Live Webinar – February 21st, 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

In this presentation David Mantica will look at the past roles of the PM and BA and discuss how the IIBA view of BA work has significantly changed industry prospective on what a BA does and how this change has impacted PM / BA interaction. He will also discuss how, as economic instability grew, the outsourcing trend, the continued mainstreaming of Agile methods, where the BA / PM fit into these changes. Finally he will discuss potential future outcomes and the skills and tools both BAs and PMs need to consider for 2012 and beyond.

Information for this presentation was gained through three years of salary surveys done by ASPE-SDLC on both the PM and BA roles, multiple customer interviews related to training and skills development, discussions with thought leaders, and reviewing trends in training courses requested and taken.

This presentation is not a technical deep dive, but a detailed and research analysis of direction of the PM and BA role based on industry requirements and economic realities.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile)  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

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Live Webinar
February 21, 2012 10:30 am – 11:30 am AEST (Austrailia)
February 20, 2012 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Anzi Coaching

Megan from ANZI Coaching interviews Accredited Master Coach Natalie Ashdown, (LinkedIn profile) who shares her coaching journey.

You may recognize the name ‘Natalie Ashdown’ from her recent webinars titled ‘Leaderships Series’ in which she interviewed some of the top Coaches in this industry. ANZI Coaching now turns the spotlight back to Natalie, an inspirational Coach herself who will share her story with you.

Natalie Ashdown founded her company, The Open Door Coaching Group in 2003. Over the years, Natalie has been at the forefront of product development, industry development and of course, the growth and leadership of Open Door as a leading provider of coaching and coach training.

Natalie is a champion of implementing coaching culture within organizations and her vision for Australian organizations is that coaching “becomes the way we do things around here”. She is an experienced coach and leader within the Australian coaching community who currently coaches executives, senior management and teams from Australia’s leading corporations, along with private business clients.

Natalie has developed and written the innovative coaching programs delivered by Open Door which were the first programs in Australia to achieve government accreditation. Her first book Bring Out Their Best – Inspiring a Coaching Culture in the Workplace (with the forward by Sir John Whitmore) is the leading guide to corporate coaching containing inspirational Australian business stories.

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Live Webinar February 22nd, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Note: Although the AMA is an REP  (REP 1294) this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Presence is the corporate “it” factor. It’s directly linked to your ability to get noticed, forge trusting relationships, and get others on board with your agenda. In increasingly distributed companies, managers are often left alone to translate a vision and galvanize cross-functional teams.

Influence is the primary means for getting work done.

The Wall Street Journal recently weighed in, stating that “presence plays an increasingly important role as companies grapple with a weak recovery and fewer management layers.”

Presence is an amorphous concept with a defined impact in our success. We’re experts at reading others’ presence, but it’s remarkably hard to understand and shape our own without the right approach.

The good news is that anyone can strengthen their presence in a way that’s authentic, natural, and influential whether they’re an introvert, extrovert, aspiring or seasoned leader.

Discover what skills are needed to inspire and motivate by focusing on the three core aspects of presence:

1. Intentional: Determine the type of presence you want and the values you want to convey, and how they match up with the way people currently perceive you.
2. Individual: Understand how to build relationships that foster trust, and that drive business, loyalty, and career success.
3. Inspirational: Learn what the master communicators do to inspire others, including using powerful language, motivating through change, and presenting to audiences effectively.

Presenter: Kristi Hedges (LinkedIn profile) is an executive coach, leadership development consultant, and author of The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others. Her proprietary presence coaching model has been utilized by clients spanning Fortune 500 corporations, global professional services firms, entrepreneurial businesses, national associations, and governments. She’s a leadership contributor to Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com, and a speaker for Vistage International and The Founder Institute. She writes about leadership atkristihedges.com and tweets @kristihedges.

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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Live Webinar – February 15th, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

The Devil is in the Execution!

In today’s competitive economic climate, organizations stand or fall by how well they deliver against the promises they make to stakeholders.

There are two likely causes of the failure to deliver on promises made:

1. either the strategy itself was fundamentally flawed, or…..
2. the process through which strategy gets disseminated and executed was ineffective.

In the majority of cases, it is this execution process that lies at the heart of the problem with the root causes of this being one of the following:

• Lack of alignment between top level corporate strategy and the initiatives which take place at a tactical level
• Management reviews are predominantly focused around lagging measures which measure outcomes, and not leading measures which predict what the outcomes will be
• Organizations are unable to accurately predict the impact that the successful completion of actions will have on the Key Performance Indicators, and ultimately, strategy.

The process of Hoshin Planning or goal deployment, using the powerful X-Matrix, is being implemented by a number of organizations to help address these root causes, however close to 90% of companies are using spreadsheets to manage this and subsequently fail to achieve their goals.

Join Paul Docherty, (LinkedIn profile) CEO of i-nexus, as he discusses the steps organizations can take to address the barriers to effective Hoshin Planning.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work

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 16th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hours 2 Category A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDUs
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

The agile methods don’t seem to support much in the way of preparation or planning—so teams simply dive-in and start iterating towards solutions to their business problems.

It’s a very common pattern.

In some contexts, this works just fine, for example, in smaller scale or simplistic projects.

• But what if your context is outside these areas?
• What if you need to determine a budget for your agile project?
• What if you have a distributed and larger scale project?
• What if you have no requirements and barely a clue as to what you need? What if you need an enterprise level architecture?

In these and many other real-world contexts, establishing a consistent and thoughtful baseline plan or view can be incredibly helpful. And it turns out…you can do that and STILL “be agile”.

In this session join agile practitioner Bob Galen (LinkedIn profile) as he shows you how to use Crystal’s Blitz Planning approach, User Story Mapping, and other more traditional end-to-end planning techniques to establish a “proper beginning” and define a “holistic map” for your agile projects.

This session is not only useful for agilists, but the session will help traditional project managers understand how they can bring crisp, lightweight planning to their non-agile projects as well.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• When and how to effectively charter (begin/start) agile projects.
• Learn various models for end-to-end planning and how to apply them within your agile projects without losing your ‘agility’.
• How to tie goal-setting and delivery measurement to project execution, feedback, and driving success.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personlized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Robert ‘Bob‘ Galen (LinkedIn profile) is the President and Principal Consultant of RGCG, L.L.C and author of SCRUM Product Ownership — Balancing Value From the Inside Out. Bob has held director, manager and contributor level positions in both software development and quality assurance organizations. He has over 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of software technology and product domains.

Click to register for End-to-End Agile Planning: Oxymoron or Powerful Release Planning Method

Live Webinar – February 16th, 2012 3:00 pm-4:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category B PDU – Free PDU
Presenter: Journyx Inc.

Strategic partnerships and alliances have existed as long as there have been businesses. They can be as simple as having a mentor to as complex as creating a joint venture. They operate internally between departments as well as externally.

Statistics show 60% fail but having one is critical to career and business success.

Handshake Strategyâ„¢ provides an effective process for finding, choosing, and managing the right type of alliance for your success.

Presenter: Jan Triplett, Ph.D. CEO, Business Success Center (BSC) The federal Small Business Administration (SBA) honored Jan and the BSC as one of three five-star national programs. She is the author of Thinking Big, Staying Small: Communication Practices of Small Organizations, and she has just released, Easy to Be Green: A Guide for Small Enterprises. She has been profiled in the Austin Business Journal and Austin Woman. She is a guest blogger for the Business Bank of Texas and maintains her own blog.

Click to register for Handshake Strategyâ„¢: How Strategic Alliances Can Grow Your Business