Live Webinar – December 6th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.37 USD Fee

Many individuals and organizations, find the difference between Project and Program Management confusing.

At this upcoming webinar, Daniel will discuss the difference between Projects and Programs, and based on those differences, we’ll show how to address and support the complexity of a program in few easy steps.

MPUG will provide examples and tips from successful EPM implementations in large enterprises using processes, tools and reports.

Presenter: Daniel Zitter (LinkedIn profile) is a Director at Matan Consulting Group, serving as Senior Project Manager with over 12 years of experience in managing multidisciplinary projects. A certified PMP, Daniel specializes in assisting organizations by providing them with tools and better program and project management methodologies, to enhance their business performance.

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Live Webinar December 7th 2012, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A $15 USD
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Many project teams lack a consistent method of ensuring their business requirements document which identifies the project What’s” is complete before delving into detail design activities, associated with the project solution. Use Cases and User Interfaces should be developed by the business stakeholders prior to finalizing their requirements document.

Both these deliverables are transitional deliverables between defining project What’s and How’s. They provide an alternate way for stakeholders to look at project needs and gain insight into unclear requirements and missing requirements as well as head off potential scope creep.

Learn techniques for expanding business requirements with Use Cases and User Interfaces. Participants learn how to describe intended end user interaction with the system being modified to clarify business needs. They also learn how to describe high level requirements associated with entering, modifying and accessing information in the system being developed.

In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn about concepts for:

• Defining scenarios which depict how the end users intend to use the project solution
• Conducting business driven collaborative Use Case activities identifying actors and their requests, system interactions and normal “happy path” and exception path processing
• Drill down business requirements into User Interfaces to finalize types of information associated with the business needs
• Generating conceptual graphical Screen Mockups to clarify user interfaces

For more info contact: Carly Burek at 972.786.0900 or carly.burek@solutionscubegroup.com

Earn 1 Category A PDU by attending this Webinar.

Click to purchase Taking Requirements to the Next Level Series:Building Use Cases and Defining User Interfaces

Live Webinar December 6th, 2012 – 9:30 am – 11:00 am EST or
Live Webinar December 6th, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm am EST
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

This is a repeat presentation of one of their most popular webinars.

If you missed it the first time, you can catch it now, and hear about how test estimation is done, using techniques that work in both traditional and Agile lifecycles.

• How many testers do we need?
• How many test cases do we need?
• How many bugs will testing find?
• How long will testing take?

Those are good questions, but those questions are often hard to answer.

In this webinar, drawn from three decades of industry experience and materials in his best-selling book Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing, Rex will discuss fundamental techniques for test estimation.

Join in the discussion after the initial presentation, and ask Rex about the challenges you face with test estimation.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 9:30 am – 11:00 am EDT presentation of Test Estimation

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of Test Estimation

Live Webinar – December 6th, 2012 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) initiatives are expected to provide significant benefit to multiple roles within an organization.

Intuitively, most staff can understand the potential value in the organization, process and technology changes involved with a PPM initiative. However, the lack of change management practices through a PPM initiative’s implementation is one of the most common reasons for their failure. Symptoms of this issue can include poor executive commitment, resistance or political pressure from functional management and compliance issues with project teams.

Eclipse will review common misconceptions about PPM initiative implementations, provide some guiding principles for successful change and detail the steps and key communication messages necessary to gain buy-in from executive and functional management as well as from project teams.

This webinar will also provide tips that can be incorporated into the initiation and planning of your PPM initiative to increase your odds of success.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Management Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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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