Live Webinar November 30, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToManage Corporate

Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges–from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader.

The job of an IT manager is always evolving, due to inexorable technological change, but more importantly because of the business implications of new technology-based capabilities.

Join this live webinar to hear Robert Austin (LinkedIn profile), author of Adventures of an IT Leader, discuss the issues every IT manager should be thinking about, including how to become a full-fledged business leader.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn:

• How to manage talent and situations when things go wrong
• Making the right decisions on where to invest scarce IT resources
• How to align IT management with business strategy
• And more…

Speaker: Robert Austin, Author of Adventures of an IT Leader. This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You’ll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events. You can read this book from beginning to end, or treat is as a series of cases. You can also skip around to address your most pressing needs. For example, need to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. You can formulate your own responses to a CIO’s obstacles by reading the authors’ regular “Reflection” questions. This book is an excellent resource and you will turn to it many times as you face IT-related issues in your own career.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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