Live Webinar May 11th, 2022 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: PMTA  Project Management Training Alliance

Everybody at one time or another dreams about starting a business.  The sad fact is that 22 percent of Small Businesses fail in their first year and by the end of the fifth year as many as two-thirds will fail.

The natural partner for a successful startup venture is a formal Project Management Program with its focused processes, tools, and techniques.

Begin building a strong business plan using the Identify Stakeholders process where we identify our potential customers and the Collect Requirements process where we determine what those customers are willing to spend their hard-earned cash on.

This helps us jump that first big hurdle in a business where we recognize that what “we” think doesn’t matter, it is the customer’s needs and wants that sell product.

The Risk Management processes lower the risk of our venture and as a result, lower the cost of our capital and increase our profit. In this webinar, William will explore how the application of these and other Project Management Processes help us defy the odds and nurture a healthy business well beyond that five-year milestone.

Learn To:

1. Identify those Stakeholders who are potential customers so that we can engage them and determine their needs.
2. Apply the Marketing Techniques embodied in the Collect Requirements process to engage your customers and determine what they want and need from their suppliers.
3. Apply proven Risk Management techniques to your entrepreneurial endeavor to enhance your ability to soar successfully past that dreaded five-year failure milestone.

Presenter: William (Bill) Flanagan, PMP, PMI-RMP, PE (LinkedIn profile) has been a leader of people and projects for 45+ years.  In his early career, Bill served as a US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer followed by 26 years in the Electric Power Industry in both business management and major nuclear plant upgrade and improvement projects. Today Bill is a Senior Instructor for Knowledge Source Inc and the North Carolina Project Management Institute (NCPMI) where he has taught Project Management and Risk Management classes for the last 15 years He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from North Carolina State University.  He is a Professional Engineer in the State of North Carolina and holds a PMP and a PMI-RMP Certification.

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Project Management Is A Natural Partner Of An
Entrepreneurial Endeavor

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Live Webinar May 11th, 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

You have now successfully led multiple projects for your team. You know you’re ready to be a manager, but your organization disagrees, or maybe you have already made the jump.

You have seen good management in action. You also know of all your previous managers’ mistakes, and you are certain you won’t make them.

Think again.

Whether you’re looking to grow into a management role or you’re a new manager, what skills should you learn and grow so that you do not fail brilliantly at this new role?

Join Aprajita Mathur as she shares her journey into management, what no one told her and how she still continues to grow in this domain. She will share:

• Attributes to focus on
• Resources you can start using immediately
• Skills to develop for a management journey

Aprajita will also discuss managing up, down, and across your organization to have the right conversations for yourself and, most importantly—for the team you manage.

Presenter:  Aprajita Mathur (LinkedIn profile) Associate Director, Bioinformatics System SW Engineering, Guardant Health  is a mom, inventor, mentor and international speaker with an engineering background in Bioinformatics. With 15+ years of software testing experience, she has worked on a wide range of products in the fields of agriculture , transplant genomics, forensics and oncology. Aprajita also leads the chapter for “Women Who Test” in the bay area and hopes to grow this community.

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Do You Want To Be a Manager? Here’s What No One Tells You

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Live Webinar May 5th, 2022 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Building a winning organization is not an easy task, and to succeed it needs to have solid foundations, foster collaboration and embrace continuous learning. Each of us have a key role in this success, whether as an individual contributor, Project Manager or head of the organization.

In this webinar Armando Arriaga Castañeda share the most valuable lessons he has learned and cherished in Project and People management throughout his 15+ year journey in mobile phones industry as part of global Quality Assurance organizations.

He will touch upon the importance of a sound organizational culture, how devoting enough time to recruiting and onboarding will pay off, embracing daring to do things differently and learn from the experience, context shifting between the Waterfall and Agile in a dynamic industry and some useful practices for worldwide stakeholder management.

Even though you may not work in the Mobile phone or Q.A. areas, you will certainly find some of these takeaways useful for your role/organization.

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An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 72 hours of the live session.

