Live Webinar May 2nd, 2013 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

The research is bleak
Between 65 – 80% of mergers fail to add value
To the acquiring company.

More often than not the reason is due to
A failure to integrate cultures.

Integration is more than indoctrination. RoundPegg, the leaders in cloud-based culture management, will identify the pitfalls most fall into along with practical tactics on how to avoid them.

Key takeaways include how to:

• Understand the true culture of the acquired company and where conflicts may exist
• Accelerate the integration process to start getting a return on the investment sooner
• Tackle the first hundred days effectively and efficiently
• Measure the success of a cultural integration

Presented by: Natalie Baumgartner, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Psychologist, RoundPegg

PDU Category C documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 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 When Cultures Clash: Integrating Acquired Cultures

Virtual Training May 15-23, 2013 – Recordings with Gold Pass
Duration: 10 Hours Credits: 10 PDU Category B PDUs
Fees: $27.00 CDN Live Listening ONLY – $87.00 CDN Gold Pass
Hosted by: Gil Broza, Principal Agile Mentor & Founder at 3PVantage (Gil Broza LinkedIn profile @gilbroza)

Win A GOLD PASS!

If you would love to hear these great agile speakers, receive the recordings, the transcripts and so much more – we are giving away a Gold pass to the Individuals & Interactions Agile Webcast Conference.

To win simply Click to send us an email with your name and contact information and tell us why you would love to attend the conference and receive the recordings. 🙂

Contest Closes:
May 10th at Midnight MDT. 1 entry per person please.

Note: It’s a great value! 10 Cat B’s & with the $87.oo CAD registration fee you will receive the recordings and transcripts of all of the presentations. This event features 11 Great industry experts and renowned speakers.

People Over Process!

You have heard it a million times – but how many PMs get caught talking about their“resources“ when they refer to their team members? How do you stay focused on productivity?

• Do your people feel the joy of delivering value on your teams?
• Do your people takesmall, safe, feedback-rich steps — no matter the size of the project?
• Have you created astandardized environment or is collaboration encouraged?
• Do you want to “manage less, lead more“?

High performance teams require investment and you make that investment by being a collaborative leader and in the respect you show your teams.

This is an amazing opportunity to earn up to 10 Category B PDUs and get a great understanding of how agile techniques focus on the people with an understanding that where productivity is concerned – Human conduct trumps “Best Practices“

The lineup for this event includes:

• Rick Ross (LinkedIn profile, @RickRoss10)
  • People are not “resources”
• Johanna Rothman (LinkedIn profile, @JohannaRothman)
  • Focus keeps you going
• Ellen Gottesdiener (LinkedIn profile, @ellengott) & Mary Gorman (LinkedIn profile, @mbgorman)
  • Nurture the joy of delivering value
• Ken Collier (LinkedIn profile, @theagilist)
  • Always take small, safe, feedback-rich steps
• Doc List (LinkedIn profile, @athought)
  • A standardized environment is for standard people
• Caren DesBrisay (LinkedIn profile)
  • Collaboration requires a suitable social environment
• Christoper Avery (LinkedIn profile, @ChristoperAver)
  • High performance teams require investment
• Eugene Kiel (LinkedIn profile)
  • Manage less, lead more
• David Spann (LinkedIn profile)
  • Being a collaborative Leader
• Bob Schatz (LinkedIn profile, @AgileInfusion)
  • Human conduct trumps “best practices”

Click to Register
For Individuals & Interactions Webcast
May 15 – 23, 2013

Live Webinar May 3rd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)
Presented by: Sudhir Kumar

The world has witnessed some of the worst affected natural hazards induced disasters in the recent past which includes Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, Haiti Earthquake of 2010 Cyclone Nargis of Myanmar od 2008, Sichuan China Earthquake of 2008 and Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004. In the aftermath of these disasters followed by relief and response, long-term Recovery and Reconstruction program were undertaken.

Challenges in Recovery and Reconstruction:

In most of the recovery and reconstruction programs, the Recovery Managers or Administrators faces a range of challenges, which includes financing recovery and reconstruction program, setting up appropriate institution for managing recovery, developing policy and plans, managing range of agencies involved, monitoring and evaluation and sustainability. The recovery managers have handled these challenges in past recovery with high to limited success and they offer a valuable lesson for future recovery managers.

Key considerations for Disaster Recovery Managers:

Based on learning’s from Disaster recovery programs undertaken in the aftermath of following key disasters such as the Great east Japan Earthquake, Wenchuan Earthquake China of 2008, Myanmar Cyclone of 2008, Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka Tsunami of 2004 and Gujarat India Earthquake of 2001, some key issues and approaches have been identified. These approaches can provide guidance to future recovery managers, who can use these tools with some adjustments to meet the ground needs. The lecture focuses on these approaches with cases from different recovery and reconstruction programs.

