Top 10 Tips for Writing a Business Case

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) Course No: BA0033
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About This Webinar
In the early phases of an initiative, before there is a project, the concepts phase requires justification. This justification is accomplished through the creation of a business case. This course provides an overview of the Business Case. As an attendee you will get the top ten tips that will make your business case outstanding. These tips will be used to get senior management approval to proceed with the project.

Benefits
As a participant, you will learn when to develop a business case. You will also learn the major components of a business case and how to make your business case clear and interesting to ensure the approval. You will learn the top ten tips that are secrets to developing a compelling business case.

What You Will Learn
In this one-hour session, you will learn:

• Definition of Business Case
• How to explain the Business Case Process
• How to define the Initial Justification to Build Business Case
• What to include in a Business Case
• Techniques on How to Get Your Business Case Approved

George Bridges (PMP) is a Senior Consultant and trainer for IIL. George specializes in project management, risk management, information technology, and business process analysis. With more than 30 years of experience, George has successfully applied project management, systems research, and operations research for major corporations and non-profit organizations. George is Past President of the PMI Great Lakes Chapter.

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A Methodical Approach to Costs & Benefits
In The Business Case

Online Webinar
Global Knowledge (REP 1999) Activity Number WBNR0048
Duration: 15 minutes 0.25 PDU / 0.25 CDU Credits: 0.25 PDU Category A – Free PDU

A Business Case is an important tool for persuading management to approve your projects. The business case document provides the justification for the project and outline the solutions they will deliver based upon the business needs.

This seminar focuses on two sections of the business case: costs and benefits analysis and the cash flow financial metrics. Learn a methodical approach to these sections to enhance the effectiveness of your next business case.

Seminar Highlights

• The Business Case
• Common Mistakes
• The Solution
• Examining Costs
• Examining Benefits
• The Cash Flow Statement
• Full vs. Incremental Cash Flows
• The Best Chances for Success

Jim Swanson, PMP delivers consulting, coaching, instruction, mentoring training and course development specializing in project management and business analysis. Jim is an instructor and consultant for Global Knowledge and is a Certified Project Manager and Managing Principal for JR Swanson Project Services.

Prior to teachingfor Global Knowledge, Jim worked 25 years for Hewlett-Packard as a business systems developer, technical product support, and senior project manager.Prior to HP, Jim worked as a Geologist for the US Geological Survey.

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Live Webinar July 10th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

As the pace of change accelerates around our businesses, we’re under incredible pressure to connect just in time with the people and ideas we need to thrive, even when we don’t know who they are or where they might be.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn:

• Stories of serendipity in action
• 8 key elements of planned serendipity
• How to introduce serendipity into your business
• And more…

Speaker: Lane Becker, (LinkedIn profile) Author of Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business

Discover how the world’s most admired businesses have applied serendipity to guarantee success in their businesses, over and over again.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope

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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Online Webinar (originally aired on June 26, 2012)
Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Microsoft SharePoint is the perfect solution for collaborative project management.

Out of the box, SharePoint 2010 has a feature set that can be used to mimic the project management structure required for projects of various types and sizes in any organization. It even has the ability to sync with Microsoft Project. However, for many organizations that don’t know SharePoint very well, it can be challenging trying to manage one or more projects using the base platform.

Presenter: Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile)CEO Brightwork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control 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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Online Webinar (original broadcast June 22 2011)
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

If you haven’t discovered the concept of Servant Leadership you are not alone. The modern servant leadership movement was launched by Robert K. Greenleaf in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader”, and although this management style has been around for years the concepts and underlying philosophies were often practiced in ‘Faith Based’ businesses and organizations. But this is now changing ……

Companies that have adopted the principles of Servant Leadership (sometimes known as the New Golden Rule). Companies are quickly discovering that the philosophies, if honestly adopted:

• Create intensely positive supportive relationships,
• Fiercely loyal employee employer relationships,
• Intensified productivity,
• Sustainable growth and
• Higher profits.

Join Ken and Colleen for this informative session on a new way to create success in your organization!

Discover a Different Way to Create Success

Servant leadership requires acknowledging people, backing people up and treating people as business partners—in short, “leading with love.” It is not soft management; it’s smart management.

When leaders focus on positive relationships in addition to profits, they end up with an abundance of both.

Join business guru Ken Blanchard and Southwest Airlines president emeritus Colleen Barrett as they explore the keys to creating an organizational culture that achieves and sustains high performance.

During this program you’ll hear about the leadership secrets that have propelled Southwest Airlines and other great companies to unparalleled success.

What You Will Learn:

Drawing from their new book, Lead with LUV, these two legendary leaders will explain what this all means, why it works and how it can help you achieve unprecedented business performance:

• What “leading with love” looks like within an organizational context
• How to build the right vision and help your people succeed in the long term

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

The Presenters:
Ken Blanchard (@kenblanchard) is the cofounder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm.He also hosts a twitter account on leadership topics – The Blanchard LeaderChat – @LeaderChat.

