Archive for September, 2015

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Live Webinar September 22nd, 2015 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Develop Your Change Leadership Skills!

Are you launching a new strategy, preparing for a merger, implementing a new process, or experiencing a culture change?

Join Mary & Ali for a practical discussion on leading through change, to improve results for both yourself and your team.

Look at organizational change from the leadership perspective, and discuss:

  1. Common psychological reactions to change, and how to overcome them
  2. How to improve your skills to more effectively lead through organizational change
  3. What your team and organization need from you as a leader during change
  4. A framework for navigating change, and how to build your personal change action plan

Presented by:

Mary Herrmann (LinkedIn profile) Managing Director, Executive Coaching, BPI group

Ali Niederkorn (LinkedIn profile) Manager, Organization Transformation & People, BPI group

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 9.4  Manage 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 Leading Through Organizational Change: A Guide To Developing Your Change Leadership Skills

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Live Webinar September 23rd, 2015, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

Please Note :  At this time the date on the webpage is wrong the page states the webinar is on June 24th 2015, but when you register for the session on the page you will see:

You have successfully registered for the following Webinar:

Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation
Wednesday, Sept 23, 2015 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems. Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
  2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
  3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

You will have to register – then the webinar will load in the page Please be patient this may take a min or two to load. (You may have to use the side scroll bar to place the webinar on pause)

Click to register for the Live version of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation

Recorded Version Information: If you watch the recorded version of this webinar it is a good idea to record the information about this webinar date, time, and list this prerecorded event for your PDU Audit folder.

Click to view a recorded version (2008-10-28) of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation .

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Live Webinar September 22nd, 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)

The Logical Framework Approach is emerging as a best practice tool to design and manage successful IT projects of all types.

In this webinar Terry Schmidt (LinkedIn profile) will demonstrate how IT groups in organizations such as Boeing, Trader Joe’s, and the Department of Energy have used this method to improve their processes and deliver outstanding project results.

Click to register for Turning Strategic Goals Into Successful Projects

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Online Webinar – Recorded November 15th 2010
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Being an effective analyst requires that you be able to ask both intelligent and revealing questions to ensure that you get the information needed to fully understand the problem.

However, you can ask incredibly good questions, but if you don’t listen, you have just wasted everyone’s time.

You can also be a great listener, but if you don’t ask good questions, you ‘ve made the same mistake.

What it takes is the ability to do both! We will show you how to become a better listener and how to develop great questions so that the quality of your requirements takes a great leap forward.

Join Mary and learn Importance of “Questioning & Listening Skills”, her enthusiasm is exhaustive and contagious.!

Presenter: Mary Repetto Mary’s passion lies in the areas of strategic planning, project management and sales consulting, . With 25+ years of experience working with and for Fortune 500 companies in North America, Europe, South America and Asia, she is able to command the respect and attention of audiences  participants worldwide. Mary holds degrees in Marketing, Business Administration (MBA in Finance), and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management, Six Sigma practices

Click to register for The Importance of Questioning and Listening Skills for BAs

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Live Webinar Sept 22nd, 2015, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar Sept 22nd, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

In this webinar Robert P. Desisto, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst provides insight for understanding, planning and implementing emerging mobile and digital technologies and apps to improve customer engagement processes and experiences.

Robert’s content focus is for IT leaders supporting the business departments with direct responsibility for creating marketing demand, selling prospects, or supporting customers.

Discussion Topics:

  • How mobile technology will drive digital customer engagement over the next 3 – 5 years
  • How to maximize the business value of mobile apps and development to enable digital customer engagement processes
  • How to create a mobile app strategy for enabling digital customer engagement

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
  • 5.2 Collect Requirements
  • 5.3 Define Scope
  • 10.2 Manage Communications

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 Engaging Customers In A Mobile Digital World

7 Agile Best Practices for BA’s

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Live Webinar September 17th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst
In today’s hyper-competitive environment, innovation and time to market are the key tenants for success.

While software in applications and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is also adding complexity. In parallel, Agile has proven to shorten product delivery, but comes with its own set of challenges.

Industry best practices have shown that the key to successfully managing the complexity of today’s development lifecycle is to empower all stakeholders with access to information and functionality they need in their role real-time.

Tying all players together with one unifying development environment further accelerates collaboration.

Gain detailed insight on how leading organizations have been able to address the changing realities of modern software development, and learn about actionable tactics to achieve product success.

The following topics will be explored:

  • Transparent, real-time collaboration
  • Contextual testing and risk assessment
  • Intelligent change management
  • Centralized reuse and variant management
  • Comprehensive traceability and impact analysis

Learn how you can benefit from the use of a unified tools that allows your team to directly connect development efforts with the underlying business requirements so the inevitable change arising during the product lifecycle can be managed in context and with access to real-time feedback.

See how a unified and highly transparent approach to software development can accelerate your innovation and time to market momentum while protecting the integrity of your products.

Presenters:

Jiri Walek, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Product Management, Polarion Software

Clara Cismaru, (LinkedIn profile) Product Manager, Polarion Software

Click to register for 7 Agile Best Practices for BA’s