Live Webinar – November 20th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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

The Greatest Source Of Defects Originate From Requirements!

If requirements defects can be removed, the quality of a product can be more than doubled!

Whether you are doing agile or traditional projects, requirements defects are the greatest source of error, and loss of quality.

For projects that are complex or require high quality results, such as in the financial, health, and astronautical fields, the requirements should be validated before coding.

This presentation shows a clean method of eliciting requirements from the sponsor mission statement to use cases.

It shows how to make use cases comply with the IEEE standard for requirements specifications, and then explains how to rigorously validate the use cases to be provably correct.

The best news is that this process takes less time per use case than guess-and-check coding, even in agile environments.

Presenter: Al Cline, PMP, PMI-ACP
PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate 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 Proving Use Cases Correct

Live Webinar November 13th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Estimation is critical to IT demand management as today’s senior IT executives deal with a familiar challenge – how to balance the size of the development team with the company’s software wish list.

Modern estimation techniques offer critical insight into this challenge. In this webinar, you will learn the ins and outs of estimation and how to effectively utilize estimation to ensure project success.

In this session, QSM’s Larry Putnam  (LinkedIn profile) will explore these keys to success.

Click to register for IT Demand Management and Capacity Planning: Why Estimation is Vital to Balancing the Scale

The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
An Excellent Value!!

Search for “2733” to see other great titles available!
Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar October 30th, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

What if I told you that if you have a list of projects, you have everything needed for successful project prioritization?

In this interactive demo, you will learn a simple, proven method to quickly and easily prioritize your lists of projects, even when ranking criteria doesn’t exist.

With this prioritization technique you can prioritize a large list of projects in short period of time.

Learning Objectives:

1. How to conduct a prioritization exercise using pair-wise
2. How to prioritize without any ranking criteria
3. How to reduce a list of any size and focus on the most important outcome

Presenters:

Fred Newman, Strategist, Hennepin County – Prior to Hennepin County, Fred worked as a business strategist for National Car Rental and Target Corporation. In his current position, he provides coaching, workplace planning and financial analysis.

Reine Kassulker (LinkedIn profile) Business Alignment Manager, Hennepin County, is an IT specialist and trained facilitator who has provided coaching and facilitation services for hundreds of executives and project teams, in both public and private sectors. He is also the Host of Meeting Tips Radio.

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

Click to register for How To Prioritize ANY List Without Criteria

Live Webinar – October 28th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

Miss this webinar the first time? It’s back again!

Join David Herron for his most popular webinar topic of 2014: How to Sell Function Point Analysis to Your Manager.

You’re convinced that Function Point Analysis would improve your company’s development and deployment.

As someone involved in the day-to-day aspects of these tasks, you know the impact that this would make. But your biggest hurdle is convincing senior management that this is a worthwhile investment.

We know how hard that can be. David Herron (LinkedIn profile) has had years of experience in explaining and demonstrating the value of Function Point Analysis to senior IT staff.

In this webinar, David will share his insights into successfully selling Function Point Analysis to your manager.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

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’

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

Click to view How to Sell Function Point Analysis to Your Manager

Live Webinar September 30th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Most organizations aspire to implement outside-in, customer-focused, cross-functional processes that transform the culture of their organization and set it on the path toward continuous improvement.

They are on a journey — but while the long-term goal might be apparent, how to get there and the challenges on the immediate road ahead are usually far less clear.

Many of these challenges represent entrenched, thorny organizational issues that are difficult to tackle. Therefore, learning from other travellers who have been down the road before can help you avoid obstacles and chart a route that moves the organization forward.

This webinar sets out a body of research based on survey data from more than 500 organizational change programs. It will articulate a set of best practices, strategies, techniques, and engagement methods to support organizational transformation.

Key takeaways: :

1. Transformation goals and challenges evolve as maturity improves.
2. How mature organizations focus on customer-facing processes and working outside-in changes the engagement dynamic.
3. Debunking the change failure myth – how change programs in higher-maturity firms almost never fail.
4. Best practice methods to engage the organization in an outside-in customer transformation.

Click to register for IIBA: Focus On Customer Value To Grow Organizational Maturity

Live Webinar September 25th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

No one likes working on misguided projects, or efforts that don’t meet business needs, or projects doomed for failure.

Through this presentation, you will learn a repeatable process for creating a bulletproof business case that increases the odds of project support and success. Help contribute to your organization’s bottom line with bulletproof business cases!

Attendees will be able to:

• Describe the essential components of an effective business case
• Plan a business case effort using an approach that helps you function as a trusted advisor to your organization
• Select appropriate techniques for determining root causes of business problems or the main drivers of opportunities
• Avoid common pitfalls when recommending or justifying projects
• Name the essential factors to analyze when exploring the feasibility of a business case
• List the four most important cost-benefit analysis measures and what they are used for.

Presenter: – Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP President and Founder of Watermark Learning, Richard Larson has over 30 years of experience in business analysis, project management, training, and consulting. Rich is a frequent speaker at Business Analysis and Project Management conferences and author of CBAP Certification Study Guide (2nd Edition). He was the Review Chair for the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge version 2.0 and co-lead for the Collect Requirements chapter of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 4th edition.

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

Click to register for Creating Bulletproof Business Cases for Rock-Solid Projects