Live Webinar September 12th, 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004)
Presented by: Sally Elatta

After the Agile Requirements gathering, comes the fun part of estimating and sizing requirements so you can develop a Release Plan.

During this webinar Sally will cover how you can use Story Points to measure the complexity of each story then develop an initial estimate of the team’s velocity to create a rough iteration schedule.

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

Presenter: Sally Elatta, (LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun.

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Live Webinar -August 29th, 2012 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

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Live Webinar August 23, 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)

Have you seen companies struggle to verify whether or not all software requirements for a project were implemented in the finished product or not?

The main reasons for this are:

1. Lack of formal documentation and approval of requirements and …
2. Not enough and proactive planning for testing and verification.

In this webinar NK will present the process of developing and using production readiness scorecard to meet this challenge, and achieve higher levels of customer satisfaction.
At the end of the webinar attendees will:

1. Become more aware of the root causes of this challenge, and …
2. Learn what a production readiness scorecard is and how vendors and customers can use it for requirement verification.

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

Presenter: NK Shrivastava, PMP, RMP, (LinkedIn profile) is CEO at RefineM, a project management consulting company. NK has over 20 years of experience in managing projects and mentoring/coaching/training project managers. He is a board member of PMI SWMO Chapter and an experienced speaker on project management topics.

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Live Webinar August 16th,2012 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

Utilizing the JAD Session method developed by IBM in the 1970s, the Requirements Workshop is one of the most effective techniques for quickly developing high-quality requirements.

This webinar will explain how to prepare for and conduct a Requirements Workshop, and will also provide tips on how to handle potential problems that can sidetrack the workshop.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (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 tools.

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Live Webinar August 16th, 2012 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)

So, you’ve worked on a lot of projects and know how to develop scope and requirements deliverables, but what are the Project Manager’s responsibilities during the development of these deliverables?

Attend this 1 hour live webinar learn what the Project Manager must do to ensure that scope is determined, managed, and approved and to develop and approve project requirements.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The components for defining a complete Project Scope Statement
• The components of defining clear Business Requirement Statements
• The process for defining Technical Requirements

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar – August 14th 2012, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

Note: You may have to “Public Sessions” tab on the top of the page for this opportunity to appear.

Systemation will answer all your questions about user stories:

1. What are user stories?
2. Who writes them?
3. How are they written?
4. When are they written?
5. How do they differ from traditional, functional requirements and use cases?

Understand the format of user stories and acceptance criteria, discuss hints and tips for writing them, and review ways to “discover” them through collaborative techniques.

Presenter: Laura Robinson (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.3 Estimate Activity Resources
• 6.4 Estimate Activity Duration
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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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