Live Webinar August 28th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Information Systems CoP (REP #S010)

“Risk analysis is a technique used to identify and assess factors that may jeopardize the success of a project or achieving a goal.”

– Wikipedia

While this quote makes a snappy definition:

• What does it actually mean, and…
• More importantly, how does one perform a risk analysis for to ensure that your information is adequately protected?

In this session Gregory Bassett  will explore why a risk analysis is a vital part of an overall risk strategy and propose an 8 step process performing a high-quality risk analysis.

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

Click to register for How to Increase Project Success with Risk Analysis

Live Webinar August 28th 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

When you think about SharePoint migration,
Your biggest concern is your data.

You want to move it and ensure that you’re not losing anything, but migration and data validation are only a portion of a good migration.

The key to creating a stellar migration experience for your company and your users is everything you do before and after the actual migration.

From pre-migration analysis and environment re-architecture to long term permissions/data administration and backup, these steps are essential for performing the most efficient migration and the easiest administration follow up.

In this month’s webinar, MetaVis Product Manager Chris Kolodziejski will discuss the importance of these steps and demonstrate some tools and methods that can help with your:

1. Pre-migration environment and data analysis,
2. Environment re-architecture
3. Migration
4. Security administration
5. Backup

You will have the opportunity to see how you can utilize the tools within MetaVis Architect suite to make your migration quick, efficient, and best of all, a positive user/customer experience.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 SharePoint Migration Is Half The Battle: Secrets For A Great Migration Experience

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How To Scope Your Projects

Online Webinar – Presented by: PDUs2go (Rep 1637)
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category A – Free PDUs

If you want to deliver your projects on time, then you need to clearly define the scope of your project upfront.

Learn how to:

• Scope your project and
• How to monitor it on a regular basis.

You’ll also find out how to implement change control so that any change requests to the project scope can be managed carefully.

Course Objective:

• Describe best practices and tips to scope projects effectively and create an action plan to take the 1st step.

Projects can always be a challenge, but if you follow the tips and tricks you learn in this Webinar, you’ll create wins for you and your teams.

Click to register for:
How To Scope Your Projects

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Live Webinar August 28th, 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)

Don’t you just love the word ‘Requirements’?
It’s so clear isn’t it – NOT!

This webinar is dedicated to discussing the 4 levels of requirements and why it is important to gather the right level at the right time and not dive into the details too early.

Sally Elatta will discuss 4 techniques for slicing EPICs into smaller deliverables and also share how you can use Business Value Points for prioritizing features.

Whether or not you’re using Agile:
You will absolutely walk away with tips to help you improve your current requirements approach.

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

Presenter: Sally Elatta, (LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun.  Sally also publishes several short learning videos on AgileVideos.com.

Click to register for The Four Levels of Agile Requirements

Live Webinar – Recorded February 27th, 2013
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Comms REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr 1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free PDU 1 PDU / CDU

Development Peer Review Is Effective
It Ensures A Higher Quality Product

Unfortunately, peer reviews of requirements documents often aren’t held when intended and those that are performed don’t always go as intended. Reviewers take only a superficial look and they often miss major defects that lurk in the specification, leading to delivery of a poor quality product.

In this webinar, Karl Wiegers, a best-selling author and speaker on requirements management and software peer reviews, gives practical advice to make requirements peer reviews more effective and encourage prospective reviewers to participate.

Listen in as Karl shares:

• An overview of the peer review formality spectrum
• Major characteristics of reviews
• Five steps you can take to improve peer reviews of requirements

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

Click to register for 5 Steps to Better Requirements Peer Reviews

Live Webinar August 28th, 2014 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

Idea Mapping is a powerful whole-brained visual thinking tool that enhances memory, note-taking skills, thought organization, planning, creativity, and communication.

It uses color, key words, lines and images to connect thoughts associatively. Idea Maps are the natural expression of the way the brain processes information associatively.

The human brain is better at processing information when it is presented visually. Despite this, however, most communication is linear rather than visual.

By converting the information that is received into an idea map, you create relationships which will help clarify the information contained.

For a limited time you can get:

• Kindle Book Summary of  Summary: Idea Mapping – Jamie Nast [Kindle Edition] This 32 page summary explains how idea mapping enables you to plan more effectively, allow others to understand you better, and permits more connections between logical ideas and creativity.

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

Presenter: Jamie Nast (LinkedIn profile) is the author of the book Idea Mapping: How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Success in Business .

Click to register for Idea Mapping