Archive for August 29th, 2012

Agile in CMMI-Rated Organizations

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Live Webinar – September 5th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

Yes, you can embrace an Agile approach to software development in a CMMI(R)-rated organization, but care must be taken to be sure your CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) rating is not jeopardized.

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has provided guidance in the latest CMMI-DEV version 1.3 about interpreting Specific Practices for Agile projects. In this webinar.

ASPE will look at the SEI’s guidance about Project Planning (PP), Project Monitoring and Control (PMC), Requirements Development (RD), and Requirements Management (REQM), and discuss what these processes would look like on Agile-CMMI projects.

Presenter : Alan S. Koch, PMP, CSM, ITIL (LinkedIn profile) Alan has more than 30 years IT experience, Author of Agile Software Development Evaluating the Methods for Your Organization, Alan’s education and training are extensive and he is affiliated with numerous industry-leading organizations, including the Agile and Scrum Alliances.

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Fridays
September 7th & 14th, 2012 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs ea) 4 Category B PDUs – Free PDU

This is a MUST TAKE opportunity – If you are setting up your own teams this provides a terrific framework to help you understand the strengths of your potential team members placing them in the roles that will make your projects even more successful. I took this session and was very impressed with the usefulness of the material and the “payoff” it provided!

For those of you setting up agile teams with strong roles – This helps you understand the strengths of your team and set up the best matches to make your projects even more successful!
September 7th & 14th
– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Fridays – The instructional segment is delivered in four modules, each one contact hour, given in webinar format in two, two-hour sessions. This course is also approved for four hours of HRCI recertification credit

When work requires close collaboration, even the most extraordinary individual effort is no substitute for great teamwork. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of Teamability will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

The Gabriel Institute has created technology that reveals how people will perform when working with others to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve common goals. In short, it measures Teamability: the ability to connect with others to form a productive team.

Individual strengths can lead to a personal triumph, but a team is greater than the sum of its parts. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ identifies behaviors that impact quality of team interaction and ‘fit’ to job responsibilities: the ‘who fits where’ and the ‘why’ of winning teams. With Teamability, you can reliably hire ‘the best of the best’, identify and resolve team performance problems, and build a strong, resilient human infrastructure

There are many ways to measure skills, talents, and traits, but teaming metrics are unique. It took 25 years of research and testing – including 9 years of software development – to produce TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ reports, which are the foundation of TGI’s Role-Based Approach to selecting, structuring, managing and motivating teams.

Organizations of every type and size experience the cost and pain of human performance failings, and are highly vulnerable to the ‘collateral damage’ that results from hiring the wrong people. TGI Teamabilityâ„¢ makes it possible to reliably select high quality team players, and to match their job responsibilities to the way they envision themselves serving their team (their ‘Role’).

TGI Teamability was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

TGI Teamability can greatly reduce the costs and risks associated with errors in hiring and promoting, while delivering significant business value by matching people to the functional mission of their team. It is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of Teamability and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of TGI Teamabilityâ„¢, and to apply for an optional Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

  • Participant’s own Teamability Report at no additional cost
  • Four contact hours of training, including all materials
  • Readings to be completed during course attendance
  • Brief written certification examination to measure comprehension of course materials and applications (optional to complete)

Click to register for What Is Your Teamability? Understanding the Natural Roles that Your Team Members Best Fill with a Role Based Approach

Five Tenets of Change Management

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Live Webinar September 5th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT or
Live Webinar September 6th, 2012, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Change Management Learning Center
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Prosci specializes in change management processes. With a strong developed expertise in change management processes they produce high quality informative presentations and seminars

Is there a simple story to show someone why change management is the solution to how change happens, not an optional add-on?

In 2012, Prosci will be releasing a new edition of the book, Change Management: the people side of change. The new edition will include an updated first chapter that makes the case for change management based on five tenets, or realities of change.

In this new webinar, learn about the five tenets and how you can tell a simple and compelling story about why change management is essential for projects to deliver results and achieve objectives. During the webinar, you will have the chance to create your own “five tenets story.”

Five Tenets of Change Management Agenda:

  1. We change for a reason
  2. Organizational change requires individual change.
  3. Organizational outcomes are the collective result of individual change.
  4. Change management is an enabling framework for managing the people side of change.
  5. We apply change management to realize the benefits and desired outcomes of change …. And Then …
  6. Applying the Five Tenets in your work

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 10.1 Identify Stakeholders

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’

Click to register for the September 5th Presentation of Five Tenets of Change Management

Click to register for the September 6th Presentation of Five Tenets of Change Management

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Live Webinar September 6th, 2012, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

Through our innovation work with organizations, we hear about the need for a common innovation process and requests for how to create a culture of innovation. While both of these are important, are they enough? If you have both, is your organization really capable of innovating?

Based on our experience, to be effective, organizations need to align eight major areas in order to create an innovation-capable organization.

In this webinar, you will learn:

  • The 8 ways to make your organization innovation capable
  • Experience our assessment that will help you evaluate these eight major areas
  • Key questions that leaders need to address to create an innovation-capable organization

Presented by: Shannon Bayer (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 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’

Click to register for Eight Ways to Create an Innovation-Capable Organization with Shannon Bayer