Live Webinar – October 3rd, 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

Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.

According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success.

Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher.

For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measurable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity

Learning Objectives:

1. The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives.
2. The Requirements Maturity Model.
3. A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities.

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Live Webinar September 28th, 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)

As organizations fund and initiate project after project, teams often work off of sketchy project charters, unsure of the focus or expected outcome of each effort.

Often times, teams feel that the list of prioritized projects is a result of random selection and are left wondering how the project fit into the overall corporate direction, if at all.

What’s lacking are the tools and techniques for clearly describing high level changes the organization wants to achieve and lower level department goals that will provide purpose and focus for the upcoming year.

Staff members who are engaged in establishing the future direction of the organization or individual departments within the organization, need to leverage Mission and Vision Statements and the organizational assessment to create Objectives and Goals.

In order for Objectives and Goals to be valuable and useful to everyone they must be SMART.

Ambiguity and broad vague statements of direction serve no other means than to add confusion for future project activities.

Attend this presentation to learn how to make your objectives and goals SMART.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Transform the Mission and Vision statements into measurable and realistic Objectives
• Understand how to document Goals specific for each Function of the Organization •Use techniques for ensuring that the new Goals are relevant and in scope for the Strategic Plan

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Live Webinar October 2nd, 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 2010, a jury verdict awarded Dillards 238 million dollars in the software fraud case against their supply chain software provider.

In this webinar, expert witness Don Shafer, who represented Dillards in the landmark case, will share with you what went wrong and will outline the critical lessons learned that can be applied to any software organization.

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Live Webinar September 27th, 2012, 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

According to Forrester Research, “It’s time for software development professionals to stop sitting on the fence where Agile is concerned.”

With so many failed efforts, IT managers and developer leaders are reluctant to try again and build an Agile development process
without an effective plan and processes.

In this webinar, Typemock’s Product Manager, Gil Zilberfeld, will provide a roadmap to building effective Agile Development Processes.

In this webinar Gil will explain:

1. How do I get started? Building an Agile Strategy
2. Scrum is not enough: XP isn’t just a version of Windows
3. Basic Communication & Feedback Practices
4. Three Times a Charm: Refactoring, Unit Tests, Continuous Integration
5. How Not to Fail: What Not To Do

Read Gil’s Blog “Geek Out of Water – Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings” It’s full of great ‘Agile stuff’, ‘People stuff’ & Other Cool Cool Stuff!

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Gil interviewed Lisa Crispin (LinkedIn profile, @lisacrispin ) a leading expert in the ‘Testing World’, Agile Testing Practitioner, Coach & co-author of “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”. Read Gil’s interview with Lisa “A Product Owners Perspective” on Lisa’s Blog or visit her website LisaCrispin.com.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

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PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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.’

Webinaire en direct Octobre 1st, 2012 – 10h00-11h00 EDT
Dur̩e: 1 heure Cr̩dits webinaire en direct: 1 PDU Cat̩gorie B РGratuit PDU
Parrainé par: APMG International

Ce Webinar a pour objectif de présenter l’intégration des approches agiles dans une gestion de projet organisationnelle à l’aide du référentiel Agile Project Management.

L’approche Agile PM fonctionne en synergie avec des approches plus classiques tel que PRINCE2, ISO9001, PMI et CMMI afin d’intégrer la production Agile avec les enjeux, les contraintes de l’organisation, les facteurs clés de réussite des projets et les objectifs définis dans un portefeuille de projets.

Les projets agiles permettent de concevoir et de développer des solutions qui tout en définissant dès le début d’un projet les critères de réussite ne précisent pas toutes les fonctionnalités.

Le référentiel Agile PM avec DSDM/Atern s’articule avec des approches agiles comme Scrum et XP. Il offre un cadre et des conseils pratiques pour la planification globale, la priorisation des versions, la gestion du contenu, la gestion du prototypage, le pilotage des tests, le management de la qualité et la maîtrise des risques propre à un projet agile.

Ce cadre comporte un ensemble de principes, un état d’esprit, des livrables à produire, des rôles à mettre en Å“uvre, ainsi qu’une logique et une dynamique de gouvernance à respecter.

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