Online Webinar – Recorded  December 19th, 2011
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  ProjectManager.com

This helpful 1 hour Project Management Course from ProjectManager.com on “How to manage projects” – by Jennifer (Whitt) Bridges, Program Director of ProjectManager.com and Founder of everyone’s favorite source for quality PDU’s  PDUs2Go  covers the basics of Project Management and will give you some good tips and trics to manage your projects more successfully.

Meet Jennifer Bridges
A Powerful Thought Leader :

Jennifer Bridges (Linkedin profile) Best Selling author of Optimize Your Thinking, speaker, consultant , trainer and PMP is the founder of  PDUs2Go.com Inc, a global mobile learning development firm specializing in team and leadership development for Project Managers. Knowledgeable, Engaging & Approachable, Jennifer and her team are always there to assist your professional development needs!

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How To Manage Projects

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Live Webinar December 13th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Every year brings new challenges for big data, from applications to security to discovery.

This webcast Peter and Jeff bring together some of Oracle’s leading experts to give useful—and provocative—insight into what’s coming over the horizon.

Some long-term trends will see tipping points, as Machine Learning, for example, blurs into Artificial Intelligence with easier-to-use tools and better data access.

In other cases, long-term developments that have been in tension will see new strategies for coexisting: hybrids of private and public cloud will become much more common, and tools and strategies for making the best of each of their virtues will be a major theme of 2017.

On top of these established trends, new technologies are enabling long-desired applications, with Kafka supporting simpler data-bus architectures for Real-Time data analytics, and data virtualization giving analysts access to data across storage platforms and language barriers.

Learn more about:

• Trends in data architecture
• Bleeding-edge applications of data
• What you can do now to prepare your organization for what’s to come.

Presenters:

Peter Jeffcock (LinkedIn profile) Senior Principal Product Director at Oracle; focuses on Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at Sun Microsystems holding a variety of marketing positions in Grid Computing, Developer Tools and High Performance Computing.

Jeff Pohlmann (LinkedIn profile) VP of Big Data and Analytic Platforms at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, Jeff had been in executive roles at Genpact (GE Partner) leading industrial analytics and IBM Global Business Service’s Smarter Oil & Gas Practice, Teradata, and SPSS where he worked with market leaders in developing the strategies for driving value out of analytics and big data. Jeff has spent years developing cross industry analytical solutions driving operational excellence through the use of Big Data and analytics.

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What’s Coming For Big Data In 2017?

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Live Webinar December 8thth, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

An effective organizational strategy should harden the intention behind mission and vision into goals that define the future direction—a direction that must reflect clear context, defined boundaries, and precise capabilities in order for programs and projects to reach intended targets with optimal success.

Business analysis transforms those aspirations into actionable scope by capturing, refining, confirming, and prioritizing the needs to be fulfilled. Only then is project management ideally positioned to achieve the reality envisioned by the strategy.

Successfully developing and implementing strategy requires a true partnership between the executives who define it and the business analysts and program and project managers who carry it out.

All parties need to understand each other’s perspectives, challenges, and roles, and then regularly interact with each other to confirm alignment, efficiency, and feasibility.

Eliminating any part of this undermines that partnership and the mutual clarity of purpose that it promotes.

In this webinar Mike Zambruski defines a concept labeled “the enterprise triple constraint” as the integration of strategy, analysis, and implementation. Without professional business analysis as the catalyst between dreams and reality, projects become exploratory initiatives burdened with avoidable cost, delay, and risk of failure.

You will leave this webinar with practical techniques for both communicating and applying the concepts presented, all based on actual experience and real results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how business analysts can leverage their role as the custodians and implementers of strategy
2. Learn the concept of “the enterprise triple constraint,”
   • Understand how integrating its three pillars of strategy, analysis, and implementation optimizes organizational success
3. Learn how to communicate and apply practical techniques that maximize the business analysts’ impact on their organization

Presenter: Michael S. Zambruski  MBA, PMP, CBAP, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Instructor
TwentyEighty Strategy Execution; is a senior consultant with 30+ years of experience providing strategic planning, comprehensive business analysis, and project management coaching. Author of two books, “The Business Analyzer and Planner: The Unique Process for Solving Problems, Finding Opportunities, and Making Better Decisions Every Day” & “A Standard for Enterprise Project Management (ESI International Project Management Series)”, Michael has played a key role in marketing, business development, process redesign, engineering, product development, manufacturing, quality control, product distribution, and technology integration activities. in several organizations

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The Business Analyst Catalyst:
The Role Of The BA In Today’s Business World

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Live Webinar – December 1st 2016, 12:00-12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1/2 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

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

Yes there is such a thing as “Likeonomics”!

