Archive for January, 2014

User Story Elaboration

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Live Webinar Feb 5th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Bring L.I.F.E. to your User Stories
For “Just Enough Design”

User stories are a popular approach to defining stakeholder requirements for software, especially in Agile software environments. How do we ensure that just enough design is considered in relation to a user story? Consider bringing L.I.F.E. to your user stories.

This webinar will discuss:

  • The consideration of lifecycles (L), interfaces (I), the future (F) and end results (E) in relation to user stories,
  • Why these concepts are important,
  • When there is a significant value proposition in applying these concepts (i.e. what is “just enough?”),
  • How epics help you tell a more cohesive story, and
  • Tools you can use to accomplish bringing L.I.F.E to your user stories.

Click to register for User Story Elaboration

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Live Webinar Feb 6th, 2014 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)

This webinar will provide an overview of the most current Cybersecurity requirements and standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Presented by: Carolyn Turbyfill (ITMPI profile)

Click to register for Cybersecurity across Critical Infrastructure Protection Sectors (CIPS)

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Live Webinar – 2 Part Series:
Feb 5th & 12th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Duration: 2 Hrs on 2 days Credits: Up to 2 PDU Cat C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

In this 2-part series, we’ll examine emerging and global brands that have developed a winning thought leadership webinar series and then go behind the scenes for a look at the metrics and methods that made them work.

Learn how to develop a strong thought leadership series by looking at examples, metrics and methods from successful brands.

Register for this live, interactive webinar series to discover:

  • 3 successful webinar series from emerging and global brands
  • 6 ways to measure webinar effectiveness
  • What matters most in a thought leadership series
  • How to pull everything together and get started

Speaker: Mike Agron, (LinkedIn profile) Co-Founder & Executive Webinar Producer, WebAttract, LLC

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

  • 10.2 Manage Communications
  • 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
  • 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
  • 13.4 Control Stakeholder Engagement

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’

Click to register for For The Win: Winning Minds & Markets with Thought Leadership

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Live Webinar Feb 5th 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

For over twenty years organizations have been deploying technologies that promise to change the way we work – from groupware, to content management, to social. Yet for many organizations the benefits remain elusive. One recent study concluded that achieving the goals of such technology investments will be dependent of the reconfiguration and redesign of the whole socio-technical and managerial system.

Industry analysts, media and evangelists offer visionary statements such as “Social is a philosophy, a way of life that empowers customers and users” but there’s little concrete advice for executives on how to successfully put this into action.

Organisations have been deploying technologies that promise to change the way we work.

From groupware, to content management, to social. From Lotus Notes, to SharePoint, to Yammer.Yet for many organizations the benefits remain elusive.

One recent study into the use of Enterprise 2.0 technologies within a global telecommunication company concluded that achieving the goals of such technology investments will be dependent of reconfiguration and redesign of the whole socio-technical and managerial system.

Industry analysts, guru managers and the press offer visionary statements such as “Social is a philosophy, a way of life that empowers customers and users” but there’s little concrete advice or guidance for managers or executives.

In this session SharePoint MVP, Symon Garfield, (LinkedIn profile) will examine the transformational potential of social, collaborative and content management technology in business and present a framework for success by matching management approaches to Strategy, People, Knowledge and Technology.

Symon seek to answer the question “How do organizations create and sustain competitive advantage?” by discussing 4 key points.

  • The characteristics of today’s knowledge workers, how people work together in organizations and the barriers to collaboration, and the role of leadership, culture and structure on knowledge worker productivity.
  • The nature and strategic importance of knowledge and learning in today’s organization and reveal the relationship between innovation and social structure of an organization.
  • Understanding why yesterday’s technology infrastructure is failing to support today’s businesses
  • Developing a framework to deploy technology which supports your business’ strategic objectives.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

  • 4.1 Develop Project Chart
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 10.2 Plan 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’

Click to register for Knowledge Is Power: The Rise Of The Social Business

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Ltd Time Free Online Webinar – Recorded Feb 21st, 2013
By: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr 1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free PDU / CDU (WID00037)

OR …….. The course is included in an (over 200 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

One disheartening aspect of the role of the Project Manager, which virtually no one seems to be able to overcome, is project failure.

Senior IT and business leaders have grown weary of the project failure epidemic, and are now looking to individual Projects Managers (PM)s and the Project Management Office (PMO) to do something about it. This webinar features essential advice on how you can.

Some reasons for project failure are easy to name, but this webinar reveals the 10 hidden causes of project failure that lie just under the radar of most Project Managers. Hidden problems that continue to sabotage project teams day after day.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to spot these 10 hidden reasons, and you’ll also discover effective, proven solutions for overcoming each one.

Here’s a sneak peek of the 10 hidden reasons revealed in the webinar:

  • Hidden Reason #3: Requirements errors actually getting approved and slipping into development unnoticed
  • Hidden Reason #6: Your team members being “fuzzy” on the details of your project (even though you’ve likely never heard them admit it)
  • Hidden Reason #10: Expecting agile to ‘cure’ the problem

PLUS —You’ll also receive a copy of the useful whitepaper,10 Ways Requirements Can Sabotage Your Projects Right from the Start which includes highlights from the webinar in a concise, easy-to-scan PDF.

Don’t miss this important opportunity to understand the cause of project failure in a whole new light, so you can be the one who finally gets the project failure epidemic under control at your organization. Register for this webinar now!

This webinar is presented by Tony Higgins (LinkedIn profile) from Blueprint Software Systems, a 27-year software industry veteran, who has spent much of the past decade focused on developing software requirements solutions that support Business Analysts, Projects Managers and PMOs in today’s enterprise.

Click to register for 10 Hidden Reasons Why Projects Fail: How to Spot them and How to Solve Them!

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Live Webinar Feb 5th, 2014, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems. Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
  2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
  3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

You will have to register – then the webinar will load in the page
Please be patient this may take a min or two to load.
(You may have to use the side scroll bar to place the webinar on pause)

Click to register for the Live version of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation

Recorded Version Information:

If you watch the recorded version of this webinar it is a good idea to record the information about this webinar date, time, and list this prerecorded event for your PDU Audit folder.

Click to view a recorded version (2008-10-28) of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation .