Online Webinar – Presented by: Pillar Technology Group
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Recorded: September 28, 2011

Project managers often wonder what their role should be in an Agile environment.

• What does it mean that teams are self-organized?
• No manager necessary?
• And what about executives?
• What should the CIO’s role be and how should they interact with the teams?
• Is it any different?

In this webinar, Daryl discusses how the fundamental nature of leadership must change in order for Agile to be successful.It is too easy to just put cards on walls and feel like you’re “done Agile.”But unless the chain of command changes its own behavior, the teams will never achieve the results that Agile promises — reduced defects, higher productivity, focus on business value.

Watch Pillar Technologies session for a great conversation on the topic of servant leadership and Agile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YFLHTDHGvlo#!

Presenter: Daryl Kulak (LinkedIn profile) author of Use Cases: Requirements in Context (2nd Edition). The book opens with a brief introduction to use cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It explains how use cases reduce the incidence of duplicate and inconsistent requirements, and how they facilitate the documentation process and communication among stakeholders.

The book shows you how to:

• Describe the context of relationships and interactions between actors and applications using use case diagrams and scenarios
• Specify functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Create the candidate use case list
• Break out detailed use cases and add detail to use case diagrams
• Add triggers, preconditions, basic course of events, and exceptions to use cases
• Manage the iterative/incremental use case driven project lifecycle
• Trace back to use cases, nonfunctionals, and business rules
• Avoid classic mistakes and pitfalls

The book also highlights numerous currently available tools, including use case name filters, the context matrix, user interface requirements, and Daryl’s own “hierarchy killer.”

Click to watch How To Be a Servant Leader in an Agile Environment On Pillar Technology Group’s Site

Pillar Technology Group Courses are VERY Reasonable
Check out their training page.

As Angelo Mazzocco, President of Pillar explains “We live in an economy where access to “free” or not for profit is becoming a part of our every day lives. It is in this spirit that we would like to launch the Pillar Training Series. It is our passion that we should not profit from the distribution of knowledge. So our courses will be unique. All proceeds generated from a course will be donated to charity. All work done in the course will be for a charity. This is Pillar’s small contribution back to the individuals in our movement that shared so freely their thoughts and ideas. This was inspired by the “Agile Manifesto” and many other foundational works in the industry. – Thank you for supporting us and our attempt to educate and donate to worthwhile social causes”.

 

Live Webinar – March 7th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

Click to register for Harmonizing Agility & Discipline

Live Webinar March 7th, 2012 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1268
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Meetings are nothing more than a tool to get results.

A successfully facilitated meeting helps to achieve and exceed project goals, by improving issues resolution, decision making, and risk management. Facilitation is an art and science that consists of a set of skills that can be learned.

Successful facilitators can recognize and balance the needs of the meeting, the individuals, and the team.

This webinar discusses typical challenging behaviors of individuals and groups and associates them with various animal metaphors. We will review a few facilitation strategies for key challenging behaviors.

We’ve all been in meetings with the “wise old owl” who philosophizes at great length. And we all know what it feels like when there is an “elephant in the room.” The images may be simple to grasp, but this is not a basic meeting management webinar.

Learning objectives include:

• What are the fundamentals of facilitation?
• A perspective shift and tool to use meetings as a tool
• Overview of the top individual challenging meeting behaviors
• Strategies for dealing with some challenging behaviors

About the Presenter:

Star Dargin (LinkedIn profile), PCC, CPCC, instructor and consultant for Corporate Education Group, is founder of Star Leadership, a management consulting firm that offers coaching, training, and consulting services for businesses.

Star held leadership positions at several high-tech companies, in roles such as Director of Engineering, Director of Project Managers, and International Program Manager; additionally, Star is an adjunct professor at Boston University where she teaches graduate level courses on Leadership and Communication for Project Managers.

Click to register for Facilitation Skills for Project Managers

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

March 7th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
March 8th, 2012 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST

Prosci’s ADKAR® Model describes the five building blocks of successful change at the individual level.

Prosci specializes in change management processes. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

In times of change – whether at home, in the community or at work – individuals need:

1. Awareness,
2. Desire,
3. Knowledge,
4. Ability and
5. Reinforcement

to successfully make a change.

This webinar presents Prosci’s ADKAR Model and six applications of the model for change management professionals.

Agenda:

• The need for an individual change management model
• ADKAR – building blocks of successful change
• Six applications of Prosci’s ADKAR Model

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Plan Communications

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 the Mar 7th Applying Prosci’s ADKAR® Model

Click to register for the Mar 8th Applying Prosci’s ADKAR® Model

Live Webinar – March 7th 2012, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Triple Creek – Enterprise Mentoring Software

1. Speed,
2. Flexibility
3. Creativity and ….
4. Access to Collective Knowledge.

These are the factors that will help businesses succeed in the coming years. Equipping employees to take advantage of these will be key for organizations.

Learn how you can:

• Leverage Open Mentoring to equip your employees to thrive.
• Encourage the right factors in modern mentoring networks.
• Expand knowledge sharing to the entire workforce.
• Remove barriers to learning and talent mobility.
• Reduce costs for collaboration and learning.

Presenter: Randy Emelo (LinkedIn profile) President & CEO, Triple Creek

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 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 How to Build Modern Mentoring Networks