Live Webinar – May 16, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

The greatest source of defects originate from requirements.

If requirements defects can be removed, the quality of a product can be more than doubled!

This presentation discusses how to reduce requirements-based defects to close to zero, and shows how the techniques apply to both traditional and agile project processes. Al Cline shows how use cases can be identified by proper business flow analysis (use case completeness), and how use cases can be validated (use case correctness) by UML validation, a major contribution by Dr Ivar Jacobson, one of the founders of UML.

Presenter:
Al Cline, as President of Carolla Development, has been a process engineer consultant for the last 20 years. He is the founder of the Carolla Methodology, an agile development process that delivers software with unusually low defect rates. He is the iteration manager and software engineering lead for an agile project at Wright-Patterson Air Force base. He also teaches PM and PMP-prep classes nationally. Al has an M.S in physics and B.S. in math, both contributing to his passionate zeal for rigor in software development and project management.

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Live Webinar – May 13, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

Do you know enough about Agile to be dangerous?

Maybe you’ve read a few books or taken a training class. Now what? We’ll walk through some ideas on how to implement Agile with your team – step by step.

Presenter:
Christy Clement (LinkedIn profile) is a project manager with 7 years in software project management and has trained more than 250 people in Agile methodologies. Christy currently teaches courses including Agile Boot Camp, Agile Project Management, and Agile Requirements.

Christy believes it is her hands-on implementation experience and her encouragement to engage her students in hands-on exercise in her classes that sets her apart as an instructor.

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Live Webinar May 13 2011
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM GMT / 4:30 am – 5:30 am EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat C Free
Presented by: Marshall-James

More and more employers are reviewing their approach to employee communications and to how they can secure higher levels of employee engagement.

This is being driven by the increasing pressures being faced by those employers, who are finding they need to fundamentally change the relationship they have with their workforces.

In this webinar we draw on our experience to look at:

• some of the key drivers of a shift to strategic communications
• how a long term communication strategy can be drawn up
• how senior team ‘buy in’ can be obtained and possible objections dealt with,
• how an organizations capability and readiness can be assessed
• how strategic communications support wider engagement strategies
• the need to align internal and external communication plans

We will also look at how a strategy can be brought to life.

This will include a wide range of topic areas which will include:

• leadership
• management capability
• the role of ‘trust’ and where it fits with effective communication
• knowing the audience
• building a communication plan
• aligning communication channels and media

This Covers: PMBOK Reference

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communication

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholders Expectations

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’

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Online Webinar
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

Business Process Mapping is a technique used by both Business Analysts and other individuals who specialize in Business Process Improvement.This simple technique can be very useful in detailing existing processes as well as mapping out the problems with the process and the improvements that would be most beneficial.

Attend this webinar and learn how to achieve Business Process Mapping excellence.

Subject Matter Expert:Rick Clare, CBAP®, PMP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer.Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Develope r, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools.

Registration to the PMCentersUSA site is required.

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Live Webinar May 13 2011 – 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT
Presented by: Value Train
Duration 1 Hr Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free

An overview and comparison of the three popular process improvement methodologies in use by companies today.

Value Train provides training for professionals. We provide certification training for Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Black Belt, Minitab, Quantitative Methods, PMP Exam review and Lean Enterprise. Headquartered near Atlanta, Georgia, we hold classes there, Dallas, Philadelphia, Princeton, Morristown, NYC, Jersey City, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and other cities as requested.

Our programs are open to everyone but are especially designed for people who take charge of their own careers. Most of our courses qualify for PDU credits for PMP recertification and qualify for PE recertification credits. We also now grant CEU certificates for those students who need them for no additional cost. Our Six Sigma and Lean courses meet Georgia State Board of Accountancy CPE requirements and may also in other states.
– Bill Bentley (LinkedIn profile), Owner/President Value-Train

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Online Webinar
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU – 1 Cat A Free

Outsourcing is an increasing reality.

The business world is operating in the absence of time zones in today’s 24/7 “always on” environment. The availability of smart tools and collaboration technologies enable corporate mobility and flexible workforce arrangements.

It’s no secret to global companies that a distributed workforce cuts cost (most notably in energy and real estate) but what does it cost organizations in physiological distance? How does remote team management relate to effective organizational communication?

In an informal survey, 300 project managers (PMs) were asked the cause of project failure, and more than 80 percent of respondents attributed project failure to the inability to manage the relationships within the project.

Fundamentally, managing virtual project teams is based on the same philosophies as managing a local team; the primary difference is that the virtual dynamic is compounded by space and lacks the visual component of body language and inflection.

When project communication is based on the written (email) and spoken (conference call) word, only seven percent of what one wants to communicate is received.

How can PMs in virtual team environments overcome communication challenges and minimize the negative impact to organizations? This session will explore an analysis of four filters that impact the PM’s environment: virtual, personality, technology and culture filters. It will draw conclusions for best practice communication in virtual teams based on intrinsic understanding of these filters.

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