Live Webinar December 3rd, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

It’s a mantra for any political candidate: Elections have consequences. That saying is all too real for C-Suite leaders this year as they work to factor the results of recent U.S. elections into their strategies and initiatives.

The picture feels only slightly clearer. The reverberations will be felt across all facets of corporate goals and strategies, be it data, security, supply chain or creating business value.

Join this webinar, as a cross-functional panel of Gartner experts takes on the most important post-election questions – yours – and helps your organization form a clearer picture of what lies ahead in 2021 and beyond.

Discussion Topics:

• Use data sharing and analytics to accelerate digital business during the new term
• Implement effective scenario planning to drive post-election success
• How the U.S. election results could reshape your talent and diversity initiatives

Panelists:

• Daniel Herd (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Team Manager
• Anne Harris (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Executive Partner
• John Lund (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP
• Bart Willemsen (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst
• Katell Thielemann (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Gartner VP Analyst
• Lydia Clougherty Jones, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst

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

Click to register for:
Panel Discussion: 2021 Post-US Election Strategy:
Risk & Opportunities For The C-Suite

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar – December 2nd, 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 this webinar, Ira Brown will demonstrate the fundamentals of creating and using master schedules in Microsoft Project.

Learn how to create interproject dependencies and how to configure your master project properly so that you can specify how linked tasks are updated across subprojects.

Finally,  learn how to use graphical indicators to highlight the status of critical activities across the program.

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 20+ years of experience.

Project Widgets is well-known for offering add-on products for Microsoft Project and Project Online, as well as for creating custom solutions that meet their clients’ unique business requirements. Project Widgets even have several free, downloadable widgets available on their website that you can begin using right away

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!

Click to register for:
Working With Microsoft Project Master Schedules & Subprojects

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

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

On agile teams, testing is considered an activity rather than a “phase” or a “role”, which can cause many teams that are new to agile to struggle with this concept.

Janet Gregory explains how agile integrates testing activities into the process and how testers add value to an agile team. Drawing on her extensive experience in agile testing,

Janet will demonstrate the benefits of collaboration and simplicity in activities including automation, ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development), and exploratory testing.

Learn how to identify testing needs not just for each story, but also for individual product features as well as the product as a whole. Attendees will also participate in hands-on exercises exploring common testing concepts.

Presenter: 

Janet Gregory (LinkedIn profile, @janetgregoryca) Agile coach, trainer, quality process consultant DragonFire Inc. Janet Gregory is  a highly sought after Keynote speaker and the coauthor of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams.   Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product. For the past ten years, she has been working with teams to transition to agile development. Janet teaches agile testing courses and tutorials worldwide, contributes articles to leading publication.

Sergio Freire (LinkedIn profile) Head of Solution Architecture is a solution architect & testing advocate, working closely with many teams worldwide from distinct yet highly demanding sectors (Automotive, Health, and Telco among others) to help them achieve great, high-quality, testable products. Sergio understands how organizations work, their needs, context and background, processes and how quality can be improved.

Click to register for:
Elevate Your Agile Testing Practices

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar – December 2nd, 2020 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

AppSec Is Dead. Long Live DevSecOps

Application security traditionally happened after development was finished, something to be bolted on for protection.  In traditional top down implementations, developers weren’t a part of security and didn’t give it much consideration beyond some testing.

Today, security is top of mind in most organizations, which have come to realize that application security starts with the application, at the code level. But developers haven’t been trained in using security tools, and reluctantly do it because it has been mandated from management.

So, how do you get developers involved with security?

One way is by making security tools more developer-centric, so those software engineers can make a change in their pipeline and simultaneously ensure that change doesn’t open a vulnerability.

Join , Juan Mazo (LinkedIn profile) Solution Architect, Veracode and Chris Campbell (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Principal Solution Architect, Veracode for a lively, discussion of the importance of the role developers can and must play in securing applications, and how to get them to go along for the ride.

Click to register for:
How To Get Developers Hooked On Security

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar December 2nd, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Prioritization and business acumen are critical competencies for IT professionals aiming to deliver business outcomes in a cross-functional team environment focused on digitization projects.

In this webinar Jessie Ustjanauskas (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Specialist, Advisory & Hakan Gunaydin (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Principal, Research delve into the frameworks, templates, and exercises midsize enterprises need to develop prioritization and business acumen so IT employees can deal with competing priorities and become more responsive to customer needs.

