Live Webinar February 5th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar discusses the architecture value chain in conjunction with a supporting capability/service model.

Presented by: Chris Armstrong (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Architecture Value Chain and Capability Model

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 2013 OR … see it live
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Rich Weller

 On Site Webinar February 9th, PMI Great Lakes Chapter Mtg

This is an unusual listing both a recorded presentation for our readers and for some of our readers in Michigan an opportunity to see it live!

If you are in the area of Troy Michigan on Monday February 9th you can catch Rich’s presentation live at the PMI Great Lakes Chapter Monthly Dinner meeting  LIVE!

Watching this session live will be worth 1.5 Cat A PDU’s

Location:  MEC – Michigan Education Center

811 West Square Lake Road Troy, MI 48098
Time:  PM Dinner: 06:30 PM   Presentation: 07:30 PM
PDUs:  1.50 – Code 011215  OR … View it here for 1 Cat C PDU

Learn about “The 5 E’s of Innovation”

The presentation focuses on how an organization can transform themselves from one that merely manages a portfolio of projects to an organization that is more creative in establishing the right projects for the future, and agile enough to quickly shift focus when needed.

This presentation covers:

1. What is innovation
2. Why is it important
3. What is portfolio management
4. The Five E’s of innovation
   1. Envision
   2. Engage
   3. Evolve
   4. Evaluate
   5. Execute
5. The three parts of a successful solution
   1. People
   2. Process
   3. Technology
6. Some case studies

Some concepts may be new and theoretical, but the documented approach has been proven and real examples will be reviewed to provide context. Attendees will walk away with a tactical roadmap for implementation.

Presenter:  Rich Weller (LinkedIn profile @Weller34) PMP MCTS, MCITP. MBA. 6 Sigma & MSP® Senior practitioner at PCubed  Rich has over 30 years’ experience planning and delivering successful project, program and portfolio management initiatives,  delivering multiple classes on innovation and portfolio management and is an adjunct professor at Washtenaw Community College as well as a frequent industry speaker for PMI, MPUG and other organizations. Check out Rich’s site  or take A Glimpse Into The Life of Rich Weller (15 min video).

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 view Innovation Driven Portfolio Management on YouTube

Live Webinar – February 5th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1 Category C PDU- Free PDU

Services represent 78% of the US economy, and that percentage just keeps growing. Information Technology (IT) plays a major part in delivering services to customers.

Most organizations manage IT by defining and delivering services to business units, implementing IT service management processes.

Services offered are then described in a service catalog, enabling customers to view what services are available and to request a service electronically.

However, most organizations have done little in terms of improving their processes and practices for service design.

Service Design is an innovative and emerging discipline in which user-oriented strategies and concepts are designed to make services work better for an organization and their customers.

Service Design offers a competitive advantage for organizations by ensuring a better customer experience. Applying product design to services simply does not work. In this webinar, John Parker will present an overview of what service design is and the value an organization receives by placing more focus on service design:

• What is Service Design?
• Why is Service Design so important?
• Co-Creation and Design
• Understanding the Customer and their Needs
• Understanding Contexts
• Understanding Service Providers
• Service Design: Implications for BAs
• Service Design: Implications for PMs
• Applying Service Design to IT Service Management (ITSM)
• Applying Service Design in an Agile Development Environment

Presenter: John E. Parker – (LinkedIn profile) Enfocus Solutions Inc. is a seasoned expert in IT strategy, requirements management, business analysis, project management, IT strategic planning, and IT value management. . Drawing from his vast knowledge of business analyses and project management, John leads the design and development of Enfocus Requirements Suite’s valuable mind maps, templates, examples, and tools. John also regularly blogs and shares his expertise and insights.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities

As a Category B ‘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 Service Design Fundamentals For BAs & PMs

Live Webinar February 5th, 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar February 5th, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Organizations of all sizes are welcoming employee-owned devices. Gartner’s CIO Survey results indicate that respondents expect a majority of smartphones to be personally owned as soon as 2017.

Flexibility in choosing the right device, familiarity with the platform and bringing business tasks to the screen users already turn to throughout the day are clear benefits, but a changing legal environment, growing user privacy savvy and pressure to expand BYOD to more roles is straining the broad mobile policies in place today.

Discussion Topics:

• Methods to adapt single, broad policies to better account for different user types and use cases
• Which issues are stalling BYOD initiatives most often and how to proactively avoid them
• How to build the right cross-functional team to create defensible mobile policies

Presenter: Chris Silva, Research Director

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 11 – Risk

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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’

Click to register for Avoiding BYOD’s Policy Pitfalls

Live Webinar February 4th 2015 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
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Live Webinar Feb 11th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

Leading effective virtual meetings with our teams is a large challenge today, especially since 70% of participants are multi-tasking and not engaged.

Problems, misunderstandings and communication breakdowns are magnified in virtual communication compared to face-to-face meetings.

The key is to build relationships and trust with virtual team members and take specific steps to keep them engaged and increase participation in virtual meetings.

Objectives:

• Develop strong relationships and trust with virtual team members
• Overcome the biggest obstacles to conducting effective virtual meetings
• Increase engagement during virtual meetings
• Use best practices for virtual meetings to produce results you want

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for Conducting Meetings with Virtual Teams