Live Webinar Sept 16th, 2015 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

How can IT Methodology contribute to organizational process governance, quality assurance and metrics?

This session identifies how utilizing IT lifecycles and deliverables can be beneficial.

Receive a general overview of organizational process management and how consistent application can lead to overall improvement.

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 Incorporate Organizational Process Governance

Live Webinar September 9h, 2015 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

Strategic change initiatives are profiling in organizations. To facilitate execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture to help assess and plan them.

Enterprise Business Architecture is quickly evolving into a mainstream business capability. Some would argue that it is already there considering 50% of the world’s top performing enterprises have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator.

The tools and techniques of business architecture should be foundational to strategy development, deployment and executive planning. This webinar intends to demonstrate the business architecture framework, describe the what, why, how and uses of some architectural blueprints.

Learning Objectives:

1. Purpose and benefits of Business Architecture to scope, planning and delivery.
2. Applicability of Business Architecture in the context of the rapid Change Agenda
3. Business Architecture framework and a variety of approaches to know when to use model types.
4. Different views of a business architecture framework and how analysis techniques will expose risk.
5. To think architecturally in the decomposition of the organization as a technique for defining organizational impact, scope and for Process Modeling & Requirements analysis methods.

Click to register for Visual Strategic Planning

Live Webinar September 10th, 2015 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Presented by EPMA Inc

The mass media often shines their spotlight on high-tech companies such as Google, Samsung, and Tesla Motors, because of their ground-breaking products that make gadget lovers green with envy and the people who lead those companies.

What about the rest of us who don’t work for these companies?

Are we stuck trudging through hopelessly boring careers… working on hopelessly boring projects?

This presentation describes the fundamentals of innovation, how to identify incremental and breakthrough innovations, and how to deliver them through effective Project Portfolio Management.

Learn how to innovate systematically and repeatedly, regardless of the company or the department that you work for.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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”

Click to register for Identifying & Delivering: The Next Breakthrough Innovation

Online Webinar Recorded Date: 10/12/2010
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Integration means bringing all of the concepts together.

In this webinar, Project Insight discusses how to bring the plan together, from initiating – planning – executing – monitoring and controlling – closing.

Learn how to identify what it takes to execute on a project, how to monitor and control the project, and provide some key tips on obtaining that elusive project ‘acceptance.’

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control
• 4.6 Close Project or Phase

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 view Project Integration: The Iterative Methodology

Live Webinar August 19th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Credits: 0.5 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

As the project team develops the code to meet the authorized requirements, the newly built functionality must be verified to ensure it reflects the authorized requirements and satisfies the business need.

This can be accomplished by implementing the following integrated methodology deliverables:

• Project status report,
• Team status report,
• Issue definition,
• Risk definition,
• Change request,
• Unit test defect log(s),
• System integration test (SIT)
• Defect log(s),
• User acceptance (UT) defect log,
• Requirements traceability log

Learn how to each deliverable can be beneficial to your project.

Click to register for Project Control & Verification

Portable Course – PDF Whitepaper
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Requirements expert Karl Wiegers introduces 21 valuable practices that can help both rookie and veteran project managers do a better job with less pain.

Learn :

• To Lay The Foundation
• Plan The Project
• Estimate The Work
• Track You Progress
• Learn for the Future

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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’

NOTE:  Please only record the length of time you spent  for PDUs – 15 min  = .25 PDU  30 min = .5 PDU  45 Min -= .75 PDU & 1 Hr = 1 PDU

Click to read/print  Project Management Best Practices With Karl Wiegers