Live Webinar November 5th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

In today’s competitive environment, being the first to market is critical. However, what happens when there’s such a heavy focus on building teams and changing roles that the quality aspects of your transformation are put on the back burner?

Any move to agility may run into impediments if you haven’t engaged quality from the beginning, or worse, have rushed unfinished or buggy products to market.

In this one hour discussion, the panelists will talk about how organizations use an agile mindset and approach to transition from traditional ways of thinking to including a QMO when delivering quality products and solutions incrementally. We will explore the quality journey from an ad hoc and manual orientation to an automated continuous learning approach.

Presenters:

Jennifer Franklin (LinkedIn profile) brings 10+ years of project, product and service management experience to BCforward’s Quality Management Office. She has previously held the positions of Director and Service Coordinator. Jen takes pride in building and developing high performance teams focused on developing solutions to assist clients in executing their business objectives by adapting processes, services, technology, and resources to achieve outcomes. Jen graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Minor in Communication from Purdue University.

Chad Manley (LinkedIn profile) SPC, RTE, ICC-ACC, CSM, PSM1 & PMP Enterprise Agile Coach and Speaker; BCforward is an experienced Lean-Agile transformation consultant. Chad  works with large corporations to help them gain fluency in scaling agile, understanding the DevOPs mindset, and moving from a project management to Agile product management. Chad is also fluent in Atlassian toolset such as Jira. Whether coaching teams or individuals, Chad’s goal is helping teams achieve agile mastery. With 10+ years in Technology and 6+ years working with Agile Teams, he is leading several large scale agile transformations.

Michael Faulise (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Director Digital Marketing & Innovation BCforward is an Executive Leader who focus includes Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Innovation & Solutions. Michael has 20+ years in Consulting Services working with organizations like Allianz, NASDAQ, Amazon, United Heath, Boeing, Microsoft, HBO, and several other Fortune 500 clients. Michael has spoken at several national conferences & is now focusing on Digital Marketing.

Live Webinar – November 4th, 2020 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

In schedule management, one of the scheduling approaches to develop a project or program schedule is the Critical Path Method (CPM), which determines the critical path.

You, as a management practitioner, would have heard about CPM because it’s a widely scheduling approach.

The main way to determine the critical path is to use the forward pass and backward pass technique. This is also known as the two-pass technique. With this method, one can find out the early start (ES), late start (LS), early finish (EF) and late finish (LF) for every activity in a network diagram.

This method also determines the total float (TF) or total slack, which informs about the flexibility of schedule.

Explore:

• How to conduct forward pass and backward pass calculations?
• How to determine the total float/slack for the activities?
• What are the significances of total float, ES, EF, LS and LF?
• How does Microsoft Project software address two-pass technique?
• How does Microsoft Project software determine total float/slack?

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!

Presenter:  Satya Narayan Dash (LinkedIn profile, @ManagementYogi) is a management professional, speaker, coach and author of multiple books. Many of his students have successfully passed the PMP.  Satya has created new management paradigms, including “Agile PMP,” “Practical PMP with MS Project/Primavera P6” and “Practical RMP with Primavera Risk Analysis” and many hands-on Agile-related courses. View Satya’s blog web presence.

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Two-Pass Technique With MS Project

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Live Webinar November 5th, 2020 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  HR.com

Yes, you read that right.  70 PERCENT!!!  That’s 125 million people in North America alone.  It’s one of the biggest issues facing leaders, companies and employers on a global scale.

Compounding that massive issue, the labor market is changing rapidly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn. Many companies have implemented hiring freezes and are substantially decreasing their external hiring.  Leaders are faced with the challenge of keeping their remote teams engaged and productive.

Unfortunately, for the most part, the HR industry is only managing these costly pain points with band-aids instead of addressing the core issue.

Technology has been primarily focused on process improvement and big data have been limited or misused to-date to make accurate people decisions including flashy AI solutions that are really only as smart as the information they are given. (garbage in, garbage out).

More than ever, it is vital for leaders to use fact-based, data-driven insights to truly understand the talent they already have working for them and what drives their success.

Internal mobility is crucial in tightening skills gaps, empowering employees to discover new career paths and preparing the workforce for the needs of tomorrow, but how can leaders tackle Internal Mobility in a simple and scalable way?

Join Jamie Schneiderman, (LinkedIn profile) CEO & Founder of Career Spark to learn:

1. How you can easily identify the hidden gold within your own organization and teams.
2. Discover how you can begin implementing effective career-pathing and development for every role in your organization and through a predictive career mobility approach
3. Learn what your organization can do to retain your top performers instead of losing them to your competition.
4. Prepare and empower your teams to succeed and be productive even during times of massive upheaval.

NOTE:

HR.com is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP®️ or SHRM-SCP®️️. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

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70% Of People Are In The Wrong Job

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Live Webinar November 4th, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Ransomware continues to threaten businesses regardless of size, including midsize enterprises.  A ransomware attack can be devastating.

In this webinar Paul Furtado, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst; will help midsize enterprises minimize that risk by looking at:

1. How to communicate the threat to the C-suite,
2. How to protect your organization against ransomware, and
3. How to deal with an attack if you unfortunately become a ransomware victim.

Discussion Topics:

• How much of a threat ransomware is
• What midsize enterprises can do to prevent ransomware attacks
• What to do your organization becomes a ransomware victim

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

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Fight Ransomware In Midsize Enterprises

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