Online Webinar – Recorded August 6th, 2015
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Imagine being able to control the full lifecycle of your projects in SharePoint?

Yes, we’re talking from project idea right through to project completion – all in SharePoint.

Sign up and see how you too can use SharePoint to:

• Manage your pipeline of project requests
• Organize in-flight projects
• Efficiently control projects of all sizes from initiation to close

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Presenter: Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control Schedule
• 9.3 Develop 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’

Click to register for Project Lifecycle Management Using SharePoint

Live Webinar September 22nd, 2015 – 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm EST
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Do you ever need an objective measure of how your project is performing?

Fortunately, with Earned Value Management (EVM), you can get a close estimate!

See how you can use EVM to determine your project’s project performance and progress – in SharePoint – the fast and easy way!

Learn how to use a project site template to:

1. Define a Task Plan
2. Set Planned Value
3. Track Project Progress
4. Calculate Earned Value
5. Track Actual Cost
6. Calculate Performance Indices

Brightwork says: Learn more about Using EVM in SharePoint Projects now:

• Managing Earned Value in SharePoint
• An Overview of Using Earned Value Management for SharePoint Projects!

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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’

Click to register for Using Earned Value Management In SharePoint Projects

Live Webinar August 19th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Sometimes an application or service doesn’t support an API or batch processing.

But you can still automate tasks with code that directly controls the mouse and keyboard.

In this webcast, Al Sweigart covers the Python GUI automation techniques described in his latest book, Automate the Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners.

This includes how to:

• Programmatically control the keyboard and mouse
• Using the PyAutoGUI module
• Identifying when to use GUI automation techniques
• Keeping your script from getting out of control
• Simple image recognition

Presenter: Albert Sweigart (LinkedIn profile, @alsweigart)is a software developer and tech book author living in San Francisco. Python is his favorite programming language, and he is the developer of several open source modules for it.

Check Out Als Great Programming books on Amazon:

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 3rd Edition
• Making Games with Python & Pygame
• Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python: A beginner’s guide to cryptography and computer programming with Python
  • 100% of the proceeds from this book are donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, and the Tor Project.

Or Read Them Online:

• under a Creative Commons license on Albert Sweigart Site  at inventwithpython.com.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 9.3 Develop 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.’

Click to register for Automate boring keyboard and mouse tasks with Python GUI

Live Webinar August 5th, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

When product development teams spend more time dealing with internal issues, there’s less time available for true product innovation, resulting in rework, missed market opportunities, more meetings, more staff, and bloated processes.

One of the biggest barriers in product delivery is the way business needs are connected to distributed development teams.

The more reactive or agile a development team becomes, the more of an issue it is for the business teams to keep everything in sync.

The end result is that everyone on the product team is forced to spend more time determining how requirements, user stories, regulations, epics, and tasks are all linked, turning them into glorified middlemen.

Whether your team is agile, waterfall, or hybrid, join this web seminar to learn how to define, plan, and track requirements to help eliminate bottlenecks and consistently deliver great products.

You’ll learn how to:

1. Effectively gather and manage business needs and expectations
2. Express and communicate ideas and concepts to other stakeholders
3. Align business needs with agile delivery
4. Quickly understand the impact of the change required by shifts in business priorities
5. Focus on roadmaps and strategy, not backlogs and stories

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 6.1 Plan Schedule Management
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 11.1 Plan Risk Management

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’

Click to register for Eliminate Bottlenecks in Software Development and Delivery

Live Webinar – July 30th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

A digital transformation is occurring in most organizations.

Mike Harris (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how “Social Media, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud” (SMAC) are affecting software development.

Mike will provide some ideas for how organizations should prepare for these changes, particularly in terms of improving the flow of business value.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) 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
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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’

Click to view A SMAC In The Face For Enterprise Software Development

Live Webinar July 22nd, 2015 – 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

One thing we can all count on is that our projects will have issues – right from the beginning!

It’s the project manager’s job to deal with them.

Ever feel that project management is actually issue management? Don’t worry, as with so much in the realm of project management, SharePoint can help you triumph in the end!

Learn:

1. Best practices for Issue Management
2. Suggested elements of a SharePoint project issue management system
3. How to build out your issue management system in SharePoint with lists, notifications, and reporting
4. Enhanced portfolio issue management using BrightWork with SharePoint

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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’

Click to register for Using SharePoint For Project Issue Management