Live Webinar October 15th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW1252

• Have you ever been caught off guard by an event you didn’t expect in your project or …..
• You realized too late that you missed an opportunity to get a better result?
• Do you want to get better at spotting red flags or opportunities?

Effectively managing risks is a core project management discipline, and this webinar will introduce you to some tools and techniques for identifying risks, prioritizing them, analyzing their impact and devising responses.

Practical tips will be shared for how to develop your own abilities to spot red flags, and assess people and situations beyond their appearances.

About the 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’s (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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Live Webinar – October 14th 2014, 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

Even at its very foundation, the cornerstone of Agile is the concept of self-organization.

Self-organization ultimately centers on professional skills, autonomy and empowerment.

When executed correctly, it is a strong first step on the road to embracing multiple agile practices. If your team can’t self-organize, it is a strong sign that your organization is not ready for agile.

In this web seminar the concept of self-organization will be explained in real terms using real examples.

The components necessary for self-organized success will be discussed including:

• A look at autonomy and the fears and risks associated with it
• Critical attributes of team members
• Critical attributes for managers and leaders
• Team responsibilities
• Manager and Leader responsibilities
• Techniques to hire for team members who can fit in with self-organization
• Failure points and tips to overcome those points

The final piece to this success is understanding that at the core of self-organization is trust. We will finish by discussing tactics and tips on how to develop trust from both the top down and bottom up.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile)  has 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 (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
• 9.3 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 – October 14th, 2014 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

During the project intake process all projects are considered critical, all others never get approved. So how do you decide which “critical” projects are most critical?

These decisions are typically made politically, emotionally or without consistency.

The Impact:

• Poor resource utilization
• Frustrated resources
• Projects not aligned with strategic objectives
• Higher risk and lower ROI

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar demonstrating a balanced approach to prioritizing initiatives. Projects affect many aspects of your business; all factors should be considered when taking on a new project. Learn the prioritization secrets of successful companies using a Project Portfolio Management mentality.

The Result:

• Decreased risk
• Higher ROI
• Optimized resource utilization
• Maximum aggregate value of projects

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.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 October 14th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

It’s hard to dispute that wearable technology is being lauded as the next big thing.

With predictions that the global wearable technology market will attain a value of $5.26 billion in 2014, it’s difficult to ignore all the hype surrounding wearables today.

However, despite the seemingly limitless opportunity of this emergent technology space, new and innovative wearable products and services are in short supply.

Businesses, technologists and designers alike are struggling to make sense of this new and challenging design space.

In this webcast, Lou Rosenfeld and Rachel Hinman discuss what makes creating successful wearable products so difficult and some of the key challenges facing wearable technology today.

They will:

• Pprovide an overview of the current wearable landscape and outline the four key areas for innovation where designers, businesses and technologists can focus their energies.
• Discuss some of the emerging technologies poised to be instrumental in enabling this new technology inflection point and …
• Provide a set of human-centered design heuristics that can be used to guide the design and development of your wearable technology idea.

Presenter: Rachel Hinman author of The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences (LinkedIn profile) is a speaker, researcher, designer, and leader in the mobile user experience field. Her passions for cultural study, art, and design, coupled with the belief that people can use technology to improve the human condition, have been the driving forces in her career for more than a decade. Rachel is a senior research scientist at Nokia in Palo Alto, California. There she focuses on R&D of emergent and experimental mobile interfaces and experiences.

Presenter: Lou Rosenfeld (bio) is the author of the best-selling Books Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites and Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversations with Your Customers ), Lou is also founder of Rosenfeld Media, co-founder of the annual Information Architecture Summit, and the Information Architecture Institute

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