Live Webinar March 15th, 2013 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)

Project teams must be able to understand and document the full scope of their project effort and communicate all of the project deliverables that must be built. Without this complete picture of the project outcomes, the risk of project failure increases due to higher probability that requirements and related solutions will missed from the project effort.

Establishing the project’s Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) provides the most comprehensive baseline of expected project deliverables. Building the WBS is not a one time project activity. The WBS is expanded using progressive elaboration to incorporate growing knowledge of the project as the project scope is being defined.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn about:

• Factors that influence the content of the WBS
• Updating the WBS to reflect clarifications provided by Objectives, Context Diagram, Constraints, CSFs and Project Assumptions
• Ensuring the WBS accurately reflects only those deliverables that are in scope for the project

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join them for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn about how the Project Scope Statement provides valuable knowledge to build and adjust the WBS ensuring it represents the full scope of the project effort.

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Live Webinar March 14th, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU Free Course ID: MDW1267

Leadership Is About Change And Moving Forward

Successful project managers are effective communicators that know when and how to be a leader. Each person, organization, and project requires a different style and approach to leadership.

This webinar will introduce the three fundamental building blocks of leadership; who, what, and how. You will examine who is the leader and who needs to lead, what leadership is needed for the project (taking into consideration organizational, cultural, and project needs) and how you can use leadership models, skills, and techniques to build your leadership platform.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the three fundamental building blocks of leaders and leadership
• Determine who needs to lead and what does the perfect leader look like for a project
• Examine organizational cultural dimensions and the impact on leading your projects
• Explore several leadership models and where they work best

About the Presenter:

Star Dargin (LinkedIn profile), PCC, CPCC, instructor and consultant for Corporate Education Group, is founder of Star Leadership, a management consulting firm that offers coaching, training, and consulting services for businesses.

Star held leadership positions at several high-tech companies, in roles such as Director of Engineering, Director of Project Managers, and International Program Manager; additionally, Star is an adjunct professor at Boston University where she teaches graduate level courses on Leadership and Communication for Project Managers.

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Live Webinar March 13th 2013, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems. Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

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Recorded Version Information:

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Live Webinar March 13th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Note: Modern Analyst advises that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** and may be listed as a Category A under their parent company More information about category will be presented at the session.

This presentation describes numerous techniques for writing software functional requirements, focused on the core objective of clear and effective communication. You’ll see multiple styles of writing functional requirements and you’ll learn many vague “weak words” to avoid.

The presentation describes several common types of requirements ambiguity and shows how to rewrite ambiguous requirements to make them clearer. We’ll also explore the common issue of having solution ideas or design constraints embedded in requirements.

Applying the techniques described in this presentation will help your requirements specifications speak more clearly to their various audiences.

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

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop 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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Live Webinar – March 14th, 2012 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) 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

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PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project 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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