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Sep
27
Live Webinar – October 5th, 2016 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
So you’ve been assigned a complex,
poorly defined project concept
So now what?
Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity.
These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.
- Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours?
- What do you do next?
This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.
Learning objectives:
- Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
- The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
- Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work
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EdmontonPM
Sep
27
Live Webinar October 4th, 2016 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute
Rewards & Recognition Are Different!
The terms rewards and recognition have often been used together to describe a company’s incentive system. This is a real problem because the two concepts really are different and should be treated as such.
Scott A. Jeffrey (LinkedIn profile) Associate Professor, Monmouth University, will introduce the attendees to two fundamental types of incentive programs and show why the concepts of rewards and recognition should not be confused.
Rewards can be thought of as:
- Part of a contingent pay system; it is a “do this, get that” type of arrangement. For example, sales people who sell a specific amount of a product earn an additional bonus.
Recognition is different from this as it is:
- What is termed a “discretionary” rewards system. Rather than provide a reward for a specific accomplishment, this type of reward is provide for “good work in general.”
- It may also be given for a specific action, but it differs in the fact that it is not a reward that was promised ex-ante for engaging in that behavior.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn how to identify and separate contingent and discretionary reward systems
- Participants will understand the need for both types of systems
- Participants will understand the benefits that accrue from a well implemented recognition system
- Participants will understand how to design and implement discretionary recognition systems
- Participants will learn how to encourage managers to engage in discretionary recognition behaviors
Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.
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Sep
27
Live Webinar October 4th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars
Gartner’s original prediction that the term “Big Data” would become meaningless by 2020 was actually a bit off – it’s largely useless already for differentiating products and solutions in most areas today, and customers are hearing identical terminology with little meaning or differentiation from most vendors in the space.
In this webinar Terilyn Palanca (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director will talk about what the term has come to mean today, where it should still be used, and where it should not.
Discussion Topics:
- Where is “Big Data” irrelevant as a differentiating term today
- What does “Big Data” really mean to buying organizations today
- How can I message and position my “Big Data” product or solution effectively
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Sep
27
Live Webinar October 4th, 2016 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly
Creating successful big data project isn’t just a technical endeavor. The management of a big data project is also key. A lack of management understanding is one of the most common patterns for failure.
In this webcast, Jesse Anderson (CEO, Smoking Hand) will cover some of the ways that management teams can set-up their data engineering team for success. We’ll cover how to engineer big data solutions from a management and project management point of view.
You will learn:
- How to decipher between what is and what isn’t big data, and the importance of knowing the difference.
- Which business decisions and expected outcomes to identify before starting a big data project.
- Best practices for managing your data engineering team.
- How to create a proof of concept for your big data project.
This webcast offers a selection of content from Jesse Anderson’s upcoming live online training Managing Enterprise Data Strategies with Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka on October 18th & 19th
Presenter: Jesse Anderson (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Smoking Hand, is a creative engineer with many years of experience in creating products and helping companies improve their software engineering. Jesse previously created big data and data science curriculum for Cloudera, leading instruction for thousands of people entering this field, and has played an active part within the Apache Hadoop community, creating many popular open source examples for big data use cases.
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