Live Webinar – March 11th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU/CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

We often think the culprit to poor project results is a lack of technical knowledge and skill in project management and business analysis.

While this is a contributor it is not necessarily the only one,
nor the main one.

An organization’s project environment can significantly neutralize even the best efforts to bring a project in on time and budget as well as identifying and delivering on scope.

Additionally, since all projects involve people, projects managers and business analysts have to be highly skilled at engaging and communicating with people. Shortcomings in these areas guarantee lackluster efforts and overall confusion.

Systemation will help you move forward with your projects!

Note: How to Receive PDUs for Attending a Live Systemation Webinar – You can earn one PDU per live webinar attended. All you have to do is fill out PMI’s online form or download the PDF version and claim the PDUs in Section 4 as Category B (Systemation’s address is: 12503 E. Euclid Dr. Suite 55. Centennial, CO 80111).

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Virtual Training March 17th – 21st, 2014

2 Sessions each day: 1pm-2pm & 4pm-5pm EDT
Duration: 9-10 Hours Credits: 9 PDU Category B PDUs
Fees: $37.00 Live Listening ONLY – $117.00 USD Pass
Hosted by: Gil Broza, (LinkedIn profile @gilbroza)

Your Host – Gil Broza is Principal Agile Mentor & Founder at 3PVantage and author ofThe Human Side of Agile: How to Help Your Team Deliver. Recordings of last years Agile conference “Individuals and Interactions” are still available. (9 Category B PDUs for $87 – $97) An Excellent Value!

Win A GOLD PASS!

If you would love to hear these great agile speakers, receive the recordings, the transcripts and so much more – we are giving away a Gold pass to “Your Agile Journey” Webcast Conference.

The Sessions Are Easy to Attend – Just 2 sessions a day – and with the Gold Pass you will get all the recordings and transcripts!

To win simply Click to send us an email with your name and contact information and tell us why you would love to attend the conference and receive the recordings. 🙂

Contest Closes:
March 11th at Midnight MDT. 1 entry per person please.

Note: The Gold Pass is a great value! 9 Cat B’s & with the $117.oo USD registration fee you will receive the recordings and transcripts of all of the presentations. This event features 10 Great industry experts and renowned speakers.

This is an amazing opportunity to earn up to 9 Category B PDUs and get a great understanding of proven strategies to enhance your agile techniques and create outstanding success on your agile projects – enhancing your productivity.

The lineup for this event includes:

• Nick Oddson (LinkedInprofile,@noddson)
  • Organizational Support: Actions Speak Louder than Words
• Tricia Broderick (formerly Wilkerson – (LinkedIn profile, @t_broderick)
  • A Team-Friendly Environment: Making Collaboration Possible
• Ted Young(LinkedIn profile, @jitterted)
  • Stop Sprinting, Start Iterating: Embracing Uncertainty and Learning
• Andrew McGlinchey(LinkedIn profile)
  • Whole Product Thinking: More than a Backlog of Features
• Paul Carvalho(LinkedIn profile,@can_test)
  • A Quality Mind-set: Beyond Defects and Automated Tests
  • Watch for Paul’s new book Put Your Mind to the Test to be released soon
• Arlo Belshee (LinkedIn profile, @arlobelshee )
  • Technical Excellence: Changing the Rules of the Development Game
• Johanna Rothman (LinkedIn profile, @JohannaRothman)
  • The Get-to-Done Mentality: Finish What You Start
    
  • Johanna has written many popular books including:
    • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
    • Hiring Geeks That Fit
    • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
    • Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
    • Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People
• Dan Mezick (LinkedIn profile, @DanMezick)
  • Cultural Fit: Can You Handle the Truth?
  • Author Of: The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager
• Guy Nachimson (LinkedIn profile, @guynachimson)
  • Embracing Change: Turning the One Constant from Foe to Friend
• Ken Rubin (LinkedIn profile, @krubinagile)
  • The Agile Principles and Values: Doing What Really Matters
  • Author Of : Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

You’ll be happy you listened to these folks, because you’ll …

• Receive tons of information and advice, which will be useful and applicable no matter where you are on your Agile journey
• Explore both principles and practices – both what successful teams and organizations do and why they succeed
• Understand just how deep/extreme Agile gets, and the corresponding risks and rewards
• Shorten the journey to success with Agile, which is neither short nor easy

If you can’t attend all sessions, or prefer reading to listening, the recordings and transcripts will be available.

