Share

Live Webinar – February 24th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category B 1 PDU- Free PDU

NOTE: Eclipse will provide a Certificate for attendance upon request.

Resource availability is a key source of negative risk to projects. Even if your project has well-defined scope and validated activity effort estimates, if the resources you are provided are working on multiple projects and operational activities, predictability of schedule outcomes is poor.

This webinar will review some options for responding to this risk from both a systemic and project-focused perspective.

LESSONS LEARNED:

  1. Understand the criticality of uncertain resource availability on project outcomes.
  2. Learn which approaches for getting better knowledge of resource availability won’t work in your organization.
  3. Gain a better understanding of the pros and cons of the practices that can successfully incorporate resource availability uncertainty into project planning and tracking.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating  & Executing, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

  • 11.1  Plan Risk Management
  • 11.2  Identify Risks
  • 11.5  Plan Risk Responses

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”

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

Click to register for  Managing Uncertainty in Resource Availability

Share

Live Webinar February 19th, 2013 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: BAW1312

Projects are expected to address a business need and help an organization attain its goals. Business Analysts are expected to ensure that a project fits into the business context.

In this webinar, participants will learn how to conduct “enterprise analysis” in order to align projects with organizational goals.

The webinar explains the main tasks of Enterprise Analysis according to IIBA®’s BABOK® Guide and then demonstrates select techniques, including root cause analysis, assessing capability gaps, defining solution scope, and leveraging Business Architecture frameworks, such as the Zachman framework.

Learning objectives include:

  • Understand the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area
  • Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs
  • Identify capability gaps using Business Architecture frameworks

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Author of The Art of Business Process Modeling: The Business Analyst’s Guide to Process Modeling with UML & BPMN,  Nomadic Data Entry: Empirically Derived Performance Models for Data Entry Tasks in Mobile Situations, and  Solution Validation and Testing: The Business Analyst’s Guide to Solution Validation and Testing, Martin, is also a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, and an experienced software architect.

Click to register for The Strategic Business Analyst: Aligning Projects With Organizational Goals

Share

Live Webinar – February 17th, 2015 12:00-1:00  PM EST
Duration:1 hour – 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Offered by Beyond20 (REP #2842)

Think Scrum is only for software development?
Think again!

While Scrum is most often applied to software development, this workshop will explore how Scrum concepts can be applied to ITIL-based service and process improvement efforts.

At the very heart of the ITIL framework is a focus on design, development, deployment, support, and ongoing improvement of IT services based on business needs.

This webinar will show how the addition of Agile concepts can enhance the quality and consistency in delivering IT services to customers.

Presented by: Erika Flora PMP, PgMP, ITIL Expert ( LinkedIn profile, @erikaflora )Specializing in Microsoft EPM tools, PMP, PgMP, IT, ITIL, ITSM, biotech, pharmaceuticals, drug development, networking, writing, speaking, training/mentoring, small business development, womens issues, non-profit strategy and growth – Erika is a scientist by training. Her expertise is in process improvement, technology implementation, and training/mentoring.

Click to register for Agile ITIL: Applying Scrum Concepts to Service Improvement Projects

Share

Live Webinar February 13th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category C – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

NOTE: Although Watermark Learning is an REP they have chosen to have participants record their sessions as a Category C Activity. For more information contact Watermark Learning or see their “Self Reporting” page.

Do You Understand Requirements Techniques For Agile Projects?

This live webinar is designed for business analysts, agile project teams, and stakeholders who need to understand requirements on agile projects.

User stories are the fundamental unit of activity in an agile approach.  Other techniques that support user stories will be covered as well.

The webinar will explain the role of the BA on agile projects, and techniques for working collaboratively with your business representatives to create user stories, acceptance criteria, and other outputs that developers and testers can use to build a product that meets the users’ needs.

Topics Addressed:

  • How to build a vision statement
  • How to write user stories to create a product backlog
  • How to prioritize user stories for releases using themes and the MoSCoW rules
  • How to write acceptance tests for user stories

Join Marsha Hughes (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP, CSM/CSP as she guides you through the best practices for Business Analysts in “Agile Techniques”.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 6.5 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 BA Guide To Essential Agile Techniques

Flawless Consulting

Share

Live Webinar February 10th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hours webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Global Consulting CoP (REP #S029)

Consulting relationships with our clients are considered Lateral Relationships. A lateral relationship in management is a link between people working with the same organization without a direct level of authority over each other.

The power balance in lateral relationships is always open to ambiguity – and to negotiation!

So What is Flawless Consulting?

When a consultant gets resistance from a client, sometimes we aren’t sure whether to push the client harder or to let the issue go.

  • Flawless Consulting is about addressing and managing this kind of ambiguity.
  • Flawless Consulting is about methods and techniques, but the consistent message is that each act that expresses trust in ourselves and belief in the validity of our own experience is always the right path to follow.
  • And    Flawless Consulting Teaches us that Each act that is manipulative or filled with pretense is always self-destructive.

Join Peter Block (LinkedIn profile for Designed Learning) as he gives a high level overview of his best selling book Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used (3rd Edition) and learn how your consulting process can be Flawless.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Click to register for Flawless Consulting

Share

Live Webinar – February 10th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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

This session will have a lot of information but covered in an introductory and compare and contrast way to allow you to get an objective picture based on your experience.

Agile is not a panacea or a methodology. At its foundation it is a way of working that permeates everything you do at work. David will discuss how that is and what that means.

Over 250,000 people have become certified in some form of Agile practice or flavor.

The industry standard body for Project Management, PMI, has introduced a certification for Agile (PMI-ACP introduced officially in Jan 2013).

Steven Denning (LinkedIn profile) has written a book about his development of a new flavor of Agile for management and leaders called The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. IC Agile, a world-wide standards organization for Agile, is even working on a designation for using Agile in marketing and product management.

This thing called Agile is here to stay!

The reality thought is the vast number of SDLC and business professionals might have heard of it but really don’t know what it is. Or they were given a small snap shot picture of an element of how it works.

In this fast paced one hour web seminar, David will take a very methodical approach to provide a full picture of what Agile is, how it works, who is using it and how you can use it.  He will try to leave time for questions and will keep the session open an extra 10 mins to cover questions.

David will cover the following topics:

  • What is driving the need to use Agile
  • How management and workers need to change to utilize Agile successfully
  • Break down of what Agile is
  • The two fundamental concepts of Agile: Self-organization and Iterating
  • High level overview of the Agile Practices and Organization
    • Work vs Role
    • Development unit / Business unit
    • ScrumMaster
    • Product Owner
    • User Story / task board / burndown
    • Five levels of planning in Agile
    • Estimating in Agile
    • Sprint aka Iteration
    • Definition of Done
    • Retrospective
    • Rolling to the next iteration
  • A quick look at Agile Flavors
  • A look at who is using Agile and How
  • Roadblocks and Challenges
  • Certification options

If you can’t stay, the full answers to questions will be provided on our blog and Aspe will provide that link with the slides a few days after the presentation.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) –  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 6.5 Develop Schedule
  • 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.’

Click to register for Agile Primer: A 360 Degree Look at What It Is & How it Is Used