Archive for April, 2012

Managing Requirements Maturity

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Live Webinar – May 7th, 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

Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.

According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success.

Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher.

For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measureable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity

Learning Objectives:

  1. The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives.
  2. The Requirements Maturity Model.
  3. A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities.

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Live Webinar May 8th, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Every CIO is either working towards or has arrived at a seat at the table with the Executive Leadership team at an organization.

Regardless of where you are on this journey this presentation will provide some approaches and tips that will be of use. It covers some “rules of the game” that technology executives need to keep in the forefront and the methodologies for maintaining a peer relationship with the C suite.

Key insights will include organizational perception management, process improvement, relationship management skills, and business strategy.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a $2.99 convenience fee to obtain the PDU code. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code can be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. Search the Rep # (it is in our listing) The courses are listed alphabetically use the arrow keys to move to the correct place in the alphabet and search the list on that page for the course that you attended – the code should be listed. (setting the “set the dropdown box” to show 100 per page will make your search easier).

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Live Webinar May 9st, 2012 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 159129 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities and features that enable new, rich user experiences.

In this session, Imaginet will review their award winning User Experience (UX) methodology and discuss how to utilize the new user experience and customization features of SharePoint 2010.

They will showcase a SharePoint site with world class design, social media integration, marketing workflows custom user experiences. The site was designed to work with every web browser and all screens including mobile phones, tablets, as well as integration with Social Media.

Come join Imaginet for this free webcast!

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 9.3 Develop Project Team

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 Conference May 7 th & 8th 2012
11 Webinar Sessions Up to 10.5 hours
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: UP TO 10.5 Category C Free PDUs
Presented by: HR.com

This is an excellent opportunity to choose from
11 different sessions on Performance Management.

Register for the conference & choose
which virtual sessions you would like to attend.

See Below for the session tittles & their Short Descriptions.

Performance Management includes activities that ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a department, employee, or even the processes to build a product or service, as well as many other areas. A specialty certification increases your market value, adds value to your work experience, furthers your knowledge, and recognizes you as an industry leader and/or expert in the field.

  • Do you want that competitive edge in your professional space?
  • Do you want to assert your knowledge of current HR topics, trends within your domain?

Why not set yourself apart from your peers and get certified with HR.com and the Institutes for Human Resources (IHR).

The Institute for Human Resources (IHR), the certification and accreditation process arm of HR.com, has a program for you! Many HR professionals have a general HR degree or certification with a wide spectrum of HR functionalities learned. The IHR is the only institute that focuses on niche areas within Human Resources.

A specialty certification increases your market value, adds value to your work experience, furthers your knowledge, and recognizes you as an industry leader and/or expert in the field.

 

Click to register for the
Performance Management Conference.

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PDU Category C documentation details (for this conference):

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.2 Acquire Project Team
  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 9.4 Manage Project Team

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’

May 7th 2012 – 10:30 am – 11:00 am EDT – Introduction to Performance Management Virtual Event (Long Description)

HR.com will review the progress of the Institute to date. We will review the certification program – have you signed up yet? If not, there’s still lots of time. Get an update on the hours accumulated to date. Find out what you have missed, and take a look at what is coming up for the next couple of months.

During this session we will:

  • Introduce you to the Advisory Board
  • Introduce you to the Institute and the Certification program
  • Help you learn how to become an expert in the area of Performance Management

If you are new to the Institute for Performance Management this introduction will cover not only our past accomplishments but also explain why you should continue to participate and be a part of this community.

Click to register for An Introduction to Performance Management a Virtual Event

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May 7th 2012 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDTMoving from Subjective to Objective: The Role of Assessments in Selection and Talent Management (Long Description)

In this webinar they will examine the proper role of assessment tools in the selection and management of talent. They discuss,

  • What to look for in an assessment instrument,
  • What things to measure in each candidate,
  • How to benchmark the job in question,
  • Why hiring for aptitude beats hiring for skill,
  • How much weight to put on the assessments, and
  • How to know if you’re about the make the right people choice.

Whether you are an HR professional, a hiring manager or a senior executive looking for a competitive edge in the race for the best talent, this webinar is for you.

 

Click to register for Moving from Subjective to Objective: The Role of Assessments in Selection and Talent Management

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May 7th 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDTIs Your Performance Management System Performing? (Long Description)

If you have been thinking about improving your current performance evaluations or starting a new system but do not know where to begin, this workshop is what you need. It will provide you with the guidelines of who should be involved in designing a successful system, what standards of performance to use and how to measure those standards.

