Live Webinar Jan 29th, 2014 1:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Join the QuantumPM experts as they explore tips and tricks for making sure that your Microsoft Project schedule is a good representation of the project you are managing. From simple to complex, find the right techniques to fit your needs.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

Click to register for Good, Better, Best Practices for MS Project Schedules

Live Webinar Jan 30th, 2014, 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

We all did that so many times, it’s second nature.

But have you ever thought about the process of fixing bugs?

Maybe (just maybe), if we understand the process, rather than keep ourselves busy by fixing each and every bug separately, we can improve it, and perhaps minimize time spent on these pesky bugs.

So to do that, Gill will discuss the following In this session:

1. Analyzing bug data
2. What can tests (both passing and failing) tell us
3. Risk analysis before we begin
4. Fixing the damn thing
5. Making sure the bug won’t come back to bite us

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

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Live Webinar – January 30th, 2014 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Risks exist on projects because by definition, projects possess uncertainty. Organizations that ignore risks experience reduced project success rates due to the wasted effort and delays that result from dealing with issues.

Risk management methodologies address this challenge but tend to be too theoretical or require significant process discipline or historical data to be practical.

During this webinar you will learn practical, lightweight best practices for managing risks throughout a project’s lifecycle.

Benefits of managing risks through this approach include:

• Improved project predictability
• Improved ROI for your overall portfolio
• Quantification of cost & schedule contingencies
• Reduced effort spent resolving project issues

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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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Online Webinar – Recorded Oct 30th 2013
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

Requirements, by nature, have a lot of text. As the number and complexity of requirements grow, the ability to manage and track delivery of those requirements in context becomes increasingly more difficult.

Whether you are using Waterfall, Agile or a hybrid approach, there’s a better and more efficient way to evolve requirements and bring all related information together. Simplify the requirements management and delivery process by using the power of pictures and visual models.

Documentation of requirements during the elicitation process, socializing requirements for feedback, and getting final approvals doesn’t have to be challenging. Join us Wednesday, October 30th at 2 p.m. EDT to learn how visualizations improve the completeness and quality of your requirements.

In this webinar you will learn:

1. How to reduce time and assure completeness of requirements using the Requirements Modeling Language (RML)
2. Simple RML models you can use right away to help you better understand the “big picture” regarding your requirements
3. How to apply the visual approach to implement these RML models from definition to delivery using Borland Caliber®

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Collect Requirments
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 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’

Click to register for A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: A Visual Approach to Requirements Management and Delivery

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.

Click to register for Mind Mapping Techniques to Improve Projects then Click the link beside the word “Recordings”

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’

Click to register for The Use Case Technique: An Overview