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

Poor requirements lead to failed projects. There is solid evidence that visualization of requirements result in higher quality results. Engaging stakeholders by the use of a variety of modeling techniques results in much higher quality requirements and greatly improved project results.

In this webinar, you will gain insight into a wide array of modeling tools that assist in more effectively documenting customer requirements. You will gain an understanding of how these tools can effectively improve the communication with your clients.

Examples of modeling tools will be overviewed, including: context diagrams, use cases, activity diagrams, screen flows and prototypes. This allows a business analyst to connect the dots when documenting requirements.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the value of creating a context diagram at the beginning of the project
• Learn how to derive use cases from the context diagram to document functional requirements
• Increase the effectiveness of process documentation by developing activity diagrams
• Learn how to create screen flows and use prototyping for improved usability
• Understand how these modeling techniques come together to provide a true picture of requirements

About the Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile) MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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Live Webinar June 26th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI® IT & Telecom CoP (REP #S009)

Data is the new “natural” resource

Enabling actionable insights from the ever-increasing velocity, volume, and variety of data has become a top priority for many organizations.

Big Data technologies have created a paradigm shift by enabling analytics on large and complex data sets that had not been possible until now with traditional tools.

While this new world of Big Data provides enormous opportunities, it also introduces new challenges.

In this webinar, Chandra will present five practical strategies that will ensure success of Big Data Projects.

Based on his real world experience in delivering Big Data projects for multiple clients, Chandra will discuss how project and program managers can implement these strategies in planning, executing, and successfully completing their projects.

Presenter: Chandra Papudesu is a Software Services leader and coauthor of Project Valuation Using Real Options: A Practitioner’s Guide. Chandra oversees Big Data project delivery for customers in multiple industry verticals such as financial services, healthcare and manufacturing and  holds engineering degrees from Indian Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

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Live Webinar – June 26th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Organization structures in most companies today make resource management a daunting task. A lack of visibility into resource allocation and capacity, consistent prioritization and validation of actual work versus planned, contribute to this challenge.

Over 50% of IT organizations surveyed use their “best guess” when determining what capacity IT has to perform projects in a given period.

This webinar presents the fundamentals for creating and implementing a Resource Management Model using people, process and technology. A Resource Management Model is a set of processes that provide visibility, decision support and structure to effectively manage people in an organization.

Allocating resources based on availability and fit, supported by standard processes, will improve the success and predictability of projects across your organization.

Who should attend this webinar?

COO’s, CIOs, Department VPs and Managers, PMs, Resource 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: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.4 Manage 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.’

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Live Webinar – June 25th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

What opportunities are you looking for to improve your business performance?

In this webinar you will learn six opportunities that are readily available when you adopt a decision management approach to business rules and predictive analytics.

These are opportunities to:

1. Simplify business processes and so reduce costs and increase business agility by externalizing decisions from them.
2. Increase straight through processing and so reduce costs by applying decision management technologies to automate decisions.
3. Increase the speed and accuracy of tactical and managerial decision-making through decision modeling and improved decision support systems.
4. Use analytics to eliminate “one size doesn’t really fit anyone” handling of customers, partners, suppliers or transactions.
5. Radically re-assess staffing needs where decision management technologies allow automation so that only exceptions require manual intervention.
6. Maximize the value of assets and people by replacing first-in-first-out and other mechanical approaches with decision-centric risk- or opportunity-based approaches.

Presenter: James Taylor  (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Decision Management Solutions has more than 20 years experience improving the decision-making process and developing methods to create an agile, analytic, and adaptive businesses. Working with clients in all sectors he identifies their highest-value opportunities for advanced analytics, enabling them to reduce fraud, continually manage and assess risk, and maximize customer value with increased flexibility and speed.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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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