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The PM Role In A Lean & Agile World

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Live Webinar March 17th, 2016 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

A project manager (PM) is a highly skilled knowledge worker who has received rigorous training and knowledge in the process of achieving a globally recognized certification.

At the same time, in the lean and agile world, the project manager does not have an official role. The project manager’s role is distributed between the agile team members.

The discussion focus on evaluating the project manager’s role, use of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practice and centers on the project manager’s participation in the lean and agile transformation as a strategic, leading, and/or lagging contributor.

You will be able to access the “PM Role in a Lean and Agile World” white paper and PowerPoint presentation at the conclusion of the webinar. The paper is based on a presentation at the 2014 North American PMI Global Congress conference.

Benefits:

  • Acquire knowledge to play a change agent role in the lean and agile transformation
  • Discern your agile PM role: Strategic, Leading, or Lagging
  • Become a valued contributor by adopting lean thinking and agile practices
  • Discover a new role and career
  • May claim one (1) PMI PDU or Scrum Alliance SEU for attending this webinar

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.

Note: You must be signed in to your PMI® account to read the whitepaper.

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The PM Role In A Lean & Agile World

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The Benefits Of Collaboration

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Live Webinar – March 16th 2016 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – March 16th 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 pm BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Associaton for Project Management – APM

This session details how collaborative approaches and techniques can enable the realisation of cost, delivery, organisational and compliance based business benefits through a common understanding and application of a strategic collaborative framework.

Hearts and Minds
It is staggering to know that the emergence of benefits management, over some 25 years, has actually achieved relatively little positive impact on the management and success of projects and programmes!

Why is this?

There are many reasons but a fundamental lack of understanding and commitment to BM, as a cornerstone for project and programme success, continues to frustrate many protagonists across the global project and programme landscapes.

Our collective hearts and minds are simply not in the game.

Working Together
There is another crucial and game-changing view. Collaboration at its fundamental level is all about making sure that individuals and teams are behaving and interacting in the best possible ways in order to support and deliver mutual project or programme success and benefit.

Understanding the concepts behind truly collaborative behaviours and the value of collaboration cannot be underestimated.

Standards
BS 11000 (Collaborative Relationship Management) is a framework standard that enables organisations to focus on the adoption, implementation and maturity of collaboration approaches from a range of perspectives that ultimately enable cost, delivery, organisational and compliance based benefits to be realised including:

  • Why: Looking at how collaborative working can support a business development strategy that positions relationships to maximum effect;
  • How: Provision of a robust framework for collaborative working, ensuring a sustainable business; and
  • Where: Exploring a range of practical applications of the approach in ensuring the creation of business value.

ndrew will then describe how new and collaborative approaches dramatically change the way benefits and value are defined, managed and realised within organisations.

Key to this is the leadership, engagement and participation of beneficiaries and wider stakeholders. Traditionally benefits practices are seen to be the domain of projects and programmes.

Perhaps that is the one of the main reasons why programmes aren’t successful in delivering the expected value?

Presenters:

Andrew Hudson (LinkedIn profile) BEng, Managing Director, ChangeDirector, is a leading practitioner and implementer of management methods and systems covering strategy, operations and change working with many organisations internationally. Previously with Rolls-Royce aerospace as a systems and methods engineer where Andrew was responsible for the front end of the Trent planning system. This award winning programme was used to simultaneously engineer 1,000’s of design and make products for the Trent aero engine.  More recently he has led the development of ChangeDirector. This is one of the few tools to support value and benefits management and was recognised by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in 2012.

David E Hawkins, Operations Director and Knowledge Architect, Institute for Collaborative Working (ICW)  has been associated with the development and implementation of construction industry major projects in many parts of the world for 40+ years. His insight into the  organizational & cultural challenges that projects can generate, allowed David to be a strong promoter of collaboration and partnering concepts.

