Live Webinar August 7th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Pharmaceutical CoP (REP #S012)

At the conception of any project there exists only the Owner’s basic needs. With all of the challenges that we face in the early stages of a project, the translation of these needs into a detailed project basis of design for construction is one of the greatest challenges faced by project management, design, and delivery teams.

At the same time, quality expectations for the creation of highly functional, efficient, and innovative facilities continues to increase. Project teams must address strategies to successfully define organizational and user needs, translate these needs into functional requirements during the early stages of a project, and set the project on a successful path to efficient design and delivery.

The ability to deliver the right project, on time, is particularly important on highly technical and programmatically intensive science facilities which typically incur greater risk due to the complexity of this project type.

Through the use of case study project examples, this presentation will provide a guide to developing and aligning needs, vision, programs and budgets early in the process to minimize risk and create a roadmap for successful project design and delivery.

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

Presenter: David Bendet, AIA, LEEDAP, (LinkedIn profile) as S&T Practice Leader with Perkins&Will Architects, David’s approach to design is based on providing the highest value solutions by first understanding goals/needs, and balancing innovative design strategies with expertise and constructability feedback in a team-based environment. With 25 years of professional experience as an Architect & Senior PM, David has led design and construction project teams through the visioning, programming, planning, design, management, and delivery of complex, innovative and sustainable projects.

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Live Webinar July 24th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

How do companies profitably go about harvesting and holding their corporate knowledge?

When you’re dealing with general reference information, it’s pretty easy to use technologies such as Wikis and Sharepoint to push out information on policies to specific user communities. But requirements information is vastly different in structure, as are the uses of information, and user needs for access.

The benefit scenarios for requirements repositories need to be practical and grounded in the unique nature of this information.

This webinar will address how a repository can be used to standardize BA activities, achieve greater analyst efficiency, and deliver better solutlons.

The following topics will be addressed:

• Best practices for Business Analysis knowledge management
• Building a business case for a Business Analysis/Requirements repository
• Challenges faced in building a requirements repository
• Linking the requirements repository to the business architecture
• Promoting standardization through re-usability
• Establishing greater efficiency for business analysis activities through use of a repository

Give-aways: Participants of this webinar will receive a copy of the webinar from the presentation as well as supplemental material to help build a strategic business analysis repository

PDU Category C 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.’

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Live Webinar July 25th, 2012 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

This presentation discusses how to integrate business analysis practices into the project management process to reduce project risk and improve business outcomes.

This presentation will examine business analysis from a PMBOK perspective and examine strategies for integrating business analysis practices into the project management process.

The following topics will be addressed:

• What is business analysis?
• Why focus on business analysis?
• How business analysis integrates into PMBOK including Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management, and Stakeholder Management.
• How business analysis reduces project risk.
• How to manage business analysis activities and deliverables from a project management perspective.

Attendees will learn how well-executed business analysis integrated into the project management process will help deliver more successful projects that meet business needs resulting in better business outcomes.

Presenter: John Parker (LinkedIn profile) is the Chief Visionary Officer of Enfocus Solutions. He conducts research and provides advisory services to large corporate and government clients to improve business analysis maturity. Mr. Parker has over 30 yearsIT strategic planning, SDLC methodologies, financial cost/benefit analysis, and solution ideation. He has served in multiple roles including project manager, business analyst, CIO, CTO and consultant.

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

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Live Webinar July 19th, 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)

Independent Verification &Validation (IV&V) Consulting
Lessons Learned on delivering IV&V Services for Clients and other Contractors

IV&V is a method utilized – often on Government IT initiatives – to increase the probability of overall program success and reduce negative impacts identifying critical program risks and problems and software defects as early in the program and/or development lifecycle as possible.

The public and private sectors face many challenges in delivering on-time, on-budget, high quality systems and programs that provide the necessary features and functionality to meet stakeholder expectations and achieve mission-critical agency objectives.

IV&V project delivery is complicated by client and System Integrator perceptions of IV&V and the resulting nuances when performing independent verification and validation assessments.

The purpose of this training is to provide insight into successfully delivering IV&V projects that add value to our clients’ IT initiatives.

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

Presenter: Jeremy Tsiopanas (LinkedIn profile) has over 14 years of information technology consulting experience, and now specializes in Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) and is exclusively focused on IV&V services for government clients. He has served as an IV&V Deputy Program Manager and also directly managing IV&V project teams. He has implemented custom developed and COTS software applications to satisfy a variety of business requirements and is is hands-on with clients from a functional and technical perspective.

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

This Discussion Takes Scope To Another Level

The Panelists

• Julian Sammy EBA, IIBA (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba )
• Deb Oliver, IIBA (BA Connection interview)
  
• Ronald G. Ross, (LinkedIn profile) Business Rule Solutions LLC profile

This Session:

The panelists will provide their views on what is relevant to change – context, and how context and the change itself represent the situation. They will discuss how the environment is analyzed to determine what is in context.This one-hour informative session will give you another perspective what a business analyst needs to consider for any change initiative.

The Series:

The BABOK^® Guide is the foundation of the business analysis profession, and the starting point for a business analysis career – but it’s not the whole story. In the years since IIBA published version 2, the Business Analysis community has discovered many important implications to the knowledge collected in the book. Many of these realizations are integrated into a new model for understanding the BABOK^® Guide, called the Business Analyst Core Concept Model^â„¢ (BACCM).

Each episode will bring together different thought leaders from the Business Analysis community, to explore some aspect of Business Analysis, and to provide advice to practicing BAs. Each hour-long show will begin with a presentation and discussion of some aspect of the BABOK® Guide, followed about 30 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

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Recorded Webinar
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process.

More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.

This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

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