Live Webinar – Sept 19th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
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Duration 2 Hrs 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU

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Enfocus Solutions Inc.’s Chief Visionary Officer, John Parker, discusses the complexities of agile requirements, sharing lessons learned and best practices specific to this iterative and incremental approach to development.

The webinar covers agile requirements in large enterprises, the role of business analysts, and how user stories can be defined and elaborated using test scenarios, user conversations, and functional and nonfunctional requirements.

The 2 hour presentation is a must-attend for organizations looking to move to agile, and for product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, and agile teams in organizations already using the method.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Learn how applying Agile in the Enterprise is different than using Agile on small software development projects.
• Learn about the fundamentals of agile requirements including user stories, conversations, and confirmations.Learn about how agile projects should start with clear business objectives and how each story should be directly tied to the business objectives.

More Learning Objectives:

• Learn why it is easier to start with epics instead of stories when appying Agile to enterprise projects.
• Learn how to trace development and test artifacts to user stories to epics and to business objectives.
• Learn why there is a need for multiple backlogs for managing agile requirements.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• Some Additional Practice Aids of how to Apply Agile in the Enterprise

Presenter: John E. Parker – (LinkedIn profile) Enfocus Solutions Inc. is a seasoned expert in IT strategy, requirements management, business analysis, project management, IT strategic planning, and IT value management. . Drawing from his vast knowledge of business analyses and project management, John leads the design and development of Enfocus Requirements Suite’s valuable mind maps, templates, examples, and tools. John also regularly blogs and shares his expertise and insights.

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Live Webinar – Sept 18th 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to view a previously recorded version of this opportunity.

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Live Webinar September 18th, 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)

In this webinar, you will learn how to develop your own personal brand, and how to leverage it to raise your profile and reputation.

Whether you are the leader of the IT function, or want to be someday, this is vital for you as you win support for projects and initiatives.

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Live Webinar – Sept 18h, 2013 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – Sept 18h, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: APMG International

Proving that you have the knowledge and skills to lead change is an important differentiator for accessing new roles, new responsibilities and promotions.

In this webinar APMG will:

1. Identify how change management is becoming a recognized profession, supported by professional associations;
2. Define the core skills needed to become an effective leader of change and business transformation initiatives;
3. Review the structure and contents of the APMG-International Change Management Foundation and Pactitioner qualifications;
4. Understand how this qualification helps you to develop your understanding and prove your professionalism to your employer, your colleagues and your customers.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 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 Sept 18th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Delivering products and services to market is a major investment, therefore many organizations look to requirements reuse as a way to speed business innovation, reduce risk, and control costs. Requirements reuse enables you to create a set of requirements once and use those to support other products, markets, channels and customers.

Join Karl Wiegers, the renowned author and speaker on requirements management, and Matt Walker, Jama Solutions Architect, as they discuss the following topics:

• Different kinds of requirements reuse
• Classes of requirements information that have reuse potential
• Recommendations on how to make requirements reuse work for you

Presenters:

Matt Walker, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Architect, Jama Software

Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

His published books include:

• Software Requirements 3rd ed.
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice
• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture
• Pearls from Sand: How Small Encounters Lead to Powerful Lessons

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Sept 19th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Risk Management CoP (REP #S048)

Identifying the root causes of project schedule and cost risk requires that the risk to the project schedule is clearly and directly driven by identified and quantified risks. In the Risk Driver Method the risks from the Risk Register drive the simulation.

As a side note, Risk Registers are not complete – during the interviews to collect risk data the interviewees introduce important risks that are, surprisingly, missing from the Risk Register.

The Risk Driver Method differs from older, more traditional approaches in which 3-point (low, most likely and high) estimates of the activity durations are applied directly to activity durations.

The traditional 3-point estimate represents, often, the influence of several risks that impact the activity if they happen.

• Therefore the importance of each risk cannot be individually distinguished and kept track of.
• Also, since some risks will affect several activities, we cannot capture the entire influence of a risk using traditional 3-point estimates of impact applied to specific activities.

• The Risk Driver method allows us to specify the risks by their probability of influencing the schedule as well as the uncertainty of their impact if they do occur, and to assign the risks to all detailed tasks they influence.

3-point estimates have no clear way to represent the probability of a risks’ occurring so they miss one of the two important characteristics of the risks.

Correlation between activity durations is important in determining the possible date of completion if the organization wants a fairly conservative estimate, say at the 80th percentile (P-80).

With traditional 3-point estimates the correlation coefficients have to be estimated (guessed at) and applied between pairs of activities.

Using the Risk Drivers method correlation between activities’ durations is created during simulation based on a common risk (or common risks) affecting the activities. We no longer need to estimate the correlation coefficients with the possibility that the coefficients determine an inconsistent correlation matrix.

The basic benefit of the Risk Driver approach comes from the ability to identify, and hence prioritize the importance of risks (as distinguished from the importance of activities or paths in the traditional 3-point estimate approach). Hence Risk Drivers facilitates risk mitigation.

We do not mitigate activities or paths
We mitigate risks.

In order to determine which risks to mitigate we need to be transparent about which risks drive the results, hence the Risk Driver Method.

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

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