Live Webinar September 28th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:   Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this “not to be missed” session Gary Cokins (LinkedIn profile), the preeminent organizational performance practitioner & best selling author, will describe how to complete the full vision of analytics-based enterprise performance management and improvement!

Enterprise performance management (EPM) is now viewed as the seamless integration of managerial methods such as strategy execution with a strategy map and its companion balanced scorecard (KPIs) and operational dashboards (PIs); enterprise risk management (ERM); driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts; product / service / channel / customer profitability analysis (using activity-based costing [ABC] principles); customer lifetime value (CLV); lean and Six Sigma quality management for operational improvement; and resource capacity planning.

Hear Gary Cokins describe why the adoption rate of EPM methodologies have been slow, as have the lessons learned to overcome obstacles and get buy-in.

Some of Gary’s Very Informative Books:

• Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance with Larry Maisel
• Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting in Uncertain Times American Institute of CPAs With Michael Coveney
• Strategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance  AICPA
• The Handbook of Supply Chain Costing Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals With co-authors
• Activity-based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide
• Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
• CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value With Information Technology
• Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis

About Gary Cokins:

Gary Cokins (LinkedIn profile) is an internationally recognized expert, sought after keynote speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems.

Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina Gary has written numerous books and mentored individuals and organizations in performance management over the last 40+ years. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971 and his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC’s Link-Belt Division, Financial Controller and Operations Manager and in 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte consulting, and then KPMG consulting. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS). From 1997 until recently Gary was in business development with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

Gary’s two most recent books are Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap  and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics .

His most recent book co-authored with Larry Maisel (LinkedIn profile) is Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance. Visit Mr. Cokins site at GaryCokins.com.

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What Barriers Slow Adopting Enterprise Performance Management Methods?

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Live Webinar – September 28th, 2016 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
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The project schedule is composed of many moving parts but sequencing is one of the primary driving variables.

Sequencing decisions can extend or compress a schedule and so it is important that the project manager understand them and sequence tasks correctly to attain the schedule objective.

In this webinar the types of sequence and examples will be discussed and demonstrated. How to extend and compress a schedule will be demonstrated along with block (event) scheduling and fine- tuning lead, lag and intentional delay in relationships.

Finally, effective methods to evaluate sequencing before committing to the schedule will be demonstrated in this hands-on webinar.

Speaker: Sam Huffman (LinkedIn profile) is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Project Management Professional, and Project MVP. Sam has been delivering training for The Versatile Company since 1996. Sam gained insight into Microsoft Project while working at Microsoft as a member of the Microsoft Project development and support team. Sam is considered a leading authority on the tool, and provides great insight to project Managers on the newest enterprise features of all versions of Microsoft Project and Project Server.

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Sequencing Strategies In Microsoft Project

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Live Webinar September 29th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Because they promise to provide high scalability and availability, microservices are gaining ground in high-throughput Java applications.

However, design patterns that worked well in a monolithic application rarely work well in the microservices world. The design patterns you choose for your microservices-based applications play a significant role in their performance.

In this webcast, you’ll get a deeper look at 3 anti-patterns in microservices architecture that may cause significant performance impacts on your applications.

You’ll learn tips for avoiding these anti-patterns, so you can create effective and efficient conversions.

Asad Ali and Reinhard Pilz from Dynatrace, will use Spring Boot applications built on a microservices architecture to showcase these anti-patterns and successful techniques for avoiding them, such as:

• How to create balance between service-level granularity and application performance
• How to distribute services across multiple processes and hosts, and gain scalability and availability without degrading performance
• How to optimize inter-service communication without creating payload overhead

Presenters:

Asad Ali (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) is a technical product evangelist with over 15 years of experience in OOP, databases and scripting languages. His vast expertise includes application performance for Java, .NET, containers, and mobile. Asad leads a team of technical resources for the Dynatrace application monitoring product extending and enhancing the application monitoring capabilities and assisting with large scale deployments.

Reinhard Pilz (LinkedIn profile) Product Specialist at Dynatrace, has over 15 years of experience as full-stack developer in the field of web and APM engineering. In his role as a Product Specialist, he is regularly involved in deep dive analysis of application architecture and performance issues. His expertise includes application performance for Java, .NET, and mobile applications.

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Techniques For Successfully Moving To Microservices Architecture

Live Webinar September 27th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The commercial drone market is expanding now with the release of FAA regulations in June of 2016. Drones combine the benefits of mobility and robotics to create a versatile platform for remote sensing, delivery, data communications and other functions.

The market is still establishing itself, and new vendors are offering new products and services at an accelerated pace while established drone vendors attempt to leverage their expertise in personal and military markets.

Although the market is new and frenetic what benefits and risks do commercial drones pose for business?

Discussion Topics:

• The real benefit of commercial drone uses
• The risks of using commercial drones
• What the future of commercialized drones looks like

Join Gerald Van Hoy (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Research Analyst & Brady Wang (Gartner bio) Gartner Principal Research Analyst as they explain “How Will Commercial Drones Change Your Business?”

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How Will Commercial Drones Change Your Business?

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