Live Webinar June 26th, 2012 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)
Presented by: Ellen Gottesdiener

Problems that result from an unclear, ambiguous, or inaccurate understanding of product scope can permeate and threaten your entire project. This is known as “scope creep”—the unrestrained expansion of requirements as the project proceeds.

Scope creep is often cited as a cause of excess costs, late delivery, and dissatisfied customers.

Yet discovering requirements is about gaining an ever‐growing understanding of them. So isn’t scope creep to be expected? Can—and should—you identify and limit the scope of a product’s requirements?

Join Ellen Gottesdiener, author, facilitator, practitioner, and trainer, as she shares tools and techniques for efficiently and effectively identifying and managing product scope. Learn how you can provide real value to your projects by reducing the risks of scope creep while establishing clear project focus.

NOTE: There will be EBG Giveaways during the live webinar

Three winners will receive a book of Ellen’s via a drawing from live attendees. The books to be given away are:

1. Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysisby Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman (EBG Consulting, Inc., 2012)
2. The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Teams Develop and Manage Requirements (GOAL/QPC, 2005)
3. Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs(Addison‐Wesley, 2002)

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

Presenter: Ellen Gottesdiener, (LinkedIn profile @ellengott), is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. As founder of is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, she works with global clients and speaks at numerous numerous industry conferences. Ellen has authored of two acclaimed books: Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM. – Ellen has recently co-authored (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices,Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis.

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Live Webinar June 26th, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1280
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Micromanaging a project team is akin to managing each task or deliverable with extreme control.

This suffocating management style is likely to put a damper on creativity and inhibit individual growth. There are many reasons why this happens, but in general, it is not a healthy situation for the project manager, employee or team.

As a program manager, you want to help project managers improve their performance without stepping on their toes or stepping into their projects. As a project manager, you are keen on making the project a success while balancing the needs of the team, the sponsors, and the organization as a whole.

So, what should you be focused on while others are tackling the work of the project?

Learning objectives include:

• Identify at least 3 behaviors that look like micro managing
• Review 7 specific tips that a project manager can use to reduce the need for excessive control
• Share some ideas to help combat a micro manager

In this webinar, you will learn how to take the basic concepts for how not to micro manage and apply it to a project manager’s world.

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Live Webinar June 26th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Managing global software and IT projects on an industry scale has rapidly become a key competence for successful engineers and managers.

Challenges vary, be it distributed teams and collaboration, optimizing outsourcing and offshoring capacities, and supplier management. The vast majority of global activities do not deliver to targets and half fail. The diversity of cultures, suppliers and products require dedicated techniques, tools, and practices to overcome challenges.

This webinar with Dr. Christof Ebert (LinkedIn profile) summarizes experiences and guidance from industry in a way to help knowledge and technology transfer. It looks to processes and approaches for successfully handling global software development and outsourcing and offers many practical hints and concrete explanations to make GSE a success.

Session attendees can raise specific questions from industry practice or academic research to get first-hand insight into GSE state of practice as well as new thoughts and trends that will shape the future.

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Live Webinar – June 26th 2013, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU/CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

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Henry Ford said:
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”

He might have been thinking about supplier management when he said it.

We would all like to think that each of our suppliers treat us like the most important customer they ever had. The reality is often markedly different. ‘Do they even know we exist?’ might be closer to your thoughts.

Join this webinar, cross over to the dark side and learn to think like a supplier.

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Live Webinar June 27th, 2013, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar June 27th, 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Mobile devices are altering how employees communicate and collaborate. The old workhorse — the desktop PC — is no longer the center of the information worker universe.

Consequently, IT must develop a framework for assessing how and when employees should use tablets and smartphones to get their work done more efficiently, and when they should still use traditional desktops and laptops.

Discussion Topics:

• How the rise of the “composite device” is altering people’s ways of working
• The suitability of mobile devices: for communication, collaboration, content management, and social
• How the “device fitness to task” framework can help IT prioritize mobility initiatives for information workers

Presenter: GuyCreese, (LinkedIn profile) Research VP

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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