Online Webinar – Recorded October 29th 2013
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

You’ve seen them stumbling down the halls. Office zombies!
The slow, demotivated, disconnected people who try to drag you down to their brain-dead level.

Join Paul Glen, Computerworld columnist and author of “Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology” for this light-hearted exploration of this deadly serious epidemic.

What you will learn:

• You are stuck on a zombie team
• Your project sponsors are walking dead
• Your boss was just resurrected from death
• You’re in danger of becoming a zombie too!

Presenter: Paul Glen (LinkedIn profile) CEO, Leading Geeks

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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’

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Live Webinar November 7th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Risk Management CoP (REP #S048)

Have you ever thought about how many people it takes to be …
Truly Successful at PRM?

It’s probably more than you thought.

That’s because there are many facets and subtleties to PRM. For instance, does your PRM team include a decision analyst? You need one of these folks to help you decide which risk response will be the most cost effective and introduce the least secondary risk to your project. And if you say you don’t need one, then maybe you don’t have enough risk response alternatives for a given risk.

David Drummonds introduces you the different practitioners that you need to participate in your PRM efforts and what each has to contribute. With this information you will be able to make informed judgments when constructing the project team.

Starting from a simple overview of what happens as your project progresses …

David will introduce you to:

• Bean counters (a.k.a. financial staff),
• Communications experts,
• Decision analysts,
• Performance analysts,
• Procurement agents,
• QC technicians,
• Reliability engineers,
• Schedulers,
• Senior managers,
• Work planners, and …
• A few mystery guests.

Be sure to attend and learn how these practitioners sing the song that never ends.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter:David Drummonds (LinkedIn profile) is a project manager with over 40 years of experience, in the power industry and otherther industries . His experience covers major equipment procurement, plant startup, operations support, computer based training, and sales support. He holds both a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Engineering Management. As a registered professional engineer, he also holds certifications in lean manufacturing, six sigma [Master Black Belt], risk management, auditing, and procedure preparation. His interests are process modeling and Monte Carlo simulation.

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Live Webinar – November 6th, 2013 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

Enterprise Business Architecture is Quickly Evolving
Into a Mainstream Business Capability

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide clear, rational reasons to do business Architecture.
2. Present a foundational set of Business Architecture Models, views and uses to mitigate project and analysis risk, drive the value proposition
3. Recommend a staged Execution Model

Some would argue that it is already there particularly when 50% of the world’s top performing organizations have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator ranging from Government, Telco’s, Manufacturing and Financial Institutions.

However …. There continues to be a large population of change executives, managers and resources who regard Business Architecture as a theoretical practice.

Strategic change initiatives proliferate in business today. The speed and rate of change demands we maintain holistic oversight of all the moving parts to ensure realization of target operating models and designs. Historically only a few strategic programs would be at play.

In the last decade this number has grown to include on-shoring/off-shoring, centralization, spans of control, business transformation, vendor outsourcing, modernization, mergers/acquisitions, channel optimization, client segmentation, journeys and experience.

To facilitate strategic alignment and execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture.

Beyond Theory will focus on what are the market and internal forces at work which have been driving and will continue to drive organizations to use the models to better understand business impact, scope, execution and benefits realization.

The discussion will address the deployment and adoption challenges and look at industry standards and Blueprinting for strategic opportunities.

It will provide a foundational knowledge of the business architecture framework and model types to crystalize scope, identify stakeholders, manage risk and how early analysis, through the lens of the business architecture, will influence estimating, resourcing, time, cost and quality.

Business Architecture is the link between
Strategy & Execution.

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Live Webinar November 7th, 2013, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

• Is your company embracing TDD?
• Want to improve your skills?

Test Driven Development (TDD) ensures good design and better code with fewer bugs.

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Difference between unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)
2. Benefits of TDD
3. Problems and pitfalls and how to overcome them
4. Principles of TDD
5. How to test both new and complicated legacy code with TDD

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

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Live Webinar – November 5th, 2013 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Eclipse Project Portfolio Management
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDUs Credits: Category C 1 PDU- Free PDU

Establishing a PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office) is considered to be a best practice approach to improving the value an organization can receive from its project investments.

Why is it then, that a study, conducted in 2005, of 750 organizations worldwide indicated that over 75% of organizations that set up a PMO shut it down within three years because it did not demonstrate any added value?

Solution Q invites you to attend a webinar where you will learn key reasons why so many PMOs fail, and gain some valuable knowledge of the critical success factors required to ensure the survival of your PMO.

Who should attend this webinar?
Managers/Directors of PMOs, Project Managers

NOTE: You may have to hit the MORE… link to register for this session on the registration page.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control 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 November 6th, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

All projects are subject to budget and time constraints and therefore scope has to be managed carefully. To keep scope on track, there needs to be thoughtful prioritization of requirements and user needs.

It is the job of the business analyst to ensure that the proposed requirements are feasible and support business needs and objectives, and that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of and agreement to the requirements.

In this webinar, participants will learn about several different strategies for prioritizing requirements, including subjective ranking, objective alignment and time boxing, among others.

You will learn:

• How to understand scope delineation versus scheduling when prioritizing
• Specific requirements prioritization strategies and when to apply them
• How and when to apply different scales and ranking schemes depending on situations
• How to use group estimation to set priorities

These techniques will be presented along with examples and you will understand whether they help delineate scope or define implementation priority.

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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