Live Webinar Apr 7th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Much as the need to design the system, you must also design the project: from scheduling resources behind the services, to tracking your progress across developers, services and phases of completion, to validating your plan, and accommodating changes.

This requires understanding the inner dependencies between services and activities, the critical path of integration, the available floats, the staff distribution and the risks involved. All of these challenges stem from your design and addressing them properly is a hard core engineering task — designing the project.

In this intense webcast Juval Lowy shares his approach software project design, along with his unique insight for delivering software on schedule and budget. You will also see to deal with common misconceptions and typical roles and responsibilities in the team.

Presenter: Juval Lowy (O’Reilly bio) is founder of IDesign, a master software architect specializing in system and project design and iMicrosoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley. Juval is the author of COM and .NET Component Services (O’Reilly Windows) & Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus. He participated in the Microsoft internal strategic design reviews for C#, WCF and related technologies. Juval is a frequent keynote speaker. Microsoft has ecognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top experts and industry leaders.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 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.’

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Online Webinar – Recorded January 14, 2015
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

How to Find Your Passion

We have all heard that if you do what you love, then it will not feel like work, and the money will follow. But when you feel unfulfilled at work, your career is a dead weight that you drag around even in your free time.

What if you have no idea what your passion is?

So many of us get boxed into a career where we can perform adequately, but it just doesn’t tap into our core strengths and desires.

The secret is to focus on your unique talents, skills, and experience that produce the most value.

Join this in-depth interview with Alexandra Levit where she will explore ways to consider your career in a new light: How to create the career that gives you an opportunity to excel.

When you persevere and look for opportunities, you’ll ultimately succeed. By capitalizing on your unique passions and gifts, you’re one step ahead of those who do not.

What You Will Learn:

• How to carve out a career path
• How to excel and obtain skills that could be valuable, but do not appear to be at first
• How to deal with rejection
• How to take risks
• How to overcome obstacles that seem to pop up at the worst of times
• How to focus your energy

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event. Download the slides here.

Presenter: Alexandra Levit (LinkedIn profile) is a business and workplace author, speaker, and consultant. She is a former nationally-syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal and current writer.  Alexandra’s goal is to help people find meaningful jobs—quickly and simply—and to succeed  once they get there. Check out her site AlexandraLevit.com.

Alexandra’s bestselling books include:

• They Don’t Teach Corporate in College, How’d You Score That Gig?
• Blind Spots: 10 Business Myths You Can’t Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success.
• New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career
• How’d You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs-and How to Get Them
• #MILLENNIALtweet Book01: 140 Bite-Sized Ideas for Managing the Millennials
• Success for Hire: How to Find and Keep Outstanding Employees
• Alexandra Levit on Harnessing the Next Generation Workforce – Audio Recording
• Alexandra Levit on Finding the Job and Employment Success  – Audio Recording

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 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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Online Webinar – Recorded March 30th 2011
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

So you’ve been assigned a complex,
poorly defined project concept
So now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity.

These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.

• Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours?
• What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning objectives:

1. Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2. The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3. Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 10th, 2015
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)
By: Projectmanager.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will show in your projectmanager.com account …
But you must self record the PDU with PMI®

So What is Flawless Consulting?

Consulting relationships with our clients are considered
Lateral Relationships.

• A lateral relationship in management is a link between people working with the same organization without a direct level of authority over each other.
• The power balance in lateral relationships is always open to ambiguity – and to negotiation!

When a consultant gets resistance from a client, sometimes we aren’t sure whether to push the client harder or to let the issue go.

• Flawless Consulting is about addressing and managing this kind of ambiguity.
• Flawless Consulting is about methods and techniques, but the consistent message is that each act that expresses trust in ourselves and belief in the validity of our own experience is always the right path to follow.
• And    Flawless Consulting Teaches us that Each act that is manipulative or filled with pretense is always self-destructive.

Specific Session Topics Include:

• Understand and practice a model for having greater influence.
• Develop commitment from others.
• Negotiate more effective and enduring working agreements.
• Effectively deal with difficult people and situations.
• Develop business partnerships that work.
• Get better use of your expertise.
• Avoid no-win situations.

Join Peter Block (LinkedIn profile for Designed Learning) as he gives a high level overview of his best selling book Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used (3rd Edition) and learn how your consulting process can be Flawless.

Peter’s Best-Selling Books:

• Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest (BK Business)
• Community: The Structure of Belonging
• The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters
• Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used

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Is available to PMI® members.

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Live Webinar April 3rd, 2015 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: .5 Hour Credits: .5 PDU/CDU Category C – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

NOTE: Although Watermark Learning is an REP they have chosen to have participants record their sessions as a Category C Activity. For more information contact Watermark Learning or see their “Self Reporting” page.

Thinking About A BA Certification?

Many Project Managers are looking to increase their skill set by adding proven Business Analysis techniques to their playbook.

This event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning.

Topics include anything related to IIBA’s certifications you want, ranging from the CBAP or CCBA application to the exams to re-certification.

Speaker : Dayle Beyer, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP, ACC, PMI-RMP, IT-SVM has inspired excellence by providing international best practice tools and techniques for project management, business analysis, to drive successful organizational change initiatives. Contributor to the PMI-SP Exam Success Series: MP3 Audio Flashcards and Discovering the PMBOK Guide Dayle has served in executive roles for information technology and telecommunications solution providers, and is a board member of the Chicagoland Coach Federation.

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Live Webinar March 31st, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Using the web platform to deliver rich web apps for mobile users has been in the market for years.

However, wrong approaches, slow engines and bad implementations buried the approach for a couple of years.

Today, new engines and devices are available, as well as new frameworks and best practices that make the Web app development approach useful and valid again, not just on mobile devices but also on smart watches and other devices.

In this webcast Max will  cover:

• Current status of web app and web view engines on iOS, Android and Windows
• What we can do on smart watches on other wearables
• Distribution models: browser installation vs. store distribution
• Real-world examples
• Examples of code and implementations
• When to choose a web platform approach

Max will discuss the state and availability of newer features for web apps, including:

• Service Workers and Background execution
• Push Notifications
• Integration with OS and native apps
• Maximiliano Firtman

Presenter:  Maximiliano (Max) Firtman (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) author of Programming the Mobile Web and jQuery Mobile: Up and Running (and the spanish version) is a mobile+web developer, trainer, and Keynote Speaker.  He is Adobe Community Champion and founder of ITMaster Professional Training.  A Nokia Developer Champion yearly since 2006, his blog His blog Breaking the Mobile Web  and website  MobileHTML are  standard reads for innovative mobile developers!

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 New Generation Of Web Apps For Mobile And Wearables