Online Webinar
Offered by: Rally Software ( REP 3156 ) Recorded April 26, 2011
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Category A

Intended for: IT, Dev, QA and project managers, directors and team members who must learn and build the core Agile skills of writing and working with user stories.

User Stories, designed to keep teams laser-focused on customer needs, serve as THE driving force behind delivering valuable, high quality features, fast. In this webinar, you will learn the nuts and bolts of writing, sizing, breaking down, prioritizing, tasking and accepting user stories, including:

• Examples of breaking down stories while keeping the focus on customer value
• The way to write acceptance criteria and define “done”
• The differences between stories and tasks
• Suggestions for improving size estimates
• How user stories relate to the product roadmap
• Lessons learned from your peers

Now is the time to hone your user stories skills and focus your entire company, developers and business stakeholders, on delivering customer value.

Presenters: Bob Gower (LinkedIn profile), ScrumMaster & Agile Coach, Rally Software, Craig Langenfeld (LinkedIn profile), Product Ambassador, Rally Software, and Geoffrey Bourne (LinkedIn profile), SVP, Major NYC Financial Institution.

To claim 1 PDU credit for attending this webinar. After registering and attending email your PMI Membership number and course information to pmi@rallydev.com

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Live Webinar December 7, 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Teachable moments begin with transforming an audience, but an audience will only change if you resonate with them.

Hear pioneer presentation innovator Nancy Duarte (LinkedIn profile), CEO of Duarte Design, demonstrate a new way of structuring training that helps the instructor create a powerful connection with audiences.

Join this live, interactive webinar and discover how to:

• Develop compelling messages
• Communicate your materials and message
• Use time-tested story-telling principles to connect
• And more…

Speaker: Nancy Duarte, CEO, Duarte Design

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing Monitoring & Control

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 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’

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Live Webinar December 9, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, Rich Maltzman (LinkedIn profile) and Dave Shirley will provide the groundwork for bringing the best ideas from lean operations and life cycle analysis into project planning.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

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Live Webinar December 7, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Mark Smith
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Manage the Fire Hose of Data Before You Drown

Information is essential to making intelligent decisions, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms us. To complicate this further the sheer volume of data isn’t the only thing changing—today’s data no longer streams through the same channels.

The question isn’t how to stop the fire hose of data but to find the truly essential nuggets of information and use them with confidence.

In this webcast you’ll discover that the solution to the problem involves knowing the right questions to ask at the right time. Asking smarter questions exposes new information, points you to connections between seemingly unrelated facts and changes the dialogue you have with your colleagues.

What You Will Learn:

Join the AMA to learn practical thinking you can apply immediately to leap frog the whole notion of swimming in data by turning facts and figures into business learning.

Through case studies from over a dozen household brand names as well as the authors’ direct experience at Microsoft, IBM and American Express see how their framework can have a dramatic impact.

By the end of this presentation, you will learn to simply and quickly amplify your decision making and separate the signal from the noise.

Presenters:

Christopher Frank (LinkedIn profile) is the coauthor ofthe bestseller Drinking from the Fire Hose: Making Smarter Decisions Without Drowning in Information and the vice president of business-to-business and communications research at American Express. He is responsible for advertising, brand, and business-to-business research. Prior to joining American Express, Frank spent ten years at Microsoft, as senior director of corporate research. He has won industry awards for his accomplishments in analyzing the swing voter consumer, developing a framework for effective branding, and building a social media measurement system.

Paul Magnone (LinkedIn profile) is vice president of business development strategic alliances at Openet Telecom, and also the coauthor ofthe bestseller Drinking from the Fire Hose: Making Smarter Decisions Without Drowning in Information. He is responsible for executive leadership of Openet’s global partner initiatives. Prior, he was a senior leader at IBM for 21 years driving growth programs including the launch of four new global consulting businesses.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience (include the weblinks) and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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