Live Webinar Apr 7th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Much as the need to design the system, you must also design the project: from scheduling resources behind the services, to tracking your progress across developers, services and phases of completion, to validating your plan, and accommodating changes.

This requires understanding the inner dependencies between services and activities, the critical path of integration, the available floats, the staff distribution and the risks involved. All of these challenges stem from your design and addressing them properly is a hard core engineering task — designing the project.

In this intense webcast Juval Lowy shares his approach software project design, along with his unique insight for delivering software on schedule and budget. You will also see to deal with common misconceptions and typical roles and responsibilities in the team.

Presenter: Juval Lowy (O’Reilly bio) is founder of IDesign, a master software architect specializing in system and project design and iMicrosoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley. Juval is the author of COM and .NET Component Services (O’Reilly Windows) & Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus. He participated in the Microsoft internal strategic design reviews for C#, WCF and related technologies. Juval is a frequent keynote speaker. Microsoft has ecognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top experts and industry leaders.

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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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Live Webinar April 2nd, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

This webcast talk will be an all-demo session 

Sumit will cover several development tools built into the browsers (Chrome Developer Tools, IE F12 Developer Tools, and Safari Web Inspector).

Debugging code, as well as diagnosing performance problems will be discussed.

Demonstration of the tools will include — analyzing memory footprint and leaks, CPU Profiling and Heap analysis, network throughput analysis to capture GET and POST calls, UI responsiveness, composited layers, and paint events will be discussed. Goal will be to diagnose for UI performance issues.

In the last 5-10 minutes of the talk, performance best practices will shared

Presenter: Sumit Amar (LinkedIn profile) is a Director of Engineering at Electronic Arts and leads the cloud development and extensibility. Spending 9 years in Microsoft optimizing several Microsoft products for performance and usability, including adCenter (now Bing Ads), Bing Shopping, Microsoft.com, and Cloud TV (Mediaroom), he has worked in Microsoft Redmond, Vancouver, Copenhagen, and Silicon Valley campuses. Sumit is currently working on his dissertation for a PhD in Computer Information Systems.

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
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 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.’

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Live Webinar March 26th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast  – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Are you making the right choices in SharePoint?

In This Session Imaginet Will Show You…

• How the technologies are changing for form-based solutions in Microsoft SharePoint 2013.
• Proven replacement options to meet forms-based business requirements.
• A decision framework to assist in requirements evaluation and decision making towards a forms-based solution.
• How to gain a firm understanding of which option to select and why.
• And much, much more…

Presenter:  Jeremiah Walker (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior SharePoint Consultant with Imaginet in Dallas and has been developing solutions using the SharePoint platform since version 3.0. Jeremiah uses SharePoint creatively to solve  business problems with out of the box features, custom solutions, or a combination of both.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope

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 Choosing The Right Form-Based Solution For SharePoint 2013

Live Webinar – March 20th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

TFS 2013 offers teams exciting capabilities for managing everything from requirements, to test cases, to builds, to issues.

On top of all this functionality, a robust reporting system exists.  There are many ways to report on data from TFS, though.

In this webinar, Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile) will explore the options, talk about the new charting capabilities of TFS 2013, and do a demo of several reporting techniques – including Excel Services, charts, and SQL Reporting Services.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.3 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 Reporting With TFS 2013

Live Webinar March 18th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by :  O’Reilly

First-to-market has always been an important part of business — but what that means has evolved.

It’s no longer simply about producing that new cool item before the other guys. Now it also means you must be able to iterate quickly, adjust quickly for changing user tastes and adapt quickly.

To be able to do this and adapt quickly, you need to develop, deploy, react, troubleshoot and update quickly.

Pushing your code faster and faster means you have to be able to update and deploy infrastructure faster, which means infra/systems teams must be able to deploy faster, react faster, troubleshoot faster and fix faster.

In this training, Facebook Production Engineer Phil Dibowitz (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the dramatically accelerating cycle of getting features/products/release to users, and collecting and acting on user feedback.

Phil will cover what IT must do to make coded business a reality today, elements of scale, and the benefits of automation, no matter how large or complex your organization is.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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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Live Webinar March 12th 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Becky will show you…

• How implementing best practices in application lifecycle management can improve your bottom line.
• Why focusing on application lifecycle management can increase team productivity and satisfaction.
• Discover how the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM tools can be leveraged to enhance every part of your application lifecycle, including development, testing, project management, release management, deployments, and operations.
• How improving the management of your application lifecycle can result in reduced risk, improved resource utilization, improved stakeholder satisfaction, etc.

And much more!

1. Why should your business focus on Application Lifecycle Management?
2. What benefits will you see to your overall business?
3. How does ALM impact your bottom line?

Come attend this free webinar to discover all the answers!

Presenter:  Becky Madison Kier (LinkedIn profile) is the Director of Process & Operations for Imaginet based in Dallas, TX. She is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software by adopting best practices of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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 Top 10 Business Benefits of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)