Live Webinar – March 28th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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

Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.

Yet experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that so-called experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations.

The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques.

It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

You will learn:

• How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
• Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
• Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
• Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
• Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
• Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
• Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
• Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Dave Caccamo PMP, (LinkedIn profile) has three decades of experience in engineering, economics and project management. With a BSc from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Economics from North Carolina State University, Dave has demonstrated time and again his ability to make complex business and engineering concepts understandable to executives, managers and technicians through his fundamental modeling of subject matter.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop 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’

Click to register for Critical Thinking Skills: A Practical Guide to Structured Analytics Techniques

Live Webinar March 27th, 2014 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Energy, Oil, Gas & Petrochemical CoP (REP #S017)

Study results have shown that the most effective scheduling approach for developing realistic schedules with the greatest chance of keeping to schedule and budget was resource loaded schedules.

This presentation will discuss the methods used to develop a resource loaded schedule by looking at case studies of various companies including a drilling company.

Presenter: Wayne Greenwood (LinkedIn profile) has been a Director of Priority Management and has over thirty five years operational and project experience in aviation, logistics, government, oil industry and tourism.

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

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Live Webinar March 27th, 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)

• Do you wonder how agile teams adapt requirements practices? Wrangle with the right requirements to deliver?
• Fumble to filter through voluminous product “wants” and “needs”?
• Are you confused about decisions based on incomplete requirements? Having difficulties in collaborating with customers?

Ellen Gottesdiener will share a spectrum of requirements practices ranging from traditional to agile.

Hear how agile practitioners lighten, tighten, or incorporate a subset of traditional requirements practices. Understand how traditional projects can utilize agile requirements practices to increase quality and decrease delivery time. Join us to learn ways to calibrate your requirements to fit your project.

A key contributor to the business analysis profession across industry and PMI communities, Ellen is an expert reviewer of business analysis and requirements knowledge and role delineation works. You can reach her via ellen@ebgconsulting.com, Linkedin and follow her tweets (@ellengott)

Presenter: Ellen Gottesdiener, (LinkedIn profile @ellengott), is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. As founder of is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, she works with global clients and speaks at numerous numerous industry conferences. Ellen has authored of two acclaimed books: Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM. – Ellen has recently co-authored (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices,Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis.

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

Click to register for Do the Right Things: Adapting Requirements Practices for Agile and Traditional Project

Live Webinar March 27th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1303
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Business Analysts have to analyze new opportunities and make the business case for new project initiatives.

That requires quantitative analysis of costs, benefits, risks, alternative solutions, and the net return on investment so that the proposed investment can be compared to other opportunities and a sound business decision can be made.

Learning objectives include:

• Discover fixed, variable, and other costs and benefits
• Quantify costs and benefits in their present value
• Calculate net present value, net cost-benefit, net risk exposure, and ROI
• Assemble a convincing business case

This webinar is an overview of the skills needed to perform cost-benefit analysis and assembling a business case.

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect.

Click to register for Building the Business Case…It’s Time for Quantitative Measures!

Live Webinar – March 27th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category C 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

Join David Mantica & Chris Knotts to discuss some major Agile successes at large organizations.

They will take a look at what they did right, what almost went wrong, and how ordinary companies can replicate their success.

This one-hour web seminar will be a panel discussion between ASPE President, David Mantica (LinkedIn profile), and ASPE’s Director of Communication Chris Knotts. Rather than a presentation format, this seminar will be an open Q&A for participants.

Click to register for Agile Coaching: How Top Agile Leaders Guide Enterprise Environments

Live Webinar – March 27th, 2014 2:00 pm EDT
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’

Click to register for Practical Project Risk Management