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Best Practices For Sprint Planning

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Live Webinar – July 14th 2022, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

  1. Are you on an Agile team and not seeing value out of your sprint planning?
  2. Are you looking for tools or best practices to make the ceremony more effective?

If so, you will benefit from this webinar.

Sprint planning is when the Agile development team takes the prioritized product increment and begins translating it into a goal and a plan of action.

The team learns more about each backlog item, engages in estimation exercises, and defines the goal of the sprint.

When sprint planning runs effectively, the team comes away with clarity and purpose in their work and the chances of delivering on the sprint goal increase greatly.

In this webinar, NK will describe best practices of engaging and effective sprint planning to help you put your team in the best position to succeed.

NOTE: May’s webinar has been postponed to July 14, 2022. If you have already registered, no further action is needed.

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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Risk Management In An Agile World

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Online Webinar  – Recorded July 9th 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Since the term, agile, grew popularity in the second decade of the 21st century, Risk Management was one of the strong selling points of various agile frameworks.

According to agile surveys, reducing risk is one of the main reasons for agile adoption.

However, none of the agile frameworks provide guidance on Risk Management. Most of them are limited to a simplistic view that by delivering in small increments risk is limited to the value of a single sprint.

The reality is far more complex, and it is not limited to coding or technical skills. A project is dependent on context, on organizational culture, and last but not least, on people’s desire to work as a team and succeed.

In this webinar Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile) gives a brief introduction to how important Risk Management is, how it can be done in agile, and why risk, especially in Agile, should not have a negative connotation.

Real-life examples will be used to illustrate how the Project Manager, Scrum Master, and the whole project team can take advantage of Risk.

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Online Webinar  – Recorded  August 9th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

  • Understand the application domain
  • Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
  • Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
  • Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
  • Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
  • Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
  • Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
  • Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
  • Use a standardized requirements document template
  • Continue to re-validate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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10 Steps To Effective Requirements Elicitation

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Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

59% of HR leaders identified building critical skills and competencies as the top key initiative for 2022. As you prioritize digital skills development within your organization, it’s important to look beyond internal talent analytics.

External labor market data is an essential input that allows you to monitor skills evolution, track competitor hiring patterns, and prioritize skills building based on market demand.

In this webinar Ashley Tatum (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Team Manager & Kenneth Pyle (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Advisory will help you prioritize the skills needed for digitalization initiatives and build a strong internal talent pool using labor market data.

Discussion Topics:

  • Identify changing skills needs outside of your organization with digital skills hiring trends
  • Prioritize skills building within your organization based on factors like demand growth and demand volume
  • Leverage skills adjacencies to invest in your own talent and build digital skills in-house

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Build Digital Skills Readiness With Labor Market Data

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Live Webinar – July 13th, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Live Webinar – July 13th, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Continous Change Community Melanie Franklin MCMI ChMC

Agility is supported by methodologies, processes and techniques but true organisational agility can only be achieved if it is supported by leadership behaviours that normalise, value and encourage the application of agile approaches.

Melanie will explain and provide examples of these leadership behaviours, discuss why they are so challenging to adopt for many in senior positions and how you can help encourage their adoption.

We know that agility is not a methodology or set of processes or techniques. Agility is the behaviours and attitudes that enable the ability to move quickly and easily.

They are supported by new ways of working, but these new approaches only work if the environment encourages and rewards there use.

Leaders are principal players in creating this environment. Leaders are not restricted to those with hierarchical power within their organisations. A leader is someone who others willingly follow.

To be an effective agile leader, there are seven behaviours that support each other, and taken together enable agile processes and techniques to flourish.

These behaviours are:

  1. Imagining the future state
  2. Flexing your vision
  3. Identifying small steps
  4. Living with uncertainty
  5. Decision making
  6. Seeking the input of others
  7. Relinquishing control

If you are in any form of leadership position, this webinar will give you the chance to benchmark your own behaviour against agile excellence and to identify areas for improvement.

If you are a project/programme manager, PMO or Product Owner, this will give you lots of ideas of what discuss with your Sponsor.

To support your “managing upwards” objectives, I will provide you with examples of what actions to ask your senior leaders to focus on and why these are essential to an effective agile culture.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin, MCMI ChMC (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) Founder Continous Change Community; has a track record of excellence in project, programme and portfolio planning & delivery. She has set up and run the project management capability for several major corporates and has been responsible for the successful delivery of global transformational change programmes for over twenty years. Co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK, Melanie is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner and author of many books on change and project management including Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide; Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.  and her newest book Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative.Tag Melanie at

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Online Webinar  – Recorded June 29, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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As project managers, we manage work that delivers outcomes and capabilities to the organization that were not previously available.

The project manager is expected to be able to identify all components of the organizations value stream and make sure that the project has work streams that address those needs.

Whether the methodology that is used is DevOps, Predictive, Agile, or Hybrid – there still is the need to the organization to adopt these outcomes and capabilities to realize the promised benefits of the initiative.

This requires managing an Organizational Change Workstream to prepare the organization for the change and to transfer responsibility to operations.

In this session  David Davis, (LinkedIn profile) & George Armstrong (LinkedIn profile) will explore those technical details.

They will also discuss a communication strategy, so all stakeholders are aware of the workstream and the value it adds to the project.

Learning Objectives:

  1. The participant will be able to articulate the Change Management Workstream component of a project and the special considerations contained within
  2. The participant will be able to identify the main components of customer adoption of a product/project deliverable including: A Change Assessment, A training Plan, and an Adoption Plan.,
  3. The participant will be able to explain to critical stakeholders the measurements of adoption success and how understanding these criteria can drive the appropriate behavior for successful outcome adoption.

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Dealing With The Organizational Change Management (OCM)
Workstream In Your Project

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