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3 New, Free PDU Software Project Management Webinars

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 …

Free PDU Options for Current PMPs.

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 …

More Opportunities for Free PMI approved PDUs.

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,” …

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IMPORTANT NOTE: These webinar dates are for GMT – 8; be sure to check the individual registration site for the correct day/time for other time zones! [[EventsCalendarLarge]]

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]]> http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/2021/feed 0 3 New, Free PDU Software Project Management Webinars http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/1993 http://www.fallingorflying.com/archives/1993#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:09:03 +0000 andi http://www.fallingorflying.com/?p=1993 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 Register

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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,” …

Free PDU Options for Current PMPs.

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Upcoming Free PDU-Worthy Webcasts Options for Current PMPs

Those of us who are both Project Management Institute certified Project Management Professionals (PMP), and also Certified Scrum Masters (CSM), Danube Technologies, Inc. has several interesting Scrum/Agile focused webinars, all free, which meet the PMI’s requirements for PDU credit (under Category 4). IMPORTANT NOTE: Danube only offers these webinars as  special …

Scrum IS Fun.

I’m now a Certified Scrum Master (and certifiable ;) )  - and really look forward to implementing the Agile Development framework into my work and my daily life … more on that to follow after I finish designing and implementing my personal scrum based task board.  Stay tuned. In the mean …

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