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Gain Proven Strategies, Tools, & Insights For Outstanding Success with Agile Webcast
March 17 – 21, 2014

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Live Webinar March 10th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

IKIWISI!

I Know What I Want When I See It!

Yes, customers don’t really know what they want and simply asking them to tell you won’t help. That is why Agile advocates using visual modeling techniques to engage your customer in ‘visioning’ what they really want.

Come learn some of the top Agile Modeling and Visualization techniques you can use to help your customers communicate their vision and reach deeper knowledge of their desired outcomes.

PLEASE NOTE: Registering does not guarantee a seat. To increase the probability of getting in, join the webinar 15 minutes before start time. When the webinar is open, you will see a Join the Webinar link at the bottom of this page. If it is after quarter to the hour, and the Join the Webinar link is not present, the 1,000 seat webinar is very likely full. If you are not able to get in you will be able to watch the webinar recording on this site after the webinar. Just click the Webinars tab, and filter on Recorded Webinars. You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Sally Elatta,(LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun. is the President of Agile Transformation and an Enterprise Agile Coach. Sally is the Agile Expert for the PMI Learning, Education and Development (LEAD) community of practice and hosts a popular ‘Transforming to Agile‘ webinar series. She blogs on PMI.org and was on the review committee for the new PMI-ACP exam. She also publishes several short learning videos on www.AgileVideos.com.

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Live Webinar March 11th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar will discuss how to establish an effective and sustainable enterprise architecture (EA) practice based on four fundamental elements:

1. A method framework,
2. A skills framework,
3. A taxonomy framework, and
4. A tool framework

Presented by: Chris Armstrong (LinkedIn profile)

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The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
An Excellent Value!!

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Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar March 12th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
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

How Much Will Your Project Cost?

Sometimes the fundamentals of creating a budget are murky business to those who haven’t had much experience in developing cost estimates or budgets.

Learn to use the language of finance and explore what it takes to create a usable budget.

Objectives:

• Define the components of a cost estimate and budget
• Identify techniques for estimating cost
• Review a budget buildup
• Define best practices to implement within Project Insight

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.

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Live Webinar – March 11th, 2014 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU

Many organizations simply view business analysis as requirements development and management, however this view is vastly different from what is expressed in IIBA’s Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK).

The BABOK defines a Business Analyst as “Any person who performs business analysis activities, no matter what their job title or organizational role may be.”

The BABOK goes further and says that Business Analysts do not just have the title Business or System Analysts they may also be perform related roles such as Project Management, Developers, Quality Assurance and Interaction Design. This broad role of business analysis makes it appear more of a process than a role.

Business Analysis is about ensuring solutions deliver value to the business.

This includes tasks such as defining the problem, understanding stakeholder needs, defining requirements, building test cases, validating the right solution is being built, and measuring business value using KPIs.

In this webinar, John Parker (LinkedIn profile) will express how Business Analysis should be viewed as a collaborative team effort and not some narrow role of just serving as a note taker in interviews and writing requirements.

He will address the following topics:

• What is Business Analysis?
• Business Analysis is a Significant Risk for Most Organizations
• How Do We Move Away from the Requirements Mentality
• Business Analysis is a Team Sport
• Are Business Analysis and Business Design the Same Thing?
• Why Project Managers Should Care About Business Analysis?
• Does QA really perform an BA Role?
• Busting the Silos

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define 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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