Live Webinar November 29th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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BUILDING A BETTER WORLD, ONE CHILD AT A TIME.

That’s what Fortune 100 company Caterpillar is doing with Pro Bono Project Management support.

Find out how Caterpillar’s Global Program Management team is growing project management capability and competency in non-profits and charity organizations.

Project management professionals around the world can leverage their intellectual capital for the good of the communities where they live and work by helping local organizations become more efficient and effective in utilizing their precious resources.

This webinar is part of ProjectManagement.com’s upcoming open house, “Project Managers Giving Back,” held in conjunction with the PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF). Join us on 29 November to celebrate giving back through project management and learn how you can make a difference in your community!

Presenters:

George Puhl, (LinkedIn profile)

Jeremy Pasley, (LinkedIn profile)

Jeffrey Zircher, (LinkedIn profile)

Seth Norburg, (LinkedIn profile)

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Building Better Communities
With Pro Bono Project Management

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Live Webinar November 30th 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

We are obsessed with data-driven business.

• Is that really, truly desirable?
• Is “data” truly, really objective, or is it just perception?
• In rational decision making, how’s “logic” doing, anyway?
• How should you deal with reality’s habit of biting back?

Join Frank Buytendijk (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) and find out!

Discussion Topics:

• The short-comings of being a data-driven business
• How to get a better handle on trying to define “truth” with data and analytics
• How to deal better with the unpredictability of “reality”

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What Is True? What Is Real?
And Does It Matter In A Data-Driven World?

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Live Webinar November 23rd, 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This two-hour webinar covers techniques and guidelines for defining the type of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for application software.

In order for Project Managers and Business Analysts to evaluate vendors and their software proposals, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

• The methods for defining requirements for a software product are different than for custom developed solution.
• The documentation and templates of business requirements is different when they’re being written for vendor selection.
• The level of detail and what included and excluded is critical to a successful vendor assessment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn an effective approach for collecting requirements for inclusion in an RFP
2. Understand the essential types of requirements to be elicited and included in commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) RFP
3. Learn what should be included and the sufficient level of detail for an RFQ/RFP
4. Learn the best format and templates for writing requirements for a COTS solution

Learn answers to these issues and more in this valuable webinar.

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Requirements Definition Best Practices
For Software RFPs

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Live Webinar November 22nd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

The life of a consulting business analyst (BA) presents many different challenges than those faced by “in-house” BAs – some obvious and some not.

As individual practitioners, consulting BAs have to be highly adaptable and able to plan and execute business analysis efforts quickly, in diverse organizational environments.

BA’s also play a role in the sales cycle: assessing tender documents, peer-reviewing proposals, and qualifying potential new business opportunities.

Version 1 is an IT consultancy in Ireland and the UK.  They recognize these challenges and have used the BABOK® Guide since 2009, as a key guide and reference to address them.

Hear from three senior consulting BAs at Version 1:

1. Scott Coombs (LinkedIn profile),
2. Keir Whytock (LinkedIn profile),
   
3. Sean Ryan (LinkedIn profile)

They will openly discuss their practice challenges, and provide details on their approach to turn those challenges into opportunities.

Specifically, they will share how the BABOK® Guide is used as the cornerstone of their own framework to,

• Build a thriving business analysis community of practice,
• Develop a “consulting perspective”,
• Build up their own skills development initiatives, and
• Broaden the impact of business analysis in their organization.

You will also gain insight into the special characteristics of the different industries in which these consulting BAs work (including, financial services and public sector) and how they affect business analysis practice.

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IIBA: Building Business Analysis Capability
In A Consulting Business

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Online Course – Recorded  – $12.95 USD 1 PDU
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media – Course
Presented: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is First in a 3 part series series on Requirements Definition by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

In many companies, the Requirements Definition process fails
to define the “REAL” Business Need for a project.

What may appear to be great solutions are often developed without any tie to the real project needs. Unfortunately, the discovery of missing, out of scope, or poorly defined requirements often happens much too late in the project lifecycle leading to project failure.

Avoiding these costly mistakes requires a clear understanding of the requirements definition process and the right tools and techniques to define complete requirements for a project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Building the Foundation for Clear Requirements webinar enables participants to recognize the barriers preventing project teams from defining clear requirements.

Participants will learn how to create a requirements definition foundation that engages the right stakeholders, alignment on the project scope and progressive elaboration techniques for maintaining the right level of focus throughout the requirements definition lifecycle.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to use the Project Scope Statement deliverables to guide the team’s creation of “real” project need and project solution statements
• How to use collaborative techniques to lead team members through requirements creation activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to progressively build requirements using collaborative techniques
• Techniques for ensuring the Requirements Definition efforts are on the right track, from the onset of the project

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Foundation for Clear Requirements

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Live Webinar – November 24th 2016 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST
Live Webinar – November 24th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

In this information session, Melanie Franklin, Co-Chair of the Change Management Institute UK and Richard Smith, Chief Examiner, Change Practitioner Qualification, APMG-International will describe the growing professionalism of business change and transformation roles.

From being either a project management afterthought, or an Organizational Development specialism, change management has matured into a recognised management discipline.

This discipline is now sought after by those organisations who realise that the increasing pace of change means that their need to change in line with their marketplace cannot be left to chance.

Melanie will outline the objectives of the Change Management Institute, give a flavour of its members and explain the skills and behaviours of excellent change and transformation professionals, using the Competency Model from the Change Management Institute.

Learn how the Change Management Institute’s competence model connects with their change management body of knowledge, and how APMG’s Change Management practitioner qualification reflects this professional development.

APMG will also describe the growing number of applicants and the skills that candidates learn on their route to practitioner success.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) Change Management Institute UK, has been responsible for the successful delivery of effective change and for creating environments that support transformational change for 20+ years. She is the co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK and is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner. Melanie is the author of many books on change & project management including,  Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide and Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation. 

Check out the wonderful resources on Melaine’s site,
You will be glad you did!

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Finding Effective Change Managers

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