Live Webinar October 9th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar will explore the short comings of the traditional business / IT alignment view and suggest a new and evolving alternative view.

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Live IIL Webinar – Sept 30th, 2012 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: XX

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People don’t wake up in the morning thinking:
“Today I am going to go to work and mess with people”.

Instead, they go to work and behave in a way that rewards them in a way that makes them feel or think is good.

The difficult person who often argues over how to do something probably gets satisfaction from feeling powerful, or knowledgeable.

This webinar presents a very simple three step model, ABC analysis, which can be used to understand what motivates people, and how change reinforcement gets them to behave in a productive way.

Using proven behavioral concepts, this webinar teaches how to analyze an undesired behavior. Next it will provide the participants with a method to change the motivation that minimizes the undesired and maximizes the desired behavior which leads to better productivity on a project.

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will learn:

• Understand what drives a certain behavior
• A two-step method to analyze behavior
• A third step to change undesired behavior
• How to effectively provide reinforcement
• XX

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Live Webinar Sept 24th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Organizational Project Management CoP (REP #S043)

Enterprise project governance (EPG) represents the ultimate evolution in the field of project management. It provides an overview of all fundamental components that affect the balance and effectiveness of projects of all natures across an organization.

EPG proposes a top-down governance structure which includes an integrated framework that involves board-level participation and encompasses all the major components of organizational project management. The presentation ultimately spotlights how to translate business strategy into effective implementation of projects and programs that determine the success or failure of an enterprise.

The components of enterprise project governance include strategy, risk, portfolio, organization, stakeholders, performance and transformation. The benefits and challenges involved in pursuing the EPG concept are discussed and a case is presented.

Presenters:

Paul C. Dinsmore , PMP and PMI fellow, is the author of eighteen books, including Enterprise Project Governance: A Guide to the Successful Management of Projects Across the Organization , Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management, Human Factors in Project Management and Editor of the AMA Handbook of Project Management. Mr. Dinsmore is president of Dinsmore Associates.

Luiz Rocha has worked in the US and Europe and had the opportunity to manage multi-cultural and geographically dispersed projects. Luiz is an engineer by background, MSc. in industrial engineering from UFRJ – Brazil, a PMP certification from PMI, and an IPMA-C certification from IPMA. His latest books are Enterprise Project Governance: A Guide to the Successful Management of Projects Across the Organization, Business Metamorphosis in Brazil, and Mount Athos A Journey of Self-Discovery in the US.

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Live Webinar – September 5th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Elicitation is more than asking:
“What Is Your Problem & What Can I Do For You?”

Stakeholders need help to understand their needs. This help comes in the form of elicitation techniques, elicitation concepts that support success, supporting critical success factors (CSF’s), and understanding the road blocks to the process.

This webinar will cover the elicitation techniques from the BABOK, including the advantages and disadvantages of each, concepts that support success, CSF’s, and road blocks.

Presenter: Bob Keith

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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 27th, 2013 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Every time you move a database from development to production, change a production database, or update schema in an application, there’s a 78% probability your change will break the application or result in critical data loss.

Join Robert Reeves (LinkedIn profile) and Carey Benge (LinkedIn profile) as they share other surprising new research results from Simon Management Group on the true cost of Database change.

• They’ll lay out 5 steps to eliminate change risk in the application release process which are not being addressed by DBA tools.
• You’ll learn how you can eliminate manual scripting errors, break through costly database change bottlenecks which stifle complex application releases, increase release confidence, provide transparency to schema management and more.

No monotone speakers or boring slides here. These two industry veterans will cut to the chase and share their first-hand experiences with a game changing approach to Database Change and Configuration Management.

You will learn how to:

• Eliminate database change risk and bottlenecks in your develop-test-deploy process
• Accelerate releases, eliminate downtime and lower costs by automating deployment processes
• Reduce errors and know how changes will impact production environments – keeping application code, schema, people, and processes in sync
• Improve compliance with auto-documenting change management processes
• Increase quality of service with a holistic, repeatable, database-agnostic approach

NOTE : Attendees will receive the “Cost of Database Change” infographic containing Simon Management Group research results.

Who should attend: Many levels in your organization will benefit from this webcast including: DevOps, CTOs, VPs, directors and managers of application development, database developers , SCMs, IT and IT operations; release and middleware managers and application architects.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 August 21st, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Are your business analysis capabilities
Where they need to be
For the outcomes you want to have?

The research is mounting: Companies with poor business analysis will have three times as many project failures as successes; and 68% of companies are likely to have a marginal project or outright failure than a success due to the way they approach business analysis.

In a world of corporate restructuring, changes, and mergers, business leaders are looking to incorporate business analysis into their project management to improve project success and bring more value to the business.

In this one-hour webinar by BA expert John Parker, participants will learn:

• Why business analysis is a major source of failed and challenged projects
• The importance of business analysis from both a BABOK and PMBOK perspective and how to use the practice to address the PMBOK Stakeholder Management Process
• What upfront and ongoing business analysis activities can reduce scope creep and improve project success
• How to integrate key business deliverables into the work breakdown structure

Participants will leave with clear takeaways for how to integrate business analysis and project management for spectacular results.

Modern Analyst will also provide you with a few assets like an Analyst Brief titled “A Guide to PM/BA Collaboration” and more.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

Presenter: John E. Parker (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO Enfocus Solutions Inc.

Click to register for How to Integrate Business Analysis into the Project Management Process for Spectacular Results