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LIVE WEBINARS SOFT SKILLSLEADERSHIP

Wed, Sep 14,201611:00 AM ESTJOHANNA ROTHMAN

Exploring Your Servant Leadership

In this webinar, Johanna will explain what servant leadership is and how to explore your servant leadership.

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AGILETECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Thu, Sep 15,201611:00 AM ESTIAN BROWN

Agile Estimation – What’s the Point?

This webinar will discuss an ap-proach to estimating Agile projects that enables repeatability and consistency without sacrifi cing the fl exibility and focus of more typical Agile estimation.

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IT MANAGEMENTSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Tue, Sep 20,201611:00 AM ESTBRIAN CAMERON

The Role of Capabilities in IT / Business Strategy Alignment

In this webinar, traditional views of IT/Business alignment will be challenged and a more realistic,

PROJECT MANAGEMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Thu, Sep 08,201611:00 AM ESTMICHAEL OVERLY

7 Key Steps to Drafting Effective Statements of Work

In this webinar, participants will learn the 7 key steps to drafting effective Statements of Work. Participants will be able to imme-diately put these steps to use to ensure project goals are reached and project schedules and budgets are achieved.

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IT MANAGEMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Tue, Sep 13,201611:00 AM ESTARLENE MINKIEWICZ

Cloud Solutions - Infrastructure, Platform or Software – Where should You Go?

This webinar presents a case study outlining the migration activities and cost implications for migrating the same application on each of the three cloud solution models.

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SEP 2016PROJECT MANAGEMENTLEADERSHIP

Tue, Sep 06,201611:00 AM ESTMARK PERRY

PMO Manager Survival Skills

This webinar will present three key PMO manager skills that are es-sential for performing and keeping the job of PMO manager.

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Wed, Sep 07,201611:00 AM ESTKERRY WILLS

The Parthenon of Programs

Like the Parthenon of Ancient Greece, programs need to be built on a solid structure to withstand the tests of time. This webinar will explain the components of that structure and the keys to keep them strong enough to enable successful delivery.

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proven approach to alignment via business capabilities will be explored.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENTSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Wed, Sep 21,201611:00 AM ESTSUSAN HARRELL

Take Charge of Your Project’s Profi tability

In this webinar we will discuss how to achieve or exceed target profi ts and improve deliverable outcomes on your projects.

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SOFT SKILLSLEADERSHIP

Thu, Sep 22,201611:00 AM ESTCARL PRITCHARD

Loving Your Job- and Getting Others to do Likewise!

You can build enthusiasm or crush it like a grape. To succeed, enthusiasm and a positive attitude must be honest. In this webinar, we will examine how we can make our jobs more positive, even when they’re not ideal.

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MEASUREMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Tue, Sep 27,201611:00 AM ESTCAPERS JONES

Accurate Measurement, Accurate Estimating, Excellent Quality

The webinar discusses the state of the art of software estimation, software measurement, and soft-ware quality control.

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Wed, Sep 28,201611:00 AM ESTGARY COKINS

What Barriers Slow Adopting Enterprise Performance Management Methods?

This webinar will describe why the adoption rate of EPM methodolo-gies has been slow, and lessons learned to overcome obstacles and get buy-in.

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Thu, Sep 29,201611:00 AM ESTTOM LOVE

The History of Objective-C

Objective-C is the third most used programming language on the planet. It is the language used to program applications on all Apple products. This webinar by the co-inventor of the language will describe its history and how it is currently being used in agile development projects.

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OCT 2016QUALITY & TESTINGTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Tue, Oct 04,201611:00 AM ESTROBIN GOLDSMITH

You Don’t Need No Stinking Test Cases?

In this webinar we will examine the essential elements of a test case, four keys to effective test cases, fi ve different ways to view the same test, and advantageous alternative low-overhead test case formats.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENTLEADERSHIP

Wed, Oct 05,201611:00 AM ESTVICKI WRONA

Overcoming Organizational Dysfunction: Using Project Management to Get Work Done

This webinar discusses two major organizational barriers and how to work around them to get the work you need done. The approach works for employees of all levels.

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RISK MANAGEMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Thu, Oct 06,201611:00 AM ESTMARCO SAMPIETRO

Human Factors in Project Risk Management

In this webinar, we will present 18 different sources of unconscious mistakes that may cause faulty risk identifi cation, analysis and management.

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Tue, Oct 11,201611:00 AM ESTLAURA BARNARD

The Executive Dashboard: Tell Them What They Need to Know, Then STOP

In this webinar, you will learn how to keep reporting simple and straightforward. We will teach you how to create a one page executive dashboard that can be used for a single project or modifi ed to pro-vide information for an entire port-folio of projects. Give executives the information they need to make educated and informed decisions, and then stop!

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AGILESTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Wed, Oct 12,201611:00 AM ESTLOUIS POULIN

What You Need to Know before Going Agile

This webinar looks at Agile meth-ods, and SCRUM in particular, from an implementation perspective, based on observations made in the fi eld as part of detailed ap-praisals of organizations that have succeeded or ailed at implement-ing such methods.

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Tue, Oct 18,201611:00 AM ESTCARL PRITCHARD

Making Meetings Magic

In this webinar we will provide pow-erful insight on ten tips and tricks that you can use to build energy, increase control and garner the all-important AMEN moment at your next presentation.

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Wed, Oct 19,201611:00 AM ESTBYRON LOVE

Personal Credibility and Leadership

In this webinar, we will explore the relationship between your personal credibility and your leadership, and between your leadership and the success of your project.

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BUSINESS REQUIREMENTSTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Thu, Oct 20,201611:00 AM ESTMICHAEL NIR

Practical Roadmap for Value Driven Product Owner Excellence

This webinar provides a practical roadmap to product owner excel-lence and discusses the BABOK framework and business analysis approach for product owners.

