Live Webinar March 4th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Speed …. If you had to summarize in one word what you need to succeed in business in today’s current market and climate, it would be that word. Laggards are treated harshly, just ask anyone who works or worked at Research in Motion (RIM). Once the darling of mobile communications, RIM is now fighting for its very survival.

Software development has become the foundation on which new business services and products are built. Whether you are selling financial services, global logistics, energy, or cars, it is software that is adding either capability or value to your product that increases your competitive advantage and drives sales.

Scope …. is the dirty word in software/systems development. Traditional project managers adhere to it rigorously. Agile evangelists really don’t consider it outside their two to four week iterations. Business Analysts worry more about effectiveness and use than it.

If the traditional PM is on one side and the Agile evangelist on the other the BA ends up smack in the middle when it comes to a mindset on scope.

The reality is unless business conditions adjust, there is no way SDLC professionals can put “change” in a box any longer. This doesn’t mean an organization has to become agile.

What it means is practitioners in the SDLC have to look at alternative methods to controlling “Scope Creep” in the face of rapid pace of change, especially on elongated projects.

In this presentation, David will discuss:

• An executive sponsors prospective on scope in a project
• What sponsors ultimately want and what they don’t care to hear
• The evolving role of the BA and how Project Managers can make better use of the BA position with regard to scope definition and management

With this said, there is still the issue of “in-project” change. Instead of the dreaded change order, we will take a look at agile practice of task boarding to see if there are ways to document “changes” in a highly visible way to potentially get to in project (if time allows) or after prioritizing after the project is completed.

The ultimate goal of this presentation is to highly how PM’s can utilize BA professionals in the Scope process and how elements of agile methods can help deal with change in complex and elongated projects.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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Live Webinar March 4th 2014, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST or
Live Webinar March 4th 2014, 12:00 pm – :00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Today, many cloud service providers and a growing number of enterprises are failing over data center operations between separate cloud data centers in lieu of using more traditional disaster recovery-centric approaches.

Is managed failover the convergence holy grail for both traditional disaster recovery and availability management?

This session discusses both the opportunities and limitations of managed failover in the public cloud by leveraging the research results from Gartner’s recently completed Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) Critical Capabilities and failover management automation research.

Discussion Topics:

• If managed failover becoming more mainstream in the enterprise
• How cloud providers are implementing managed failover
• The best short term client opportunities for implementing failover management across hybrid clouds

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 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 Feb 27, 2014
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Organizations launch projects with the assumption that the new or improved solution will provide worthwhile benefits for stakeholders and a suitable return on investment.

Understanding your business requirements can ensure that your teams actually deliver those benefits. Furthermore, keeping user and functional requirements aligned with the business requirements is a key element of successful solution delivery.

Joy will also explore four different scope representation techniques you can apply at any phase of a project.

Topics covered include:

1. Business objectives and success metrics
2. Scope control using business objectives
3. Vision statements
4. Context Diagrams, Ecosystem Maps, Feature Trees, and Event Lists

In this webinar you’ll learn how to define clear business objectives and corresponding success metrics, how to craft a focused vision statement, and how to specify other elements of the business requirements.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

Presenters: Joy Beatty (LinkedIn profile) 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

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Business Requirements Scoping Techniques

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Live Webinar Feb 27th 2014 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Live Webinar Feb 27th 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM GMT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: APMG International

• Do you know what agile really means?
• When your colleagues talk about ‘going agile’ do you know what is involved and how it might affect you?

This webinar is packed with facts and practical experience of adopting an agile approach to project management. It will help you understand how agile is different to other methods including PRINCE2 and what the benefits and the challenges of agile really are.

Melanie is an experienced project and programme manager and is currently supporting several high profile organizations through their transition from traditional to agile project management.

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Live Webinar – Feb 26th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Talent Expert and bestselling author, Roberta Matuson explains how to navigate the changing talent pool and the challenges of attracting top talent that will stick around.

The impact of extraordinary workers—ambitious, driven employees who can be counted on under a tight deadline, are always seeking to improve, and consistently deliver results—is undisputed, and having such workers can determine a company’s success, especially as companies seek to take advantage of business growth opportunities.

With concrete tips you can immediately implement, this event will be an invaluable guide to attracting and retaining the top talent that can transform your organization.

You will learn:

• Why attraction trumps recruitment every time
• Five myths about today’s workers and why yesterday’s workplace tactics no longer work
• How to create the type of workplace that attracts, recruits and retains top talent and repels mediocrity
• Case studies and tools to create the “stickiness” that will keep your people connected to your organization

Speakers: RobertaMatuson is the author of the bestseller,Suddenly in Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around and the newly released,Talent Magnetism: How to Build a Workplace That Attracts and Keeps the Best . She holds an MBA from the University of Houston and a BS in Human Resource Management from Northeastern University. She also publishes a free newsletter, The Talent Maximizer.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

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Live Webinar Feb 26th 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

To Sell Is Human: The New ABCs of Moving Others

The rules have changed!

“A-B-C,” Alec Baldwin tells a group of salesmen in the classic movie Glengarry Glen Ross. “A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing.” But bestselling author Dan Pink (bio) will tell you this steamroller approach is now a relic.

In this webinar Daniel will be discussing his newest bestselling book To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others.

Discover cutting-edge social science and global best practices that form the new ABCs of selling.

Presenter: Daniel Pink, Author of the bestselling book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future is known for his visionary flare. Pink convincingly argues that business and everyday life will soon be dominated by right-brain thinkers.

Daniel Pinks other best sellers include Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself the follow up book The 7 Dirty Words of the Free Agent Workforce and his most popular book The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media.

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’

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