Live Webinar August 13th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

The Government Community in collaboration with the International Development Community are pleased to present a joint webinar for our subscribers on Agile Methodology applied for Government Projects: A Case Study from from the State of Minas Gerais Brazil.

Join Rogerio in exploring how the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil applied Agile/Scrum on projects and achieved a more citizen focused government through promoting transparency, clear priorities, crowdsourcing and focus on collaboration.

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

Presenter: Rogerio Ribeiro (LinkedIn profile) is a Project Manager in the Ombudsman’s office for the Government Secretariat for the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Rogerio works as an ITC consultant for World Bank and Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) where the last 10 yrs he has managed government projects in various Ministries (e.g. Culture, Construction, Justice, Financial) with budgets over $400M.

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Live Webinar August 7th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Pharmaceutical CoP (REP #S012)

At the conception of any project there exists only the Owner’s basic needs. With all of the challenges that we face in the early stages of a project, the translation of these needs into a detailed project basis of design for construction is one of the greatest challenges faced by project management, design, and delivery teams.

At the same time, quality expectations for the creation of highly functional, efficient, and innovative facilities continues to increase. Project teams must address strategies to successfully define organizational and user needs, translate these needs into functional requirements during the early stages of a project, and set the project on a successful path to efficient design and delivery.

The ability to deliver the right project, on time, is particularly important on highly technical and programmatically intensive science facilities which typically incur greater risk due to the complexity of this project type.

Through the use of case study project examples, this presentation will provide a guide to developing and aligning needs, vision, programs and budgets early in the process to minimize risk and create a roadmap for successful project design and delivery.

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Presenter: David Bendet, AIA, LEEDAP, (LinkedIn profile) as S&T Practice Leader with Perkins&Will Architects, David’s approach to design is based on providing the highest value solutions by first understanding goals/needs, and balancing innovative design strategies with expertise and constructability feedback in a team-based environment. With 25 years of professional experience as an Architect & Senior PM, David has led design and construction project teams through the visioning, programming, planning, design, management, and delivery of complex, innovative and sustainable projects.

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Live Webinar July 25th, 2012 – 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.

The prospect of a software quality audit can be intimidating and the work to prepare can seem daunting.However, audits are not generally conducted according to random processes, nor do auditors ask random questions.By learning what to expect, you can be prepared!

In this session, you will receive an overview of standard audit terminology, roles and processes. You will learn how to prepare your validation documentation,standard operating procedures, facilities, and personnel for the software quality audit.

Praxis will review frequently asked questions and checklists from international regulatory guidance. The session will also address approaches to handling problemtopics.

You will learnbest practice tactics for use during the audit. And finally, to help you determine where to focus your preparation efforts, this session will provide statistics from FDA inspections on the most prevalent software quality topics and the most cited typed of computer systems.

• Fundamental audit terminology, roles and practices
• Key US and international regulatory guidelines regarding software quality audits
• Audit preparation for staff, facilities, and documentation
• Common software quality audit questions
• Best practices during an audit
• Accommodating requests for access to computer systems and data
• Most frequently inspected systems and software quality topics

PDU Category C 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 Control

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 July 25th, 2012 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

This presentation discusses how to integrate business analysis practices into the project management process to reduce project risk and improve business outcomes.

This presentation will examine business analysis from a PMBOK perspective and examine strategies for integrating business analysis practices into the project management process.

The following topics will be addressed:

• What is business analysis?
• Why focus on business analysis?
• How business analysis integrates into PMBOK including Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management, and Stakeholder Management.
• How business analysis reduces project risk.
• How to manage business analysis activities and deliverables from a project management perspective.

Attendees will learn how well-executed business analysis integrated into the project management process will help deliver more successful projects that meet business needs resulting in better business outcomes.

Presenter: John Parker (LinkedIn profile) is the Chief Visionary Officer of Enfocus Solutions. He conducts research and provides advisory services to large corporate and government clients to improve business analysis maturity. Mr. Parker has over 30 yearsIT strategic planning, SDLC methodologies, financial cost/benefit analysis, and solution ideation. He has served in multiple roles including project manager, business analyst, CIO, CTO and consultant.

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

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Live Webinar July 19th, 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)

Independent Verification &Validation (IV&V) Consulting
Lessons Learned on delivering IV&V Services for Clients and other Contractors

IV&V is a method utilized – often on Government IT initiatives – to increase the probability of overall program success and reduce negative impacts identifying critical program risks and problems and software defects as early in the program and/or development lifecycle as possible.

The public and private sectors face many challenges in delivering on-time, on-budget, high quality systems and programs that provide the necessary features and functionality to meet stakeholder expectations and achieve mission-critical agency objectives.

IV&V project delivery is complicated by client and System Integrator perceptions of IV&V and the resulting nuances when performing independent verification and validation assessments.

The purpose of this training is to provide insight into successfully delivering IV&V projects that add value to our clients’ IT initiatives.

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

Presenter: Jeremy Tsiopanas (LinkedIn profile) has over 14 years of information technology consulting experience, and now specializes in Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) and is exclusively focused on IV&V services for government clients. He has served as an IV&V Deputy Program Manager and also directly managing IV&V project teams. He has implemented custom developed and COTS software applications to satisfy a variety of business requirements and is is hands-on with clients from a functional and technical perspective.

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Live Webinar – July 17th, 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

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, Sr. Consultant, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

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