Online Webinar – Recorded January 13th 2015
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

When a software development professional first hears about Agile, they are often initially incredulous that this type of approach can work due to a misperception that Agile simply means “no planning.”

This belief could not be further from the truth.

Agile teams tend to plan more throughout the course of a project than a traditional approach, albeit in a different fashion than they may be accustomed to. Rather than planning once at the beginning of a project, Agile teams practice continuous planning throughout the project.

This web seminar will explore the five Levels of Agile planning, and how they help teams ensure that teams are able to benefit from what they learn over the course of their development and delivery efforts.

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Online Webinar
Offered by: ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Root-causes of project failure are regularly discussed by both project management practitioners and academics.

Yet surprisingly, the first critical step during which projects are put on track for success or failure often suffers the most neglect.

Project initiation is commonly a victim of insufficient scope definition, missing stakeholder buy-in, and misalignment with strategic objectives; which are then tagged as reasons for distress.

The outcome of project portfolio management (PPM) is also determined, in large part, by its other initial stages.

As many portfolio managers have experienced, establishing successful PPM entails far more than the implementation of a portfolio management system.

PPM tools installed in a hurry may not achieve the maximum return on their investment, as important prerequisite activities are likely to have been ignored.

Subject matter expert, Mario Arlt (LinkedIn profile), examines the five prerequisite activities to be performed in the initial stages of the PPM process, and which are critical to realizing PPM benefits.

The presentation will introduce how to best manage the implementation of PPM, as well as how to gain and sustain executive commitment, address gaps in the alignment of organizational strategy and projects, select the most suitable project selection method, and set up an efficient measurement process.

Specific learning objectives will include:

• Developing a PPM Project Checklist
• Understanding the “Strategic Gap” and “Project Gap” of a PPM
• Understanding the approach for setting up an efficient and effective measurement process for both portfolio outcome and portfolio management processes

Click to register for First Things First: 5 Steps to Achieving Successful PPM Outcomes

Live Webinar June 17th, 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

As project requirements are gathered and the associated design evolves, the project team begins to build the necessary functionality.

This can be accomplished through utilizing the following methodology deliverables:

• high level design,
• detail design,
• requirements traceability log,
• programming specification(s),
• system integration test (SIT) plan(s),
• system integration test (SIT) evaluation criteria,
• unit test (UT) plan(s),
• unit test (UT) evaluation criteria, and
• training and support plan.

Walk away with a better understanding of how to apply these deliverables to your project.

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 Executing Projects with IT Methodologies

Live Webinar June 10th, 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.

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Live Webinar May 20th, 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

Why Implement A
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?

This session describes the purpose of the SD lifecycle and provides descriptions for the nomenclature involved. Learn where and how the SD deliverables can be applied. Walk away with a general understanding of the SD lifecycle and the fundamentals that are associated with it.

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 Leverage the Software Development Lifecycle

Live Webinar April 28th, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

VDC Research analyst Andre Girard (LinkedIn profile) will describe the market drivers for modern requirements management and explain why your organization is in peril if it maintains the status quo.

Andre will discuss how modern requirements management tools can dramatically improve delivery times, slash product line complexity and enhance communication across all players in the product ecosystem.

Embedded market companies face increasingly complex market pressures to accelerate the product-delivery process.

Their business goals require products to be delivered to customer satisfaction, with no defects, and faster than ever. And yet, 42% of embedded systems are behind schedule.

Among the many challenges to efficient, on-time product delivery are:

• Managing growing complexity in distributed organizations, within their products, and across a network of interrelated and interdependent products
• Maintaining consistent software security and quality standards
• Integrating the supply chain, formalizing acceptance benchmarks for code from supply chain partners
• Demonstrating compliance to process standards
• Verifying requirements traceability
• Inadequate and changing specifications
• Shifting priorities

These are competing, yet equally critical, imperatives.

Despite widespread knowledge of these mounting challenges, engineering organizations are not doing enough to adapt.

They need to make fundamental changes in the planning, management, and execution of system designs; they need new tools and methodologies to change outcomes because in-house and ad-hoc tools are inadequate for modern requirements management.

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

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope
• 5.6 Control 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’

Click to register for Under Pressure: Your Embedded System Needs To Modernize RM