Live Webinar September 13th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Migrating capability to the cloud comes with several planning and management challenges.

• How does an organization determine the right capability to migrate and the right platform for the migration?
• What challenges do the various cloud solutions (Infrastructure vs. Platform vs. Software as a Service) present?

This session discusses the various service models and presents a case study outlining the migration activities and other implications for migrating the “same” application on each of the three cloud solution models.

Join Alene as she presents the a case study outlining the migration activities and cost implications for migrating the same application on each of the three cloud solution models.

Presenter: Arlene F. Minkiewicz (LinkedIn profile @arleneMink) Chief Scientist at Price Systems, LLC With 30 + years of experience building cost models, Arlene is a software measurement expert dedicated to finding creative solutions focused on helping make software development professionals successful. Check out her Blog on the Pricesystems Site!

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Cloud Solutions – Infrastructure, Platform or Software:
Where Should You Go?

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Live Webinar September 14th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Influence – definition – is essential for success in your project management career. It may be the ultimate interpersonal skill set.  Like any powerful capability, it can be used in different ways.

Too many professionals avoid developing their influence skills because they perceive these skills as “playing politics” instead of getting work done.

Fortunately, there are ways to connect and influence at the office successfully without resorting to “House of Cards” style tactics.

In this webinar you will learn how to influence others in an effective and ethical way.

Strategies covered include leveraging different types of power (e.g. intellectual, formal, and relational), creating influential messages and more.

It’s a must attend session for professionals tired of seeing their well-reasoned suggestions ignored.

Presenter: Bruce Harpham (LinkedIn profile) runs Project Management Hacks, and his experience has focused on the financial services industry. Bruce’s writing on project management has appeared in Project Manager Today magazine, Project Times, CIO.com, and  ProjectManagement.com. In 2014, he won several blogging awards from IT World Canada for his writing on technology trends.

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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 72 hours of the live session.

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How To Play Office Politics Without Losing Sleep

Live Webinar September 13th, 2016 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  3 Hours  3 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

A 3 Hour Open Collaboration Conference!

 We have frameworks and languages for creating software projects, but successful projects include the human factor—communicating with people, including a growing community of users and contributors.

Communication, collaboration, and respect are the keys to making projects work, not just within your team but also among several teams, and often across organizations and the broader world.

In this online conference, you’ll hear from three experienced open source developers and contributors as they share their tips for effective and rewarding collaboration.

Forking Successfully

Forking in the open source world means branching off into different goals and design directions.

• How do you pick a winner?
• How do you become a forking winner?

Colin Charles presents practical examples from the MariaDB world (MySQL fork), as well as lessons from other projects like LibreOffice, LibreSSL, SuiteCRM, and Jenkins.

Using Open Source Software
To Connect Cuba To The Web Via Email

Salvi Pascual details how open source software can be used to change the world.

In Cuba, 23 percent of the population can only access email—just 5 percent can access the Web without restrictions.

Salvi offers an overview of his work with a nonprofit that connects thousands of Cubans to the Web via email and explains how you can contribute.

You have a unique opportunity to learn this technology and use your skills to make a worldwide impact.

Presenter: Salvi Pascual (LinkedIn profile) is a university professor, experienced software developer, systems architect, and technology trailblazer for social good through his open source project, Apretaste. His work has an immediate and positive affect on thousands of people internationally, and he has received national recognition as a technology innovator. Salvi earned a master’s degree in computer science & continues to teach and inspire future technology creators.

Optimizing Your Project For Contribution

As open source project maintainers, we are sometimes left wondering why our projects are overlooked and rarely receive contributions. This doesn’t need to be the case.

By taking a few straightforward but deliberate steps, we can lower the barrier to entry for our projects and increase the pool of potential contributors.

Joshua Matthews covers opportunities for automation, technology choices, communication styles, language hacks, and more that will increase the visibility of your project.

Using examples drawn from a variety of open source projects, Josh presents concrete strategies to attract, encourage, and retain new contributors.

He focuses his discussion on a set of five core goals:

1. Prioritizing useful information,
2. Reducing friction,
3. Making expectations clear,
4. Responding appropriately, and
5. Following through

Presenter: Joshua Matthews (LinkedIn profile) is a platform developer at Mozilla, where he gets to write a lot of Rust code. He’s a core contributor to Firefox and Servo and a keen mentor to new contributors. Josh gleefully demolishes any barriers to entry that he comes across in open source projects.

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Open Collaboration

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Live Webinar Sept 13th 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar Sept 13th 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

This Special Report will examine the effect on IT and application strategies for those who assume cloud first and make the flip to cloud computing for business applications.

We are seeing a significant shift from owning and running business application software to consuming and using business application services.

Many organizations and vendors are making an assumption that cloud will be their first choice for applications.

This is a flip of expectations and priorities into the cloud model, and many companies will require a reorientation of IT strategies for delivering business application capabilities.

Join Alexander Drobik (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Managing VP &  Michael Maoz (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst as they present the Special Report that predicts the move of business applications to the cloud (all types), what “tipping point” may exist, and what organization types would be impacted.

Discussion Topics:

• Understanding the future of business applications in the cloud
• Developing a cloud-based business application strategy
• Selecting a cloud-based business application vendor

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Adapting Your IT Strategy For
A Cloud-Dominated Business Application Environment

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Live Webinar – September 7th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

Are you an experienced project manager looking for ways to enhance your leadership skills?

Last month, NK presented an overview of key leadership skills you can use to help lead your project teams successfully.

This month, NK will focus on differences between leadership and management.

• What are the core competencies of successful project leaders vs. successful project managers?
• How can you leverage each role to drive your projects toward success?

Learn these and more in this month’s Lunch and Learn.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

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Leadership vs. Management

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Live Webinar September 8th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Mike Overly (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the 7 key steps to drafting effective Statements of Work.

Participants will be able to immediately put these steps to use to ensure project goals are reached and project schedules and budgets are achieved.

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7 Key Steps To Drafting Effective Statements Of Work

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