Live Webinar May 30th, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU -  Free PDU
Hosted By:  Typemock

Unit testing is all the rage
More and more teams are beginning to unit test.

But it can be difficult to start.  In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, including unit testing.

Discover:

1. The difference between QA & Developer Testing
2. The pains of manual testing
3. The benefits of automated testing
4. Why unit test
5. xUnit Frameworks
6. The difference between unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD).
   Join this webinar to learn what you need to know in order to start testing.

Typemock will also be raffling away Typemock Isolator/Isolator++ licenses and t-shirts. You must attend to win.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3  Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since.  As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down–to–earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools.  Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

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Live Webinar May 29th 2013, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT or
Live Webinar May 30th, 2013, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm  EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center (PROSCI)
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU -  Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes.  With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

Change saturation is becoming a reality for many organizations – where the amount of change is so high that it is impacting individuals, project outcomes and organizational performance.

In this webinar, examine change saturation and why it is occurring and see a process-based approach for understanding and managing the portfolio of change and its cumulative and collective impact on employees.

Agenda:

1. Change saturation
   • What it is
   • Why it happens
   • What are the consequences
2. Prosci Change Portfolio Management Process

PDU Category C 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’

Click to register for the May 29th Presentation of  Change Saturation and Portfolio Management

Click to register for the May 30th Presentation of  Change Saturation and Portfolio Management

Live Webinar May 22nd, 2013, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm  EDT or
Live Webinar May 23rd, 2013, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center (PROSCI)
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU -  Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes.  With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

Although a greater recognition of the need for change management has been a growing trend identified by study participants in recent years, many practitioners still find themselves working to justify the value of change management.

In this webinar, learn how to conduct a cost-benefit analysis for change management and position change management as a “must have” rather than a “nice to have.”

See the latest data on the cost components of change management and five benefit perspectives you can use immediately on a project to show the value proposition of applying structure and intent to managing the people side of change.

Agenda:

1. Definition
2. The cornerstone – benefits realization
3. Cost components of change management
4. Benefit perspectives of change management

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications 11 – Risk

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Plan Communications Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks

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 the May 22nd Presentation of  Cost-Benefit Analysis for Change Management

Click to register for the May 23rd Presentation of  Cost-Benefit Analysis for Change Management

Live Webinar May 21st, 2013 – 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Energy, Oil, Gas & Petrochemical CoP (REP #S017)
Presented by: John Fish

• Are your projects both urgent and important?
• Do you find that management does not provide the luxury of spending the time to fully define the scope work?
• Do your projects experience changes or cost/schedule overruns?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may benefit from some of the tools and work processes developed by CII to evaluate the completeness of your project prior to funding and execution.

In this session, John Fish will explain the concepts, costs, and benefits of using a structured process for Front End Planning (FEP). The primary focus will be on the Construction Industry Institute Research and Tools developed to improve project execution.

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

Presenter: John Fish (LinkedIn profile) has over forty-five years experience in the Engineering and Construction industry (primarily refining and petro-chemical).  With previous assignments ranging from Estimating, Engineering/Design, Construction Coordination, Project Controls, and Strategic Project Procurement,  he became the architect for the Internet Project Information Management System (iPIMS), a web based system for collaboration and information exchange and pioneered the concept of Data-Centric Rule Based 3D Modeling for his company.

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Live Webinar May 20th, 2013 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Financial Services Industry CoP (REP #S006)
Presented by: Peteer Taylor “The Lazy Project Manager”

Background:

Organizations demand that the projects that they commission these days are successful in order to meet their increasingly aggressive strategic goals, and for this to be possible the project managers that lead these strategic projects need to be the very best that they can be. But these very projects are also becomingly more challenging.

Method:

So what are the issues that the ‘21st Century’ project manager faces that can be very different from projects in the past, or at least more difficult?

A look at five of these will be taken to provoke thought and begin discussions on what we all need to do now.

Here in the 21st Century:

• Profile of projects
• Complexity of projects
• Virtuality of projects
• Sponsoring of projects
• Benefits from projects

Results:

The presentation aims to stimulate thought from the audience about where we should all be focusing our efforts in order to deal with the ‘21st Century’ challenges that project managers face.

Conclusions:

Join me in saying ‘goodbye’ to the ‘Accidental Project Manager’ and ‘hallo’ to the ‘21st Century Project Manager’.

Presenter: Peter Taylor is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management.  With over the 26 years experience in various business areas Peter has excelled in MRP/ERP systems with various software houses, Business Intelligence (BI) , and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens.  He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor.

Peter is also an accomplished communicator and leader speaking at PMI Chapters/Congresses and the author of several books including The Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early  and ‘Leading Successful PMOs’ (Gower) and teaches leadership to business professionals with ‘The Lazy Winner‘.  Check out his terrific website and listen to his free podcasts in iTunes.