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Tue, Oct 25,201611:00 AM ESTKATHY MARTUCCI

The Write Stuff: Preparing Your Business Case for PPM

In this webinar you will learn how to prepare and organize a winning PPM business case before you’re asked to provide the new vision for the your organization’s future.

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AGILELEADERSHIP

Wed, Oct 26,201611:00 AM ESTANGELA WICK

Techniques for Bringing Out True Soft Side

This webinar will examine the soft skills that are critical to the suc-cess of an agile Product Owner.

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Thu, Oct 27,201611:00 AM ESTLORY WINGATE

Project Management Tailoring Methods

This webinar outlines a specifi c method that can be used to tailor project management processes to projects of various size and complexity.

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NOV 2016PROJECT ESTIMATIONSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Tue, Nov 01,201611:00 AM ESTARLENE MINKIEWICZ

Have You Crowdsourced Today?

This webinar explores the particu-lars of crowdsourcing and discuss-es what impacts it will have on the future of software cost estimating.

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Wed, Nov 02,201611:00 AM ESTJUTTA ECKSTEIN

Sociocracy: Leveraging Agility in Your Organization

Agile teams often suffer from the ecosystem of the non-agile organi-zation they’re embedded in. Soci-ocracy provides different means to get over these hindrances.

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Thu, Nov 03,201611:00 AM ESTLAURA BARNARD

How to Train Your Sponsor

If you want to improve your sponsor relationship this webinar was built for you. We will outline a sponsor management process as well as various techniques and tools to help you focus your spon-sor on precisely what they need to know and help them understand what is expected of them.

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Tue, Nov 08,201611:00 AM ESTKUPE KUPERSMITH

Decision Making: What A BA Does

In this session, Kupe will be dis-cussing the Underlying Competen-cy of Decision Making. After this session, you will look at business analysis in a whole new light.

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Wed, Nov 09,201611:00 AM ESTAVRAHAM A. SHTUB

Teaching and Training in Project Management

In this webinar you will learn how to translate the information about a real project into a model of the project that can be analyzed and solved effi ciently.

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Thu, Nov 10,201611:00 AM ESTJOY BEATTY

Our Requirements Are Good, So Why Aren’t We Delivering Value?

To have a successful project, you need to start with understanding the desired “value” of the project. You then align the requirements ef-fort to elicit and specify only those requirements that will deliver that value.

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RISK MANAGEMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Tue, Nov 15,201611:00 AM ESTCARL PRITCHARD

Four C’s of Effective Risk Management

In this webinar, we will talk about the importance of language, and how to craft risk terminology that’s meaningful for you, your manage-ment and your team.

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Wed, Nov 16,201611:00 AM ESTNEIL POTTER

10 Leadership Practices to Lead Agile Teams – It Doesn’t Have to be Like Oil and Water!

Your team is Agile. Management is used to Waterfall. Teams are upset and feel constrained; management is nervous and getting more in the way. There is a way to proceed!

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Tue, Nov 29,201611:00 AM ESTNAOMI CAIETTI

Projects are Easy; Change is Hard!

This webinar will offer tips for strategic approaches to project success. It is directed towards both private and public sector project managers, consultants, PMO direc-tors, executives, and CIOs. Bring along your questions!

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Wed, Nov 30,201611:00 AM ESTRHONDA O’NEILL

Creating a Culture of Acceleration

During this webinar, you’ll learn the 3 core transformational skills that are critical to accelerating project delivery, without adding more work to your plate; and how a simple shift in perspective can change your impact and infl uence.

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DEC 2016PROJECT MANAGEMENTLEADERSHIP

Thu, Dec 01,201611:00 AM ESTVICKI WRONA

Managing Multi-Generational Teams

For managers today, diversity isn’t a just a compliance issue, it’s a business advantage. The manager that appreciates diversity will be more successful at creating high-performance teams. This webinar will teach you how to use diversity to your advantage.

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PROJECT ESTIMATIONTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Tue, Dec 06,201611:00 AM ESTMARCO SAMPIETRO

The Psychology of Estimates

In this webinar, we will discuss the main sources of unconscious mistakes that lead to unreliable estimates.

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Thu, Dec 08,201611:00 AM ESTKATHY MARTUCCI

It’s Offi cial: You Can’t Have One Without the Other- The PMO and Project Portfolio Management

If there is no single body capable of translating strategic objectives into project objective, projects will fail. In this webinar, we will explore the partnership between the PMO and PPM.

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Tue, Dec 13,201611:00 AM ESTMICHAEL NIR

Building Highly Effective Virtual Teams

This webinar provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective, collabo-rative, virtual team environment.

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Wed, Dec 14,201611:00 AM ESTKUPE KUPERSMITH

Ask the Right Questions

This webinar will provide a frame-work for ensuring that you’re ask-ing the right questions, at the right time, and of the right audience.

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Thu, Dec 15,201611:00 AM ESTNIKITA DEVEREAUX

Managing Projects from a Distance

Leading from a distance is different and more complex than leading a traditional project. In this webinar you will learn how to moti-vate top talent from a distance and boost your team’s effectiveness

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AGILEAgile Business Analysis ........................................................16

Agile Development within the Corporation ...........................16

Agile Engineering Patterns....................................................16

Agile Enterprise Architecture ................................................16

Agile Estimation: Beyond the Myths.....................................16

Agile for Non-Software Projects ...........................................16

Agile Hiring-It’s a Team Sport ...............................................17

Agile is from Venus and PMOs from Mars ...........................17

Agile Legacy Reengineering ................................................17

Agile Lessons Learned .........................................................17

Agile Program Management: Networks, Not Hierarchies ...17

Agile Project Management....................................................17

Agile Projects: Beginning with the End in Mind ...................17

Agile Software Development on Large Projects ...................17

Agile Techniques for the Healthcare Industry .......................17

An Agile Developer’s Guide to Lean Software Development 17

An Introduction to Kanban for your Team and Organization 17

Apply QA Testing in an Agile Development Methodology ...18

Are Agile Projects Really More Successful and Where? ......18

Are Agilists the Bonobos of Software Development? ..........18

Assessing Your Readiness for Agile Development ..............18

Attacking Waste In Software: 3 Practices We Must Embrace Now .......................................................................................18

