Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Change Management CoP (REP #S056)

This interactive and fun session will focus on tactical experiences motivating change across multiple geographies and cultures.

Dr. Keely Killpack (LinkedIn profile) will share stories from two large software implementation projects and how she approached communication activities in various regions of the world. She will also share some useful tips & tricks from her specialization in work motivation.

Participants will leave the session with helpful tools to motivate change more effectively across cultures or geographies.

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

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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Normal people don’t look at data sets just for fun;
They analyze them to make business decisions.

Business analysts are more frequently finding themselves on strategic projects that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which conclusive decisions and actions can be derived.

Analysis of big data is already a reality today in most IT organizations and will grow in significance as businesses look to gain a better understanding for capturing, structuring, and learning from their data.

In this webcast presentation, Joy Beatty, VP of R&D at Seilevel, offers advice on tackling requirements for business analytics projects. Drawing from the book she co-authored with Karl Wiegers,Software Requirements 3rd Ed., Joy will outline how to elicit strategic analytics decisions to help prioritize requirements work and how to prepare for the future of big data by specifying data needs.

Participants will hear examples of questions they can use to engage businesses to think outside the box about their requirements and consider new possibilities from analytics projects.

Presenter: Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Presenter: Carlie J.Idoine, (LinkedIn profile) Research Director

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 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’

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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 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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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Most Problems With
Project Requirements
Are Result Of Human Errors

Why are good and experienced project managers making bad choices that can dramatically affect the project?

The answers lie in human psychology. Often managers are making their choices not by logical and comprehensive analysis of the problem, but based on their own gut feelings.

This presentation includes a number of examples of how misjudgement can lead to major project failures.

Understanding a few basic concepts, such as how human mental machinery works, helps to improve project manager’s decision-making skills. Often manager’s decisions are affected by illusions, such as the illusion of the project being under control.

But what is the alternative to such intuitive decision-making process?

This presentation includes an overview of the project requirements management process. If a project manager and an organization follow such process, it usually leads to better decisions.

The presentation includes a number of case studies, illustrating how organizations significantly improved their performance through implementing requirements management process: Keystone Oil pipeline from Canada to US, Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, NASA’s Constellation space program, destruction of major power station in Russia, and others.

The presentation also includes recommendations on how requirements management can be implemented in an organization. Requirements management is not only a sophisticated quantitative analysis. First of all, it is a collection of basic principles, which help project managers think their way to project success.

The presentation is based on the books “Project Decisions: The Art and Sciences”, published my Management Concepts, 2007, and “ProjectThink – Why Good Project Managers Are Making Bad Choices!” to be published by Gower in 2013.

Presenter: Lev Virine PhD, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer and project manager. In the past 15 years, he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes. He is the author of Project Decisions & ProjectThink and over 50 scholarly papers.

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

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Live Webinar – Jan 23rd, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD
Cost: PMIWDC Member Free – NonMember $15.00 USD
Sponsored by: PMI® chapter – PMIWDC (REP #Co46)

This webinar is presented byPMIWDC

Different chapters offer different opportunities and benefits for chapter members. We encourage you to take a look at the this wonderful webinar presented by A PMI® chapter . Please Consider joining PMIWDC.

This Exciting Webinar Is No Boring Presentation!

Chris Daniel, PMP (Author of Consult in Jeans) delves into a study he conducted of high-level project managers in both the public and private sectors, and show participants what both sides agree needs to take place to:

• Gain Repeat Business (Cha-Ching!)
• Impress The Federal Client (Smiling Decision-Makers)
• Form Sustainable Relationships (Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money)

This insightful webinar has participants in awe of the BFO’s (Blinding Flashes of the Obvious). Daniel illustrates with energy and intuition the 10 themes that both audiences constantly agree to forge ahead in business.

Presented by: Chris Daniel “The Consultant in Jeans” (LinkedIn profile) Founder Regroup Consulting Chris holds certifications in Project Management and Instructional Design, and a Green Belt in Six Sigma, among several certificates in executive leadership from the National Leadership Institute, The Brookings Institution, and Learning Tree International.

Choose the PMI Chapter (s) That are Right For You.

Project Managers can join any number of chapters that may suit their needs (not just their local chapter). Different chapters offer different opportunities – We encourage you to find the chapters that meet your specific needs.

The PMIWDC has a webinar Education series designed to highlight the latest trends and techniques in project management. The webinars will be hosted by PMIWDC and feature some of the top experts in the field who will collaboratively share their expertise and integrate with the online audience.

You should consider joining
PMIWDC – Membership is only $35.00!!
OR any other PMI® Chapter that Suits your needs.

Click to register forProject Can-agement! 10 Must-Haves Between Contractors and Feds

Live Webinar – Jan 22nd, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

So you’ve been assigned a complex,
poorly defined project concept
So now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity. These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.

Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours? What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning objectives:

1. Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2. The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3. Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

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