Live Webinar – February 22nd, 2017 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

Agile is one of the most common technical project management disciplines, but many PM’s don’t know how to leverage existing or even the new PM tools that Microsoft has to manage Agile projects.

In this session Tim will cover both Project and Project PPM best practices in how to build, manage Agile projects. By the end of this session, you will learn how to manage agile teams and projects using Microsoft Project and Project PPM technologies.

Presenter:  Tim Runcie – (LinkedIn profile @Advisicon) MVP in Project Server, President of Advisicon Tim has over 25 years of experience in information systems and 12 years of construction project management experience and is an established author, having written over 20 books Including:

• Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project – This presentation focuses on some of the great information from this valuable book!
  
• Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 & Project Server (Best Practices in Managing Projects with Microsoft Project)
• Microsoft Access in a SharePoint World
• Microsoft Business Intelligence: Executive Dashboards and Reporting with Microsoft Tools

As President ofAdvisicon, he has guided organizations & corporations in successfully managing competing initiatives using scarce resources, fixed budgets and interconnected schedules. Tim is particularly adept at establishing project methodologies that are adopted into the project management culture of organizations and creating custom tools to expedite and automate the project management process.

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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Using Agile Best Practices
With Project PPM Technologies

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Live Webinar – February 22nd, 2017 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Data Is Complex!

There are abbreviations, non-English words, companies entered into the name field, and parsing problems when domain values are blank.

Hand-coded rules will always introduce problems to the data steward and require extensive debugging.

Data Quality firms leverage thousands of customers to distill specific quality solutions and enable companies to leverage technologies that have proven success across many verticals.

So, should you build your own data quality solution,
Or buy one from a third party?

Attend this webinar to learn what to look for in a data quality vendor, and that not all of them are alike regarding features or price.

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Build vs. Buy Data Quality:Insight For A Data Steward

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Live Webinar February 21st, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Applications have become the new competitive battleground, placing pressure on IT to deliver new features and releases to the business faster.

While firms attempt to transform themselves through cloud, mobile, and IoT, many have failed to address the largest constraint: test data.

Data mastery is the key to unlocking developer and tester productivity.

To improve business agility, companies must look for ways to efficiently secure and deliver test data to application teams faster so that they can release applications at a more competitive pace.

Join this web seminar to learn:

1. Why data represents the most significant bottleneck in the software development lifecycle
2. Proven practices for securing and delivering test data
3. Proven practices for securing and delivering test data
4. How solutions in the emerging category of data virtualization are transforming test data management
5. How to integrate cutting-edge test data management technologies into DevOps initiatives

Presenters:

Brett Stevens (LinkedIn profile) Product Marketing Delphix, is a member of the product marketing team, and focuses on educating clients on the benefit of leveraging data virtualization across the lifecycle of their application projects. In his previous role on the business technology consulting team, Stevens worked with clients to map their data management pain points to use cases for Delphix.

Matt Yeh (LinkedIn profile) helps craft Delphix’s go-to-market strategy, specializing in test data management and data security. Prior to joining Delphix, he was a solution manager at SAP Labs, where he shaped SAP’s GRC software portfolio for customers in regulated industries.

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Unlock Software Testing Productivity
By Mastering Test Data Management

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Live Webinar – February 22nd, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

New research is showing that emotional intelligence is no longer a “nice-to-have.”

• It’s a need to have in today’s workplace and serves as the building block for professional success.
• It’s not a building block that’s isolated to a few professions or job roles. It’s just about as universal as a success principle can be.EQ, however, is widely misunderstood as something people either have or don’t have.

Join Erin Boettge (LinkedIn profile) Marketing Content Manager, BizLibrary  & Krista Brubaker (LinkedIn profile) Content Marketing Specialist, BizLibrary for this webinar as they outline a development plan for your leaders, managers and key employees to help improve EQ across your organization.

EQ can be learned, developed and improved!

It’s a critically important core business skill, and as you see your employees reach higher levels of mastery, you will see higher levels of performance across a broad spectrum of business skills and professional skills.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Learn why EQ is necessary to business success
• Learn the markers of low and high EQ
• Discover how to create an EQ development plan for your organization

Click to register for:
Developing Your Leaders’ Emotional Intelligence
To Improve Organizational Performance

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Live Webinar February 22nd, 2017, 11:00 am – 12:00 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

Click to register for:
Top Cybersecurity Trends For 2017-2018

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Live Webinar – February 22nd, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Business architecture is a strategic differentiator. However there are practical applications of tools and techniques that will support and link business strategy to the tactical outcomes.

By applying models and standards the business analyst and the project managers benefit from the alignment, clarity and re-usability of the business architecture.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain why bother doing business architecture
• Describe business architecture as a complementary and supporting methodology to analysis deliverables
• Demonstrate some cool tools PMs and business analyst could use
• Show you how to be a hero to your business, developers, testers and customer
• Provide a description of value Participants will acquire a functional knowledge of business architecture. The adoption of business architecture tools and techniques will support the management of requirements & risk by establishing clearer scope.

Click to register for:
Top 10 Things about Business Architecture
For BAs & PMs

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