Online Webinar – Recorded April 25th 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: WS042514

Agile project management can bring significant value to an organization’s software projects. But it can also bring a great deal of misunderstanding and confusion for upper level managers used to the governance stage gates of Waterfall.

How do you position Agile to upper level managers when they are looking for the certainty of dates and dollars:

• When is it going to be done?
• How much is it going to cost?

This presentation suggests ways of identifying that combination of scope, schedule, and cost that allows the team to deliver the benefits of Agile while still providing managers with the reliable estimates they want.

Presenter: Dave Caccamo PMP, (LinkedIn profile) has three decades of experience in engineering, economics and project management. With a BSc from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Economics from North Carolina State University, Dave has demonstrated time and again his ability to make complex business and engineering concepts understandable to executives, managers and technicians through his fundamental modeling of subject matter.

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Online Webinar – Recorded June 20th 2012
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $25 USD PDU
Presented by: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Agile and Scrum techniques are increasingly being used across America and the world to advance better software development and implementation of systems.

This webinar is a high-level overview that addresses the business value as well as the organizational adoption considerations of implementing Agile.

This webinar will deliver information on:

1. What’s all the Agile buzz?
2. Essentials of Agile methodologies (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, etc) and Lean principles
3. The Roles, Rituals and Results of Agile
4. Benefits of Agile
5. Adoption and culture

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 16th, 2012
Presented by : Accurev and QSM
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU

Changes to the software development process, such as moving toward Agile methods, must demonstrate sustainable results over time versus just short-term wins. There are two keys to reaching long-term success that should be considered up front the new process must be repeatable and measurable.

In this session, AccuRev’s Chris Lucca (LinkedIn profile) and QSM‘s Larry Putnam Jr (LinkedIn profile) will explore these two keys to success.

Specifically, they will cover:

• The state of software development projects yesterday versus today and the impact to the software development process
• The techniques and tools that can help a team to build a process that is repeatable and scalable, even across a distributed team
• Which metrics and measurement processes are important to measuring the results and improvements of implementing repeatable and scalable processes
• How to use metrics to estimate project schedules, resources and reliability, and monitor project progress and forecast completion
• Ways to benchmark the results at project completion for time to market, cost performance and reliability
• …. all of which provide the business case for continued investments in technology and repeatable and scalable processes

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 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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