Live Webinar February 27th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1313
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Well-run requirements workshops are considered one of the most effective ways for delivering high-quality requirements quickly and accurately. They can also promote trust, mutual understanding, and strong communications amongst the project stakeholders and project teams, and increase the probability of producing the desired deliverables to the end-users.

In this webinar, you will learn useful guidelines for planning and conducting an effective requirements workshop; additionally, you will also get familiar with some of the most common processes and techniques used to overcome the challenges of requirements elicitation.

About the Presenter: Scott Kastner, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, CSM (Certified ScrumMaster), manages the IT Systems Operations at jetBlue Airways, and is also a business analysis and project management instructor and consultant. Scott’s strong technical background coupled with his practical business understanding has made him highly regarded in both the business analysis and project management communities.

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Live Webinar – February 27th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
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Agile is coming. In ever increasing numbers, teams are moving toward Agile practices and methodologies, program managers are demanding the Agile mindset and Executives are craving the benefits that Agile offers.

But then the ” real world” interferes and you are asked to write a contract for a development project or a new widget or some technical staff augmentation.

How do you do it?

In this webinar get a brief introduction to the world of Agile and how contracts are written to support dynamic, collaborative and iterative delivery. You will get introduced to the Value Curve and how different contract types – including firm, fixed price – can be adapted to the Agile world. And you will gain confidence that Agile is a disciplined methodology that can be tracked using contract types with which you are already familiar.

Presenter: Russ Fletcher (LinkedIn profile) is a seasoned IT executive with broad business experience. For nearly 20 years Mr. Fletcher has been consulting with, improving or leading technical businesses or IT departments with an eye toward making IT a competitive advantage and a strategic strength. Using humor mixed with real-world experience, Russ’ training classes and follow-on consulting help his teams succeed and improve dramatically

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 7.2 Estimate Costs

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 February 27th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, ITMPI will focus on the key skills from PMI’s Practice Standard for Project Risk Management that will help you to identify, analyze, and control the risks on your project.

Note: ITMPI is now charging a 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. Start to record your PDU – on Step 2 place the Rep # 2733 (in our listing) in the “Provider Number” area and the title of the webinar in the “Activity Name” and hit search. Select the code and continue to record the event. If you need further assistance contact us at Hello at pduOTD.com

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Live Webinar Febrauary 27th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category C but the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This may be a category A presentation presented by Diversified Business Communications (Rep #1811). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

Most analytics and business intelligence projects fail because the analytics delivered by IT don’t meet the requirements of the business users.

Agile analytics or agile BI has been viewed as a potential solution to this problem, but applying agile development methods to traditional analytics and business intelligence design cycles often means getting to the wrong result faster and does not result in an analytic solution that hits the requirements exactly.

Live, rapid prototyping used with visual tools takes iterative development to the extreme to uncover the real business requirements in dramatically shorter time by replacing distinct requirements gathering and development stages with a collaborative prototyping stage that involves business users, analysts, and developers and can reduce development time by 90% or more.

In this webinar you will learn about:

• A rapid prototyping technique for live requirements gathering that uncovers the core business requirements for analytics – even when the business users can’t articulate the requirements
• Data management technologies that speed up integration of data from disparate systems and allow you to develop analytics without data-limiting compromises
• How data discovery approaches can help you adapt to changes in business requirements when they occur
• The benefit of visual analytic development tools over traditional tools of convenience, such as Excel and Access
• Analytic tools that are designed for the analytic challenges of dealing with more data, more change, more speed, and more decision makers

Presenter: Mark Marinelli VP, (LinkedIn profile) Product Management Lavastorm Analytics

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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 – February 27th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
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Development Peer Review Is Effective
It Ensures A Higher Quality Product

Unfortunately, peer reviews of requirements documents often aren’t held when intended and those that are performed don’t always go as intended. Reviewers take only a superficial look and they often miss major defects that lurk in the specification, leading to delivery of a poor quality product.

In this webinar, Karl Wiegers, a best-selling author and speaker on requirements management and software peer reviews, gives practical advice to make requirements peer reviews more effective and encourage prospective reviewers to participate.

Listen in as Karl shares:

• An overview of the peer review formality spectrum
• Major characteristics of reviews
• Five steps you can take to improve peer reviews of requirements

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

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