Live Webinar April 13th, 2016 – 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

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager.

Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

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Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

Live Webinar April 13th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

A Simple Path To Powerful Leadership

Managers and leaders find themselves stuck in three vicious circles. They’re frustrated by teams who have become overly dependent on them.

They’re overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do. And they’re disconnected from their own great work – the work that has impact, the work that has meaning.

Sound familiar?

Breaking out of these vicious circles is simpler than you might think.

Mastering five essential questions can help managers and leaders increase the focus, courage and resilience they need to have more impact in the work they do.

In this practical, interactive and engaging webcast, you will:

• Discover the three vicious circles that keep managers – and their teams – stuck
• Understand how breaking out of these circles can help them work less hard and have more impact
• Learn the five core questions they need so they (and those they lead) can focus on the work that matters
• Hear the best coaching question in the world (and it has just three words)

Participants will not only leave with a plan to do things differently, but will also get access to a special Box of Crayons report: Four Surprising Phrases to Supercharge Your Conversation and Boost Your Manager IQ.

This webcast is based on Michael Bungay Stanier’s acclaimed book
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever.

We encourage you to register even if you are unable to attend live; you’ll receive replay information following the event.

Presenter:  Michael Bungay Stanier (LinkedIn profile),  founder  of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work.  He created the eight irresistible principles of fun, a short Internet movie that has been viewed by millions of people, and his first book, Get Unstuck & Get Going… on the stuff that matters, has won a number of publishing and design awards.  His book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busy Work and Start the Work That Matters, contains 15 practical tools to help you find, start, and sustain more great work.  He is also the author of of the bestseller The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever. To view a short animated version of this manifesto, visit his site at DoMoreGreatWork.

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The Five Question Leader:
The Secret To Having More Impact

Live Webinar April 14th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar April 14th, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Business operations and processes are becoming more intelligent because of embedded BI, analytics and rule engines.

CIOs and senior IT leaders must become familiar with the business analytics of the future, encompassing advances in data discovery, self-service analytics, machine learning and real-time stream processing.

Join Cindi Howson (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP for an insight into BI & Analytics trends for digital business.

Discussion Topics:

• Which technologies are driving rapid change in analytics and operational decision making
• When “right time” analytics requires analytics to be “real time”

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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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BI & Analytics Trends For Digital Business

Live Webinar – April 11th, 2016 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration X Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Are you sick of hearing that the difference is that agile BAs use user stories and are more flexible?

Dig deeper into what it takes to get to effective requirements in an agile, traditional, or hybrid model of business analysis.

Angela will explore the detailed differences in the practices, timing, documentation, mindset, and approaches in side by side comparisons.

In this session she will explore the typical day, week, and month of a BA on both types of projects.

Angela will also look at approaches to finding a balance when you need to find an approach that uses elements of both traditional and agile.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the similarities and differences requirements in traditional and agile teams
• Dig deep into differences other than user stories and flexibility
• A deep look into the day, week and month in the life of an Agile BA vs. Traditional BA

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Angela Wick (LinkedIn profile  @WickAng) CEO – BA-Squared, LLC With more than 15 years of consulting, mentoring and teaching, Angela knows that great BAs transform organizations. Angela encourages BAs to be agents of change. She helps BAs develop the skills they need to inspire collaboration, creativity and innovation. Get free BA tips and trends by following Angela on Twitter  or by visiting her site.

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Comparing Agile & Traditional Business Analysis Approaches

Live Webinar April 6th 2016 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

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

Live Webinar – April 5th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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.

Disruptive Innovation: What Is It?

Regardless of what industry you’re in, today’s large companies share some remarkably similar characteristics.

We live and die by these common denominators:

• Heavy reliance on technology, IT teams, and software
• Complex, unpredictable organizational dynamics
• Siloed departments that suffer from lack of communication
• Difficulty understanding or predicting what customers and users want
• Constantly changing and uncertain marketing conditions

In the middle of this daunting mix, we are called upon to constantly innovate or fall behind.

But how?

Is it even possible to repeatably and methodically achieve this mythical “innovation” that everyone talks about?

Chris contends that it is!

Chris will introduce you to the following:

• Lean: what is it?
• A brief history of lean management principles
• Lean thinking
• Lean applied in today’s professions (IT, development, DevOps, project management) – Lean as a vehicle for value creation

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)   for a brief primer on Lean Innovation.

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The Lean Enterprise:
Intro To Massively Disruptive Innovation