Live Webinar – July 8th, 2020 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

Project Widgets

Project Widgets is pleased to showcase several “widgets” that extend the power of Microsoft Project. These products address real world challenges faced by many industries by providing the following capabilities:

• Create reliable “what-if” scenario plans that allow you to analyze the downstream impact of changes to a project in support of key business decisions.
  • This capability is especially critical in these uncertain times.
• Automate the new project creation process, ensuring uniformity across your enterprise by leveraging existing project templates and metadata, and enforcing naming conventions.
• Initiate all projects within a program at once, including the establishment of interproject dependencies.
• Capture metadata, assumptions and other critical project information in a central repository.
• Create “snapshots” of important project information across your portfolio including schedule dates and project details such as metadata, key assumptions, and risks/issues.
• Highlight variances of key milestones from one reporting period to another.

These Project Widgets products, all of which work with Project Online and Project Server, will take project management with Microsoft Project to the next level!

Presenter: Ira Brown (LinkedIn profile) is the President and CEO of Project Widgets, a Microsoft Project Partner specializing in add-on products, implementation services, integration, training, and custom software development for Microsoft Project. He is a is a recognized Microsoft Project expert with over twenty years of experience.

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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!

Click to register for:
Where There’s A Widget, There’s A Way:
Unleashing The Power Of Microsoft Project!

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Live Webinar – July 8th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – July 8th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

There is no shortage of commentary and ‘vision’ about the way in which AI will impact projects and project managers.

At present only a few companies have developed working platforms for time and/or cost management, with the majority being pre-commercial.

Endeavour Programme’s platform Octant AI focusses on mitigating poor cost performance and is in commercial operational use for infrastructure projects. Early adopters are changing the way they manage their projects based on its near real time actionable predictions.

This presentation will focus on the lived experience of developing and implementing an AI platform in a customer organisation.

David will cover issues that have had practical impact such as paradigm change, problem definition, data availability, response from professionals using the system and return on investment.

A Sample 3 Minute Demo of AI Dashboard

https://youtu.be/Et1gHMgXSZA

Presenter: David Porter  (LinkedIn profile) Founder Endeavour Programme & AI platform Octant AI;  is the driving force behind the business and its global strategy. David is a project and programme leader with 30+ years of experience in project development and delivery across a wide range of industries. H Through collaboration during a sabbatical at University of Oxford, he established Endeavour Programme with fellow grad students and colleagues from around the world.

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AI For Project Cost Risk:
The Reality Of Commercial Use

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Live Webinar July 10th, 2019 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514) – A Rommana Webinar

Whether your project is agile or not, it is critical that you practice good requirement and/or user story management.

Requirements and user stories do not just exist by themselves. Instead, they are linked to other artifacts such as test cases and test sets, scenarios and/or acceptance criteria, code and design components, tasks, risks, and actions.

Requirements and user stories also change during the course of a project and over the lifecycle of an application. Some requirements or user stories originate from user requests, some evolve from bug reports or issues, and some are even enhancements to existing functionalities.

A good requirement/user story management tool must support all these aspects of features.

In this webinar Magdy Hanna will demonstrate how the requirement / user story component of Rommana ALM supports all these aspects and more.

The intent is to help you understand true requirement and user story management so that you can make an informed decision regarding tool selection and tool adoption.

If you are already using a tool to manage your requirements and/or user stories, this webinar should help you customize your tool to support all these aspects.

Presenter: Dr. Magdy Hanna PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His highly rated seminars in various topics over the last thirty-five years have spanned various aspects and capacities of software projects and processes.

He has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. As a professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Thomas , he taught graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques.

Dr. Hanna developed new approaches and methods in software engineering including the Scenario-Based Development and Testing (SBDT), Requirement-Based Project Management (RBPM), Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model ( DOM ). Dr. Hanna and his instructors conduct hundreds of free online webinars each year.

Dr. Hanna also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Test Professionals, a publication of IIST, now the Bug Free Zone.

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Managing User Stories For Effective Development & Testing

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Live Webinar July 7th, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

In 2020, pandemic and recession triggered IT consulting, outsourcing and system integration firms to completely rethink the way they sell and deliver.

In this webinar Neil Barton (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst, Chrissy Healey  (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst,  David Edward Ackerman (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst & Dean Blackmore (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst; identify the trends, challenges and opportunities for IT service providers, and how they should respond.

Discussion Topics:

• Impact of COVID-19 on IT consulting, outsourcing and system integration firms
• Trends, challenge, and opportunities for IT service providers
• How to respond, sell, and deliver in an uncertain environment

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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Top Trends Driving Change For IT Services

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