Live Webinar August 27th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

No Project Is Successful Without A Plan!

Putting a plan together will certainly ensure that deliverables are defined and tasks are completed.

However as a project progresses and project team members come and go, keeping the project team on task and then closing the project is really the difficulty part, not to mention getting the customer to sign-off on the final deliverables.

Objectives

• Learn the reasons that ending a project is harder than starting a project
• Gain successful sign-off by customers on project completion
• Identify techniques for effectively closing projects

This webinar is meant for those who have seen project target dates slip because final details are delayed.

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 The Art of Getting It Done

Live Webinar August 21st, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The BABOK® Guide v2.0 Task (7.3) Assess Organizational Readiness is important for the success of a change initiative.

An organizational readiness assessment describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether it is prepared for the change that the solution will cause.

In this session Maureen McVey, CBAP will introduce you to strategy to address the often overlooked requirement related to those impacted by the change.

Maureen will also introduce you to tools and tactics for assessing if the change will be successful and what is needed to address gaps.

Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to:

1. List the elements needed for successful change
2. To identify resistance to change
3. Describe the structure of an effective change team
4. List the tools that can help with change

Presenter: Maureen McVey  (LinkedIn profile) , Head of Learning and Development at IIBA

Click to register for IIBA: How To Mitigate Resistance To Change

Live Webinar August 20th, 2014 11:00 am – 11:45 pm EDT
Duration: 45 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

As the project team develops the code to meet the authorized requirements, the newly built functionality must be verified to ensure it reflects the authorized requirements and satisfies the business need.

This can be accomplished by implementing the following integrated methodology deliverables:

• Project status report,
• Team status report,
• Issue definition,
• Risk definition,
• Change request,
• Unit test defect log(s),
• System integration test (SIT)
• Defect log(s),
• User acceptance (UT) defect log,
• Requirements traceability log

Learn how to each deliverable can be beneficial to your project.

Click to register for Project Control & Verification

Live Webinar August 19th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The dramatic growth in mobile and wearable computing activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a wide variety of user behavior in the digital world.

Whether mobile users are communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting others to their location, purchasing goods or services, redeeming coupons or reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Compounding this data generation is the imminent adoption and usage of different kinds of wearable computing devices.

Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself to deeper explanatory and predictive models in the realm of customer analytics.

Anindya Ghose (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from the use of apps and advertising on mobile devices and their integration with wearable computing devices, in the course of meeting some strategic goals and tactical issues for firms.

A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the “mobile shopper” using tools from business analytics that combine statistical and econometric modeling with randomized experiments “in the wild”.

3 learning points:

1. Understanding audience behavior and advertising effectiveness on mobile devices
2. Understanding how consumers respond to geo targeting and geo fencing strategies using smart phone technologies.
3. Exploring the implications of wearable computing devices on marketing.

This webinar will cover several projects that Anindya has undertaken in multiple countries in Asia and Europe as well as discuss the state of the art knowledge in this space.

Presenter: Anindya Ghose

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Online Webinar  – Recorded May 8th, 2014
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Process management helps to provide a line of sight from strategy through execution of organizational initiatives.

Akin to the business analysis (BA) requirements discipline, this traceability enables performance maturity, better communication, clearer roles and responsibilities, and good governance.

Clarification of problems or opportunities for improvement is integral to business analysis and process management.

In each, you must elicit and clearly state a specific problem that quantifiably affects business/operation and that ultimately matters to your customers.

Process management is:

• An integral part of business analysis, implementation, improvement, and sustainability,
• Solves problems, and
• Expedites risk identification, mitigation, and impact.

In this webinar I will explain how to:

• Tie process management to organizational strategy,
• Use process management as a foundation of good decision making, change management, and governance, and
• Increase efficiency and value optimization throughout the organization.

Presenter: Mark Barnett, PhD, MBA (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Executive Consultant, at Robbins-Gioia, LLC and has more than 15 years of experience leading complex business transformations within multiple industries, including oil & gas, high-tech R&D and manufacturing, telecommunications, and insurance and financial services.

Click to register for IIBA: Overcome Risk Using Process Management And Improvement

Live Webinar – August 14th 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Successful transformation initiatives are driven by Business Architecture.

The Business Architect plays a key role in bringing all of the portfolio components together and consistently reinforcing senior management’s voice throughout the ADM lifecycle.

This begins with establishing strategic goals and outcomes that set the context for the entire program and service transformation.  Establishing context serves as the basis for strategic project portfolio definition and integrated execution.

This approach mitigates the risk of executing projects in isolation without considering the needs of the entire portfolio as a whole.

This session will boost your knowledge of these concepts and help you and your team to achieve the best possible outcomes for your organization.

Bashar Qader is a Business Architect with over 25 years of Business and IT Management experience. Working with Zachman and TOGAF frameworks as well as Industry reference models such as the Public Sector Reference Model and the Government Strategic Reference Model, he has assisted  companies such as RBC, TD, the Office of the CIO Ministry of Labour, , CRA and Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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