Live Webinar July 23rd, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

“For Embedded Systems Developers, Time to Market is Critical. Learn the No. 1 Strategy to Develop and Deliver Faster.”

Most projects fail before one line of code is written. This especially rings true across the microelectronics and embedded systems industries.

As software accounts for a greater proportion of system functionality, it is emerging as a primary agent for differentiation and resource investment — how does this change the development process?

Embedded systems, particularly with greater reliance on software, require more formal development practices.

The key to successfully managing the complexity of today’s development lifecycle is getting the foundation — the requirements — built before you start developing.

VDC Computer Monitor

Through this lens VDC Research analyst André Girard and Jama Software cofounder Derwyn Harris will provide detailed insight into these changing realities and actionable tactics to achieve product success through:

• Efficient communication
• Informed decision making
• Tight alignment around requirements

Join this webinar to learn how you can benefit from the use of formal requirements-management tools to directly connect programming activity back to business needs, define and validate the requirements and manage the inevitable change arising during the product lifecycle.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

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’

Bonus: Register for this webinar and receive the PDF of the VDC Research report, “Pinching Pennies on Requirements Management is Too Costly”

Click to register for How to Understand Requirements Management to Develop and Deliver Faster

Live Webinar July 23rd, 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

Why do some organizations innovate while others stagnate?

Often small organizations excel at launching new products and innovate quickly.

However, as organizations increase in size, maintaining that creativity becomes more difficult.

• What are the secrets?
• How can your organization increase it’s innovation maturity?

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 Sustainable Innovation

Live Webinar July 16th, 2014 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 July 16th, 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

Explore Fundamentals Of Software Testing
The ST lifecycle

In this session you will learn about how it can be instrumental in achieving project success.

This general overview provides descriptions of the deliverables involved in the ST lifecycle and how to apply them to your projects.

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 Explore the Software Testing Lifecycle

Live Webinar – July 15th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU/CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

In 2010 and the years that followed a fun, somewhat silly and very revealing group design exercise called “the marshmallow challenge” helped highlight some important insights into team dynamics, prototyping, group performance, skills development, and how incentives shape the outcome of a task.

Tawnya Sawyer (LinkedIn profile) will cover the highlights of the marshmallow challenge and help you implement some of the fundamental concepts to achieve better design outcomes.

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 The Marshmallow Challenge: Improving the Design Process

Online Webinar – Recorded May 16, 2013
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
CourseID: WS07211

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.

Presenter:  Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer,with 5 years of Agile experience effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities.

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