Becoming Agile, in an Agile Way ..........................................18

Benchmarking Agile Software Organizations .......................18

Creating Sprint Reviews that Attract, Engage, and Enlighten Your Customers ....................................................................18

Establishing Agile-Centric Release Criteria ..........................19

Functional Metrics and Agile Estimation, Revisited - CMMI Compliance .........................................................................19

Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives ............19

Increasing Productivity: Uncovering Costs of Delay ............19

Integrating Systems Thinking into Enterprise Agile .............19

Introducing Agility into an Organization; or: How to Become Agile.......................................................................................19

Is Agile a Fad or an Evolution? .............................................19

Kanban Can Can! ..................................................................19

Keys for Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Testing—Lessons from the Trenches .................................................19

Lean-Agile Development: The 3rd Generation of Agile ........19

Lean-Agile Software Development: Where to Start .............19

Managing Risk in Agile Development Projects ....................20

Nailing Jello to the Wall: Managing the Business Side of Development Contracts that use Agile/Scrum .....................20

Planning Agile and Iterative Projects ....................................20

PRINCE2 Agile: The Best of Both Worlds? ..........................20

Refactoring Your Software Process Toward Agility ..............20

Rescuing a Troubled Project With Agile ...............................20

Risk and Agile: Managing Risk In Agile Isn’t Magic .............20

Scrum for All Seasons ..........................................................20

Scrum Moments of Truth, a Baker’s Dozen..........................21

Scrum: Lessons and Solutions from the Trenches...............21

Seven Tips for Improving Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team (At Least!)............................................................21

Staying Agile in a Global World - Distributed Agile Software Development .........................................................................21

Strategic Planning or an Agile Environment: Are They Mutually Exclusive? .............................................................................21

Strengthening Scrum – Adding Practices to Achieve Your Goals ....................................................................................21

The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy .................21

The Agile Business Analyst: Embracing the Transition to Higher Performance ..............................................................21

The Agile PMO - Leading the Effective, Value Driven, Project Management Offi ce .............................................................21

The Art of Agile Risk Management .......................................21

The Four Reasons 68% of Development Projects Will Not Succeed This Year ................................................................21

The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility ................22

Thriving in the World of Agile: How to Adjust Your Leadership Competencies to Thrive in Agile Teams ...............................22

Top 10 Pitfalls in Agile Software Development .....................22

Toward a Learning Organization… through Agile Development .........................................................................22

Understanding the Scaled Agile Framework ........................22

Using Functional Metrics in Agile Estimation .......................22

Visual Management: Making Work Understandable and Predictable ............................................................................22

What it’s Really Like to Work at an Enterprise Agile Organization ........................................................................22

Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain ............................22

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT5 Key Software Maintenance Questions (or 5 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Software Maintenance Measurement but Were Afraid to Ask) ..................................22

Achieving Control with Standard Work Processes...............23

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Achieving Visibility with effective Service Level Management .........................................................................23

Analysis of New Development Technologies .......................23

Breaking into Mobile: Getting Your First Mobile App Made .23

Developing the System Interoperability Plan for the eGovernment Systems of Mozambique ...............................23

Emergent Design: The Professional Nature of Professional Software Development .........................................................23

Game On: How Gamers Will Impact the Future of Business 23

How to Identify Obsolete Applications and Plan for Application Retirement .........................................................23

How TRIZ Can Get You Out of a Jam ..................................23

How Wearable Technology Will Change Business ...............23

Managing Application Support to Yield Your Desired Business Outcomes ..............................................................................23

Release Planning in Consideration of Technical Debt..........24

Software Maintenance & Support: Benchmarking Insights .24

The Legal In’s and Out’s of Mobile App Development .........24

The ROI of Defect Reduction (Pay Now AND Pay Later) .....24

Using ITIL to Improve Application Support by 20-30% .......24

What Are You Getting for Your Software Maintenance Dollars? .................................................................................24

Why Legacy Modernization Projects Fail, and How to Ensure Success .................................................................................24

Why Outsource Application Support? .................................24

ARCHITECTUREA Value Measurement Framework for Enterprise Architecture ...........................................................................24

Architecture Value Chain and Capability Model ...................24

Clarifying The Cloud .............................................................24

Cost and Business Impacts of Service Oriented Architecture ...........................................................................25

Embracing the Cloud – How’s your POS system doing? ...25

Enterprise Architecture 102: Modeling Organizations ..........25

Enterprise Architecture 202: Creating Information Age Organizations ........................................................................25

Enterprise Architecture: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How? .....................................................................................25

Establishing an Enterprise Architecture Practice .................25

How to Build, Implement, and Use an Architecture Metamodel ............................................................................25

Integrating Enterprise Architecture with Solution Delivery ...25

IT4IT – The Enterprise Architecture of IT ..............................25

Making the Business Case for SOA .....................................25

Monitoring the Cloud ............................................................25

SOA in Practice .....................................................................26

SOA, Cloud Computing & Semantic Web Technology: The Sequel – The Era of Intelligent Service Technology .............26

SOA-based Enterprise Applications Integration ..................26

Software Architecture Visualization and Evaluation .............26

The Architects Role in a Globalized IT economy .................26

The Art of Software Architecture ..........................................26

The Cloud - Has it Lived Up to the Hype? ...........................26

The Four Pillars of Service-Orientation .................................27

Total Architecture: Coordinating the Design of Business Processes and Information Systems ....................................27

Value Measurement for Enterprise Architecture (EA) ...........27

Where to Start with Service Oriented Architecture ..............27

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTSAgile Business Analysis: The Role of a BSA – Nothing or Everything? ...........................................................................27

Applying Deductive, Inductive, and Abductive Reasoning to the System Development Life-Cycle (SDLC) .......................27

