Live Webinar March 27, 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hours 1 PDU
Provider: JP Stewart Associates

Jim has given this webinar a number of times successfully to various groups including several PMI chapters.

The lessons shared in this webinar came from Project Management Offices Jim established last year and from the many years of providing best practices to organizations.

Join Jim Stewart for an interesting presentation on, and discussion of, the pros and cons of setting up PMO’s.

The meeting will last 1 hour and will provide one PDU. For this session please use a browser like Firefox or IE that support Adobe Flash. – Jim Stewart

Presenter: Jim Stewart PMP (Linkedin Profile, @JimPStewart) With over 20 years experience in IT, Jim has managed numerous multi-million dollar international infrastructure and software development programs. As principal of JPStewart Associates since 2003, Jim is engaged in multiple endeavors including consulting, training and mentoring. A Project Management Professional since 2001, he has trained hundreds of PMP’s via both virtual and on-site sessions. He also provides on-site training to corporations in Risk and Project Management basics.

If questions in advance about the content,
Please contact Jim Stewart

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Lessons Learned In Establishing A PMO

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Live Webinar March 15th, 2017 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Make Personal & Life Changes You Want & Deserve

Whether you’re moving up in your company, making a change from employee to solo entrepreneur or scaling back from a 24/7 job to part-time hours—major life transitions are one of the most challenging things you will ever face.

Transitions, even those you’ve initiated and are excited about, can be stressful and stimulate mixed emotions.

Major transitions are particularly difficult because the key elements that have made up much of your identity can suddenly be wiped away and shake your self-esteem.

In this insightful program, Carole Hyatt (LinkedIn profile) & Linda Singh (LinkedIn profile) will explore common challenges and offer coping skills for women as they move through different stages of their work and personal lives.

And you’ll hear one woman’s powerful story of moving from a lengthy and decorated career in the military to civilian life through a journey of personal growth and resilience.

Learn:

• Examine typical and common sense reasons for making a significant change in your life and work
• Remind you to reflect on previous successful changes you’ve implemented
• Identify ways to anticipate the different phases of the transition curve and how best to work with them
• Review tips and advice for how to embrace transition so that you minimize resistant behaviors that can keep you stuck
• Help you understand that it will take time to rebuild your identity and feel comfortable in your new “skin”
• Offer ways to keep the big picture in sight when there are uncomfortable patches along the way
• Discuss tried and true strategies for feeling as secure as possible during your transition

Join Carole & Linda in this in-depth interview /dialogue and embolden your Leadership skills!

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

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Women In Career Transition:
Success Stories & Strategies

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Live Webinar March 8th, 2017 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Is available to PMI® members.

In this webinar Tom Walsh will provide an overview of
StrengthsFinder 2.0.

In today’s fast paced world our natural talents go untapped. From birth to death we spend more fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.

We need to focus more on our natural strengths and talents.

StrengthsFinder 2.0 lets you discover and utilize your strengths. Join Tom Walsh (LinkedIn profile) as he takes you on your “StrengthsFinder Journey”.

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Registration for these sessions fill quickly! If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 72 hours of the live session.

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Discover Your True Strengths

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Live Webinar March 2nd 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Achieving scalability and elasticity is a huge challenge for data architects.  Data just isn’t small, neat, and orderly anymore.

While all database vendors say they scale big, what if you want to scale to handle over 6,000 queries per second?

Once you are processing data at this speed, how do you handle bottlenecks exhibited under sustained or bursting loads?

If you are running into these issues, it might be because you are adding unnecessary steps in the process.

In this webcast, join Greg Meddles, (O’Reilly bio) Sr. Principal Consultant for MarkLogic, to learn how complex applications and systems must be designed to scale horizontally — both at the software and the hardware level. This concept of “scaling through parallelism” is crucial for performance. Greg will also discuss how to maximize your use of data models you already have, to avoid converting them for every individual query.

Learn:

• How to scale through “parallelism”
• How data models scale differently, and how to test for each type of resource
• Techniques for scaling across different environments, including on-premises or in the cloud
• Best practices and tests for finding bottlenecks in a data pipeline

Presenter: Greg Meddles, Sr. Principle Consultant MarkLogic: thrives when solving difficult problems. Greg brings implementation experience as both a consultant and product engineer for customers ranging from the financial sector, Intelligence Community, and healthcare. Greg has an interest in semantics, artificial intelligence, and natural language understanding. Greg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College.

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How to Scale Different Data Models:
Architecting For Scalability & Elasticity

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Online Webinar  – Recorded March 12th 2008
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU Free
Provider:  TenStep Inc. (Rep 1774)

Much of the work that you do can be organized as a project. When the projects are large, they need to be managed with formal project management discipline.

But many projects are not large.

They are small work efforts that need to be organized and managed efficiently, but not with the full rigor and structure of formal project management discipline.

These are the projects of accountants, teachers, administrators and many others. These projects represent the vast majority of all work executed in businesses all over the world.

This webinar describes fundamental work management techniques and skills for these non-project management professionals.

Attendees will see how to understand the work that is requested, how to organize the work, how to manage the work and how to execute the work.

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Managing Small Projects

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Live Webinar Januar 24th, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

 Most people are surprised to know that Spark works with Java!

Maybe they saw the initial Java code that used anonymous classes and dismissed it as an ungainly mess.

They were right—plain Java and Spark are ugly together. Then Java 8’s lambdas came along.

Now, instead of an ungainly mess, we get the tight syntax of lambda expressions offering code that is readable and testable. Best of all, it uses Java.

In this webinar Jesse Anderson demonstrates how to create Java lambdas and integrate them with Spark to process data. Then Jesse explains how to find Java resources about Spark and outlines the pros and cons for a Java developer to learn Scala.

Learning two big concepts at once is often a nonstarter. People learning Spark are often learning Scala at the same time. If we can remove one big concept (learning Scala), people will be more successful at learning Spark.

Learn:

• How Java can be used succinctly with Apache Spark
• What are Java 8 lambdas and how to use them
• How to use Java lambdas with Spark

Presenter:  Jesse Anderson (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Smoking Hand, is a creative engineer with many years of experience in creating products and helping companies improve their software engineering.  Jesse previously created big data and data science curriculum for Cloudera, leading instruction for thousands of people entering this field, and has played an active part within the Apache Hadoop community, creating many popular open source examples for big data use cases.

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Spark & Java: Yes They Work Together!

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