Click to register for Is Your Performance Management System Performing?

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May 7th 2012 – 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDTFinding All the Angles: New Cases for 360-Degree Feedback (Long Description)

Today’s technology taps into the true potential of 360 evaluations. Organizations can make such feedback available to all of its employees, not just the ones at the top of the totem pole. Customized questions and competency libraries provide tailored forms and more accurate results. As 360s processes become more efficient and cost effective, organizations gain greater flexibility in how they turn feedback into real development, on both the individual and collective level.

Click to register forFinding All the Angles: New Cases for 360-Degree Feedback

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May 7th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDTThe Mature Worker- How Old Do You Look; How Young Do You Feel; Check your Attitude! (Long Description)

Three important trends are occurring that will have a dramatic impact on the American workforce: the workforce, and the population as a whole, are aging; labor shortages are projected in a growing number of sectors of the economy; and many workers intend to continue to work beyond the traditional retirement age.

  • How will we create learning solutions for this business community that will attract and retain mature, experienced workers who are increasingly critical to maintaining a competitive advantage?
  • What does workforce aging really mean?

The central issue is not that the mean age of workers is increasing but that the relative size of the workforce is reducing. Workforce aging is about productivity, not age, and focusing on ‘the older worker’ as an older person rather than an individual may actually be a barrier to developing workable policies to address the serious issues arising from a reduced workforce.

  • As a training professional, how does learning and development meet the needs of all ages and learning styles?
  • What can you do as a “mature” worker to brand yourself to work 20 more years?

Learn the three success factors to working through to 80!

Click to register forThe Mature Worker- How Old Do You Look; How Young Do You Feel; Check your Attitude!

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May 7th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDTBuilding a Talent Pipeline: How to Stop Planning for Succession and Start Managing It (Long Description)

This webinar is aimed at HR business partners as well as the executives and line managers they support, and the talent development specialists they lead. Participants will hear the business case for succession management. They will learn a simple process for identifying critical positions within their organizations and for mapping out a succession plan for each. They will also receive practical tips for engaging their business clients in the succession dialogue and implementing change management to ensure that leaders incorporate succession planning and talent development into their regular management practices.

Click to register forBuilding a Talent Pipeline: How to Stop Planning for Succession and Start Managing It

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May 8th 2012 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDTCreate “EmployeePreneurs” through Performance Management (Long Description)

The philosophy of performance management must embrace the needs of the organization and employee development. Passive participation does not serve a company striving for operational excellence. To remain competitive, employees must see their roles as more than a paycheck. Employees must be engaged to exceed company goals and improve their value in the organization. When employees are rewarded for becoming “EmployeePreneurs”, their performance levels are raised and temporary roadblocks are seen as opportunities. This webinar will provide HR professionals and leadership a challenge to evaluate their performance management philosophy, tools and initiatives.

Click to register for Create “EmployeePreneurs” through Performance Management

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May 8th 2012 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDTThe Secret to Cultivating Talent: Continuous Performance Management (Long Description)

Performance Management essentially hasn’t changed since it’s original inception over two-hundred years ago. This is your opportunity to learn how to make the changes necessary to allow you to compete for great talent now and in the future as well as retain the people you have currently. We are working with a new generation, technology and impacts that are changing the expectations of our workforce. Are you prepared to make changes necessary to ensure you compete in the future?

Click to register for The Secret to Cultivating Talent: Continuous Performance Management

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May 8th 2012 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDTHow To Say “YES!” When Your System Says “NO!” (Long Description)

An effective business partner solves problems so they stay solved. The skill set for an effective business partner includes problem-solving skills, creativity, analysis, collaborative relationships and making good decisions. But skills alone are not enough – the practitioner needs a robust suite of technology tools to help manage and process the vast amount of business, performance and talent data to turn it into actionable information. The bottom line is that without enabling technology, you are faced with the prospect of saying “NO!” to business partner because your technology cannot support the innovative solution you can visualize but cannot implement. You simply cannot make design recommendations that you cannot administer. The unfortunate reality is that system modifications are often prohibitively expensive, and you quickly find that “add on” software usually trades one set of limitations for another.

Click to register for How To Say “YES!” When Your System Says “NO!”

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May 8th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDTPerformance Management: How Can Analytics Help? (Long Description)

With the generational turnover of Boomers retiring, Gen X rising and Millennials filling in the gaps, it’s no surprise that companies are scrambling to prepare the leaders of tomorrow. As investments in performance management increase, so does the demand on human resources professionals to prove the impact. Human capital initiatives have traditionally been considered too difficult to quantify, let alone able to be improved through data-driven insights.