BAseBOK—Business Analysis should employ (this) Body of Knowledge ............................................................................27

Earning IIBA’s Certifi ed Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certifi cation ..............................................................27

Ideas for Writing Great Software Requirements ..................27

Leveraging Business Analysis to Manage the Project Portfolio .................................................................................27

Perfecting Requirements in 2013 .........................................27

Perfecting Requirements: A Framework, a New Model, and Visualization .........................................................................28

Re-certifi cation: Boon or Boondoggle? ................................28

Requirements are Simply Requirements, or Maybe Not ......28

Requirements Engineering ....................................................28

Requirements Reuse: Fantasy or Feasible? ........................28

Requirements: Building a Solid Foundation for a Successful Project ...................................................................................28

Right-Sizing Requirements Elicitation: Balancing Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile .................................................................28

Software Requirements: 10 Traps to Avoid ..........................28

Solving the Requirements Problem in Legacy Modernization .......................................................................28

Virtual Requirements Meetings - Meaningful Dialog Secrets Exposed! ...............................................................................28

CMMILeveraging Your ISO-based Compliance with CMMI-based Improvement .........................................................................29

CYBERSECURITYCyber (Asymmetric) Warfare .................................................29

Cyber Crime – 2014 ..............................................................29

Cyber Risk Assurance ..........................................................29

Cyber Warriors : Who Are They and How Do You Become One ........................................................................................29

Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Everyone ..........................29

IT Threat Response: What You Need to Know .....................29

Managing Risk in Data Supply Chains .................................29

NIST Risk Framework: New Cyber Standard of Due Care ..29

Practical Computer Security: Turning Your Users into Human Firewalls ................................................................................29

Practical Computer Security: Turning Your Users into Human Firewalls ................................................................................29

Teaching Your Users about Practical Passwords .................30

Teaching Your Users about Practical Passwords .................30

The Basics of Cryptography .................................................30

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The State of Oil & Gas CyberSecurity: Oil Price + Political Instability = Disasters ............................................................31

IT MANAGEMENT“Understanding and Negotiating Cloud Agreements: Avoiding Common Pitfalls”. .................................................31

10 Things You Need to Know about Earned Value Management .........................................................................31

21st Century IT Trends ..........................................................31

Better Problem Solving in One Hour ....................................31

Big Data Processing Systems: State-of-the-Art and Open Challenges ............................................................................31

Breaking the CIO Paradox ....................................................31

Building an IT Command and Control Center ......................31

Building an IT Control Room ................................................31

Business Pipeline Management: Leveraging Capability Modeling to Drive Strategic Agility .......................................31

BYOD and the Implications for IT .........................................31

Capturing the Discretionary Energy of Today’s Business and Systems Professional ...........................................................32

Cloud Computing and Big Data – What’s the Big Deal........32

Conversations for Creating Collaboration and Getting Results ..................................................................................32

Creating business value by improving software quality .......32

Cybersecurity across Critical Infrastructure Protection Sectors (CIPS) ..................................................................................32

Data discovery and Big Data ................................................32

Data to Action, the Real Deal in BI .......................................32

Decision-Focused Dashboards: Answering the Right Project Questions .............................................................................32

Do the Right Things/Do Things Right ...................................32

Do’s and Don’ts of Process Improvement............................32

Driver-Based Budgeting and Rolling Financial Forecasts ....32

Earning IIBA’s Certifi ed Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certifi cation ..............................................................33

Eight Best Practices for Addressing the Human Element of IT Project Implementations .......................................................33

Emerging Technology for all Industries – What’s the Latest and How to Keep Up? ..........................................................33

Ensuring Project Success Through Automated Project Governance ...........................................................................33

Ensuring Project Success Through Automated Project Governance ...........................................................................33

Getting the Most Out of Your Consulting Engagement: Understanding the Consulting Engagement Life Cycle ......33

Global Software and IT .........................................................33

How Business Analysis for Business Intelligence (BA4BI) Creates Strategic Value ........................................................33

How is Business Intelligence and Analytics Impacting the CFO Function? ......................................................................34

How Strategic CIOs Change the Dynamics of the Business Enterprise ..............................................................................34

How to Keep Business Intelligence in Sync with Your Strategic Priorities .................................................................34

How to Survive, Excel and Advance as an Introvert ............34

How Will The Affordable Care Act Impact IT Organizations? 34

Implementing a Winning IT Governance Strategy and Action Program.................................................................................34

Implementing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Methodologies – Pitfalls and Speed-Bumps .......................34

Implementing ERP Software Packages: Risks, Time, Costs 34

Important Advances in Modeling 2015: The Decision Model, OMG Standard, and the New Frontier of Event Modeling ...34

Improving performance by effective application of IT Service Management models ............................................................35

Incremental Value-Focused Optimization for Your Confi guration Management Database .................................35

Innovate or Go Extinct ..........................................................35

Introverts and Extroverts in the Workplace ..........................35

IT Affordability Analysis: The Role of Cost / Schedule Risk / ROI Modeling In Improved IT Performance .........................35

Key Elements to Building a Successful Mobile Experience .35

Lean Development ................................................................35

Lean Development: Potentials, Principles and Practices ....35

Lessons (Not) Learned ..........................................................35

Lessons learned in Motivating Software Engineering Process Groups to Focus on Achieving Business Goals, Not Just Maturity Levels ......................................................................35

Management’s Seven Deadly Sins .......................................35

Next Generation Agility: Leveraging Interactions in Logistics and Supply Chain to enhance Management Insights ..........36

Organizational Change: 5 Roadblocks and How to Overcome Them .....................................................................................36

Organizational Politics for People Who Hate Politics ...........36

Output Based Outsourcing Contracts ..................................36

Product Management for IT and Software ...........................36

Product Management: From Requirements to Business ....36

Profi tability Mapping: Navigating your Way to a Profi table Future ....................................................................................36

Pros and Cons of Investing in Project, Resource, and Product Decisions ...............................................................................36

Real-time Product Release Management and its Tool Support .................................................................................36

