Live IIL Webinar – November 30, 2011 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: PM0021
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With the rise of the Business Analysis Profession, the field of project management will never be the same again!

Only a few years ago, there was no such thing as the Business Analyst (BA). Today, we see more and more organizations using BAs to define the requirements of new systems and products and to manage product scope. BAs now work directly with project managers and project teams—and rightly so.

A good BA can help carry the project manager’s burden and greatly increase a project’s chances of success. In this webinar, we will explore how a BA works in harmony with a project manager to manage project scope and help projects succeed.

In this interactive session, participants are encouraged to reflect on the contributions a Business Analyst can bring to the project table. Through the use of examples, participants will see why improving project results without the role of the BA doesn’t work as well or as long as having a Business Analyst and Project Manager on the project at the right time.

Participants will:

• Learn how BAs contribute to organization success
• Understand the role of the BA at the Project Table
• Gain internal selling points to acquire a BA
• Learn how BAs support the PM and team for ongoing project success

What Your Will Learn:

• Why every project should have a Business Analyst
• The key role of the Business Analyst and how they work with a Project Manager
• How the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge, PMBOK®, compares to the International Institute of Business Analyst Body of Knowledge, BABOK®
• What skills of the Business Analyst will complement the Project Manager

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Live Webinar – November 29, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

As companies work to migrate their software development approach from Waterfall to Agile, they often begin to discover that the limited set of tools offered by the Agile (or Scrum) framework alone do not satisfy organizational needs.

Larger projects, more teams, and limited resources are often the hallmark and impetus to implement a Lean development approach where value streams and waste elimination drive the creation of better products, more profitable efforts, and fully utilized resource teams.

In this web seminar we will discuss the process, function, and benefits of utilizing Kanban and Lean to streamline your efforts.

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.

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Live Webinar – November 29, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hours Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: PushToTest

Workshop on Building High Scalable Applications with Service Components

Your choices for scalable and most productive platforms to build SOA, BPM, and Web applications are vital to your organization’s success.

The problems you need to solve are testing and evaluating applications and business processes that use Rich Internet Application (RIA, using Ajax, Flex, Flash,) JMS, and SOAP and REST Web Service interfaces.

You are not interested in lame “instant service development” schemes. Your application does not have a magical silver bullet that involves no work, no time, and no sense.

Join Frank Cohen, (LinkedIn profile) CEO and Founder at PushToTest and inventor of the TestMaker Open Source Test tool. This is ideal for CIOs, CTOs, Development and Test Executives, and IT managers.

Here is what they have for you:

• A comparison of developer productivity and performance on Oracle, IBM, and TIBCO
• A systematic, simple way to understand and implement effective tests of your application
• Test software to build tests and deploy to desktop, grid, and cloud environments
• A clear tutorial approach to the PushToTest methodology of building and repurposing tests to understand the correct functioning, performance, and scalability of your application
• An organized reference guide to the “best of the best” tips, techniques, patterns and antipatterns from PushToTest over the years, and how it all fits together

In other words, you don’t have to be Einstein to “get” this stuff.

Every attendee will receive fully working copies of the open source test tools, including Selenium, soapUI, PushToTest, TestGen4Web, and many others taught in this Webinar.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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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Live Webinar November 28, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

Strategy, planning and execution must be integrated in the new product-project development environment.

Some of the best ideas fail and talented teams struggle to compensate during the entire lifecycle. The void between strategy and execution detracts from the team’s focus resulting in decreased productivity, missed delivery dates, increased cost and loss of damage control with Customers.

A majority of the gap may be attributed to leaderships lack of soft skills, practical skills and voids in wisdom driven by the desire for speed. A small potion of the gap may be attributed to the inadequate use of appropriate tools by the teams.

The presentation will focus on the following 9 areas:

• Leadership
• The Portfolio
• Human Resource Capacity Planning
• Engaged Stakeholders
• Sustainable Infrastructure
• Integration
• Risks
• Adapting to Change
• Critical Decision Making & Governance

Objectives:

• How to identify signs of the S2E gap
• Methods and tools to fill the void
• Proven practical wisdom to face the gap head on

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