Live Webinar April 25th, 2017 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The rise in popularity of Agile methods during the last decade has been both a benefit and a challenge for project and portfolio management teams.

While Agile methods have proven to increase and accelerate value to organizations by delivering faster and better results when applied to the right projects and in the right way, many organizations still struggle to figure out what to do with these new approaches for managing projects.

When this happens, Agile methods can become an obstacle and hindrance to benefits realization.

By breaking down the methodologies into smaller components, Benoit will explore how the ingredients of traditional and Agile can be blended more easily, doing away with dogmatic approaches.

Learn:

• How Agile is different but also similar to traditional methods
• How Agile techniques can complement more traditional approaches
• What other companies are doing to improve how they manage work this way.

Presenter: Benoit De Grâce, (LinkedIn profile) Sr Trainer/Consultant Corporate Education Group (CEG), has 20 + years of experience delivering courses on project management, scope, leadership, communication and quality management. With a keen ability to synthesize business processes and adapt project management know-how to various corporate environments, Benoit  helps organizations define and streamline their business processes. Benoit has a passion for delivering more efficient projects through the improvement of business processes, project/portfolio management skills, disciplines, and efficient information technology tools.

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Fire & Ice!
How Agile & Traditional Practices Can
Coexist & Complement Each Other

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SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR
Live Webinar – April 19th, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

More and more organizations are adopting Agile approaches to software and product development.

However, most do not move completely to Agile for all their projects.  Different stages of Agile maturity/transformation, and Waterfall thinking by executives create the need for a hybrid or bimodal project and portfolio management  (PPM) solution.

Come learn how Project Online or Project Server can provide a scalable, Agile PPM solution, by seamlessly integrating with team-focused Agile tools like TFS, VSTS, JIRA, Office 365 Planner and others.

Presenter:  Jim Patterson (LinkedIn profile) is Regional Director for Tivitie with 25+ years of experience in the design, implementation and training of project and portfolio management systems and processes.  Jim’s past efforts have been focused on Microsoft technology, with a strong emphasis in MS Project.  Jim’s background encompasses a wide variety of vertical industries, methodologies and approaches.  Jim works providing insights 7 solving challenges of distributed teams, fragmented/disconnected tools and multiple methodologies.

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MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
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Agile PPM:
When Your Teams are Agile,
But Leadership Thinks Waterfall

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Live Webinar April 25th, 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, you will learn why leaders who want their teams to deliver successfully must put an intentional focus on creating paths for performance improvement.

Presenter: Hasnain Rizvi  (LinkedIn profile, @RizvisPM) PhD PMP CBAP PMI-ACP PMI-RMP PMI-PBA CRISC CISM is a OPM3® Certified Consultant with project, program, portfolio management and governance experience. Hasnain performs PM maturity assessment work & has managed mission critical complex programs and projects for Global & Fortune 500 clients. He is an adjunct instructor with several North American universities, an acclaimed author and Keynote speaker. Along with leadership mentoring, Hasnain provides certification track coaching in his disciplines & in  CAPM Lean Six Sigma and ITIL Foundations.

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Drive Project Success Through Performance Management

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2017 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Do you understand your team and know how to shape your communication so that you are properly heard and understood for the advancement of project implementation?

You have learned to read your stakeholders and the situations to adapt your communication to meet the need of situation.

You have learned the main aspect of leadership to influence team for advancement in right direction and motivate them to maintain enthusiasm for progress.

You understand what needs to be communicated, and how to do it to reach an influence for desired results, at any given situation, time & place.

Now it’s time to see how to put that knowledge to practice and move your project forward.

Participants will learn:

1. The communication issues and solutions
2. Assessments of communication needs
3. Leadership influencing factors
4. Necessary check on communication process

Presenter: M. Aslam Mirza (LinkedIn profile) as President of Integrated Management Services he helps Organizational Transformation, building capacity to enhance Organizational competence for advancement in strategic direction, effective governance & control. His rich insights are derived from 40+yrs exposure to hands-on challenges in positions on sizeable projects, including business management, organizational leadership, high performing team building, and participation in task team for research and development of PMI-Standards for OPM3, PPM Management, and the PM Competency Development Framework.

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Communication Issues & Solutions
For Project Implementation

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Live Webinar April 20th, 2017 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Projects are expected to address a business need and help an organization attain its goals. Business Analysts are expected to ensure that a project fits into the business context.

In this webinar, participants will learn how to conduct “enterprise analysis” in order to align projects with organizational goals.

The webinar explains the main tasks of Enterprise Analysis according to IIBA®’s BABOK® Guide and then demonstrates select techniques, including root cause analysis, assessing capability gaps, defining solution scope, and leveraging Business Architecture frameworks, such as the Zachman framework.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area
• Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs
• Identify capability gaps using Business Architecture frameworks

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Author of The Art of Business Process Modeling: The Business Analyst’s Guide to Process Modeling with UML & BPMN,  Nomadic Data Entry: Empirically Derived Performance Models for Data Entry Tasks in Mobile Situations, and  Solution Validation and Testing: The Business Analyst’s Guide to Solution Validation and Testing, Martin, is also a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, and an experienced software architect.

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The Strategic Business Analyst:
Aligning Projects With Organizational Goals

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Live Webinar – April 19th, 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
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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