David was the architect and author of the CRAFT collaborative methodology and technical author of the British Standards Institution (BSI) PAS 11000 framework, the world’s first collaborative business relationship standard and was the driving force behind the creation of BS 11000 -1: 2010 Collaborative business relationships – Part 1: A framework specification, and chairman of the BSI committee who developed the standard. In 2009 he was acknowledged as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders on corporate social responsibility (CSR).

David was also instrumental in commissioning the report that details the outcomes from the ‘Benefits Realisation from Collaborative Working’ research activities undertaken by Warwick Business School and sponsored by ICW.

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The Benefits Of Collaboration

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Live Webinar – March 15th, 2016 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Many specialists and leaders have very limited time to plan and organize regular and scheduled formal coaching sessions.

Instead coaching is done in micro events – as needed, as it happens, in conversations and usually in combination with Web tools and mobile devices.

In these situations, micro-coaching becomes the only link between learners and workers and their leaders or trainers. The success of micro-coaching, therefore, leads to better performance.

Topics covered:

  • What is the difference between formal coaching and micro-coaching?
  • What events trigger micro-coaching?
  • How do you implement micro-coaching, e.g. instant assists, feed-back loops, self-guided reviews, deliberate applications, and others?
  • What leader and trainer skills to develop in micro-coaching?
  • How  do you effectively use web tools and mobile apps?

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of 3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1), and DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.  Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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’

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Micro-Coaching: The Impacts Of
Continuous, Short – Instant Learning & Feedback

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Live Webinar March 17th, 2016 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Communication is a fundamental dimension of project management. According to some, 90% of a project manager’s time is spent communicating (we all really know it’s more like 135%, but still).

Conflict is a part of this, obviously. And yet we don’t have really good strategies to manage it, at least until now.

Join Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management in this informative presentation.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

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Building Conflict-Competent Teams

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Business Architecture: Beyond Theory

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Live Webinar – March 16th, 2016 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

Enterprise Business Architecture is quickly evolving into a mainstream business capability.

Some would argue that it is already there particularly when 50% of the world’s top performing organizations have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator ranging from Government, Telco’s, Manufacturing and Financial Institutions.

However there continues to be a large population of change executives, managers and resources who regard Business Architecture as a theoretical practice.

Strategic change initiatives proliferate in business today. The speed and rate of change demands we maintain holistic oversight of all the moving parts to ensure realization of target operating models and designs.

Historically only a few strategic programs would be at play. In the last decade this number has grown to include on-shoring/off-shoring, centralization, spans of control, business transformation, vendor outsourcing, modernization, mergers/acquisitions, channel optimization, client segmentation, journeys and experience.

To facilitate strategic alignment and execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture.

Beyond Theory will focus on what are the market and internal forces at work which have been driving and will continue to drive organizations to use the models to better understand business impact, scope, execution and benefits realization.

The discussion will address the deployment and adoption challenges and look at industry standards and Blueprinting for strategic opportunities. It will provide a foundational knowledge of the business architecture framework and model types to crystalize scope, identify stakeholders, manage risk and how early analysis, through the lens of the business architecture, will influence estimating, resourcing, time, cost and quality.

Business Architecture is the link between strategy and execution.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Provide clear, rational reasons to do business Architecture.
  2. Present a foundational set of Business Architecture Models, views and uses to mitigate project and analysis risk, drive the value proposition
  3. Recommend a staged Execution Model

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 16, 2010
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

This is the 6th webinar in a 7 part  NetObjectives series: Business Driven Software Development

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This session is about how proper use of acceptance testing can avoid many problems instead of merely finding them at the end.

It redefines the role of QA to one of avoiding errors and improving our system of development.

Acceptance test-driven development is the process of having customers, developers and testers all talk about the requirements before any coding is done.

By answering the question “how will I know I’ve done that” for each requirement, prior to it being developed, both a greater understanding of the requirement can be achieved and a better process to implement that requirement can be attained.

Outline:

  • Why answering questions about requirements will never get you the answers you need
  • How creating test specifications increases developers understanding of requirements
  • Why writing tests first speed you up in the short term while saving time in the long run

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Bring The Customer, Developers & Testers Together To Understand Requirements Up-Front

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