Live Webinar – December 7th, 2016 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Migrating from one project server to the next version has many paths and pitfalls.

Which one that works best for your company depends on your vision and requirements, your budget and perhaps the easiest way to get to your final solution.

in this session Michael starts by at reviewing your PMO vision and requirements, then planning architectures of the different versions of SharePoint and Project server.

Then he reviews strategies and advantages between doing an upgrades versus a migration.

Building your migration with PowerShell scripts and checklists of additional tasks.

Once the migration is stabilized, he goes over the steps for the final deployment.

Presenter: Michael Wharton (LinkedIn profile) PMP, MVP, MBA, , MCT, MCTS, MCITP, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA is a Project/SharePoint Consultant whose passion to improve project management processes. Michael has implemented project server in over twenty-five PMOs, and is the past President & Director of Programs for the NC Piedmont PMI, board member of the Triad SQL Server User Group, Triad Developers Guild and Enterprise Architect Roundtable. Check out Michael’s site at MyProjectExpert.com.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Migration To Project Server 2016

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Live Webinar December 6th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: StickyMinds/Techwell

Juggling multiple devices, user types, and platforms has created new challenges for digital business teams.

Gone are the days of leisurely handoffs between development and QA or business and release teams—today’s markets move too fast and customer expectations are incredibly high.

Whether your operating environment is mainframe, distributed, web, desktop, or mobile, organizations need to evolve to a more comprehensive and connected end-to-end process.

Join this web seminar to learn how DevOps bridges the gaps between business, delivery, and operations teams in a way that reduces complexity, ensures the end-user experience, and preserves existing IT systems, processes, and tools.

Learn how to:

• Create requirements with real-time visibility and business agility
• Automate testing across any platform and device combination without added processing costs
• Implement continuous integration and delivery with release and deployment automation

Presenters:

Archie Roboostoff (LinkedIn profile) Director, Product Management Micro Focus With 17+ years of experience in the enterprise software industry, Archie is the software, delivery, and testing (formerly Borland) solutions portfolio director, responsible for the direction and strategy of testing and quality products within Micro Focus. Previously, Archie was responsible for the terminal emulation products at Micro Focus and was responsible for product management at NetManage Inc.

Renato Quédas (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Solution Strategy Micro Focus Renato; has 20+ years product development and consulting experience, helping organizations around the world to successfully adopt agile and continuous delivery practices and technologies. He’s a prolific speaker, addressing a broad range of topics around the globe, and has a wide range of technical publications and presentations to his credit.

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DevOps Delivers A Comprehensive,
End-to-End Process To Bridge the Gaps
Between Business, Development, & Operations

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Live Webinar December 6th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

How to Establish Self-Service Data Preparation &
Enterprise Data Unification

Most organizations are striving to convert data into a competitive advantage – but there’s an immediate and daunting problem:

How do you unify and prepare your data for analysis?

Large, heterogenous data volumes are spreading rapidly across most enterprises, and there’s a need for new solutions that allow for both self-service data preparation and enterprise data unification.

Join  Ihab Ilyas, and Joseph Hellerstein, as they deliver a “State of the Union” on data preparation, and discuss how two distinct methods self-service data preparation and enterprise data unification solve fundamentally different, but related challenges.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

• Why traditional approaches to data preparation, like ETL, and manual methods, like Excel cut-and-paste, are inefficient for today’s volume of data.
• How you can better enable your less-technical users, who are often the ones most familiar with the content and context of the data.
• Self-service approaches that accelerate and democratize data analytics
• How to plan for an enterprise-wide data unification solution that’s systematic and scalable

Presenters:

Dr. Ihab Ilyas (LinkedIn profile) Co-Founder at Tamr, is also a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo. Ihab’s primary research is in the area of database systems, with special focus on data quality, managing uncertain data, rank-aware query processing, and information extraction.  Ilyas received his PhD in computer science from Purdue University 2004. Ihab also led the Data Analytics Group at the Qatar Computing Research Institute and spent two summers with IBM Almaden Research Center.  An IBM CAS faculty fellow since 2006, Ihab is a recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2008), the David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowship (2013), and the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award in 2014.