Rethinking Field Service - Hidden Opportunities for Revenue and Success .........................................................................36

Reverse Logistics Management ...........................................36

Social Networking and Corporate Productivity ....................36

Software Total Ownership Cost ............................................37

Spend a Little, Save a Lot: The Effects of Service Desk First Level Resolution ....................................................................37

Starting the Decision Making Process before the Business Case ......................................................................................37

Stuxnet – 10 Years Later, have we learned anything? .........37

Taking Responsibility for Technology ...................................37

Taming the Turbulence: Changing How You Communicate During Change ......................................................................37

The Art and Science of Making Product Release Decisions 37

The Business Case for Software Process Improvement .....37

The CIO and Their Role with the Customer .........................37

The Decision Model in 2012 .................................................37

The Decision Model: the Missing Model for Business Analysts and the Business ..................................................................37

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The Economics of Thin Clients .............................................37

The Essential Product Owner: Partnering with the Team ....38

The Future CIO ......................................................................38

The Marriage Between IT and the Business: Making it Work 38

The Seven Trends that will Transform Local Government Through Technology .............................................................38

Training Your Help Desk Analysts Requires a Balanced Approach ...............................................................................38

Transforming IT from Cost Centre to Strategic Enabler .......38

Turning Strategic Goals into Successful Projects ................38

Turning Your Data into Dollars Using Spreadsheets and Charts ....................................................................................38

Using Twitter in the Enterprise ..............................................38

VICS and Computer Aid present a webinar on VICS CPFR® and the Health of Your Supply Chain ...................................38

Why SLAs Fail and How to Make Yours Succeed ...............38

You Need Real ROI To Make Decisions that Payoff .............38

ITILImproving Application Support Service with ITIL Service Management .........................................................................39

ITIL Service Management for Application Support ..............39

Meaningful Service Level Agreements for Application Support .................................................................................39

The Five Processes of ITIL Service Operation .....................39

The ITIL Value Proposition ....................................................39

Using ITIL Service Management to Reduce Business Application Software Incidents .............................................39

MEASUREMENT10 Absolutely Essential Habits of Successful Measurement Programs ...............................................................................39

5 Core Metrics for Surviving Software Endgames ...............39

A Guide to Effective Benchmarking of Application Development .........................................................................39

A Practical Approach to Measuring Software Development Productivity ...........................................................................40

A Process Approach to Benchmarking ................................40

Are We There Yet? A Look at Software Development Performance over 20 Years .................................................40

Driving Innovative IT Metrics: Focusing on the CONDITIONS for Success ...........................................................................40

Enabling Trust in Your Measurement Systems .....................40

Enterprise Measurement: What Makes it Useful to All of Us 40

How to Use IT Project History Data to Improve Software Project Performance .............................................................40

Improving Software Quality with Clear, Standards-Based Metrics ..................................................................................40

Leveraging Measurement in Your CMMI and Compliance Initiatives ...............................................................................40

Lines of Code: Statistically Unreliable for Software Sizing? 40

Making Sense of Software Industry Performance ..............41

Management Awareness of Software Measurement ...........41

Measurement Display for Maximum Effect ..........................41

Measuring the Immeasurable: What is Your Real Performance Capability? ............................................................................41

Metrics that Motivate Behavior .............................................41

Paving the Road to a Software Measurement Program: How to Avoid Pitfalls, Potholes and Speed Bumps .....................41

Quality of Benchmarking Data ..............................................41

Software Metrics: The State of the Art (and Science) ..........41

The Software Extension to the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition ..................................................................................41

Understanding and Using the Goal Question Metric (GQM) based Measurement Model for IT Projects ..........................42

Using Function Points for Economic Analysis of Software Methodologies ......................................................................42

OFFSHORE & OUTSOURCINGBring Manufacturing Back – the Rush to Reshore ...............42

Ethics in IT Outsourcing: Best Practices and Defi nition of a Working Model ......................................................................42

Overcoming Cultural Differences by Focusing on Similarities .............................................................................42

Planning for Outsourcing - Getting it Right from the Start ...42

Practical Approaches to Managing Risk in Outsourcing .....42

Successful Selection and Management of Software Development Outsourcing ....................................................42

PROCESS IMPROVEMENTA Quality Approach to Determining ROI ...............................42

Achieving “Continuous Resilience©” for IT and Other Functions...............................................................................42

Analytics-based Enterprise Performance Management ......43

Appraisals and CMMI Gotchas - Lessons in CMMI Use and Appraisal Preparation ..........................................................43

Axiomatic Design Applied to IT Process Development .......43

Breakthrough Improvement with Microsoft Excel: Finding the Invisible Low Hanging Fruit...................................................43

Case Studies from the Field: How The Decision Model (TDM) has Improved Requirements and Business System Development .........................................................................43

CMMI for Services ................................................................43

Comparing Scrum and CMMI: How They Can Work Together ................................................................................43

Decisions to Make About What to Do-- NOT What Process to Implement .............................................................................43

Delivering Successful Projects with TSP and Six Sigma: A Practical Approach ...............................................................43

Doing Process Improvement in an IT Service Organization – Making it Real, Making it Useful ...........................................44

Evolution of Software Development Lifecycles: Waterfallacies and Agile Methods ................................................................44

From Requirements to Testing: A New Software Development Approach ...............................................................................44

Getting Performance from Process Improvement ...............45

Global Software and IT - Lessons from Industry .................45

How to Roll Out the CMMI and Reach Level 5 ....................45

If You Build It, Will They Come? ...........................................45

IT Performance Improvement – Successfully Managing the Big 3!! ....................................................................................45

IT Processes That Are Easy to Analyze and Improve ..........45

Lean Six Sigma Simplifi ed ....................................................45

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Lean Six Sigma, CMMI, and Agile Methods: Can They Co-Exist? .....................................................................................45

Leverage Lean Six Sigma Principles to Navigate Effectively Through Software Projects ..................................................45

