Live Webinar November 8th, 2017 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Agile project management is a game changer, especially for IT project managers.

That is because, typically, when agile is embraced by an organization, the role of project manager is de-emphasized in favor of self-organizing teams, and large strategic projects are decomposed in favor of shorter more frequent releases.

The business Project Management Office typically handles the strategic efforts, and the IT organization pivots to improving infrastructure and processes for managing code releases into environments.

So, what do these shifts mean for the IT project manager and their career path?

Using research and practical experience, this webinar introduces the agile concepts that most affect IT project managers and their options moving forward.

Main learning points include: 

• Agile concepts in relation to project management processes
• The shift from IT project manager to scrum master or product owner or subject matter expert.
• Relationship between scrum master and product owner
• New skills to succeed in the agile universe with an emphasis on:
  • Facilitator: Coaching and team development
  • Change manager: Emphasis on flexibility
  • Innovation cheerleader
  • Business story writer and backlog management

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructo for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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It’s an Agile World: The Road Ahead for Project Managers

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Live Webinar November 8th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar, the ITMPI’s own creator/director Michael Milutis (LinkedIn profile) will teach fellow IT professionals how to be happier and more fulfilled at work, with a clearer career path and a world class personal branding strategy.

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Know Thyself, Brand Thyself

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 9th 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Microsoft’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution has often been characterized as a tool suitable only for waterfall projects.

Anything iterative or Agile cannot be done using PPM. Please join Bob Tyler (LinkedIn profile) as he proves these claims false!

PPM is a very powerful scheduling tool, but it can also be used very effectively on projects using Agile or other iterative methodologies.

Using the latest version of PPM, Bob will demonstrate how it can be done, with most of the work being done directly in Project Web App. Requiring nothing more than configuration changes to Microsoft Project and the Project Server, PPM can be used very efficiently to manage Agile projects.

No custom coding or macros are required!

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Microsoft PPM & Agile: Apples & Oranges?

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Live Webinar – November 1st 2017, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Agile approaches, with their focus on delivering working software through short test-driven iterations, promise to improve quality, productivity, and satisfaction. Experienced Agile practitioners zealously tout their successes.

But to someone schooled in traditional processes, it can all seem strange. Those short iteration cycles can make it difficult to keep up. It’s a whole new vocabulary.

On day one coders are coding and testers are testing. An Agile development team can be a “hungry beast” demanding to be fed with user stories.

Without the big requirements document, or the time to write it, how can you be certain your teams will be delivering the right things and not wasting time and money?

This fun and engaging hour start with the dirty little secret behind the origins of the Agile Alliance.

• Learn why test-driven, incremental development makes sense whether you’re agile, just considering it, or convinced you’ll never be.
• Cut through the seemingly absurd lingo, ritual, and ceremony that all too often gets in the way.
• Learn how a few simple yet powerful models can get you organized. See how a test-driven approach can clarify that all-important “definition of done.”

Presenter: Marc J. Balcer (LinkedIn profile) Check out Marc’s books Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture and Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies

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No Bull Agile

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Live Webinar – October 31st, 2017 1:00 pm – 1:45 am EDT
Live Webinar – October 31st, 2017 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .75 Hour  .75 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

Increasingly, organizations are recognising that the only way they are going to deliver the huge amount of change that they have planned on their roadmaps and in their portfolios, is through internal capability.

Change only happens if those directly affected make the decision to start working differently, and these decisions are not made by external consultants imposing their will on others – they are made day-to-day by those altering how they carry out business as usual.

To help influence the pace of change at this local level sits the role of ‘Local’ Change Agent.

This is a leadership role, relying on natural influencing and persuasion skills.

In this webinar Change Agent Guru Melanie Franklin will look at how organizations are building their capability for change, and specifically what the role of Local Change Agent requires, and some of the techniques and activities that can help you create participation in your change initiatives.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin, (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) has a track record of excellence in project, programme and portfolio planning & delivery. She has set up and run the project management capability for several major corporates and has been responsible for the successful delivery of global transformational change programmes for over twenty years. Co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK, Melanie is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner and author of many books on change and project management including Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide; Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.  and her newest book Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative.

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Change Agent Not Secret Agent!

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Live Webinar October 31st, 2017 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar Vicki Wrona discusses people’s reactions to change, levels of resistance to change, and how to overcome resistance so your organization can survive and thrive.

Presenter: Vicki Wrona (LinkedIn profile) is the founder and President of Forward Momentum, LLC, a woman-owned REP offering Project Management and Instructional Design services. Vicki has 20+ years of leadership & PM experience, & more than 15 years presentation / development experience. Viki was selected to serve on PMI’s committee to write & review the PMBOK® Guide 4th edition, &i also  co-developed the program that won PMI’s Professional Development Product of the Year award.

Vicki is extremely passionate about equipping individuals and organizations with practical knowledge and tools so that results – and bottom-line impact – are consistently achieved. For free eBooks, blogs, infographics and more, go to  Forward Momentum’s Resources Page.

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Surviving The Chaos Of Change

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