Live Webinar August 14th, 2013- 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free Course ID: MDW1250

Once of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and manage relationships with all individuals that the project impacts.

In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.

By effectively managing your stakeholders, you will be better able to keep a lid on scope creep, ensure project requirements are aligned, understand tolerance for risk, and mitigate issues that would otherwise delay the project.

Effective stakeholder management is proof of your influence in an organization, and a key component to a healthy project environment.

Key learning points from this webinar include:

• How to identify project stakeholders
• How to conduct a stakeholder analysis
• How to manage different types of stakeholders

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 August 15th, 2013 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category B but the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This most likely will be a category A presentation presented by Diversified Business Communications Rep #1811 (parent company). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

In virtually every industry, larger enterprises are struggling to ‘adapt’ an agile approach that fits their environment.
What does this mean for Business Analysts?

It means it’s now critical that you know how to separate the myths from the realities when it comes to making agile work in an enterprise environment. This webinar will help you do just that.

Here’s a sneak peak of some of the misconceptions explored:

• Misconception #3)
  • Agile will free us from having to do requirements up front
• Misconception #5)
  • User stories alone are adequate to support compliance and audit
• Misconception #6)
  • Business Analysis is an “organizational drag”

“Pure” agile approaches don’t simply “plug” into the enterprise environment as easily as they do in smaller organizations and centrally located teams.

This webinar explores common misconceptions of agile specifically in the enterprise, so you can understand the real ways in which enterprise agile can help make Business Analysis and requirements authoring easier and more effective leading to better project outcomes with far less rework along the way.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) 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 August 15th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 171035 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Do You Practice Kanban?

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar August 15th, 2013 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hours 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDUs
Presented by: Praxis (REP #1231)

NOTE: Although Praxis is an REP they have stated that this opportunity will not be registered with PMI® as a Category A opportunity. If you have any questions contact Mrs Jamie Morris with Praxis. See below for Category C documentation details.

In the years since the FDA published Pharmaceutical cGMPs for the 21st Century – A Risk Based Approach many organizations have adopted the vision of implementing practical, risk-based software validation methods. However, often the next step – implementing the vision – is a very big one.

The objective of this webinar is to get you started implementing practical, risk-based software validation methods!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.3 Control Quality

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 14th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar August 14th, 2013 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm am EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

1. How can independent test teams guide an organization to success?
2. What organizational options exist for such teams? How does independent testing fit into the software lifecycle?
3. How can we measure success for such team?

In this presentation, Rex will help you find answers to these questions and more based on his 30 years of experience.

Rex will also help you establish—or improve—your independent testing team.

Join in the discussion after the initial presentation, and ask Rex about the challenges you face with test estimation.

inar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of The Sherpas of Testing Success: Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of The Sherpas of Testing Success: Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups

Live Webinar – August 14th 2013, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Service management education has many potential objectives…certification for certifications sake, changing attitudes and culture, service improvement, personal development…the list is a long one.

What isn’t always as well understood, are the questions around which courses to sit and what modalities are available to suit my personal or organisation’s needs.

During this one hour webinar, speaker Barry Corless seeks to demystify that maelstrom and demonstrate the number of different ways to skin the cat!

Presenter: Barry Corless (LinkedIn profile) is the current Chair of the UK Chapter of the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF UK), and has been the chief examiner for the APM Group in ITIL® version 2 since 2006. He has been managing and delivering service management education and consultancy solutions since 1999. In addition to his role with Global Knowledge, he is currently ex-chair of itSMF (UK), former ITIL version 2 Chief Examiner for the APM Group, a current ITIL senior examiner and a fellow in the PrlSM Institute.

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