Live Webinar – March 7th, 2018 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

Regardless which project management methodology you choose, you’ll still guide your projects through a project lifecycle.

The methodologies differ in how they progress through the lifecycle’s stages or phases and how you schedule and manage the work that’s performed.

In this session, John & Bonnie will explore implementing these methodologies in more detail. In addition, we’ll look at scheduling for these methodologies in Microsoft Project.

Presenters:

John Riopel (LinkedIn profile)

Bonnie Biafore (LinkedIn profile) is an engineer and project manager, she’s thorough and steadfastly attentive to detail but redeems herself in her writing by using her sense of humor to transform mundane subjects into entertaining reading. Bonnie is an award-wining author of over 25 books on project management, accounting, investing, personal finance, and technology including: Your Project Management Coach: Best Practices for Managing Projects in the Real World, QuickBooks 2013: The Missing Manual: The Official Intuit Guide to QuickBooks 2013, and Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual. Learn more at Bonnie’s website.

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Project Management Methodologies:
Managing With Your Methodology

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Live Webinar March 7th, 2018 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

Test cases are the fundamental element of testing. Yet, all sorts of different conceptions abound regarding test cases. Some testers are absolutely certain that test cases must be written in a specific format.

Other testers say they don’t need test cases at all. Could they both be right-or both be wrong?

In this interactive presentation, testing expert Robin Goldsmith reveals seldom-recognized important insights about test cases, including:

• Five different ways people view the same test
• Four keys to effective test cases
• Issues with embedding keystroke-level procedural detail
• Alternative low-overhead test case formats
• How to avoid hidden traps that overlook major groups of key test cases

Presenter: Robin Goldsmith (LinkedIn profile) author of Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success,  advises & trains business and systems professional on risk-based Proactive Software Quality Assurance and Testing™, requirements, REAL ROI™, metrics, outsourcing, project and process management.Robin is a subject expert for TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com and a subject expert/reviewer for the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK v2).  Robin  writes the Unconventional Wisdom blog on TestHuddle.com and is publishing his next book shortly – Cut Creep—Put Business Back in Business Analysis to Discover REAL Business Requirements for Agile, ATDD, and Other Project Success. Make sure to check out GoProManagement.com Robin’s site!

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YOU Don’t Need No Stinking Test Cases

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Live Webinar March 7th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar, John Bowen (LinkedIn profile)  explains where resources are trapped in the IT organization and how they can be unlocked to achieve IT innovation.

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Unlocking IT Resources To Achieve Business Innovation

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Live Webinar – March 6th 2018, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

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

At the 2017 San Francisco AI Conference Andrew Ng admonished that one of the four tenets of becoming an AI organization requires ‘Talent and New Job descriptions’.

This Talent piece is ‘the foundation’ of success for an organization pivoting towards AI. The goal of this learning session is to showcase that that Talent Scarcity is a myth.

By leveraging a Talent Management Framework optimized for AI, you will gain insights on how to address, mitigate and resolve your challenges around the acquiring, reskilling, retaining and managing talent for your organization’s pivot towards AI.

In this session, Zaki Mohammad (LinkedIn profile) will get close to answering the question ‘is it better to re-skill or hire’ AI Talent?

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Debunking The AI Talent Scarcity Myth

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Live Webinar – March 7th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

The reality across many organizations is that managing geographically dispersed individuals on a “virtual team” becomes more and more viable every day.

However, running a virtual team effectively is not as easy as setting up some fancy technology and managing remote individuals in the same way they’d be managed if they were collocated.

This webinar will explore the best practices that can be employed to overcome the inherent challenges of managing an effective and cohesive virtual team, as well as highlight many of the benefits which can be achieved using the virtual team management techniques that are currently used by IAG to manage our teams of consultants and client engagements across North America.

Participants will come away from this webinar with practical methods they can apply in their environment to help them communicate with, track progress on and improve results from the remote individuals and teams they manage.

Key Contents: Covered In This Webinar:

1. Assessing the team and environment
2. Preparing for virtual communication and team management
3. Facilitation techniques for running virtual meetings
4. Leveraging tools and technology
5. Tracking individual/team progress
6. Resolving individual/team issues
7. Identifying areas for improvement

In This Session Get Specific Answers To:

• “What steps can a manager take to prepare to manage their virtual team?”
•  “What facilitation techniques can be used to effectively elicit and communicate information in a virtual environment?”
• “Can a manager “read” someone over the phone/ video-conference?”
• “How can the technology at hand be leveraged and used effectively by a virtual team?”
• “Which standard management techniques need to be enhanced (and how) to maintain control over and develop a strong virtual team?

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Managing A Virtual Team

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Live Webinar – March 6th, 2018 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

The Disney philosophy doesn’t start with customers. It starts with “castomers™”.

The formula is simple. A great castomer™ experience leads to a great customer experience.  Castomer™ care involves four elements summarized in the acronym TEAM.

TEAM:

• Teach – Develop employees so they can reach their full potential
• Engage – Involve employees in decisions that affect them
• Appreciate – Acknowledge and thank employees for their efforts
• Manage – Provide employees with the tools and assistance they need

In this session drawn from his book Care Like a Mouse: The Key to Disney Quality Service (Theme Park Press, January 2018), Lenn Millbower, The Mouse Man™ shares Disney-inspired TEAM techniques for meeting your castomer™ needs.

In this session Lenn will cover:

• The arc of the castomer™ training experience
• Processes Disney uses to involve castomer™ in decisions
• Recognition, rewards, and perks that honor castomer™ effort
• The Disney expectation of its managers

Presenter: Lenn Millbower, (LinkedIn profile) the Mouse Man™ author of Care Like a Mouse: The Key to Disney Quality Service, teaches Walt Disney inspired customer service, leadership and presentation skills methods. Lenn  spent 25 years at Walt Disney World, starting in Epcot Operations, stage managing at Disney-MGM Studios, opening Disney’s Animal Kingdom, writing training for Disney University and Disney Institute and leading training at Walt Disney Entertainment. Lenn will inspire you to create your own magic. Give it a shake & watch the magic take place!

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What Castomers™ Want:
A Disney-Inspired Approach To Employee Care

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