Online Webinar – By AccuRev
Duration: 47 Min 0.75 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Software configuration management (SCM) systems are at the heart of development efforts. Teams use their SCM tool to artifact important work, integrate changes, save important ideas, and add features.

However, simply utilizing an SCM tool across a development team is not enough. An SCM tool and the development team using it must encompass a set of best practices in order to manage common complexities such as parallel projects, differing methodologies (such as Agile and non-Agile methods), and frequent releases.

In this webinar, AccuRev’s Chris Lucca (LinkedIn profile) will share his collection of development best practices, as observed across hundreds of software development teams.

He highlights how teams should:

• Integrate issue tracking and code changes for process scalability
• Create a process standard that can be repeated and measured
• Scale multiple SCM workflows to distributed teams for virtual co-location

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PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope

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Online Webinar Presented by: NetObjectives (REP 3045)
Duration: 45 Min Credits: 0.75 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Given 12:00pm-1:00pm PST. Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Note: Although the NetObjectives is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact them for further information.

What does LEAN mean to you?

Lean-thinking is the combination of applying known software development principles with lean-management and lean-learning work in order to speed time-to-market while improving quality and lowering costs. It provides insights from project initiation through development, deployment and consumption by the customer (internal in IT and external in product companies). Lean focuses on helping people improve the environment and systems in which they work.

Introduction to Kanban:

Kanban has been called a set of tools by many people. Kanban, however, is much more than that. Kanban is more a mindset and approach than the tools it is known for such as limiting WIP, explicit policies and including management. This webinar is a brief introduction to the lean-thinking behind the Kanban practices.

Kanban is the next generation of Agile methods, built on a lean foundation. This method is now applied to knowledge work such as software development — domains in which “inventory” isn’t visible but its effect is still felt. If your organization struggles with the inventory of unfinished work, bugs and other quality issues, while you are under pressure to deliver faster and more frequently, you may benefit from applying the Kanban method.

Kanban is based on Lean Product Development flow and provides insights into how to solve many software development challenges while being inclusive of management. It can be implemented at a pace of the development organization’s choosing. making it much more flexible than other agile systems. Kanban is meant to be adapted to the particular needs of each organization.

For more information visit Janice’s website Kanban 101 It is a compedium of her own quest to learn about Kanban in order to assist people in getting started.

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Presenter: Janice Linden-Reed (LinkedIn & @JLindenReed twitter) has been in the computer software industry for 20-years, co-founding and acting as VP of Content for a Computer Gaming company, becoming Director of Creative Development for an online video website, serving as a ScrumMaster for product development teams, as a liaison to sales and marketing, and becoming a Process Guru for Agile Development using Kanban and Lean methods. At Net Objectives she manages projects involving websites, marketing materials, and other collateral and events to grow the market for Lean-Kanban initiatives, and to improve efficiency in operations to allow fast company growth.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 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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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

The success of any project requires that the project be defined well enough, and early enough to minimize the potential for ‘scope creep.’

In this webinar, we discuss the key input of the Project Scope Management Knowledge Area—the Project Charter. We talk about how Project Managers use to this document to manage their projects every day to ensure project success.

Diane Altwies presented this webinar in July 2009 – Recorded version is available and it includes a Sample Project Charter

Use the link below to Sign up to view the recorded webinar with Project Insight. In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc) and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

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Project Simulation – Online Access
Duration: Project Simulation Access Time: Up to 180 days
Credits: 10 PDUs or 1 CEU Category A – $359.00 USD
Presented by: Lambert Consulting Group, Inc. (REP 1358 )
Simulation Creator/Designer: MindEdge, Inc

Challenge Yourself – Grow your Skills! An In Basket Project Simulation will allow you to test your current skills and build new competencies. This may be an excellent opportunity to challenge yourself by applying Project Management skills to the highway project – an environment that may be unfamiliar to you!

Target Audience: This simulation is designed for adult learners with project management experience. Learners who successfully complete this simulation will be awarded 10 PDUs/contact hours.

Level: Intermediate – This simulation does not have any prerequisites. This course does not require any additional supplementary materials.

