Live Webinar February 10th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
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 which three interpersonal skills are the most critical to a project manager’s success.

You will understand how being socially aware will help you manage stakeholder relationships and also help to realize where you have the ability to influence, no matter your position within organizational hierarchy.

Deborah will also discuss how behavioral science is important in understanding communication styles and workplace values, motivators and behaviors and why the art of project management contributes to 80% of project and organizational success.

Presenter: Deborah Herting (LinkedIn profile)  MPA, MSOD, PMP, CPVA, CPBA Founder and CEO at The Deborah Group is the author of The Power of Interpersonal Skills in Project Management.

Click to register for The Socially Emerging Project Manager: High Impact Interpersonal Skills, Their Attributes And Using Them to Achieve Success

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Live Webinar – February 10th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

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This session will have a lot of information but covered in an introductory and compare and contrast way to allow you to get an objective picture based on your experience.

Agile is not a panacea or a methodology. At its foundation it is a way of working that permeates everything you do at work. David will discuss how that is and what that means.

Over 250,000 people have become certified in some form of Agile practice or flavor.

The industry standard body for Project Management, PMI, has introduced a certification for Agile (PMI-ACP introduced officially in Jan 2013).

Steven Denning (LinkedIn profile) has written a book about his development of a new flavor of Agile for management and leaders called The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. IC Agile, a world-wide standards organization for Agile, is even working on a designation for using Agile in marketing and product management.

This thing called Agile is here to stay!

The reality thought is the vast number of SDLC and business professionals might have heard of it but really don’t know what it is. Or they were given a small snap shot picture of an element of how it works.

In this fast paced one hour web seminar, David will take a very methodical approach to provide a full picture of what Agile is, how it works, who is using it and how you can use it.  He will try to leave time for questions and will keep the session open an extra 10 mins to cover questions.

David will cover the following topics:

• What is driving the need to use Agile
• How management and workers need to change to utilize Agile successfully
• Break down of what Agile is
• The two fundamental concepts of Agile: Self-organization and Iterating
• High level overview of the Agile Practices and Organization
  • Work vs Role
  • Development unit / Business unit
  • ScrumMaster
  • Product Owner
  • User Story / task board / burndown
  • Five levels of planning in Agile
  • Estimating in Agile
  • Sprint aka Iteration
  • Definition of Done
  • Retrospective
  • Rolling to the next iteration
• A quick look at Agile Flavors
• A look at who is using Agile and How
• Roadblocks and Challenges
• Certification options

If you can’t stay, the full answers to questions will be provided on our blog and Aspe will provide that link with the slides a few days after the presentation.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) –  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 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 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 Agile Primer: A 360 Degree Look at What It Is & How it Is Used

Accounting Online Course (video only) – Recorded
Free: 1 Category C 1 hour video presentation only – Free
Presented by: Finance Learning Academy
Dedicated to helping financial professionals advance their careers.

OR … Purchase the entire course from Proformative
for $129.USD USD and record it as 1.5 Category B PDUs
When purchased it qualifies as a “Category B Opportunity”

The Purchased Course Includes: A 70 Min Presentation, 4 Knowledge Checks and 10 Exam Questions

Level:  Introductory Accounting

• Advanced preparation, education or prerequisites are NOT REQUIRED.
  

This course is for non-CPA finance professionals who want to improve their understanding of how accounting works.

This course packs into one hour “The Best” of what you need to know
To understand core accounting concepts, and …
Perform common accounting transactions.

Level: Introductory – Prerequisite Education, Experience, Preparation: None

Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

• Describe and recognize the accounting underlying any set of financial statements.
• Analyze Business Transactions to determine which are reportable and of those which are on account of income and which are on account of capital.
• Prepare journal entries for common business transactions.
• Post Entries to create a general ledger and a trial balance using a spreadsheet.
• Prepare The Income Statement, the statement of changes in equity, and the balance sheet.

Along the way, Blair will show you tips and techniques to make sure you stay on track and your books balance.

Blair will teach you how to prepare financial statements using a simple conceptual model that can apply to any project  small or large.

Throughout the course Blair will feature a case study to assist you in understanding and applying the principles taught.

Check out the course:

• Lesson 1 – Debits and Credits & The 3 Step Process
• Lesson 2 – Creating Journal Entries
• Lesson 3 – Posting to a Trial Balance
• Lesson 4 – Preparing Financial Statements
• Presenter Information
• Information On Category C Recording Of This Opportunity

Lesson 1 – Debits and Credits

In the first lesson Blair will:

1. Establish a conceptual of model for accounting using the formula:
   • Assets = Liabilities + Equity
2. Introduce you to debits and credits
3. Walk through an accounting system and …
4. Look at the financial statements of a Fortunate 500 company.

Lesson 2 – Creating Journal Entries

In the second lesson Blair will:

• Help you learn how to prepare journal entries.
• Assist you to analyze events that happen in the business to determine which of those give rise to accounting transactions.
• Work through a month end using a case full of common transactions

Lesson 3 – Posting to a Trial Balance

In the third lesson Blair will:

• Post all the entries from the last lesson to a working trial balance using a spreadsheet.

Many learners new to accounting may get step mixed up at this stage …
But Blair will to show you how to do it right the first time, and every time.

Lesson 4 – Preparing Financial Statements

Now for the moment of truth, Blair will walk you through preparing the  financial statements.

In the last lesson Blair will:

• Prepare the income statement  and …
• Prepare a statement of changes in equity
  • This is often ignored, but is important to prepare so that the balance sheet balances the first time, and every time.

Presenter:  Blair Cook CA, CPA, MBA  (LinkedIn profile @BlairCookCACPA) is  a many-time CFO, corporate director, a sought after keynote speaker on business financials, and a passionate educator working with dozens of public/private companies; and professional bodies/post-secondary institutions across Canada. His career is divided between academic endeavors, such as developing the new certification program for CPA Canada, and supporting the corporate world at the highest levels.

Blair is a life-long learner who encourages continuing professional development.  He observes and experiments with various financial and management theories in real world contexts and shares  lessons learned to others who share a passion for developing financial leadership competency. If you can take the opportunity to hear Blair – Take it!

Catch Blair Speaking at:

• Controller Essentials:
  • Feb 9-10, 2015 – Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
• Today’s CFO Tomorrow Program:
  • Mar 19-20,2015 – Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
• CFO Dimensions Conference:
  • October 19-20, 2015 -New York, New York USA

Or contact the Finance Learning Academy
For more information on these presentations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 7 – Cost

• 7.1 Plan Cost Management
• 7.2 Estimate Costs
• 7.3 Determine Budget
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 obtain “Category B Certification 1.5 PDUs”  Purchase Learn Accounting in 1 Hour from Proformative

OR … Claim 1 Category C PDU For Watching The Complete Presentation on YouTube:

• Lesson 1  – Accounting 101 – Debits and Credits  
• Lesson 2 – Creating Journal Entries
• Lesson 3 – Posting to a Trial Balance
• Lesson 4 – Preparing Financial Statements

Live Webinar Feburary 10th, 2015, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

“Software-defined” is a technology trend and culture that is increasingly attracting attention, and some serious trials and early adoption among a section of service providers and large global enterprises.

But why has this evoked such a hype and interest among both technology providers and users?

Is it something that is critical and urgent enough to invest resources in the next few quarters and years and how should I start planning for it?

Discussion Topics:

• What software-defined
• Why it’s important
• How to get started

Presenter: Naresh Singh (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Principal Research Analyst

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define 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 Software-Defined IT Scenario