributors to change success.

Interested to hear the latest contributors and specific activities you can implement to drive your change success?

PROSCI thought you might be! Join them to learn more.

PROSCI literally “wrote the books” on Change Management:

• ADKAR®: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Communityby Jeffrey M. Hiatt
  • ADKAR®—awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement
• Change Management: The People Side of Change by Jeffrey M. Hiatt

These texts are a MUST READ for anyone performing Change management as a part of their role!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 13 – Stakeholders

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.6 Manage Scope
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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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Top Contributors to Change Success

Live Webinar – April 12th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

In this workshop, which is based on sales principles in Selling to the C-Suite and social selling strategies from The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media, professional salespeople learn to integrate the use of social selling skills and business intelligence tools into the sales process to develop, maintain and leverage relationships with C-Suite executives.

Because today’s C-Suite executives are actively engaged with various forms of social media, Steve Bistritz teams with Barb Giamanco, a world-renown expert in social media, & “Sales Guru” Dave Stein to develop this results-producing session.

During this fast-paced webinar, you will learn:

• Why a social selling plan is necessary.
• 3 actions you can take now to increase your brand visibility.
• How to use LinkedIn, Twitter and InsideView to find, reach and engage decision makers.
• Why you must use social tools to conduct pre-call research and planning.
• How to engage with the right message at the right time.

Speakers: 

Steve Bistritz (LinkedIn profile) Founder  SellXL, an Atlanta-based sales training and consulting company. Steve assists others in doing a better job of creating, maintaining and leveraging relationships with senior-level client executives. Steve is co-author of  the best-selling sales book, Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top.

Barbara Giamanco (LinkedIn profile) After 25+ years in Sales, Barb understands the challenges that sales leaders and salespeople face. Barbara’s successful C-level background in Sales, Technology and Leadership Development, experience speaks for itself. At Microsoft, she led sales teams and coached executives. Barb’s book, The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media is the first book written about social selling. You might also enjoy her Harvard Business Review article Tweet Me, Friend Me, Make Me Buy.  Recognized as a Top Sales and Business Blogger, she is n indemand Keynote speaker and:

• a Top 25 Influential Leader in Sales,
• a Top 25 Sales Influencer on Twitter and
• one of Top Sales World’s Top 50 Sales and Marketing Influencers for the 3rd year in a row.
• Her LinkedIn profile ranks in the Top 1% of all profiles viewed and …
• Through the years she has sold $1B in sales

Dave Stein (LinkedIn profile) has worked as in all areas of sales including, Director of Worldwide Sales Development, VP of International Operations, VP of Client Services, and sales strategist. Dave’s sales experience & consulting  with businesses provides him with a unique and pragmatic view of sales methodologies, training, social selling, and the cultural, behavioral, and operational changes required to excel at the sales function. Dave’s highly-acclaimed book, How Winners Sell: 21 Proven Strategies to Outsell Your Competition and Win the Big Sale. Considered a “Sales Guru” by Sales & Marketing Management, Fast Company, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Inc., Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes, check out Dave’s newest  book, Beyond the Sales Process: 12 Proven Strategies for a Customer-Driven World.

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

• 5.6 Control Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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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Social Selling To The C-Suite