Live Webinar April 1st, 2014, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar April 1st, 2014, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Cloud computing provides business process directors and business process improvement practitioners with a bewildering array of options: SaaS, BPaaS, PaaS, hybrid cloud, cloud service brokerage.

This session identifies the most critical cloud concepts and best practices for successfully using cloud services to achieve business process improvement outcomes.

Discussion Topics:

• How cloud can help you better manage your processes and reduce costs
• What cloud capabilities you will need at each level of BPM maturity to deliver business outcomes
• How you should evaluate cloud offerings

Presenter: Michele Cantara, Research VP (LinkedIn profile)

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
• 5.3 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’

Click to register for Five Ways Cloud Can Help You Transform Your Business

Live Webinar March 19th 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

What is the future of Social SharePoint?

Social has had a huge impact on our digital world and the business world in recent years.

We are all familiar with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Many companies make internal and external use of these Social media for sharing knowledge and communicating with potential customers.

SharePoint, a platform of choice for knowledge sharing and communicating, by using Social features.

Since SharePoint 2010 this trend has been put through with SharePoint 2013, but the acquisition of Yammer has had a huge impact on the use of Social in SharePoint.

During this session we look together at the past, present and future of Social and SharePoint.

Presenter: Jasper Oosterveld (LinkedIn profile) is an active member of the SharePoint community. He is a speaker at community events and Conferences. He is the co-founder of the site SPCNL and the SharePoint Business User Group NL. In February 2012 Jasper received the Microsoft Community Contributor award for supporting the SharePoint community at the TechNet forums. In 2013 Jasper was listed in the top 25 European SharePoint Influencers.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 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 Social and SharePoint: The Past, Present And Future

Live Webinar March 12th 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

With the Wave 15 release of Office 365 many organizations will increasingly be considering using SharePoint Online.

However if you currently have deployed SharePoint 2010 or earlier On-Premises, than you face the double challenge migrating to Online and upgrading to a new version of SharePoint.

Unfortunately there is no simple script to run, and there many challenges and decisions to make when migrating from SharePoint On-Premises to Online.

This session covers:

1. The real life example of international charity who have migrated their 350 user SharePoint 2010 system to a Wave 15 SharePoint Online deployment.
2. The key decisions within the project will be discussed, to understand how their system mapped to Online and how it also presented an opportunity to rethink aspects of the system.
3. Specific focus will be given to custom functionality, including branding, and how this was addressed Online and also in a version upgrade.
4. The session will also cover content migration and security, discussing options which were considered including third party tools
5. Finally an overview of how the project was delivered will be presented, giving guidance on a realistic roadmap for a migration to Online.

Presenter:Peter Baddeley (Linkedin profile, @Baddaz) is a SharePoint Architect, who blogs and organizes a number of community events and contributes to a variety of SharePoint events. Peter is one of the organisers of East Anglia Region of the SharePoint User Group UK and organises the SharePoint Track at SQL Saturday in Cambridge. Currently Peter leads a team of consultants delivering SharePoint Solutions to companies across UK and Ireland for ISC Software Solutions

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 Migrate to SharePoint Online – How Hard Can It Be?

Online Webinar – Recorded Sept 24th 2013
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

Sometimes we wonder how Microsoft ever came up with SharePoint. SharePoint is the perfect enterprise integration platform and Microsoft is the perfect transactional, product-focused, marketing company. It just doesn’t fit, which is the main problem surrounding the poor adoption and use of the most powerful business application on the market, SharePoint 2010.

The reality is, for a large enterprise to gain the competitive advantage and efficiencies SharePoint can provide, it must look at HOW or better yet WHO is driving adoption.

Here is why the SharePoint BA is so critical. It isn’t about governance or basic administration. Yes, those things are important, but they are the chicken before the egg. The egg is USE!!!

We are right in the middle of the transformation of power in IT systems moving from geeks to the users, because the users are becoming geeks. SharePoint is the pinnical of user enabled IT power.

This web seminar will discuss at a high level

• The vast potential real world applications for SharePoint.
• ASPE will dig into the traditional role of a business analyst
• And they will discuss what the roles and responsibilities would be for a SharePoint business analyst

The optimal goal is to provide details on how organizations can increase the use of SharePoint in the enterprise, which will save a significant amount of money and time and lead to much quicker time to market.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 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 The SharePoint Business Analyst

Live Webinar March 6th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST or
Live Webinar March 6th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm SAST
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’

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 the Mar 6th 1 PM EST presentation of Discover How the Kanban Method Can Kick Start a Culture of Continuous Improvement for Your Organization

Click to register for for the Mar 6th 12 PM SAST presentation of Discover How the Kanban Method Can Kick Start a Culture of Continuous Improvement for Your Organization

Live Webinar Feb 27th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

What Is Your Quality Like?

Imaginet is going to show you…

• How to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and coverage of your software testing by using Microsoft’s automated coded UI testing tools.
• How to improve your overall software quality by using automated testing to increase the depth and scope of tests.
• Learn how to save valuable testing time that translates directly into cost savings.
• How to effectively leverage Microsoft’s Automated Coded UI Testing tools to make all of this happen!

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: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 Deliver Higher Quality Software with Automated Coded UI Testing