Live Webinar – January 21st 2013, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

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Although it’s common for academic institutions and professional organizations to focus on keen analytical skills, reality knows the skills needed to lead and manage reach far beyond just being analytical. We’ll take a look at the importance of developing creative, practical, and ethical, wisdom-based knowledge as a more whole-person approach to project leadership.

Presenter: Alison Sigmon (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar January 17th, 2013 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
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 may 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.

Software Quality Assurance and Validation professionals operate in an ever changing regulatory environment. It can be difficult to find the time to monitor the US and international information to be aware of new regulations, guidance documents, and enforcement trends.

This session will quickly bring you back up to the minute!

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.3 Perform 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 January 16th, 2013 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Duration: 3 Hours Credits: Up to 3 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon
Note: This seminar consists of 4 presentations

For almost two decades, the SEI has been instrumental in the creation and development of the field of software engineering known as software architecture.

This virtual event summarizes current SEI work in architecture-centric engineering: from the basic tenets of software architecture to methods and practices for responding to increasing demands for speed, agility, system integration, and escalating scale.

Opening Keynote – Architecting in a Complex World
1:00 -1:20 pm EST

Presenter: Linda Northrop (LinkedIn profile) has more than 35 years of experience in the software development field as a practitioner, researcher, manager, consultant, and educator. She is currently director of the Research, Technology and System Solutions Program at the SEI where she leads the work in architecture-centric engineering, software product lines, system-of-systems practice , and ultra-large-scale systems research. Under her leadership, the SEI has developed software architecture and product line methods that are used worldwide, a series of five highly acclaimed books, and software architecture and software product line curricula that include 11 courses and 6 certificate programs.

Eliciting and Specifying Quality Attribute Requirements
1:20 – 2:05 pm EST

Presenter: Rob Wojcik is a senior member of the technical staff in the Research, Technology, and System Solutions Program at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a position he has held since 2004. In his current position, he performs training and consulting in software architecture technology and software architecture evaluations.

Achieving Agility and Stability in Large-Scale Software Development
2:15 – 3:00 pm EST

Presenter: Ipek Ozkaya (LinkedIn profile) is a senior member of the SEI technical staff, she is the co-organizer of the Third International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, co-creator of the Hard Choices board game, frequent presenter at academic and industry conferences, and author of several articles.

Uncovering Architectural Challenges in a System of Systems
3:10 – 4:00 pm EST

Presenter: Mike Gagliardi (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 year’s experience in real-time, mission-critical software architecture and engineering activities on a variety of DoD systems. He currently works in the SEI Research, Technology, and System Solutions Program on the Architecture-Centric Engineering Initiative, and is leading the development of architecture evaluation and quality attribute specification methods for system and SoS architectures.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 8.1 Plan 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’

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Live Webinar January 16th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Note: Modern Analyst suggests that this session is Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. This session may be listed as a Category A opportunity at time of presentation. Further documentation information will be available at the end of the session.

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 that fit all situations, such as:

• “How detailed should the requirements be?” and…
• “Is it okay to duplicate requirements in the spec?”

– Karl Wiegers

This presentation addresses ten such “thorny issues” and tricky topics in requirements engineering. Karl will explain why each topic is important, and he will offer some practical advice about how to deal with each of these issues on your projects.

Presenters: 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 C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.4 Verify 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’

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

Identify Your Gold Plating Today!

Join us the IIBA as they demonstrate how you can manage end-to-end traceability for your business applications, products and medical systems.

Learning Objectives:

• They will demonstrate how you can ensure traceability compliance with federal regulations such as FDA CFR 21;
• Learn about Performing Gap & Impact Analyses
  • Perform Gap A nalysis:Are all business requirements implemented in the system?;
  • Perform Impact Analysis:
    • If I change this artifact of the system, how wide and major are the impacts?
    • How much it will destabilize the system? How much will it cost us?
• Learn how traceability can also help you answer question such as:
  • Why are we building a certain feature?
  • Is it really needed by stakeholders or is it just gold plating?

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Live Webinar December 19th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA And TechnoSolutions

TechnoSolutions will demonstrate the techniques that you can use to avoid the two problems that plague Business Analysis:

1. Missed Requirements and …
2. Misunderstood Requirements

You will see how Use Case text is automatically converted into Activity Diagrams, Screen Mockups are built and linked to Scenarios and Application Walkthroughs are conducted with Stakeholders to get high quality feedback.

Ashu Potnis and Jim Cochell of TechnoSolutions will also demonstrate how you can request Online Reviews and Approvals from stakeholders, and finally – Automatically generate Test Cases from Use Cases with Top Team Analyst.

PDU Category B documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.4 Verify Scope
• 5.5 Control Scope

As a Category B activity, remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for IIBA: How to Visualize Requirements with Use Cases, User Stories & Screen Mockups