Live Webinar – August 27th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1 Category C PDU- Free PDU

In this Webinar, the presenters will discuss how to resolve a business problem by preparing a process model using BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation).

They will then use the process model to create a set of requirements that define how to transition from the “as is” to the “to be” state.

The following topics will be discussed as part of the webinar:

• Identifying the business problem
• Using a Process Classification Framework to identify impacted processes
• Analyzing the problem using an AS IS Process Model
• Defining the optimal TO BE model using BPMN ad Simulation Technology
• Using the TO BE Model as the foundation for Scoping the Solution
• Defining a Set of Requirements to Transition to the TO BE State

Presenters: Deepak Singh, President of AccuProcess and John Parker, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Visionary Officer of Enfocus Solutions Inc.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 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.’

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Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

BA planning is the sequencing and coordination of a series of events to enable the change and is a form of mitigating risk. Is the role of the BA to identify risks once the change is complete? Is planning an activity a BA should be engaged in? These and other questions regarding change, plans, and risk will be discussed by the panellists. Join the discussion and get your questions answered.

Presenters:

Paul Oldfield, Youmanage.co.uk (LinkedIn profile, InfoQ interview)

Julian Sammy CBAP® (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK® Guide, author of many articles and quick tips and the IIBA peer review journal Best Practices for Better Business Analysis

Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tool

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Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Peter Is A Very Accomplished Communicator & Leader!

As a professional speaker as well as the author ofThe Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early (Infinite Ideas) and ‘Leading Successful Pmos: How to Build the Best Project Management Office for Your Business‘ (Gower) and his newest book The Project Manager Who Smiled: The Value Of Fun In Project Management

Background:

Organizations demand that the projects that they commission these days are successful in order to meet their increasingly aggressive strategic goals, and for this to be possible the project managers that lead these strategic projects need to be the very best that they can be. But these very projects are also becomingly more challenging.

Method:

So what are the issues that the ’21st Century’ project manager faces that can be very different from projects in the past, or at least more difficult?

A look at five of these will be taken to provoke thought and begin discussions on what we all need to do now.

Here in the 21st Century:

• Profile of projects
• Complexity of projects
• Virtuality of projects
• Sponsoring of projects
• Benefits from projects

Results:

The presentation aims to stimulate thought from the audience about where we should all be focusing our efforts in order to deal with the ’21st Century’ challenges that project managers face.

Conclusions:

Join me in saying ‘goodbye’ to the ‘Accidental Project Manager’ and ‘hallo’ to the ’21st Century Project Manager’.

Presenter: Peter Taylor (LinkedIn profile, @TheLazyPM) is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management. With over the 26 years experience in various business areas Peter has excelled in MRP/ERP systems with various software houses, Business Intelligence (BI) , and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor.

Peter is also an accomplished communicator and leader speaking at PMI Chapters/Congresses and the author of several books including The Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early and ‘Leading Successful PMOs‘ (Gower) and teaches leadership to business professionals with ‘The Lazy Winner‘. Check out his terrific website and listen to his free podcasts in iTunes.

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

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Live Webinar August 15th, 2013 10:00 am – 11:00 am 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.

In virtually every industry, larger enterprises are struggling to ‘adapt’ an agile approach that fits their environment.
What does this mean for Business Analysts?

It means it’s now critical that you know how to separate the myths from the realities when it comes to making agile work in an enterprise environment. This webinar will help you do just that.

Here’s a sneak peak of some of the misconceptions explored:

• Misconception #3)
  • Agile will free us from having to do requirements up front
• Misconception #5)
  • User stories alone are adequate to support compliance and audit
• Misconception #6)
  • Business Analysis is an “organizational drag”

“Pure” agile approaches don’t simply “plug” into the enterprise environment as easily as they do in smaller organizations and centrally located teams.

This webinar explores common misconceptions of agile specifically in the enterprise, so you can understand the real ways in which enterprise agile can help make Business Analysis and requirements authoring easier and more effective leading to better project outcomes with far less rework along the way.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule

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 7 Misconceptions of Enterprise Agile

Live Webinar August 13th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

The Government Community in collaboration with the International Development Community are pleased to present a joint webinar for our subscribers on Agile Methodology applied for Government Projects: A Case Study from from the State of Minas Gerais Brazil.

Join Rogerio in exploring how the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil applied Agile/Scrum on projects and achieved a more citizen focused government through promoting transparency, clear priorities, crowdsourcing and focus on collaboration.

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

Presenter: Rogerio Ribeiro (LinkedIn profile) is a Project Manager in the Ombudsman’s office for the Government Secretariat for the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Rogerio works as an ITC consultant for World Bank and Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) where the last 10 yrs he has managed government projects in various Ministries (e.g. Culture, Construction, Justice, Financial) with budgets over $400M.

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Live Webinar August 8th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)

New to Agile?

Before attending this LEAD session – Please watch :

A Journey Through the Agile Lifecycle This video is 1 Hour and is worth an additional 1 Cat C PDU

• Are you new to Agile and wondering what the Agile lifecycle looks like?
• Maybe you’ve been doing Agile and want to learn how other real world teams have been executing the lifecycle?

This webinar will walk through what problems we’re trying to solve by moving to Agile and then take you through a journey of the various activities, requirements and real world tips from the trenches of Agile teams.

Have you heard of IKIWISI ?

It stands for “I’LL KNOW IT WHEN I SEE IT” 🙂

Customers don’t really know what they want and simply asking them to tell you won’t help. That is why Agile advocates using visual modeling techniques to engage your customer in ‘visioning’ what they really want.

Come learn some of the top Agile Modeling and Visualization techniques you can use to help your customers communicate their vision and reach deeper knowledge of their desired outcomes.

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

Presenter: Sally Elatta, (LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun.

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