Online Webinar – Recorded December 11th, 2014
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU
Credits: PMI PDUs: 1.00 / CBAP CDUs: 1.00 Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okYvRAe6Bj0

This webinar will provide an introduction to the basic concepts of earned value management (EVM).

Earned value management is a project control process based on a structured approach to planning, cost collection and performance measurement.

Earned value helps us manage a project by:

• Providing data to enable objective measurement of project status;
• Providing a basis for estimating final cost;
• Predicting when the project will be complete;
• Supporting the effective management of resources;
• Providing a means of managing and controlling change.

Earned value provides information which enables effective decision making by knowing:

• What has been achieved of the plan;
• What it has cost to achieve the planned work;
• If the work achieved is costing more or less than was planned;
• If the project is ahead of or behind the planned schedule.

Good planning leads to good project execution and good management information.

This is a back to basics presentation, there is no need for any previous knowledge about earned value or experience in project controls. Using worked examples and drawing on Simon Taylor’s experience.

It will cover the following topics;

• The earned value management principles
• Calculating and reporting earned value
• Understanding S curves and Bullseye charts

Anyone who is thinking about starting or has just begun a career in project controls and wants to know more about earned value should attend this webinar. It will also serve as a useful reminder for anyone wanting to refresh their knowledge on earned value.

Presenters:

Simon Taylor (LinkedIn profile) is the head of planning, Transport for London Simon is responsible for the maturity and effectiveness of planning within capital projects across all transport modes at TfL covering rail, heavy engineering, vehicles, power & communications, signalling, software, IT, people & business change as well as planning and controls career development and the TfL planning apprenticeship which is in its 3rd year. Simon is also the vice chairman of the Specific Interest Group (SIG) for Planning Monitoring and Control. 

Stephen Jones (LinkedIn profile) is a  project manager,Chartered Engineer and an APM Registered Project Professional with 13 years’ experience in the nuclear industry and 17 years in the manufacturing industry currently with at Sellafield Ltd (responsible for safely delivering decommissioning of the UK’s nuclear legacy & fuel recycling management). He is also a lecturer at the University of Warwick, a professional supervisor on the worked based Learning Masters Degree in Professional Engineering at both Aston University and Kingston University London.

Click to watch on YouTube:
Back To Basics:
Earned Value Management For Beginners

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Online Webinar – Recorded September 24th 2015
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 Free PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

For managers and IT team leaders who want quick literacy on DevOps – how did something born of a Twitter hashtag become a transformational force in IT departments around the world?

Get a one-hour primer from ASPE’s Chris Knotts on DevOps and why it’s important to the world of IT projects.

“DevOps,” like any buzzword, carries no agreed-upon definition and lots of misconception.

In some ways, it’s an odd and accidental term for something so significant and multifaceted. However, the underlying forces and reasons behind the DevOps movement are clear.

It’s about corporate culture shifts, IT worker empowerment, amazing new tools, cloud computing capabilities, and movement towards a new way of managing IT work: unified, agile, and oriented around the needs of the business.

Properly understood and pursued, DevOps holds the promise of higher quality operations and projects, higher IT worker retention, continuous deployment of code and products, more robust systems, higher levels of automation, and much more.

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) for the executive overview of the DevOps movement and what it means for IT teams everywhere.

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DevOps From 30,000 Feet

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Live Webinar August 11th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Something as simple as picking a color palette is often the very thing that scares developers away from diving into design.

Design decisions are so open-ended and exposed, and everyone’s a critic. And if your colors clash, there’s no compiler throwing an error or tests failing to let you know.

No wonder amazing developers clam up when it’s time to make design decisions, deferring to “someone creative, who knows more about design.”

Natalya Shelburne (LinkedIn profile) breaks down color theory basics the developer way by:

• Abstracting away her domain knowledge as an artist into variables and functions and…
• Sharing that information—to demystify design decisions, revealing them to be:
  • Logical,
  • Predictable, and …
  • Driven by principles that anyone can learn.

Along the way, Natalya explores wavelengths, old-school fine art resources, and code code code. This isn’t a talk about how colors make us feel—this is science.

Key questions include:

• What should you do when someone says “make it pop”?
• How can you improve accessibility with intentional use of color?
• Why are most “call to action” buttons a warm color like red or orange?
• Why shouldn’t you use #000000 on your website?
• Why are red and green color schemes troublesome in design?
• What happens if you mix exactly equal parts red and green? How about blue and orange?
• Why do highlights seem to always go on the tops of buttons?
• Why do certain colors look good together?
• Why does a color look good in a color picker but bad when you use it on your site?
• Why does using more white space make things look so much better?
• Why are Sass variables and color functions such awesome tools for developers?

 Join Natalya Shelburne as she demystifies the User Experience World of  the right color choices.

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User Experience (UX):
Practical Color Theory For People Who Code

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Live Webinar August 9th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August 9th, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Amazon and Microsoft offer a broad range of cloud data stores and databases.

Each has its own feature set, strengths, performance characteristics and typical use cases.

In this webinar Lyn Robison (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP describes, compares and contrasts the different options for data management available from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to help you choose the one(s) you need.

Discussion Topics:

• How the database products from AWS and Azure compare
• Considerations around cloud database adoption
• Which cloud databases are right for your requirements

Click to register for:
AWS & Azure Databases:
Comparing Cloud Database Providers

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