Live Webinar April 10th, 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

In response to the shifts in technology as seen in mobile and big data—along with the shifts in methodologies like agile—the pace of application development has changed, causing the need for total traceability in your requirements to become even more evident for success.

Join HP for this webcast, where they will discuss how end-to-end traceability in your requirements will help you link together a single repository for your requirements along with other key development assets like source code, test, and defects.

In this interactive webinar you will learn how to:

1. Encourage widespread adoption through ease of use
2. Provide a single point of truth for both visual and textual requirements
3. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the right requirements are captured
4. Enforce a standardization of consistency and quality across your teams

Click to register for The Importance of End-to-End Requirements Management

Live Webinar April 3rd, 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
Course ID: BAW1314

Surveys and focus groups are an important, but often overlooked, requirements gathering technique, particularly when dealing with large numbers of stakeholders.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys. Additionally, the webinar will show how focus groups can be used to gather stakeholder feedback. Finally, the webinar will teach how to communicate insights gained from surveys and focus groups.

• Learn the value of surveys and focus groups and when to use them
• Learn how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys
• Learn how to leverage focus groups
• Learn how to report results of surveys and focus groups

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Live Webinar April 2nd 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

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Live Webinar March 27th, 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)

• Do you wonder how agile teams adapt requirements practices? Wrangle with the right requirements to deliver?
• Fumble to filter through voluminous product “wants” and “needs”?
• Are you confused about decisions based on incomplete requirements? Having difficulties in collaborating with customers?

Ellen Gottesdiener will share a spectrum of requirements practices ranging from traditional to agile.

Hear how agile practitioners lighten, tighten, or incorporate a subset of traditional requirements practices. Understand how traditional projects can utilize agile requirements practices to increase quality and decrease delivery time. Join us to learn ways to calibrate your requirements to fit your project.

A key contributor to the business analysis profession across industry and PMI communities, Ellen is an expert reviewer of business analysis and requirements knowledge and role delineation works. You can reach her via ellen@ebgconsulting.com, Linkedin and follow her tweets (@ellengott)

Presenter: Ellen Gottesdiener, (LinkedIn profile @ellengott), is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. As founder of is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, she works with global clients and speaks at numerous numerous industry conferences. Ellen has authored of two acclaimed books: Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM. – Ellen has recently co-authored (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices,Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis.

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

Click to register for Do the Right Things: Adapting Requirements Practices for Agile and Traditional Project

Live Webinar – March 25th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU

The vast majority of organizations are using archaic methods to develop requirements based on methods from the 1970s and early 1980s.

With the dynamic pace of business change, organizations that continue to use these practices have continued to see a significant amount of challenged and failed projects and have placed their organizations at a competitive disadvantage.

In fact, even with the recent emphasis on project management practices and certification, Standish Group research shows that there are more failed and challenged projects than there was in their original 1994 report when waterfall and traditional requirement practices are used.

Many studies have shown that poor requirements and changing requirements are two of the leading causes of project failures.

The birth of Agile development largely stemmed from frustration of ineffective requirements practices and the desire to find a better way out of this horrible dilemma.

Agile has made a big difference on project success rates; Standish Group research shows that Agile projects are three times more likely to be successful than waterfall projects. However, having such little documentation has created problems for some organizations that have adopted agile.

In this webinar, John Parker will discuss how methods used to define and manage requirements need to change whether Agile or waterfall development is used.

John will address the following topics:

• The Difference between Business, Stakeholder and Solution Requirements
• Requirements: One time or Incremental delivery
• Requirements Review and Validation: One Time or Continuous
• Requirements Documentation: Paper Documents or Electronic
• Elicitation: Interviews or Stakeholder Collaboration
• What is Requirements and What is Design
• How Better Discovery Practices can Improve Agile

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’

Click to register for Requirements: The Old Way and The New Way

Live Webinar – March 11th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU/CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

We often think the culprit to poor project results is a lack of technical knowledge and skill in project management and business analysis.

While this is a contributor it is not necessarily the only one,
nor the main one.

An organization’s project environment can significantly neutralize even the best efforts to bring a project in on time and budget as well as identifying and delivering on scope.

Additionally, since all projects involve people, projects managers and business analysts have to be highly skilled at engaging and communicating with people. Shortcomings in these areas guarantee lackluster efforts and overall confusion.

Systemation will help you move forward with your projects!

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 Project Success – What’s Holding You Back?