Live Webinar March 17th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Knowing how to approach decisions in a formal, structured manner is a critical skill for project managers and project teams.

Laura Burford author of Project Management for Flat Organizations will discuss how to structure “Go/No-Go” project decisions to assist you in making the hard choices you may need to make.

Presenter: Laura Dallas Burford, (LinkedIn profile) MA, PMP, of LAD Enterprizes has led IT and business improvement programs; established PMOs and led the turn-around of troubled projects. Laura has authored and facilitated business, technical, and project management seminars and taught project management at a public university. Author of Project Management for Flat Organizations: Cost Effective Steps to Achieving Successful Results, one of ten 2013 Small Business Book Awards winners. Laura shares her consulting, managing and entrepreneur experiences through her project coaching, advising, and training services to help organizations successfully complete projects and develop their own expertise.

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Live Webinar – March 17th, 2015 12:00-1:00  PM EDT
Duration:1 hour – 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Offered by Beyond20 (REP #2842)

ITSM is a nuanced world, made up of a host of unique, yet equally important processes. Managing all of these processes to the point they run smoothly and routinely provide excellent service can be a tall order.

Enter the ITSM assessment. You have to know where you are before you can accurately plan where you’d like to be – and an assessment can provide insight into both.

But how do we make those insights actionable? Join Beyond20 Senior Consultant, Andy Rivers (LinkedIn profile) and Brian Flora, and find out, as they take you through their three Actionable Benefits of an ITSM Assessment.

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Live Webinar March 18th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by :  O’Reilly

First-to-market has always been an important part of business — but what that means has evolved.

It’s no longer simply about producing that new cool item before the other guys. Now it also means you must be able to iterate quickly, adjust quickly for changing user tastes and adapt quickly.

To be able to do this and adapt quickly, you need to develop, deploy, react, troubleshoot and update quickly.

Pushing your code faster and faster means you have to be able to update and deploy infrastructure faster, which means infra/systems teams must be able to deploy faster, react faster, troubleshoot faster and fix faster.

In this training, Facebook Production Engineer Phil Dibowitz (LinkedIn profile) will discuss the dramatically accelerating cycle of getting features/products/release to users, and collecting and acting on user feedback.

Phil will cover what IT must do to make coded business a reality today, elements of scale, and the benefits of automation, no matter how large or complex your organization is.

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 – Recorded August 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID:  WS07301

Understanding the real scope of any project is vital to controlling the project.

As a project manager or business analyst, it is key to first document the initial scope of the project and then direct, monitor and control the scope through Requirements Management techniques.

Learning these techniques provide the ability to more easily control the quality issues, costs, time and risks associated with on-going scope creep associated with requirements changes.

In this seminar you will:

• Review the role of a facilitator in running a Requirements Workshop.
• Learn the phases of a workshop and building the “Heart” of a workshop’s agenda.
• Review useful facilitation techniques along with failures and critical success factors.
• And more…

Presenter: Bob Keith

PDU Documentation Details (PMBOK 5):

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 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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Online Webinar – Offered by ProjectTimes.com
(Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hours 2 Category A PDU/CDUs –  Free PDUs

Note: IAG is the presenter but the session is offered by Diversified Business Communications

Description Of The Course:

This webinar will provide Business Analysts and Project Managers with essential techniques and specific guidelines for gathering and defining the right kind of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for the selection of a vendor for application software.

In order for Business Analysts and Project Managers to perform effective and efficient vendor evaluation, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

If you have struggled with strategies for commercial-off-the-shelf software acquisition, what level of detail is needed in an RFP, when and how to involve the vendors, what research is required, and what templates to use, then spend two hours with us to help you set the right path for success with your next COTS project.

Get answers to these questions:

• How are the methods for defining requirements for a software product different than for custom developed solution?
• How is the documentation of business requirements different when they’re being written for vendor selection?
• How much detail is needed for an RFP?
• How do I know what to exclude and include?
• How do we accommodate changing requirements?
• When do we hold vendor demonstrations?

Learning Objectives For The Course:

• How to understand the unique aspects of a defining requirement for COTS vs. custom developed software
• Learn the specific strategies for collecting the requirements to be included in an RFP
• Understand the essential types of requirements, sufficient level of detail, and best format for requirements to be included in a Software RFP

Included in the course:

• Access to the Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• RFP Outline Template
• Vendor Scorecard Template
• Vendor Scorecard Template

Speaker: Keith Ellis, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, IAG

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

If you want to be successful as a project manager, or to make a positive impact on your projects, you need to become a person of influence.

In this Alfonso Bucero webinar author of The Complete Project Manager and other project management bestsellers will help you discover your influence skills.

Presenter: Alfonso Bucero, (LinkedIn profile) MSc, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI Fellow, Region 8th South-West Component Mentor

Some of Alfonso’s published works include:

• Today Is a Good Day! Attitudes for Achieving Project Success
• The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and Stakeholders (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management Series)
• The Complete Project Manager: Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills, 
• Hoy es un buen día. Actitudes para lograr el éxito del proyecto (Spanish Edition) .
• The Complete Project Manager’s Toolkit
• Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

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