Archive for February 6th, 2012

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Live Webinar February 14th, 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A – Free PDU

This webinar will describe practical quality tools both PM’s and BA’s can utilize to better manage projects. Specific techniques with examples that will be discussed include controls charts, cause & effect diagrams and Pareto charts. Attend this webinar and learn how a focus on quality management can improve the success of your projects. The presentation will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session afterward.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

Click to register for The 7 Basic Tools for Quality Management

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Live Webinar February 9th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

The Business Analyst (BA) role has become essential in today’s workplace as a vital component of a successful project.

The business analysis field has been accelerating at a rapid pace, and the growth spurt has caused some understandable “growing pains.” Among the challenges are a lack of standardization, inconsistent terminology across organizations, and difficulty in assessing knowledge and skills of BAs inside and outside the organization.

The international Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) was founded as a non-profit organization to promote the growth and professionalism of business analysis. Part of IIBA®’s mission is to document and maintain standards for business analysis, and to recognize and certify practitioners. The CBAP® (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification program is in place to screen, test, and certify qualified and knowledgeable BAs.

This presentation summarizes the CBAP® and CCBA® programs, and why Business Analysts should become certified. It also touches on the steps you should follow to become certified. You’ll leave understanding why becoming a CBAP® or CCBA® is important, and with a realistic action plan to help you become certified.

Presenter: – Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP

President and Founder of Watermark Learning, Richard Larson has over 30 years of experience in business analysis, project management, training, and consulting. Rich is a frequent speaker at Business Analysis and Project Management conferences and author of CBAP Certification Study Guide (2nd Edition). He was the Review Chair for the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge version 2.0 and co-lead for the Collect Requirements chapter of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 4th edition.

Click to register for CBAP®/CCBA® Certification: From “What is it?” to “I Did it!”

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Live Webinar – 2 Successive Wednesdays
February 15 & 22 , 2012 – 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
Presented by: The Gabriel Institute
Duration: Total of 4 Hours (2 events 2 hrs each) 4 Category C 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 when it was offered in August 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!

– Edmonton PM

NOTE: This registration is for 2 consecutive Wednesdays – 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

TGI Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ is a completely new online behavioral assessment for hiring, workforce planning, coaching, and team-building. Although this session is often directed towards HR Professionals, Project Managers need to be able to create strong teams. Many teams are strongly role based and a solid understanding of RBA will assist in choosing and developing agile team members.

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

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 Role-Based Assessmentâ„¢ (RBA) 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’).

Role-Based Assessment was designed from its very beginnings to measure and predict the quality of a person’s team interaction.

RBA 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.

RBA is also highly effective in analyzing and solving team performance problems.

This certification course is a comprehensive overview of RBA and CHI methods. It prepares learners to provide basic support to users of Role-Based Assessment, and to apply for Certification. Certification requires passing a written examination and meeting TGI’s modest standards for ongoing participation.

Course content includes:

  • Participant’s own Role-Based Assessment 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

PDU Category C documentation details:

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’

Click to register for Building Your Coherent Human Infrastructure

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Live Webinar – February 15th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process.

More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.

This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
  2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
  3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

Click to register for 5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

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Live Webinar – February 14th, 1:00-2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Committing yourself fully to a product idea or vision can easily consume months and more realistically years of your life. Of all your resources, there is none more valuable than time.

In this webcast you will learn:

  • Better, faster ways for vetting new product ideas
  • Techniques so you don’t waste time, money, and effort

This is the first in a three-part webcast series called The Lean Series.

In this first event, we’ll look at how people react when they are hit by good ideas out of the blue, when they least expect them. Many people ignore them, while entrepreneurs may act on them. But acting on ideas is not without a cost.

Presenter: Ash Maurya (LinkedIn profile, @ashmaurya) is the founder of USERcycle. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, which he frequently writes about on his blog, and which turned into his newest book: Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 5.1 Collect Requirements
  • 5.2 Define Scope

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 Running Lean: How To Vet Product Ideas And Save Time, Money & Effort