Live Webinar Febrauary 27th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category C but the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This may be a category A presentation presented by Diversified Business Communications (Rep #1811). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

Most analytics and business intelligence projects fail because the analytics delivered by IT don’t meet the requirements of the business users.

Agile analytics or agile BI has been viewed as a potential solution to this problem, but applying agile development methods to traditional analytics and business intelligence design cycles often means getting to the wrong result faster and does not result in an analytic solution that hits the requirements exactly.

Live, rapid prototyping used with visual tools takes iterative development to the extreme to uncover the real business requirements in dramatically shorter time by replacing distinct requirements gathering and development stages with a collaborative prototyping stage that involves business users, analysts, and developers and can reduce development time by 90% or more.

In this webinar you will learn about:

• A rapid prototyping technique for live requirements gathering that uncovers the core business requirements for analytics – even when the business users can’t articulate the requirements
• Data management technologies that speed up integration of data from disparate systems and allow you to develop analytics without data-limiting compromises
• How data discovery approaches can help you adapt to changes in business requirements when they occur
• The benefit of visual analytic development tools over traditional tools of convenience, such as Excel and Access
• Analytic tools that are designed for the analytic challenges of dealing with more data, more change, more speed, and more decision makers

Presenter: Mark Marinelli VP, (LinkedIn profile) Product Management Lavastorm Analytics

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Rapid Analytics: A Visual, Live Approach To Requirements Gathering & Business Analytic Development

Live Webinar – February 27th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Comms REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr X Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free PDU 1 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
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Development Peer Review Is Effective
It Ensures A Higher Quality Product

Unfortunately, peer reviews of requirements documents often aren’t held when intended and those that are performed don’t always go as intended. Reviewers take only a superficial look and they often miss major defects that lurk in the specification, leading to delivery of a poor quality product.

In this webinar, Karl Wiegers, a best-selling author and speaker on requirements management and software peer reviews, gives practical advice to make requirements peer reviews more effective and encourage prospective reviewers to participate.

Listen in as Karl shares:

• An overview of the peer review formality spectrum
• Major characteristics of reviews
• Five steps you can take to improve peer reviews of requirements

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

Click to register for 5 Steps to Better Requirements Peer Reviews

Live Webinar February 26th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The dramatic growth in mobile activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a wide variety of user behaviors.

Whether mobile users are communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting others to their location, purchasing goods or services, or reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself to customer and big data analytics.

Anindya Ghose will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from the use of apps, advertising, and commerce on mobile devices in the course of meeting some strategic goals and tactical issues.

A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the behavior of mobile users using big data analytics that combines statistical modeling with randomized experiments “in the wild”. This webinar will also focus on the differences between web and mobile analytics. Most people make the mistake of assuming mobile analytics is similar to web analytics, while they’re actually poles apart.

If we care about measurement using data, we have to care about how data was generated in the first place before doing any predictive, experimental or econometric analyses.

Key Takeaways from this session:

1. Understanding how the fragmented nature of the mobile ecosystem makes mobile analytics very different from web analytics.
2. Understanding audience behavior and advertising effectiveness on mobile devices

Presenter: Anindya Ghose (LinkedIn profile) is an Associate Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and the Robert L. & Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is the co-Director of the Center for Business Analytics at NYU Stern. He is an expert in quantifying the economic value from user-generated content in spaces mediated by social media; modeling and estimating the monetization of content through search engine advertising; modeling consumer behavior on mobile platforms; examining the drivers of crowd-funding, and measuring.

Click to register for The IIBA Business Analytics Series: Mobile Analytics: Apps, Advertising and Commerce in the New ‘Mobile’ Economy

Live Webinar – February 25th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

If only Borders or Barnes & Noble had the right intrapreneur in their organization, maybe Amazon’s rise wouldn’t have been so impactful to them. If only Yahoo incorporated the position of Intrapreneur into its culture maybe they would be neck and neck with Google instead of on the outside looking in.

In this web seminar we will provide a detailed look at Intrapreneurship. Basically smart organization will seek out individuals who like to invent, innovate and want to be on the front lines of changes. These individuals will work just like entrepreneurs but will work within the structure of a company, and they are Intrapreneurs.

An intrapreneur is someone who has an entrepreneurial streak in his or her DNA but choose to align his or her talents with an organization in place of creating his or her own. These professional are critical to the success of organizations as corporations have to continuously deal with the speed of disruption and disruptive technologies.

Learn what skills and talents are required:

• To be a successful intrapreneur
• Understand the techniques an intraprenuer can use to distill ideas and focus their efforts and …
• Learn how intraprenuers must maneuver to successfully incorporate the right idea into their organization

Presenter: Brad Lienhart, Fred Hathaway and Scott Baker

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 Intrapreneurship: The Key to Capturing Value out of Major Disruptions for Companies (Large and Small)

Live Webinar February 27th, 2013, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST or
Live Webinar February 28th, 2013, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

While the ultimate goal of change management is to enable individuals to successfully move from their own current state to their own future state, change management practitioners use a variety of tools at an organizational level to manage the change of large scale projects.

This webinar presents the five levers or tools that change management practitioners use to bring about individual change: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan and resistance management plan.

Learn what the best practices research tells us about each of the five levers available to change management practitioners.

Agenda:

1. Change management process overview
2. Communications plan
3. Sponsor roadmap
4. Coaching plan
5. Training plan
6. Resistance management plan
7. The end result

Click to register for the Feb 27th Presentation of Five Levers of Change Management

Click to register for the Feb 28th Presentation of Five Levers of Change Management

Live Webinar – February 26th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3;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) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

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’

Click to register for Project Portfolio Management Simplified