Live Webinar August 7th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hr webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the overview in the Project Scope  series by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

On many projects, teams fail to start at the beginning.

Teams jump right into defining requirements (and sometimes solutions) before determining the boundaries for project.

Project Managers face the costly consequences of scope creep, often because they have failed to define the project boundaries. Without understanding the boundaries of the project, there is no mechanism in place to differentiate between true and perceived scope creep.

Get off the “scope creep merry-go-round” by starting your projects at the beginning by clearly defining the Project Scope.

Learn how to recognize and overcome these far too common barriers regarding project scope definition.

In the Project Scoping Course, students learn how to document the boundaries of every project by defining the elements of a clear Scope Statement.

Course participants will be able to:

• Understand how to set the boundaries for your project
• Understand the components of a Scope Statement
• Understand how the Scope Statement impacts the creation of all project deliverables

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Click to register for Start Your Projects at the Beginning: Project Scope Series Overview

Live Webinar August 7th, 2015 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: .5 Hour Credits: .5 PDU/CDU Category C – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

NOTE: Although Watermark Learning is an REP they have chosen to have participants record their sessions as a Category C Activity. For more information contact Watermark Learning or see their “Self Reporting” page.

Thinking About A BA Certification?

Many Project Managers are looking to increase their skill set by adding proven Business Analysis techniques to their playbook.

This event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning.

Topics include anything related to IIBA’s certifications you want, ranging from the CBAP or CCBA application to the exams to re-certification.

Speaker : Dayle Beyer, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP, ACC, PMI-RMP, IT-SVM has inspired excellence by providing international best practice tools and techniques for project management, business analysis, to drive successful organizational change initiatives. Contributor to the PMI-SP Exam Success Series: MP3 Audio Flashcards and Discovering the PMBOK Guide Dayle has served in executive roles for information technology and telecommunications solution providers, and is a board member of the Chicagoland Coach Federation.

Click to register for CBAP And CCBA Certification Q & A

Live Webinar August 6th, 2015, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar August 6th, 2015, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The business glossary (BG) is the semantic foundation for business analytics and data warehouses.

A shared BG reduces cost and time, and supports business objectives.

Yet the BG is often undervalued. This webinar will prepare you to start and sustain a shared BG to support your digital business.

Discussion Topics:

• How to get a shared BG on the business agenda
• How to start a shared BG
• How to sustain a shared BG

Presenter: Mei Yang Selvage (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research Director

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.2 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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 Initiate a Shared Business Glossary to Improve Business Analytics

Live Webinar August 5th 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 August 5th, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

When product development teams spend more time dealing with internal issues, there’s less time available for true product innovation, resulting in rework, missed market opportunities, more meetings, more staff, and bloated processes.

One of the biggest barriers in product delivery is the way business needs are connected to distributed development teams.

The more reactive or agile a development team becomes, the more of an issue it is for the business teams to keep everything in sync.

The end result is that everyone on the product team is forced to spend more time determining how requirements, user stories, regulations, epics, and tasks are all linked, turning them into glorified middlemen.

Whether your team is agile, waterfall, or hybrid, join this web seminar to learn how to define, plan, and track requirements to help eliminate bottlenecks and consistently deliver great products.

You’ll learn how to:

1. Effectively gather and manage business needs and expectations
2. Express and communicate ideas and concepts to other stakeholders
3. Align business needs with agile delivery
4. Quickly understand the impact of the change required by shifts in business priorities
5. Focus on roadmaps and strategy, not backlogs and stories

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 6.1 Plan Schedule Management
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 11.1 Plan Risk 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 Eliminate Bottlenecks in Software Development and Delivery

Live Webinar – August 5th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Delivering learning to employees is only the first key step in improving performance.

Employees have to retain the gains in knowledge and skill, or the time, energy and effort that went into the program was for nothing – wasted.

Delivering learning to employees is only the first key step in improving performance. Employees have to retain the gains in knowledge and skill, or the time, energy and effort that went into the program was for nothing – wasted. T

he challenge for many organizations and professionals is that we focus so intently on employee learning, we overlook the importance whether our employees retain any of what they learn.

As it turns out, reinforcement of lessons learned is a powerful part of learning and vitally important.

The great news is that recently emerging research is helping us learn more about exactly what reinforcement methods really work, and why.

The challenge for organizations is to refocus existing tools, content and communication tools on the very targeted and specific activities that yield great results at improving employee retention.

In this session, you’ll learn about “the forgetting curve” and methods, techniques and tools (including video) that can reverse the forgetting curve and lead directly to much higher returns on investments in improved performance.

Speakers: Chris Osborn (LinkedIn profile) Vice President of Organizational Strategy , BizLibrary

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.3 Develop 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’

Click to register for How Micro-Video Can Drive Learning Retention