Live Webinar October 3rd, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to revalidate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile),, MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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Live Webinar – October 3rd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hr 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.

You have spent money on software and hardware, implemented best practices, and believe you are secure, right?

You may have overlooked the weakest link: your employee.

Many breaches occur as a result of an employee mistakenly clicking on a link or visiting a site that allows a virus to be unknowingly downloaded, giving hackers access to your network.

Today, a well-trained workforce is a necessity and may even be your most important cybersecurity tool.

In this webinar, security expert David Willson (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how many breaches have occurred and are occurring, the tools and techniques hackers use to trick employees into clicking on links or opening attachments, and how to prevent such behavior.

Outline:

• Current state of cybersecurity and who is winning the battle
• What information needs protecting
• The biggest mistakes companies are making
• The industry most attacked and by whom
• Necessary security tools
• Performing a business self-assessment
• Policies you need
• How to train your workforce

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Live Webinar October 2nd, 2013 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Does your organizational culture support engagement?

The way that managers and senior managers inform, interact with, and involve their employees in decisions that affect them has a direct impact on the organizational culture.

Culture is one of the top drivers of employee engagement; however it can also be one of the most difficult drivers to improve. Only 33% of employees surveyed rated their organization’s corporate culture as healthy.

This webcast will get you thinking differently about how to improve your culture to increase employee engagement through our “3I” model.

Improving your culture could really be as simple as improving the frequency and quality of the 3I’s:

• Informing employees about the why behind decisions,
• Interacting with them on a personal level, and
• Involving them in decisions that affect them.

During this webcast, you will learn how to:

1. Diagnose your organization’s dominant culture to better understand the challenges of each culture and how to minimize them.
2. Identify how the dominant culture impacts your current practices around the 3I’s at all levels of the organization.
3. Determine what the 3I’s look like in organizations with your desired culture and how managers can use them to improve engagement.

This webcast will provide you with the tools you need to develop a plan for improving your culture through the 3I’s.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage 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’

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Live Webinar – October 2nd, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

‘SharePoint Governance’ means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and for the most-part they are all wrong!

This session is part of the global re-education of what ‘SharePoint Governance’ REALLY is and how it is the essential element to enable your organization to deliver business value through the SharePoint platform.

Ant Clay will talk about the ingredients needed for a holistic approach to SharePoint Governance.

Ant is known to ask clients repeatedly “Why they are doing their technology projects?” until they breakdown and admit “they just don’t know”.

Ant works extensively on client projects using collaborative play techniques, to help them innovate and align technology to organizational outcomes, whilst changing the way they work through facilitation, visualization, Game-storming and storytelling.

Learn:

• He will take your through the 3 primary ways of applying Governance in your organization and
• He will look at how to align SharePoint with your businesses vision in both project delivery and on-going into the future.

The content of this session is based upon the highly acclaimed book “The SharePoint Governance Manifesto”.

Presenter: Ant Clay (LinkedIn profile) is Founder & CEO of Soulsailor Consulting Ltd, a micro-consultancy enabling organizational value by positively disrupting your technology projects. He is the author of ‘The SharePoint Governance Manifesto‘, Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor, Certified Collaboration Architect, trained facilitator and one of a new breed of SharePoint business technology consultants. Find out more about Ants positively disruptive work at his website.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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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