Live Webinar July 11th, 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
CourseID: BAW1318

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to revalidate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

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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Online Webinar – October 9th 2012
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
CourseID:  WS100912

Medical practices and hospitals will need to apply proven business analysis and ROI assessment tools to understand and implement new healthcare requirements for their organizations.

Learning Objectives:

• Political and legal aspects of the new healthcare guidelines and HIPAA requirements.
• Statistical data on actual healthcare project success/failure factors.
• How to understand The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, plus Federal & State technology initiatives that will affect your organization.
• Preventing the mistakes and pitfalls that others have made in the selection, management and implementation of healthcare IT systems and meeting Meaningful Use guidelines.
• Identify issues that are often overlooked such as third party interfaces, data conversions, paper medical record retention and database management.

Presenter: Mary Zarba (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of Head First Training & Consulting and provides training for business analysts and IT project managers in key communication skills, project management, leadership techniques and problem solving skills. She also provides management consulting for medical group practices to optimize cash flow, explore innovative IT options, and troubleshoot problematic processes.

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Live Webinar July 10th, 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 examines how enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM / CPM) methods, including managerial accounting, have evolved over the last century.

Gary Cokins will describe the top 7 trends and obstacles that have helped or delayed developments.

Presenter:  Gary Cokins (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Top Trends in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Methods

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 21st, 2013
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Sponsored by: PEX – The Process Excellence Network

The reality of process excellence is that while some organizations achieve outstanding results from process transformation and improvement, others fail to realize the gains that they expected at the outset.

The tools and methodologies of process improvement are fairly standardized. So what makes the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful process excellence initiative?

Jim Sinur, Gartner Emeritus and author of “BPM The Next Wave” joins OpenText’s Director of Business Architecture Mark McGregor to explore what the reality of process excellence is, what is holding organizations back and how to overcome common challenges.

Join this webinar to:

1. Look at common pitfalls including competing approaches, competing messages and fragmented results
2. Explore how to connect process with strategy for better business outcomes
3. Learn 5 secrets that will totally transform your process excellence initiatives

This webinar will present ideas and strategies that, if taken and applied, will ensure greater success in your initiatives.

Presenters:

Jim Sinur Gartner emeritus and author of Business Process Management: The Next Wave is a leader in process management approaches. His focus is on business process & innovation, and business policy/rule management (BRMS). When with Gartner, Jim was critical in creating the first Hype Cycle and Maturity Model, which have become a hallmark of Gartner analysis, along with the Magic Quadrant.

Mark McGregor(LinkedIn profile) is author of the bestseller of Thinking of… People-centric Process Management? Ask the Smart Questions and Thrive!: How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer. Mark McGregor speaks, writes and coaches all over the world. He is passionate about continuously finding new ways to help people “Think Differently” and to achieve greater success.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate Scope
• 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’

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Rescheduled Live Webinar July 10th, 2014
Live Webinar July 17th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
(This session is now recorded – Click to view)
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI International Development CoP (REP #S034)

The “Sustainable Development” concept is sweeping across the entire world involving almost all social, economic, cultural, educational and political institutions. It is now unrealistic to think of running a program or project without a plan for its sustainability.

The current economic and financial crisis plaguing world economies have a been a litmus on their sustainability and long-term viability of many banks and other financial institutions and this has had some dramatic effects in the implementation of projects sponsored by these financial institutions.

It is a truism that Project Sustainability remains a major challenge nowadays not only to developing countries but to developed countries as well due to technological transformation, political changes, corruption, nepotism, deregulation, financial instability characterized by insolvency and liquidity problems, and other social, cultural, environmental and economic factors.

This webinar focuses on:

• The relationship between Project Management and Total Quality Management and how they complement each other towards project sustainability.
• It evaluates the contribution of other concepts such as:
  • Six Sigma Methodology,
  • Configuration Management,
  • Capacity Building,
  • Knowledge Management,
  • Project Planning and Management,
  • Human resources management and their impact project implementation and its sustainability.
• The webinar also elaborates on:
  • Basic quality improvement tools such as:
    • SWOT Analysis,
    • Process flow analysis,
    • Cost-benefit and
    • Cost-effectiveness analysis,
  • Quality organizational structures,
  • Systems analysis, feasibility studies,
  • Change management,
  • Issue management,
  • Risk management process and
  • Organizational behavior and team building which help to analyze and evaluate various quality management processes.

The webinar is intended for:

• Scholars and  researchers,
• Professional consultants in project management,
• Quality assurance, and  quality improvement consultants
• And general management, in industries such as:
  • Health research institutions, hospitals, clinics, and health insurance companies,
  • Small and large-scale businesses,
  • Governmental and Non-Governmental agencies
  • And other international organizations involved in the implementation of projects around the world.

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

Presenter: John Morfaw John is a seasoned professional providing top-notch seminars and workshop training on Project Planning and Management, Total Quality Management (TQM), Sustainable Development, Development of Strategic Implementation Plans, Monitoring and Evaluation, Community Development, Communication, Customer Service, Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Emerging Market Economies Strategic Plans. John is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Business, Management & Leadership category of the 2012 International Book Awards.

John is also the author Of a number of books including:

• Fundamentals of Project Sustainability
  • Only $2.99  A Great Introduction to Sustainability
  • 169 pages – Earn up to 7 Cat C PDUs with this book
• Fundamentals of Project Sustainability: Strategies, Processes and Plans (his most recent)
  • 214 pages – Earn up to 7 Cat C PDUs with this book
• Total Quality Management (TQM): A Model for the Sustainability of Projects and Programs in Africa
  • 200 pages – Earn up to 7 Cat C PDUs with this book
• Project Sustainability: A Comprehensive Guide To Sustaining Projects, Systems And Organizations In A Competitive Marketplace
  • 224 pages – Earn up to 7 Cat C PDUs with this book

Click to register for Sustainability in Organizations & Institutions: Part 1

Online Webinar – Recorded February 21st, 2013
By: ProjectTimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr 1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free PDU / CDU
CourseID:  WID00092

One disheartening aspect of the role of the Project Manager, which virtually no one seems to be able to overcome, is project failure.

Senior IT and business leaders have grown weary of the project failure epidemic, and are now looking to individual Projects Managers (PM)s and the Project Management Office (PMO) to do something about it. This webinar features essential advice on how you can.

Some reasons for project failure are easy to name, but this webinar reveals the 10 hidden causes of project failure that lie just under the radar of most Project Managers. Hidden problems that continue to sabotage project teams day after day.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to spot these 10 hidden reasons, and you’ll also discover effective, proven solutions for overcoming each one.

Here’s a sneak peek of the 10 hidden reasons revealed in the webinar:

• Hidden Reason #3: Requirements errors actually getting approved and slipping into development unnoticed
• Hidden Reason #6: Your team members being “fuzzy” on the details of your project (even though you’ve likely never heard them admit it)
• Hidden Reason #10: Expecting agile to ‘cure’ the problem

Don’t miss this important opportunity to understand the cause of project failure in a whole new light, so you can be the one who finally gets the project failure epidemic under control at your organization. Register for this webinar now!

This webinar is presented by Tony Higgins (LinkedIn profile) from Blueprint Software Systems, a 27-year software industry veteran, who has spent much of the past decade focused on developing software requirements solutions that support Business Analysts, Projects Managers and PMOs in today’s enterprise.

Click to register for 10 Hidden Reasons Why Projects Fail: How to Spot them and How to Solve Them!