PM Centers USA January 2014 Webinar offerings

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Proven Best Practices for Managing Risks on Your Projects

Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP

Dealing with risks effectively has become a critical consideration on projects. This webinar will help you become more skilled at managing project risks. We will review and explain proven best practices for identifying, analyzing and responding to project risks. Instructions on how to prepare a thorough risk register using an Excel workbook will be presented and webinar attendees will receive a copy of the Excel Risk Management workbook. Attend this webinar and become a specialist in managing risks for your organization!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 9, 2014 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Host: PM Centers USA  +PMCentersUSA  @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95

Register: Proven Best Practices for Managing Risk on Your Projects

 

IIBA® Professional Development Program

Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, MSPM, CSM

This webinar will provide you with the information you need to understand the new Professional Development Program (PDP). In response to interest from many IIBA corporate members and individual members, the IIBA introduced the Professional Development Program to support people who want to either learn the Business Analyst (BA) job, or improve their skills as a Business Analyst. The PDP will help BA's better understand the BA career path, the job profiles within the profession, and the knowledge and skills required to operate at each level.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 14, 2014; 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Host: PM Centers USA
Cost: Free

Register: PMCentersUSA Registration

 

Train your Brain: Analytical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills for Success

Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, MSPM, CSM

Have you ever noticed that some people just seem better at getting things done?  They seem to be able to immediately grasp a problem, guide discussions towards a solution and efficiently implement that solution.  Are these people born that way?  No, these are skills that you can learn and improve on.  Behind every successful Business Analyst or Project Manager is an entire set of underlying competencies and behind all of those competencies lies the ability to properly control your thought processes.  Join us as we discuss the analytical thinking and problem solving skills that are vital to success.

Audience:  Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 16, 2014; 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Host: PM Centers USA
Cost: $14.95

Register:  Train Your Brain

 

Successful Negotiation Techniques: Turning Confrontation into Cooperation

Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP

How good are your negotiation skills? This webinar will help improve your negotiating skills when faced with a confrontational negotiation. Learn how to identify and respond to tactics that the other party may use to gain advantage in a negotiation.  Discover effective techniques to turn a confrontational negotiation into a cooperative situation that can result in mutual benefits to both sides. Attend this webinar and move into the elite group of Project Managers and Business Analysts who consistently get the best results in project negotiations.

Audience:  Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 23, 2014; 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Host: PM Centers USA
Cost: $14.95

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Scrum: The Basics in 60 Minutes

Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP

If you’re looking to learn the basics of Scrum, this one-hour webinar will provide you with all of the essential information you need to know! Scrum is an iterative and incremental project lifecycle framework used for completing software and product development projects. This webinar will discuss the key project roles when using Scrum, including Scrum Master and Product Owner. Scrum planning and the basic unit of development called a Sprint will also be covered in detail. Key Scrum artifacts and examples will be reviewed, including; the product backlog, sprint backlog, task board and burn chart. Finally, we will discuss how Kanban differs from Scrum. If you’re looking for a complete understanding of Scrum, then attend this webinar!

Audience:  Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 30, 2014; 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Host: PM Centers USA
Cost: $14.95

Register:  Scrum

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2014

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, Watermark Learning   +Richard Larson  @Rich_Larson

This webinar is a free chat session featuring written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: January 3rd 2014 12:00-12:30 PM EST
Host: Watermark Learning
Cost: Free

Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/840973082

Product Design in an Agile Development Environment: A Guide for Product Managers

Presented by John Parker, CVO of Enfocus Solutions Inc.

Agile development is here to stay. It has definitely been proven to deliver higher quality products and shorter cycle times. However, it is not perfect.

All too often, teams have long and frustrating Sprint planning sessions because backlog items are poorly defined and not well understood. This results in slow velocity as well as poor design because details are still being worked out during the Sprint. The end result is waste and rework because backlog items were not adequately validated.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 8, 2014; 1:00-2:00 PM EST
Host: Enfocus Solutions
Cost: Free

Register: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/580630574

 

Case Study: BAs join Agile Team to Help Secure U.S. Borders

Presented by Keith Kerr, PMP, Robbins Gioia and James Wong, Robbins Gioia

To help accomplish its mission of  facilitating lawful international trade and ensuring dangerous and illegal cargo doesn’t enter the country, one of the government’s largest and most complex organizations initiated a multi-year project to modernize the business processes essential to securing U.S. borders.  A large part of the renovation was the use of customized Agile methodology to help deliver functionality to its end-users quicker and meet evolving business needs.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 9, 2014; 11-12PM EST
Host: IIBA
Cost: Free

Register: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/780985194

How to Introduce The Decision Model to Your Organization Successfully

Presented by Barbara von Halle, Knowledge Partners International @kpiusa  +Barbara von Halle 

The Decision Model finds its way into organizations in many different ways: through a Center of Excellence, a pending crisis or opportunity, an inspired individual, or a small investigative group.
Regardless, all paths to organizational decision modeling encounter a common question: How do you introduce The Decision Model into an organization?  More specifically, how do you gain management attention for delivering decision models as a standard practice? This webinar addresses that question.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 9, 2014; 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Host: Knowledge Partners International @kpiusa
Cost: Free

Register: Register Here!