Joseph M. Hellerstein (LinkedIn profile) Chief Strategy Officer at Trifacta, is the Jim Gray Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. AnACM Fellow, his work has been recognized via awards including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, MIT Technology Review’s TR10 and TR100 lists, Fortune Magazine’s “Smartest in Tech” list, and three ACM-SIGMOD “Test of Time” awards. He has led a number of influential open source projects, including Bloom, MADlib, and Telegraph.

Toph Whitmore (LinkedIn profile) Principal Analyst Blue Hill Research,covers Big Data, analytics, marketing automation, and business operations technology spaces. His research interests include technology adoption criteria, data-driven decision-making in the enterprise, customer-journey analytics, and enterprise data-integration models. Toph also spent four years providing management consulting, delivering strategic project management leadership and recently,  served as a marketing executive with cloud infrastructure and Big Data software technology firms. A former journalist, Toph’s writing has appeared in GigaOM, DevOps Angle, and The Huffington Post, among other media. Toph  is active in Vancouvers tech startup community as an angel investor and corporate advisor.

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Data Preparation State Of The Union

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Live Webinar December 7th, 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar December 7th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Security concerns continue as organizations globally grapple with technology changes affecting them.

Threats to that technology and supporting process continue to grow in number and sophistication.

Traditional IT security leaders have become digital security leaders as they expand support to address risks for technology-savvy engineering and physical environments while embracing expanded roles for cloud and mobile services.

In this webinar Earl Perkins, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) reviews the lessons learned and informs listeners how to use the past to create the future.

Discussion Topics:

• What technology and market trends are occurring to meet the changing digital security landscape
• Which security technologies and processes have changed to accommodate the demands of digital business
• How digital security leaders in organizations can use these trends to their advantage

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Top Digital Security Trends For 2017 – 2018

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Live Webinar – December 6th 2016 7:30 am – 8:30 am EST
Live Webinar – December 6th 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

The Enabling Change SIG’s mission is to ‘improve the change capability of organisations, teams and individuals. CMI’s competency framework could be one tool to support this.

In this webinar Melanie Franklin will enable delegates to find out about the CMI’s competency framework, and assess if and how this is something that could help them, their teams and their organisations develop their change capability.

She will do this through a combination of presentations and a couple of polls during the webinar. Melanie will also allow some time for Q&A.

N.B. The SIG is ‘method neutral’, so that we invite speakers from a range of external change-related organisations to speak at our events.

The webinar will also provide a quick update on the SIG’s work in developing the resources available to members, including its plans for an introductory publication on managing change.

Presenters: 

Melanie Franklin, (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) has a track record of excellence in project, programme and portfolio planning & delivery. She has set up and run the project management capability for several major corporates and has been responsible for the successful delivery of global transformational change programmes for over twenty years. Co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK, Melanie is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner and author of many books on change and project management including Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide and Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. 

Elisabeth Goodman (LinkedIn profile) Bsc Msc Founder and Principal Consultant of RiverRhee Consulting, which specialises in workshop-style training for enhancing team effectiveness. Prior  to 2007 Elisabeth spent 25 +years in Pharmaceutical R&D.  Elisabeth is accredited in Change Management, in Lean Sigma, in MBTI and Belbin Team Roles and is an NLP  Practitioner. She also leads the Membership, Communications and Events theme of the Enabling Change SIG.

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How Capable Are You At Managing Change?
The Change Management Institute’s Competency Framework

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Live Webinar December 7th 2016, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm  EST or
Live Webinar December 8th 2016, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:: Change Management Learning Center (PROSCI)

Prosci specializes in change management processes.  With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

Applying change management and fulfilling the role of “change agent” is a change for many in the organization.

To be successful in bringing change management to your programs, projects and organization, you will need to apply what you know about change management to change management.

Learn how to catalyze the adoption of “applying change management” by building buy-in, commitment and know how.

Why would getting your organization to adopt the change “applying change management” be different than similar changes?

Agenda:

1. What is the change you are trying to implement?
2. How to manage the change of “doing change management”

PROSCI literally “wrote the books” on Change Management:

• ADKAR®: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Communityby Jeffrey M. Hiatt
  • ADKAR®—awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement
• Change Management: The People Side of Change by Jeffrey M. Hiatt

These texts are a MUST READ for anyone performing Change management as a part of their role!

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Change Management Takes Change Management

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