Live Webinar May 21st, 2014, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm  EDT or
Live Webinar May 22nd, 2014, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm  EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center (PROSCI)
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU –  Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes.  With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

You know the value change management brings to a project, but how do you convince senior leaders and project leaders to invest in change management?

This fast-paced, inspiration-loaded session will pull together the rationale and approach to change management into the structure of a business case.

Learn how to gain credibility, buy-in and the ultimate commitment to apply change management by presenting the Business Case for Change Management.

Agenda:

1. What is a business case?
2. Why a business case for change management?
3. The business case for change management

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 the May 21st Presentation of  How to Write a Business Case for Change Management

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Live Webinar May 20th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar focuses on how to turn Business Intelligence deliverables into improved decision making.

Bert Brijs (LinkedIn profile) will follow the entire chain, from designing the BI system to the actual decision making.

Click to register for Data to Action, the Real Deal in BI

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Live Webinar – May 16th 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

In the last couple of years, more and more organizations have switched to Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) as their preferred (often, the standard) way to capture, model, and analyze business processes.

There are several reasons for this trend:

• Simple notation: easy to learn and communicate with all stakeholders, on both the business and the technical sides
• Flexible: 3 levels of abstraction that allow modeling simple high-level processes (Descriptive level), analysis and optimization (Analytic level), and specifying complex processes for IT implementation and/or execution (Execution level)
• Showing the whole-picture + hierarchal structure: allows abstraction at high-levels and elaboration into further details, without losing the relationships between different process components
• Efficiency/reuse: projects and analysts reuse/elaborate same models as more details are added throughout the Solution/System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Widely adopted standard: common set of conventions and symbols, with no need to (re)invent the wheel
• Wide adoption by tool providers: virtually all major vendors, commercial or open-source, have adopted BPMN

In this seminar we will introduce core concepts and principles of Business Process Management (BPM) and BPMN and demonstrate how this knowledge will significantly improve Business Analysts’ ability to elicit/capture, analyze, manage, and communicate business and solution requirements.

Presenter: Razvan Radulian’s (LinkedIn profile) CBAP OCEB PMP passion has always been to help/coach people analyze and solve problems and to design & implement business/technical solutions. Razvan is fond of rescuing troubled projects, tackling the most challenging problems and delivering “impossible” solutions.  Rasvan holds on MS in Biochemistry from the University of Bucharest and an MBA from Duke University.

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
• 5.4 Create WBS
• 5.6 Validate 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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Live Webinar May 14th, 2014, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems. Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

You will have to register – then the webinar will load in the page Please be patient this may take a min or two to load. (You may have to use the side scroll bar to place the webinar on pause)

Click to register for the Live version of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation

Recorded Version Information: If you watch the recorded version of this webinar it is a good idea to record the information about this webinar date, time, and list this prerecorded event for your PDU Audit folder.

Click to view a recorded version (2008-10-28) of Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation .

Live Webinar May 8th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
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 Vicki will explain how to:

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

Presenter: Vicki Hoard, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, is a Senior Consulting Manager with Robbins Gioia’s Process Refinement & Optimization Practice. Vicki is responsible for developing and tailoring business process management and improvement methods. She is an experienced facilitator and has consulted on projects in the areas of quality management, Lean Six Sigma, business process re-engineering and performance management.

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

Live Webinar – May 8th 2014, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 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.

The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF) provides a structure for describing all transformational work within an enterprise.

While TOGAF focuses on the role of an enterprise’s architects, it also very much addresses the space in which business analysts (BAs) play. This can lead to role confusion, blurred deliverables, and duplicate work.

In this one-hour webinar, business analysis expert and Global Knowledge instructor Adam McClellan (LinkedIn profile) will focus on those parts of TOGAF in which the business analyst is typically the most active, and he will outline how the analyst’s work contributes to the broader architecture.

He will also provide perspective for architects who work with BAs and for BAs interested in the architecture disciplines.

• Basics of TOGAF
  1. Associated Tools and Frameworks
  2. Architecture Development Method (ADM)
• The BA Role
  1. IIBA Definition
  2. Overview of Role’s Evolution
• The TOGAF ADM
  • BA in a Leading Role
    1. -Business Architecture (in Some Cases)
    2. Requirements Management
    3. Migration Planning
  • BA as Key Contributor
    1. Architecture Vision
    2. Business Architecture (in Other Cases)
    3. Information Systems Architecture
    4. Opportunities and Solutions
    5. Implementation Governance
  • BA with Minor to Minimal Role
    1. Technology Architecture
    2. Preliminary
    3. Architecture Change Management

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 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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