Live Webinar March 25th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

If I could only give one piece of advice to a new project manager or business analyst it would be to strive to understand what the real problem is before leaping into a solution requested by their business clients. – David Marsh

Join PMIs Government CoP in their first collaboration with the Requirements Management Community, as we learn from David Marsh, an expert in use case driven and agile development, in this webinar that will change the way you view the project requirements.

In this webinar, David’s objective is to guide the audience away from order-taking and towards becoming business-enablers on public sector projects.

David:

1. Argues that the consequences of failure for public sector software projects is higher than it is for private sector projects, especially in terms of visibility (and publicity)
2. Recounts some typical order-taking scenarios and explains their impacts
3. Reviews some proven techniques for root cause analysis (e.g., 5-whys and fishbone diagrams)
4. And then describes some of his own techniques for ensuring that business clients maximize the benefits they receive from technology implementation.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: David Marsh, David is a former military officer who has a proven track record of delivering successful solutions at several levels of government (Federal, Provincial/State, and Municipal) and in the technology, manufacturing, industries. David is an expert in use case-driven and agile development, and has been engaged on several occasions by Ivar Jacobson (inventor of the use case and co-inventor of the Unified Process) to help clients adopt agile use case practices.

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Live Webinar – March 26th, 2013 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presenter: Journyx Inc.

Project Management Offices have waxed and waned through the years, searching for a working business model. Many have failed and most that remain are in a constant state of having to justify their existence.

Your PMO can overcome distraction and really help your functional units perform better.

• What is the problem with traditional business models for PMOs?
• What can we do now to improve the mix?

Darrel will answer these questions and more!

Presenter: Darrel Raynor, (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director, Data Analysis & Results

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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 26th, 2013, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar March 26th, 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Most enterprises now intend to embark on big data-related initiatives, or are doing so already, however, very few have an articulated approach for doing so.

Big data initiatives are unique, not only in technology-related ways. This session will present the IT and business essentials of a big data strategy

Discussion Topics:

• How to ensure you are technically prepared for handling big data
• What the business should be doing to plan for leveraging big data
• Organizational considerations for a big data strategy

Presenter: Douglas Laney (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 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.’

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Live Webinar March 27th, 2013 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Help Your Teams Performance!

Competencies are vital to the success of individuals and teams. Individuals need to know what level of what competencies they need for the position they hold today and for potential future jobs. In addition, there are mixtures of roles and competencies that are just as important for a successful team.

It’s true that individuals must be successful with their individual goals, but as the sum is often greater than the whole, the entire team must work well together and there are an entirely different set of competencies necessary for that to occur.

This yields a number of questions:

• What are the competencies necessary for good management and teamwork?
• How do you blend individual and team competencies?
• What is the relative importance of individual versus team competencies?
• How do you measure team competencies?
• How do you improve team competencies?

Each of these questions and more are important when reviewing the subject of the competencies of high performing teams.

For this session HCI is looking at good and bad examples of successful and flawed teams, the methods and processes of measuring and improving team competencies, and how even a team of superstars can falter if not built on team competencies.

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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’

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Live Webinar March 22nd, 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)

The WBS 100% Rule

Creation of a complete WBS for a project can be accomplished when project teams understand and adhere to the WBS 100% rule.

Project teams often confuse the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with the Project Schedule or treat these different project deliverables as interchangeable project elements. The WBS is a pre-requisite project deliverable defining tangible project deliverables while the project schedule depicts how these deliverables will be produced.

The 100% rule ensures that all deliverable components are included in the WBS and helps the project team decompose the WBS into manageable work packets. The work packets represent the level of clarity in the WBS that will allow for a natural transition from tangible deliverables to activities for producing these deliverables.

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Learn how to build a detail WBS that represents 100% of the work to be produced and expand the WBS deliverables into project schedule activities.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The use of the WBS 100% rule
• Techniques for numbering the WBS components to clearly depict relationship of each WBS component to its parent component
• Using the WBS as a blueprint that can be easily tailored to represent smaller project efforts and drive our project schedule activities.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar March 21, 2013 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Most companies successfully adopting first generation Agile methods run into a common set of challenges when trying to go beyond a few teams. Systems thinking — the process of understanding how things influence one another within a larger whole – can provide insights on overcoming these challenges

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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