Online VideoCast
Presented by: Bernardo Tirado from The Project Box
Duration: 15 minutes 0.25 PDU Credits: 0.25 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Bernardo Tirado, PMP (LinkedIn profile, @thepmobox) has launched a Web TV series called Meet the Experts TV, a program where subject matter experts from around the world are interviewed. In this second episode, Bernardo interviews Peter Saddington (LinkedIn profile, @AgileScout) who is known as AgileScout and writer of the Scrum Pocket Guide.

During this 15 minute interview, Peter and Bernardo discuss the human side of software development, issues companies should consider before adopting agile, the importance of the internal champion and the reasons behind agile failures.

PDU Category C documentation details for Perspectives on Agile Software Development:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop 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’

Note: You will have to confirm with your email to view the video.

Below is the list of books that Peter mentioned during the interview:

• Change expert & best-selling author Seth Godin’s books Poke the Box and Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
• Tom Rath’s book StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Daniel Pink’s Book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  • Daniel Pink other best sellers include:
    • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
    • Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
    • The 7 Dirty Words of the Free Agent Workforce
    • and his most popular book The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media.
• Scott Belsky’s book Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
• Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

The Meet the Experts Series launched January 20, 2012 and will feature a new episode every 3rd Thursday of each month. From Agile to Virtual Team Management, the series will provide insights that you can immediately use as a Project Manager.

Click to view Meet the Experts TV on The Project Box

Live Webinar February 23rd 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Management Concepts (Rep #1124)

In order to grow as a project manager, it is necessary to take an inventory of your current skills and identify areas for improvement.

Having a sense of what it takes to be a successful project manager is a good start. Creating and implementing an actionable plan to improve your capabilities is even better.

In this webinar, Susanne Madsen (LinkedIn @SusanneMadsen) author of the recently published book, Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential, and Dr. Shelley Kirkpatrick, (LinkedIn profile) Director of Assessment Development at Management Concepts, will discuss the six steps you can take to improve your project management skills and go from being a good project manager to a great one.

You will learn how to:

• Assess your skills today and identify those you wish to have in the future
• Overcome some of the common leadership and development challenges project managers face
• Discover the key elements to creating an actionable development plan to improve your capabilities
• Continually assess your progress in acquiring and using the skills, knowledge, and behaviors you wish to develop

Complete the Skill Assessment – To get the most from this webinar, we recommend that you take the skill assessment prior to attending. The results will be emailed to you automatically.

Read excellent project management articles on Susanne Madsen’s site.

I love Susanne’s writing/mentoring style and I know you will too. She has written a practical workbook filled with tips, tools and techniques for everyone who wants to coach themselves and others to become highly valued and truly successful project managers and leaders.

I had the pleasure of reviewing a pre-release copy of the Project Management Coaching Workbook ::

“Whether you are building your own project management career development plan or managing the professional development of project managers, this book is a must-have. It provides a unique methodology for developing the task management and team management/leadership skills of the project manager and would be an excellent tool for formal professional development and mentoring programs.”

— Martin Chernenkoff, founder of pduOTD.com – PDU of the Day

Presenter/Author: Susanne Madsen (LinkedIn @SusanneMadsen) is a sought after project manager, mentor and coach and author with over 15 years experience in managing and rolling out large change management programs. A PRINCE2 practitioner and a qualified corporate & executive coach, she works as a Program Director for one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Her newest book The Project Management Coaching Workbook is not to be missed. Susanne is dedicated to helping organizations deliver better change management programs and is passionate about coaching and mentoring project managers to improve their leadership capabilities, performance and well being.

Click to register for Six Steps to Unleashing Your Project Management Leadership Potential

Live Webinar – February 23rd 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

The newest generation to hit the workforce goes by many different names. The basic birth year bracket for this generation is 1982 – 1995 or 2000, depending on your source. The names include Generation Y, Millennial Generation, Generation Next, Net Generation, Echo Boomers and even the Peter Pan Generation.

Here is the kicker, this generation is HUGE and is needed to ensure continued economic growth. The Baby Boomer Generation is around 120M the X Generation is around 90M. We just don’t have enough X Generation professionals to fill the leadership void being created by the Baby Boomer push to retirement. The Millenials will be quickly pushed into leadership positions over the next 10 years to fill this void.

This sounds much easier in writing than it is to actually do. This generation has a very specific demographic and motivation. In order to get the most out of your High Potential Millennials, you must have a detailed understanding of the characteristics of this generation and how best to support, motivate and lead this group to ensure they achieve their maximum potential.

JT Moore (LinkedIn profile) is vice president of marketing at ASPE, Inc. JT is a Millennial in a leadership role. David Mantica (LinkedIn profile), president of ASPE Inc. with more than half of his team in the Millennial classification, David brings real-world experience on Millennial talent management.

JT and David will review and provide point / counter points on the following topics:

• Very detailed look at Millennial characteristics including pros, cons and dispelling certain stereotypes
• Motivating Millennials in the work place, including issues on compensation, benefits, work/life balance
• Critical success discussion around empowering Millennial success through task assignment and work empowerment
• Finally a frank discussion of issues around discipline, corrective action, and feedback circles with Millennials

Whether you are a business analyst, project manager, IT manager or director, business manager or executive, you must understand how to properly drive the growth and development of your high-potential Millennials. Based on the significantly different characteristics of this generation, a detailed understanding is necessary for success. Or, as this generation is very willing to do, they will quickly leave and find something that does fit who they are

Click to register for Millennials Rising: Critical Success Factors for Leading & Empowering Generation Y

Live Webinar February 24th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: CollabNet

• Frustrated?
• Vexed?
• Anxious?

Be calm – Jimi is here to help! When organizations adopt an agile approach to development like Scrum there is so much focus on the iterative nature of agile development that long range vision and strategic product design can get lost.

In this webinar, Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Process Mentor, Jimi Fosdick, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CST Will discuss answers to your questions on Agile topics …. but you can be sure that he will also discuss the need to include long term product vision, coherent user experience and User Centered design and architecture along with specific best practices for achieving a coherent product that delights users.

When signing up for this session be sure to briefly describe topic(s) you’d like to discuss and/or anyquestion(s) you’ve been wanting to ask.

Don’t worry! Your identity and that of your company will be kept confidential, so don’t worry about airing your problems in public!

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 Guru Session: Jimi Fosdick

Live Webinar February 28th, 2012, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

Three paradigm shifts have transformed the way that organizations have approached diversity for the last forty years.

Learn more about them in this free webinar, based on the new book by Howard J Ross (LinkedIn profile) Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance. Learn new insights into an approach that has the potential to fully integrate diversity, inclusion, and cultural competency into organizational cultures.

Attendees will learn:

• How does Globalism impact the way we approach diversity?
• What does the study of the unconscious mind teach us about how we advance our diversity work?
• How do we build systemic culture change efforts that create a truly inclusive organizational community?

Click to register for ReInventing Diversity: A New Approach to Transforming Organizational Culture