Live Webinar June 18th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

As a Business Analyst or Project Manager, you are on the front lines of bringing products to market that build value for your business. If you’re like most BAs, however, you spend too much time reporting status, explaining context and tracking decisions.

In this session, learn tips and tools to help you keep your teams aligned, provide better visibility and maintain a continuous feedback loop so you can spend less time reporting and more time innovating.

By bringing in your stakeholders early and often, you can slay the productivity-killing monsters that wreak havoc on your job.

Some “Productivity Killers” are:

• The 11th hour swoop-in  – Don’t you love when an executive comes to you at the last minute with some critical feedback you asked for weeks ago?
• Decision recollection disorder – Isn’t it fun to revisit decisions months later? Don’t you love trying to prove who decided what, when and why, even six months after the fact?
• CYA Syndrome – Can you trace the final feature set back to the original business objective? No? Can you explain why?
  The Missing Vault Remember that one person who knew everything? Who left the company? How can you tap into all that intelligence?
• Mismatched expectations – Ever had a product you drove met with a resounding “meh.”? Or find out after the fact that so and so was expecting x, y, and z instead of q, r, s.
• Missing pieces – Does everyone on your team even know enough about what your product actually does to make sound decisions on the fly?

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
• 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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