Live Webinar April 5th,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

This webinar will cover the basics of earned value management. The terminology, formulas and data interpretation will be covered. People attending this webinar will understand the basics of earned value management and how it can be easily applied on projects.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

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Live Webinar April 5th, 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)

In this webinar with Master Agile practitioner Alan Shalloway, you will learn the 4 reasons that more than 2/3 of software development projects do not succeed and you will receive an unbiased view of which Agile methods can actually address your problems.

Allan Shalloway’s newest book Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design which is “truly essential”s for developers capturing business rules in stories.

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide. Alan is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide and author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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Live Webinar – April 5th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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 a business analyst, you are most likely highly organized, but without the planning tools and business analysis expectations; you may have the appearance of being disorganized in your plight to deliver effective requirements.

Most organizations have identified productivity as a strategic goal for all employees.

Business analysts can contribute by developing their plans and working toward the plans. We are challenged to deliver with speed, increased productivity & efficiency, and to help deliver a competitive advantage. Management will most likely press to complete the analysis phase quicker than possible. The plans will provide you the ammunition to discuss the options to meet aggressive timelines.

This web seminar will give you some hints and tips for producing key business analysis plans. If you are currently in the role of a business analyst, or interface with business analysts, then this webinar is for you.

Presenter: Billie Johnson, CBAP, (LinkedIn profile) has 20+ years of experience in the field of business analysis spanning financial, manufacturing, consulting, education, and government industries. As an early adopter of the IIBA® and CBAP® certification, she received her CBAP® certification in May 2007. She is currently a Business Analysis Instructor/Coach/Mentor and enjoys furthering the field of business analysis by touching those in the field with tools to face their unique problems/opportunities for organizations today.

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Live Webinar – April 5th 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Pillar Technology Group

I am passionate about Agile because I believe it solves many
(not all) of the problems we have been facing in IT for years.
– Daryl Kulak

Daryl will discuss:

• The Ideal Role of the PMO
• The Ideal Role of the Project Office
• The Current Reality – Agile really doesn’t address either at the Enterprise level
• Why Agile Practices Don’t Address PMO
• The PMO’s Role in Becoming Agile
• How the PMO can Benefit from agile Practices

Presenter: Daryl Kulak (LinkedIn profile) author of Use Cases: Requirements in Context (2nd Edition). After 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 also highlights numerous currently available tools, including use case name filters, the context matrix, user interface requirements, and Daryl’s own “hierarchy killer.”

Pillar Technology Group cares about the community. Individual training costs are “VERY Reasonable” and the proceeds of the training go to charity inspired by the “Agile Manifesto” and many other foundational works in the industry. 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.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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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