Discussion Topics:

• Why prioritization and business acumen are critical to delivering business outcomes
• Different approaches to task prioritization
• Develop business acumen with simple frameworks from real midsize enterprise examples

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

Click to register for:
The Midsize Enterprise IT Competency Framework For High Performance

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.

Live Webinar – December 1st, 2020 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Webinar Description

This webinar will provide useful, practical tools to help you show the value of soft skills programs. Presented in an easy-to-understand format, this interactive session shows how to measure the business value of soft skills programs and how to calculate the ROI.

This webinar also provides detailed case study examples to show how to measure and evaluate different soft skill programs and initiatives. Participants will see what is being measured, how it is being measured, and how the data are used to improve the soft skills programs and influence more investment in soft skills.

Learning Objectives

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the value chain for soft skills.
2. Describe the need to show impact and ROI for major programs.
3. Design soft skills programs to deliver impact and ROI.
4. Explain how to measure program results at all five levels of outcomes.

Materials

Each participant in this webinar will receive a handout, an application guide, an ROI model, and a soft skills case study example from ATD’s newest book Proving the Value of Soft Skills: Measuring Impact and Calculating ROI, by Patti P. Phillips, Ph.D., Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D., and Rebecca L. Ray, Ph.D.

Soft skills programs should perform and deliver results just like other learning programs. If the program is designed to drive business impact, then it should drive business impact. From the impact, the ROI can be calculated.

Professionals involved in soft skills programs must be prepared to step up to the challenge of showing the value of major programs and initiatives, not only when impact and ROI are requested, but ideally before the request is made. Five levels of outcomes exist for every soft skills program, which represents a chain of value (reaction, learning, application, impact, and ROI). The challenge is to decide which programs are evaluated at impact and ROI.

Serious Challenges For Soft Skills

Unfortunately, L&D has faced some challenges to deliver results from soft skills that executives appreciate and understand. In our polling with practitioners, we repeatedly find the following statements to be true based on the perception of these practitioners. To deliver the value that executives need from soft skills, each of the answers should be false.

1. Most soft skills are wasted (not used after participating in a program).
2. The soft skills outcome desired by executives is rarely measured in organizations.
3. Most soft skills providers do not have data that shows they make a difference in the organization.
4. Most executives see soft skills as a cost and not an investment.
5. Executives see hard skills as more valuable than soft skills.

The Approach

We all need soft skills. Whether leadership development, communications, team building, problem-solving, empowerment, critical thinking, or even mindfulness, soft skills are important and can drive significant value. The problem is executives haven’t seen the value of the soft skills programs in terms they appreciate and understand. Consequently, they call these skills, “Fluff.”

The challenge is to evaluate a major soft skills program at the impact and ROI level. Some learning professionals are reluctant to go down this path because they are concerned that soft skills programs do not deliver a positive ROI.

This misconception is playing right into the hands of the executives who are calling soft skills programs “fluff.” The reality is that you can show the ROI, and the odds are high that the ROI is greater for soft skills programs than for hard skills programs.

To ensure that soft skills programs deliver and show business results, essential steps are necessary at the beginning of the implementation of a soft skills program, during the execution, and after implementation. With this approach, the impact and positive ROI are almost guaranteed.

Presenters:

Patti Phillips, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D.Is president / CEO of the ROI Institute. She is an expert in measurement and evaluation,and author of Measuring Leadership Development: Quantify Your Program’s Impact and ROI on Organizational Performance. Patti applies ROI Methodology to leadership development programs, coaching initiatives. Patti also authored over 30 books including her latest books: The Bottom Line on ROI: Basics, Benefits, & Barriers to Measuring Training & Performance Improvement and Measuring the Success of Coaching (to be released 2012, ASTD).

Jack Phillips, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D. is co-founder and chairman of ROI Institute, Inc & developer of the ROI Methodology, the most applied approach to demonstrating value of programs, projects, and initiatives. With  experience in the aerospace, textile, metals, construction materials, and banking industries, Jack served as training and development manager, as Sr human resource officer, as president of a regional bank, and a management professor at a major state university.

Click to register for:
Proving The Value Of Soft Skills Training

NOTE: For PMI® Audit Purposes – Print Out This Post!  Take notes on this page during the presentation and also indicate the Date & Time you attended. Note any information from the presentation you found useful to your professional development and place it in your audit folder.