Live Webinar – October 20th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Putting a SatNav On Your Software Delivery: The Measurement Roadmap as a Business Navigation Device.

When we set out on a journey in the car, many of us engage our Satellite Navigation System (SatNav) as a guide to our final destination.

This tells us how far we are about to go, the route we’ll take and when we’ll arrive.

We’ll use that, in combination with our fuel gauge, to check our progress, time of arrival and cost (fuel).

In this webinar, Allan will discuss how we can apply the same principles at organisational and team levels in order to predict and track software delivery to its business ends.

Join DCG-SMS Managing Director Alan Cameron (DCG bio) for a webinar on how track software like a Satellite.

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• DCG LinkedIn,
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NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

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’

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Live Webinar October 20th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

This presentation is based on the book Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Creating Great Digital Products by Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, Trace Wax

The Design Sprint is a flexible framework for starting new product design and development work.

The Design Sprint is the first, and for some projects the most significant, phase of a design thinking process. It gets the entire product design and development team on the same page, reduces the risk of downstream mistakes, and generates vision-lead goals for the team to measure their success.

In this webcast, you’ll learn both why and how Design Sprints work and how you can use Design Sprints to enhance your own design process.

• Get an eye-opening approach to the product design process that results in better, faster outcomes
• Learn the design sprint process from start to finish, including essential tools, tips, and best practices
• Learn about successful examples of design sprints from across the industry

Presenters:

Richard Banfield (LinkedIn profile, @freshtilledsoil) Co-Founder of Boston-Based User Experience Agency Fresh Tilled Soil, wears the strategic hat around the office. Richard worked his way up the web marketing food chain, being in the thick of it during the heady dot-com years, founding Acceleration, an international e-marketing business headquartered in London. Along with authoring  Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Creating Great Digital Products Richard also wrote Design Leadership: How Top Design Leaders Build and Grow Successful Organizations

C. Todd Lombardo (LinkedIn profile, @iamctodd) As an Innovation Architect at Constant Contact’s InnoLoft, Todd stands in the intersections  of hyper-specialization, and sees the connections that revolve around us. Todd facilitates product and service design sprints for a wide range of external startups and internal product teams.and is  a member of the adjunct faculty at Madrid’s prestigious IE Business School where he teaches courses on Creativity, Innovation, Design-Thinking and Communication.

Trace Wax (LinkedIn profile, @tracedwax) After a career in user experience design and research at companies like Microsoft and Nuance, he then became a developer at Pivotal Labs, and is now a Managing Director at Thoughtbot.  Trace has facilitated numerous product design sprints, and is an developer and maintainer of thoughtbot’s design sprint methodology repository. Bringing “Lean & Agile Methodology” to many large companies and small startups, he has helped teams teams to focus, prioritize, and become happily productive.

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’

Click to register for Design Sprint: A Fast Start To Creating A Great Digital Product

Live Webinar October 21st, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Automating user interface (UI) and visual testing is essential in fast-paced agile and mobile app environments—especially when continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) come into the picture.

However, because visual and UI features usually occur last in development, UI and visual testing often become a bottleneck in the development and delivery process.

Help is at hand!

Join this web seminar to learn about technologies, tools, and techniques to automate visual tests in ways that will improve—instead of impede—your dev/test and release workflows.

You will learn:

• How to incorporate automated visual tests into the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline
• Techniques and tools to increase test coverage, speed, and accuracy
• Tools and methods to decrease manual QA/testing
• Ways to leverage your existing infrastructure to automate test flows

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 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’

Click to register for Visual & UI Test Automation For Agile & Continuous Delivery Processes

Live Webinar October 21st, 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 Course ID: MDW1250

Once of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and manage relationships with all individuals that the project impacts.

In this webinar, you’ll learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.

By effectively managing your stakeholders, you will be better able to keep a lid on scope creep, ensure project requirements are aligned, understand tolerance for risk, and mitigate issues that would otherwise delay the project.

Effective stakeholder management is proof of your influence in an organization, and a key component to a healthy project environment.

Key learning points from this webinar include:

• How to identify project stakeholders
• How to conduct a stakeholder analysis
• How to manage different types of stakeholders

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

Click to register for What You Must Know About Stakeholder Management

Live Webinar October 21st, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

Prior to reaching a successful conclusion, the functionality that was designed, developed, and tested by the project team must receive the proper authorization before being handed over to the user community in a production environment.

This can be accomplished through leveraging the following integrated methodologies:

1. Requirements traceability log,
2. Unit test authorization,
3. System integration test (SIT) authorization,
4. User acceptance test (UAT) authorization and project closeout.

The purpose and utility for each of these deliverables will be discussed during this tutorial.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for Project Close & Delivery

Live Webinar – October 20th 2015, 0:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

This is the next webinar in GK’s new Weekly series “The Sales Excellence Webinar Series for Business Outcomes.”

A successful engagement with the correct stakeholders will result in a full understanding of what the vision, challenges and opportunities are, as well as confirm the current state of the organisation.

Understanding how the organisation currently looks and what it can achieve is the starting point to help the customer meet their strategic goals and objectives.

This allows an assessment of their current capabilities, which when compared to an analysis of the target state, enables a gap analysis to be carried out.

The gap in these business capabilities is the opportunity to demonstrate how to deliver solutions tailored to the customer’s needs.

The key techniques and tools covered are:

• Capability Modelling
  • Modelling services
  • Business Conceptual layer
  • Fulfilling objectives and responsibilities
• Capability Gap Analysis
  • Gap between current performance and future performance
  • Capability Gap and Complex Transformation Programmes
  • Organisational Design

Watch for these webinars on PDU Of The Day:

• Changing The Sales Engagement
• Uncovering Customers Business Needs
• Engaging with Customer Stakeholders
• Translating Requirements to Capabilities
• Managing Customer Business Requirements
• Modelling the Customers Business
• Developing Business Acumen
• Creating the Solution Business Case
• Delivering Benefits Realisation to the Customer
• Additional Development Support and Tools

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.6 Control Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.3 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 PM Strategic Planning & Sales Excellence Series: Translating Requirements to Capabilities