Live Webinar – November 22nd 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Agile Is A Way Of Working
Based On Core Values & Principles.

Practices are developed from those core values and principles, .

Most people know Agile from specific practices like daily stand up, story points, user stories, etc., but the foundation of Agile is its fundamental values and principles.

Because of this, Agile is very extendable; meaning new flavors of Agile can be developed as well as new practices.

One of those new flavors of Agile is the Lean Start-up. Lean Start-Up or LSU, is a flavor of Agile dealing with Product Development and Launch.

It can tie in marketing and sales but at its core, it is a way of enabling your organization to test early and often and from there use what you learned to successful scale new products with much less long term risk.

Even though “Start-up” is in the name of this flavor of Agile, it isn’t just for small organizations or entrepreneur based organizations.

One of the big trend for large enterprise organizations is the concept of Intrepreneurership; basically incubating new products using entrepreneur tactics while working in a larger organization.

The same can be done with Lean Start-up.

In this presentation David will look at what Lean Start-Up is and techniques used to successfully take advantage of its practices and activities.

From that point, we will look at some practical real-world examples of how Lean Start-up can be executed within any organization type.

The goal is to provide both the theory of Lean Start-up with real-world details of how the theory can be executed to significantly reduce the risks involved in new product development and let the market help you make decisions over trying to plan where you think the market will end up.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile)  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

Click to register for:
Lean Startup Primer:
How Any Size Organization Can Use It

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Live Webinar Nov 23rd 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar Nov 23rd 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Ask an IT organization to review its application project success track record over the past 10 to 15 years and chances are that they will express general satisfaction — most application projects are deemed to be successful.

Ask the current business managers what they think of the current portfolio of applications and they will express dissatisfaction — most applications are unpopular.

Discussion Topics:

• The root cause of this dichotomy and how can it be eliminated
• The difference between a successful project and a successful application
• How future application projects can ensure delivery of successful applications

Join Andy Kyte, (LinkedIn profile) VP & Gartner Fellow and learn how successful applications make for successful projects!

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Stop Aiming For Successful Projects:
Start Aiming For Successful Applications

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Live Webinar – November 21st, 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

MPUG – Manage Projects Using SharePoint is a 4 Lesson event presented throughout the month of November.

Training on technology accelerates learning and adoption. Teach your teams to manage projects on SharePoint 2013.

Perform the most important project management activities using the out-of-the-box features of SharePoint. Learn how easy it can be to set up a project site that keeps your team informed and engaged.

SharePoint is designed as a platform for creating collaborative business applications.

Learn the SharePoint applications that already exist to help you manage the schedule, track issues and risks, and control critical project documentation, all while keeping your team updated with the latest project information.

Lesson Three Topics:

• Document collaboration is easy in SharePoint.
• Record useful status reports with minimum effort.
• Risk management for Stakeholders: The Stakeholder page.
• The six point project status agenda creates a cadence of progress.
• Use alerts to promote collaboration.

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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Manage Projects Using SharePoint: Lesson Three

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Live Webinar – November 22nd 2016 7:30 am – 8:30 am EST
Live Webinar – November 22nd 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Use this Twitter Hashtag during the session: #apmportfolio

• Are you comfortable with the level of insight you are able to provide on your company’s project portfolio?
• Are you able to have the right conversations with your senior management rather than worrying about the quality of the data presented?
• Do you sometimes struggle to ensure that you meet the portfolio reporting needs of a disparate set of stakeholders?

Analytics packages are becoming more and more popular as a way of manipulating, interpreting and presenting portfolio information.

These can be applied over any Portfolio Project Management (PPM) system and are designed to be easily configurable by upskilling existing internal resources.

The tricky part, as with most projects, is often ensuring you have defined clear outcomes and follow a structured approach to implement change and realise the benefits.

This webinar presents SABMiller’s global portfolio management function as a case study, with support from their partner consultancy North Highland, to demonstrate their original objectives, methodology, results and lessons learnt in moving from traditional spreadsheet type reporting to more value adding portfolio management analytics.

This is not intended to be a recommendation for any particular analytics package, but is intended  to help portfolio managers learn more about how analytics can enhance their existing portfolio management reporting capability.

Presenters:

Paul Morgan (LinkedIn profile) Global Head of Demand & Portfolio Management for the IT function SABMiller, has 10+ years’ experience in the project and portfolio management discipline, specialising in multi-country IT portfolio management.  Paul ran successful projects within the transport industry, then moved to SABMiller.

Will Mosenthal (LinkedIn profile) Manager at North Highland, has over 8 years of experience in management consulting projects.   He specialises in Process Improvement and Business Analysis and has worked in industries including oil & gas, retail, telecoms, pharmaceuticals and CPG.

Click to register for:
Can Portfolio Analytics Make A Valuable Difference
In Your Organisation?

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Live Webinar Nov 22nd, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar Nov 22nd, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Inventory is more than a single pile of short term assets sitting on the company balance sheet.

When used properly, inventory protects or creates value by fulfilling one of six roles.

In order to act as stewards of a working capital efficiency, supply chain leaders must orchestrate three types of decisions across the enterprise: design choices, situational business decisions and optimized operations.

In this webinar Paul Lord, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director provides supply chain strategists, and planning and inventory management leaders with a comprehensive framework for managing and communicating the complex combination of constraints, risks, events and decisions that determine balance sheet inventory.

Discussion Topics:

• The three categories of supply chain decisions that determine inventory
• The six inventory functions that create or protect value in the supply chain
• Five themes for improved use of inventory in the supply chain

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Manage 3 Decisions To Master Supply Chain Inventory

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Live Webinar November 16th, 2016 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process.

More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.

This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

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5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

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