This session will show Performance Management professionals how they can execute a human capital measurement strategy that arms them with powerful data to report successes to upper management and a plan for continuous improvement. Participants will learn about the key concepts for human capital analytics: Stakeholder buy-in, Alignment, Getting to useful data, Segmentation, Isolation, and Optimization.

Click to register for Performance Management: How Can Analytics Help?

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May 8th 2012 – 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDTHow to separate performance from potential in identifying your true “HiPo’s” (Long Description)

To build a robust talent pipeline, many organizations place a great deal of emphasis on identifying and developing high potentials. By identifying those with the greatest potential, organizations can differentially invest; focusing development where it will get the biggest return over the long haul. The challenge is – who really are those with the greatest potential? Who will, with proper development, have the greatest sustained success?

The challenge is separating the judgment of performance from the judgment of potential. This is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do with managerial judgments. The solution is leveraging a source other than managerial judgment for assessing potential. Building this solution requires answering three questions:

  1. What are the markers of potential;
  2. What assessment tools can we align to these markers of potential; and,
  3. How will we integrate data from all assessments to make final decisions about who are our true “HiPo’s.

In this presentation, we will share research and best practices regarding answers to each of these questions, as well as tools and processes to help build a solution unique to your organization.

Click to register for How to separate performance from potential in identifying your true “HiPo’s”

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Live Webinar May 3rd, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: MDW1282
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

The goal of this webinar is to provide a “best-practices” approach to the effective and efficient planning and management of projects. The importance of a well-developed plan and putting in place effective project controls will be emphasized. Techniques for alignment of the project’s goals to organizational needs will be discussed, along with methods to better manage resources.

Participants will also be given an overview of how to successfully facilitate the creation of project charters, work breakdown structures, network diagrams and keeping project plans current using proven project management techniques; additionally, best practices for effective project control methods will be reviewed.

Learning objectives include:

  • Establish a framework for planning and control
  • Learn how to organize a joint planning session
  • Understand how to effectively use matrix resources
  • Recognize the importance of a RACI chart
  • Measure and report progress using variance analysis

About the Presenter: Terrell Smith, MPA, PMP, CBAP (LinkedIn profile) With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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Live Webinar – May 3rd, 2012 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

The existence of IT has always been dependent on its ability to substantiate the value it can deliver to its organization and quickly recognized a need to incorporate and apply a set of management principles and practices they could rely on to help deliver “value” to their organizations.

Effective Project Management is the tool/discipline successful organizations rely on to ensure the delivery their products, projects, and services.

This webinar establishes a context for the discipline of Project Management, reviews (origins, purposes, objectives) several industry recognized Project Management Methodologies, establishes a widely used nomenclature (lifecycle, phases, deliverables/artifacts) relied on by the leading Project Management Methodologies, and cites specific examples of how the deliverables/artifacts/work products of a Project Management Methodology can be scaled and leveraged to deliver projects and organizational “value”.

The session concludes in discussing how a Project Management Methodology can be applied in the context of a specific and unique IT project or in the context of being applied to all IT projects across an organization (introducing quality, governance and improvement perspectives)

Upon its conclusion, attendees will have a greater general understanding of Project Management Methodology, and a foundation they can utilize to further their Project Management Methodology knowledge and expertise.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

  • Establishing a context and general overview of IT Project Management Methodology
  • Providing descriptions and samples of specific deliverables/artifacts/ work products applicable to a Project Management Methodology
  • Illustrating how a Project Management Methodology can be applied in the context of a specific project or as an organizational process that is utilized by all organizational IT project teams

With the Course You Will Receive:

  • Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
  • Personalized Certificate of Attendance
  • Copy of Presentation Slides
  • QAIassist Context Diagram
  • QAIassist Deliverble Descriptions
  • QAIassist Deliverble Descriptions

Presenter: Cameron Watson is the President of QAIassist (LinkedIn profile), the standard in scalable SMB IT Methodologies. Cameron is recognized as an expert in IT methodologies and how they can be leveraged within small and mid-sized organizations – his 25 years of experience ranges from programming and analysis (Canada Systems Group, ADP) to project management and consulting (Bank of Canada, Fujitsu Consulting) to education director (Data Kinetics) to a number of senior management positions guiding corporate PMO’s (OAO Technologies – PMO Manager, Aviva Insurance – PMO Director).

Click to register for Without a Map Your Destination Can Be Anywhere: IT Methodology (Project Management) Part 2 of 4