Live Webinar – August 1st 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

Understanding the real scope of any project is vital to controlling the project.

As a project manager or business analyst, it is key to first document the initial scope of the project and then direct, monitor and control the scope through Requirements Management techniques.

Learning these techniques provide the ability to more easily control the quality issues, costs, time and risks associated with on-going scope creep associated with requirements changes.

In this seminar you will:

• Review the role of a facilitator in running a Requirements Workshop.
• Learn the phases of a workshop and building the “Heart” of a workshop’s agenda.
• Review useful facilitation techniques along with failures and critical success factors.
• And more…

Presenter: Bob Keith

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 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’

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Live Webinar July 24th, 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)

Join Jeff Adams, (LinkedIn profile) PMP CSM, Senior Director, PMO for software development, professional services and process improvement for HealthStream and Barry Young, (LinkedIn profile) HealthStream’s Associate Vice President of Business Analysis and User Experience as they detail how they used agile project management toimprove patient and project outcomes.

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

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Live Webinar July 24th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

1. A Process Analyst specializes in bringing change to organizations through the analysis, design and implementation of the business processes that keep organizations running, and the management of changes to those processes.
2. Business Intelligence practitioner makes use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory, predictive modeling and fact-based management to drive decision making. He or she helps the organization achieve business objectives faster, with less risk and at a lower cost by improving how information is recognized and acted upon.

If you are interested in building new skills or exploring BA career options, this webinar will provide information about

1. The role these business analysts play in organizational success
2. The Skills and knowledge needed for each role
3. The Skills and knowledge needed for each role
4. The Skills and knowledge needed for each role
5. The demand for those skills in the market place
6. The career path from where you are to what is possible

Click to register for IIBA: Beyond Requirements Business: Process Management and Business Intelligence

Live Webinar July 11th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
CourseID: BAW1318

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to revalidate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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Online Webinar – Recorded  April 24th, 2014
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: PMI® Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

NOTE:  The notes in the presentation say the PDU will be automatically awarded – This was for the live presentation – You will have to record the PDU yourself – Instructions below

The goal of Agile teams is to continuously deliver high-value outcomes—as quickly as possible.

To achieve this, these teams focus on skills, not titles or traditional role delineations.

• So what does that mean for the experienced project manager, product manager, or business analyst?
• Where do their planning and analysis skills fit into Agile’s fierce focus on frequent delivery?

Drawing on her insights from coaching Agile teams, Mary addresses these questions and outlines the dynamic relationships between agile work, disciplines, and skills. Join us to discover how re-positioning from role-based to skill-based work enables you to collaboratively contribute to any agile effort.

Presenter : Mary Gorman CBAP, CSM (LinkedIn profile), is VP of quality and delivery at EBG Consulting. Mary works with global clients, speaks at industry conferences, and writes on requirements topics for the business analysis community. Mary also  co-authored a book with Ellen Gottesdiener, (LinkedIn profile  @ellengott) on practical agile planning and analysis practices,Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis.  In addition to serving on the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® Committee for four years, Mary helped create the first CBAP® certification exam.

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

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Live Webinar June 26th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category B but the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This most likely will be a category A presentation presented by Diversified Business Communications (Rep #1811 – parent company). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

Process and organizational changes alone are no longer sufficient to meet the mandate of improved quality, governance and auditability in today’s complex, high-pressure development environments.

Regg Struyk, (LinkedIn profile) Product Manager, Polarion Software & Jiri Walek, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Product Management, Polarion Software will discuss the value of real-time collaboration, where everything is connected through bi-directional traceability, and all collaborators have access to the information and functionality they need to succeed.

They will demonstrate why engaging stakeholders early and in context provides a clear path forward and helps uncover issues before defects occur.

They will also share how easy access to previous work products combined with fully linked variant and change management can bring your team collaboration to the next level.

Topics covered in the presentation include:

• Integrate Workflow into your existing process
• Power of Granular Work Items
• Complete Traceability and Versioning
• Real-Time Collaboration using Social Media

Join this interactive webinar to learn how successful organizations have accelerated innovation while protecting integrity by unlocking synergies across disparate teams.

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