Maintain Your Success By Using the Best: Using CMMI & ITIL to Become Excellent at Maintenance and Support .............45

Making CMMI and Process Improvement Useful ................45

Measuring the Value of Your PMP Using Six Sigma Tools ...46

Objective Driven Software Process Improvement ...............46

Performance Improvement for Excellence and Improvement .........................................................................46

Process Architecture: Designing a Process Management System That Gets Used ........................................................46

Process Improvement in a Multi-Model World .....................46

Process Improvement Tar Pits and How to Avoid Them .....46

Return on Process (ROP): Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement ..................................................46

Right-Sizing Requirements Elicitation: Balancing Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile ..................................................................46

Six Sigma for Software Development ..................................46

Small Changes, Big Performance Improvement ..................46

Software / IT Lifecycle Recipes: Making a Process Do What You Want it To Do ..................................................................47

The Tools to Help in the Journey Beyond… .........................47

To Survive, Get to Process Level 5 .......................................47

Two Heads Are Better Than One: Pair Programming...........47

Typical (Great) Industry Software Development Practices - Just Do Them! .......................................................................47

Understanding Process Data ...............................................47

Using “Process Throttling” to Appropriately Apply Software Processes in Multiple Environments.....................................47

Want Better Results? Get Better at Process ........................47

When Best Practices Aren’t the Best Choice .......................47

Why I Don’t Care that You Had a CMMI Level 5 Rating!......47

Zen Maturity – A Natural Multi-Model Approach .................48

PROCESS ESTIMATIONA Fool With A Tool: Improving Software Cost and Schedule Estimation .............................................................................48

Adding Realism to Software Project Bidding .......................48

Are We Really That Bad? A Look at Software Estimation Accuracy................................................................................48

Budgeting, Estimation, Planning, #NoEstimates and the Agile Planning Onion - They ALL make sense! .............................48

Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves ...........48

Establishing an Estimating Center of Excellence .................48

Establishing the ROI on Software .........................................48

Estimation Poker - Bluffi ng (and Winning) with Metrics .......48

Estimation, Planning & Control Can Make the Difference Between Project Success and Failure ..................................48

Estimation; Better Information, Better Decisions .................49

General Principles of Cost Estimation ..................................49

Introduction to Project Estimation ........................................49

IT Demand Management and Capacity Planning: Why Estimation is Vital to Balancing the Scale ............................49

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics – A Look at Producing Software Productivity Benchmarks from Two Data Sources 49

Navigating the Minefi eld: Estimating BEFORE Requirements ........................................................................49

Navigating the Minefi eld: Successful Software Estimation before Requirements are Complete .....................................49

Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost .......................................................................................49

The Five Time-Tested Keys to Estimating ...........................49

Translating Time Cards into Something that can be Used for Software Estimation and Comparison Purposes .................49

We Need it By October: What’s Your Estimate? ..................49

PROJECT MANAGEMENT10 Considerations for Planning and Organizing IT Projects 50

10 Steps to Effective Stakeholder Engagement .................50

15 Tips for Speeding Up Your Project ..................................50

21 Project Management Success Tips .................................50

A Gantt Chart is NOT A Project Plan ....................................50

A Radically New Project Management Framework..............50

America may run on Dunkin(TM), but Projects run on People ...................................................................................50

Applying Lean Concepts to Project Management: PMBOK, Prince2, ISO21500 ................................................................50

Assessing IT Projects to Ensure Successful Outcomes ......50

Assessing the Viability of Projects Before You Commit .......50

Avoiding the 90% Syndrome: Why Status Reports are Often Wrong and What You Can do About it .................................50

BA and PMs Unite to Avoid Projects Destined to Fail .........51

Better Problem Solving in One Hour ....................................51

Bridging the Gap between Portfolio and Project Execution 51

Building a Strong Business Case for Data Quality Projects Using the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) Model ....................51

Business Driven PMO Success Stories................................51

Business First, Project Management Later! .........................51

Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Projects Back on Track ......................................................................................51

Challenges and Opportunities of Global Projects: a Perspective From Brazil ........................................................51

Change Management: Successful Strategies For Projects in an Ever-Changing Environment ...........................................51

Changes to PMI’s PMBoK Fourth Edition ............................51

Changes to the 5th Edition of the PMBOK® Guide .............51

Common Project Management Mistakes within a Flat Organization ..........................................................................51

Conversations for Change: Say It Right When It Matters Most ......................................................................................52

Creating and Utilizing Logic Models and Strategy Maps to Focus Teams and Simplify Project Management .................52

Creating Sense from Chaos - Building a PMO from Scratch 52

Developing Career Enhancing Persuasion Skills .................52

Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel ..............................................................52

Earned Value Management You Can Actually Use ..............52

Earning PMI’s Program Management Professional Certifi cation ...........................................................................52

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Everything I Wish I Knew [about Project Management] When Beginning My Career ............................................................52

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Project Management Professional Certifi cation ...............................52

Excellence in Project Management for the Energy Industry (Safe, Better, Cost Effi cient and Faster Projects) .................53

Exploding Management Myths .............................................53

Fast Track Project Management for Sharepoint 2013 .........53

Finish Projects On-Time by Leveraging a Secret Internet Community ...........................................................................53

Good, Fast, or Cheap? Using the Triple Constraints To Defi ne Project Parameters ...............................................................53

High-Leverage Actions to Dramatically Boost Intact Team Performance..........................................................................53

How PMs can “Bring Home The Bacon” when they lead Orals Teams Competing for Government Contracts .....................53

How to Be Productively Disruptive in a Crazy World! ..........53

How to Build a Project Management Methodology ............53

How to Make Your PMO Survive ..........................................53

How to Prioritize Any List without Criteria ............................53

How to Put Your Best Project Manager on Every IT Project 54

Improving Focus and Predictability with Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) ...........................................................54

Increasing Project Manager Maturity in Your Organization by Using Assessments ..............................................................54

