Live Webinar June 14th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Agile CoP (REP #S042)

Twenty five years of applied research on the front lines of project and organization leadership has revealed how personal responsibility works in our minds. That’s right, we now understand the mental processes by which humans avoid taking ownership for “stuff” in our lives and work — and how we take it.

These powerful breakthroughs are being successfully applied by leaders worldwide as a fundamental framework for learning, success, performance, teamwork and happiness.

We call it the Leadership Gift.

In this webinar, you will get a complete introduction to your Leadership Gift, including the mind’s Responsibility Processâ„¢ and the Keys to Responsibilityâ„¢ for applying, practicing, and mastering responsibility in your life, work, and relationships.

Your takeaways will include:

• Knowing how, why, and when to get started using your Leadership Gift
• Applications for project success, leadership, and teamwork
• How and when to apply it to yourself and others
• Resources available for advanced study and mastery

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Christopher Avery(LinkedIn profile, @ChristoperAver) is the the visionary force behind the worldwide Leadership Gift Community building personal responsibility and performance to support leaders intent on rapidly building highly reliable, agile, sustainable, and accelerating teams and cultures.

Christopher is a sought-after, international speaker, author, and business advisor on responsible leadership, teamwork, known for his cutting-edge work to demystify & develop practical team leadership skills for technical professionals. Christopher wrote the popular classic Teamwork Is an Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility for everyone who is fed up with working in bad teams. Fortune magazine called it the only book on teamwork you need to read.

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Live Webinar – June 11th 2013, 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

Agile at its foundation is a way of conducting work governed by a set of principles. Agile has been “productized” (different Agile Flavors) for specific work needs and special practices have been established to get the work done. With that said, most organizations feel they just need to teach their team the practices and get to work. The reality is that is a major mistake.

As a way of working, Agile is a monumental transformation. It requires the worker to engage in their work with a completely different mindset. It requires organizations to monitor and measure itself differently. Finally it requires managers to practice a completely new set of skills when it comes to “managing” their teams (the reality is you don’t manage your team any longer in Agile).

This seminar discusses the transformational challenge Agile presents to an organization. It will go over organizational change strategies necessary to make the jump, as well as cover different start up models instead of complete enterprise adoption. The goal of this presentation is to properly prepare an organization for the “human” challenges associated with the decision to move to Agile methods.

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, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 13 – Stakeholders

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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’

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Webinar ao Vivo 06 junho de 2013, 12:00 – 13:00 EDT
Oferecido por: Rally Software (REP 3156)
Duração: 1 hora Créditos: 1 PDU ou 1 CDU categoria

Destinado a: TI, Desenvolvedores, gerentes de qualidade, auditores de qualidade e gerentes de projeto, diretores e membros da equipe que devem aprender e desenvolver as habilidades essenciais ágeis de escrever e trabalhar com histórias de usuários.

Histórias de usuários, destinadas a manter as equipes de laser focados nas necessidades dos clientes, servir como a força motriz por trás de entrega de valor, características de alta qualidade. Neste webinar, você vai aprender as porcas e parafusos de escrita, dimensionamento, quebrando, user stories priorizar, tasking e aceitando, incluindo:

Exemplos de histórias, mantendo o foco no valor do cliente
A maneira de escrever os critérios de aceitação e definir “feito”
As diferenças entre as histórias e as tarefas
Sugestões para melhorar estimativas
Como histórias de usuários se relacionam com o roadmap de produtos
As lições aprendidas com seus pares

Agora é a hora de aprimorar suas habilidades com histórias de usuários e focar sua empresa inteira, desenvolvedores e stakeholders, na entrega de valor ao cliente.

Clique aqui para ver Como escrever grandes histórias de usuários: definição de valor para o cliente

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Live Webinar – June 11th 2013, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Change Can Bring Confusion & Fear

“Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by absence of things but by absence of leadership and vision”. – Anon

• The leader inspires those involved with a vision of a better future to weather the hardship on the way.
• Project management provides the “when and the how” but needs the “what and the why” from leaders to succeed.
• Without good leadership successful change can rarely be achieved.

During this one hour webinar, speaker Nicholas Burch (profile) will discuss where leadership lies within the project management team and how we can use it to enhance project success.

Click to register for Why Is Good Leadership Vital To Successful Change?

Live Webinar June 11th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Join IIBA Tuesday, June 11 as Teresa Bennet (LinkedIn profile) discusses The Importance of Mentorship in Your BA Career Development.

Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to identify what makes someone a good mentor for you, how you can provide mentorship to your colleagues and how take to take a leadership role to promote mentorship in your organization.

You will also be able to describe the benefits of mentorship and how it increases confidence and skills related to communication and requirements elicitation along with improving collaboration and documentation skill sets.

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Live Webinar – June 11th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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’

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

Click to register for Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability