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1. Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children (But May Have Forgotten) – By Jon Huntsman
   • Next time someone tells you business can’t be done ethically — corners must be cut, negotiations can’t be honest — hand them Jon Huntsman’s new book.
   • He started with practically nothing, and made it to Forbes’ list of America’s Top 100 richest people. Huntsman’s generous about sharing the credit, but in the 21st century, he’s the nearest thing to a self-made multi-billionaire. Now, he presents the lessons of a lifetime: a passionate, inspirational manifesto for returning to the days when your word was your bond, a handshake was sacred, and swarms of lawyers weren’t needed to back it up.
   • This is no mere exhortation: it’s a practical business book about how to listen to your moral compass, even as others ignore theirs.
   • It’s about how you build teams with the highest values, share success, take responsibility, and earn the rewards that only come with giving back.
   • Huntsman’s built his career and fortune on these principles. You don’t live these principles just to ‘succeed’: you live them because they’re right. But in an age of non-stop business scandal, Huntsman’s life proves honesty is more than right: it’s the biggest competitive differentiator
2. Do the Right Thing: How Dedicated Employees Create Loyal Customers and Large Profits – By James F. Parker
   • Learn how Southwest Airlines prospered amidst the adversity of the darkest days in the airline business.
   • In the chaotic wake of 9/11, when other airlines were hitting the panic button, Southwest Airlines made three commitments: no layoffs, no pay cuts and any customer wishing to cancel their flights would receive a full refund.
   • Despite the business risk in these decisions, Southwest Airlines not only remained profitable after 9/11, but became the most highly capitalized airline in the world, and the largest domestic airline in the United States.
   • Learning Objectives:
     • Learn how dedicated and motivated employees can be the key to success in any customer service business.
     • See why employees who enjoy their work do a better job than those who don’t.
     • Hear how Southwest Airlines came to realize that great organizations have great leaders everywhere, not just in the executive suite.
3. Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success – By Douglas Lennick and Fred Kiel
   • There is a powerful correlation between strong moral principles and business success.
   • Moral Intelligence also introduces the breakthrough Moral and Emotional Competency Inventory (MECI): an indispensable metric to assess where you and your organization stand right now.
   • In recent years, companies have discovered the value of Emotional Intelligence (EI). But EI isn’t enough: only leaders with strong moral intelligence can build the trust and commitment that are the foundation of truly great businesses. Be one of those leaders, lead one of those companies, with Moral Intelligence.
   • This book makes the business case for Moral Intelligence – How winning executives use “MI” to outperform their competitors How to promoting Moral Intelligence in your business
   • How to understand the core competencies of Moral Intelligence
   • How to focus on what matters: integrity, responsibility, compassion, and forgiveness
   • How to choose principled leaders, and supporting them with a culture of principle
   • Breakthrough metrics for evaluating your organization — and yourself

In this book, two globally respected leadership experts illuminate the connection and define the specific competencies that comprise “moral intelligence,” and show exactly how to promote it throughout your organization. Douglas Lennick and Fred Kiel demonstrate how the best performing companies have leaders with a strong moral compass and the ability to follow it — even in a world that may reward bad behavior in the short run.

Lennick and Kiel identify and help you build the moral skills leaders need most, including integrity, responsibility, compassion, and forgiveness. They offer realistic guidance on being a moral leader in both large organizations and entrepreneurial ventures: guidance reflecting decades of experience coaching executives at the very highest level

Category C Learning Primer for this activity: Choose a project you are working on and read through these books. Notate your lessons learned for your audit folder by using our “Three Learning Questions” (see link below).

