Live Webinar May 25th, 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
Course ID: MDW1305

Courage In Project Management Can Be Tough!

• Are you managing a project team or other project managers who are afraid to stretch beyond their comfort zones?
• Do your sponsors consider you an influential project manager, one they can trust to ask the difficult questions?
• Have you experienced the satisfaction of orchestrating an empowered team, one that will challenge the status quo or achieve what felt like the impossible?
• Have you ever accepted a project assignment completely out of your comfort zone?

This webinar is about courage and project management.

It’s about the courage to lead when needed, let go when needed, motivate and influence others to excel for you.

Learning objectives:

• Define courage as it relates to project management
• Learn what the experts are saying about courage in the workplace and as project leaders
• Share examples of courageous behavior in projects

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.

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Courage In Project Management

Live Webinar May 26th, 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)
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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.

Attendees of this webinar will:

• Understand the items ncessary to make a great first impression with a new customer
• Identify the criteria for a successfull project kick off
• Understand what customers expect to meet their business objectives

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

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.

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Registration for this session is close to being full. If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 24 hours of the live session.

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Kick Off Your Project For Success!

Live Webinar May 24th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar May 24th, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Amazon, Microsoft and Google – these mega-providers are vying to be your strategic cloud IaaS service for the future.

How are you to choose?

In this webinar, Elias Khnaser (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director will present findings for each against 205 evaluation criteria points to help you make your strategic decision.

Discussion Topics:

• How to build a methodical evaluation strategy that will lead you to the correct strategic provider
• How the mega-IaaS providers compare on Gartner’s objective evaluation
• What the future hold for these providers

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

• 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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Cloud Wars:
Comparing Major Cloud Platform Providers

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

The majority of businesses today want to begin their own big data project, but are often faced with uncertainties about where to start, and what to do when they encounter obstacles along the way.

As you begin your own “big data journey”, you’re likely to face complications with related technologies and a disjointed provisioning process, resulting in what is commonly known as the “shadow IT phenomenon”.

In this webcast, Carey James will give an overview of key milestones along the big data journey, obstacles that many organizations encounter in the process, and technology solutions to consider at each step.

Carey will also discuss the value of focusing on business outcomes first, before making technology decisions, and will give some examples from his experience as business development manager of big data solutions at EMC.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Approach your business outcomes using a big data strategy
• Recognize common opportunities for making use of big data in business
• Decipher between different technology solutions and make choices based on your goals
• Overcome obstacles at each phase in your big data journey
• Partner with IT to overcome technology complexities and streamline the provisioning process

Presenter: Carey James (LinkedIn profile) Director Business Development, Big Data Solutions – EMC is a telecommunications industry leader with expertise in the bridging the gap between the business and technical communities. His focus has been on how IT can provide the appropriate analytics experience to create value. Carey identifies & develops strategies to help take advantage of the key value propositions associated with big/fast data & analytics.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities

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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Big Data For Business Outcomes:
How To begin & Follow Through On Your Data Strategy