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4 Free PDU Offerings from AMS Consulting

September 28th, 2009

More opportunities for free PDU training:

Program	Date/Time	Cost	Register
Enterprise Analysis View of the BA Role	15-Oct-09	Free	Register
Business Analysis Strategic Implications	19-Oct-09	Free	Register
Success Strategies for the Female Project Leader	27-Oct-09	Free	Register
Remote Workers	30-Nov-09	Free	Register

3 New, Free PDU Software Project Management Webinars

September 24th, 2009

For those Project Managers or Scrum Masters managing technical software development projects – learning via two free, on demand webcasts by Steve McConnell and Construx Software will be time well spent.

You may already be familiar with Steve McConnell’s books Code Complete; Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules; Software Project Survival Guide; Professional Software Development; and Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art.

This year I was extremely fortunate to attend several Construx boot camps and seminars – and I highly recommend their course content and trainers.

And – Construx is a recognized provider registered with the PMI Registered Educational Provider Program (PMI R.E.P.); and seminar attendees will receive/can claim Professional Development Units (PDUs) for completing each PMI Registered course. :)

Construx Software currently offers 2 free webinars worth 1 PDU each:

WEBINAR – 10 DEADLY SINS OF SOFTWARE ESTIMATION

The average project overruns its planned budget and schedule by 50-80 percent. In practice, little work is done that could truly be called “estimation.” Many projects are scheduled using a combination of legitimate business targets and liberal doses of wishful thinking. In this talk, award-winning author Steve McConnell presents 10 of the worst ways estimates go wrong, and presents time-tested rules of thumb for dramatically improving estimation accuracy.

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WEBINAR – RIGHT SIZING AGILE DEVELOPMENT

Agile development has now been in use for almost a decade. Why use Agile methods? What are the strengths of Agile? What are some common failure modes? What other lessons has the software industry learned about Agile development? In this talk, Steve McConnell–author of Code Complete, Rapid Development, and other software industry classics and CEO of Construx Software–draws on Construx’s extensive consulting work to dissect Agile development. McConnell names the Agile practices that have worked well for Construx’s clients, describes the failure modes of Agile practices that have failed to live up to the hype, and explains how to right size Agile development for your organization.

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ALSO – Danube Technology just added a new free Scrum-focused Project Management webinar worth 1 PDU, which can only be viewed LIVE from 11 am – 12noon Pacific Standard Time, on Tuesday, November 24:

November 24, 2009

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Standard TIME

Estimation: Story Sizes and Related Topics

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More Opportunities for Free PMI approved PDUs.

September 23rd, 2009

Many aspiring PMPs know Rita Mulcahy’s “PMP® Exam Prep” book as a constant presence within the PMP exam prep world.

I’ve recently become a fan of her Project Management Bookstore, which offers some very interesting Project Management titles for a discounted 40% off list price. :-)

The site also has an “Author Webinar Series,” where book authors represented in the online store deliver a 45 to 50 minutes long online presentation, plus 10 to 15 minutes of Q&A.

All events—even the recorded ones—qualify for one Professional Development Unit (PDU) toward a PMP® certification (under Category 4), and include:

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Free PDU Options for Current PMPs.

September 4th, 2009

All Project Management Institute (PMI) certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs) know from their many hours of preparing for the PMP exam, one requirement to maintain your credential is to earn 20 PDUs each year.

There are an abundance of PDU earning activities and training options – but much of the PDU training offered by PMI Category 3 Registered Education Providers (REPs) is fee based.

However – several PMI Registered Education Providers offer free live and/or “on demand” webcasts, typically worth 1 PDU each.

IAG currently has eight free PDU earning, on-demand webcasts available after registering for its site:

5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning (1 PDU)
Harmonizing Agility & Discipline: Balancing Warring Methodologies and Achieving Success (1 PDU)
Managing Requirements Operational Excellence: A Framework for Accelerating Organizational Development (1 PDU)
Fast Tracking Project Concepts (1 PDU)
Predicting Project Outcome (1 PDU)
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation (1 PDU)
Optimizing Requirements Discovery (1 PDU)
Outsourcing Requirements Discovery (1 PDU)

CAI and its IT Metrics and Productivity Institute offer free live webinars, each with a PDU credit attached. Unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately) if you’re not able to catch these webinars live, you can purchase access for 24 hours to each of their archived webinars for $29.99 each.

IIL offers more than 20 webinars, each worth 1 PDU:

An Introduction to Earned Value Measurement (1 PDU)
In this free one-hour webinar, you will discover the differences between monitoring and managing projects and gain an understanding of the key formulas in Earned Value Measurement. More Details

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Change Management—Organizational and People
This free one-hour webinar will provide you with a quick overview of the key elements of organizational and people change management. More Details

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Changes in PMBOK Guide^® – Fourth Edition (1 PDU)
In this free one-hour webinar, you’ll gain the must-have knowledge on the differences between the PMBOK® Guide – Third Edition and the PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition, with side-by-side comparisons of the most significant changes. More Details

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Foundations of Strategic Planning (1 PDU)
This free one-hour webinar will provide you with a quick overview of the key elements of strategic planning and how it relates to project and program management. More Details

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Managing Multiple Projects – Overview (1 PDU)
In this free one-hour webinar, you’ll gain an introduction to the multi-project environment with a detailed look at the multi-project process model. More Details

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PMP® Prep Overview
This free one-hour webinar provides a step-by-step overview of the process for applying, qualifying, and preparing to take the 200-question project management professional exam offered by the Project Management Institute. More Details

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Project Management Fundamentals (1 PDU)
In this free one-hour webinar, you’ll receive an introduction to IIL’s Project Management Fundamentals course, with a selection of slides from most of the course modules, showing you which knowledge areas, skills, and techniques are emphasized in the course.
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Project Management Fundamentals for IT Professionals (1 PDU)
In this free one-hour webinar, you’ll receive an introduction to IIL’s Project Management Fundamentals for IT Professionals course and its emphasis on the IT Project environment and its current issues, directions, and trends. More Details

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Project Management Methodology (1 PDU)
In this free one-hour webinar, you’ll receive an introduction to the use of a web-based PM methodology, its features and functions, and the challenges of implementing a PM methodology. More Details

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The Art of Feedback (1 PDU)
This free one-hour webinar will provide you with an excellent understanding of how to give and receive feedback. More Details

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What Every Project Manager Should Know About Business Analysis (1 PDU)
This free one-hour webinar will explore how a Business Analyst can work in harmony with a Project Manager to manage project scope and help projects succeed. More Details

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Work Breakdown Structure and Configuration Management (1 PDU)
This free one-hour webinar will demonstrate the development and use of the Work Breakdown Structure as a powerful organizational technique. More Details

Successfully Integrating Project Management and Six Sigma (1 PDU)
In free one-hour webinar, you will learn how to improve project outcomes and dramatically reduce costs through the successful integration of tools and techniques of project management and Six Sigma. More Details

Leading Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams (1 PDU)
This free one-hour webinar provides an introduction to a subject that is becoming a key success factor for any global enterprise or international project – leading virtual project teams that span time zones, borders, and continents. More Details

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The Power of Acknowledgment (1 PDU)
In free one-hour webinar, author Judith W. Umlas will teach you how to use the readily available power of acknowledgment to motivate and inspire teams and fellow employees. More Details

Additional free and low cost PDU 0pportunities can be found on the PDU4Free website.

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