Author Rohit Bhargava author of Likeonomics: The Unexpected Truth Behind Earning Trust, Influencing Behavior, and Inspiring Action wrote the definitive book on how being likeable drives business and personal success.

But what the heck does that mean?

Let’s start with this, would you rather work with a competent jerk or a loveable fool?

At some point the competent jerk will end up being too much to deal with and will negatively impact productivity and morale. And in the end, you will continue to overlook the loveable fool’s weak points and utilizes them as best you can.

The key thought is to be both competent and likeable.

How does someone do this?

Well there are some very simple and easy tactics to do this.

Ask yourself

• What makes someone likeable in your eyes?
• What do they do?
• What habits do they have?
• How do they interact with you?

The answers to these questions will quickly give you a picture of how you can become more likeable.

In this 30 minute power web seminar David will go over very specific tactics, tips and tricks to increase your likeability.

David will also discuss the fine line between being likeable and being a “doormat.”

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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What Is Likeonomics &
How Does It Connect To Your Career Success

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Live Webinar December 1st 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Before we can answer “what” a multi-model database is – we need to look at the “why.”

Traditional databases provide a fixed, static representation of data. However, as soon as you need to accommodate changes to data or downstream requirements, the fixed relational schema becomes an impediment.

That gave rise to the NoSQL database — which offered a different database for each data model.

While you could use polyglot persistence to bundle different data models together to handle all data types, that introduces more complexity. Plus — document databases, graph databases and key-value stores all have their own niche.

So how do you choose between them?

A new solution is evolving — the multi-model database. What constitutes multi-model, and when is it useful?

In this webcast Damon will examine the two paths of multi-model database engineering: a single platform that allows many models on one core, versus complex integrations where many systems are pre-packaged.

Learn:

• When a multi-model database is appropriate
• How each approach impacts DevOps, monitoring, performance tuning, and security
• How to handle data integration with a multi-model database
• Which skills you need, in order to manage a multi-model environment

Presenter: Damon Feldman PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a passionate “Mark-Logician,” having been with the company for over 7 years. Damon has led projects with volumes of data and complexities of implementation, for customers ranging from the US Intelligence Community to HealthCare and private insurance companies. Prior to joining MarkLogic, Damon held positions spanning product development  and led the architecture for the IMSMA humanitarian landmine remediation and tracking system. Damon holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tulane University.

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What Is A Multi-Model Database:
Two Paths Of Multi-Model Engineering

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Live Webinar – November 24th 2016 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Live Webinar – November 24th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

In this information session, Melanie Franklin, Co-Chair of the Change Management Institute UK and Richard Smith, Chief Examiner, Change Practitioner Qualification, APMG-International will describe the growing professionalism of business change and transformation roles.

From being either a project management afterthought, or an Organizational Development specialism, change management has matured into a recognised management discipline.

This discipline is now sought after by those organisations who realise that the increasing pace of change means that their need to change in line with their marketplace cannot be left to chance.

Melanie will outline the objectives of the Change Management Institute, give a flavour of its members and explain the skills and behaviours of excellent change and transformation professionals, using the Competency Model from the Change Management Institute.

Learn how the Change Management Institute’s competence model connects with their change management body of knowledge, and how APMG’s Change Management practitioner qualification reflects this professional development.

APMG will also describe the growing number of applicants and the skills that candidates learn on their route to practitioner success.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) Change Management Institute UK, has been responsible for the successful delivery of effective change and for creating environments that support transformational change for 20+ years. She is the co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK and is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner. Melanie is the author of many books on change & project management including,  Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide and Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. 

Check out the wonderful resources on Melaine’s site,
You will be glad you did!

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Finding Effective Change Managers

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