Live Webinar October 22nd, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Strategic change initiatives are profiling in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture to help assess and plan them.

Enterprise Business Architecture is quickly evolving into a mainstream business capability. Some would argue that it is already there considering 50% of the world’s top performing enterprises have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator.

The tools and techniques of business architecture should be foundational to strategy development, deployment and executive planning. This webinar intends to demonstrate the business architecture framework, describe the what, why, how and uses of some architectural blueprints.

Learning Objectives:

1. Purpose and benefits of Business Architecture to scope, planning and delivery.
2. Applicability of Business Architecture in the context of the rapid Change Agenda
3. Business Architecture framework and a variety of approaches to know when to use model types.
4. Different views of a business architecture framework and how analysis techniques will expose risk.
5. To think architecturally in the decomposition of the organization as a technique for defining organizational impact, scope and for Process Modeling & Requirements analysis methods.

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Live Webinar – October 23rd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
By BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

All of the work we do relies on a steady flow of well-timed, accurate and manageable information.

We have tools, technology, techniques and a lot of people around us to make this information available to ourselves and others.

• But are we using them properly?
• Are using the right tools at the right time in the right place?
• Are the techniques we employ doing the job?
• And are the people around us helping or hindering the process?

Communicating effectively across our projects, at all levels, is one the most important keys to our success. This session will allow us to think about some of the key communication tools and techniques available to us to ensure our project success

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand what tools and techniques are available to us
• Learn how to use the right tool in the right place
• Learn how to establish a sound communications process for all levels of our project

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: David Barrett (LinkedIn profile) is a Founding Member IIBA and Professional Speaker.  He is also the Project Director for the Centres of Excellence in Project Management and Business Analysis at The Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University, the co-editor of ProjectTimes.com and BATimes.com.

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Live Webinar – October 24th, 2014 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Has the adoption of Agile techniques magically erased risk from software projects?

• Or, have we just changed how we recognize and manage risk?
• Or, more frighteningly, by changing the project environment through adopting Agile techniques, have we tricked ourselves into thinking that risk has been abolished?

Projects need to understand and respond to risk, even in Agile projects; however, there are better tools than the venerable risk register.

In this webinar, Tom Cagley will discuss the best strategies for managing risk in an Agile environment.

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NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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.’

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled “Software Process and Measurement Cast”. The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

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Live Webinar October 23rd, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Are You Hitting The Mark With Your Mentoring Program?

Many mentoring programs miss the mark because of a lack of alignment to business goals and strategy and because they fail to clearly articulate the goals of the program from the outset.

Others fail because of poor mentor/mentee matches and insufficient training at the beginning of the program.

Horace McCormick, Program Director at UNC Executive Development, has recently published the talent management white paper, How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program.

Horace will:

• Discuss the benefits of effective mentoring programs and why more employers are embracing mentoring programs in their organizations;
• Delineate the difference between coaching and mentoring;
• Review various types of mentoring programs;
• Offer steps HR and talent management professionals can use to launch successful and sustainable mentoring programs in their organizations, and;
• Provide examples of mentoring programs being used in organizations today.

Presented by:  Horace McCormick (LinkedIn profile) Program Director of Executive Development at University of North Carolina

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.3 Develop 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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