Live Webinar – August 20th 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Business analysts have the responsibility to gather, analyze, and validate business and technical requirements for their projects, thus they need structured facilitation skills to manage requirements meetings and workshops.

In this one hour webinar you will learn the most important things to remember when planning a facilitated workshop and what types of questions to ask when eliciting requirements.

This webinar will address the following:

• The role of facilitation in business analysis
• Advanced elicitation questions to improve BA and BSA performance
• Plan a facilitated meeting Who Needs to Attend

Click to register for Effective Meetings for Business Analysts

Live Webinar Aug 20th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

As a BA or PM, You Are On The Front Lines
Building 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.

What You’ll Learn:

1. How to identify the extended collaboration circle of product delivery in your organization. Who are the personas, both upstream and downstream, with a voice on your project? Beyond your team of peers and managers, are you in sync with customers? With your development and QA teams?
2. The importance of bridging the gap among different personas so you can streamline your work and run projects more efficiently. You’ll gain valuable tips for eliciting, validating, approving requirements and project details, as well as ideas for more continuous feedback loops to minimize the impact of change.
3. How to use modern requirements management tools to keep everyone in the collaboration circle looped in on all the key discussion, decisions and input about the product delivery process. You’ll be confident in your ability to meet expectations when they are all clearly communicated and agreed upon.

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

In this session also learn about these Productivity Killers”:

• The 11th hour swoop-in.
• Decision recollection disorder.
•  CYA Syndrome.
•  The Missing Vault.
• Mismatched expectations.
• Missing pieces.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

PDU Category B documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate Scope

Remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

Click to register for Collaborative Requirements for BAs: Keeping Future Projects on Track

Live Webinar August 20th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDWxx
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW259

Do you need help building, leading, and positively influencing unified, high-performing project teams?

In this webinar, you’ll learn why interpersonal effectiveness delivers project success—and how you can have both!

Key learning points from this webinar include:

• Increase buy-in from team members and stakeholders by understanding the connection between trust, conflict, and accountability
• Understand how to develop and maintain accountability with project team members and stakeholders
• Learn to influence project participants on all levels of the project who do not directly report to you including: clients, team members, stakeholders, and vendors

Presenter: Eileen Twichell, (LinkedIn profile) is a dynamic and accomplished presenter and is highly regarded in the project management community for her expertise and knowledge of the field. She brings to you over twenty years of project management training and design experience and has developed and facilitated classes in project management, time management, presentation skills, coaching, and communications.

Click to register for The Missing Link: Interpersonal Effectiveness for Project Success

Live Webinar – August 21st 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU – 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Today’s organizations must integrate and align people, processes, structures, culture and strategy to successfully transition individuals and/or groups from a current state to a future state to achieve their desired business outcomes and objectives.

It is how we define change management today, which directly affects everyone from the entry-level employee to senior management.

Everyone must learn how to make organizational changes, where managers are charged with the additional responsibility of making these changes happen in and through the different levels of strategic execution.

This one-hour webinar focuses on change management in the areas of organizational development and human resource management combined with standardized portfolio, program, and project management practices (i.e., PMBOK® 5th Edition).

Presenter: Alexander Stanisic PMP is a seasoned business professional  delivering best-practice based strategic execution solutions within both public and private sectors. Alexander is currently teaching 10 university-accredited business courses for Global Knowledge in association with McMaster University in Canada. Alexander has a postgraduate-level education from the Graduate School of Engineering, Stanford University  Six Sigma Green Belt, ITIL and Change Management certifications.

Click to register for Take the Fear Out of Change: Why You Need Organizational Change Management

Live Webinar – August 21st, 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

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating  & Executing, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1  Plan Risk Management
• 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”

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

Click to register for  Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability

Live Webinar August 21, 2014, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August, 2014, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

• Where does the world stand on cloud computing risks?
• What should we be most worried about, what can we do about it today, and if we can’t do anything about it today, when can we?

This webinar summarizes the latest research into the best practices for cloud risk management, including survey data on risk assessment practices and the Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing Security.

Discussion Topics:

• Which cloud risks should most concern you
• How to assess the risks of a specific cloud-based service
• What we can do to manage cloud risks

Presenter:  Jay Heiser (Gartner bio, LinkedIn profile) Research VP

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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.’

Click to register for Understanding & Controlling the Risks of Cloud Computing