Online Course – Recorded  – $12.95 USD 1 PDU
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media – Course
Presented: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is First in a 3 part series series on Requirements Definition by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

In many companies, the Requirements Definition process fails
to define the “REAL” Business Need for a project.

What may appear to be great solutions are often developed without any tie to the real project needs. Unfortunately, the discovery of missing, out of scope, or poorly defined requirements often happens much too late in the project lifecycle leading to project failure.

Avoiding these costly mistakes requires a clear understanding of the requirements definition process and the right tools and techniques to define complete requirements for a project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Building the Foundation for Clear Requirements webinar enables participants to recognize the barriers preventing project teams from defining clear requirements.

Participants will learn how to create a requirements definition foundation that engages the right stakeholders, alignment on the project scope and progressive elaboration techniques for maintaining the right level of focus throughout the requirements definition lifecycle.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to use the Project Scope Statement deliverables to guide the team’s creation of “real” project need and project solution statements
• How to use collaborative techniques to lead team members through requirements creation activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to progressively build requirements using collaborative techniques
• Techniques for ensuring the Requirements Definition efforts are on the right track, from the onset of the project

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Foundation for Clear Requirements

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 29th 2016
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event – More information will be available at the session.

BA’s Stakeholders In DevOps

With the application of DevOps management principles impacting entire enterprise IT departments, it is important for the BA to understand who the stakeholders are in a DevOps-style project and how they map to the stakeholder profiles described in the BABOK.

In this short session Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)  will explain the contemporary roles of the various stakeholders one might find along the way on projects which espouse the principles of DevOps.

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Mapping the BA’s Stakeholders in a DevOps Workflow

Online Course – With Chuck Cobb
Duration: 5 Hours
Credits: 5 Category B PDUs
Regularly $99 USD
On Sale $15 USD until Feb 27, 2016
Presented by: Udemy

Get A 5 Hour Head Start On Your PMI-ACP®!

This course introduces agile Project Management and includes a number of case studies showing how to apply this knowledge in a typical real-world situation.

This course will:

• Help you unravel the confusion about Agile Project Management;
• Develop a totally new perspective to see both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices in a new light
  • as complementary to each other rather than competitive
• Learn to develop an adaptive approach to project management to blend those principles and practices together in the right proportions to fit any situation.

The course covers most of the knowledge required for PMI-ACP® certification in a very practical, real-world context.  This course provides a much deeper understanding of the principles behind the certification.

Presenter: Chuck Cobb (LinkedIn profile) is the author of the recent, best-selling book “The Project Manager’s Guide to Mastering Agile: Principles and Practices for an Adaptive Approach.”  and an Adjunct Professor at Boston University where he teaches Agile Project Management courses.  Chuck has a very pragmatic, “real world” approach to Agile. With 20+ years of hands-on program/project management experience in a broad range of industries & areas Chuck shares his passion helping project managers understand the convergence of Agile and traditional project management principles and practices. Chuck is an In-demand keynote speaker at numerous PMI, Agile, and Executive-level events.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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Mastering Agile Project Management for Project Managers

Online Webinar  – Recorded
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the second in a 3 part series series on Collaboration by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Bringing project stakeholders together in collaborative meetings is an effective way to quickly make decisions and complete project work with a high degree of alignment and buy-in.

Use of a brainstorming activity is a high energy and powerful way to uncover hundreds of ideas during meetings. However, there is more to brainstorming than just gathering a list of ideas which can often be misinterpreted or dismissed, after the energy of the meeting subsides.

Understanding what those rapidly collected ideas really meant to the stakeholders, before the meaning is forgotten, is where the real value and power of brainstorming is leveraged.

In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn how to:

• Structure brainstorming sessions to collect ideas in collaborative meetings
• Focus ideas captured during brainstorming to increase relevance to the meeting objective
• Use questioning techniques to guide brainstorming and improve brainstorm quality
• Use questioning techniques to drive clarity and increase buy in of brainstormed ideas
• How to avoid common mistakes which sabotage a brainstorm activity

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join us for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn how to increase the value and effectiveness of brainstorming while avoiding the common pitfalls which sabotage the best intentions of any brainstorming effort.

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Online Webinar – Recorded September 11th 2013
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Are You Happy In Your Leadership Position?

For leaders today, success isn’t just about being a great businessperson….

It’s about performing well in all aspects of life.

Based on decades of his research and practical application around the world, Stew Friedman teaches in this webinar how to achieve what he calls “our-way wins” as a leader, improving performance and results in all four domains of life … by finding mutual value among them.

1. Work,
2. Home,
3. Community and
4. Self (mind, body, spirit)

Gaining an understanding of the Total Leadership approach and how toapply it to your situationm

Participants will take away valuable tools to:

1. Assess the alignment of their actions and value
2. Grasp what it means for them to lead with impact in all domains of their lives
3. Generate actionable plans for creating real sustainable change
4. Use peer-to-peer coaching for accountability and support for taking action
5. Build commitment for their leadership visions in those who matter most to them

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Presented by: Stew Friedman (LinkedIn profile) is the author of Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life and Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family.  Stew is at the Wharton School of Business, where he is the Practice Professor of Management. In 1991 Steve founded both the Wharton Leadership Program, and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. Stew served for five years in the mental health field before earning his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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Online Webinar – September 22nd, 2015
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / GanttHead (REP #2488)

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When preparing to run a schedule risk analysis, you need to have a “risk-ready” schedule.

This session will define what it means for a schedule to be “risk-ready” and identify common schedule checks that can be used to improve schedule quality and risk-readiness.

The session Wesley Gillette (LinkedIn profile) will also show the impact of common schedule issues on the risk analysis output to illustrate why these checks are so important.

What makes a schedule “risk-ready”?

• Impact of Constraints
• Impact of Lags
• Impact of Schedule Logic
• Running and reviewing a Schedule check

Watching this video allows you to claim the following category A PDUs: PMP/PgMP: 1.00, PMI-SP: 1.00, PMI-RMP: 1.00

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