Live Webinar – November 15th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Human Capital Institute

A Professional’s Guide to Braving the Gig Economy

In this webcast, Adam Calli (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant at Arc Human Capital LLC and instructor at George Mason University, will share his experience and research surrounding the gig economy and what HR leaders can do to get the most out of the new world of work.

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The Gig Economy Then and Now: What You Need to Know to Maximize the Benefits of a Flexible Workforce

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Live Webinar November 17th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

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Project Management Best Practices With Karl Wiegers

Successful software projects are built on a foundation of well-understood requirements.

However, many development organizations get caught in traps that prevent them from effectively collecting, documenting, or managing their requirements.

This presentation describes ten typical requirements problems that can sabotage your project.

Several symptoms that indicate you might be getting caught in each trap are presented, along with suggestions for avoiding or escaping from the trap.

The requirements traps discussed are:

1. Confusion about what a requirement is
2. Inadequate customer involvement
3. Vague and ambiguous requirements
4. Unprioritized requirements
5. Building functionality no one uses
6. Analysis paralysis
7. Scope creep
8. Inadequate requirements change process
9. Insufficient change impact analysis
10. Inadequate requirements version control

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

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Software Requirements: 10 Traps To Avoid

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Live Webinar November 16th 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Forming Virtual teams is Appealing

Employees can manage their work and personal lives more flexibly, and they have the opportunity to interact with colleagues around the world.

Companies can use the best global talent while significantly reducing their expenses.

As companies continue to expand globally, the number of people working in teams with colleagues and managers separated from them by many miles (and often different time zones) is growing.

Becoming an effective virtual team manager is no longer something to ‘wing’. It is a necessity for today’s leaders.

You will learn:

• How to hire employees with the potential to thrive on virtual teams
• When and how to run effective virtual meetings
• Creative team bonding exercises
• How to address cultural sensitivity
• How to set a reward system to keep virtual individuals and the team motivated
• Positive and negative consequence of utilizing multiple communication tools

Join Shawn Stratton (LinkedIn profile) and learn how to make your virtual teams “Thrive”.

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Creating Virtual Teams That Thrive

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Live Webinar November 16th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

A wrap-up of all the fundamental IT methodology webinars, this session focuses on how the various lifecycles can be implemented.

Review the QAIassist Integrated Methodology and learn the benefits that can be derived from its successful implementation.

Ensure that you have a solid foundation to before you get started!

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Implementing IT Methodology

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Live Webinar November 14th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

CIOs and ERP leaders in midsize organizations need to separate the myths of SaaS ERP, or cloud ERP more generally, from the reality.

Leading midsize organizations are managing expectations and prioritizing selection criteria to gain maximum value from SaaS and cloud ERP.

Discussion Topics:

• How the hype around the cloud and SaaS/cloud ERP has created myths about the perceived benefits, many of which do not stand the test of reality
• The real source of benefits to make the best selection decisions
• How to balance business-related and technical criteria to deploy solutions that best support today’s and future business needs

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Top 10 SaaS ERP Myths
That Midmarket CIOs Need To Know

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Live Webinar November 15th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Risk Management is believed to be an important part of the program management process, so much so that there are hundreds of consultants and software products focused solely on this.

There are many ways that the risk management process activity is measured, but none that measure whether the process actually provides value to the project.

In this webinar Charles Weis (LinkedIn profile) will follow on to the first one, which tackled how to measure identification of risk.  This second webinar will take on how to measure the management of risk.

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Risk Management Process Measurement

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