He is a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, and a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees. He is cofounder of the Center for FaithWalk Leadership, which is dedicated to helping leaders walk their talk in the marketplace. His books include The One Minute Manager® , coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on best-seller lists, to Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service® also Gung Ho!® Turn On the People in Any Organization, and Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships!

Colleen Barrett is president emeritus of Southwest Airlines Company.She was a member of the company’s Executive Planning Committee andchaired numerous special teams, task forces, and committees relating to internal and external Southwest customers. She now serves on theBoard of Trusteesof theKen Blanchard College of Business at Grand Canyon University, the Becker College Board of Trustees, and the JC Penney Company, board of Directors.Barret is coauthor of Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success (192 pages Earn up to 7 PDUs)

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Servant Leadership: Creating Culture and Sustaining Performance

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(Professional Development Units)
by Reading these great Books

The Documentation details above for Category C PDUs apply.

• Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert K. Greenleaf the developer of the Servant Leader Concept – 370 Pages Earn up to 15 PDUs
• Servant Leader by Ken Blanchard – 128 Pages Earn up to 5 PDUs
• The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader by James C. Hunter – 224 Pages Earn up to 9 PDUs
• The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership by James C. Hunter – 187 Pages Earn up to 7 PDUs
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Online Webinar – Recorded Mar 30 2011
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999 Activity #: WBNR0053 )
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

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I was very impressed with Alan’s session. If you are looking for a comprehensive session on how agile methods could work for your project this is the session to watch! – EdmontonPM

Learn what makes agile … agile :

1. Learning and Adaptation
2. Collaboration
3. Customer Focus
4. Small Self Directing Teams
5. Lean Principles
6. Technical Excellence
7. Progressive Requirements Elaboration
8. Iterative Planning and Adaption

Chaotic business environments seem to be the new normal. With economic pressures and growing customer demands and expectations, the idea that you can plan a months-long (or years-long) project and then just execute it seems quaint.

Reality impinges on our best-laid plans.

Traditional methods are not tolerant of the unpredictability with which we now live. They assume stability, and expend great effort trying to avoid or minimize the effects of change. When change cannot be avoided, traditional approaches incur stiff penalties in the form of rework and realignment. What we need is a methodology that will allow us to embrace change so we can adapt to the surprises that are now so much a part of business.

The Agile methods provide just the flexibility that we need. They are designed to allow for changes and to minimize the impact when change happens. Agility is no longer a fringe approach to projects. It is becoming “mainstream” precisely because it helps us to achieve project success in spite of the chaos around us.

Alan will look at how the Agile methods can help us to cope with:

• Morphing business needs
• Shifting requirement priorities
• Rearranged project priorities
• Resource reallocation
• Time-line compression

Presenter : Alan S. Koch, PMP, CSM, ITIL (LinkedIn profile) Alan has more than 30 years IT experience, Author of Agile Software Development Evaluating the Methods for Your Organization, Alan’s education and training are extensive and he is affiliated with numerous industry-leading organizations, including the Agile and Scrum Alliances.

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Live Webinar – July 5th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hr 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for X PDU / CDU
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

NOTE: If you purchase an all access pass you will have access to the all the sessions in the series as well as hundreds of other opportunities.

How many times have we heard “but the solution that was delivered does not meet our business need”.

Despite new techniques and technologies this one sentence continues to prevail across many corporate landscapes – it has been used by business stakeholders and end users since IT first began developing products and projects.

1. Wanted – an approach to identify, capture and incorporate business requirements into every IT project/application.
2. Solution – a Software Development Methodology.

This webinar provides attendees with an illustration of a Software Development Methodology. It establishes a generic context and definition for Software Development Methodology, identifies and explains the various phases of a Software Development Methodology, illustrates specific deliverables/artifacts/work products that are created throughout a Software Development Methodology, and describes the correlation and dynamics between a Software Development Methodology and a Software Testing Methodology.

This session relies and compounds on the content provided and delivered in the – IT Methodology (Context & Overview) Webinar. (Part 1 of 4) Like all QAIassist IT Methodology webinars, this session has been designed to provide attendees a gently flowing (graphics and text) presentation that will provide them a basis of Software Development Methodology knowledge they can reference and utilize within their own environment.

Upon its conclusion, attendees will have a greater general understanding of Software Development Methodology, and a foundation they can utilize to further their Software Development Methodology knowledge and expertise.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Establish a context and general overview of Software Development Methodology
• Provide descriptions and samples of specific deliverables/artifacts/ work products applicable to a Software Development Methodology
• Illustrate the dependencies and dynamics between a Software Development Methodology and a Software Testing Methodology

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• QAIassist Context Diagram
• QAIassist Deliverable Descriptions
• QAIassist Deliverable Descriptions

Presenter: Cameron Watson is the President of QAIassist (LinkedIn profile), is recognized as an expert in IT methodologies and how they can be leveraged within small and mid-sized organizations – his 25 years of experience ranges from programming and analysis, project management and consulting, education director to a number of senior management positions guiding corporate PMO’s.

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