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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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

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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 November 18th, 2014, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI® IT & Telecom CoP (REP #S009)

Presented by Dominic Lepore, PMP, this webinar will help you recognize and manage risks on IT projects for federal, state and local governments.

Public sector projects are unique, therefore, risk management has to be applied differently.

At the end of this presentation, you will:

• Bbe better informed about sources of risk on IT projects,
• Gain insight on the proper processes to systematically manage risks and
• Learn to avoid common mistakes on IT projects.

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

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”

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Live Webinar November 19th, 2014 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Risk Management CoP (REP #S048)

Project Risk Covers More Than Uncertain Future Events

If you don’t recognise all the risks you end up taking them with your eyes shut. Find out what you’re missing, and discover the other types of risk that affect your project, together with practical strategies for addressing them.

The definition of risk in the PMI PMBoK Guide risk chapter includes more than uncertain future events that would have a negative effect on achievement of project objectives. The definition starts with the phrase “A project risk is an uncertain event or condition…” If we limit our view of risk to only look at one part of the risk picture, we’ll end up taking risks without knowing it.

This presentation explores the other types of risk that are usually missed from the typical risk process.

Drawing on leading thinking and current best practice, David Hillson explores the full range of project risks that need to be managed.

These include sources of variability (“aleatoric risk”), ambiguity (“epistemic risk”), and emergence (“ontological risk”), as well as future uncertain events (“stochastic risk”).

He also explains the new concept of “overall risk” which was introduced in the PMI Practice Standard on Project Risk Management (2009) but which is nearly always overlooked.

Finally the presentation reminds practitioners not to forget risks with positive impacts.

With clear illustrative examples of each type of risk, and practical response strategies for managing them, this presentation will help you to identify all types of risk that might affect your projects, and offers ways for you to tackle them effectively.

Presenter: Dr David Hillson (the Risk Doctor) will talk about how to make risk work in a way that is both sustainable and renewable. David is recognised internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the risk field, and has made several innovative contributions to improving risk management. David received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his work in developing risk management over many years. David will give his view on the importance of facilitation skills for those involved in managing risk.

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

Click to register for How To Manage The Risks You Didn’t Know You Were Taking

Live Webinar – November 19th 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

With data and information security becoming increasingly critical business priorities, Chris Knotts (LinkedIn profile) and Mark Williams, CISSP (LinkedIn profile) are offering a walkthrough of the mainstream certifications that are currently active and available in the security space.

They will orient our listeners to the main security credentials available, the requirements for obtaining them, and – most importantly – what to expect in terms of real-world benefit when it comes to protecting the organization.

Security is an area with a lot of technical dependencies. At the same time, salaries for certified professionals are rising fast. Company leaders, project managers and HR departments have to rely on the assurance of credentials to assure them that critical security needs are filled.

Join them for a Q and A discussion of these certifications: the CISM, the CISSP, the CEH, the CompTIA Security+, the CSSLP and others.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources 11 – Risk

• 9.2 Acquire Project Team
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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Live Webinar – November 20th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00pm EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a strategic decision making approach aimed at maximizing overall returns on project investments. By focusing on the “right” projects, it is expected that there will be improved organization alignment to strategic plans as well as optimized utilization of financial and human resources.

Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of misinformation in the marketplace about PPM and many organizations that have attempted to implement these practices have failed. Of course, vendors stand ready to “help” unsuspecting executives with snake oil claims of “silver bullet” process or tool purchases to achieve PPM nirvana.

This webinar will provide you with a solid grounding of PPM principles – costs, benefits, critical success factors and lessons learned. These will help you decide whether pursuing PPM improvement is a valuable and realistic goal for your organization. This presentation will also improve your knowledge of the PPM lifecycle and provide you with the key decisions and approaches necessary to launch a successful PPM initiative.

Who should attend this webinar?
C-Level Management, IT Directors and Managers or Directors of PMOs

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

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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  Project Portfolio Management Simplified