Live Webinar Feb 13th, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Organizations launch projects with the assumption that the new or improved solution will provide worthwhile benefits for stakeholders and a suitable return on investment. Understanding your business requirements can help ensure that your teams actually deliver those benefits.

In this webcast presentation you will learn:

• how to define clear business objectives and corresponding success metrics
• how to craft a focused vision statement
• how to specify other elements of the business requirements.

Drawing from the book she co-authored with Karl Wiegers, Software Requirements, 3rd Edition, Joy will explore four different scope representation techniques you can apply at any stage of a project. Keeping user and functional requirements aligned with the business requirements is a key element of successful solution delivery.

Presenter: Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of the newly published book, Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and on Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 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.’

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Live Webinar – Feb 11th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions

John will discuss how project management adds business value and he will explain the differences between managing the project tasks and managing business value.

Presenter: John Parker (LinkedIn profile), CEO of Enfocus Solutions Inc.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work

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 Project Management is About Managing Value not Tasks

Live Webinar – Feb 12th, 2013 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

Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.

According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success.

Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher.

For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measurable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity

Learning Objectives:

1. The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives.
2. The Requirements Maturity Model.
3. A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities.

Click to register for Managing Requirements Maturity

Live Webinar Feb 3rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Project surprises—be they on government or commercial projects—happen more than most organizations know or are willing to admit.

The financial, opportunity and political costs can be staggering. For example, one in six big IT projects go over-budget by an average of 200%, according to a landmark 2011 study by Oxford University and McKinsey & Company.

The Oxford study found that spending on technology projects was three times more likely to go out of control than construction or other major projects. The study also found that large IT project spending was 20 times more likely to get out of control than organizations expected. Many, if not most, of the projects that “surprisingly” crash and burn are, in fact, predictable surprises: the signs of failure were all around but not acknowledged.

In this webinar, Dr. Robert N. Charette will discuss project surprise, the various costs of surprise, and how they can be reduced by focusing on pro-actively managing the critical risk questions related to a project’s real – win – worth evaluation which is applicable to both government and commercial projects. In addition, Dr. Charette will discuss ways to “surprise proof” your projects.

The webinar’s agenda is as follows:

• Surprises Can’t Happen to Us – Or Can They?
• The Destructive Direct and Hidden Costs of Project Surprises
• Predictable “Surprises”: The Anatomy of a Project Surprise
• Minimizing Project Surprises: Asking the Three Critical Questions
• Surprise Proofing Your IT Project and Program Management

Dr. Robert Charette (bio) is the President of the ITABHI Corporation, an international high technology company involved in enterprise and program risk management consulting. He is the author of a number of books on software, systems, and business management including:

• “Software Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology” (1986),
• “Software Engineering Risk Analysis & Management” (1989),
• “Applications Strategies for Risk Analysis” (1990),
• “Introduction to the Management of Risk” (1994, “A Unified Methodology for Systems Development” (1987)

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

Click to register for Govt IT Project Managers Guide to Pro-active Risk Management

Online Webinar – Recorded Oct 30th 2013
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

Requirements, by nature, have a lot of text. As the number and complexity of requirements grow, the ability to manage and track delivery of those requirements in context becomes increasingly more difficult.

Whether you are using Waterfall, Agile or a hybrid approach, there’s a better and more efficient way to evolve requirements and bring all related information together. Simplify the requirements management and delivery process by using the power of pictures and visual models.

Documentation of requirements during the elicitation process, socializing requirements for feedback, and getting final approvals doesn’t have to be challenging. Join us Wednesday, October 30th at 2 p.m. EDT to learn how visualizations improve the completeness and quality of your requirements.

In this webinar you will learn:

1. How to reduce time and assure completeness of requirements using the Requirements Modeling Language (RML)
2. Simple RML models you can use right away to help you better understand the “big picture” regarding your requirements
3. How to apply the visual approach to implement these RML models from definition to delivery using Borland Caliber®

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Collect Requirments
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: A Visual Approach to Requirements Management and Delivery

Live Webinar Jan 30th, 2014 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Use Cases are widely recognized as one of the most effective methods of documenting and communicating requirements.

Join us for this webinar as we demonstrate how you can easily document clear, accurate and complete requirements using Use Case Scenarios. This Webinar is useful for new, as well as, experienced practitioners of the Use Case approach for defining requirements.

Key Learning Points:

1. How to identify Use Cases?
2. What is the “happy path”? Can there be unhappy paths?
3. What are “Alternate Flows”?
4. How can Use Case approach to requirements help you avoid the problems of “missed” and “misunderstood” requirements?
5. What is an appropriate size for the “Main Flow”?
6. What are the pros and cons of using IF structure in a Use Case?
7. How do I break down a large Use Case?
8. How do you “reuse” requirements in a Use Case model?
9. How are Use Cases similar to, and different from, User Stories?
10. What is the meaning of “include” relationship between Use Cases?

Presenters: Ashu Potnis, Jim Cochell and Sue Thompson , Technosolutions

Click to register for IIBA: How to Write Effective Use Cases: A Step-by-Step Approach