Online Webinar  – Recorded July 1, 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider:  APMG International

Feedback from many webinars, surveys and research into the adoption of agile practices clearly tells us that culture is the main blocker.

In this webinar, presenter Melanie Franklin will give us a masterclass in how to define and adopt a shift in the culture of our organizations, creating the environment for a more agile approach to our projects, programmes and change initiatives.

Melanie will take listeners through the key elements of corporate culture and explain the behavioural change lifecycle which helps us all adopt the beliefs, values and attitudes that support an Agile approach.

Melanie will provide a list of key points she makes when engaging senior leaders in the adoption of Agile and will share how she crafts her messaging to meet their needs.

As ever, there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and have Melanie give you her suggestions and ideas for how you can apply what she is saying to your situation.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin, (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) Director Agile Change Management Ltd, has a track record of excellence in project, programme and portfolio planning & delivery. She has set up and run the project management capability for several major corporates and has been responsible for the successful delivery of global transformational change programmes for over twenty years. Co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK, Melanie is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner and author of many books on change and project management including Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide; Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.  and her newest book Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative.

OR…Click to watch on YouTube:
Creating The Culture For Agile

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 June 30, 2023 – 1100 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

Managing a software development team is a unique endeavor that sets it apart from other disciplines within management.

The field of software development is inherently centered around human collaboration, while simultaneously demanding technical expertise and adherence to rigorous processes.

As a result, a software development manager must possess a comprehensive understanding of the diverse aspects involved in managing both the development process itself and the team executing it.

Whether you aspire to directly manage a software development team or assume the role of a Project Manager overseeing a software project, a solid grasp of software development management is imperative for consistent and repeatable success.

Familiarizing yourself with the terminology, psychological dynamics, and intrinsic workings of software development management is crucial.

Additionally, it is highly likely that you will collaborate closely with a software development manager to effectively plan, execute, control, and monitor your project.

Mohammad Masud (LinkedIn profile) covers following:

• The spectrum of responsibilities covered by a software development manager
• The Management aspect of Software Development: spectrum of management, uniqueness of development manager, and managing SDLC
• The people aspects of management that covers the people skills: people skills
• The technical aspects of software management: Architecture, Design and DevOps
• The process aspects of management: Project Management, Technical Analysis & Design Review
• The art aspects of software management, including ethical software development

By the end of the webinar, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of software development management, allowing you to navigate the intricacies and nuances of the software development process with clarity.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

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.

Click to register for:
Managing A Software Development
Team: Must Have Skills For Both Development & Project Managers

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 June 30th, 2023, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

CIOs looking to digitally transform their organizations must balance competing business demands with successful execution as they lead their organizations to a more digital future.

Through times of economic uncertainty, enterprises look to optimize their digital business initiatives but struggle to execute and measure the right activities to support their efforts.

To support and enable their organization objectives, CIOs must benchmark and measure their strategic digital priorities against both their digital ambitions and their industry peers’.

Data and analysis from Gartner’s Digital Execution Scorecard shows how CIOs can measure and track critical digital key performance indicators (KPIs), across four cohorts, where top performers significantly outperform their peers.

Join Cesar L. Lozada (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Director Analyst to  find out what digital KPIs differentiate top performers so you can improve your digital execution.

Discussion Topics:

• Find out top performers high scorer digital KPIs
• Determine what enables top performers to improve business agility
• Evaluate an organization’s business performance and objectives through it’s digital culture

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

Click to register for:
KPI Benchmarks:
Improve Your Digital Execution With Insights From Top Performers

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.

Online Webinar – Recorded  Dec 04, 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Employee engagement levels are early indicators of online training success. Engaged learners maintain their interest in professional development and make time to stay the course in order to add new skills and advance their careers.

How can your training programs maintain higher levels of engagement?

Join Melanie Rogers, (LinkedIn profile) Training Team Lead for Rosetta Stone, as she shares with you:

• Unique challenges that arise in online professional development
• How creating learning communities boost engagement
• Why motivation increases in a learner-focused environment
• How engagement and motivation lead to lifelong learning
• Real-world examples of successful learner engagement

Above all, you’ll gain new insight into how increasing learner engagement in your online professional development programs can translate into improved business and employee performance.

Click to register for:
Maintaining Employee Engagement
In Online Professional Development

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 – June 28th, 2023 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

Earned Value Management or EVM is standardized method used by project managers to track and predict progress and performance of a project.

It allows Project Managers with a way to accurately predict the future and overall performance of a project but using information gathered on completed work.

Using EVM one can monitor, report and correct project performance issues earlier in the project’s life than non-EVM managed projects allow.

This 3 part series will serve as a basis for EVM and will allow PM to start their EVM journey.

This presentation (week 2) will demonstrate how to use Microsoft Project to set up a Project that will track EVM.

It will cover EVM metrics and steps for measuring EVM.

Learning Objectives:

• MPUG will explore the reporting for EVM metrics within Microsoft Project
• What the metrics mean with regards to the health of the project
• MPUG will also look at other reporting mechanisms that you may encounter

Presenter: Fletcher Hearns (LinkedIn profile) PMP PMP-SP MCP (Project & Server) Director of Technology Solutions, Edwards Performance Solutions; is responsible for the implementation, of Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solutions & overseeing the custom application development around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project (Desktop & Server) and SharePoint. Fletcher is a leading trainer in PM & the use of project management tools. Prior to joining Edwards, Fletcher spent 20+ years in leadership roles at firms across a broad spectrum of industries including systems used in the medical industry for digital diagnostic image dissemination and recording & held roles in  design, development, and project management of complex, high-performance systems used in the financial and online gaming 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!

Click to register for:
Earned Value Management (3 of 3)

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 June 27h, 2023 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Live Webinar June 27h, 2023 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Project Group

When running Programs and Projects, the ability to leverage best-in-class toolsets is a powerful capability.

Establishing a single source of truth combined with scalable, sustainable integration across toolsets, takes this capability to the next level.

With over 25 years’ experience integrating Project tools with Line of Business systems, TPG are experts in delivering world class integrated Project Management Solutions.

TPG clients no longer need to manage and transfer data, they focus on what the data tells them, improving decision making on their Projects, Programs and Portfolios.

In the webinar, you will see project data synchronised bidirectionally between Microsoft’s PowerPlatform and SAP. TPG will show you how leveraging TPG apps, Project Structures, Forecasts and Actuals can be easily and intuitively integrated across all of these platforms.

This is a webinar for decision makers, PMOs, project managers, controlling and IT looking for ways to optimize project toolset integration in their organization.

Note for PMPs: You can earn the following PDUs for attending the webinar in person: Ways of working: 0.5

Unable to attend in person? No problem: Are you interested in a webinar but unable to attend it on your own? No problem. Register nevertheless and a few days later you will receive the link to the recording and the presentation as PDF.

Click to register for:
How To Integrate Microsoft PowerPlatform With SAP Project Systems

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.