Live Webinar September 27th, 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)
Presented by: Dawn Henwood

Many non-expert readers find the amount of technical detail in a requirements document overwhelming. Faced with a series of long lists and elaborate diagrams, their eyes tend to glaze over. Consequently, they may not examine your document thoroughly enough to be able to provide you with the feedback you need.

The key to creating requirements non-experts can easily read is to think like an web designer and make usability a key factor in your writing. This webinar will introduce you to four simple, easy-to-implement strategies for producing user-friendly requirements:

• Provide an overview highlighting the business goals and benefits
• Use summary statements to introduce sections
• Manage long bulleted lists by using parallelism and subdivisions
• Integrate use case diagrams and other visuals so they are easy to interpret

As with web design, subtle adjustments can make a big difference to the user experience. Working within your organization’s template for requirements, you can easily apply user-friendly writing strategies to improve your communication with colleagues as well as stakeholders.

Presenter: Dr. Dawn Henwood is a published author of A Writing Guide for IT Professionals, columnist, associate professor and program developer/director. She specializes in helping technical experts bridge the gap in knowledge and values that so often separates them from their customers. Her methods have even the most reluctant writers producing clear documents with ease and confidence.

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

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Live Webinar – September 18th, 2012 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions & Modern Analyst
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1 Category C PDU- Free PDU

Webinar attendees will receive a kit of checklists and templates pertaining to business value from the RequirementCoachâ„¢ and Requirements Excellence Frameworkâ„¢ components of the Enfocus Requirement Suite. â„¢

This webinar describes several innovative methods for business analysts to deliver more value to the business and ensure completion of successful enterprise projects. Poor business analysis is the root cause of many project failures.

Many projects fail or do not deliver anticipated benefits because:

• Teams start on the solution without understanding the problem.
• Business case was either not defined or was poorly constructed.
• A clear, complete, and accurate set of requirements is not captured and defined.
• There is limited focus on business needs.
• Stakeholder needs were not adequately considered.
• Requirements were not adequately prioritized.

Well-executed business analysis fully integrated into the project management process helps ensures projects deliver on expected benefits. To receive maximum value, it is necessary to maximize solution value throughout the project lifecycle. A good solution and project definition delivers superior business value; a poor solution and project definition results in lower business value, even if the project has excellent project management.

To resolve these problems, it is necessary to accurately capture business requirements, elicit stakeholder needs, and prepare complete and accurate functional specifications. Requirements management needs to take place throughout the project lifecycle to confirm that business needs are met and business value is delivered.

The webinar will address the following topics:

• Problem Statement
• Business Case
• SMART Business Objectives
• Business Process Optimization
• Stakeholder Assessment
• Solution Assessment and Validation

Presenter John Parker (LinkedIn profile) CEO Enfocus Solutions Inc. discusses the role and potential of business analysts in driving value to the business, aligning IT activities with business goals, and ensuring the successful completion of enterprise projects.

PDU Category C documentation details:

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define 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 29th, 2012 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 – August 28th, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1/2 hour 0.5 PDUs Credits: 0.5 Category C PDU- Free PDU

Enfocus Solutions Inc. CEO John Parker (LinkedIn profile) discusses the complexities of agile requirements, sharing lessons learned and best practices specific to this iterative and incremental approach to development.

The webinar covers agile requirements in large enterprises, the role of business analysts, and how user stories can be defined and elaborated using test scenarios, user conversations, and functional and nonfunctional requirements.

The 60-minute presentation is a must-attend for organizations looking to move to agile, and for product owners, scrum masters, and agile teams in organizations already using the method.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 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 August 16th,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Utilizing the JAD Session method developed by IBM in the 1970s, the Requirements Workshop is one of the most effective techniques for quickly developing high-quality requirements.

This webinar will explain how to prepare for and conduct a Requirements Workshop, and will also provide tips on how to handle potential problems that can sidetrack the workshop.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (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 tools.

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Live Webinar August 16th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

So, you’ve worked on a lot of projects and know how to develop scope and requirements deliverables, but what are the Project Manager’s responsibilities during the development of these deliverables?

Attend this 1 hour live webinar learn what the Project Manager must do to ensure that scope is determined, managed, and approved and to develop and approve project requirements.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The components for defining a complete Project Scope Statement
• The components of defining clear Business Requirement Statements
• The process for defining Technical Requirements

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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