Estimated time to complete: 10 hours of online course work. This course has an “Ask the Expert” feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.

“This simulation is a winner! I would highly recommend the Allerton Connector Project Management Simulation to anyone looking for a capstone experience to test their knowledge and judgment in a real world project management environment.”

— Lee R. Lambert, PMP, CEO, Lambert Consulting Group,
Project Management Institute Fellow, 2009

Through this simulation, the learner will play the role of a project manager on a highway construction project in the small city of Allerton. This project is considered to be a “major project” by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which means it has a budget of $500 million or more.

Learners will be asked to make a series of decisions during the simulation. Each decision will impact the project in different ways. The goal in the simulation is to optimize positive scores across the following project management factors (as identified by the PMI® 2011 role delineation study):

• Initiating the Project
• Planning the Project
• Executing the Project
• Monitoring and Controlling the Project
• Closing the Project
• Cross-cutting Skills

Expected Learning Outcomes

This simulation is meant to sharpen your understanding of key project management skills. Including:

1. Leading a project team
2. Balancing competing interests, such as project scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, risk, communications, and procurement considerations throughout every project phase
3. Dealing with controversial decisions and the potential for negative team or customer outcomes
4. Analyzing schedule, budget, and quality data and using that information to make educated decisions
5. Addressing issues related to project procurement

PMBOK Guide® Alignment

This simulation is designed to align with the PMI® PMBOK® Guide and the 2011 role delineation study. No prior knowledge of the PMI® framework is required, but feedback will refer to PMBOK® Guide sections where they are relevant.

Certificate of Completion

Many sections will have quizzes, and your score on these quizzes will determine whether you can receive a certificate of completion, and Project Management Institute professional development units (PDUs) for completing the simulation. If you average a cumulative 70% or above on the quizzes, you will receive the certificate. Successful Completion Requirement for IACET CEU: Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive IACET CEU credit. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.

Get an edge: Here are some pointers for doing your best in simulations:

• Know the background material. You cannot do well in a simulation if you haven’t studied the background material.
• Keep a positive attitude. The assessors are not trying to trick you, they want you to do well.
• Take breaks when you need one. Just like a project walk away and think a bit if you need to – don’t rush through.
• Avoid extreme or unusual behaviors while role-playing. Don’t get defensive, remember it is a role playing exercise.
• Be confident but not arrogant. Too much confidence could be read as not taking the exercise seriously.
• Get through the all the material. You will find important information that you will be able to use in the other simulations. Take notes, make lists, and write out a calendar. Making notes may be very helpful in the same way as in your projects. Whatever you write may be collected and included in the scoring of the exercise. Remember that the assessors can’t read your mind. In a simulation/exercise it is especially important to document your thinking.
• Expect conflicts. Simulations often assist you in determining how to resolve conflicts and issues. Uncover and address the conflicts.
• Be flexible. Sometimes the assessors will give you hints over the course of a role-play. For example, “Have you considered the possibility of acquiring one of our competitors?” Sometimes you will come into a role-play with a plan and learn something that requires you to change that plan. Don’t get stuck on one strategy if the simulation demands flexibility.

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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A $5 USD
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Agile is one of the latest techniques sweeping the Project Management profession. Many traditional project managers have heard the name Agile, but do not truly understand the practice yet.

Solutions Cube Group’s Webinars address many relevant project issues. In this webinar, we have partnered with with Brian Rabon, President of Braintrust Software, to learn what agile project management is and what it is not.

Learn when to apply this new style of project management and when not to. Also, pick up a few tips and tricks for implementing the practice in your environment.

In this overview level recorded webinar participants learn about:

• The Case for Agile Project Management
• The fundamentals of Agile Project Management
• Project Scoping and Requirements gathering in an Agile environment

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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On Demand Podcast
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free (for a limited time)
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: PM0146
You will need to register with IIL to access the site: Virtual Classroom Delivery

This podcast introduces us to the first step in going to true paperless project management, namely the use of project metrics. Good metrics will allow us to make informed decisions rather than just guesses.

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Click To Register for Metrics Come of Age by Dr. Harold Kerzner (Podcast) (00003753, IIL-EN-0-v1.0)