Live Webinar – November 16th, 2011 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A – Free PDU

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome.

We will discuss:

• The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
• Myth Busting: There are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
• Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

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Live Webinar November 16, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Presented by: Ema
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

• What happens when enterprise architecture meets IT service management?
• What does an architect have to say about concepts like the configuration management database or the service catalog?

Find out the answers to these questions and more when you join EMA Research Director Charlie Betz (LinkedIn profile) for a Webinar that will cover these questions and other concepts from the second edition of his bestselling book – Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler’s Children, Second Edition.

This unique work features a process model for IT management, distinguished from a functional model, and supported by data and systems architectures and numerous design patterns.

As Charlie is fond of pointing out: Massive IT capital investments and supply chains, critical operations, and pivotal implementation initiatives are managed with emails, spreadsheets, and seat- of-the-pants intuition, with narrow goals elevated over global objectives. Often absent is the data-driven, analytic, continuously improving management philosophy employed in the primary value chains of the world’s most successful companies.

Come and hear what an enterprise architecture approach has to offer IT in meeting these challenges!

Presenter: Charlie Betz has served as a senior architect in large companies focused on the problems of large scale IT service management. He spent six years at a major bank as VP and lead architect for IT portfolio and systems management. Based on this experience and his critical reviews of ITIL, COBIT, and CMMI, he’s published the second edition of his bestselling book Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler’s Children, Second Edition.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work

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 – November 15, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hours Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: PushToTest

Workshop on Building High Scalable Applications with Service Components

Your choices for scalable and most productive platforms to build SOA, BPM, and Web applications are vital to your organization’s success.

The problems you need to solve are testing and evaluating applications and business processes that use Rich Internet Application (RIA, using Ajax, Flex, Flash,) JMS, and SOAP and REST Web Service interfaces.

You are not interested in lame “instant service development” schemes. Your application does not have a magical silver bullet that involves no work, no time, and no sense.

Join Frank Cohen, (LinkedIn profile) CEO and Founder at PushToTest and inventor of the TestMaker Open Source Test tool. This is ideal for CIOs, CTOs, Development and Test Executives, and IT managers.

Here is what they have for you:

• A comparison of developer productivity and performance on Oracle, IBM, and TIBCO
• A systematic, simple way to understand and implement effective tests of your application
• Test software to build tests and deploy to desktop, grid, and cloud environments
• A clear tutorial approach to the PushToTest methodology of building and repurposing tests to understand the correct functioning, performance, and scalability of your application
• An organized reference guide to the “best of the best” tips, techniques, patterns and antipatterns from PushToTest over the years, and how it all fits together

In other words, you don’t have to be Einstein to “get” this stuff.

Every attendee will receive fully working copies of the open source test tools, including Selenium, soapUI, PushToTest, TestGen4Web, and many others taught in this Webinar.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 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 November 17, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Cisco Webex Hosted By: Phil Montero

Business as usual no longer involves working in a centralized office at set times. Whether you’re a freelancer, entrepreneur, telecommuter or remote worker, modern workflow is far more dynamic and individual. There are smart ways to work without an office.

Phil Montero (LinkedIn profile) will show you how to:

• Make your work location independent
• Improve communication and keep people connected
• Manage a virtual team, distributed project group, or ebusiness across time and distance

Phil Montero, the founder of YouCanWorkFromAnywhere.com and recognized expert in cloud computing and mobile work, has created a blueprint for “virtual work” that he calls The Anywhere Office. In this webinar, Phil shares three secrets to mobilize your workstyle and make your business and projects more flexible. These simple steps will allow you to work wherever and whenever you want.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 – November 17, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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.

Two industry associations are laying claim to both scope and requirements: IIBA and PMI.

• What is an analyst to do?
• Who really “owns” what and how does that impact our role as business analysts?

This webinar will take the audience beyond the textbook claims of ownership and provide steps that business analysts can take to define proper accountability for scope and requirements that will lead to greater project and personal success.

If you are currently in the role of business analyst or project manager (or both!), this webinar is for you. It’s not about surviving; it’s about thriving!

Presented by: Bonnie Baldus, PMP, has 13 years of experience in project management, leadership, and business analysis training and 16 years of experience in the project management and business analysis field. Bonnie is an alumni of Iowa State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree and pursued advanced studies in English and Technical Communication. Bonnie is a member of both PMI®, the Project Management Institute, and ASTD, the American Society of Training and Development, taking advantage of the networking and educational opportunities those organizations provide. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

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Live Webinar November 17, 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by CollabNet
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU Free

In this session, you will learn that successful Continuous Integration (CI) relies on carefully preparation of a versioning control and change management strategy.

CollabNet will cover which issue management and Subversion best practices will maximize your value in a CI process and lower technical debt. You will also learn how to identify and remediate common SCM anti-patterns that cause friction with CI.

Topics covered:

• Role of versioning for CI
• Common SCM anti-patterns
• Best Subversion practices

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope

Click to register for Keeping Track: Version Control & Change Management for Continuous Integration (CI)