Live Webinar May 9th, 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 Byron Love  explores program management, project management, and leadership concepts within the context the NIST Cybersecurity framework.

Presenter: Byron Love, (LinkedIn profile) MBA, PgMP, PMP, CISSP, Project+, ITIL-F, is the program manager for Intrepid Solutions’ Enhanced Solutions for the IT Enterprise (E-SITE) contract vehicle. He has led projects and programs at over a dozen government organizations. Byron holds an MBA from Averett University, a BA in Computer Science from Thomas Edison State College, and two associate degrees as well. He is the author of the bestseller  IT Project Management: A Geek’s Guide to Leadership.

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Cybersecurity Program Leadership

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Live Webinar – May 10th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
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Project Managers can run the gamut from average to amazing. We all like to count ourselves amongst the latter, but are we?

Carl Pritchard, PMP®, PMI-RMP®, takes us through a dynamic presentation on the critical skills and talents it takes to move project managers from good to great.

Carl will explain:

• Why instant access to contracts is a crucial consideration.
• Why Microsoft Project can be used to makes us verifiable tellers of truth.
• Why boring and consistent practices make for true heroes in the field.

Carl’s irreverent style and classic PM stories drive home his message and provide an opportunity to improve ourselves, one trait at a time.

In this webinar Carl Pritchard  author of the Risk Management Memory Jogger  presents the traits of amazing Project Managers & techniques to leverage them for your teams.

Presenter : Carl Pritchard (LinkedIn profile, @carlpritchard) Project Management Risk Guru & Presenter Extraordinaire Carl has written more that 70 articles on The Fundamentals of Project Management – Applying traditional project management in demanding environment. A bio and a large compilation of article experts by Carl Pritchard on Project Management topics is available on: http://www.projectconnections.com.

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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.
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10 Traits Of Amazing Project Managers

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Live Webinar – May 10th 2018, 2:00 am – 3:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

Making strides as a top contending cloud provider is Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

In the growing cloud market, it’s important for organizations to understand the core products and services, how GCP can be utilized and see it in action.

Learn:

• Introduction to GCP 
  • Core features of GCP products & services
    
  • How this fits in the GCP cloud landscape 
  • GCP key market strengths
• GCP Use Cases 
  • Ingesting Big data into BigQuery and performing OLAP workloads
  • Hosting a set of REST API microservices
  • Using pre-built Machine Learning APIs for image or speech processing
    
• LIVE DEMO: Deploying REST API Microservices

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Get To Know Google Cloud Platform

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Live Webinar May 8th, 2018, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The edge is expected to grow faster than today’s cloud, changing architectures, apps, IT strategies, cloud providers, and new competitors. Internet of Things (IoT) and immersive technologies, like augmented and mixed reality, are expanding.

This type of digital business requires hyper-activity, real-time processing, not only at the back-end but also between people and things.

In this webinar, Thomas J. Bittman (LinkedIn profile), Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst earnwill describe  how the edge will become more intelligent and disrupt computing.

Discussion Topics:

• How disruptive technologies will change computing
• Analytics at the edge of the network for real-time feedback and business process optimizationThe benefits of edge computing and the factors driving the shift

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Living On The Edge:
How Disruption Changes Computing

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 7th 2018
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Planning done, resources and budget squared away. Project tracking well all the way through. Everything’s perfect, but the change effort still goes belly up.

You checked all the boxes and you got everything right, but the roll out hasn’t gone smoothly.

Everyone seems to be against this change.

What went wrong?

If you got everything right and the change effort still faces problems, chances are you are not communicating effectively.

In this session, David McGimpsey (LinkedIn profile) will explore how communication influences change projects.

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Successful Change Management:
How To Turn Stakeholders Into Advocates

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Live Webinar May 9th, 2018 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Design has become the “it” word and a defining element that can differentiate your business in an increasingly competitive world.

In an economy of rapid commoditization, keeping the customer “front and center” has become the most important factor to include in the innovation equation in order to maintain brand loyalty.

Whether you’re talking about cars, toothbrushes, office space or even the creation of an organization’s culture … Design Thinking gives you the tools to innovate, faster and better, in a customer-centric approach.

In this “must attend” session, you’ll discover why Design Thinking has become the innovation method of choice across forward thinking industries and how best-in-class companies are applying it across their organizations.

You’ll also receive an overview of AMA’s Design Thinking course. including:

• Exposure to the 10-step Design Thinking process and why it’s so important in a disruptive economy
• How this rapid collaborative process can help you and your team generate more customer-focused solutions
• Steps you can take to integrate the process into your organization
• The realities of organizational culture, resistance to change and what you can do about it.

Presenter: Haywood Spangler, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D., M.Div., Founder / Principal of Work & Think, LLC.  is a corporate consultant, a researcher, and an author. Haywood formerly interned as a biomedical ethicist at the University of Virginia Medical Center and was an instructor of business ethics at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce. His Spangler Ethical Reasoning Assessment® (SERA®) is used across industries and around the world, enabling individuals to combine critical thinking and values to make complex decisions.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Innovate
Faster, Better & More Effectively

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