Live Webinar – January 12th, 2022 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

This course provides an overview of how to manage a project’s resources, timeline and cost through effective critical path modeling using Microsoft Project.

In this step by step approach Sam addresses some of the common challenges in project estimating, including limited resource availability, multiple parallel activities, support activities, and accounting for time off, sick leave and minor changes.

Unlock the power of MS Project’s leveling feature and start your projects off on the right foot by attending this course.

Learning Objectives:

• This course begins by providing an overview of the benefits of a well-structured project plan and the overall approach to using MS Project as a critical path modeling tool.
• You will learn different approaches to estimating and modeling resource and cost requirements.
• You will learn how to implement the use of project and resource calendars to support resource leveling and critical path determination.

Presenter: Sam Bell (LinkedIn profile) PMP, SSCP & CMMC RP, leverages 36+ years of IT and project management experience in managing data warehouse, call center, reporting, and security infrastructure and assessments projects. His focus on process improvement ensures a consistent, repeatable, and measurable approach is taken to deliver value and a secure operating environment for clients. At Edwards, Sam oversees the Cybersecurity Assessments practice, leading NIST 800-53, HIPAA, NIST CSF, and CMMC readiness assessments for firms of all sizes, across diverse industries.

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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Critical Path Modeling Using Microsoft Project:
Lesson 1 Estimating Resources & Using Resource Calendars

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Live Webinar January 12th, 2022 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

A McKenzie and Company study found that 75% training didn’t get the desired outcome.

In this webinar Jamison Manion (LinkedIn profile) President of Workforce Engagement Solutions (WES) and author of The Workforce Engagement Equation: A Practitioner’s Guide to Creating and Sustaining High Performance will describe the 7 step process that has proven effective in getting you better training results every time.

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When Training Is Not The Answer:
Knowing It Doesn’t Mean They’re Doing It

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SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR – Recommended!
Live Webinar January 7th, 2022, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Outside of formal IT departments, there is an increase in I&T talent and technical capabilities. Untamed and untapped, this can lead to a surge in an uncontrolled technical sprawl.

But, the CIOs who are able to provide leadership, direction, and structure for this growing talent pool can utilize it to enhance organizational engagement, reduce risk, and increase enterprise value.

In this session Darren Topham, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst offers insights and recommended actions for CIOs to tap into the underutilized technical resource of business-led IT, and learn to manage the risks and opportunities of a democratized technology landscape.

Discussion Topics:

• Understand how to manage the increase of technical talent outside of IT
• Learn how to better control shadow IT in a democratized technological landscape
• Find ways to support and share accountability of your peers for business-led IT

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

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CIO Strategy: Manage The Opportunities & Risks Of
Democratized Business-Led IT

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Live Webinar – January 12th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

A new generation of real-time, spatial, 3D, immersive, and embodied computing can now be deployed on high-quality VR headsets that cost less than an airline flight.

If it hadn’t already, the workplace is moving to the workspace. The metaverse is upon us and it has a profound impact on the learning industry.

Join the Training Magazine Network for a session about how forward-thinking companies are creating shared VR learning spaces where students and instructors are interacting with each other as lifelike human avatars.

Navigating hyper-realistic performance simulators via VR headsets, phones, iPads, and PCs they learn with and from each other in hands-on simulations.

Go inside the new generation VR simulations used by pharma leaders like Pfizer, Novartis, and Bristol Myers Squibb to practice crucial life-saving skills in safe, virtual reality pharma labs. Instructors can demonstrate how to transfer liquid and hand the pipette to a student standing to their right, who can grab it and rehearse the same task, just like in real life.

Learn how HVAC giant Daikin offers the ultimate customer experience of “X-ray vision.” Customers don the Quest headset and peer inside a giant chiller to watch how water and refrigerant work together to keep building temperatures comfortable. Alarm.com installers use their hands in VR to route cables and connect wires. The Finishing Trades Institute recruits painters in VR; grab a virtual tape bazooka with both hands, and drag it across a drywall seam.

While we’re still years away from the metaverse vision of interoperable networks with thousands of people through VR and AR headsets, today’s multi-user VR technology represents a significant step in that direction and a seismic shift in training.

Presenter: Anders Gronstedt, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile) President Gronstedt Group, improves performance with innovative learning approaches, including next-generation digital simulations, gaming, transmedia storytelling,  immersive 3D virtual worlds, and virtual and augmented reality. Anders is a former faculty member of the CU Boulder School of Journalism and his articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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The Metaverse Of VR Learning

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Live Webinar January 11th, 2022 11:00 am – 11:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar Sam Drauschak, PMP, CSM (LinkedIn profile) will cover the universal dimensions that impact an organization’s maturity, as well as how maturity directly relates to project outcomes. Governance, capabilities, and history of success are only a few of the factors we will explore.

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Organizational Maturity & Project Management

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Live Webinar January 11th, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  HBR – Harvard Business Review

As your company develops a market expansion strategy, what’s the best way to evaluate different global opportunities and determine which opportunities make the most sense to pursue?

It can be tempting to focus on the largest markets, but this approach fails to consider the nuances and risks of particular markets and doesn’t consider important factors that are most likely to contribute to success, or failure.

Nataly Kelly (LinkedIn profile) HubSpot VP of Localization will describe the MARACA framework her company developed to target its global expansion strategy.

MARACA consists of:

• MA = market availability, which is the size of the opportunity in a market
• RA = real-time analytics on how the company is performing in a market
• CA = customer addressability, which is the fit of a company’s offerings in a market

Nataly will describe each metric in the MARACA framework and will discuss how to use this framework to objectively score and assess each market opportunity on a micro level.

She will share practical examples of how HubSpot and other organizations are using this model to target their expansion decisions, guide longer-term investments, and drive future growth.

For organizations that are evaluating global expansion opportunities and are debating which markets to prioritize, join Nataly Kelly and HBR for insights on a proven, data-driven framework to effectively target your global expansion.

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How To Develop A Targeted Market Expansion Strategy

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