Online Webinar – Recorded May 14th, 2013
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Quality CoP (REP #S019)
Presented by: James Franklin

“A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea”.

Mind mapping software allows users to visually analyze and brainstorm ideas quickly. Using mind mapping software, teams more effectively create project planning documents.

This presentation provides examples and best practices how project teams utilize mind mapping software to brainstorm, collaborate and create project plans.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity & there are audio problems near the end of the recording but the information presented is so very good that we decided to present this session anyway.

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Great Mind Mapping Resources from
PDU Of The Day

What Is A Mind Map?

• Explains Mind Mapping and Mind Mapping Techniques
• Contains a great link to a Conflict Management Mind Map
• Contains a link to an insightful Career Development Framework Mind Map

Project Management Process Groups & Knowledge Areas (PMBOK® 4th Edition) – S. Babou’s Mind Mapsâ„¢

Mind Mapsâ„¢ are an excellent way of communicating information visually. They have a wide range of applications – decision making, risk planning and process flows are examples. This article links to some great resourses including Babou’s impressive Mind Pap diagram of the PMBOK 4th Edition.

Creating a PDU Self Directed Learning Primer:
Learning about Motivating Leadership Qualities
A Mind Map Example

• Walk through the process of creating a Personal Self Directed Learning ( SDL PDU ) Plan.
• Learn how A Mind Map Can Be Used As A PRIMER for Self Directed Learning
• Learn How to Create “SMART Goals”
• And Use the resources in the article to create a “Self Directed Learning Plan” on Motivating Team Members and positive leadership skills worth up to 19 PDUs

Category C PDUs Self Directed Learning:
We Can Help!

• Learn all about Category C PDUs and how they work.
• Earn up to 30 PDUs on topics of your interest in your certification cycle.
• Link to our PDU Planning Article Learn how to manage your PDU process Hint: Treat it as a Project!.
  • Do you know:
    • What is your re-certification date?
    • If you have any unrecorded PDUs?
    • How many PDUs do you have today?
    • How many PDUs you are entitled to?
    • How many PDUs you have from each Category?
    • You require a tracking system for your PDUs (for PMI® Audit purposes)

Above all else, lead by example; do not allow yourself to become a “last minute Larry/Laura” and scramble for PDUs as your recertification looms simply because you failed to put together and execute a sound plan. Project managers are leaders!

–Colonel Mike

Live Webinar Jan 29th, 2014 – 11:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by : Modern Analyst

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.

Use cases are an effective and widely used technique for eliciting software requirements.

The use-case approach focuses on the goals that users have with a system, rather than emphasizing system functionality. This webinar presents an overview of the use-case approach to requirements elicitation in a practical and straightforward fashion.

Topics covered include:

• Where use cases fit into the requirements development process
• Types of projects for which use cases are and are not well suited
• User classes and actors
• Scenarios and use cases
• Components of a use case
• Use case diagrams
• Deriving functional requirements from use cases

Presenter : 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.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope
• 5.6 Control Scope

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 Jan 30th, 2014 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Use Cases are widely recognized as one of the most effective methods of documenting and communicating requirements.

Join us for this webinar as we demonstrate how you can easily document clear, accurate and complete requirements using Use Case Scenarios. This Webinar is useful for new, as well as, experienced practitioners of the Use Case approach for defining requirements.

Key Learning Points:

1. How to identify Use Cases?
2. What is the “happy path”? Can there be unhappy paths?
3. What are “Alternate Flows”?
4. How can Use Case approach to requirements help you avoid the problems of “missed” and “misunderstood” requirements?
5. What is an appropriate size for the “Main Flow”?
6. What are the pros and cons of using IF structure in a Use Case?
7. How do I break down a large Use Case?
8. How do you “reuse” requirements in a Use Case model?
9. How are Use Cases similar to, and different from, User Stories?
10. What is the meaning of “include” relationship between Use Cases?

Presenters: Ashu Potnis, Jim Cochell and Sue Thompson , Technosolutions

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Live Webinar Jan 29th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
NOTE: Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

Managing Stakeholders for Project Success

Stakeholder Management isn’t:

• Telling people what they want to hear.
• Or making a status report green, when it’s really yellowish red.
• Or finding ways to say “yes” when your gut is telling you to say “no.”

But it is perhaps the important element of being a really Successful Project Manager!

Project Stakeholders include anyone with a vested interest in the project—team members, functional managers (managers of team members), your manager, senior managers, third-party partners/vendors, the customer(s) of your project, the user(s) of your project deliverable, as well as people seemly unconnected to your project but who for some reason have an opinion about it.

Stakeholder Management is so important that when the Project Management Institute (PMI) published the fifth edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) this past year, it added a whole new chapter on Project Stakeholder Management.

Join as he shares some insights into this critically important yet often forgotten subject.

Including:

• What stakeholder management is and why it is critical to your success
• Common communication mistakes that PM’s make
• Simple tools to help you better manage your stakeholder’s expectations

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 13 – Stakeholder

• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
• 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’

Presenter: Gary Chin, PMP, MBA (LinkedIn profile) is a project management consultant, author, and trainer who helps clients them plan, execute, and govern complex projects. Gary’s s the author of Agile Project Management: How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements whos expertise spans project/program management, stage gate processes and governance, portfolio and resource management, requirements gathering and implementation, and organizational change management.

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