Live Webinar – December 19th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

SharePoint is an Enterprise Collaboration platform which drives organizational engagement and allows teams to work on information together in a central portal.

InfoPath 2013 is a part of the Microsoft Office Professional suite of products that allows users to design, distribute, fill out, and submit online forms.

InfoPath’s integration with SharePoint allows for seamless information management by allowing users to fill out forms in the SharePoint site directly in a browser window.

• With the InfoPath web part, users are able remain in the context of site pages while filling out the forms.
• Users are able to customize the default SharePoint forms to provide unique branding to match their organization.

InfoPath is a powerful application development tool which includes conditional formatting, logic and validation, and integration with SharePoint workflow to create a complete business process automation experience.

This webinar will introduce the user to InfoPath and some it’s features.

The topics that will be covered in this one hour webinar:

• Explanation of the tool and it’s uses
• What is the future of InfoPath 2013?
• Tour of the InfoPath interface
• Features of InfoPath
• Editing a default SharePoint form
• Creating a sample form to automate business data gathering

There will be demos using InfoPath to edit a SharePoint default form, as well as create a form based on a template or from scratch. The future of InfoPath has changed with Microsoft’s recent announcement regarding its position on future support of InfoPath. This topic will also be addressed.

Presenter: Tom Robbins (LinkedIn profile) has 25+ years in the telecommunications and IT industry. A Microsoft Certified Trainer and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer, Tom has been training for more than 15 years on the Microsoft Enterprise suite of products.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 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’

Click to register for Using InfoPath Designer 2013 To Build Powerful SharePoint Forms

Live Webinar December 18th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast- Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Kanban Can!

In this Webinar – Imaginet is going to show you:

• How Kanban will FINALLY give you process, automation, and consistency in your development projects.
• How we construct Kanban systems that work seamlessly in TFS 2013.
• Read valuable reports that provide practical insight into your software development teams speed and efficiency.
• Spot roadblocks and learn how to systematically eliminate them.
• Why most organizations fail at implementing formal processes for developing software.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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’

Click to register for  Discover How the Kanban Method Can Kick Start a Culture of Continuous Improvement for Your Organization

Live Webinar – November 21st 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Learn about  this presentation & view the recording see the PDU Of The Day articles:

• Part 1 – Custom Workflow Solutions In SharePoint Server 2013 (Recorded)
• Part 3 – Custom Workflow Solutions In SharePoint Server 2013 (Recorded)

Part 4 – Putting It All Together

A key component of SharePoint Server 2013 is Business Process Automation, taking the repetitive daily tasks business users are presented with and configuring SharePoint to handle them.

Join Andy Huneycutt as he continues to explore SharePoint 2013 workflows and creating custom workflows using SharePoint Designer 2013.

In this webinar he will build a real-world solution based on a business requirement challenge from one of our public classes.

Features covered in this webinar include:

• Creating a custom workflow with SharePoint Designer 2013.
• List, libraries, and content types in the workflow process.
• Workflow building blocks Step, Stages, Actions, Conditions, and Loops.
• Assigning a Task and Starting a Task Process.
• What an initiation form is and how workflows use initiation forms.
• Two types of workflow data – variables and initiation parameters.
• How to use initiation forms to update values in the current list.
• Retrieve data from a data source during run time.
• Data types used in workflow variables.
• Variable default values and how to use them.
• Which Workflow actions are used to return data?
• Best practices for working with workflow variables.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate 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’

Click to register for Custom Workflow Solutions In SharePoint Server 2013 Part 4: A Real World Example Putting It All Together

Live Webinar – September 30th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Each month Chris Knotts (LinkedIn profile) picks a valuable, substantive business book we think will benefit you as a professional.

Some are new; some are classics. Either way, we do the reading, and then use one of our free web seminars to deliver a one-hour “book report.”

This month’s book pick is The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr.

This best-selling novel about IT Operations in a fictional Fortune manufacturing/retail company came out last year, and is a business fable that everyone involved in technology projects or operations should read.

Enterprise tech visionary Gene Kim (LinkedIn profile), along with longtime IT Manager Kevin Behr (LinkedIn profile) and Gartner Research Director George Spafford (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio) have written a compelling and illuminating book about the longtime pain points experienced by people in IT and what they can begin to do about it.

Bottlenecks, choke points, legacy systems, cumbersome security policies, overworked SysAdmins, developers who don’t save any testing time for Operations…these are perennial difficulties that will sound familiar to anyone who has ever had to deploy code that hasn’t been managed well across the organization.

Join Chris for this one-hour review of The Phoenix Project to learn how Bill, a frustrated but savvy IT Manager copes with these challenges and more.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities

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’

Click to register for The Phoenix Project: A Business Book Report About IT, DevOps, & Helping Your Business Win

Live Webinar September 18th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast  – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Why does UX Matter?

Bob Duncan (LinkedIn profile) is a User Experience (UX) Architect for Imaginet and has over 10 years experience in User Experience Design within Enterprise organizations.

Bob is passionate about making challenging problems simple and strives to develop user experiences that delight and inspire.

In this session Bob will show you:

• The fundamentals of User Design and why it matters to you and your end users.
• Why User Experience (UX) Design is the most important process that your development practice needs to adopt now!
• How to succeed with your user experience design in your next project.
• … and much, much more!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

Click to register for Enterprise UX: Project Success with User Experience Design

Live Webinar September 4th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

What Controls Do You Have Over Your CodeBase?

Colin Dembovsky is  going to show you…

• Modern source control approaches and the pros and cons of each.
• How distributed source control systems like Git work compared to centralized source control repositories.
• Discover how Git integrates with Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio (VS).

You will come away from the webinar with an immediate understanding of how to effectively integrate Git distributed version control with TFS and VS to better enhance your team’s productivity.

Presenter:  Colin Dembovsky (LinkedIn profile) is a senior ALM Consultant for Imaginet based in East London, South Africa and has been an ALM MVP since 2011. He is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software, and do it more efficiently. Besides consulting and training, Colin is a frequent guest speaker around the world.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

Click to register for Enhance Productivity with Distributed Version Control Using Git and Visual Studio 2013