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’

These Books Cover:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communication ( PMBOK Reference)

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholders Expectations

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Curso en línea
Fecha de inscripción: Lun Abril 25
Fecha de inicio: Mié Abril 27
Presentado por: Scrum Manager
Conferencista: Marta Ariza
Precio: Gratuito.
Idioma: Español
PDUs: Una PDU se otorga por cada hora de aprendizaje – Como una ‘Actividad de aprendizaje autodirigido’ (‘Self Directed Learning Activity’) recuerde documentar su experiencia de aprendizaje y su relación con la gestión de proyectos para su ‘Carpeta de Seguimiento de Auditoría de PDUs’ (‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’).
Categoría de PDUs: C
Nombre del curso: Métricas ágiles (CU_METRICAS)

Objetivo: Conocer la razón y finalidad de las métricas en la gestión ágil de proyectos, y evitar errores habituales en el diseño y aplicación de métricas, normalmente por exceso en el número de métricas o en su complejidad, que suele desbordar las necesidades de estimación y seguimiento ágil.

Aprender a diseñar y aplicar métricas adecuadas para estimar y seguir la evolución de proyectos ágiles, según las circunstancias de la empresa y proyectos en los que se trabaja.

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Curso en línea
Fecha de inscripción: Lun Abril 25
Fecha de inicio: Mié Abril 27
Presentado por: Scrum Manager
Tutor: Raúl Herranz Serrano
Precio: Gratuito.
Idioma: Español
PDUs: Una PDU se otorga por cada hora de aprendizaje – Como una ‘Actividad de aprendizaje autodirigido’ (‘Self Directed Learning Activity’) recuerde documentar su experiencia de aprendizaje y su relación con la gestión de proyectos para su ‘Carpeta de Seguimiento de Auditoría de PDUs’ (‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’).
Categoría de PDUs: C
Nombre del curso: Scrum (CU_SCRUM_GRAL)

Objetivo: Conocer el modelo Scrum: origen del modelo, principios y prácticas que emplea para la gestión y seguimiento ágil del proyecto, sus componentes; junto con las razones y consideraciones de fondo para la implementación del modelo.

• Introducción
• Descripción de Scrum y de los elementos que lo componen
• Roles y responsabilidades para la ejecución del proyecto
• Pila del producto (product backlog)
• Planificación del sprint (reunión)
• Pila del sprint (sprint backlog)
• Reunión de seguimiento diario
• El incremento
• Reunión de revisión del sprint

Biografía del tutor: Profesional con más de 10 años de experiencia especializado en:

• Desarrollos web con java (html y xhtml, css, struts, spring, jsf, ejb3, hibernate, ibatis…) y consultoría tecnológica en éste área.
• Consultoría en accesibilidad web (WCAG 1.0/2.0).
• Consultoría en metodologías de desarrollo.
• Implantación de modelos de calidad y mejora de procesos.

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Curso en línea
Fecha de inscripción: Lun Abril 25
Fecha de inicio: Mié Abril 27
Presentado por: Scrum Manager
Tutor: Juan Palacio
Precio: Gratuito.
Idioma: Español
PDUs: Una PDU se otorga por cada hora de aprendizaje – Como una ‘Actividad de aprendizaje autodirigido’ (‘Self Directed Learning Activity’) recuerde documentar su experiencia de aprendizaje y su relación con la gestión de proyectos para su ‘Carpeta de Seguimiento de Auditoría de PDUs’ (‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’).
Categoría de PDUs: C
Nombre del curso: Gestión Visual Kanban (CU_KANBAN)

Objetivo: Conocer qué es Kanban y cómo puede emplearse tanto como medio de información y monitorización del estado de trabajo en equipos ágiles, y también como herramienta para gestionar y controlar el foco, ritmo y ejecución.

Al terminar el curso se tendrá una visión pragmática de kanban y su uso para monitorización y gestión.

Se estará en condiciones de diseñar e implementar tableros kanban apropiados a las particularidades del departamento y proyecto.

Biografía del tutor: Programador, gestor de proyectos, Director de Programación, profesor de Ingeniería del software y emprendedor.

