Live Webinar May 22nd, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

One of the most difficult phases of the project is eliciting requirements from stakeholders. Under the best circumstances requirements are often vague, conflicting, and in flux.

Even when key stakeholders are involved in the requirements process, they are not always fully engaged. Personal agendas, fear of change, and comfort with the way things have always been done can create a climate of apathy and mistrust, all of which make identifying the true needs difficult.

When business stakeholders and the project team have a relationship built on trust, however, they can more quickly work together to build a solution to meet the business need.

Specifically this presentation describes:

• The barriers to building trust when eliciting requirements
• Common elicitation pitfalls that often bust trust
• Collaborative elicitation planning
• The role of consultative questioning
• Facilitating techniques that build trust
• How effective scribes build trust and help ensure complete requirements

Attendees will be able to:

• Discuss the nature of trust and why it’s key to successful requirements elicitation
• List at least 5 barriers to effective requirements elicitation related to trust
• Describe seven ways to build and maintain trust to ensure successful requirements elicitation

Presenter: Elizabeth Larson , (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP CEO of Watermark Learning, Elizabeth has over 25 years of experience in business analysis, project management, training, and consulting. She is a frequent speaker at Business Analysis and Project Management conferences and co-author of the Practitioners’ Guide to Requirements Management, The Influencing Formula, and the  CBAP Certification Study Guide (2nd Edition). Elizabeth is on the team that is developing the PMI-PBA Practice Guide, was a lead contributor to the BABOK® Guide Version 2.0, Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition (Collect Requirements), and is the content lead for Scope Management for the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition.  Elizabeth has been cited in CIO and PM Network and regularly contributes articles to BA times, Project Times, and Modern Analyst.

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Live Webinar \may 22nd, 2014 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)

Join Jon Quigley (LinkedIn profile) as he demonstrates how configuration management is linked to product testing and how the configuration management plan and product growth plan can provide a road map for product critique.

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Live Webinar – May 23rd 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
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Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.

Experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that  experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations.

The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques.

It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

In This session you will learn:

• How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
• Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
• Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
• Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
• Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
• Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
• Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
• Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Presenter: Dave Caccamo  (LinkedIn profile) MS. Eco, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP (VP of ASPE Inc.’s Project Management Curriculum)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 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 May 21st, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast- Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Kanban Can!

In this Webinar – Imaginet is going to show you:

• How Kanban will FINALLY give you process, automation, and consistency in your development projects.
• How we construct Kanban systems that work seamlessly in TFS 2013.
• Read valuable reports that provide practical insight into your software development teams speed and efficiency.
• Spot roadblocks and learn how to systematically eliminate them.
• Why most organizations fail at implementing formal processes for developing software.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2014, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Linkage

If coaching is so great, why do you think it is so difficult?

Research shows that both internal and external factors make coaching challenging.

In this free webinar, you will learn:

• The habits, beliefs, and behaviors that are holding you back from the top
• Concepts and techniques to improve your overall impact and credibility as a coach
• How to generate sustainable behavior change for greater results

Presented by:  Darlene Slaughter (LinkedIn profile) is a Principal Consultant at Linkage. In addition to delivering Linkage’s full suite of offerings, she leads the continued development of Linkage’s Inclusive Leadership and Advancing Women Leaders practice areas. She also serves as Institute Chair for Linkage’s Institute for Leading Diversity and Inclusion™.

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