Live Webinar – May 1st, 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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Live WebinarApril 26th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

The project schedule developed at the beginning of a project is not a guarantee of what will occur. Project schedules are in fact, only a point-in-time guess. Many things will conspire to invalidate the plan – project team members may not be available or may leave the project, technologies may work better or worse than expected, changes may be approved, and so on.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn why it is important to monitor progress against the schedule, communicate the progress, and refine the schedule based on facts and our observations.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Understand effects of path convergence and joint probabilities
• Discover recommended best practices for effectively controlling project schedules
• Understand how to use earned value to monitor project schedules
• Learn about considerations for preventive and corrective actions when controlling project schedules.
• Gather practical implementation tips for effectively monitoring and controlling projects

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Live Webinar April 24th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1260
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Are you looking for techniques for successfully scoping a project?
Then, this webinar is for you!

You’ll not only explore how to get from a starting point to an end result that satisfies the business goal, but you’ll also examine the requirements process and learn strategies for successfully managing scope changes; in addition, you’ll distinguish between product and project scope, and also discover how your project team can set boundaries and better manage stakeholder expectations.

Key learning points include:

• Best practices for identifying and documenting scope
• Difference between product and project scope
• Techniques for identifying requirements and managing changes

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Business Analyst Helps Business Define
The Value Of Any Given Solution

IIBA Experts n will explore the role of business Requirements and Design. This session will expand the view of design from the traditional information technology perspective.

The panelists will discuss the concept that requirements not only represent the business need but are in fact the design of a solution. Share your thoughts and come with questions for our panelists. When you leave you may just have a different perspective on the role of requirements.

The BABOK^® Guide is the foundation of the business analysis profession, and the starting point for a business analysis career – but it’s not the whole story. In the years since IIBA published version 2, the Business Analysis community has discovered many important implications to the knowledge collected in the book. Many of these realizations are integrated into a new model for understanding the BABOK^® Guide, called the Business Analyst Core Concept Model^â„¢ (BACCM).

Each episode will bring together different thought leaders from the Business Analysis community, to explore some aspect of Business Analysis, and to provide advice to practicing BAs. Each hour-long show will begin with a presentation and discussion of some aspect of the BABOK® Guide, followed about 30 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

Panellists:

Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of the newly published book, Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and is currently working on Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Mary Gorman CBAP, CSM (LinkedIn profile), is VP of quality and delivery at EBG Consulting. Mary works with global clients, speaks at industry conferences, and writes on requirements topics for the business analysis community. In addition to serving on the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® Committee for four years, Mary helped create the first CBAP® certification exam.

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

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Live Webinar April 26th, 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)

For many people, 50-75% of their work week is spent in meetings that are unproductive, not needed or fail to produce expected results. Valuable people, time and dollar resources are wasted when meeting objectives and expectations are not clear, agendas are not followed, no one or too many people try to take charge of project meetings. Successful meetings that product results don’t just happen, they are planned, prepared for and orchestrated.

Solutions Cube Group’s Planning and Preparing for a Successful Meeting webinar will teach students how to effectively plan and prepare for a successful meeting. They will discover how to engage key stakeholders in the art of planning the success of every meeting that is held.

In the Planning and Preparing for a Successful Meeting webinar, participants learn:

• Why planning is a core element of every successful meeting
• How to leverage the iterative process of planning to uncover and align on the expectations of meeting outcomes
• How to use a planning document as a collaboration tool when preparing for meetings
• How to use a Statement of Work as a tool to formalize the scope of each meeting
• How to create consistency in meeting process and outcomes through the use of standardized templates
• The difference between a published meeting agenda and a facilitator’s agenda and how each contributes to the success of a meeting

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Live Webinar April 18th, 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.

• Spreadsheets just might be the most prevalent user-created software applications in business today.
• They’re quick and easy to create, and they’re useful not only for crunching numbers, but also for tracking data.

But, when and how should you validate these tools?

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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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