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Curso en línea
Fecha de inscripción: Lun Abril 25
Fecha de inicio: Mié Abril 27
Presentado por: Scrum Manager
Tutor: Gregorio Mena Rodríguez
Precio: Gratuito.
Idioma: Español
PDUs: Una PDU se otorga por cada hora de aprendizaje – Como una ‘Actividad de aprendizaje autodirigido’ (‘Self Directed Learning Activity’) recuerde documentar su experiencia de aprendizaje y su relación con la gestión de proyectos para su ‘Carpeta de Seguimiento de Auditoría de PDUs’ (‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’).
Categoría de PDUs: C
Nombre del curso: Curso de Introducción Scrum Manager (CU_INTRO)

Objetivo: Conocer los principios de los modelos de procesos y las prácticas ágiles, enmarcados en el mapa o marco de situación que les da sentido, y revela las fortalezas y debilidades de cada estrategia: ingeniería, procesos, gestión predictiva y gestión ágil.
Conocer las razones y fortalezas de Scrum Manager:

• Flexibilidad
• Globalidad

Es una introducción necesaria para comprender la agilidad de forma objetiva, y adquirir principios para construir un criterio profesional propio para guiar las decisiones de gestión diseño y mejora del entorno de trabajo.

Biografía del tutor: Ing. Técnico en Informática de sistemas. Tengo más de seis años de experiencia como programador, pasando los dos últimos años estudiando y llevando a la práctica las metodologías ágiles.

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RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on 15 April 1912. She struck the iceberg four days into the crossing, at 23:40 on 14 April 1912, and sank at 2:20 the following morning, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
-Wikipedia

The Sinking of the Titanic on April 14/15, 1912 offers many valuable lessons for the Project Manager, from both a popular perspective and from a more serious academic perspective.

The Sinking of RMS Titanic – a Popular Perspective

Various authors have used the sinking of the Titanic to illustrate popular lessons, such as Icebergs are only 1/7th above water (hence the expression “tip of the iceberg“). Blog entry “Management Lessons from Titanic” on the Taming the Software Dragon blog lists 10 such lessons learned.

The Titanic story is well known to many people from the various movies that have been made over the past century. Wikipedia has a list of films featuring RMS Titanic, beginning in 1912 and including the 1997 film by James Cameron.

The 1997 film Titanic focused on the characters of Jack Dawson (Leondaro DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bakater (Kate Winslet). The making of the movie was a massive project, with an estimated budget of $200 million. This included the building of a reconstruction of the Titanic at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California. This set, as well as the scale models and computer-generated imagery are shown in the Making of the Titanic, featured on YouTube.

Academic Studies of the Lessons Learned from RMS Titanic

If you’re willing to spend the time for a more in-depth study of the disaster, these links provide a deeper study of the Titanic disaster, from the perspectives of the design and construction of the ship, the design of the White Star ocean-crossing service, through her maiden voyage to the discovery of the wreck in 1985.

For an in-depth study of White Star and the design and construction design and construction decisions, Mark Kozak-Holland has written two books. These books are available on the Lessons From History website – Titanic Lessons for IT Projects (the first and second chapters are available for download), 160 pages and Avoiding Project Disasters, 312 pages.

Mark Kozak-Holland serialized much of the material on gantthead.com in a 16 part series IT Project Lessons from Titanic.

In “Project Management of the RMS Titanic and the Olympic Ships“, Alan Scott Miller examines the Titanic as a service, particularly a ferry service, to its end customers.

In “Project Management and the Discovery of the Titanic,” James Peter Murphy discusses the 1980’s project to find the wreck on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Category C Activity: Lessons Learned from The Sinking of the Titanic

You can make these articles part of your PDU Plan and earn Category C PDUs. We have provided you with the educational references in this article, if you choose you can create your own Category C learning activity keep track of the Project Management lessons you have learned and the educational time you spent on the activity. For more information see our article which describes Category C Self-Directed Learning (SDL), the Three Learning Questions and SMART goal setting.