Live Webinar August 6th, 2020 – 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Coveros  (REP #2466)

It’s a myth that agile teams cannot work effectively when distributed, but many organizations have resisted allowing teams to do so.

Now with restrictions on close physical collaboration, every team is faced with figuring it out. But working successfully in a distributed agile team is not as simple as turning on your webcam and holding virtual meetings.

The entire dynamics of teams change, as well as the process and tools needed to be successful.

Join Jeffery Payne and the authors of the newly-released book, Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby, as they explore how to move from a chaotic distributed agile team process to one in which the team is firing on all cylinders.

Learn the steps to move toward success and the pitfalls to avoid. Take home practical advice on how to structure and run your distributed agile teams that’s based on real-world experience.

Presenters:

1. Jeffery Payne (LinkedIn profile)
2. Mark Kilby (LinkedIn profile)
3. Johanna Rothman  (LinkedIn profile, @JohannaRothman) is an excellent Keynote speaker Author & Agile expert
   • Johanna has written many popular books including:
     • From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver
     • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
     • Hiring Geeks That Fit
     • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
     • Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management  
     • Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People

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From Chaos to Successful Distributed Teams

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Live Webinar August 4th, 2020, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

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Leading Through COVID-19:
10 Rules For Rapid IT Spend Reduction

Top-performing leaders never cost-cut their way to enterprise-level strategic relevance. They extend their cost optimization efforts to focus on investing resources to drive business outcomes and create business value, even in economic or business downturns.

Organizations must approach cost management as an expansive effort that can have immediate and long-term significance to business performance.

In this webinar Chris Ganly (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst looks at why cost management demands a mix of approaches and improvements that touch every part of the enterprise if it is to truly serve the enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• Three approaches to cost management and how you should apply them
• Move past cutting into optimizing costs and realizing business value
• Create business value by investing in business outcomes

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Invest In Recovery: 3 Approaches To Cost Management

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Live Webinar – August 5th, 2020 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

You can’t do your job if you don’t know what’s going on.  So, you gather your team for a mandatory staff meeting.

Maybe they grumble and complain about how this impedes their autonomy, or maybe they gleefully prepare dog-and-pony slides in which they play the hero.

Either way, you end up sitting through a meeting where each of your team members answers the unasked question of “how’s it going” in his or her own way, and you’re left to decode what’s really happening, what problems they’re glossing over, and what results you can actually expect next week, next month, and next quarter.

If you find yourself presiding over an arms race of ever-rosier outlooks, ever-more-closely-managed presentations of current status, and ever-less-informative discussions about the real results you need your teams working on, this webinar is for you.

In it, award-winning author and repeat SMM presenter Ed Muzio will show you what you can do to your meeting, today, to get it functioning better as soon as next week.

You’ll get yourself out of the business of guessing what people mean, and get your team sharply focused on the real results that you owe your own boss.

Enjoy this example of Ed’s famous Whiteboard Videos:

Presenter:  Ed Muzio (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Group Harmonics and author of the award winning books Four Secrets to Liking Your Work and Make Work Great: Super Charge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time & his latest book Iterate: Run a Fast, Flexible, Focused Management Team.  A leader in the application of analytical models to organizational effectiveness, Ed has been featured in international media and servos as an  adviser/educator to executives worldwide. Ed conducts keynotes, professional and leadership education, and executive and management coaching.

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Managers: Stop Asking “How’s it Going?” &
Start Getting Quick Results

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Online Webinar  –  Recorded March 6th 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Agile has become very trendy, and it is fashionable to wear the “Agile” title before or after a traditional role, like Project Manager. To become “Agile,” one of the easiest paths is to become certified.

Unlike for traditional project management where the worldwide recognized certifications can be counted on one hand, for Agile, there is a myriad of certifications.

Most of them promote a single “Agile” framework. In recent years, the need to use Agile beyond the small software development team resulted in the creation of new frameworks which added the words “scaled” and “enterprise” to successful team approaches to agility.

In this webinar Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile)  analyzes some of the popular Agile frameworks from the initial ones, like XP, Scrum and Crystal, to the recent “enterprise” ones, like SAFe, from the Agile Enterprise perspective. The webinar will also compare 4 Lean and Agile certifications.

For More Great Webinars In This Series
Check Out: (1 PDU Each)

• The Agile Enterprise:
  Using Risk Management Standards
• The Agile Enterprise: A Look At The Role of PMI & ISO Standards In Agile – Earned Value Standard
• The Agile Enterprise: How Can Agile Processes Be Improved?
• The Agile Enterprise: Benchmarking Projects Measuring Project Outcome Not The Output
• The Agile Enterprise: Using Kanban & Kaizen With Business Teams
• The Agile Enterprise: Using TRIZ for Business Teams
• The Agile Enterprise: Managing Financial Aspects In Agile Projects
• The Agile Enterprise: The Impact Of Robot Process Automation To Agile

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The Agile Enterprise: A Look At Frameworks & Certifications
Are They Helping?

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Live Webinar August 3rd, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Midsize enterprise CIOs can increase their contribution to the organization with leadership in the digital arena, and nothing is more valued than improving the top line of the enterprise.

However, there is an incorrect perception that you only can increase revenues by transforming the current business model, and that it is a risky and costly move.

In this webinar Roger Caleya (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst looks at why you cannot overlook digital optimization – enhancing the current business model – as a way to boost revenues, or risk losing growth opportunities.

Discussion Topics:

• Why you cannot overlook digital optimization
• Digital business optimization techniques that can increase revenues
• Real-life midsize enterprise examples of digital optimization initiatives

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Boost Revenue Through
Digital Business Optimization For Midsize Enterprises

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Live Webinar – August 6th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – August 6th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Applied Influence Group learned what they know about influence on high stakes military intelligence operations. During that time they codified an approach to influence which they have been taking to a wide variety of clients for the last four years.

Internal motivations change when we feel threatened and the current COVID-19 situation has created a wide variety of new threats at both the business and personal level.

Being the person who can remove a threat increases your chances of achieving your influence objectives.

Whether it’s dealing with a client you have had to let down, or persuading someone to continue with a project they have committed to, your influence messaging will need to adapt rapidly.

At the end of this Special Briefing you’ll be able to: tailor influence messaging to an individual using of our fears and desires model, to increase your persuasiveness.

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Fears, Desires & Threats In Changing Situations

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