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People & Project Management:
Valuable Takeaways Of My Journey In The Mobile Phone Industry

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Live Webinar May 4th, 2022 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Project Manager Expertise, Experience, and Career Development: Where we stand today and how we may influence tomorrow

Dr. Timothy Brandon (LinkedIn profile) will share highlights from his recent research study exploring the key expertise, experience and career development factors which contribute to overall project manager competency and project success.

The objective is to offer insights into how project managers rated their skill levels, provide an easy assessment tool, and recommend ways for project managers and leadership to enhance levels of expertise and accelerate professional development.

The attendees will benefit in the following ways:

1. Understanding 10 significant expertise factors and 5 significant experience factors which contribute to overall project manager competency and project success
2. Understanding the common areas of strength and weakness of project managers of all levels of expertise ranging from Novice to Visionary and how they varied as the Overall Expertise skill level of participants increased
3. Understanding the critical need for fast-track training, on-the-job experience for novice managers entering the field, and how to navigate from novice to master project manager
4. Participating in active dialog about the findings and recommendations and sharing personal experiences

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An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
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Project Manager Expertise, Experience, & Career Development

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Live Webinar April 26th, 2022 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: TestinGil Agile Testing Consultancy

The world wants more and more automation. If you’re taking your first steps in the automation cosmos, you’re bombarded with whole new concepts and terms, like Git and Docker, and you’re not sure if they even relate to testing. Isn’t automation itself hard enough?

In this session, I’m going to run through a few of the main concepts and tools we’re using in a team that automates their development and testing. But more than that, I’m going to explain why we need them, and how they fit into the goal of releasing quality product.

This is a quick run of terms and concepts you are going to bump into. Learn what’s the difference between CI and CD, how code and tests get built and deployed, and how different testing activities fit into the modern release cycle.

Test Automation is not just a task. It is part of a whole development model you need to understand. It’s a strange new world, and you want to go in speaking the language.
I’ve got the cheat sheet.

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at GilZilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Read Gil’s Blog Geek Out of Water – Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings It’s full of great ‘Agile stuff’, ‘People stuff’ & Other Cool Cool Stuff!

Gil interviewed Lisa Crispin (LinkedIn profile, @lisacrispin ) a leading expert in the ‘Testing World’, Agile Testing Practitioner, Coach & co-author of  Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. Read Gil’s interview with Lisa A Product Owners Perspective on Lisa’s Blog or visit her website LisaCrispin.com.

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The Foundations Of Test Automation

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Live IIL Webinar – April 26th, 2022 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT Or
Live IIL Webinar – April 26th, 2022 1:30 am – 2:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: XX

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Stress can affect your ability to think clearly and rationally — and to perform well. This 1-hour webinar aims to help you better deal with stress by sharing key insights and strategies to reduce stress and optimize your work-life balance, particularly as we all cope with the challenging times in which we live.

Benefits:

• Recognize the symptoms and causes of stress
• Discover simple stress-busting techniques to manage and reduce the effects of stress in your life
• Create a simple personalized plan to rise above stress for a healthier and more productive lifestyle

What You Will Learn:

1. Background – What is stress – origins, causes, and symptoms.

• Flight or fight response and role of hormones
• Warning signs: cognitive, emotional, physical, behavioral

2. Techniques – Work-life balance

• How to create balance and set boundaries: The notion of “tilting”
• Connecting with and pursuing your passion
• Gaining support at work and at home
• Learning how to say “no”
• Beliefs and behaviors

3. Plan – Action Planning

• Cultivating gratitude
• Finding meaning and purpose

4. Setting up a support network

Presenter: Susan Croft (LinkedIn profile) is an international public speaker, corporate trainer, and PR practitioner. With 30+ years of experience in project management, sales, communications, change management, marketing and management training, as well as public relations consulting for a number of international organizations; she has written extensively on management and communication and coaches individuals and small groups on managing projects, managing personal and organizational change, communications, and presentation skills.

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Managing Stress In Challenging Times

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