Integrating Systems Engineering and Project Management 54

Intelligent Disobedience........................................................54

Intercultural Differences in Project Management (English)...54

Intercultural Differences in Project Management (Japanese) 54

Is it Alive? Read the Project Vital Signs ................................54

IT Project Management – How Green is Your Valley? ..........54

Lean Project Management....................................................54

Leveraging the Internet to Empower Your Project Management Career, Image, and Reputation ......................54

Leveraging the Power of PRINCE2 and PMI’s PMBOK Guide .....................................................................................54

Leveraging the Power of PRINCE2 and PMI’s PMBOK Guide .....................................................................................55

Leveraging the POWER of Virtual Teams .............................55

Making a Halt, Cancel, or Go Decision ...............................55

Making the Most of PM Maturity: How to Leverage the Findings of an Assessment for Business Success ..............55

Managing IT Projects for Social Development .....................55

Managing IT Projects in a Developing Country ....................55

Managing Projects in Fluid Environments ............................55

Managing the Fuzzy Front End of Projects ..........................55

Managing Virtual Mega-Projects ........................................55

Maximizing Project Success with Concrete Scope Management .........................................................................55

Mentors, Networks & Role Models: Owning Your Career Development .........................................................................55

Napoleon on Project Management .......................................56

Navigate Through Project Fraud to Deliver Superior Results 56

Negotiating With a Project Sponsor .....................................56

NLP for Project Managers ....................................................57

Planning and Tracking a Software Project............................57

PMO Primer: A Tactical Approach .......................................57

PMOs of Today and Tomorrow .............................................57

Power of Project Management .............................................57

Project Benefi t Realization: Writing Good Success Criteria, KPIs and Acceptance Criteria...............................................57

Project Health Assessments .................................................57

Project Management Case Studies and Lessons Learned ..57

Project Management Coaching ............................................57

Project Management for Research and Development .........57

Project Management for Team Members: The Forgotten Side of Project Management .......................................................57

Project Management in Indonesia: How Global Companies and Indonesian Stakeholders Can Collaborate and Succeed ................................................................................58

Project Management Is Dead, Long Live Project Management .........................................................................58

Project Management Isn’t Enough: Essentials of Effective Sponsorship ..........................................................................58

Project Management Lessons from a House Flipper ...........58

Project Management Lessons Learned From The Movies ..58

Project Management Methodology: 6 Activities for Successful Introduction and Use ............................................................58

Project Recovery: Digging Yourself Out ...............................58

Project Relationship Management .......................................58

Project Retrospectives - How to Facilitate a Valuable Session ..................................................................................58

Project vs. Program Management: Strategies for Successful Transition ...............................................................................58

Projects: Not Planning Well Enough . . . and Failing ............58

Putting Your Best PM on Every Project: Virtualizing “Management by Walking Around” ......................................59

Reduce Project Failure Following PM Basics.......................59

Resource Planning and Management: Job One for Software Project Managers ..................................................................59

Reviewing the Project Process: From Ideation to Project Success .................................................................................59

Seven Habits of Highly Successful Software Teams ..........59

Situational Project Management ..........................................59

Six Dimensions of Project Team Motivation .........................59

Stakeholder Engagement: Uncovering the “Hidden” Org Chart......................................................................................59

Successful Project Management Utilizing Exception Management .........................................................................59

Summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro: A Project Management Case Study .....................................................................................59

Surviving in a Matrix-Simple Techniques for Effective Project Management in a Matrix Organization .................................59

Taking the Creep out of Scope Creep: Managing Project Scope ....................................................................................60

That’s an Elephant Over There (and Other Uncomfortable Project Truths) .......................................................................60

The Accidental Project Manager: The true story of my unorthodox career path and how becoming a project manager was a perfect fi t .....................................................60

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The Building Blocks of an Effective and Sustainable PMO .61

The Complete Project Manager ............................................61

The Elephant in the Executive Suite: Project Management and the PMO ................................................................................61

The Lazy Project Manager ....................................................61

The M3 Project Leadership Framework: Improving the World One Project at a Time through Methods, Meditations and Mindfulness ...........................................................................61

The PMP Credential – Is This What Your Career Needs? ....61

The Professional Certifi ed Scope Manager (CSM): a New IT Job Role ................................................................................61

The Project Management Approach for Achieving Positive Innovation Outcomes ............................................................61

The Project Management Kung Fu Theater .........................61

The Skills that Drive Project and Organization Success ......61

The Socially Emerging Project Manager: High Impact Interpersonal Skills, Their Attributes, and Using Them to Achieve Success ...................................................................62

The Tactical Guide for Building a PMO ................................62

Three Myths that Kill Projects ...............................................62

Top 20 Project Management Best Practices, Tips and Techniques ............................................................................62

TQM tools applied to Project Management and PMO ........62

Transforming Business with Program Management ............62

Triple Constraint: The 3 Dimensions of Change Every PM Must Understand for Every Project to Succeed...................62

Turning Strategic Goals into Successful Projects ................62

Turning the Titanic .................................................................62

Use Cost of Quality to Quantify Effort and Reduce Project Failure ...................................................................................62

We Are All Biased! .................................................................62

What is Lean Coffee and How Can I Work it in as a Project Manager ...............................................................................62

What is the Value of Project Management Training and How Can You Measure it? .............................................................63

What the Heck is Project Portfolio Management? ...............63

Why Project Reporting Can Make or Break a Project Manager’s Career ..................................................................63

Your Future as a Project Manager ........................................63

Your Words, as a Project Manager, Make a Difference ........63

QUALITY & TESTING5 Testing Best Practices .......................................................63

Applying QA Testing in an Agile Development Methodology 63

Automating a Cluttered and Ineffi cient Manual Regression Test Suite ...............................................................................63

Book Discussion: Foundations of Software Testing: ISTQB Certifi cation ...........................................................................63

Confi guration Management and Successful Product Critique ..................................................................................63

Enabling IT to Reduce Application Maintenance & Development by 30-50% thru Quality Assurance ................64

