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Live Webinar November 30, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToManage Corporate

Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges–from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader.

The job of an IT manager is always evolving, due to inexorable technological change, but more importantly because of the business implications of new technology-based capabilities.

Join this live webinar to hear Robert Austin (LinkedIn profile), author of Adventures of an IT Leader, discuss the issues every IT manager should be thinking about, including how to become a full-fledged business leader.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn:

  • How to manage talent and situations when things go wrong
  • Making the right decisions on where to invest scarce IT resources
  • How to align IT management with business strategy
  • And more…

Speaker: Robert Austin, Author of Adventures of an IT Leader. This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You’ll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events. You can read this book from beginning to end, or treat is as a series of cases. You can also skip around to address your most pressing needs. For example, need to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. You can formulate your own responses to a CIO’s obstacles by reading the authors’ regular “Reflection” questions. This book is an excellent resource and you will turn to it many times as you face IT-related issues in your own career.

PDU Category C 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
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 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.’

Click to register for Adventures of an IT Leader: Top Strategies for Success

First Things First for BAs

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Live Webinar – November 22, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

  • Are all of your projects PRIORITY #1?
  • Do you struggle to “get it all done?”
  • Are your resources stretched to the breaking point trying to get more done with less?

These situations are all to common in today’s business and project environments and Business Analysts often find themselves being caught in the corporate crossfire!

Join ASPE for a no-nonsense look at what is required to break the viscous cycle of shortcut planning followed by foggy execution followed by endless revision.

Get your organization back on track to better analysis, accurate estimating and shorter project duration!

Presenter: Scott Hannum is a third generation entrepreneur whose career is as diverse as it is accomplished. His early experience led him to a career working for professional racing teams and Scott trained as a Modern Pentathlon athlete for a spot on the ’92 and ’96 Olympic Team. Scott has also tackled such projects as creating an in-house marketing and sales department for a successful banking services company. He has since been consulting and speaking, concentrating full time on his study and teaching various management methodologies.

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Live Webinar – November 22, 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

In Managing Multiple Priorities, the final module in the Leadership and Business Skills for IT Professional webinar series, Michelle Moore (LinkedIn profile) will talk about how to maximize personal productivity.

The session will explore how to link job responsibilities to various goals and provide a framework for prioritizing tasks.

Click to register for Managing Multiple Priorities – Leadership and Business Skills for IT Professionals

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Live Webinar – November 16, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

It is here!

Testing for the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner pilot started in September. With our leadership position in both Agile and Project Management, ASPE-SDLC felt uniquely qualified in providing this primer session to help you prepare yourself to obtain this certification. Many of our instructors have taken the exam and will receive their results soon.

Overview:

  • Application Requirements
  • Fees
  • Exam content overview
  • Domains and tasks for Agile Certification
  • Training options
  • Where this certification fits with the Scrum Alliance certifications
  • Q & A

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, covering topics in the software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

Click to register for PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) Primer

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Live Webinar – November 10, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

Behind every successful project is an effective communication strategy. Competent business analysts and project managers capitalize on using both oral and written communication skills to create a successful outcome.

In this web seminar, learn how to communicate like a professional using key communication strategies, how to overcome the obstacles to poor communication, and the secret power of listening.

Presenter: Kelley Bruns has over 25 years of experience in the learning and development industry. Kelley holds a Master of Science and Adult Education with a concentration in Training and Development from Drake University. She is a PMP and a certified Development Dimensions International Facilitator. Kelley’s expertise lies in needs analysis, research, project management, problem identification, problem solving, curriculum development, instructional design, facilitation, succession management, and instructor-led training. These skills come from her extensive experience in a wide range of industries including banking, construction, energy, engineering, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

Click to register for Communication: The Secret Behind Effective Projects

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
November 9 & 16 , 2011 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours ( 2 sessions of 2 hrs each) 4 Category C PDU – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session when it was offered in August and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided! For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful! – Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Wednesdays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. RBA identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With RBA, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) makes 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’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

  • Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment at no additional cost
  • Four contact hours of training, including all materials
  • Readings to be completed during course attendance
  • Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 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’

Click to register for Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure