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

In this webinar Scott Stribrny provides a framework for looking at business value at the portfolio and project levels, using a customer-focused, data-driven process that demonstrate bottom line impact.

Presenter: Scott Stribrny (LinkedIn Profile) President & Managing Director, Group Atlantic, Inc. is a Senior Consultant with 28 years of diverse experience and a leading figure in the world of process improvement. He is currently advising on techniques for effective product requirement specification and risk management. Read Scott’s writings on the Cutter Blog.

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How Project Managers Should Think About Business Value

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Live Webinar – April 10th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1.5 Hour  1.5 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
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In Microsoft Project, a baseline is like a “snapshot” of your project before you begin entering actual progress.

Learn :

• Best practices for baselining your project
• What types of data are saved in a baseline
• Where to view baseline data
• Best practices for analyzing project variance
• Where to view project variance
• Why you should not delete baselined data in a project schedule

Presenter:  Dale Howard (LinkedIn profile)  MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP, MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP Director of Education at Sensei Project Solutions.  Dale manages educational services and is an enterprise project management trainer/consultant with more than 15 years of training experience. Dale volunteers many hours each week answering user questions in the various Project news groups in the Microsoft Communities. Dale received the prestigious Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2004 for his expertise with the software and for his contributions to the user communities.

Dale is an author of many great MS Project books including:

• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2013
• What’s New Microsoft Project 2013
• Implementing and Administering Microsoft Project Server 2010 | Second Edition
• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2010 (Exam 70-178)

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Best Practices For Baselining & Variance Analysis

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Live Webinar – April 12th 2018, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

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Automated testing using tools like Selenium or Ranorex is often presented as essential to good software development practice. But not all software applications or development projects are equally suited to automation.

Join ASPE’s automation testing expert Marc Balcer to discover how to determine if automation testing is right for you.

Learn whether automation is appropriate for your testing activities. Discover a simple rule for assessing whether automation is worth the time and effort. See what application characteristics can make automated testing easy or difficult.

This Webinar will Cover:

• What are the benefits and risks of test automation?
• How can you assess whether your software is ready for automation?
• How do you justify the investment in automation?
• When do you start seeing the benefits of automation?

Presenter: Marc J. Balcer (LinkedIn profile) Check out Marc’s books Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture and Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies

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Testing: Can I Automate? Should I Automate?

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Live Webinar April 11th, 2018, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

CIOs are grappling with demands for digital business transformation as well as increasing cost optimization across the enterprise.

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are a key enabler of both directives, especially if implemented with a common set of desired business outcomes.

In this webinar,Peter Havart-Simkin (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) will discuss the IoT market, the initiatives, benefits, barriers, and challenges to create compelling IoT solutions.

Peter will review what is successful, the new business opportunities that IoT solutions can deliver and how IoT architectures play a significant role in delivering them.

Discussion Topics:

• The initiatives, benefits and barriers in IoT solutions
• Who and what is successful with IoT solutions
• How organizations are having success with IoT solutions

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The Business Impact Of IoT

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Online Webinar  – Recorded April 12th 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

In this webinar Owen Anthony will focus on practical ways to improve the transition from project delivery into business as usual.  Looking at lessons learned from other schemes and sharing success factors that support better handovers of schemes, the emphasis will be to help projects deliver benefits.

Billions of pounds are spent globally every year on projects and much has been written and taught about how to manage them as effectively as possible, but if they are not then handed over well, what is the point?

Without focusing on how to pass the project into the business as usual/ end user environment, the chances of the project delivering the benefits it was commissioned for in the first place are significantly reduced.

Owen led an APM research fund study which aimed to identify how handovers can be improved. The study drew upon learning from other organisations including Crossrail, The Ministry of Defence, Mediacity and many others.

The purpose of this talk is to share the findings of the research report, along with some practical tips and recommendations that can be applied to projects to improve their handover.

Presenter: Owen Anthony (LinkedIn profile) Programme Manager,Sheffield Hallam University. Prior to joining the University, Owen has been a pr project / programme manager for 15 years working in the public sector (NHS, Local Authority) and consulting (Mott MacDonald and Owen Anthony Projects) on a diverse range of projects from education and healthcare construction to IT, service redesign, and move management schemes. A member of the APM and the Soft Landings User Group,

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Improving Project Handover

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Online Webinar  – Recorded March 6, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Intercultural Gaps Threaten Many Projects

National cultures, job cultures, enterprise cultures, generational cultures: any gap in those components can lead projects to face culture clashes…and additional problems.

Yet, project managers can not only actively manage those gaps, but also leverage them and thus extend leadership skills.

In this webinar Robert de Quelen (LinkedIn profile) & David Colliquet (LinkedIn profile) will highlight which levers project managers can use to identify and proactively manage intercultural factors within the project, and suggest practical ways to develop an intercultural leadership style which can be effective both at personal and team level.

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Shaping Your Intercultural Project Leadership:
How To Leverage Cross-Cultural Challenges
In Your Project

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