Live Webinar November 23rd, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Revolutionize Project Management,
1 PM At A Time

Being a great project manager is no easy task. As a PM, 99% of project responsibilities fall on your shoulders and 99% of the time you have to wear many hats to fulfill those responsibilities.

You have to deliver on schedule, within budget and to the expectations of the customer – and then, something goes south. Can we get a break?

In Part I, we talked about common challenges facing PMs today.

During this session, share your challenges and gain first hand insight from industry experts.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Learn how you can have a mindset for success and share that knowledge with others.

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Coaching Other Project Managers

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Live Webinar October 26th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Practical Advice To Get More Done & Save Time

Another dreaded meeting.  Another time waster leaving many participants unsure of what the meeting was about or why they were asked to attend.

Do meetings have to be this way?

No, say meeting researchers Emily and Dick Axelrod.  They’ve whittled down their 60+ years of combined experience in helping institutions large and small plan and execute meetings into a precise, effective system called the Meeting Canoe.

Dick and Emily provide tactics and guidance to help you run your next meeting better. Bring your most vexing meeting problems to this webcast and walk away with ideas you can use the very next hour.

Topics include:

• Rescuing the discussion
• Redirecting when the meeting derails
• Recapping decisions and everyone’s to-dos
• Handling participants who show up late or leave early
• Preventing the discussion from hardening into conflict

Presenters:

Emily Axelrod (LinkedIn profile) believes that honesty, relationships, communication, and engagement are key factors in change. Emily is cofounder of and principal in the Axelrod Group, Inc., with her husband, Dick. For  30+ years, Emily has used strategic visioning, work redesign, & team development, to build sustainable, fun, and dignified organizations. Emily uses her southern spirit and wit with her high profile clients and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, coach, and is a guest lecturer. She co authored You Don’t Have to Do It Alone and was a contributing author to The Change Handbook, The Flawless Consulting Field Book, and Future Search in School District Change.

Dick Axelrod (LinkedIn profile) co founded The Axelrod Group, Inc., a consulting firm that pioneered the use of employee involvement to effect large-scale organizational change. With 35+ years of consulting and teaching experience with fortune 100 clients and the National Health Service in the UK, Dick is now faculty at the University of Chicago and recently received their Excellence in Teaching Award. Dick now resides in Wilmette, Illinois with his wife Emily.

Dick has authored several books including:

1. Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations,
2. You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: How to Involve Others to Get Things Done ,
   • Co Authored with Emily Axelrod
   • The New York Times called “the best of the current crop of books on this subject.
3. Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done

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First Aid For Time-Wasting, Energy-Sapping Meetings

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Live Webinar October 25th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

AppNexus’s cloud-based software platform powers and optimizes the programmatic sale and purchase of digital advertising.

Join Brian for this live webcast to hear about the operational techniques AppNexus used to scale up a core component of its infrastructure—the server-side cookie store—even as a substantial portion of the world’s internet advertising flowed through the ad tech platform.

Their cookie store’s capacity has now reached tens of billions of objects and millions of read/write operations per second and the system runs in half a dozen geographically distributed data centers.

In this webcast, you’ll learn:

• How AppNexus scaled their infrastructure during a hypergrowth business phase
• Key components of a hybrid scale-up, scale-out methodology
• How to achieve an SLA of near 100% uptime, with the lowest TCO

Presenter: Brian Bulkowski (LinkedIn profile) Co-Founder and CTO – Aerospike,  has a background of 25 years in the Silicon Valley as a team leader, architect, and senior manager entirely in the area of large-scale server infrastructures (commodity routers at Novell, video servers at Starlight Networks, large-scale broadband at Liberate, and distributed computation at Aggregate Knowledge).

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Scaling During Hypergrowth:
Lessons Learned at AppNexus

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Live Webinar October 18th, 2016 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

A Look At ThingWorx Analytics Builder

Advanced analytics does not have to involve weeks or months of a data science effort to garner meaningful insights into your data.

In this webcast, Scott will show how developers can use the newly released ThingWorx Analytics Builder to quickly analyze data and build a predictive model.

A demonstration will use sensor data from a device to step through the process of creating and validating a model from scratch.

Presenter:  J. Scott Sperling (LinkedIn profile) Analytics Fellow, Technical Engineering – ThingWorx Analytics;  brings over a decade of experience in applied advanced analytics. With a background in economics, Scott has developed bespoke predictive models across multiple industry verticals including IT hardware, finance, travel & tourism, and marketing. In his current role, he works with partners and customers to develop effective, right-time analytics solutions for IoT

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Developing Meaningful IoT Analytics

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Live Webinar October 4th, 2016 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Creating successful big data project isn’t just a technical endeavor. The management of a big data project is also key. A lack of management understanding is one of the most common patterns for failure.

In this webcast, Jesse Anderson (CEO, Smoking Hand) will cover some of the ways that management teams can set-up their data engineering team for success. We’ll cover how to engineer big data solutions from a management and project management point of view.

You will learn:

• How to decipher between what is and what isn’t big data, and the importance of knowing the difference.
• Which business decisions and expected outcomes to identify before starting a big data project.
• Best practices for managing your data engineering team.
• How to create a proof of concept for your big data project.

This webcast offers a selection of content from Jesse Anderson’s upcoming live online training Managing Enterprise Data Strategies with Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka on October 18th & 19th

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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Engineering Big Data Solutions:
Management’s Role In Creating
Successful Big Data Projects

Live Webinar – September 28th, 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)

BI is clearly a top priority for organizations:

Gartner estimates close to 90% of the world’s organizations have already implemented some form of a BI capability.

They estimate annual worldwide spend on big data hardware, software and professional services tops $30B, with annual spend on advanced and predictive analytics close behind.

• What does this mean to your BA career?
• Have you considered the role of BI BA?
• Does data, information and analytics intrigue you?
• Have you noticed how much of your work already involves this?
• What did inclusion of a BI perspective in BABOK V3 mean to you?
• What would a role in BI as a BA entail? What would you need to fill this role?

Pam Clavier provides context for the BA considering the BI BA role. She  explains the role that the BA needs to fill in a BI team and typical BA deliverables as part of the project delivery lifecycle.

She describes:

• The differences and similarities between the BI BA and a Business Analyst;
• Examines common challenges experienced and …
• Sheds light on how to use your existing BA skillset to your BI team’s advantage.

In terms of typical BA BI deliverables, we reflect on real-life examples to demonstrate “a day in the life” of a BI BA.

The example recounts steps taken on BA BI deliverables, lessons learned on the particular deliverable, challenges overcome and how traditional BA skills were integrated into the BI BA role to add value.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the role, responsibilities and skills required in context of the BI team
• Challenges and opportunities in pursuing a successful career as a BI BA
• Learn about BI BA deliverables as part of the SDLC of a project in the form of a case study

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Pam Clavier (LinkedIn profile) CBAP  PMP is an Information Systems (IS) professional with 15+ years’ experience in Business Analysis, Change Management, Management Consulting, Project Management and Training in the full SDLC from initiation to support. An In demand Keynote Speaker, she led project teams and has managed BA and PM resources as a Senior Manager in a Business Intelligence (BI) department.  Pam has a Doctorate in IS, on a BI topic. Her thesis and published articles are available on her website .

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So, You Want To Be A BI BA?

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