Live Webinar – February 15th 2012, 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

Quite simply, governance is a small committee of professionals who set policies and standards that limit the flexibility and use of a computing environment. In the past, governance has been driven by the desire to reduce costs, improve system stability, ensure security and meet regulatory compliance requirements.

Often, governance teams have drifted from one side of the coin to the other: excessively stringent rules that basically remove any freedom from knowledgeable employees or giving free rein to any and all users, regardless of skill or knowledge levels.

Finding a good balance is the key to truly functional governance. Every organization has unique goals, constraints and technology histories that have to be taken into account for creating an effective governance model. There are, however, common characteristics that describe effective governance no matter what form it takes.

These practices will help your organization achieve an effective, sustainable and well-balanced governance strategy. In this webinar, we will cover the top 10 tips for creating a governance plan for a successful SharePoint deployment.

Presenter: Mark Weinstein MCT (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years in the technology industry, and is a consultant specializing in collaborative technologies, focused upon Microsoft’s Exchange and SharePoint servers. Mark consults on several high-end projects for enterprise companies with thousands of users. His forte is building and teaching courseware that makes hands-on material practical and usable in a real-world environment, while keeping the general information on the subject easy to retain.

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Live Webinar February 15th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1301
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Defining accurate requirements that correctly reflect stakeholder expectations is an essential activity for all business analysts.

In this webinar, you’ll gain insight as to why use cases are a proven technique for eliciting, defining, analyzing, and documenting user requirements.

You will learn how to create high-level use case diagrams in UML, and how to effectively document accurate and detailed functional requirements using a methodical approach; finally, you will see how use cases can be applied to business process modeling and how such business use cases can be used to identify system use cases.

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Live Webinar February 16th, 2012 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Presented by : Accurev and QSM
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Changes to the software development process, such as moving toward Agile methods, must demonstrate sustainable results over time versus just short-term wins. There are two keys to reaching long-term success that should be considered up front the new process must be repeatable and measurable.

In this session, AccuRev’s Chris Lucca (LinkedIn profile) and QSM’s Larry Putnam Jr (LinkedIn profile) will explore these two keys to success.

Specifically, they will cover:

• The state of software development projects yesterday versus today and the impact to the software development process
• The techniques and tools that can help a team to build a process that is repeatable and scalable, even across a distributed team
• Which metrics and measurement processes are important to measuring the results and improvements of implementing repeatable and scalable processes
• How to use metrics to estimate project schedules, resources and reliability, and monitor project progress and forecast completion
• Ways to benchmark the results at project completion for time to market, cost performance and reliability
• …. all of which provide the business case for continued investments in technology and repeatable and scalable processes

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.’

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Live Webinar February 15, 2012 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)

This webinar with Nick Spanos (LinkedIn profile) discusses potential benefits from Application Support Outsourcing and provides a framework for successful support outsourcing.

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 February 15, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

This session provides an overview of several organizational structures and how they have leveraged, apply and rely on an IT Methodology.

It identifies a number of organizational bodies (owners, stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, developers, testers, governance and quality assurance staff) and how they contribute and are affected by an IT Methodology.

The intent of this session is to provide the audience a better understanding that an IT methodology crosses over many operational disciplines and has a ripple effect across an organization.

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