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 September 6th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Reuse Is An Eternal Goal For Organizations
Seeking Higher Software Capability

Reusing requirements can increase productivity, improve quality, and lead to greater consistency between related systems. But effective reuse is hard!

This presentation, based on the newly-released book Software Requirements 3rd Edition, by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty, offers numerous suggestions about how to perform requirements reuse.

It describes several kinds of requirements reuse, identifies some classes of requirements information that have reuse potential in various contexts, and presents some issues around making requirements reusable.

The presentation concludes by identifying both barriers to effective reuse and success factors that can help your organization leverage its existing body of requirements knowledge.

Click to register for Requirements Reuse: Fantasy or Feasible?

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Live Webinar – August 28th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process.

More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.

This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

Click to register for 5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

BA planning is the sequencing and coordination of a series of events to enable the change and is a form of mitigating risk. Is the role of the BA to identify risks once the change is complete? Is planning an activity a BA should be engaged in? These and other questions regarding change, plans, and risk will be discussed by the panellists. Join the discussion and get your questions answered.

Presenters:

Paul Oldfield, Youmanage.co.uk (LinkedIn profile, InfoQ interview)

Julian Sammy CBAP® (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK® Guide, author of many articles and quick tips and the IIBA peer review journal Best Practices for Better Business Analysis

Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tool

Click to register for IIBA: Change, Plans and Risk – Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Episode 8

Live Webinar August 22nd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Peter Is A Very Accomplished Communicator & Leader!

As a professional speaker as well as the author ofThe Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early (Infinite Ideas) and ‘Leading Successful Pmos: How to Build the Best Project Management Office for Your Business‘ (Gower) and his newest book The Project Manager Who Smiled: The Value Of Fun In Project Management

Background:

Organizations demand that the projects that they commission these days are successful in order to meet their increasingly aggressive strategic goals, and for this to be possible the project managers that lead these strategic projects need to be the very best that they can be. But these very projects are also becomingly more challenging.

Method:

So what are the issues that the ’21st Century’ project manager faces that can be very different from projects in the past, or at least more difficult?

A look at five of these will be taken to provoke thought and begin discussions on what we all need to do now.

Here in the 21st Century:

• Profile of projects
• Complexity of projects
• Virtuality of projects
• Sponsoring of projects
• Benefits from projects

Results:

The presentation aims to stimulate thought from the audience about where we should all be focusing our efforts in order to deal with the ’21st Century’ challenges that project managers face.

Conclusions:

Join me in saying ‘goodbye’ to the ‘Accidental Project Manager’ and ‘hallo’ to the ’21st Century Project Manager’.

Presenter: Peter Taylor (LinkedIn profile, @TheLazyPM) is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management. With over the 26 years experience in various business areas Peter has excelled in MRP/ERP systems with various software houses, Business Intelligence (BI) , and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor.

Peter is also an accomplished communicator and leader speaking at PMI Chapters/Congresses and the author of several books including The Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early and ‘Leading Successful PMOs‘ (Gower) and teaches leadership to business professionals with ‘The Lazy Winner‘. Check out his terrific website and listen to his free podcasts in iTunes.

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

Click to register for Peter Taylor’s – The Twenty-First Century Project Manager

Live Webinar August 15th, 2013 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hours 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDUs
Presented by: Praxis (REP #1231)

NOTE: Although Praxis is an REP they have stated that this opportunity will not be registered with PMI® as a Category A opportunity. If you have any questions contact Mrs Jamie Morris with Praxis. See below for Category C documentation details.

In the years since the FDA published Pharmaceutical cGMPs for the 21st Century – A Risk Based Approach many organizations have adopted the vision of implementing practical, risk-based software validation methods. However, often the next step – implementing the vision – is a very big one.

The objective of this webinar is to get you started implementing practical, risk-based software validation methods!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.3 Control Quality

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 Risk Based Approach To Software Quality Validation