Live Webinar – October 17th 2013, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

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Agile is a set of principles requiring a significant cultural shift, new paradigms in thinking and team organization.

Over the years, Agile has become “productized” or in many cases “institutionalized”, creating different flavours and levels of commitment among teams and organizations.

Along the way, managers and team members have lost sight of Agile’s principles and tried to enforce the use of certain tools and structure where they may not belong.

In this one hour webinar, Perry McLeod will explain how tools such as use cases can be successful in an agile environment, provided the principles of agile are always active in the minds of the managers and the team members that are using them.

Outline:

• What does it mean to foster an agile culture?
• What are the principles of agile?
• How can the use case method be used in agile?

Join Perry to determine whether or not making the cultural shift towards the use case method in an agile environment is the right move for you and your organization.

Presenter: Perry McLeod, (LinkedIn profile) CBAP, ITIL, PMP – Global Knowledge Training LLC is a Management Consultant, Facilitator and Instructor with over 14-years of experience in business analysis, process reengineering, project management, business modeling and strategic alignment. In addition to Perry’s many professional accomplishments Perry was one of the contributors to the IIBA’s BABOK® v 2.0.

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Live Webinar October 17th, 2013 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

FabCo is a worldwide leader in the brutally competitive global marketplace for semiconductor fabrication.

FabCo US operations invest heavily to stay competitive, annually funding a large portfolio of technology improvement projects.

Many of these projects failed.

They missed schedule and budget, did not deliver what was originally intended, and caused major last minute surprises to the senior management team.

• Learn how FabCo-US how analyzed the situation, then adapted project management “best practices” to make them appropriate for an organization with low project management maturity and a non-project culture.
• Learn how FabCo-US designed its project management system, what they learned from the implementation process, and current results on how much project success has improved.

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

Presenter: Jeffrey David Oltmann, (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar October 17th, 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)

The newly developed software extension to the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition (SWX) is a joint product of the IEEE Computer Society and the Project Management Institute; it is the first collaborative endeavor for both institutions.

SWX adapts and extends the PMBOK® Guide for management of software projects across the continuum from highly predictive (i.e., plan-driven) to highly adaptive (i.e., agile) software projects.

The middle range of the spectrum covers management of iterative and incremental software development life cycle projects.

The structure of SWX mirrors the 13 chapters of the PMBOK® Guide; the two documents are to be used together. In this webinar, we will present the major elements of SWX.

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Live Webinar – October 17th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
RESCHEDULED to October 31st 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

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In this webinar, Rob will review best practices in organizing how to break requirements into topics for elicitation for a particular project.

While there are many ways to extract requirements such as individual interviews, job shadowing, facilitated requirements workshops, surveys, reviewing existing documentation, etc., this webinar focuses on identifying what you need to achieve when you employ those various elicitation techniques.

For example, it would be ineffective to just starting asking:

• “What are your requirements for the new system”
• ….. And then start a long list of ideas all over the continuum.

You need to identify a strategy:

• What’s in/out of scope?
• What are the functions?
• Or what are the use cases?
• Or what processes are we automating/improving?

Consider these situations:

• Requirements for new product,
• Requirements for a data warehouse for reporting,
• Requirements to improve a website for customers doing online ordering,
• Requirements for new capabilities for an existing system,
• Requirements for a system to replace an existing system, etc.
• Who are the SMEs for these various topics?
• What can I do to maximize getting unambiguous requirements once I’ve identified the SMEs?

This webinar addresses these and other issues.

Presenter: Rob Snowden (LinkedIn profile, bio)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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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