Live Webinar December 13th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Healthcare CoP® (REP #S040)

Being an effective project management in healthcare begins by understanding how the industry is different than most.

We will help you understand why the healthcare industry is seeing a sudden surge in project management growth, as knowing the reasons will help project managers better position themselves to manage healthcare projects.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Learn why healthcare project management is growing.
2. Understand the unique challenges of managing healthcare projects.
3. Discuss real techniques that can be used to improve stakeholder participation & project success.

Presenters:

Dan Furlong, PMP, CPHIMS, FHIMMS (LinkedIn profile) co-author of Healthcare Project Management, manages the Project Management Office for the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and teaches project management in MUSC’s Master in Health Administration program. In 2007 he was named “PMI Charleston’s Person of the Year” and “GMIS International’s IT Professional of the Year” for his work promoting and supporting project management efforts within the state. In 2008 he graduated from PMI’s Leadership Institute Masters Class, an elite class that only accepts 50 people into their program annually.

Kathy Schwalbe, Ph.D., PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. She is the author of Information Technology Project Management, An Introduction to Project Management, and Healthcare Project Management, co-authored with Dan Furlong in May 2013. Kathy was named the Educator of the Year by the Association of Information Technology Professionals in 2011. Her first full-time job was as a project manager in the U.S. Air Force. For more information, see www.kathyschwalbe.com.

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

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Live Webinar December 12th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

How we think and form opinions affects our work whether we are project managers, sponsors or stakeholders.

In this webinar, we will examine some of the most prevalent workplace biases such as anchor bias, agreement bias and outcome bias.

Strategies and tools for avoiding these pitfalls will be provided.

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Live Webinar – December 11th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

The use of business architecture principles by Business Analysts and Project Managers can be a significant ingredient to managing project and requirements risk.

There are established and proven Business Architecture best practices that can be easily used alongside project management, business analysis, lean and agile techniques to maintain and manage scope and alignment to business objectives and requirements.

As businesses, programs, and strategies evolve, Business Architecture concepts can help ensure that risk is mitigated. Business Modeling is a key component to a good Business Architecture. Learn from a couple of experts on how to employ business modeling to your advantage.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will acquire a foundational knowledge of business architecture modeling, the relationship to the business analysis methodology and the link to business strategy / objectives.

Specifically, it will:

• Bring a high level overview of the value of business modelling
• Demonstrate applicability regardless of the Change Agenda
• Illustrate the process architecture as a model type within the business architecture
• Describe the benefits

About William Ulrich and the Business Architecture Guild

The Guild is a “not for profit”, non-vendor aligned, organization with the objective of promoting business architecture best practices and expanding the discipline knowledge base. The board members are well published, distinguished business architects and trainers. The Guild’s 1000 membership community is actively developing the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BizBok), which is currently in V4 prepublication, with a planned release of Q4 2013. William Ulrich (LinkedIn profile), author of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation and world class practitioner, is President of the Business Architecture Guild, mentor and contributor to the BizBok.

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Activity Type Now: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free

Live Webinar Was: Dec 11th, 2013
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1286a
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

The best project managers know that managing the expectations, goals and objectives of key stakeholders is critical to project success.

If the stakeholders aren’t satisfied, even the most efficient and well-executed project won’t be deemed successful in the eyes of those that matter most.

The best way to ensure stakeholder needs are met is to establish them up front, along with clear and mutually agreed upon communication and project completion requirements.

By considering stakeholder perceptions while developing the project charter and project plan, you can avoid unnecessary readjustments during project execution.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to initiate projects that help your organization achieve its goals
• How to develop a project charter and a project management plan
• How to identify and analyze project stakeholders and determine their information needs and communication requirements
• How to manage stakeholder expectations and ensure their satisfaction

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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Juggling Act:
How To Effectively Manage Your Projects & Your Stakeholders

Live Webinar December 11th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst / Jama

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.

You and your team are constantly collaborating to save time, solve problems and stay in sync.

• But what is the value of collaboration over time to your team?
• How can those conversations extend downstream to provide context and improve efficiency?

In this webinar Derwyn will discuss the value of past collaboration and the role it plays in providing traceability and context for teams across the organization.

He will demonstrate why engaging with stakeholders early and capturing project context provides a clear path for engineering to understand, react, and engage with your product team.

This will enable the BA to interact with engineering on a much more iterative and agile way.

Summary of what you’ll learn:

• Review collaboration
• What is “Context”
• The importance of social traceability
• Creating an iterative approach to requirements (true agile)

Join Derwyn and learn how you can leverage the historical component of collaboration to save your organization’s time and energy. The what and why of your project is constantly evolving and this method will help communicate and manage it.

This webinar is a second part of the Jama Software / Modern Analyst Collaboration series. You do not need to attend part one, “Agile Collaboration to Improve Requirements Productivity“, to register for this webinar.

Presenter: Derwyn Harris, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Architect and Co-Founder at Jama Software

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Live Webinar December 12th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 2 Hour s 2 Category C PDU – Free PDUs
Presented by: CollabNet

DevOps is emerging as a powerful way for enterprises to accelerate and streamline the delivery of quality software into production.

Join Kurt Bittner (LinkedIn profile),Laurence Sweeney andKevin Hancock for this two hour, two-part webinar series, where they will examine both the business and technical aspects of the fast emerging DevOps practice.

Part 1 : DevOps Management- Enabling the Continuous Delivery of Business Value (1st Hour)

Business competitiveness increasingly depends on the ability to deliver business value quickly.

Driven by experiences with mobile and cloud-based solutions, customers increasingly expect all solutions to deliver rapidly. Customer loyalty is often maintained only until your competitors deliver something better.

Faster delivery is not a fantasy.

It requires breaking down barriers between Development and Operations to form a new DevOps partnership, and forging a new partnership with the Business.

It means re-thinking the way you approach ensuring quality, and it requires streamlining your delivery pipeline while automating repetitive tasks. The result is faster delivery, as well as improved customer satisfaction, increased quality and dramatically reduced cost.

Kurt Bittner, and CollabNet DevOps Practice Leads as they discuss the Continuous Delivery trends, who’s adopting it, why, and best practices for highly successful DevOps.

Part 2 : Making DevOps Real (2nd hour)

Faster delivery, higher quality, elevated productivity – it all sounds good, but is it realistic? The answer is “yes”.

Companies around the world are adopting practices and technologies that enable DevOps, helping to make the vision a reality.

As a second part of the session, CollabNet will do a technical deep dive into two proven solutions that deliver on the promise of DevOps. They will deliver comprehensive demonstrations of both, one leveraging CollabNet’s partnership with Automic and the other leveraging CollabNet’s partnership with OpsCode.

Participants will gain an appreciation of the advantages of different approaches, and will have a better idea of what might work for their own environment.

Topics Covered:

• Workflow and Technical Architecture
• Collabnet TeamForge + Automic ARA for DevOps with enterprise release automation
• CollabNet TeamForge + OpsCode Chef for DevOps with Continuous Integration and Delivery

Who should attend: This webinar is for everyone who automates software delivery, and the technical content is appropriate for software architects, quality managers and software configuration managers. Prior familiarity with the concepts of Agile development and Continuous Integration is helpful, although not absolutely required.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 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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