Live Webinar July 28, 2011 – 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

Many BA’s avoid getting Project Management training, because they are concerned that they will then be forced to move into that role. BA and PM are parallel professions, but they also have many overlaps. This look at the first knowledge area in the BABOK will show you how important planning and estimating skills are for a BA.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director 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 tools.

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Live Webinar July 28, 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)

Requirements engineering is the systematic approach to providing direction before and during software development. It provides the means to deliver the right products or solutions at the right time for the right markets.

Requirements Engineering (RE) bridges the entire life cycle and thus determines success or failure of a product or solution.

This mini tutorial with Christof Ebert (LinkedIn profile) shows how to best use RE and master its challenges. It describes how to develop and write good requirements and how to manage them during the project. The presentation underlines the basic concepts and practices of RE with broad industrial experiences.

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Live Webinar – Choose From 2 Offerings
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration: 1 hour + 30 Min Q & A 1 Category C PDU FREE

July 27th, 2011 11:00 AM EDT
July 28th, 2011 4:00 PM EDT

In today’s environment, few core competencies are as important as how change is managed.

Leading organizations are beginning to invest the time and energy to building change management competencies and capabilities in the organization (or, said another way, deploying change management broadly across the enterprise).

This webinar presents Project ECM – an approach and perspective to treating change management capability building as a project and as a change.

Agenda:

• Project ECM: a change and a project
• Current state of Project ECM
• Future state of Project ECM
• Transition state of Project ECM

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

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Live Webinar July 28, 2011, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU Category C
Presented by: Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.

As data grows horizontally across the enterprise, businesses are faced with the need to better define data and create an accurate, transparent and accessible view of their metadata. As a way of achieving these goals, EMA has identified metadata management and business glossary as foundational technologies that support the following seven, key best practices:

1. Serve the stakeholders
2. Automate and manage data governance
3. Master Data Management (MDM)
4. Collaboration
5. Integrated process and workflow
6. Easy to use and adopt
7. Culture of unification

Presenter:
Ian Rowlands (LinkedIn profile)

Shawn Rogers (LinkedIn profile) has more than 19 years of hands-on IT experience, with a focus on Internet-enabled technology. In 2004 he co-founded the BeyeNETWORK and guided the company’s international growth strategy to grow to 18 Web sites around the world, making it the largest and most read community covering the business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management and data integration space. Shawn’s passions are rooted in the online world, focusing on analytics, social media, business intelligence, enterprise 2.0, SaaS and open source.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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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