Online Webinar Recorded – September 13th 2013
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: WS090513

Elicitation is more than asking:
“What Is Your Problem & What Can I Do For You?”

Stakeholders need help to understand their needs. This help comes in the form of elicitation techniques, elicitation concepts that support success, supporting critical success factors (CSF’s), and understanding the road blocks to the process.

This webinar will cover the elicitation techniques from the BABOK, including the advantages and disadvantages of each, concepts that support success, CSF’s, and road blocks.

Presenter: Bob Keith

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Online Webinar – Recorded September 5th 2014
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

The path to a better bottom line is paved by large numbers of operational decisions made by people, by processes and by software applications.

Systematically improving each operational decision – at scale – is at the core of Decision Management. Business Architects and Analysts identify, describe and model operational decisions in Decision Discovery.

In this webinar, James Taylor,(LinkedIn profile)  CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and Dr. Juergen Pitschke, (DMS interview) Founder and Managing Director at BCS, will show you how to get started with Decision Management on your next application development or business process improvement project with Decision Discovery.

Learn how to:

• Identify decisions, sub-decisions and information and knowledge resources (including rules and analytics)
• Describe decisions in detail (Decision Tables and other Metaphors)
• Model decisions in a DMN-conformant decision modeling tool for communication and documentation
• Link to execution environments

This webinar is targeted to Business Architects and Business Analysts familiar with the current OMG standards – from DMN, BPMN, CMMN to BMM, SBVR and more.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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.’

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Online Webinar Recorded – June 7th, 2012
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  QSM

It is well known that project estimating based on parametric models has reached a sophistication where realistic estimates, schedules and predictable outcomes are indeed possible given a set of software and systems requirements.

However, increasingly with the fast pace of Agile and other development methods is the requirement for estimates much earlier in the life cycle.

What happens when project estimating moves back a full phase – before requirements, and acquisition managers, contractors, auditors and financial analysts are forced to develop and analyze estimates based on unknown requirements?

Presented by industry expert Carol Dekkers, this presentation examines how to identify and document assumptions, create a logical and traceable project map including locations of potential “landmines” (calculated risks) that accompany this preliminary estimating.

Experienced estimating professionals and contract managers will find a basis for common ground in this presentation – as the advice presented will create the basis for dialog and discussion of early estimates.

Presenter:  Carol Dekkers  (LinkedIn profile  @CarolDekkers) is a PMP, CMC, and a P.Eng., from  Canada who bridges the gap between technology experts and the non-technical world. She is a highly sought after international expert whose keynote presentations are engaged by international project management and quality conferences throughout the world. Her specialty is demonstrating how to use communication effectively to bring the true value of technology to life through articulate presentations, effective collaboration, and team processes that increase the success of high tech projects.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.4 Create WBS

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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