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My Christmas Card To You

Focusing on a healthy work/life balance is important!  It has been an intense year for our teams, our families, our communities and our work as we adapt to health challenges. 

As we look forward to 2025 we trust and pray that together we can work towards finding a new normal that creates engagement between communities that assists, supports and encourages each other.

Project managers understand how crucially important respect and project team wellness are to the productivity of the project.

In 2024 if you support your teams in any way, recognize that building engagement builds loyalty. We are divided more than ever – building unity and respect amongst our teams is the best way to succeed!

I genuinely want to thank all of our readers and our volunteers who have made this site possible! I know that you are of many diverse backgrounds and faiths and at this time of year I appreciate being able to express my thanks and best wishes in one of my favorite holiday songs. The lyrics of this song express my thoughts and my prayers to all of you so much better than I can express.

YOU ALL make this possible! Blessings to you all!

– Martin Chernenkoff Editor PDU Of The Day

My Christmas Card To You

Written by Tony Romeo Sung by: David Cassidy Discography

To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through …

I’m looking out my window at the softly falling snow
that dances in the early morning light
I got my guitar right before me, strummin’ a beautiful sound
watching it a-comin’ down, all around
on the fields and the farms and the road to town

And I’m thinkin’ up a letter that I’m writin’ in my head
a Christmas card to all the folks I love
Instead of lettin’ the postman bring it, I decided I’d rather sing it
especially for you, for you …

To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

May your life be filled with sunshine, may your every wish come true
May you find the sweet fulfillment in everything you do
May your days be blessed with the very very best
both now and the whole year through
it says so in my Christmas card to …

You and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

Please do what you can to support others even if it is only to share a smile!

Online Webinar – Recorded November 6th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Gartner Webinars

A variety of sweeping trends constantly shapes tech provider business, including Generative AI, economic uncertainty and evolving B2B customer demands.

Tech providers face more options and questions than ever: How do you retain your customers?

• How do you attract more new buyers?
• Where do you place your genAI bets?
• What is the future of IT services?
• Which go-to-market strategies are best?
• How do you drive usage and create enthusiastic advocates for your products?

Join this webinar as a panel of Gartner experts helps you to overcome the obstacles holding your organization back and reignite its growth engines.

Find out how Gartner can assist you in ensuring that your technology investments translate into customer value.

Discussion Topics:

• Identify the key topics for product leaders, tech marketers and tech executives
• Know the top trends that tech providers must respond to in 2024
• Get real-life examples to help ensure your technology investments translate to value

Panelists:

• David Yockelson (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst
• Molly Beams (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst
• Annette Zimmermann (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Analyst
• Adrian Lee (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst
• Patrick Stakenas (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst,
• Brian Doherty (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst
• Elizabeth Jones (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director Analyst
• McKenzie Smith (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Principal, Advisory

Click to register for:
Breaking Barriers: Drive Faster Go-To-Market, More Revenue, & Growth: Tech Growth & Innovation Preview

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 4, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

Coaching was not necessarily a role and practice that existed when Agile started as a new approach in the 1970s.

Agile began as an alternative to Lean Six Sigma which is the very mindset that is coming back to Agile as a way to ‘scale’ frameworks developed for small teams of software developers.

Like some other practices that originated in Extreme Programming (XP), Story Points and burndown charts, the Coach role evolved to something that is hard to define.

From an advisor to Senior Management, to a Trainer, or a salesman for various Agile certifications, the Agile Coach is almost always specific to software development. Agile Manufacturing and Lean Six Sigma, which may be considered much larger Business Transformations, don’t necessarily have a Coach for each unit of the organization.

In this webinar Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile) gives a Project Manager’s analysis of the Agile Coach, Business Coach, and Lean Six Sigma’s Master Black Belt roles.

Click To Register & View:
The Agile Enterprise: Coaching In An Agile World

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 2, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

High-Velocity Productivity (HVP) is a journey of ongoing improvement to achieve execution excellence.

In this session Adam Cherrill (LinkedIn profile) describes and illustrates best practices that inform the HVP approach as well as his own learning and experiences from a Project Management perspective.

Adam examines how HVP systems and culture drive Project Management Excellence through mastery of Input Management, Action Management, and Work Management domains.

Participants will learn how the Getting Things Done (GTD) framework, Toyota Production System “Rules in Use”, and Theory of Constraints inform the High-Velocity Productivity mindset.

If you’re a project manager seeking better guidance, navigation, and control of your work, you will not want to miss this webinar with Adam as he shares his own experiences, combat tactics, and battle scars from lessons learned along his never-ending journey towards High-Velocity Productivity.

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-Velocity Productivity For Project Management Excellence

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Online Webinar  – Recorded August 23rd, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Ken Blanchard Companies

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Improving Your Personal Effectiveness

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 7th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The Project Management Institute (PMI) has published the 6th edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide) and a companion guide dedicated to agile practices.

The impetus?

According to the PMI 2017 Pulse of the Profession^® report, a full 71% of organizations say they are using agile approaches for their projects sometimes, often, or always. And yet, for many practitioners the adoption of agile practices often means a diminished role for the project manager.

Join Bonnie Cooper in this webinar to explore the agile infusion in the PMBOK^® Guide and the companion Agile Practice Guide, as well, and the reality of trying to integrate traditional project management and incremental, adaptive development practices.

Learning goals:

• Review of the PMBOK Guide – Sixth Edition changes and Agile Practice Guide
• Discuss what it means to be an agile project manager
• Discuss the reality of the integration between traditional project management and agile development practices

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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PMBOK® Guide Goes Agile

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