Online Webinar – Recorded Oct 30th 2013
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

Requirements, by nature, have a lot of text. As the number and complexity of requirements grow, the ability to manage and track delivery of those requirements in context becomes increasingly more difficult.

Whether you are using Waterfall, Agile or a hybrid approach, there’s a better and more efficient way to evolve requirements and bring all related information together. Simplify the requirements management and delivery process by using the power of pictures and visual models.

Documentation of requirements during the elicitation process, socializing requirements for feedback, and getting final approvals doesn’t have to be challenging. Join us Wednesday, October 30th at 2 p.m. EDT to learn how visualizations improve the completeness and quality of your requirements.

In this webinar you will learn:

1. How to reduce time and assure completeness of requirements using the Requirements Modeling Language (RML)
2. Simple RML models you can use right away to help you better understand the “big picture” regarding your requirements
3. How to apply the visual approach to implement these RML models from definition to delivery using Borland Caliber®

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Collect Requirments
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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’

Click to register for A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: A Visual Approach to Requirements Management and Delivery

Live Webinar Jan 29th, 2014 – 11:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
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.

Use cases are an effective and widely used technique for eliciting software requirements.

The use-case approach focuses on the goals that users have with a system, rather than emphasizing system functionality. This webinar presents an overview of the use-case approach to requirements elicitation in a practical and straightforward fashion.

Topics covered include:

• Where use cases fit into the requirements development process
• Types of projects for which use cases are and are not well suited
• User classes and actors
• Scenarios and use cases
• Components of a use case
• Use case diagrams
• Deriving functional requirements from use cases

Presenter : Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 5.5 Validate Scope
• 5.6 Control 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’

Click to register for The Use Case Technique: An Overview

Live Webinar Jan 30th, 2014 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Use Cases are widely recognized as one of the most effective methods of documenting and communicating requirements.

Join us for this webinar as we demonstrate how you can easily document clear, accurate and complete requirements using Use Case Scenarios. This Webinar is useful for new, as well as, experienced practitioners of the Use Case approach for defining requirements.

Key Learning Points:

1. How to identify Use Cases?
2. What is the “happy path”? Can there be unhappy paths?
3. What are “Alternate Flows”?
4. How can Use Case approach to requirements help you avoid the problems of “missed” and “misunderstood” requirements?
5. What is an appropriate size for the “Main Flow”?
6. What are the pros and cons of using IF structure in a Use Case?
7. How do I break down a large Use Case?
8. How do you “reuse” requirements in a Use Case model?
9. How are Use Cases similar to, and different from, User Stories?
10. What is the meaning of “include” relationship between Use Cases?

Presenters: Ashu Potnis, Jim Cochell and Sue Thompson , Technosolutions

Click to register for IIBA: How to Write Effective Use Cases: A Step-by-Step Approach

Live Webinar January 24th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Purchasing a project solution versus building one internally to avoid the cost and time of re-inventing the wheel is becoming more common on projects. Selecting a vendor through a Request For Proposal (RFP) process doesn’t always guarantee that the solution the vendor proposed, and the project team selected, really meets the project’s needs and stakeholder’s expectations.

Often project teams make the mistake of jumping straight to the proposal portion of the their project lifecycle before clearly defining the project needs. The resulting RFP sent to vendors is vague and fails to communicate the critical requirements vendors need to propose accurate solutions.

Vendors who respond to the RFP are left with little choice except to make many assumptions on what the project needs are and base their proposals on these, often times, false assumptions. Because the project requirements are so vague, almost any vendor solution appears to adequately address the need.

Learn the critical success factors of an RFP effort and the characteristics that cause many RFP efforts to fail.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn about:

• Critical Success Factors of the RFP process
• Characteristics of a successful RFP process
• Common pitfalls that cause RFP efforts to fail

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar Jan 23rd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Most Problems With
Project Requirements
Are Result Of Human Errors

Why are good and experienced project managers making bad choices that can dramatically affect the project?

The answers lie in human psychology. Often managers are making their choices not by logical and comprehensive analysis of the problem, but based on their own gut feelings.

This presentation includes a number of examples of how misjudgement can lead to major project failures.

Understanding a few basic concepts, such as how human mental machinery works, helps to improve project manager’s decision-making skills. Often manager’s decisions are affected by illusions, such as the illusion of the project being under control.

But what is the alternative to such intuitive decision-making process?

This presentation includes an overview of the project requirements management process. If a project manager and an organization follow such process, it usually leads to better decisions.

The presentation includes a number of case studies, illustrating how organizations significantly improved their performance through implementing requirements management process: Keystone Oil pipeline from Canada to US, Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, NASA’s Constellation space program, destruction of major power station in Russia, and others.

The presentation also includes recommendations on how requirements management can be implemented in an organization. Requirements management is not only a sophisticated quantitative analysis. First of all, it is a collection of basic principles, which help project managers think their way to project success.

The presentation is based on the books “Project Decisions: The Art and Sciences”, published my Management Concepts, 2007, and “ProjectThink – Why Good Project Managers Are Making Bad Choices!” to be published by Gower in 2013.

Presenter: Lev Virine PhD, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer and project manager. In the past 15 years, he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes. He is the author of Project Decisions & ProjectThink and over 50 scholarly papers.

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

Click to register for Why Good Project Managers Are Making Bad Choices

Live Webinar January 24th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hr webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $5 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

As with many things in life, all projects are subject to uncertainty, however all uncertainty is not the same as “risk”. Project Risks can be “threats” to be minimized as well as “opportunities” to be exploited.

Effective Project Risk Management recognizes both types of risks and is the key contributor to “project success”.

This webinar 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.

Learn how to implement a more effective risk management effort that balances the impacts of project uncertainties occurring with the effort needed to prevent or encourage the uncertain event.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The difference between Project Risk and Uncertainty
• How to define the scope of a Risk Management Effort
• How to use Risk Meta Language to identify project risk
• How to use Qualitative Techniques to assess project risk
• Techniques to “minimize” Risk Threats and “exploit” Risk Opportunities

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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