Live Webinar March 26th, 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

• Do you know who your stakeholders are?
• Have you considered both internal and external stakeholders?
• Do they have competing goals and objectives? Do they want the project to succeed?

This webinar will explore a variety of analytical techniques specifically focused on stakeholders.

Session Objectives:

• Identify key stakeholders
• Assess a stakeholder’s power and influence
• Evaluate a stakeholder’s interest
• Define best practices to implement within Project Insight

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 Techniques for Stakeholder Assessments

Live Webinar – March 21st 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

Knowing where to focus our efforts is one of the tricky aspects of being and becoming an effective business analyst. I believe it is important to analyze and prioritize our skill development, much like we do in helping our customers with their requirements.

In order to be effective in our role, we will examine the “must-have,” “nice-to-have,” and “should-have” professional skills to help you on your business analysis journey. Where you are located on the business analysis career path has an impact on which skills need to be emphasized.

This web seminar will help you identify what is critical for your success, including strategies to help you enhance and develop those essential skills.

Presenter: Kelley Bruns PMP (LinkedIn profile) has over 25 years of experience in the learning and development industry and is a PMP and a certified Development Dimensions International Facilitator. Kelley’s expertise lies in her extensive experience in a wide range of industries including banking, construction, energy, engineering, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

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

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 March 19th, 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

Gain an understanding of project management fundamentals in an IT context.

This session will provide descriptions of basic project management phases and explain how they can be applied for project success.

Discuss how these project management deliverables can be leveraged to contribute to your projects being delivered on time.

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 Apply PM Fundamentals to IT

Live Webinar – March 11th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU/CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

We often think the culprit to poor project results is a lack of technical knowledge and skill in project management and business analysis.

While this is a contributor it is not necessarily the only one,
nor the main one.

An organization’s project environment can significantly neutralize even the best efforts to bring a project in on time and budget as well as identifying and delivering on scope.

Additionally, since all projects involve people, projects managers and business analysts have to be highly skilled at engaging and communicating with people. Shortcomings in these areas guarantee lackluster efforts and overall confusion.

Systemation will help you move forward with your projects!

Note: How to Receive PDUs for Attending a Live Systemation Webinar – You can earn one PDU per live webinar attended. All you have to do is fill out PMI’s online form or download the PDF version and claim the PDUs in Section 4 as Category B (Systemation’s address is: 12503 E. Euclid Dr. Suite 55. Centennial, CO 80111).

Click to register for Project Success – What’s Holding You Back?

Virtual Training March 17th – 21st, 2014

2 Sessions each day: 1pm-2pm & 4pm-5pm EDT
Duration: 9-10 Hours Credits: 9 PDU Category B PDUs
Fees: $37.00 Live Listening ONLY – $117.00 USD Pass
Hosted by: Gil Broza, (LinkedIn profile @gilbroza)

Your Host – Gil Broza is Principal Agile Mentor & Founder at 3PVantage and author ofThe Human Side of Agile: How to Help Your Team Deliver. Recordings of last years Agile conference “Individuals and Interactions” are still available. (9 Category B PDUs for $87 – $97) An Excellent Value!

Win A GOLD PASS!

If you would love to hear these great agile speakers, receive the recordings, the transcripts and so much more – we are giving away a Gold pass to “Your Agile Journey” Webcast Conference.

The Sessions Are Easy to Attend – Just 2 sessions a day – and with the Gold Pass you will get all the recordings and transcripts!

To win simply Click to send us an email with your name and contact information and tell us why you would love to attend the conference and receive the recordings. 🙂

Contest Closes:
March 11th at Midnight MDT. 1 entry per person please.

Note: The Gold Pass is a great value! 9 Cat B’s & with the $117.oo USD registration fee you will receive the recordings and transcripts of all of the presentations. This event features 10 Great industry experts and renowned speakers.

This is an amazing opportunity to earn up to 9 Category B PDUs and get a great understanding of proven strategies to enhance your agile techniques and create outstanding success on your agile projects – enhancing your productivity.

The lineup for this event includes:

• Nick Oddson (LinkedInprofile,@noddson)
  • Organizational Support: Actions Speak Louder than Words
• Tricia Broderick (formerly Wilkerson – (LinkedIn profile, @t_broderick)
  • A Team-Friendly Environment: Making Collaboration Possible
• Ted Young(LinkedIn profile, @jitterted)
  • Stop Sprinting, Start Iterating: Embracing Uncertainty and Learning
• Andrew McGlinchey(LinkedIn profile)
  • Whole Product Thinking: More than a Backlog of Features
• Paul Carvalho(LinkedIn profile,@can_test)
  • A Quality Mind-set: Beyond Defects and Automated Tests
  • Watch for Paul’s new book Put Your Mind to the Test to be released soon
• Arlo Belshee (LinkedIn profile, @arlobelshee )
  • Technical Excellence: Changing the Rules of the Development Game
• Johanna Rothman (LinkedIn profile, @JohannaRothman)
  • The Get-to-Done Mentality: Finish What You Start
    
  • Johanna has written many popular books including:
    • Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
    • Hiring Geeks That Fit
    • Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
    • Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
    • Hiring The Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets & Science Of Hiring Technical People
• Dan Mezick (LinkedIn profile, @DanMezick)
  • Cultural Fit: Can You Handle the Truth?
  • Author Of: The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager
• Guy Nachimson (LinkedIn profile, @guynachimson)
  • Embracing Change: Turning the One Constant from Foe to Friend
• Ken Rubin (LinkedIn profile, @krubinagile)
  • The Agile Principles and Values: Doing What Really Matters
  • Author Of : Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

You’ll be happy you listened to these folks, because you’ll …

• Receive tons of information and advice, which will be useful and applicable no matter where you are on your Agile journey
• Explore both principles and practices – both what successful teams and organizations do and why they succeed
• Understand just how deep/extreme Agile gets, and the corresponding risks and rewards
• Shorten the journey to success with Agile, which is neither short nor easy

If you can’t attend all sessions, or prefer reading to listening, the recordings and transcripts will be available.

Click to Register
Gain Proven Strategies, Tools, & Insights For Outstanding Success with Agile Webcast
March 17 – 21, 2014

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Online Webinar – Recorded Sept 24th 2013
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

Sometimes we wonder how Microsoft ever came up with SharePoint. SharePoint is the perfect enterprise integration platform and Microsoft is the perfect transactional, product-focused, marketing company. It just doesn’t fit, which is the main problem surrounding the poor adoption and use of the most powerful business application on the market, SharePoint 2010.

The reality is, for a large enterprise to gain the competitive advantage and efficiencies SharePoint can provide, it must look at HOW or better yet WHO is driving adoption.

Here is why the SharePoint BA is so critical. It isn’t about governance or basic administration. Yes, those things are important, but they are the chicken before the egg. The egg is USE!!!

We are right in the middle of the transformation of power in IT systems moving from geeks to the users, because the users are becoming geeks. SharePoint is the pinnical of user enabled IT power.

This web seminar will discuss at a high level

• The vast potential real world applications for SharePoint.
• ASPE will dig into the traditional role of a business analyst
• And they will discuss what the roles and responsibilities would be for a SharePoint business analyst

The optimal goal is to provide details on how organizations can increase the use of SharePoint in the enterprise, which will save a significant amount of money and time and lead to much quicker time to market.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 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’

Click to register for The SharePoint Business Analyst