Live Webinar – September 5th 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

• Have you or your Agile teams Had trouble refining requirements on an Agile project?
• Are your teams struggling with user stories and tasks that are too large for them to handle well?

If so, you and your teams need
More guidance to implement backlog / user story grooming.

Backlog grooming is a step-by-step process of taking high-level (“coarse-grained”) requirements and refining them to lower-level user stories and tasks (“fine-level”) that are ready to put into a sprint.

Backlog grooming is typically a product owner rule that requires skill in prioritizing requirements and breaking down requirements with the help of the customer and development team.

Learn how to work the process to achieve fine-grained requirements that are ready just in time. The key to success is leveraging tools and techniques as well as the expertise of your team to refine requirements iteratively.

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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Backlog/Story Grooming

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Live Webinar September 5th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026) Branded SPL

Concurrent Product Development and Concurrent Engineering are successful because of effective “cross-functional” teaming, a sixty year old concept that is still evolving and changing with technology and global teaming.

Concurrent product development is not just doing tasks in parallel, but focusing on project definition, cross-functional teaming and constant refinement of the final product based on end user requirements.

Cross-functional teams are the key to accelerating innovation, reducing time to market and delivery the right product or service to the end user.

Robert will provide insight into how high performance teams establish the following to make Concurrent Product Development and Concurrent Engineering successful:

1. Establishing Goals, Objectives and Process/Project Management
2. Defining Roles and Responsibilities
3. Identifying and Dealing with Barriers
4. Managing Interpersonal relationship

Presenter: Robert W. Beachy, (LinkedIn profile) CTO  & Founder Axiom NPDP, MBM, ME  is a PDMA certified New Product Development Professional and consultant whose resume includes 25+ years in New Product Development, Product Management, Marketing Management, Brand Management, Organic Chemistry, Operations, Engineering and R&D efforts at General Electric, Gould(GNB), and The Toro Company. He has coauthored many articles on product development, a JPIM article Experimental Education in New Product Design and Business Development, advanced market research techniques, knowledge management and the culture of continuous innovation.

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High Performance Teams Are Essential
To Concurrent Product Development Success

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Live Webinar September 4th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

• Do you ever wonder what top organizations are doing to attract high performers?
• Have you ever hired someone who was expected to deliver results but instead cost your company time and money?

In this webinar, Crystal Thomas (LinkedIn profile) will explore best practices of top organizations. Crystal will also  help you discover new ways to help you identify and hire individuals who will boost your team’s culture.

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

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Attracting & Selecting High Performers
To Boost & Engage Your Stagnant Team

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Live Webinar September 5th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Businesses are ramping up their internet of things (IoT) initiatives, from new product and revenue strategies to cost optimization projects.

However, progress of IoT initiatives is hindered by unique challenges as well as a maturing technology and vendor landscape.

In this webinar, Alfonso Velosa Gartner Research VP (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) provides the top 5 critical competencies that will help you and your team assemble IoT solutions.

Discussion Topics:

• Communicate and engage with other business units
• Prioritize internal competencies in an environment with no off-the-shelf solution
• Leverage competencies to balance enterprise protection and progression

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The Top 5 Critical IoT Competencies

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Live Webinar September 5th 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 24th 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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In an era of constant change, Learning Development has evolved dramatically. The old modes of planning out Knowledge and Learning projects are gone, so how do you plan them now?

In this session with Kevin McGowan (LinkedIn profile) participants will learn how to manage Learning/Knowledge projects, and learn the steps of planning and delivering the best materials you can.

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Your Learning Has Been Disrupted

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