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

Presenter: Mr. Sudhir Kumar (LinkedIn profile) worked with Government of Gujarat, India and UNDP and currently working as Senior Project Manager with Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok. He was working with ADPC, national level on risk sensitive development planning and capacity building issues in Myanmar, Nepal, Viet Nam, Philippines, India, Maldives, etc. Involved in housing reconstruction and risk transfer issues, he is also involved in information management related regional project in Asia and Pacific.Prior to joining ADPC, he worked with UNDP and was involved in drafting DRR related policy documents and capacity building. He also worked with Government of Gujarat, India in the post-Gujarat earthquake R&R Program. He worked in Afghanistan with UNDP and GIZ to preparing disaster planning guideline and capacity building.

Click to register for Key Considerations for Disaster Recovery Managers

Live Webinar – May 1st, 2013 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

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, Sr. Consultant, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

Webinar ao Vivo em 13 de maio de 2013 – Das 20hs às 21hs
Duração: 1 hora – Créditos: 1 PDU Categoria B – PDU Grátis
Oferecido por: IIBA Capítulo Brasília
Valor: Grátis

Bem-vindo ao primeiro evento da série de Webinars em Português do IIBA. Esta é uma iniciativa inovadora do IIBA, trazida até você pelo IIBA Capítulo Brasília e com o apoio de palestrantes da comunidade de Análise de Negócios de todo o Brasil. A cada dois meses, um novo tema em português aberto ao público em geral. Aproveite!

De acordo com o BABOK® Guide, Workshop de Requisitos é uma das técnicas obrigatórias que todo analista de negócios eficaz precisa conhecer. Mas, por que essa técnica estruturada de captura de requisitos é tão importante? Como funciona? Em que momentos essa técnica deve ser utilizada? Nesse webinar iremos explorar como planejar e realizar um workshop de requisitos.

• O que é um Workshop de Requisitos?
• Quando é útil fazer?
• Quem deve participar?

Membros do IIBA podem fazer o download grátis do BABOK® em Portugues.

Amazon link – Um guia para o Corpo de Conhecimento de Análise de Negócios(TM) (Guia BABOK®) (Portuguese Edition)

PDU Categoria C – Detalhes:
Grupo de Processo: Execução
Área de conhecimento: 4- Integração 5 – Escopo

• 4.3 Orientar e gerenciar a execução do projeto
• 5.3 Definir o Escopo
• 5.4 Criar a EAP (Estrutura Analítica do Projeto) – WBS
• 5.5 Controlar o Escopo

Como Categoria C ‘Atividade de autoestudo’ lembre-se de documentar sua experiência de aprendizado e sua relação com gerenciamento de projetos para sua “pasta de pistas de auditoria de PDUs”.

Palestrante: Marcelo Neves (LinkedIn profile), é formado em ciência da computação. Trabalha com projetos de software e análise de negócios há mais de 18 anos. É coautor do livro Managing Business Analysts do IIBA e atualmente participa da escrita do novo Corpo de Conhecimento de Análise de Negócios – BABOK® Guide.

Traduzido por: Fabricio Moraes (LinkedIn Profile) Mestre em Engenharia de Software, com pesquisas em Análise de Negócios para Arquitetura Orientada a Serviços. Fabricio possui mais de 15 anos de experência em TI, sendo os últimos 10 anos como Analista de Negócios na área financeira, seguros e serviços de TI. Vive e trabalha em Toronto, Canada, atuando como Business Analyst para grandes bancos. Participou do projeto de tradução do BABOK para o Português.

Click aqui para registrar-se: Capturando requisitos através de Workshops de Requisitos

Live Webinar May 2, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Robbins Gioia (RG Performance Group)

As more companies recognize the value of business analysis and seek to hire business analysts (BAs), demand is at an all-time high across industries. Yet, increasingly, recruiters and the companies they represent are finding BA openings difficult to fill.

In this webinar, Bruce Murray, (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO of WANTED Analytics, offers participants the hard facts on recruiting for BAs in today’s tough market.

He joins Doug Jackson (LinkedIn profile), Senior Director from RG Performance Group as he outlines the skills companies are looking for and the steps they can take to increase the competency of their BAs.

During this interactive session, attendees will:

• Hear where BAs are in most demand nationwide and what skills companies are looking for
• Learn the hot BA job titles and what industries and departments are hiring
• Learn why skilled BAs are getting more difficult to find
• Discover a 5-step program to establish BA competency in any organization

PDU Category C documentation details (for this conference):

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop 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 High Demand for BAs: Is Your Organization Able to Fill the Skills Gap?