Live Webinar May 15th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is third in a four part series series on The Role Of The PM by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

So, you’ve worked on a lot of projects and know how to develop scope and requirements deliverables, but what are the Project Manager’s responsibilities during the development of these deliverables?

Attend this 1 hour live webinar learn what the Project Manager must do to ensure that scope is determined, managed, and approved and to develop and approve project requirements.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The components for defining a complete Project Scope Statement
• The components of defining clear Business Requirement Statements
• The process for defining Technical Requirements

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar May 16th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

Growing complexity and increasing dependencies of global volatile economies are making difficult for businesses to effectively pursue their strategic advancement and achieve goals.

The emergent market challenges have driven paradigm shift in business management where the advancement needs focus on efficient implementation of change that leads to strategic direction.

The challenges are noted as following;

•  A “do more with less” economic climate
•  Expanding global priorities
• Necessity to enable innovation

There comes into play the power of Project Management that provides focus on desired business outcomes to progress in strategic direction with built up framework of Project Management and effective management and  control.

Project Management has evolved to support the business demands and meet with the emergent market challenges effectively.

Competitive performances are linked with Organizational Competence for advancement to strategic direction with changing requirements and to meet & exceed the expectations of stakeholders.

Project-based Management is increasingly adapted to systematically deliver strategy and consistently, predictably; and reliably satisfies the increasing demands of stakeholders and improved performance to achieve the desired business results and sustain growth.

Organizations are discovering the answer for sustainability in a rigorous project management approach that starts at the portfolio level and cascades down through programs and projects.

When what organizations do is not exclusive, how they do it becomes a competitive advantage, and the lingering effects of the global economic meltdown only reinforce the value of project management.

Organizations that value project management understand that the contributions of professional project managers increase project success rate, create efficiency and improve alignment with organizational strategies and recognize the continuum of improvement.

The participants will learn to appreciate:

• Alignment of project management to organizational strategy
• Cultivating project management talent
• Application of OPM Framework for Governance & Transparency
• Leadership Culture for High Performance

Presenter: M. Aslam Mirza (LinkedIn profile) as President of Integrated Management Services he partners  to strengthen client endeavors for Organizational Competence Enhancement, application of Project Management systems and processes. His rich insights are derived from 40+yrs exposure to hands-on challenges in positions on sizeable projects, including business management, organizational leadership, high performing team building, and participation in task team for research and development of PMI-Standards for OPM3, Portfolio Management Program Management, PM Competency Development Framework, PMBOK-Construction Ext

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

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Live Webinar – May 16th 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

In the last couple of years, more and more organizations have switched to Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) as their preferred (often, the standard) way to capture, model, and analyze business processes.

There are several reasons for this trend:

• Simple notation: easy to learn and communicate with all stakeholders, on both the business and the technical sides
• Flexible: 3 levels of abstraction that allow modeling simple high-level processes (Descriptive level), analysis and optimization (Analytic level), and specifying complex processes for IT implementation and/or execution (Execution level)
• Showing the whole-picture + hierarchal structure: allows abstraction at high-levels and elaboration into further details, without losing the relationships between different process components
• Efficiency/reuse: projects and analysts reuse/elaborate same models as more details are added throughout the Solution/System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Widely adopted standard: common set of conventions and symbols, with no need to (re)invent the wheel
• Wide adoption by tool providers: virtually all major vendors, commercial or open-source, have adopted BPMN

In this seminar we will introduce core concepts and principles of Business Process Management (BPM) and BPMN and demonstrate how this knowledge will significantly improve Business Analysts’ ability to elicit/capture, analyze, manage, and communicate business and solution requirements.

Presenter: Razvan Radulian’s (LinkedIn profile) CBAP OCEB PMP passion has always been to help/coach people analyze and solve problems and to design & implement business/technical solutions. Razvan is fond of rescuing troubled projects, tackling the most challenging problems and delivering “impossible” solutions.  Rasvan holds on MS in Biochemistry from the University of Bucharest and an MBA from Duke University.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.4 Create WBS
• 5.6 Validate 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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Live Webinar – May 15th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU

Agile has become mainstream for developing software.

Organizations that have adopted agile have seen improvements in quality, cycle time, and customer satisfaction.  Standish Group research shows that agile projects are three times more successful than traditional plan driven projects.

However using Agile Development practices does not make an agile organization.

Frequent delivery of software provides little value if the software cannot be deployed because of rigid release and change management processes.

Another significant challenge facing enterprises is how to coordinate agile teams across multiple projects in multi-disciplined environments.

Companies are appointing agile coaches to individual projects, but there is little or no company-wide coordination.

In addition, little has been done to help transform the business to be able to respond more rapidly to change.

Agile transformation requires focus on four key areas:

1. Agile Discovery
2. Agile Delivery
3. DevOps
4. Agile Business Change

In this webinar, John will address these four topics with heavy emphasis on Agile Discovery and Agile Business Change and discuss how BAs and PMs will need to transform to operate in the agile environment.

Presenter: John E. Parker (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO Enfocus Solutions Inc.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 13.3 Manage 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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Live Webinar – May 15th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX  – The Process Excellence Network

Traditionally, organizations have gone to great lengths to specify and document requirements for processes.

The trouble is that it can take months or years to develop process automation solutions only to find that they fall short of our expectations and are too rigid or expensive to update, modify or change.

We then have to put manual systems in place as workarounds making our grand solutions fragile and subject to uncontrolled employee processes with little to no visibility.

So how do you get out of this cycle and create an “Agile” business environment where you can rapidly change processes with the needs of the business?

Join this webinar to learn a new approach to managing the flow of business requirements and more effectively bring together the people, processes and information your people need to get work done.

In this webinar you will:

1. Explore why change is the new business requirement and what that means for you and your business
2. Learn techniques you can use to adapt and utilize current solutions in a more Agile Business Process
3. Identify ways that you can automate processes without involving IT
4. Get ideas on how you can maximize employee and customer engagement in business processes

Presenter: Steve Allen (LinkedIn profile) as Founder Steve drives the product vision of iDatix to develop solutions that combine people, processes and information. Steve has always focused on automating the business process and simplifying the user experience through technology.  For the past 16 years he has focused on office automation and business process management, developing products for character recognition, forms processing, document management and workflow.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate 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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Live Webinar May 14th, 2014, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems. Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

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Click to register for the Live version of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation

Recorded Version Information: If you watch the recorded version of this webinar it is a good idea to record the information about this webinar date, time, and list this prerecorded event for your PDU Audit folder.

Click to view a recorded version (2008-10-28) of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation .