Live Webinar September 26th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)
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We never have enough time to do it right, but we always have enough time to do it over.

Does this often quoted remark summarize projects that you’ve managed?

Poor project requirements not only “cost” time and money, they can “cost” you your job!

Study after study shows that it can cost 1,000 times more to fix a requirements problem during the execution phase (or worse, after the project has been delivered), than if that same problem were discovered in the planning phase.

Although the IT industry is the celebrated “poster child” for such requirements issues, no industry sector is immune from the problem; to be sure, the construction industry has certainly had more than its fair share of blunders and mistakes in the form of cost and schedule overruns, quality issues, and unhappy customers due to poor project requirements.

• Is there anything that can be done to mitigate the problem?
• Are we forever resigned to the fact that poor project requirements are just a part of life and the cost of doing business?

J. LeRoy Ward doesn’t think so, and he will present a pragmatic, proven approach to writing better project requirements learned from his more than 35 years of experience in the field. Using examples from multiple industry sectors, he will prove we don’t have to accept the status quo.

Poor project requirements not only “cost” time and money, they can “cost” you your job!

Learn the 4 steps to writing better project requirements including 11 elicitation techniques and 6 ways to document requirements for any project.

You can reduce your risk of incomplete and inaccurate requirements and delight clients at the same time.

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

Presented by: J. LeRoy Ward, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, PgMP®, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy & Management, ESI International is the author of many publications including: theDictionary of Project Management Terms 3rd edition, thePMP Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide, Eighth Edition, Conversations on Passing the PMP® Exam,, the PgMP® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide, Fourth Edition,

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