Live Webinar Feb 25th 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Does everyone understand what Business Analysts do for a living? Wouldn’t it be nice if the rest of the organization did?

This session will offer advice, tips and ideas on how to build up an awareness of the BA or PM cultures within your company. Selling to the CIO or CEO. Promoting the role to the staff you work with.

Creating an internal awareness of the value a PM or BA can bring to any project.

Dave will discuss the use of information sessions, internal webinars, ‘lunch & learns’, a community of practice, public meetings and more. Attendees are encouraged to come with their own stories of marketing success or failures.

Learning Points:

1. Tools for internal marketing
2. Ideas for better internal communications
3. Thoughts on Centres of Excellence or PMOs or BAOs

Presenter: David Barrett (LinkedIn profile) is a Founding Member IIBA and Professional Speaker.He is also the Project Director for the Centres of Excellence in Project Management and Business Analysis at The Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University, the co-editor of ProjectTimes.com and BATimes.com.

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Live Webinar Feb 21st 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

NOTE: Although this session is a part of a larger series – this session can be taken as a stand alone module.

Many project teams describe their Risk Management effort as a Risk Mitigation activity to overcome negative project risks.

Risk Mitigation is only one of the 8 different responses considered by project teams who are successful in their risk management effort. Teams who consider all 8 risk responses when creating their risk register are more effective in exploiting risk opportunities as well as minimizing or preventing risk threats.

The Risk Management Series of in depth webinars will introduce participants to techniques for defining a Risk Management Process and using this process to progressively build a Risk Register including: identifying risks using a Risk Meta-Language, Assessing Risks with quantitative techniques, understanding the 8 risk responses and selecting the appropriate Risk Response for the project risks and monitoring risks throughout the project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Selecting the Appropriate Risk Responses webinar will help your project teams understand the differences between the 8 risk response types and when it is appropriate to use each response. They will learn how to increase the likelihood of positive risk opportunities occurring and how to reduce or avoid the impact of negative project risks.

This session will help you Select the Appropriate Risk responses.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to complete the risk register with appropriate risk responses
• Why relying on risk mitigation as the only response to risk creates more risk exposure
• How to differentiate between the Risk Response types available for managing project risk
• Techniques for creating contingency plans as part of the response effort
• When to use each response type when planning the risk management effort

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Online Webinar
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD 1 PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

NOTE: Although this is a part of a series each session completely covers the topic it addresses other topics on “Developing High Performance Teams” are available as apart of the series

Even a well planned meeting can be unproductive without the right facilitation skills. To “facilitate” a meeting means to make it easier for others to participate.

Every team member can use the skills of facilitation to help others participate and to improve his/her own communication skills.

Contrary to popular perception, the best communicators are the best listeners, not the best talkers.

They are effective communicators because they ask good questions, show genuine interest in the other person, and respond positively to the contribution of others.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to to create the effective team where effective communication occurs.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants will:

• Understand key components of facilitation skills and how to ‘run’ an effective meeting
• Recognize the importance of diversity on teams and the impact of styles on the facilitator
• Learn skills that encourage participation in team meetings
• Practice sharpening your facilitation skills for active listening, asking questions, and showing empathy
  •Gather practical implementation tips

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar Feb 13th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The purpose of Plan BA Activities is to determine the activities that must be performed and the deliverables that must be produced, estimate the effort required to perform that work, and identify the management tools required to measure the progress of those activities and deliverables.

Upon Completion, You will:

• Learn how these tools can support planning BA activities with focus on estimation of effort and tracking of progress of the activities against that estimate.

This webinar series is open to everyone in the BA community and we strongly encourage you to invite the senior leaders and key decision makers in your organization to attend.

Presenters:

LeanKit – LeanKit is a flexible, visual project management platform designed to improve team collaboration and efficiency. LeanKit’s built-in Forecasting and Risk Management tool provides the ability to harvest project data to accurately predict future delivery dates.

Sandhill Consultants –Sandhill Consultants is the leading provider of Process and Data Modeling solutions, services and training to organizations. Sandhill combines its process and data modeling experience with a standards-based repository to deliver successful outcomes between IT and the Business.

Polarion Software – Polarion Software are creators of an enterprise, web-based Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution. Polarion REQUIREMENTS, is an online Requirements Management solution to allow teams to create professional online Requirements Documents, leverage their existing Microsoft Office Documents, simplify collaboration, and support any process or workflow.

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Live Webinar – Feb 11th 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU/CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

Projects are most effective when done in a true teaming environment.

Systemation will also answer all your questions! Learn why teams are crucial to maximum team efficiency, how to improve your teaming skills, and what you’re missing if you don’t.

Presenter: Dan Treadwell – (LinkedIn profile) Dan is the author of the book Money Isn’t All That Matters – Strategies for Attracting & Retaining Technical Professionals.

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).

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Live Webinar Feb 3rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Project surprises—be they on government or commercial projects—happen more than most organizations know or are willing to admit.

The financial, opportunity and political costs can be staggering. For example, one in six big IT projects go over-budget by an average of 200%, according to a landmark 2011 study by Oxford University and McKinsey & Company.

The Oxford study found that spending on technology projects was three times more likely to go out of control than construction or other major projects. The study also found that large IT project spending was 20 times more likely to get out of control than organizations expected. Many, if not most, of the projects that “surprisingly” crash and burn are, in fact, predictable surprises: the signs of failure were all around but not acknowledged.

In this webinar, Dr. Robert N. Charette will discuss project surprise, the various costs of surprise, and how they can be reduced by focusing on pro-actively managing the critical risk questions related to a project’s real – win – worth evaluation which is applicable to both government and commercial projects. In addition, Dr. Charette will discuss ways to “surprise proof” your projects.

The webinar’s agenda is as follows:

• Surprises Can’t Happen to Us – Or Can They?
• The Destructive Direct and Hidden Costs of Project Surprises
• Predictable “Surprises”: The Anatomy of a Project Surprise
• Minimizing Project Surprises: Asking the Three Critical Questions
• Surprise Proofing Your IT Project and Program Management

Dr. Robert Charette (bio) is the President of the ITABHI Corporation, an international high technology company involved in enterprise and program risk management consulting. He is the author of a number of books on software, systems, and business management including:

• “Software Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology” (1986),
• “Software Engineering Risk Analysis & Management” (1989),
• “Applications Strategies for Risk Analysis” (1990),
• “Introduction to the Management of Risk” (1994, “A Unified Methodology for Systems Development” (1987)

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

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