Extreme Leadership

ProjectsAtWork sent me an invitation to a very good webinar (recorded - on-demand) and I would like to forward the invitation to you.  From the email I received this morning:

Title: Extreme Virtual Leadership: Your Radical Leap Forward at Work and Beyond
Speaker: Steve Farber, President, Extreme Leadership

In this chaotic and extreme age, business leaders must demonstrate an unprecedented level of passion, determination, foresight, dedication and fearlessness – especially when working with virtual teams.

Join Steve Farber, president of Extreme Leadership, as he shows you how to harness the LEAP framework – Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof – to radically improve your organization and your life.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn how to:
- Earn your customers’ and employees’ love and loyalty
- Inspire yourself and others to change the world we live in
- Keep others engaged in their work despite any distance
- And more…

Watch on demand:
http://www.projectsatwork.com/redirect/clickCount.cfm?ID=274523

Beyond a free PDU - this is great content delivered well.  A worthy use of an hour of your day.

Enjoy . . . 

Agility in a Fixed-Price Environment

Just finished listening to a PMI Recorded Webinar:

"Achieving Agility in a Fixed-Price Environment"

Jesse Fewell, PMP, CST

PMI Agile Community of Practice (ACP)

PMI-ACP Support & Certification

1 .25 PDU, Category A

On PMI.org – use Search Box to find

Great presentation!

Key Takeaways:
Agile is used for traditional projects in traditional environments.  (Yes, it is a discipline recognized by PMI)

• People can get tangled up in “traditional” terminology and forget other ways of expressing the same thing
• Agile Story Point is equivalent to traditional FeatureStory Point cost and time are equivalent to Feature cost and time

Jesse talks about renegotiation with a client who wants more “stuff” (my word).  My interpretation of his process is:

1.      Arrange schedule and costs by Story Points

2.      Manage Scope Creep by  calculating impact of new Story Points

3.      Manage changes to scope and schedule by adding costs per story point or removing story points

Sound familiar?

Enjoy!

Charles

Life Just keeps getting better . . .

Yesterday I posted about IllustratedAgile.com - a site run by Len L. who gave a webcast that I participated in.  Today, Len has a post answering questions from the webinar and sharing a link to the recorded webinar.

Here is the link to Len's post (bonus points if you find my question): 

Questions and Answers from the VersionOne Webinar – Part One

by lagestee

Here is the link to the recorded webinar - well worth your time and PDU-able.

http://www.versionone.com/webcasts/How-Carscom-Uses-VersionOne-Agile-Transformation-Leader-In-Focus.asp

Alan

Chasing PDUs, - Scrum Global Gathering Keynote

Here is a fun way to spend and hour and ten minutes and qualify for one PDU. Joe Justice gave the opening keynote at the Scrum Global Gathering London. Team Wikispeed posts the talk in two parts on YouTube.  This is a great story about a software engineer by day and automotive engineer/auto executive by night.

Watch the vids, claim the PDU.

Part One (31:31):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM54QinfZ_Y&feature=player_embedded#!

Part Two (37:27):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc89hNQExgk&feature=related

Enjoy!

PS = Double click on any video to open in YouTube.

Chasing PDUs: Free On-Demand PDUs at the PMXPO

Posted by Alan Casey

In this first edition of "Chasing PDUs" we highlight the PMXPO at Gantthead.com.

Note that while I am part of the Gantthead community, this is not a sponsored post.

Take advantage of free, on-demand PDUs at Gantthead.com by registering for and attending their Project Management Expo (PMXPO).  Go to Gantthead.com and click the "On Demand PMXPO link in the "Coming Events" box on the left margin.  If it's removed later, just search the site. 

Fill in a brief form, and Gantthead sends you an email with the direct link to the PMXPO.  For each session you attend (view) you may claim a Category 3 PDU.  Gantthead is a PMI Registered Education Provider.  Check your profile at gantthead.com and you will see the PDUs posted a few days after earning them.

The Verdict:

Cost:  A+ for Free Content!

Schedule:  A+ for providing these on-demand.  Perfect for fitting into my busy schedule.

Administrivia:  A Because Gantthead is a Registered Education Provider with PMI, these are easy PDUs to document and claim.  Gantthead even maintains your PDU history in your on-line profile.  No need to maintain these files at home.

Span Factor:  B  Gantthead will send you stuff if you don't uncheck the right box during registration.  I like their emails - they keep me connected.  I give them good marks here because my experience with their customer service have been outstanding.  I trust them to offer and honor an unsubscribe request.  I suspect that if you are new to Gantthead that you will return for their content.

GPA:  4.0 for an A

Find more Chasing PDUs at aboutprojectmanagement.com.  Chasing PDUs appears each Monday.