Live Webinar April 13th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Unrealistic project schedules lead to chaos and impact decision making.

Project schedules help us to know who needs to be available to work on a project during a period of time. Project schedules also help us to know when products, services, and results will be available for ‘production’ usage.

However, developing project schedules is often considered difficult and/or time consuming. As a result, teams tend to over plan a ‘perfect’ schedule or give up trying.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn why using agile estimating techniques can make developing a realistic schedule a fun team-building activity.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Recognize characteristics of a good project schedule
• Understand the importance of time contingency reserve and impacts from multitasking
• Discover recommended best practices for developing realistic schedules
• Learn how to build a REALISTIC schedule using PERT and planning poker
• Gather practical implementation tips for agile estimating to progressively elaborate realistic schedules

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar April 17th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category A – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA & Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

Note :This webinar is open to IIBA Members only.

The business world and maybe even our own Business Analysis profession itself do not always know what to do with us BAs.

• Are we business experts who can communicate with IT and thereby translate business needs into requirements for projects?
• Are we IT-savvy professionals who can talk enough in business terms to extract more than superficial needs and requirements of our business partners?
• Are we order-takers, destined to dutifully record what stakeholders say they want on projects, then take the blame when projects don’t deliver what they are supposed to?

Or …. is there another role:

• One in which business analysts collaborate with business and IT in a consultative way?
• One in which we act as trusted advisors to both business and IT stakeholders.
• One in which BAs are seen as management consultants, helping the business solve problems and contribute as valued partners, uniquely positioned to make the most impact.

This presentation explores the need for Business Analysts to work towards a management consultant role and how to get there. It walks through a repeatable framework that can help Business Analysts perform their role in a consultative way. One of the main facets of the presentation covers influencing without authority and how BAs can achieve more influence, and thereby be seen and accepted as management consultants. It ends by sharing a core set of consulting principles that help set internal consultants apart from ordinary workers.
Learning Objectives :

• Cite the 3 types of consultants in organizations.
• Describe a repeatable approach and principles that can be used to function as a management consultant in any organization.
• Apply an influencing “formula” to all Business Analysis work that will contribute to success as a management consultant.

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Live Webinar April 17th, 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)

Today’s global business environment, managing projects, suppliers and people is vastly more complex than it was just a few years ago. 7×24 access to email and phones helps with communications, but these tools are only as good as the plans and people operating them.

In addition, managing across cultures may be the most difficult challenge we will ever face in business. In this webinar, Rosemary Coates (LinkedIn profile) explains why every business professional should know how to deal with China and explores the rules for doing so.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

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BOOK – Leadership Topics
Earn Up to 7 Category C PDUs for Reading the Book
Leadership: Helping Others To Succeed– by Bernardo Tirado

This book will help you build on your strengths of:
Leadership, Collaboration, and Communication

Project Managers are in the relationship business – We need to be building our leadership skills to identify potential in the individuals we are trying to approach and have them start to take that leadership stand.

– Bernardo Tirado (LinkedIn profile, @thepmobox) author of Leadership: Helping Others To Succeed and The Project Box

The traditional “Command & Control” model for running projects and project teams is rapidly changing. Today’s economy, millennials entering the workforce and the empowerment of knowledge workers has changed the way in which teams operate. It is very hard to be in command and control when you may not be aware of critical customer knowledge that your people have.

Harvard Business Review found that those individuals that were adding the most value and had critical customer knowledge were not even known to the management team.

Leaders need to shed the command-and-control and consensus styles in favor of collaborative leadership according to Herminia Ibarra and Morten T. Hansen of HBR. (July 2011)

Large and small organizations are working towards more collaborative structures to leverage the hidden knowledge in the organization and are finding that when individuals succeed so does the organization.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WX7BNnYTf8&feature=player_embedded

Cisco CEO John Chambers explains how abandoning command-and-control leadership has enabled the company to innovate more quickly, using collaboration and teamwork.

Collaborative Leadership styles that support others
is what this book is all about!

The book features experts that have been chosen because of their unique ability to lead others toward excellence and success.

Containing 15 interviews with the leading experts in leadership styles this book will give you insights into the workings and results of leadership styles that will create an environment of success.

Find answers to intriguing questions including:

• What is mind work and how is it connected to success?
• What are the most significant skill sets that you think a leader must apply to influence the success of others?
• What is self-directedness and how does it lead the way to success?

Leadership: Helping Others To Succeed presents new ideas and ambitious ways to approach the challenge of being an example and leading others in the right direction.

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’

Earn up to 7 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs for reading Leadership: Helping Others To Succeed (This book is 232 pages.)

Live Webinar April 18th, 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.

Are Your Employees “All In?”

Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton teamed up with Towers Watson to analyze an unprecedented 300,000-person study revealing that high-performance organizations possess a distinctive kind of culture.

In these environments, employees believe in their leaders and the company’s mission, values, and goals.

Employees are not only engaged, but also enabled and energized, which leads to astonishing results—average annual operating revenues of 27.4 percent, three times higher than companies lacking such a positive culture.

Join us as Gostick and Elton explore a simple 7-step roadmap for creating a high-achieving culture: defining a burning platform, creating rigorous customer focus, making sure team members root for one another, and establishing clear accountability.

Attend and you’ll hear:

• Specific how-tos for inspiring belief in your mission and goals
• Fascinating stories depicting the power of culture in action
• Advice for getting your employees “all in”

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenters:

Adrian Gostick (LinkedIn profile) is a global thought leader and the author of several successful books on employee engagement. He is coauthor of the bestselling books The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up, The Invisible Employee: Using Carrots to See the Hidden Potential in Everyone, The Carrot Principle, The Integrity Advantage: How Taking the High Road Creates a Competitive Advantage in Business, and his latest book All In to be released April 3rd, 2012. As a workplace expert, Gostick has appeared on such television programs as NBC’s “Today Show” and CNN’s Larry King. He is also the coauthor of The Orange Revolution, which was a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Chester Elton (LinkedIn profile) is an in-demand speaker the world over and is coauthor of several successful leadership books, including The Carrot Principle and The Invisible Employee: Using Carrots to See the Hidden Potential in Everyone. His book, The 24-Carrot Manager: A Remarkable Story of How a Leader Can Unleash Human Potential has been called a “must read for modern-day managers” by Larry King of CNN. He is coauthor of The Orange Revolution.

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 the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief

Live Webinar – April 16th 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

There is a lot of confusion, misconceptions, and heated debates about the role of a business analyst in Agile projects.

Think of it this way: Agile projects, like all projects, have requirements—and requirements are not just “user stories.” There is a need to go from high-level stories to the detailed requirements needed to implement specific functionality.

In this web seminar, we will explore the role of a business analyst in that requirements-development process, and discover other ways a business analyst adds value to an Agile project throughout its life cycle.

Presenter: Kris Ashton (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for The Agile Business Analyst