Live Webinar – June 19th, 2018 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 19th, 2018 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

Never Look At Those Friend Requests In The Same Way Again!

Social engineering attacks are on the rise. As technical defences get better, hackers are turning to your staff as the weak point in your security.

In this webinar Lisa Forte will cover the four types of social engineering attack, how to identify and stop these attacks, and why you should “think like a hacker” when you post information online.

Lisa will use examples from real cases she worked on to illustrate that even a company with a mature security posture can be vulnerable to these attacks.

Presenter: Lisa Forte (LinkedIn profile) previously worked for UK Counter Terrorism Intelligence and one of the UK’s Police Cyber Crime Units. Whilst there, the growth in the rate of social engineering attacks became apparent. Lisa left to found her own company and deliver GCHQ-certified social engineering training.

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Why You Need To Start Thinking Like A Hacker

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Live Webinar – June 20th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

The Schedule Is Baselined &
It’s Time To Start Your Project!

Correctly implementing your project means it must be monitored and controlled using an accurate status gathered from your team.

But, where do you enter the status in Microsoft Project?

You could use the standard fields, task forms, and task usage views, but what if you could combine them into a custom view, providing one place to update your project?

In this webinar, Walter Stinnett will discuss the importance of gathering accurate status information and learn to create a custom status view for maximum efficiency – regardless if you manage durations and %Complete or actual and remaining work hours.

Presenter: Walter Stinnett PMP MCTS (LinkedIn profile) is a project manager and serves as the Learning and Development Delivery Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. He coordinates training, teaches primarily MS Project courses, and  project management tools. He provides project planning and scheduling support to a variety of commercial and federal government clients, including Swales Aerospace, Department of Justice, Federal Aviation Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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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Expedite Project Updates Using A Custom Status View

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Live Webinar June 19th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

As products and organizations mature, testing and QA become more critical to the overall success of a business. The ideal QA strategy should be fast, reliable, and fit right into a modern continuous integration pipeline. This leads many technical leaders to conclude that everything should be automated.

In reality, not everything can, or should, be automated. Leaders must make difficult, high-impact decisions on behalf of their teams by asking: What should be automated? When should investments in automation be made? Is automation the most cost-effective solution to delivering quality?

Join this web seminar to learn:

1. How to mitigate risk and create a plan to proactively manage the biggest automated testing threatsHow to deliver working solutions to customers quickly to achieve business objectives in a crowded market
2. Ways to identify gaps in your current testing strategy and address them with solutions that complement CI/CD practices
3. How to deliver working solutions to customers quickly to achieve business objectives in a crowded market

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What Technical Leaders Should Know About Test Automation
Before Biting The (Not So Silver) Bullet

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Live Webinar June 19th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Blockchain offers quite a bit of promise, yet when it comes to data security, how can blockchain help?

In this webinar, David Anthony Mahdi (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director will discuss the basics of blockchain and its potential to enhance data security.

From Internet of Things (IoT) to data integrity and trust, David will discuss a number of emerging and possible beneficial aspects that blockchain has to offer.

Discussion Topics:

• Blockchain basics for security
• Blockchains relationship with IT security
• The key issues and challenges with blockchain

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How Blockchain Can Help Data Security

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Live Webinar June 19th, 2018 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

Many of us work in specialized industries. That makes us susceptible to tunnel vision, group think, and missing out on best practices from unrelated fields. Tunnel vision is where we are restricted by cognitive biases that negatively affect our decisions.

Group think is where a team’s thinking is so alike and uniform it is trapped into making wrong decisions, or fails to see solutions that a more heterogeneous group would find.

We can learn transferable skills by examining project workflows from completely different businesses. That involves hard work called Thinking!

The PM Lens is a tool that Project Managers can use to understand the Iron Triangle for their business.

This is a powerful tool to use during Project Integration.

Running successful projects is like conducting an orchestra. Symphony conductors have excellent project management and leadership skills.

In this webinar Konrad Mech (LinkedIn profile) examines 6 project management skills Conductors use, and suggests tips to incorporate them into your own skills inventory.

The Konrad uses the PM Lens to gain insight to 4 unrelated businesses:

1.  Symphonies,
2. Commercial construction,
3. Military operations, and
4. Air force fighter pilot training.

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Registration for these sessions fill quickly! If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 72 hours of the live session.

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Running Successful Projects Is Like Conducting An Orchestra:
6 Things Symphony Music Directors Know
About Project Management Leadership

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Live Webinar – June 21st 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

• Are you struggling to analyze and present your organization’s data in a meaningful and engaging manner?
• Is Excel no longer enough for you?

Microsoft Power BI May Be The Solution You Need

Power BI is a powerful new analytics tool used to evaluate data and share insights.  This one-hour webinar will show you how to create dashboards using your data.

You’ll be able to provide business users a 360-degree view with their most important metrics all in one place, updated in real time, and available on all their devices.

Plus, see how you can install additional visuals for more engaging and complex reports.

Work With Your Existing Data

• Connect to data
• Shape and combine data

How to Create and Share Reports

• Build reports
• Distribute your work

Work With Additional Types of Data

• Import and analyze data from a web page using Power BI
  Desktop
• Analyze sales data from Excel and an OData feed
• Use natural language to build visualizations

Where to Find Support

• Download exciting new visuals
• Examine ‘R’ visualizations
• Stay up to date easily

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Explore The Power Of Microsoft Power BI

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