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

One of the most important principles for designers
Is having “strong ideas, loosely held.”

This philosophy allows teams with diverse backgrounds to tap into individual design intuition, bringing their unique points of view, but remaining open to change.

This is easier said than done.

Designers need support on both sides of this equation: ways to communicate good ideas and tools that keep them open to evolution.

Where do strong ideas come from?

Informing design with research is critical, but for many projects, ideation and prototyping start on day one, primarily based on design intuition.

1. How can we trust these ideas?
   • Reflecting on where design ideas come from can help us evaluate them and collaborate better by communicating more than “it feels right.”
2. How can we hold ideas loosely?
   • Prototyping is exciting because it makes a design idea tangible and real.
   • It also risks triggering confirmation bias, where we only seek new information that confirms we’re on the right path.

This is particularly fraught as our prototypes become more complex and difficult to change, utilizing a diverse array of physical and digital technologies.

The writer Donald Schön (The Reflective Practitioner & Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology) described design as a “conversation with the materials of a situation.”

A prototype with too much complexity can cut that conversation short, solidifying ideas too early because new ones are difficult to explore.

In this webcast Simon will share techniques for designers to reflect on that conversation and prototyping tools to help simplify it.

One of these tools is Noam, an open source prototyping platform that emerged from project work at IDEO. Noam makes it easy to translate between disparate hardware and software, allowing designers to seamlessly collaborate and loosely hold strong ideas until the last minute.

Presenter: Simon King (LinkedIn profile) is a Design Director at IDEO in Chicago. His work encompasses both macro- and micro-interactions across diverse mediums and audiences including large-scale medical imaging equipment, vehicle HMI platforms, personal health apps, and financial planning tools. He holds an MDes in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University.

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

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 March 30th, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW1253

A project is a temporary endeavor, with a distinct beginning and end that is undertaken to create a unique product or service.

Projects are everywhere, regardless of your industry or profession, and an effective project management process can benefit anyone.

If you are looking for non-technical tools and techniques to successfully manage your projects and project teams, this webinar is for you.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Greater confidence in defining, planning and managing projects
• Reduced stress and greater sense of control of your multiple projects and daily work load
• Increased effectiveness and efficiencies by using simple, step-by step processes for project management and communications
• Understand best practices for iterative (and agile) project execution

Who should attend:

• Managers,
• Supervisors, and
• Individual contributors who struggle with balancing the complex demands of project work while maintaining their daily workloads.

About the presenter: Eileen Twichell, (LinkedIn profile) is a dynamic and accomplished presenter and is highly regarded in the project management community for her expertise and knowledge of the field. She brings to you over twenty years of project management training and design experience and has developed and facilitated classes in project management, time management, presentation skills, coaching, and communications.

Click to register for Project Management for Everyone: A Non-Technical Approach

Live Webinar March 31st, 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)

This webinar Brian Lucas (LinkedIn profile) will explore the question: is there a role left for a business systems analyst in an Agile environment?

Click to register for Agile Business Analysis: The Role of a BSA: Nothing or Everything?

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Live Webinar April 1st, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
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How a Single-Focused Approach Delivers Results

We have become a nation addicted to the enticing and dangerously misleading drug of multitasking.  You might be hooked yourself.

The popular notion is that by doing several tasks at once we can accomplish more — but a host of neuroscientific research shows that the opposite is true.

The fact is that your brain is simply not built to multitask.

In any situation, we’re most efficient focusing on one task at a time. But with all the information and interruptions that bombard us, how is that possible?

Discover how to clear and calm your mind, arrange your schedule and environment, and gently but firmly manage the expectations of people around you so that you can accomplish a succession of tasks, one at a time — and be infinitely more productive and effective.

Webinar Objectives:

• Discover tangible tools to focus your mind and harness your potential
• Learn why multitasking is a myth — and how to singletask your way to success
• Simple methods for tackling your list of “to dos” with less effort and greater ease
• Gain practical techniques to manage your environment – including people around you
• Uncover methods to do more in less time with better results
• Apply fascinating cutting edge science to improve your relationships and quality of life

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter:  Devora Zack  (LinkedIn profile) is author of the internationally-translated, award-winning books Devora is CEO of Only Connect Consulting, Inc. .  An in-demand keynote speaker she serves as visiting faculty for Cornell University’s business school and has been featured in dozens of print media publications and major television networks.  Devora holds an MBA from Cornell, certifications in MBTI and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and memberships in Phi Beta Kappa and Mensa. OCC won USDA’s Woman-Owned Business of the Year.

Devora’s Award Winning Books:

• Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected
• Managing for People Who Hate Managing: Be a Success By Being Yourself
• Singletasking: Get More Done – One Thing at a Time

Click to register for Singletasking: How to Get More Done, One Thing at a Time

Live Webinar April 2nd, 2015 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

The web has grown from just representing documents into also representing rich applications.  Until recently, the web technology stack was behind this shift.

Web components are a set of new web standards to finally catch up by providing a clean way of providing new widgets on the web – and they start to become ready for prime time!

In this webcast Martin introduces the four web standards that make up web components along with live code demos, then gives a practical example and how to use and style them in a web application.

It also demos a few real-world cases of web components and concludes with a status quo overview of the standards and browser support, giving a list of potential pitfalls that I hit in the daily work with web components.

Presenter: Martin Naumann (LinkedIn profile, @g33konaut) is known as the Geekonaut, an open source contributor and web evangelist by heart from Zurich, Switzerland.  Martin has a decade of experience from the trenches of software engineering in multiple fields.  Martin is active on Github,  writes the blog Beyond Reality & Cyberspace, and posts tips to Coderwall.  Martin believes in working with bleeding edge technologies that will allow the web to prosper.

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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 Web Components 101

Live Webinar March 26th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Normal people don’t look at data sets just for fun; they analyze them to make business decisions.

Business analysts are more frequently finding themselves on strategic projects that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which conclusive decisions and actions can be derived.

Analysis of big data is already a reality today in most IT organizations and will grow in significance as businesses look to gain a better understanding for capturing, structuring and learning from their data.

In this presentation,  Joy Beatty VP at Seilevel will offer advice on tackling requirements for business analytics projects.

This webinar outlines how to elicit strategic analytics decisions to help prioritize requirements work, and how to prepare for the future of big data by specifying data needs.

Participants will hear examples of questions they can use to engage businesses to think outside the box about their requirements, and consider new possibilities from analytics projects.

Presenter: Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel. Joy  has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Click to register for Requirements For Business Analytics