Live Webinar – May 4th 2017, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

Whether your project follows formal or informal project management, waterfall, or an iterative or Agile, making use of the daily stand-up meeting is an essential habit required for every self-organising team.

Stand-ups are a core practice and help us determine customer value, reinforce team structure, organise priorities, address uncertainty, remove impediments, and manage our time through the use of a personal Kanban.

In This Session:

• Determine daily customer value with the three stand-up questions
• Investigate the use a Team Charter to build team structure and balance
• Address daily uncertainty with a Risk Burndown
• Participate in a small exercise and create your own personal weekly and daily Kanban using exclusive cognitive techniques to manage the multitasking behaviors required of all of us.

Presenter: Perry McLeod, (LinkedIn profile) CBAP, ITIL, PMP MEd – Global Knowledge Training LLC is a Management Consultant, Facilitator and Instructor with over 14-years of experience in business analysis, process reengineering, project management, business modeling and strategic alignment. In addition to Perry’s many professional accomplishments Perry was one of the contributors to the IIBA’s BABOK® v 2.0.

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The Perfect Stand-Up Meeting

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Live Webinar May 4th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar Mark Price Perry (LinkedIn profile) the author of “Business Driven PMO Success Stories: Across Industries and Around the World”  will review three key PMO manager skills that are essential for performing and keeping the job of PMO manager.

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PMO Survival Skills

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Live Webinar May 3rd, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

Preparing For Your 1st BA Interview?

Or perhaps it’s been awhile and you’ve heard that job interviews are a little different these days?

You also may have heard that interviewing as a business analyst is different than interviewing for a more technical or domain-focused role. (It is!)

Learn the 5 most common mistakes business analysts make when Interviewing for jobs, and how to avoid them.Laura

Laura founder of Bridging the Gap has been helping mid-career professionals like you start business analyst careers and find new business analyst jobs since 2008.

Laura’s been training and hiring managers, contractors, to be business analysts . .. Essentially, she’s seen the hiring process from every possible angle!

In this webinar she’ll be sharing her inside tips so you can get hired into your first or your next business analyst job.

You’ll leave ready to prepare for your business analyst job interview with more confidence.

Learn how to avoid the most common (and disastrous) mistakes!

Presenter: Laura Brandenburg (LinkedIn profile, @LLBrandenburg) CBAP is the author of How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide),  Bridging the Gap, which offers a BA career planning course (it’s free) to help you start your business analyst career. She’s reviewed hundreds of BA resumes and is ready to help you improve yours!

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IIBA: 5 Critical Job Interview Mistakes
That Keep You From Landing A BA Job

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 16th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic planning is at the heart of any enterprise, and alignment with the corporate strategic plan is often a key concern of CIOs.

There is a science to developing an IT strategy, and there is an art.

This session explores the art of strategic planning, helping attendees articulate IT’s contribution to business success.

Discussion Topics:

• The components of an IT strategy when using “science” to develop it
• Techniques for developing an ‘artful’ one-page strategy
• How to effectively use the one-page strategy

Join  Heather Colella, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Research VP and learn to build your 1-Page Strategy.

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The Art Of The 1-Page Strategy

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Live Webinar May 4th, 2017 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Every project introduces some degree of change!

According to the Project Management Institute, “When your organization is good at change, twice as many of your strategic initiatives are successful.”

For you as the project manager, the secret is acknowledging that change and preparing to address it both proactively and reactively.

In this webinar, Kay will introduce successful strategies for tackling change using basic psychology, proven tools and real life stories.

Kay will focus primarily on stakeholder and communication management, with considerations around risk and team makeup.

Topics include:

• All projects are not created equal
• What causes resistance?
• Working with those affected by the change
• Who are your change agents?
• Your communication plan “on steroids”

Presenter: Kay Quinn, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, MBA will be your guide. She is an experienced leader, project manager, public speaker, and educator.

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The Psychology Of Change In Project Management

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Live Webinar – May 3rd, 2017, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

RefineM’s webinar series on agile practices that can be utilized by waterfall teams continues with a discussion of progressive elaboration.

Progressive elaboration is the refinement of requirements as the project progresses, enabling early and continuous delivery by saving the overhead of planning all requirements upfront.

Learn how this key practice can be used on waterfall teams to benefit their projects.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

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Progressive Elaboration

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