Archive for May, 2011

Validating Requirements

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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

Waiting until the project is delivered to the customer is not the time to confirm, or not confirm, that objectives of the project are met.

Project managers and business analysts must understand how to analyze the various risks of the project objectives and develop ways to intermittently validate the attainment of those objectives.

Learn the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, business analyst and quality assurance teams in successful project delivery.

In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc) and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

Click here to view a previously recorded version of this session from 9/22/2010.

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Live Virtual Conference May 19, 2011
Duration:8:30 AM – 6:30 PM EDTCredits: up to 6 PDU Category A
Presented by: Gantthead (REP 2488)

Gantthead presents their annual virtual conference and exhibition called PMXPO 2011 on Thursday, May 19, 2011.

In five sessions-plus a keynote presentation-they will offer overviews of common PPM and PMO issues. PMXPO 2011 includes valuable take-away materials, including templates, checklists, project plans and presentations that you can modify and use in your own practice.

Event Agenda:

  • Keynote Presentation: The Passionate Project Manager
    • Ric O’Barry (LinkedIn profile), Producer, The Cove; Founder, The Dolphin Project
  • Building a Successful EPMO: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Maximizing the Gains
  • Process Paradigm
  • The Hard Work of Mastering Soft Skills: Take Your Leadership to the Next Level
  • Holistic Agile: How Agile Impacts the Organization
    • George Schlitz (LinkedIn profile), CSC, PMP, Founder, Principal Consultant, BigVisible Solutions
  • Business Driven PPM – Conquering the Top Ten Risks that Threaten Success
  • Closing Remarks LIVE!
    • Stephen Maye

Click here to register for PMXPO 2011 Virtual Project Management Conference.

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Live Webinar – May 19, 2011 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

Too many projects are plagued with too much work and not enough time or resources.

A simple step is available to offset these problems – prioritization of the requirements!

Come and learn about how to do this using techniques such as Kano, Timeboxing and MOSCOW Analysis. You will also learn some of the problems inherent with Prioritization on a project and how to overcome them.

This presentation will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session afterwards.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP®, PE, CCE

Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile) is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

Registration to the PMCentersUSA site is required.

Click to register for Prioritization: Which Requirements Are Most Important

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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

This presentation is based on Susan’s book Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

For a complete selection of Susan’s books (and Kindle editions) including Fierce Leadership click here. Check out her Fierce Inc website includes a wealth of articles, video and podcasts that explore the topics of Fierce Conversations and Fierce Leadership.

Susan Scott, leadership development architect and bestselling author of Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time, will introduce you to transformational ideas and principles that will shift your basic understanding of conversations and the power they hold in leadership, building relationships and achieving results.

Susan Scott is not neutral. She believes that our careers, our companies, our relationships and our very lives succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time. That the conversation is the relationship.

The central function of a leader is to engineer intelligent, spirited conversations that provide the basis for high levels of alignment, collaboration and partnership throughout an organization and the healthier financial performance that goes with it.

While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a career, a company, a relationship or a life – any single conversation can.

In this webcast you will learn the 7 principles of a Fierce Conversation:

  • Master the courage to interrogate reality
  • Come out from behind yourself, into the conversation, and make it real
  • Be here, prepared to be nowhere else
  • Tackle your toughest challenge today
  • Obey your instincts
  • Take responsibility for your emotional wake
  • Let silence do the heavy lifting.

Join Susan as she assists you in more fully internalizing just what it takes to improve the quality and effectiveness of your daily conversations.

Presenter: Susan Scott
Susan has enabled top executives worldwide to engage in vibrant dialogue with one another, with their employees and with their customers for two decades. A recognized thought leader in the global business community and recipient of the 2008 Stevie award for Entrepreneur of the Year, Susan and her company, Fierce, Inc., are committed to large-scale and individual transformation through the principles set forth in Susan’s books and her company’s customized training programs.

Registration to the American Management Website is required to view this webinar.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

  • 5.5 Control Scope
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team
  • 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’

Click here to view the recorded version of Fierce Conversations: Transform the Conversations Central to Your Success.

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Live Webinar – May 23, 8:00 am -9:00 am EST
Registration Will Close You Must register by May 22

Offered by MPUG WebnLearn UK ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

This session introduces the user to resources, what they are, and how to set them up in order obtain the full value from MS Project, in order to produce a fully costed and budgeted project plan. We will also drill into task types, in order to fully represent different types of tasks within a plan.

Content Guide:

  • Definition of work vs duration
  • Generic resources vs real resources
  • Assignment values
  • Project’s scheduling formula
  • Task Types

Products Used for Demo:

  • Microsoft Project 2007
  • Microsoft Project 2010 (Will beshown at end to highlight any impovements)

Speaker: Ben Howard has over 20 years experience of implementing enterprise solutions such as MRPII, ERP, and latterly Microsoft’s EPM (Project and Project Server) solution. During that time he’s worked for IBM, DELL, and Microsoft. He now runs his own EPM consultancy (Applepark Ltd), providing Project Server implementation and training services.

Ben recently spoke at the Microsoft Project Conference in Pheonix, and his current Microsoft TechNet webcast (User Controlled Scheduling in Project 2010) is ranked in the top 10! He is a regular contributor to the Project Server newsgroups, and publishes a blog based on Project Server scenarios. For his real world knowledge and contributions to the newsgroups he has recently been awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP award for Project Server.

He can be contacted at ben@applepark.co.uk, or read his blog at http://www.applepark.co.uk/ben-howard-blog/.

Click here to register for this opportunity.

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Online Webinar
Duration: 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU Cat A
Presented by: PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)

Stakeholder analysis is the starting point of requirements elicitation. Your information production techniques are not going to be very effective if you are not talking to the right audience!

Attend this webinar and learn the purpose, methods and outcome of stakeholder analysis, something that all Business Analysts should have expertise in.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, 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 Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tool

Registration to the PMCentersUSA site is required.

Click here to view Who Are the Important People on Your Project?