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

Join IIBA Tuesday, June 11 as Teresa Bennet (LinkedIn profile) discusses The Importance of Mentorship in Your BA Career Development.

Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to identify what makes someone a good mentor for you, how you can provide mentorship to your colleagues and how take to take a leadership role to promote mentorship in your organization.

You will also be able to describe the benefits of mentorship and how it increases confidence and skills related to communication and requirements elicitation along with improving collaboration and documentation skill sets.

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Live Webinar May 28th, 2012 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)
Presented by: The Lazy Project Manager

A look at some learning experiences from the presenters’ time running a major PMO inside of Siemens; in particular with the early project phases when the partnership of supplier and customer was often tested to the limit.

As both parties climbed the learning curve of understanding – the supplier to understand the customers’ business and the customer to understand the full potential of the solution(s) offered by the supplier – there are plenty of opportunities to ‘get it wrong’ and for unexpected impact to occur as a result.

Added to this challenge both also needed to overcome the wall of miss-appreciation that the ‘sales’ or pre-project process cheerfully built as high as possible.

This process is known as ‘the Journey of Expectation Management’ and the presentation will look at one process and one set of tools used to minimize the ‘journey’ issues and to maximize the ‘arrival’ at the right destination.

This presentation provides insight in to the process and the tools that were used to ensure that project customers received the best possible business benefits from their IT investment, whilst not experiencing any ‘unexpected’ surprises (shocks) along the way.

Presenter: Peter Taylor 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.

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Live Webinar May 27th, 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)
Presented by: Rogério Ribeiro

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 us 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 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 May 23rd, 2013 11:00 am – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

How to document constraints, assumptions, risks and dependencies and how they inform requirements will be discussed in this session.

Julian Sammy will explore the meaning of risk and why the BA must engage stakeholder in risk discussion.

You will leave this session with a better understanding of the difference between PMI and IIBA description of CARRDS.
(Constraints, Assumptions, Risks, Requirements & Dependencie)

Share your thoughts and experience and questions during this one hour presentation.

Presenter: Julian Sammy (EBA, IIBA) (LinkedIn profile @sci_ba) : Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK^® Guide BACCM

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Live Webinar May 15th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Product delivery teams get caught in traps that prevent them from effectively eliciting, documenting, or managing requirements. It is no wonder they often get out of sync on what they are supposed to build and why. How confident are you that everyone is in sync?

Learn from Jama Software and Karl Wiegers, the renowned author and speaker on requirements management, as he shares symptoms that you might be getting caught in a requirements trap, along with suggestions for avoiding and escaping the trap. Avoiding such traps will create more effective engagement across the entire organization and help your teams deliver successful projects.

The traps discussed in this webinar include:

• Inadequate stakeholder involvement
• Vague and ambiguous requirements
• Analysis paralysis
• Scope creep
• Ineffective change process
• Ineffective change process
• Poor version control

Over the years I’ve found that many software organizations struggle with the same issues when it comes to requirements. Such troublesome topics include:

• how to define project scope;
• the connection between use cases and functional requirements;
• distinguishing requirements from design; and…
• how to use requirements management tools effectively.

Some of the questions I’m asked repeatedly don’t have simple answers.

– Karl Wiegers

This presentation addresses six such common traps when collaborating on requirements.

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

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Live Webinar May 10th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Meetings can be highly effective for making decisions or completing work. But, many times the person running the meeting may not have the right skills and tools needed to maximize the group’s effort.

Solutions Cube Group’s Tools for Running Meetings Effectively webinar will give you the required tools and techniques you can immediately use to start each meeting on track, keep participants engaged and discussions focused throughout the meeting and bring a successful meeting to closure.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to design and run an effective meeting
• How to take control of the meeting and open a meeting with POWER
• How to utilize Ground Rules to manage behaviors
• How to incorporate Open Ended Questions during Brainstorming activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to kept discussion on track
• How to Close a meeting with intention and evaluate the success of each meeting

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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