Live Webinar Octtober 11th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Are You Ready?

PMI is expected to release the Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition by the end of 2017.

This webinar will explore what is driving these changes and what it means to you.

Diane Buckley Altwies, (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Core Performance Concepts will discuss an overview of the changes and how it may impact your own understanding of best practices in project management.

A portion of the exam is expected to be changing as well and we will discuss how PMI puts together the Exam Content Outline which determines what will change in the Exam.

In this session, Diane will examine what is changing, and not changing, with the PMBOK® Guide and how it impacts you.

Benefits

• Provide an overview of the changes in the PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition
• Discuss how it may impact your personal study plan
• Explore how it may impact your understanding of project management best practices
• Summit questions to discuss next session
• Earn 1 PDU for attending

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:
Changes In The PMBOK 6th Edition

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Live Webinar – October 10th, 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Click To See Part 1: Insight
NextGen Business Competencies
For PMs & BAs

Fast moving agile businesses need engaged teams that drive out faster testable insights for extremely reduced time from concept to cash.

NextGen Project Managers and Business Analysts meet this challenge with their own NextGen business competencies – to build shared understanding of trends, customer/market forces and organizational imperatives to drive fast value decision making.

They exert new forms of leadership to help teams of all kinds (IT and beyond) to seed their backlogs with innovative pre-flight tested, market ready ideas.

This series will be a four part deep dive into a competency wheel for new project leaders called the Discovery Leadership framework.

Developed by Kupe Kupersmith CBAP®, (LinkedIn @Kupe)President B2T Training, and Curtis Michelson (LinkedIn profile) with guidance from a global community, the framework is a holistic set of competencies grouped into four chunks.

The future is here. Amazon and others are leading the way.

What’s The Secret?

One piece is how they make high velocity, high quality decisions . Analysis paralysis and slow decision making is not what they do.

They take risks, fail fast and learn.

Today’s environment requires organizations to deal with dynamic change by making high quality decisions at a speed most are not comfortable with.

To truly take advantage of the new insights discussed in the first of the series, we’ll look into how to build a decision framework for your initiatives.

A decision framework includes determining what decisions need to be made, who decides and decision criteria used. It does NOT end when you enact a decision.

To ‘keep it real’, you need a mechanism to evaluate your decisions, learn, and, if necessary, adapt. All of this may seem easy, but it is far from easy.

Kupe will end showing how our cognitive biases like group think, confirmation bias, etc. play a major role in the process of making high quality decisions.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Five essential factors that must be in place for NextGen Decision
• Three components to building a decision framework
• Four cognitive biases you must protect against to make high quality decisions

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Kupe Kupersmith CBAP®, President B2T Training,

B2T Training: Since its inception in 2000, B2T Training, has focused solely on providing business analysis training and professional development. As experts in the field, B2T Training continues to shape the Business Analysis discipline and the careers of BA professionals in major corporations across the globe through its high impact training sessions and valuable resources.

Kupe Kupersmith (LinkedIn @Kupe) possesses over 14 years of experience in software systems development. He has served as the lead Business Analyst and Project Manager on projects in the Energy, television, sports management and marketing industries. Kupe, a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®), is also internationally known for his strong mentorship of business analysis professionals.

Click to register for:
NextGen Business Competencies
For PMs & BAs Part 2: Decisions

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Live Webinar October 12th, 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)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

It is common place today for organization to adopt an agile approach toward software development projects.What is not so common place is the ability for all industry sectors to adopt the same agile approach, rather opting for a predictive approach.

We often find that working with external stakeholders we do not have control over what methodology they choose to use during project execution and working on complex projects where we are not the prime contractor only adds to the gap.

And in line with a predictive approach all requirements are defined upfront in terms of required solutions rather than business problems that must be solved.  Our ability to cross this divide will define how successful the project will be.

Will we deliver solutions as specified by users or will we solve business problems as expressed by stakeholders?

Presenter: Anton Oosthuizen (LinkedIn profile)

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Registration for these sessions fill quickly! If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 72 hours of the live session.

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Bridging The Agile Divide On Hybrid Project Delivery

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Live Webinar October 12th, 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

1. Do you envy other companies that innovatively wield information as a competitive weapon?
2. Does your organization inventory and track its office furniture, but not its data?
3. Do your executives have any idea what your information assets are actually worth or their untapped economic value?

Infonomics is a new discipline for IT, information, business, and corporate leaders who demand their organizations squeeze ever-more value from available data.

Douglas Laney (LinkedIn profile)  shares answers from his new book, “Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage ” on how to thrive, not just survive, in the Information Age.

Discussion Topics:

• How to monetize information in a variety of high-value ways
• How to manage information with the same discipline as traditional assets
• Why and how to measure information’s value

Click to register for:
Infonomics: Monetizing, Managing & Measuring
Information As A True Asset

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