Live Webinar – December 12th, 2016 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Live Webinar – December 12th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

For those of us working with Agile, the benefits are obvious and we strongly believe that Agile is intuitively the right way to work.

However, there are many that still need convincing.

Successful adoption of Agile often requires fundamental change in the way an organization operates (culture) and it’s not uncommon to meet resistance when attempting to persuade decision makers and those with authority that it’s the best way to work.

During this webinar, presenter Melanie will:

1. Identify what is really important for senior managers
2. Demonstrate how Agile meets their needs
3. Explain how to engage senior managers to accept an Agile approac

Renowned agile expert Melanie Franklin, co- chair of the Change Management Institute UK and author of Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative,  has designed this webinar content to help Senior Managers that have heard “everyone is using agile” but doesn’t really understand what agile means and what the advantages are.

Presenter: 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. 

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Selling Agile To Senior Managers

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Live Webinar December 14th, 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)

Note: You will receive a certificate from PROJECTInsight

• Have you ever been in that meeting that lasted “FOREVER” and you just wanted to escape?
• How often do you “zone” out in meetings?
• Do you ever wonder if others are doing the same in yours?

You are not alone.

Rumor has it your team dreads your project meetings… OUCH! Work, technology, emails and busy schedules often seem to interrupt the good intentions of productive meetings.

If you have experienced the above or are guilty of putting together these oh-so-dreadful meetings and are looking for a better way, this webinar is for you.

Project managers cannot get out of having all meetings, but they can work to ensure that the team is efficient and effective during those meetings.

Learn how to avoid meeting madness, bring the zest back into your meetings and the life back into your team members!

Tis the season to be jolly!

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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How To Avoid Meeting Madness

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Live Webinar December 12th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic technology trends are rapidly changing disruptive trends with significant potential for enterprise impact over the next three to five years and IT cannot afford to ignore them.

In this webinar David W. Cearley (LinkedIn profile) VP & Gartner Fellow
details the annual Gartner list of the top 10 trends you should be factoring into your strategic planning for 2017 – 2018.

Discussion Topics:

• Which trends will drive the greatest disruption to the IT landscape over the next five years
• Critical technologies that must be explored to support the move to digital business
• How these trends and technologies are evolving and actions to take today

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The Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2017

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Live Webinar December 13th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Every year brings new challenges for big data, from applications to security to discovery.

This webcast Peter and Jeff bring together some of Oracle’s leading experts to give useful—and provocative—insight into what’s coming over the horizon.

Some long-term trends will see tipping points, as Machine Learning, for example, blurs into Artificial Intelligence with easier-to-use tools and better data access.

In other cases, long-term developments that have been in tension will see new strategies for coexisting: hybrids of private and public cloud will become much more common, and tools and strategies for making the best of each of their virtues will be a major theme of 2017.

On top of these established trends, new technologies are enabling long-desired applications, with Kafka supporting simpler data-bus architectures for Real-Time data analytics, and data virtualization giving analysts access to data across storage platforms and language barriers.

Learn more about:

• Trends in data architecture
• Bleeding-edge applications of data
• What you can do now to prepare your organization for what’s to come.

Presenters:

Peter Jeffcock (LinkedIn profile) Senior Principal Product Director at Oracle; focuses on Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at Sun Microsystems holding a variety of marketing positions in Grid Computing, Developer Tools and High Performance Computing.

Jeff Pohlmann (LinkedIn profile) VP of Big Data and Analytic Platforms at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, Jeff had been in executive roles at Genpact (GE Partner) leading industrial analytics and IBM Global Business Service’s Smarter Oil & Gas Practice, Teradata, and SPSS where he worked with market leaders in developing the strategies for driving value out of analytics and big data. Jeff has spent years developing cross industry analytical solutions driving operational excellence through the use of Big Data and analytics.

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What’s Coming For Big Data In 2017?

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