Live Webinar November 18th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011

Time Tested Methodology for Discovering the Richest Markets for Your Next New Product Developments.

“The buffalo are diminishing fast. The antelope that were plenty a few years ago, they are now thin. When they shall die we shall be hungry; we shall want something to eat…”

–  Tonkahaska (Tall Bull), Chief of the Sioux, 1880

Chris’ presentation will draw its inspiration from the wisdom of ancient nomadic tribes who sought new lands before the resources in their existing hunting grounds were depleted.

This program allows you to discover new grounds for growth and explore new areas of business.

Walk away with viable paths for new opportunities. Align your organization around a set of business opportunities that provide a strategic framework around specific well developed ideas on such areas as:

• Product opportunities
•  New branding opportunities
•  Strategic alliances
•  Joint ventures

Identify, prioritize and mobilize around breakthrough new business opportunities that create significant “waves of competitively sustainable growth.”

Move your organization beyond today’s core businesses and strengthen your ability to continually spawn new, non-incremental high growth businesses.

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

Presenter: Christopher W. Miller Ph.D., NPDP (LinkedIn profile) – Innovation Consultant, Innovation Focus  is a high energy facilitator and speaker inspiring deep understanding and meaningful innovation. With over 20 years of experience in facilitating, consulting and exciting interdisciplinary high performance teams on product development, customer interaction and rapid project completion, he has held positions in information systems and market research with two Fortune 500 companies.

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Live Webinar November 18th, 2014 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST
Duration: 75 Minutes Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Utility Industry CoP (REP #S014)

If you want to succeed as a project leader, you must learn how to connect with people. While it may seem like some people are just born with it, the fact is anyone can learn how to make every communication an opportunity for a powerful connection.

Connecting with others—one-on-one or in teams — improves your sense of community, increases your ability to create teamwork and skyrockets your influence.

Project leaders who connect with others have better relationships, experience less conflict, and get more things done than those who cannot connect.

The leaders who have learned the art of connection are able to communicate their ideas persuasively, establishing buy-in and attracting followers.

To be an effective and successful project leader, you need to learn to communicate in a way that connects with others.

Learn how to identify with people and relate to others in a way that increases your influence with them.

Presenter: Michael Charles PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach who speaks on leadership and team development.   Michael has led several teams as a Project Manager founded the “Light The World Foundation“, a charity founded in 2009 to educate children in Haiti.  Their 4th Annual Charity Concert will be July 12th, 2014.  Visit Michael’s site “The PM Leadership Coach” and Read his “Leading With Intent” blog

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

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Live Webinar – November 20th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

The Greatest Source Of Defects Originate From Requirements!

If requirements defects can be removed, the quality of a product can be more than doubled!

Whether you are doing agile or traditional projects, requirements defects are the greatest source of error, and loss of quality.

For projects that are complex or require high quality results, such as in the financial, health, and astronautical fields, the requirements should be validated before coding.

This presentation shows a clean method of eliciting requirements from the sponsor mission statement to use cases.

It shows how to make use cases comply with the IEEE standard for requirements specifications, and then explains how to rigorously validate the use cases to be provably correct.

The best news is that this process takes less time per use case than guess-and-check coding, even in agile environments.

Presenter: Al Cline, PMP, PMI-ACP
PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate 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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Live Webinar – Nov 20th, 2014 11:30 pm – 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

Sometimes It Is Necessary To Split User Stories

Don’t miss Tom Cagley’s most popular webinar of 2014, How to Split User Stories! If you couldn’t attend the first time, he’s offering it again!

The backlog of user stories needs to be managed so that, as a story gets closer to being accepted into a sprint and developed, the story becomes as granular as needed. Thus, it is sometimes necessary to split user stories.

The process of grooming and splitting user stories (when needed) is an ongoing operation across the life of any project.

In doing so, epics and larger stories are condensed into smaller pieces that can be understood and developed within the context of an individual sprint.

Stories, when they are accepted into a sprint, must meet the “rule.” The rule is that each story must deliver functionality that is potentially implementable, and it’s important to keep this rule in mind when splitting stories.

In this webinar, Tom Cagley will explain why it is sometimes necessary to split user stories and how best to split them into valuable slices of functionality.

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• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 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’

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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