Live Webinar – June 17th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

The information and decision-making duties of project professionals and business analysts get more complex every day.

Data resources – and concerns – have become ubiquitous, and it’s critical to stay on top of them.

While BAs and PMs don’t need to suddenly transform into data scientists, they must understand the data resources currently available, what they offer, and how they’re being used.

Most importantly, every BA and PM should understand how data can be leveraged to deliver business value and project solutions in their own work.

This one-hour open Q&A session gives you a chance to get answers to common real-world data challenges. Join Chris as he talks with top-tier data expert Darrel Raynor.

Presenters:

Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) ASPE Creative Director

Darrel Raynor (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director of, Data Analysis & Results  and has decades of experience consulting with Fortune companies on uncovering useful business insights and turning around troubled projects using data-driven resources.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule

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”.

Click to register for Q and A – How Can Business Analysts & Project Managers Do Better With Data?

Live Webinar – June 12th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

The amount of data available to software teams and the tools available to utilize it can easily become mind-numbing if you don’t know how to ask the right questions.

Fortunately, you don’t have to be a data guru or a technical specialist to understand this fundamental truth: your data is only as valuable as the questions you ask.

This is good news for project teams and business analysis professionals because it means you can quickly and realistically begin harnessing insights offered by data that’s readily available, as long as you understand how to frame the questions that yield those insights.

In this one-hour web seminar, data guru and veteran enterprise consultant Darrel Raynor will take your questions on how you can immediately begin framing the useful questions that will yield useful insights for your organization, using data analysis resources you probably already have in place.

Join Darrel for this open Q&A in which we take as many of your questions as possible.

Presenter: Darrel Raynor (LinkedIn profile) Founder and Managing Director of, Data Analysis & Results  and has decades of experience consulting with Fortune companies on uncovering useful business insights and turning around troubled projects using data-driven resources.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders

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.’

Click to register for Q & A – Your Data: How to Ask the Right Questions

Live Webinar June 11th 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

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

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Live Webinar June 5th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

This webinar provides the motivation for organizations to look beyond a pure profit motive and take on social, economic, environmental, and ethical responsibilities to have a positive influence on global prosperity.

Gregory Balestrero (LinkedIn profile, YouTube) IIL’s Strategic Advisor on Leadership, Sustainability & Corporate Consciousness and co-author of Organizational Survival: Profitable Strategies for a Sustainable Future; will discuss the results of nearly three years of research and share insight on how to increase value, enhance reputation, and improve image and brand through an integrated approach to strategic change.

Click to register for Organizational Survival: The Double Meaning of Sustainability

Live Webinar May 28th, 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

Agile has been the buzz for the last several years in the IT world and is expanding to other types of industries, applications, and projects.

This webinar will help you make sense of the fundamental agile principles and how the interact or differ from traditional project management approaches.

Objectives:

• List the basic principles of agile project management
• Differentiate between agile and basic project management
• Define the value of agile project management to an organization
• Identify ways to implement agile techniques for global teams

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 Agile Perspectives: A Panel Discussion

Live Webinar May 21st, 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

Why Implement A
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?

This session describes the purpose of the SD lifecycle and provides descriptions for the nomenclature involved. Learn where and how the SD deliverables can be applied. Walk away with a general understanding of the SD lifecycle and the fundamentals that are associated with it.

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 Leverage the Software Development Lifecycle