Live Webinar March 11th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Strategic change initiatives are profiling in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture to help assess and plan them.

Enterprise Business Architecture is quickly evolving into a mainstream business capability. Some would argue that it is already there considering 50% of the world’s top performing enterprises have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator.

The tools and techniques of business architecture should be foundational to strategy development, deployment and executive planning. This webinar intends to demonstrate the business architecture framework, describe the what, why, how and uses of some architectural blueprints.

Learning Objectives:

1. Purpose and benefits of Business Architecture to scope, planning and delivery.
2. Applicability of Business Architecture in the context of the rapid Change Agenda
3. Business Architecture framework and a variety of approaches to know when to use model types.
4. Different views of a business architecture framework and how analysis techniques will expose risk.
5. To think architecturally in the decomposition of the organization as a technique for defining organizational impact, scope and for Process Modeling & Requirements analysis methods.

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Live Webinar – March 10th 2015, 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

DevOps is all the rage as a trend for aligning IT assets, teams, and deployment tools as a movement for more effective utilization of IT as a strategic business capability.

But like any buzzword, the reality behind the movement is fraught with obstacles and pitfalls.

DevOps does work, but if an organization does not have realistic expectations about its implementation and adoption, it can become just another misunderstood trend that fails to deliver on the promise.

So what does it take to deliver on the promise of DevOps?

Join use   and Richard Jenny, PMP, PM-Agile Practitioner and DevOps Leader will collaborate with the audience on common issues and hurdles that can stand in the way of implementing truly effective DevOps practices.

Join ASPE’s Chris Knotts, PMP (LinkedIn profile) Richard Jenny (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PE, PMI-ACP veteran Program Manager and DevOps Director as he take questions from you and has a candid discussion of what works, what doesn’t work, and what to expect as an enterprise organization considers adopting a DevOps way of work.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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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Online Webinar  – Recorded May 3013
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : TenStep Inc. (Rep 1774)

Note:  Although TenStep  is an REP and this session qualified as a PDU for people listening to the Live version of the presentation – TenStep  has stated that if you are listening to this presentation as a recorded online presentation you will need to record this webinar as a Category C opportunity.

Project Management Is Not Static!

The nature of projects ten years ago is not the same as projects ten years from now. Therefore, the approaches and processes that worked ten years ago are not going to be adequate ten years from now.

Based on the experience and perceptions of Tom Mochal Pmp PgMP TSPM ITBMC (LinkedIn profile, @TMochal) will discuss future trends in project, program and portfolio management.

Tom will also discuss how the role of the project manager will likely evolve.

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
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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 March 10th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

A couple of quick Google searches reveal just how much of a religion that lean, agile startup and Lean UX methods have become.

Teams and companies are consistently searching for recipes and prescriptions to “doing agile and lean.”

Jeff Gothelf (LinkedIn profile) author of Lean UX, will share his points of view on how pragmatism anchored in your organization’s unique reality trumps the purity of process doctrine.

Jeff’s talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A session.
Bring your biggest challenges!

 PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 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’

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