Live Webinar – August 29th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr 1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – FREE for 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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We are constantly looking for the latest and greatest, the one thing that will give us a competitive edge in the market.

Recently, business analysts and project managers have identified Agile as our best bet for avoiding failed, costly or low-quality projects. Despite its promise, Agile is no guarantee against failed projects. The challenge comes when you try to expand the methodology out of the software development team.

Fortunately, technology evolves. We are currently experiencing a significant change in how we work, aided mainly by collaborative business solutions. Enterprise social tools let us work how we intuitively want to work and help us create deeper engagement across teams, keep everyone in sync and speed innovation.

Collaborative requirements and test management tools are great for:

• Capturing decisions
• Understanding goals
• Increasing visibility
• Recognizing impacts

Join this webinar and learn how to save time and work more efficiently. We’ll examine how the BA and their teams can apply social collaboration tools to the requirements lifecycle and build better products more efficiently and at lower cost.

Presenter: Derwyn Harris (LinkedIn profile) is Co-founder and Senior Solutions Architect at Jama Software. As an engineer, consultant and trainer, Derwyn has a uniquely agile personality, managing effectively in numerous environments. He is passionate about standards and about his customers, constantly seeking to understand development trends and how they impact his customers’ success.

Click to register for Improving Agile Methodology through Social Collaboration

Live Webinar August 28th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Financial Services Industry CoP (REP #S006)

In today’s world, Developers and Business Analysts move into Project Management role without any proper training and guidance.

Many projects are failing today because companies don’t have proper framework or controls in place to track project deliverables, issues, and risks etc.

In this presentation – processes, templates, and guidelines will be shared to help participants manage their project effectively.

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

Presenter: Amir Bashir (LinkedIn profile) has 13 years of Investment Banking experience contributing to projects as a Developer, Business Analyst, and Project Manager. Amir has vast experience in building and spearheading top-performing local and off-shore teams – providing guidance, training and support needed to ensure on-time and within-budget delivery of high-quality projects.

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Live Webinar – August 29th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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

• At their best, product managers run like elite athletes on a never-ending marathon.
• At their worst, product managers run like tired sheep forever running from wolves.

We’ll discuss some of the common frustrations that product managers experience and some solutions.

From chestnuts like “”nobody reads the 40 page documents I’m forced to write”” and “”I spend all my time with R&D and never leave the office”” to “”my boss keeps inadvertently overriding my decisions.””

The good news is you’re not alone and things can definitely get better.

What you’ll learn:

• Common problems to look out for
• Practical solutions within your reach
• Tips for putting out fires quickly
• Strategies for preventing fires in the first place

Presenter: Chris Barron

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

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 – August 27th, 2013 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?
COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire 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 August 27th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

“Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it”.

– Albert Einstein

In the HR industry, we can apply this same concept to benefit knowledge. The current way in which benefits are communicated within the industry is largely unsuccessful because employees are provided with an overwhelming amount of benefit information at orientation and are then expected to retain it.

Furthermore, when an employee has a benefit question, they have difficulty finding the information since they are directed to different vendors for each issue or concern. The result is that employees utilize inconsistent means of accessing their benefit package as a whole.

Benefit integration is a new tool that HR can use to help employees consistently find their benefit information. Benefit integration is the coordination of any combination of employee benefits that were previously separate, in a way that synergistically monitors, manages, and fosters cooperation between benefits.

With benefit integration, there is a single knowledge point where employees can access information on all of their benefits. Instead of communicating detailed information on each benefit, integration enables HR to provide an overview of available benefits and then simply communicate the knowledge point. In this case, employees do not have to retain information on all benefits, instead they only have to remember how to access the single knowledge point and then all of their benefit information is at their fingertips.

Integration is a better way of connecting employees to their benefit package and provides HR with an additional tool to communicate benefits. With integration, HR will not have to spend all their time communicating benefits; they can instead focus on managing human capital.

Integration also allows for a more focused and productive on-boarding process for new hires. Instead of taking a full day to orient employees to their benefit package, time is better spent ensuring the employee understands the values and culture of the organization, their role within the organization and has the tools to successfully execute their job.

This presentation will explain:

• Wwhat benefit integration is and how it can be achieved.
• The various tools, including a mobile application, web portal, and call center, all of which serve as benefit knowledge points.
• Provide case studies detailing how integration trumps communication in regards to employees’ understanding of and satisfaction with their benefit package.
• How benefit integration increases employee engagement, which leads to increased ROI as the benefits are able to support employees on a higher level thereby reducing healthcare costs while increasing productivity, morale, and administrative efficiency.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) 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 Integrate, Don’t Communicate: Increasing Employee Engagement and ROI