Live Webinar March 11th, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

• All project managers want to deliver their projects successfully.
• Most of us define that success as on time, within budget and to the agreed upon scope.
• High customer satisfaction and high team morale are also common measures of success.

But how are these criteria for success actually met?

Hard work and long hours certainly contribute to project success. But savvy project managers know that leveraging the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the way to make sure those long hours are spent working hard on the right deliverables to stay within the constraints of schedule and budget.

The WBS defines what the project needs to produce, and what the team will do to produce it.

The WBS enables more accurate and realistic planning in defining the scope, schedule and budget, and serves as the basis for what is in versus out of scope during project execution. With a well-defined WBS, projects can be delivered more successfully.

In this webinar you will learn:

• A two-step approach for developing a WBS
• How to determine the right amount of detail
• How to produce a project artifact to answer key stakeholder questions

About the Presenter: Roger D. Jennings, CBAP, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience in the IT Project and services industries. Roger progressed through the ranks of business analyst, project leadership, and project management, providing a solid foundation for his excellent instructional skills. .Roger has trained and mentored over 250 professionals in the areas of Project Management, Business Analysis, and Quality Assurance and has assisted organizations in their Process Improvement and Project Management efforts since 2008.

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How Savvy Project Managers Use The WBS
To Achieve Project Success

Live Webinar – March 10th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Is There Pain In Your Tech Plan?

•  Are new software releases large, epic events which cause anxiety, or even dread?
• Are your IT operations teams overworked, grumpy, and constantly defensive because they get blamed every time something breaks?
• Is your change management department uniformly disliked and viewed as a wet blanket on value creation?

These conditions are common, but we know that some companies have overcome them to astonishing effect: technology leaders (think Netflix, Etsy, Tesla, Amazon) have achieved mythical levels of collaboration and continuous value delivery.

But what about the rest of us?

For every mythical story you hear about, there are a thousand companies whose technology teams struggle with the complexity and competing incentives of today’s rapidly changing business conditions.

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) for a one-hour presentation in which we examine the tricky tensions between technology, people, large organizations, and the need to find creative channels for delivering value to your customers.

Chris will discuss:

• An editorial look at today’s IT landscape
• The role of the DevOps movement
• Value, creativity, engineering and software delivery
• Horses and unicorns
• Can engineers be creative?
• Can big companies be creative?
• The practical application of Lean and DevOps principles

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Creativity, Engineering & Unicorns 101

Online Webinar – Recorded June 16, 2010
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

This is the 5th webinar in a 7 part  NetObjectives series: Business Driven Software Development

Check out:

• Info on the 1st webinar in the series on pduOTD
• Info on the 2nd webinar in the series on pduOTD
• Info on the 3rd webinar in the series on pduOTD
• Info on the 4th webinar in the series on pduOTD

Many developers have been suddenly thrown into developing code in stages whereas they used to be able to do bigger designs up front.

Many people tell them to do test-driven development and emergent design while ignoring the fact that their work with legacy systems may prevent such actions.

In any event, new methods require new skills. At first it may appear that this skill set is huge and daunting. Fortunately, it isn’t.

One of the things we’ve learned at Net Objectives is that there are often a few simple things one can do that make a huge difference.

We like to have people start there. We refer to these as trim tabs since they are small things that make a big difference. This webinar introduces some trim tabs for the new agile developer.

Outline:

• How programming by intention results in strong cohesion and loose coupling
• Why you must consider how you will test your code before writing it
• Using encapsulation as a design technique

Primary target audience of session: Developers and testers
Also useful for: Team leads

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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5 Essential Skills For The Agile Developer

Live Webinar – March 10th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Delivering learning to employees is only
the first key step in improving performance.

Employees have to retain the gains in knowledge and skill, or the time, energy and effort that went into the program was for nothing – wasted.

According to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center, 87 percent of teachers said technology is creating an “easily distracted generation with short attention spans.”

The challenge for many organizations and professionals is that we focus so intently on developing employee learning resources, we overlook the importance whether our employees retain any of what they learn.

Reinforcement of lessons learned is a powerful part of learning and vitally important!

Recent research is helping us learn more about exactly what reinforcement methods really work, and why.

In this session, Dean Pichee, a training industry veteran, discusses “the forgetting curve” and methods, techniques and tools (including video) that can reverse the forgetting curve and lead directly to much higher returns on investments in improved performance.

You’ll leave this webinar with actionable steps you can take to increase learning retention and overall performance in your organization.

Speakers:  Dean Pichee (LinkedIn profile) founded BizLibrary in 1996, provideing affordable, high-quality, training resources to small and mid-sized organizations across all industries. Prior to founding BizLibrary, Dean founded and sold Capital Training Company, a training provider for banks and financial institutions.  Pichee has served as the Vice President for Bankers Training, . and has served on the numerous board of directors including leading trade associations.

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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Microlearning & Proven Methods That Facilitate The Ongoing Learning Process