Live Webinar – May 28th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
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Currently so much of agile adoption—coaching, advice, techniques, training and even the empathy revolve around the agile teams.

Leaders are typically either ignored or marginalized at best, and in the worst cases often vilified.

Bob Galen contends that there is a central and important role for managers and effective leadership within agile environments.

In this workshop, we’ll explore the patterns of mature agile managers and leaders. Especially those that understand Servant Leadership and how to effectively support, grow, coach, and empower their agile teams in ways that increase the teams’ performance, accountability, and engagement.

Bob will explore training and standards for agile adoption, and situations and guidelines for when to trust the team and when to step in and provide guidance and direction. We’ll examine the leader’s role in agile at-scale and with distributed agile teams.

• Good leadership is a central ingredient to sustaining your agile adoption.
• Bad leadership can render it irrelevant or a failure.

Here we’ll walk the path of the good, but also examine the bad patterns in an effort to inspire you and your teams.

Presenter: Robert “Bob” Galen (LinkedIn profile) is the President and Principal Consultant of RGCG, L.L.C and author of SCRUM Product Ownership – Balancing Value From the Inside Out. Bob has held director, manager and contributor level positions in both software development and quality assurance organizations.  He has over 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of software technology and product domains.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 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 May 21st, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Michael Evanoo (LinkedIn profile) will explore the concepts, tools and techniques from various quality engineering perspectives that can take you beyond your immediate destination and toward a perpetual realization of excellence.

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Live Webinar – May 15th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

Traditionally, organizations have gone to great lengths to specify and document requirements for processes.

The trouble is that it can take months or years to develop process automation solutions only to find that they fall short of our expectations and are too rigid or expensive to update, modify or change.

We then have to put manual systems in place as workarounds making our grand solutions fragile and subject to uncontrolled employee processes with little to no visibility.

So how do you get out of this cycle and create an “Agile” business environment where you can rapidly change processes with the needs of the business?

Join this webinar to learn a new approach to managing the flow of business requirements and more effectively bring together the people, processes and information your people need to get work done.

In this webinar you will:

1. Explore why change is the new business requirement and what that means for you and your business
2. Learn techniques you can use to adapt and utilize current solutions in a more Agile Business Process
3. Identify ways that you can automate processes without involving IT
4. Get ideas on how you can maximize employee and customer engagement in business processes

Presenter: Steve Allen (LinkedIn profile) as Founder Steve drives the product vision of iDatix to develop solutions that combine people, processes and information. Steve has always focused on automating the business process and simplifying the user experience through technology.  For the past 16 years he has focused on office automation and business process management, developing products for character recognition, forms processing, document management and workflow.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 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 Move from Fragile to Agile Business Processes

Live Webinar May 16th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Solutions Cube Group (Rep 2451)  $15.00 USD
Attendees will be awarded 1 Cat A PDU for participating.

This webinar is the third in a 3 part series series on Collaboration by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

The PMBOK® refers to the concept of progressive elaboration as a recommended method for defining the project’s scope and producing project outcomes.

Many teams struggle with applying progressive elaboration or lack the knowledge to apply these techniques in manner which allows for continual clarification of the project scope versus expanding the boundaries of the project scope.

In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn how to:

• Apply progressive elaboration concepts on the creation of project deliverables
• Use the Wave Concept to develop project deliverables in a collaborative meeting setting
• Keep stakeholders focused on the deliverable or task at hand during meetings
• Structure a progress elaboration meeting activity expand the depth of knowledge for a deliverable without expanding the scope of the project effort

Join Solutions Cube for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn how to avoid allowing progressive elaboration to become an uncontrolled scope creep dilemma on their projects. This is part 3 of a three part series presented by Solutions Cube.

Click here to register for Applying Progressive Elaboration Techniques on Projects

Live Webinar May 14th, 2014, 10:00 am to 12:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 2 Hours -2 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

Teamability^®:
The Ability To Connect With Others
To Form A Productive Team

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph,
But a team is greater than the sum of its parts.

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher of Forbes Magazine, recently wrote an article entitled “Teams Matter. Talent is Not Enough.”

In essence, it is a challenge for executives to find and exploit the ‘magic’ of team synergy.

The metrics of teaming now exist! Even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. Teaming metrics are key to improving selection, increasing engagement, and vastly reducing new-hire turnover, all with measurable business value.

With TGI Teamabilityâ„¢
PMs will be able to create extremely strong teams.

In this introduction you will learn:

• A completely new technology will help you understand why talented, experienced people do not always ‘team’ well with others.
• How to reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting,
  • Metrics and methods that measure and predict ‘teaming’ behaviors.
  • How to effectively analyze and solve team performance problems.
• How to deliver significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team
  • The ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams
  • Behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities
• How it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity to help you understand the strengths of your team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful!

Edmonton PM

This program has been approved for 2 General recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification. PMPs can earn two Cat B credits for this two hour course. In addition, you will be offered the opportunity to have your own Teamability® experience!

Click to register for An Introduction To Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

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Live Webinar April 22nd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, you will learn how to use the project you are currently working on to propel yourself to the next level, how to become a true project leader, and how to differentiate yourself from the competition.

You will learn:

• Some of the reasons why 40-70% of all change initiatives fail
• What the top 3 project management mistakes are
• How to continuously improve and innovate
• How to empower your team
• What the six human needs are
• How to build trust
• Which personality type your boss and key stakeholders are

Presenter:   Susanne Madsen – (LinkedIn Profile @SusanneMadsen) Program Director, Project Leadership Coach, author of Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential.  Susanne’s newest book will be released later this year – and some of her articles have been translated into Spanish and Russian. 

Susan’s years of experience in managing and rolling out large change programs brought out her passion for helping project managers get to the next level. Her experience working with investment banks enhanced her passion to help organizations set-up corporate coaching and mentoring programmes. Susanne is also a PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner as well as a qualified Corporate and Executive coach.

Susanne is a Keynote Speaker and has facilitated many webinars and sessions for a number of PDU Providers.  In March 2013 Susanne was the guest on #pmchat The topic “Coaching for Project Managers“ was archived on Storify. Visit Susanne’s website at www.susannemadsen.com

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