Live Webinar – August 30th, 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 – Guests Free (Open To The Public)

In the fast-paced world of product development, change is the only constant. In some cases, it is not easy to know if there should be a project, and if so, what should be the scope?

As organizations strive to stay ahead of the competition and meet evolving customer demands, effectively managing change becomes crucial for success.

Join MPUG for an engaging presentation on “Project Change Management in Product Development,” where we dive deep into the strategies and techniques that can help your team navigate the waves of innovation with confidence.

In this session, the expert speakers will explore how change management practices can seamlessly integrate into the product development lifecycle, ensuring smooth transitions and minimizing disruptions.

They will highlight the importance of fostering a culture that embraces change and encourages proactive adaptation.

Key topics covered during the presentation include:

1. The role of exploration – when we do not know – and how this portends change
2. Understanding the significance of change management in product development
3. How change management reduces project and product risks
4. Leveraging agile methodologies to adapt quickly to shifting requirements
5. Nurturing a change-ready organizational culture
6. Overcoming resistance to change and fostering buy-in from stakeholders

Whether you are a project manager, a product manager, a marketer, or part of a cross-functional team, this presentation will equip you with the tools and insights needed to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape.

Gain a competitive edge by mastering the art of project change management in product development.

Don’t miss out on this transformative session! Register now and unlock the secrets to harnessing change as a catalyst for innovation and growth.

Learning Objectives:

• How Project Managers can foresee changes and adapt quickly
• How Project Managers can utilize change management techniques with their teams
• How change management techniques can foster team spirit and growth for Project Managers
• How agile methodologies play a role in quick adaptation and shifting requirements

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:
Value Transformation

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 November 1st, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  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.

Scrum Master and Project Manager are two roles that, for the past 15 years, coexisted well, especially in IT projects.

From the very technical role that was part of the software development team, the Scrum Master evolved into a new organizational role, sometimes with a well defined job description and with responsibilities that transcended the technical background from which it originated.

Although the role was defined in the Scrum framework, the Scrum Master role is now present in other frameworks and there are many training courses and certifications available from other organizations with different views on the skills required and the responsibilities of the Scrum Master.

It is additional evidence that the role is evolving beyond what the Scrum Guide authors intended.

The Project Manager role also changed since the Agile Manifesto publication and the adoption of Agile delivery frameworks. Mainly due to a dynamic business environment, more geographically distributed workforce, and last but not least because of the digital revolution: cloud, social media and mobile technology’s impact on how projects are managed and delivered.

Skills developed as a Scrum Master, like team and people management, are a good foundation for career development.

Like in any other profession Scrum Masters will reach a point where they feel the need to go beyond a Scrum Team of 5-9. Project Management is one option for career change but is it the right one?

This presentation with  Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile); is based on his experience as a Development Team Lead, Development Manager, Scrum Master and Project Manager working with Scrum teams.

It contains also advice for Project Managers and Scrum Masters that want to play a dual role.

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:
Agile Project Manager Or Senior Scrum Master?
What Is The Next Step For A Scrum Master?

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 – March 24th, 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Human Capital Institute

For companies who leverage human-centered design (HCD), the prizes are rich. Research by the Design Management Institute finds that design-led S&P 500 companies outperform the rest of the index by 211 percent.

Human-centered design is a powerful competitive advantage that many of the world’s leading companies are using to drive innovation, transformation, customer-centricity and business outcomes.

But what exactly is human-centered design?

In an era of always-on transformation, organizations face increasingly diverse and complex business problems that need to be understood and addressed — human-centered thinking helps with both.

Combining analytical and intuitive thinking, the HCD process reshapes companies and people, and embeds new creative problem-solving capabilities, so they can continuously address emerging, and often poorly understood, shifts in customer needs, technology, and the competitive environment.

Join Keith Laplante (Linkedin profile) ExperiencePoint Master Facilitator &  Tom Merrill (LinkedIn profile) ExperiencePoint Master Facilitator to:

• Understand what human-centered design is and how it can be used across organizations to drive customer-centricity, innovation and transformation
• Learn how human-centered design creates a repeatable, scalable and disciplined framework for examining complex problems and solutioning them
• Hear how innovative companies are embedding human-centered design into their culture to create a competitive advantage
• Understand how to identify and overcome common challenges in the human-centered design process

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

Click to register for:
Human Centered Design: Explained

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 August 28th, 2023, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Your website should be the cornerstone of your demand generation strategy, but too often it becomes the opposite.

In this webinar Erin Lloyd Gordon (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director Analyst &  Eric Hunter, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst will help you reshape your messaging strategy and engagement tactics, transforming your website from good to great.

Erin & Eric  will contrast commonly pervasive “maker-centric” messaging elements with “outcome-centric” messaging that resonates better with today’s buyers.

They will navigate two illustrative examples of buyer enablement content that you should prioritize on your site, so you can differentiate yourself in the market as buyers grapple with the wealth of information they encounter.

Finally, theywill walk through some of the most-common opportunities we encounter while assisting clients in transitioning their websites from liabilities to assets.

Discussion Topics:

• Transition from maker-centric messaging to more audience-focused narratives
• Craft content that is coherent, engaging, and resonates with your target audience
• Identify opportunities for improvement using illustrative examples in your current strategy

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

Click to register for:
Tech CEOs, Transform Your Website From A Liability To An Asset

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 May 10th 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 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.

Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all.

Lone geniuses are out. As project managers we all dream of tight, cohesive teams, with no drama.

But what is the downside of that?

Groupthink occurs when a group values harmony and coherence over accurate analysis and critical evaluation.

In this webinar Michael Perdunn MA, CISM, PMP  (LinkedIn profile) will explore the concept of Groupthink and its effect on team, the warning signs that Groupthink is taking hold in your team, and what a project manager can do to prevent Groupthink.

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

Click to register for:
Preventing Groupthink In Project Teams

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 February 7th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has published the 6th edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) and a companion guide dedicated to agile practices.

The impetus?

According to the PMI 2017 Pulse of the Profession^® report, a full 71% of organizations say they are using agile approaches for their projects sometimes, often, or always. And yet, for many practitioners the adoption of agile practices often means a diminished role for the project manager.

Join Bonnie Cooper in this webinar to explore the agile infusion in the PMBOK^® Guide and the companion Agile Practice Guide, as well, and the reality of trying to integrate traditional project management and incremental, adaptive development practices.

Learning goals:

• Review of the PMBOK Guide – Sixth Edition changes and Agile Practice Guide
• Discuss what it means to be an agile project manager
• Discuss the reality of the integration between traditional project management and agile development practices

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

Click to register for:
PMBOK® Guide Goes 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.