Live Webinar August 28th 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

When you think about SharePoint migration,
Your biggest concern is your data.

You want to move it and ensure that you’re not losing anything, but migration and data validation are only a portion of a good migration.

The key to creating a stellar migration experience for your company and your users is everything you do before and after the actual migration.

From pre-migration analysis and environment re-architecture to long term permissions/data administration and backup, these steps are essential for performing the most efficient migration and the easiest administration follow up.

In this month’s webinar, MetaVis Product Manager Chris Kolodziejski will discuss the importance of these steps and demonstrate some tools and methods that can help with your:

1. Pre-migration environment and data analysis,
2. Environment re-architecture
3. Migration
4. Security administration
5. Backup

You will have the opportunity to see how you can utilize the tools within MetaVis Architect suite to make your migration quick, efficient, and best of all, a positive user/customer experience.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 SharePoint Migration Is Half The Battle: Secrets For A Great Migration Experience

Live Webinar – August 20th 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

More than a decade has passed since the Agile Manifesto was written to help software developers implement a light-weight mindset and more efficient processes on the projects.

The ideas have now transformed into something much larger with an impact that can be seen across the majority of software development groups and organizations.

During this one-hour web seminar, Tom McGraw will discuss a brief evolution of Agile in software development.

Included will be his thoughts on the various flavors that are typically identified as Agile and how they tie to the original Manifesto.

Furthermore, Tom will discuss the idea of a ‘hybrid’ Agile approach (“AgileFall?”) and whether these groups are considered Agile.

He will explore how Agile is viewed by practitioners, specifically, whether Agile should be seen as black and white (i.e., your team is using it, or your team is not using it) versus the idea that Agile can be viewed as a spectrum, indicating that certain teams could be ‘more agile’ than others based on their processes.

By the end of the seminar, you will be equipped with the tools to better understand how your group is utilizing Agile processes and determine “Where your team falls on the ‘spectrum’.”

Presenter: Tom McGraw (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 13 – Stakeholders

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 6.1 Plan Schedule Management
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder 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 Agile, Iterative and Waterfall: Where does your team fall on the ‘spectrum’?

Live Webinar August 7th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Webcast – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Colin Dembovsky of Imaginet will show you…

1. How agile planning, management, and tracking are streamlined with Visual Studio 2013 and how to best leverage this functionality.
2. New Enterprise Agile Management capabilities that are only available within Team Foundation Server 2013.
3. How to effectively manage your Agile projects across all your teams, and avoid the 4 mistakes most team leads make on a daily basis.
4. How to effectively conduct release and iteration planning with TFS.

You will come away from the webinar with an immediate ability to improve portfolio and release productivity with TFS 2013.

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
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 6.1 Plan Schedule 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”

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 How to Get Control Over Your Portfolio Of Projects With Agile & TFS

Live Webinar July 9th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

It’s been said that people don’t remember if the project was a week late, but they always remember if it doesn’t work.

What does project quality mean? How does that differ from product and process quality? More importantly, this webinar addresses how you can get a handle on the critical components of project quality.

Objectives:

• Define key quality management criteria
• Differentiate project, product, and process quality
• Identify techniques to plan for quality
• Define best practices to implement within Project Insight

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.

Click to register for Delivering Quality in Projects

Live Webinar May 21st, 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 May 22nd, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

The Project Manager is responsible for managing all facets of a project, end-to-end, including the build of the product or service being developed as a result of the project, the testing of the product or service, and finally the implementation of the product or service into the production environment.

View this 1 hour live webinar to learn the steps the Project Manager must follow to ensure the success of the Build, Test, and Implementation phases of a project.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Recommended steps for building the project solution
• Recommended steps for testing the project solution
• Things to consider for the implementation phase of the project.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Managing the Build, Test & Implementation Phases of Your Project: Role of the PM Series 4 of 4