Live Webinar – July 15th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU/CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

In 2010 and the years that followed a fun, somewhat silly and very revealing group design exercise called “the marshmallow challenge” helped highlight some important insights into team dynamics, prototyping, group performance, skills development, and how incentives shape the outcome of a task.

Tawnya Sawyer (LinkedIn profile) will cover the highlights of the marshmallow challenge and help you implement some of the fundamental concepts to achieve better design outcomes.

Note: How to Receive PDUs for Attending a Live Systemation Webinar – You can earn one PDU per live webinar attended.  All you have to do is fill out PMI’s online form or download the PDF version and claim the PDUs in Section 4 as Category B (Systemation’s address is: 12503 E. Euclid Dr. Suite 55. Centennial, CO 80111).

Click to register for The Marshmallow Challenge: Improving the Design Process

Live Webinar July 11th, 2014 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
CourseID: BAW1318

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to revalidate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

Click to register for 10 Steps to Effective Requirements Elicitation

Live Webinar July 2nd, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Global Sustainability CoP (REP #S046)

Jacqueline will share her real-life (and somewhat humorous) stories about innovations, learnings, and best practices with regard to initiating and implementing a corporate sustainability program.

In 2008, she founded Alaska Airlines’ corporate sustainability program.  Since then, Alaska Airlines has published three sustainability reports, developed a formal governance structure and sustainability initiatives, and has began the challenging process of integrating sustainability into their business practices.

Jacqueline’s presentation will also include tips and lessons learnedfrom Alaska Airlines and other companies for organizations who are interested in publishing their first sustainability report (or those who just want to compare wounds with someone who’s been there).

Presenter: Jacqueline Drumheller (LinkedIn profile) the sustainability manager for Alaska Airlines, is an enthusiastic public speaker who enjoys making sustainability fun. She is on a mission to make her company the sector leader in environmental stewardship. She began her environmental career in 1989, managing hazardous waste; followed by several years of environmental consulting. In  2012, she was named as one of 35 Inspirational Women in CSR by Triple Pundit.

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

Click to register for Getting Green Done: An Airline Perspective

Live Webinar June 26th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm 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.

Process and organizational changes alone are no longer sufficient to meet the mandate of improved quality, governance and auditability in today’s complex, high-pressure development environments.

Regg Struyk, (LinkedIn profile) Product Manager, Polarion Software & Jiri Walek, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Product Management, Polarion Software will discuss the value of real-time collaboration, where everything is connected through bi-directional traceability, and all collaborators have access to the information and functionality they need to succeed.

They will demonstrate why engaging stakeholders early and in context provides a clear path forward and helps uncover issues before defects occur.

They will also share how easy access to previous work products combined with fully linked variant and change management can bring your team collaboration to the next level.

Topics covered in the presentation include:

• Integrate Workflow into your existing process
• Power of Granular Work Items
• Complete Traceability and Versioning
• Real-Time Collaboration using Social Media

Join this interactive webinar to learn how successful organizations have accelerated innovation while protecting integrity by unlocking synergies across disparate teams.

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Live Webinar JUNE 18th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

As project requirements are gathered and the associated design evolves, the project team begins to build the necessary functionality.

This can be accomplished through utilizing the following methodology deliverables:

• high level design,
• detail design,
• requirements traceability log,
• programming specification(s),
• system integration test (SIT) plan(s),
• system integration test (SIT) evaluation criteria,
• unit test (UT) plan(s),
• unit test (UT) evaluation criteria, and
• training and support plan.

Walk away with a better understanding of how to apply these deliverables to your project.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Click to register for Executing Projects with IT Methodologies

Live Webinar June 13th, 2014 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)

This webinar is third in a five part series series on Meetings that work by Solutions Cube. Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Meetings can be highly effective for making decisions or completing work. But, many times the person running the meeting may not have the right skills and tools needed to maximize the group’s effort.

Solutions Cube Group’s Tools for Running Meetings Effectively webinar will give you the required tools and techniques you can immediately use to start each meeting on track, keep participants engaged and discussions focused throughout the meeting and bring a successful meeting to closure.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to design and run an effective meeting
• How to take control of the meeting and open a meeting with POWER
• How to utilize Ground Rules to manage behaviors
• How to incorporate Open Ended Questions during Brainstorming activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to kept discussion on track
• How to Close a meeting with intention and evaluate the success of each meeting

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Tools for Running Effective Meetings – Meetings That Work Series 3 of 5