Archive for July 30th, 2015

Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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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.

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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

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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