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Live Webinar June 29, 2011, 11:00 – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Estimation is a lightning rod for conflicts between agile, lean and other process driven methodologies. However times are changing, agile is maturing and new lean methodologies such as Kanban are emerging.

We are now entering a period of agile maturing and synthesizing through incorporation of best practices from other methods and frameworks.

In this webinar, Tom Cagley (LinkedIn profile) will explain functional metrics allow you incorporate additional process discipline into the estimation processes typically used by agile and lean teams.

Click to register for Functional Metrics and Agile Estimation, Revisited – CMMI Compliance

Live Webinar – June 29, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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
Innovation and creativity are business buzz words for sure! Even though they conjure up visions of verbose, empty-suite executives clamoring on and on, they are still critical.

At the end of the day, your business grows by entering new markets, adding new products and reacting to changes that impact your products or customers. All which are empowered and amplified by innovation and creativity.

A product portfolio is like a well. The deeper you have to go to find interested customers, the more expensive it gets, and the more work you have to put in to getting business.

So if you can find new products or quickly locate new customers, you continue to get the “richness” of margin and easy customers from the beginning stages of the well.

This session pulls information from multiple sources including,

• The Difference by Scott Page,
• Wisdom of Crowds by Jim Surdoweiki,
• Innovation at the Verge by Joel Barker,
• Product Management Strategy by Rebecca Henderson,
• The Agile Manifesto and
• The Edison Product Factory

to provide pragmatic models and interesting new ways to help you find new products or customers through innovation and creativity.

Presentation Agenda:

• Innovation and product development theory
• Moving from theory to reality
• Identity vs. cognitive diversity
• Team dysfunctions
• Agile Manifesto tied to innovation and creativity
• The Verge and how to embrace change
• Testing multiple small ideas
• Putting it all together

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, covering topics in the software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

Click to register for Product Theory: Real-World Innovation and Creativity Enablement

Live Webinar June 29 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization. IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

Click to register for Managing Requirements Operational Excellence: Accelerating Organizational Development

Live Webinar – June 29, 2011 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST
Offered by: Microsoft & ModernAnalyst.com 1 Category C PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees can claim 1 PDU for participating.

Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 offer powerful, easy new ways to model, manage and monitor business processes.

This webcast will focus on how to get the most out the new capabilities. We’ll spend the webcast showing the new features and talking about how customers are already using them to improve their processes. Customer examples will include Microsoft, TECO Energy (a Florida utility), The Austrian Ministry of the Interior and John Holland, an Australian engineering services and construction firm.

We’ll structure the webcast around a business process maturity model for Visio and SharePoint. The goal is to make the webcast useful for attendees in organizations of varying business process maturities and to give you practical tips you can apply immediately.

1. Moving from sticky notes to process documents: how to save time documenting process models
2. Standardizing process notation and attributes: how to use the new BPMN template, how to standardize process attributes and how to validate process maps against business rules
3. Automating human and document centric: how to use Visio to model SharePoint workflows and execute and visualize them in SharePoint 2010 without any coding
4. Using Visio to monitor your business processes: how to connect Visio process models to external data and use them as dashboards in SharePoint 2010

Attendees will receive a link to 3 free white papers and sample templates for using Visio 2010 to improve business processes, compliance and quality.

FEATURED SPEAKER: Chris Crane (LinkedIn profile) is the Director of Microsoft Visio and is responsible for product management, marketing and overall business direction of Microsoft Visio. In this role, he works closely with customers, partners, Microsoft subsidiary sales and marketing professionals around the world, and Visio engineering team.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.4 Verify Scope
• 5.5 Control Scope

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 to register for Using Visio® 2010 and SharePoint® 2010 for Process Management: Practical Tips and Customer Examples

Live Webinar – June 28, 2011 11:00 – 12:00 PM EDT
Presenter: Journyx Inc.
Duration: 1 hour 1 CAT B FREE

When it comes time to make a decision, how do you know what is important?

Have you heard any of these truisms?

• If You Meet the Schedule, You Will Meet the Budget.It is the Marching Army That Kills You.
• Protect the Money.You Can Get More Time, But Not More Money.When the Money’s Gone, It’s Over.
• Take The Time You Need to Make it Great.They Will Forget That You Missed a Deadline, but a Poorly Performing Product will be Remembered Forever.
• If I Can Get The Right People, Co-Locate Them, and They Are Left Alone, We Will Be Successful
• There Is Nothing More Important on a Job Than a Good Spec.
• If the End Product is Too Expensive, the Business Plan is Broken, and the Effort is Wasted.
• Process Yields Success.Any True Process Yields Reusable Products and Can Be Steadily Improved.

Which of these is true?

Depending upon the circumstances, all of them.Any of them may be the most important thing to consider when making design decisions.

So how do you decide which is most important in a particular case?

Attendees will walk away with:

• Amethod of determining proper project priorities
• Clear understanding of how to spend your time on a project
• Communication strategies for sponsors & team members
• Strategies for executing on project priorities

Click to register for Project Priorities: How to Determine and Execute to Them

Live Webinar June 28 2011 – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat C Free
Event Code: 151337 A Microsoft Event Presented by: ABSI

Featured Product/Topic: Microsoft Office Project

This seminar will cover Advanced topics in MS Project such as Resource pools, Costs, earned value, and Printing reports.

Presenter: Ed Avizur (LinkedIn profile)

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring and Control

Knowledge Areas: 7- Cost 10 – Communications

• 7.2 Determine Budget
• 7.3 Control Costs
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 to register for MS Project – Advanced.