Live Webinar Feb 19th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Exploit The Top Trends in 2014 to Build Better Products Faster

What are you doing this year to improve product delivery in your organization?

The pressure to push higher-quality products to market even faster is real. Release frequency is increasing, teams are growing, and yet most products deliver late and fail to satisfy customer needs.

So what are leading organizations doing to meet these challenges?

A new industry study of executives from some of the world’s largest companies uncovered three themes that can mean the difference between success and failure in modern product delivery:

• Speed
• Complexity
• Alignment

Tune in to hear Eric Winquist, CEO of Jama Software and an emerging leader in product delivery, explain the top challenges facing teams in 2014 and reveal strategies for how you can fix product delivery in your organization.

If improving product delivery isn’t one of your strategic priorities this year, attend this webinar to learn why it should be.

Bonus! Attend this webinar and receive these two exclusive resources:

1. “The State of Modern Product Delivery” a Jama-commissioned report from Forrester Consulting
2. A must-see infographic connecting the survey data behind the report

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 Feb 18th 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

What is the role of data in aligning the workforce & training programs?

Working in partnership to identify workforce skills gaps and develop customized training, Stu Bass (LinkedIn profile) Director of the Keystone Partnership, and John Buckner (LinkedIn profile) Training Manager for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, discuss how they partnered together to assess crucial workforce skill gaps and developed successful training programs using a data driven approach.

Attend this webcast to hear the presenters review their case study and go through the skill gap analysis process, roles of labor and management, decisions made from the data, and workforce planning.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 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 Feb 18th 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)

• Do you struggle when a project has limited controls and processes?
• What happens when you discover the organization takes pride in its informality and flexibility?
• How can you as a project manager adapt without threatening the organization’s core values?

A project manager accustomed to working on projects within a hierarchical organization may struggle when faced with managing a project within a flat organization because the culture is casual with informal communication, processes, and controls.

When faced with this situation, it is important for the project manager to:

1. Take the time to understand the organization’s culture and evaluate five commonly found flat organization characteristics.
2. Then adapt and implement project management processes and controls that fit with the culture and can be supported by the team and
3. Finally, rely on, and if need be, as a project manager strengthen your management, leadership and interpersonal skills that tie to the unique organizational characteristics to ensure overall project (and project management) success.

This presentation discusses the five characteristics and the related management, leadership, and interpersonal skills a project manager should consider leveraging to achieve the right amount of process–the right balance of control–to ensure project success without threatening the organization’s core values.

Presented by: Laura Burford (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for When Your Organization is Flat

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Live Webinar Feb 18th, 2014 – 11:00 am – 12:30 Pm EDT or
Live Webinar Feb 18th, 2014 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

The software profession is evolving rapidly, and software testing is also evolving.

• Some people talk about software and software testing as a “craft,” but are we doomed to remain in such a primitive state, like medieval swordsmith’s guilds?
• As the phrases “software engineering” and “test engineer” have long implied, can we advance to a true engineering profession. What is the history?
• What can other engineering professions teach us?
• What do other engineering professions have, and how can we go about creating analogous resources for software engineering?
• What will a true software engineering profession mean for testing?

Join Rex for this imaginative trip into one possible future, based on science and engineering facts.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT presentation of Towards a True Engineering Profession

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Towards a True Engineering Profession

Live Webinar Feb 19th 2014, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

Every project starts from somewhere – this session discusses the factors associated with project initiation and startup.

This can be accomplished through leveraging the following methodology deliverables:

• Business case,
• Detailed requirements,
• High level design,
• Project charter,
• Project roles,
• Testing strategy,
• User acceptance (UA) test plan.

The purpose and utility for each of these deliverables will be discussed during this tutorial.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for Applying IT Methodology to Project Initiation: A Tutorial

Live Webinar – Feb 18th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

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’

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.

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