Live Webinar May 2nd, 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 second in a 4 part series series of Project Scheduling by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

Most scheduling software today allows project teams to input raw data, and then automatically calculates the critical path. However, understanding the critical path in MS project can be a relatively daunting task.

Understanding the critical path benefits the project manager by allowing them to focus on priority activities and to identify slips earlier. Understanding the critical path facilitates what-if analysis and decision making.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn why knowing and understanding the critical path is one of the first steps in efficiently and effectively managing a project and how identifying your project’s critical path requires discipline and maturity.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants will:

• Understand effects of path convergence and joint probabilities
• Understand how knowing the critical path enables what-if analysis
• Learn how to determine the critical path manually and using MSProject
• Discover tips and due diligence checklists for developing project schedules

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Live Webinar – April 23rd, 2014 1:30 pm – 2:30 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
By:  Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

What constitutes stellar performance and best practice? You can’t really say what’s good or best … unless you measure it.

High-performing athletes rely on measurement to understand and improve so that they can compete effectively and win. Can knowledge workers such as software engineers use measurement in a similar approach? Absolutely. But the measures need to be practical, relevant, trustworthy, and actionable. They need to be used by the individual to benefit the individual.

Join Mark and Bill to:

• See the emerging empirical results of over 100 software project teams that have collected accurate performance data
• Learn about the techniques that were developed and used to validate the accuracy of the collected data
• Learn how four basic measures can provide close-looped feedback to help software engineers understand and improve their performance

You don’t need to measure everything.

It only takes a few basic and easy-to-collect measures to help you and your team manage schedule commitments and software quality. Tune in during this webinar to find out what those key measures are, how you can collect them, and how you and your software development team can use them effectively.

During this webinar, Mark and Bill will share the performance results of over 100 software teams that have carefully tracked their schedule performance and the quality of their work. They will show you how high-integrity empirical results such as these can be used at the individual, project, and industry levels to characterize performance in meaningful and insightful ways.

Presenters:

Mark Kasunic (LinkedIn profile) – Mark joined the SEI in 1994 and is now a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) . Currently a member of the Team Software Process Initiative, Marks  work has focused on transitioning performance improvement technologies into practice. His current research  interests include, project performance measurement, and practical measurement /analysis approaches that help  improve technical performance. Mark  has a Masters in Systems Engineering. Mark is a certified TSP Mentor Coach and a certified Scrum Master.

William (Bill) Nichols PhD (LinkedIn profile) – Bill  is as a senior member of the technical staff and serves as a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor and Team Software Process (TSP) Mentor Coach with the TSP Initiative within the Software Solutions Division (SSD).  His TSP publications include the The PSP and TSP Bodies of Knowledge, The TSP Coach Mentoring Program Guidebook, and various publications addressing software quality planning. He has a doctorate in physics from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Live Webinar April 15th, 2014 12:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:  1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA    Pharma/Biotech SIG

This webinar will focus on the three main areas that comprise pharmaceutical R&D:

1. The Beginning of Basic Discovery: Identifying a Disease process (What’s wrong?)
2. Preclinical Development and Phase I trials: What the drug does to the body? What does the body do to the drug? (Toxicology and Safety)
3. Clinical Development: Clinical trials to determine drug safety in humans. (Effectiveness/Safety Regulations)

Part one covers the various aspects of basic research. This sets the stage for discussing the purpose of preclinical development and describing what that entails.

The goal is to demystify each step in the process for the non-scientist.

Lastly, there are certain regulations and guidelines that govern human clinical trials to ensure drug safety in larger populations, clinical development.

For those who would like to learn more about the Pharma/Biotech R&D domain, this introduction will provide an overview of the high level processes from the lab to the clinic.

Presenter: Aubrey Watkins III, Ph.D. (LinkedIn profile), is Associate Director, Global Procurement, at Merck Sharp & Dohme, and is responsible for establishing contracts and managing over $100M of business with suppliers on a global basis in support of pre-clinical research and manufacturing of vaccines and biologics for Phase I trials.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan

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 April 11th, 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)

Learn how to become a more effective leader
And begin to differentiate yourself from the pack

There are many project managers in the business world today, but what makes them GREAT instead of just good?

Great project managers not only have management skills in their tool kit, but they know how to use those skills to inspire their team to produce the best results.

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join us for them for this insightful 1 hour in depth presentation to learn the difference between good and great project managers.

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Live Webinar April 10th, 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

In response to the shifts in technology as seen in mobile and big data—along with the shifts in methodologies like agile—the pace of application development has changed, causing the need for total traceability in your requirements to become even more evident for success.

Join HP for this webcast, where they will discuss how end-to-end traceability in your requirements will help you link together a single repository for your requirements along with other key development assets like source code, test, and defects.

In this interactive webinar you will learn how to:

1. Encourage widespread adoption through ease of use
2. Provide a single point of truth for both visual and textual requirements
3. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the right requirements are captured
4. Enforce a standardization of consistency and quality across your teams

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Live Webinar April 3rd, 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
Course ID: BAW1314

Surveys and focus groups are an important, but often overlooked, requirements gathering technique, particularly when dealing with large numbers of stakeholders.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys. Additionally, the webinar will show how focus groups can be used to gather stakeholder feedback. Finally, the webinar will teach how to communicate insights gained from surveys and focus groups.

• Learn the value of surveys and focus groups and when to use them
• Learn how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys
• Learn how to leverage focus groups
• Learn how to report results of surveys and focus groups

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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