Live Webinar June 16th, 2016 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Gathering & Analyzing IoT Data For Manufacturing

The mix of cheap sensors, fast networks, and distributed computing—the recipe for the Internet of Things (IoT) – is gaining increasing attention in the manufacturing industry, where maintenance must be conducted for both individual assets of interest and complex manufacturing processes.

In a talk aimed at data scientists, students, researchers, and nontechnical professionals, Danielle Dean introduces the landscape and challenges of predictive maintenance applications in the manufacturing industry.

Predictive maintenance, a technique to predict when an in-service machine will fail so that maintenance can be planned in advance, encompasses failure prediction, failure diagnosis, failure type classification, and recommendation of maintenance actions after failure.

Danielle reviews predictive maintenance problems from the perspectives of both the traditional, reliability-centered maintenance field and IoT applications.

She discusses problem coverage, applicable predictive models based on data available, and what data must be collected to perform predictive maintenance tasks.

You’ll learn how to bridge the data-driven approach and the problem-driven approach by articulating what types of data are needed for different predictive maintenance applications.

Topics include:

• What data must be gathered for effective predictive maintenance applications
• How to formulate a predictive maintenance problem into three different machine-learning models (regression, binary classification, and multiclass classification)
• The step-by-step procedure for data input, data preprocessing, data labeling, and feature engineering from the raw data to prepare the training/testing data
• How various types of learning models can be trained and compared using different algorithms

Presenter: Danielle Dean (LinkedIn profile) is a senior data scientist lead at Microsoft in the Algorithms and Data Science group within Cloud and Enterprise. She leads a team  on end-to-end analytics projects using Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Suite, and integrate them into customer solutions or build end-user dashboards and visualizations. Danielle holds a PhD in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

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Predictive Maintenance Meets Predictive Analytics

Live Webinar – June 15th, 2016 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 15th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by:APM a division of  APMG International

Agile is a key trend. Demand for Agile approaches for all sorts of projects and initiatives has never been higher.  A myth commonly attributed to Agile is that it’s only suitable for software and IT.

In this webinar renowned agile expert Melanie Franklin, co- chair of the Change Management Institute UK and author of Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative; will explain how the AgilePM approach can be used for marketing, business development, new products and services, restructurings and transformations.

Melanie has a lot of experience in using the AgilePM lifecycle, products and roles as the basis for an Agile approach to project, programme and change management.

Melanie will also highlight AgilePM training & certification. Developed by APMG & DSDM Consortium and launched in late 2010, over 35,000 AgilePM exams have been sat.

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 and Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. 

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

As a Category B ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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AgilePM:
Not Just For Software & IT Projects

Live Webinar June 9th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar Janet Burns (LinkedIn profile) will provide a brief overview of the synergies between Six Sigma and project management.

Janet will also discuss some key metrics, how they are used in Six Sigma, and how they translate to the project management arena.

Click to register for:
Measuring The Value Of Your PMP
Using Six Sigma Tools

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Live Webinar – June 8th, 2016 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

With the move to the cloud, Project Managers are being assigned to multiple projects with varying timelines, customers, demands and success criteria.

In this session, Govind will focus on the things you can do to plan and manage multiple assignments.

Learn how to use such tools as checklists, project plans, communication strategies, and soft skills to keep your projects on time, in scope and under budget while achieving great customer satisfaction!

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the key success criteria needed to manage one or more projects;
2. Understand the benefits of key tools to help you manage your projects;
3. Discuss communication and reporting strategies to keep your projects on-track, in scope, and under budget.

Presenter: Govind Agarwal (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Program Manager with MS  for the last 10 years in various products and services. Agarwal earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Utkal University in India and started his career in TCS, India. He previously worked for Deloitte Consulting and has five years experience in the field, focusing on west coast public sector customers, as well as Cloud services, CRM and IT Transformation.

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MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
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Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Project Juggling 101:
How To Successfully Manage Multiple Projects
At The Same Time!

Live Webinar – June 7th, 2016 5:00 am – 6:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 7th, 2016 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by:APM a division of  APMG International

The innovation cycles in our globalized world are getting shorter and new subjects like Industrie 4.0 and Digital Transformation have to be implemented much faster if companies want to be successful in the market.

It is only possible if the company and its employees can focus on the important issues.

This focus guarantees fast, high quality and innovative services and products.

At the same time employees have to be motivated in spite of the fast and frequent changes.

The method AQRO® gives companies – whether they have a low level of process and organizational maturity or very dynamic structures – the chance to reach their objectives in an efficient, effective manner and with high productivity.

Implementation of AQRO delivers the following advantages:

• For the company and senior management: Efficiency at last!
  •  Saving up to 3/4 hour per day, per worker, per week
• For managers and team leaders:  Facts at last!
  • Transparency, know the workers workload, be able to make clear plans, genuine reporting up the chain, ability to say “No”
• For the worker:  Work without distractions at last!
  • Clear responsibilities, work with less stress, less overtime

AQRO® provides managers with a disciplined but flexible approach to resource management, allowing for greater visibility and control of resources. This in turn leads to increased productivity and cost savings.

In this webinar we will show different scenarios for the use of AQRO®.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4  Manage Project Team

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

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Turbo For Your Team With AQRO®

Live Webinar June 6th 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 am  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

A tsunami of change is engulfing every aspect of PPM disciplines.

With the advent of digital transformation, applications and data in the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT), many PPM capabilities, skills and standard practices are already being rendered obsolete.

Concern about this obsolescence on the part of PPM leaders is not enough.

They will not find a broad highway to the future. Pioneers and trailblazers will be needed. If they are to survive, PPM leaders must take up their axes and set off into the trackless wilderness of the new digital age, partnering with others.

Innovative thought, experimentation and best practices that move beyond the comfy certainties of one-size-fits-all are what’s needed.

Discussion Topics:

• Impacts and influences affecting today’s PPM, leading to changes in 2020
• What “shape” PPM roles and functions will take in 2020: What’s the same and what’s different
• What new or changed capabilities are needed for success in the digital future

Presenter: Michael Hanford, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research VP

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.4 Control Stakeholder Engagement

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Where Your PPM Career Won’t Be In 2020: A Gartner Viewpoint