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

Click to register for The 21st Century Project Manager

Live Webinar – May 21st, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT &
Live Webinar – May 22nd, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT &
Live Webinar – May 23st, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 3 Sessions of 90 min ea. Total of 4.5 Hrs
Duration 4.5 hours 4.5 PDUs CDUs
Mpug Members ONLY FREE COURSE! – Buy A Membership Today!

MPUG Certificate Series:
Managing Projects with SharePoint Essentials Masterclass
Sorry MPUG Members Only
MPUG PPM Certificate upon completion of series and
4.5 Cat A PMI® PDU Credits

The course is comprised of 3 sessions of 2 hours each.
MPUG Certificate Session 1 05/21/13 12:00PM – 1:30PM EST
MPUG Certificate Session 2 05/22/13 12:00PM – 1:30PM EST
MPUG Certificate Session 3 05/23/13 12:00PM – 1:30PM EST

NOTE: To earn the certificate all 3 classes need to be attended – This first class lays the foundation for much more advanced topics in this course.  Intermediate and advanced users will also extend their knowledge-base with this Masterclass.

Overview:

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has been in market for over 3 years with over 120 million users. Amazing really. The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 release included a new task list that synchronizes with Microsoft Project, extending the capabilities of both SharePoint and Project to manage work and projects.  Then in January 2013 Microsoft formally released SharePoint 2013.  In this latest release there are an amazing amount of slick new features. It’s clear the Microsoft SharePoint team are really encouraging us to use SharePoint to collaboratively manage projects. In this essentials course we will present, explain and demonstrate which pieces of SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 will help you with project and everyday work management.

Session Format and Credit:

The course comprise of 3 sessions of 90 minutes each. MPUG Certificate upon completion of series and opportunity for 4.5 hours PMI® PDU credit.

Session 1: Tuesday 21st May, 12-1:30 EST

Using SharePoint 2010 for Project Management 

Objectives:

• Course and Module 1 Introduction
• The architecture of SharePoint 2010 simply explained
• Collaborative Project Management – a Simple Process
• Project Processes (e.g. issues, risks, deliverables) inside SharePoint 2010
• Project Reporting (e.g. My Tasks) inside SharePoint 2010
• Project Sites (e.g. our project) inside SharePoint 2010
• Project Portfolios (e.g. Project Office) inside SharePoint 2010
• Project Desktop to SharePoint 2010 synchronization – what works
• Project Desktop to SharePoint 2010 synchronization – what is not included
• SharePoint 2010 and Project Desktop versus SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010
• What SharePoint 2010 does not include for Project Management
• Two Free Enhanced SharePoint 2010 Template for Project Management – introduced
• Two Free Enhanced SharePoint 2010 Template for Project Management – explained
• References for you to learn more
• Your questions answered

Session Outcome – Attendees will be able to identify what pieces SharePoint 2010 does and does not include for Project Management based on the session demonstration and questions.

Session 2: Wednesday 22nd May, 12-1:30 EST

Configuring SharePoint 2010 for Project Management

Objectives:

• Course and Module 2 Introduction
• Configuring SharePoint 2010 Project Processes (e.g. issues, risks, deliverables)
• Configuring SharePoint 2010 Project Reporting (e.g. My Tasks)
• Configuring SharePoint 2010 Project Site Interface (e.g. our project)
• Configuring Project Desktop to SharePoint 2010 synchronization
• Configuring the Free Enhanced SharePoint 2010 Template for Project Management
• References for you to learn more
• Your questions answered

Session Outcome – Attendees will be able to identify the key steps in configuring Sharepoint 2010 for Project Management based on the session demonstration and questions.

Session 3: Thursday 23rd May, 12-1:30 EST

SharePoint 2013 for Project Management

Objectives:

• Course and Module 3 Introduction
• SharePoint 2013 enhancements for Project Processes (e.g. issues, risks, deliverables)
• SharePoint 2013 enhancements for Project Reporting (e.g. My Tasks)
• SharePoint 2013 enhancements for Project Sites (e.g. our project)
• Evolving Project Management with SharePoint 2013
• Project Desktop to SharePoint 2013 synchronization – how it works
• Project Desktop to SharePoint 2013 synchronization – what is not included
• What SharePoint 2013 does not include for Project Management
• References for you to learn more
• Your questions answered

Session Outcome – Attendees will be able to identify what extra pieces SharePoint 2013 does and does not include for Project Management based on the session demonstration and questions.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member  JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT…. Even if you only take the 3 session 6 hour MPUG Project Portfolio Management Masterclass (6 Category A PDUs) the $129 Per Year Membership Fee   is a terrific value to get the PPM MPUG Certificate and add it to your resume.

MPUG Membership also includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …….

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile)  CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

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