Integrating Decision Modeling into your Requirements Process

Presented by James Taylor, CEO, Decision Management Solutions   @jamet123

A new generation of agile and analytic systems is delivering more accurate, more automated and more analytical decision-making to companies and organizations. Delivering consistent, and consistently excellent, decisions across channels and over time, these systems support the mobile, self-service and multi-channel reality of today's social and mobile consumer. These decision management systems put Big Data and analytics to work while delivering increased business transparency and agility. Built on proven technologies like business rules and predictive analytics, decision management systems deliver a high ROI by better managing risk, detecting more fraud and improving interactions with customers, suppliers and more.

Audience:  IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 15, 2014; 11-12PM EST
Host: IIBA
Cost: Free

Register: https://www.iiba.org/Learning-Development/Webinars/Member-registration.aspx

Business Analysis for Project and Program Management

Presented by John Parker, CVO of Enfocus Solutions

In this webinar, John Parker, CVO of Enfocus Solutions, will discuss how program and project managers can use business analysis techniques to deliver more successful projects.

Audience:  Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 16, 2014;  1:00-2:00 PM EST Host: Enfocus Solutions
Cost: Free

Register: Register Here!
 

Being a BA - Technical Webinar Series: Modeling Business Processes 

Presented by Tom Karasmanis, IIBA   @t0mkar   +Tom Karasmanis 

 

Before we model a system using various system modeling techniques it is a good idea to model the business context surrounding the target system. Sometimes we want to model a business process on its own in order to better understand it and/or improve it. Business modeling is an important technique to help us accomplish the above activities. We model a business in much the same way we model a system, but there are some distinct and important differences between these two techniques.

Audience:  IIBA Members

Date/Time: Tuesday January 21, 2014; 7:30-8:30PM EST
Host: IIBA
Cost: Free

Register: http://www.iiba.org/Learning-Development/Webinars/Member-registration.aspx

Best Practices for Designing, Formatting and Publishing Better Reports

Presented by Peter Evans, Dell Software   +Dell Software  @DellSoftware

Ready to increase productivity and collaboration between IT and business users? In this informative webinar, get best practices for designing, formatting and publishing better reports straight from Peter Evans is the Business Intelligence and Analytics Product Evangelist for Dell Software Group.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1-2 PM EST
Host: Modern Analyst
Cost: Free

Register: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/407571791

Managing Stakeholders for Project Success

Presented by Gary Chin, PMP, MBA    @AMANet

This webcast explores the ins and outs of stakeholder management, which is critical to the success of your project. By engaging everyone possessing a vested interest in your project in the right way, you’ll better ensure its success and boost your career

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 29, 2014; 12:00-1:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association    @AMANet
Cost: Free

Register: Register Here!

 

The Use Case Technique: An Overview

Presented by Karl Wiegers, Process Impact   @KarlWiegers

Use cases are an effective and widely used technique for eliciting software requirements. The usage-centric approach focuses on the goals that users have with a system, rather than emphasizing system functionality. This webinar presents an overview of the use-case approach to requirements elicitation in a practical and straightforward fashion.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 29, 2014; 1-2PM EST
Host: Modern Analyst
Cost: Free

 

Register: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/124450543

 

Try this Agile Move in Your Waterfall Strategy

Even if your organization isn’t quite ready to go “all in” with Agile, you can take a page out of the Agile playbook to leverage a Product Owner (PO) and capitalize on the strength this position brings. A PO develops and communicates the Product Vision throughout the project, acting as a sponsor and champion for the product itself, to ensure consistency and visibility across the project team during development. Whether your organization is Agile or Waterfall, you can use this vital role to provide leadership to the development team, and extend the return on investment (ROI) of your software development projects. Organizations that leave a PO role unfulfilled are missing an enormous opportunity to reduce time to delivery and optimize efficiencies in the software development life-cycle (SDLC).

Take a leap with Agile Product Owners.

At Cohesion, we like to tackle issues like this by first, shoring up the gap. Cohesion Business Analysts, with their unique knowledge and experience functioning as a liaison within an organization, are good candidates to leverage as Product Owners in the short-term. Our team is rooted in the experience and deep-level technical understanding that Product Ownership requires. We then provide the necessary support to clients who wish to coach and mentor candidates from within the business to groom them into the role. Optimally, this role is filled immediately by the business, but it is very common for organizations to be ill equipped to successfully find the right person. Skill gaps, resource availability, and lack of funding can all contribute to a challenge securing an effective Product Owner who can demonstrate the right level of confidence when driving a software project to completion.

Here's a quick diagnostic that can help you identify if your current project could benefit from a Product Owner. If you answer yes to these questions, you can bet on a positive impact to your project with the addition of a Product Owner who will be managing your Product Vision.

• Are system users being asked for input on enhancements to the systems they use?
• Are planned features and enhancements being changed or appearing and then disappearing from development plans?
• Is the development team running into contingency issues, where a requested feature cannot be implemented due to a dependency on another feature?
• Is there a development roadmap for all live applications in your environment?
• Is there a product backlog or enhancement wish list for all applications in your environment?

Cohesion supports companies who want to make this transition happen, and we can provide the leadership needed to cultivate the talent for long-term success. Let us know if we can help you. We are wired to focus on the result you want to accomplish and it's our passion to help you get there.

 

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