Live Webinar March 22nd,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

Many BA’s avoid getting Project Management training, because they are concerned that they will then be forced to move into that role. BA and PM are parallel professions, but they also have many overlaps. This look at the first knowledge area in the BABOK will show you how important planning and estimating skills are for a BA.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools.

Click to register for Planning for Project Success by Planning the Requirements Effort

Live Webinar – March 22nd 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 teams constantly develop small incremental features by adding, modifying, refactoring, and re-designing existing software, many challenges emerges with each and every iteration. Among these challenges is ensuring previously delivered functionality is still correct and newly created functionality works as expected within a single iteration.

Test Driven Development (TDD) can help address issues with greater safety and confidence while supporting the team to create better quality software and simpler designs. TDD is built on a set of values that testing and quality are paramount, change is expected and both are constantly embraced.

In this web seminar, we will discuss these benefits, the TDD Cycle, how to get started and challenges facing teams adopting TDD.

Click to register for Test Driven Development

Live Webinar March 21st 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.

This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions project managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Predicting Project Outcomes

Live Webinar March 21st, 2012, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

Strategic thinking is an essential lens through which leaders at all levels evaluate and prioritize the daily work of the organization.

Have you recently been reminded to “think more strategically”?

For today’s managers and leaders, strategy is no longer a once-a-year output from the annual business planning process.

You will learn how to:

• Think more strategically about your work and its value to your organization
• Assess your ability to think strategically in everyday work situations
• Determine where to focus your strategy to gain maximum benefit for yourself and your organization

Presenter: Rich Rosier is Senior Vice President and Principal Consultant at Linkage. He works with organizations to help them define and implement a winning strategy and maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their leadership development, coaching, organization development, and growth and innovation investments.

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 Strategic Thinking: An Everyday Guide to Getting Results

Live Webinar March 21st, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Setting expectations, directing, delegating, enforcing policy

If you’ve been doing the same thing and not getting anywhere, listen to this webcast for new techniques that tap into the human psyche. Because understanding the root reasons of human behavior allows you to make different choices about how you manage and what kind of results you get.

Thought, Behavior, Personality — all three affect everything from having a preference for a particular employee to how often you voice your opinions in a group.

In this webcast, Dr. Boyce will give you a quick overview of three major schools of psychology—behavioral, cognitive and social — and give you insights into each one. So you can heighten your self-awareness and increase your effectiveness as a manager.

What You Will Learn:

• Behavioral Psychology: What truly motivates human behavior— including four universal needs that are at the core of all human decisions
• Cognitive Psychology: Why people perceive different things from the same physical reality and how to get everyone on the right page
• Social Psychology: Individual performance within the group and how to use this to your advantage
• How to use psychology to be a better motivator

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Presenter: Thomas E. (Ted) Boyce (LinkedIn profile) has authored dozens of publications, including invitedarticles for Psychology Builds a Healthy World (APA Press), Motivated magazine, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. He has 17 years of experience applying psychology to address business problems.

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 Mind Matters! Getting Results Through Psychology

Live Webinar March 21st, 2011 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour live webinar + Q&A Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

• Can the Smart Grid Maturity Model (SGMM) help utilities develop a perspective on the future smart grid?
• Can that future vision represent the diverse range of concerns from multiple utilities?

In this webinar, you’ll learn about how the California Energy Commission (CEC) is using the SGMM to answer these questions.

For nearly two decades, the Software Engineering Institute has been at the forefront of innovation in software architecture technologies.

The CEC, in partnership with an SEI-Certified SGMM Navigator, is using the SGMM to develop its roadmap to the 2020 smart grid for California’s publicly owned utilities. The 13 participating utilities offer a diverse set of perspectives, from the emerging visions of Alameda Municipal Power and the City of Palo Alto Utilities to the advanced visions of Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and Glendale Water and Power.

The CEC selected SAIC (one of the initial licensees for the SGMM Navigation process) for this project, based in part on its proposed use of the SGMM to evaluate the utilities’ existing activities and future aspirations.

After members of the utility participate in the SGMM Compass survey, SAIC can use the results to develop comprehensive assessments of current-state activities. The follow-up aspirations workshops will provide a view of the future-state visions. To bridge the gap between current state and aspirations, SAIC is developing implementation roadmaps driven by the actions and obstacles identified in the aspirations exercise. SAIC’s Steve Rupp, (LinkedIn profile) one of the first SEI-Certified SGMM Navigators, leads the project and is your presenter for this hour-long webinar.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 California Energy Commission and SGMM Partners for a Future Vision of Smart Grid