Live Webinar October 12, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by CollabNet
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU Free

Building and maintaining a Product Backlog can be a time-consuming effort. Though the Product Owner has final say in the prioritization, a good product backlog is a result of a combined effort of the Product Owner, Scrum team, ScrumMaster and stakeholders.

Join Angela Druckman (LinkedIn profile), author of the book 30 Days to Better Agile, as she provides strategies and techniques for creating an effective backlog. Angela will outline how write good backlog items, how to estimate them accurately and how to manage the backlog as it grows and matures over time.

This webinar is an indispensable tool for anyone looking to improve their effectiveness—and that of their agile teams—in delivering business value.

Learn more about Angela: Angela’s Bio | Angela’s Blog Posts on Collabnet

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope

Click to register for Building the Product Backlog – Managing It As IT Grows

Live Webinar – October 11th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Knowing the right project management approach and even having stellar influencing skills is really not enough for project success.

We’ve noticed that people really struggle with the “Suduko”-like experience of creating Project Schedules.

Join us to learn to:

• Build a schedule once, and adapt it over and over
• Apply a problem solving methodology to reusable task discovery
• Use Excel to ripple dates automatically

About Lou Russell:

Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou and her staff deliver learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand. She focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 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’

Click to register for Creating a Reusable eLearning Project Plan

Live Webinar – October 10th, 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

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process.

More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.

This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

Click to register for 5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

Live Webinar – October 10th 2012, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Microsoft’s BI solution is :

1. part SharePoint
2. part MS Office
3. with SQL Server underpinning it.

In this one hour webinar, guest speaker Andrew Fryer (LinkedIn profile), Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, will cover off the three top BI features in the latest version of SQL Server (SQL Server 2012), and how they fit together:

• Self Service Business Intelligence with the new BI semantic Model and Power View visualization tool
• Data Quality Services
• Master Data Services

Click to register for SQL Server 2012: A Business Intelligence Overview

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Live Webinar October 10th, 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 this webinar, David Broderick (LinkedIn profile), Director of Global Services Delivery for CAI, will share his experiences and insights on how to effectively lead IT teams dispersed across different countries.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a 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. Start to record your PDU – on Step 2 place the Rep # 2733 (in our listing) in the “Provider Number” area and the title of the webinar in the “Activity Name” and hit search. Select the code and continue to record the event. If you need further assistance contact us at Hello at pduOTD.com

Click to register for How to Effectively Lead a Global Team

Live Webinar – October 11th, 2012 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

Enabling IT To Better Support Changing Business Processes & Requirements

Organizations require the ability to adapt quickly to rapidly changing economic, technological and competitive landscapes, which means undergoing near-constant change to their business processes. And in today’s IT-enabled world, that usually involves making changes to the underlying business process applications.

The challenge is that the business need for process agility often comes into conflict with IT’s need for a well-controlled process development lifecycle.

1. What can IT and process professionals do to balance these conflicting demands?
2. Which technologies position IT people as change enablers, and how?

In this webinar, leading iBPMS solution provider PNMsoft shares a new approach that enables the rapid development and frequent change of high availability workflow applications while maintaining lifecycle governance.

Join this webinar to:

1. Explore how to enable collaboration between IT and Non-IT personnel while changing business process applications
2. Identify ways your organization can extend Microsoft platforms like SharePoint, Dynamics, CRM and Azure into an end-to-end Intelligent BPM Suite
3. Learn a structured and well-governed approach to evolutionary business process application development that balance IT requirements for control with the business need for agility using HotChangeâ„¢ technology
4. Examine how your IT organization can transform existing .Net (Microsoft) development skills into BPM expertise
5. Look at how you can quickly transform business process applications into mobile applications without rewriting them

Presenter: James Luxford is a BPM expert and involved in IT development and project management for over 20 years. Leading PNMsoft product management group James works closely with PNMsoft business partners and customers to capture requirements and set a PNMsoft product roadmap and is a accomplished speaker on BPM and has presented in various conferences including Gartner BPM Summit.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 10 – Communications 11 – Risk

• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.4 Verify Scope
• 5.5 Control Scope
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 11.1 Plan Risk Management

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 Changing Business Process Applications: 5 Ways to Transform IT’s Biggest Pain into its Biggest Achievement