Live Webinar July 27 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

How Thinking Like a Designer Can Solve Business Challenges

Leaders are always wondering what steps they need to take in their organization, department or business unit to actually deliver innovation.

The essence of this challenge is turning abstract ideas into tangible applications that can drive business growth.

This Webcast offers insight into “design thinking”that provides a different way to analyze and solve complex growth challenges.

What you’ll discover is a systematic approach to problem solving built upon four questions:

1. What is?
2. What if?
3. What wows?
4. What works?

What You Will Learn: You will discover how to innovate quickly for business growth when you have to create new products or implement projects. This includes tips on the mindset, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, including:

• Telling a human-centered story to arouse passions
• Making the words “by when?” part of every conversation
• Agreeing on a fast decision-making model: who decides and when do they decide, using what criteria?
• Sharing your ideas when they are just “good enough” and have the courage to look foolish
• Letting others validate your ideas
• Speaking the truth about failures and what was learned

Join us as we unlock the mysterious connection between design and growth, exploring how to exploit design’s exciting potential. While attending this program is free, reservations are required.

Jeanne Liedtka is a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Formerly the executive director of its Batten Institute, a foundation established to develop thought leadership in the fields of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, she has also served as chief learning officer for the United Technologies Corporation (UTC) and as associate dean of the MBA program at Darden. She is the coauthor of The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader and her latest, Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing).

Tim Ogilvie is cofounder and CEO of Peer Insight, an innovation strategy consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. In the mid-1990s, he founded and led the global benchmarking practice for Price Waterhouse and subsequently became a partner of Kaiser Associates, the global strategy consultancy, and cofounder of Brivo Systems, a Web-based security and access control provider. He is a coauthor ofDesigning for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing).

Click to register for Ten Steps for Innovating with Speed

Live Webinar July 27 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

Tired of having tools that slow your requirements discovery and management?

When tools get implemented, time is of the essence! What is the total time needed to get clear, accurate and complete requirements – and – how much time are your stakeholders spending in requirements discovery sessions.

Many tools cannot support highly accelerated requirements elicitation – IBM Rational® Requirements Composer® can. We’re going to show you how – and – we’re going to change your thinking on how to configure tools and analyst teams to get greater performance and efficiency.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the benefits of using a Rapid Requirements elicitation approach.
2. Know the IBM Rational® products and the way of using these products for Rapid Requirements gathering.
3. Identify the artifacts and deliverables that result from this elicitation process

Click to register for Being RATIONAL in an Accelerated World

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Live Webinar July 26, 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)

Does this sound familiar?

The Boss: “So, how are we doing? What’s the status?”

The PM: “Well, we’re feeling pretty good about our progress. We’re about 90% there.”

A week later….

The Boss: “So, how are we doing? What’s the status?”

The PM: “Well, we found a couple of problems, but they’re almost fixed. We’re real close to 90% done.”

Another week later…

The Boss: “So, how are we doing? What’s the status?”

The PM: “Uh… we found a couple more unexpected issues.”

In this webinar Gary Gack (LinkedIn profile) will explore the causes of and remedies for this syndrome.

Click to register for Avoiding the 90% Syndrome: Why Status Report are Often Wrong and What You Can Do About It

Live Webinar July 25, 2011 – 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by CollabNet
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU Free

What does Scrum look like to a certified Project Management Professional?

In this webinar Certified Scrum Trainer and PMP Jimi Fosdick (LinkedIn profile) discusses how the Scrum roles address the responsibilities of the traditional project manager as defined in the PMBOK Guide 4th Edition.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

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

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 Scrum for PMP’s: PM Responsibilities & Scrum Roles

Live Webinar – July 26, 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

Although Agile has proven to provide incredible benefits in software development and delivery, it is not foolproof, nor a “Silver Bullet.”

Plenty of factors need to be considered before attempting this highly disciplined approach.

Learn from the mistakes other organizations have made and discover which pitfalls to avoid to ensure that your first attempt at applying an Agile approach will be met with a successful outcome.

This hour-long web seminar will explore these areas and provide clear steps your team and organization should consider to provide a clear set of tools to maximize the opportunity for best results possible.

Presenter:
Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer,with 5 years of Agile experience effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities

Click to register for Top Pitfalls that Lead to Agile Troubles

Live Webinar July 27, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU Free Course ID: MDW1269

Learn how program management practices can ensure healthier projects, facilitate decision making, and achieve consistent results. Join us to see what tools and artifacts can help improve communications, decision making, and collaboration between project teams, executive decision makers and resource managers.

Discover how program managers empower their stakeholders by getting them what they need (not necessarily what they want). And last but not least, understand why it’s important to manage the intersection between projects and ongoing operations, coach project managers; and, when necessary, challenge the status quo.

Key takeaways from this webinar include:

• A case study for how program management practices are applied in a medium-sized organization
• The intersection between project management and program management skill sets
• Concrete examples of how to drive program-level decisions

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

Click to register for Program Management: A Guide for Project Managers