Live Webinar April 11th, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)
Presented by: Sally Elatta

This webinar will cover the very important, yet commonly rushed, initial phases of an Agile (or non-Agile) Project.

We will walk through Idea Qualification and Project Initiation where we take the business idea through several activities to justify the project value, define clear measures for completion, determine alternative solutions and evaluate if the project is really worth proceeding with or not.

If you are looking for some new and fresh ideas to improve your existing practices then this workshop is for you!

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Sally Elatta, (LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun.

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Live Webinar April 11th, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1305
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Requirements are at the core of any project, and therefore, must be carefully managed.

In this webinar, you will learn the essential requirements management practices, including the requirements lifecycle from inception to implementation, requirements management planning, and requirements management tools.

In addition, you will learn how to write SMART requirements statements that are useful and actionable. Finally, we will contrast and compare the traditional requirements management approach with agile requirements management.

The learning objectives include:

• Understand the requirements management process
• Learn how to write good requirements
• Appreciate the value of a requirements management plan
• Contrast plan-driven and change-driven requirements management approaches

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. Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Live Webinar – April 10th, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Offered by: Roeder Consulting ( REP 2453)
Duration: 1 hour 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

We attempt to meet the challenge to ‘do more with less’. Professionals are constantly faced with the need to overcome the tyranny of the urgent.

Realize the value of critical thinking, and communications to persuade and manage expectations can support our leadership and our organizations in discussion with Kimi Hirotsu Ziemski.

Presenter: Kimi Hirotsu Ziemski, (LinkedIn profile) is a top leadership speaker specializing in communications and leadership in project management. Engaging and energetic she brings her audience with her on a journey to greater use of their leadership potential. Ms. Hirotsu Ziemski is also the author of “When Opposites Collide: Leadership Beyond Gender“. A consultant and facilitator serves the Board of Directors of the PMI SFBAC as her tenth year as an active PMI volunteer.

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Live Webinar – April 11th 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

During this 60-minute web seminar, you’ll learn about academia’s new one-two punch for project management: Microsoft Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

Whether it’s fundraising, facilities management or IT, these tools work together to unite previously disparate information sources and data points. Project managers gain visibility, have access to real-time actionable insights, and can coordinate teams from a central online location.

We’ll cover four key benefits for university project managers:

• Building and managing schedules
• Managing multiple projects and resources
• Creating teams and workflows to improve collaboration
• Integrating project data with business intelligence systems

Presenter: David Mack

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Live Webinar April 10th, 2012 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Brandon Hall Group & KMI Knowledge Mgmt Interactive
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Front line employees are the nameless heroes in today’s workforce. These employees interact with our clients, build our products, and offer our services day in and day out. Yet, this audience often receives less training and limited development opportunities. Working conditions can make training difficult, and operational demands require that training time has immediate bottom line impact.

Research shows that small changes on an organization’s front line can have a major impact on business – so the real question is how you leverage training to engage performance and improve business outcomes on the front lines.

Join Stacey Harris, (LinkedIn profile) VP of Research for Brandon Hall Group and Joel Copeland, COO for KMI as they share recent research on training and development that engages the front line workforce, and creates an atmosphere of genuine respect.

Event topics include:

• The business value of developing front line employees
• Changing front-line workforce: motivation and engagement factors
• Key practices in developing engaging content for front-line audiences
• The importance of creating a performance improvement environment over a training class
• Illustrative examples of engaging front line learning initiatives, with real business outcomes

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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’

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