Five Hard-Won Lessons in Performance, Load, and Reliability Testing ..................................................................................64

Inherent Quality .....................................................................64

Managing Software Quality ..................................................64

Model-based Testing for Everyone .......................................64

Modern Automated Testing Approaches .............................64

Overcoming Common User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Misconceptions .....................................................................64

Practical QA Testing in a Confi gurable World ......................64

Proactive SQA™ Overcomes the ‘Traffi c Cop’ Mentality .....64

Proactive Testing Puts Agile Test-Driven (and Other) Development on Steroids ....................................................64

Reducing the Costs of System Testing ................................64

Risk Driven Testing................................................................65

Root Cause Analysis: When and How to Make it Effective .65

Science-based Test Planning – Fewer Tests, Better Coverage ...............................................................................65

Setting Up a Testing Center of Excellence: Making it Work .65

Testing Automation ROI Webinar ..........................................65

Testing Automation: Keys to Success ..................................65

Testing in the Enterprise Using Scrum .................................65

The International Software Testing Qualifi cation Board Advanced Syllabus ...............................................................65

Using Measurement for System Testing Success................65

Using Models in Your Software Test Strategies ...................65

RISK MANAGEMENT70% of Your Projects are Likely to FAIL! ..............................65

Acquiring a Software Package – Decreasing the Risk .........66

Advanced Project Risk Management ...................................66

Advanced Risk Management: More than Impact and Probability .............................................................................66

Application Knowledge Capture: A Method for Capturing Critical IT Knowledge ............................................................66

Balancing Software Risks, Software Value, and Return on Investment (ROI) ...................................................................66

Busting the Barriers to Managing Risk! ................................66

Critical First Steps Toward An Effective IT Risk Practice .....66

Data Collection for Risk Identifi cation ..................................66

Ensuring Project Success through Automated Project Governance ..........................................................................66

Estimation of Financial Losses Due to Project Risks ...........66

Hope is Not a Strategy: Key Concepts to Prevent Project Failure ....................................................................................66

How Good is Good Enough? Using the Seven Level Outcome Evaluation to Manage Risk and Quality ................................67

How to Avoid Loss of Knowledge Precision in Risk Analysis 67

How to Evaluate Risk with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). It’s So Easy a Child Can Do it! ...............................67

Managing Risk for Mega Global Energy Projects ................67

Managing Risk for Mega Global Energy Projects ................67

Managing Risk in Projects with Short Fuses ........................67

Managing the Black Hole: The Executive’s Guide to Software Project Risk ...........................................................................67

Measuring Process Risk for Early Insights into Software Safety ....................................................................................67

Monte Carlo Simulations: What are They, and How Can They Be Performed in Excel? ........................................................67

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Of Course We Elicit Requirements. We Interview Everyone 67

Risk and Risk Ethics .............................................................67

Risk Management for Larger Software Projects: Recognition, Prevention, Remediation .......................................................68

Risks in IT Projects ...............................................................68

Sizing, Cost, Schedule and Risk for Software: A 10 Step Process .................................................................................68

Speaking the Language of Risk ............................................68

Straightforward Risk Management for Projects That You Can do Now ..................................................................................68

The First Five Traits of Risk Management Excellence ..........68

The High Probability of Extremely Low-Probability Events ..68

The Organizational Politics of Risk Management .................68

The Risk Management Plan – REALLY! ................................68

The Software Baby Boomer Risk .........................................68

The Top 10 Risks that Threaten Project Portfolio Management Success .................................................................................68

Titanic Risk: 101 Years Later and It Still Matters .................68

Types of Risks on IT Projects, and How to Mitigate ............69

Unintended Consequences of Measurement ......................69

Using Decision Tables and Decision Trees for Quantitative Risk Analysis .........................................................................69

Welcome to the Land (and Brand!) of Risk ...........................69

SOFT SKILLS3 Leadership Competencies Every Project Manager Needs 69

5 Steps to Using Your Best Thinking to Go ALL-IN .............69

7 Keys to Transformation from Project Manager to Project Leader ...................................................................................69

Alliance Networking - Increase Your Odds of Landing an Interview ................................................................................69

America May Run on Dunkin®, but Projects Run on People ..................................................................................69

America May Run on Dunkin®, but Projects Run on People: Part 2 .....................................................................................69

An Introduction to Coaching .................................................69

Bear in Mind – Infl uence without Authority .........................70

Becoming a World Class Coach ...........................................70

Best Practices for Managing the Virtual Project Team .........70

Better Decision Making: Science or Stories? .......................70

Billion Dollar Win: Managing Challenging Stakeholders by Shifting the Context ..............................................................70

Building a Powerful Project Leadership Team ......................70

Communication Fundamentals for Project Managers, Introverts, and Geeks: 4 Secrets to Success .......................70

Communication in Global and Distributed Teams ................70

Connect! And Stay Connected: Managing your Professional and Personal Relationships .................................................70

Crash Course in Leadership for PMs ...................................70

Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders .......................70

Exploring the Power of LinkedIn for Project Managers .......71

Get More Out of Your PMP ...................................................71

How to Be a Business Transformation Leader .....................71

How to Effectively Lead a Global Team ................................71

How to Effectively Lead an Offshore Team - Part 1 .............71

How to Effectively Lead an Offshore Team - Part 2 (A Case Study) ....................................................................................71

How to Speak so Your Sponsors Can Hear You ..................71

How to Start Your Self-Directed Leadership Journey ..........71

Infl uencing Others through Empowerment ..........................71

Interpersonal Skills for Leading Projects ..............................71

Leadership Competencies: Getting More Out of Your PMP 71

Leadership Skills for Project Managers ...............................71

Leadership Skills to Sell Your Project Internally ...................72

Leadership: Cracking the Code for Today’s Project Managers ..............................................................................72

Leading the Way Head First to Heart First: Using Neuro-Axiology to Grow Your Career ..............................................72

Lessons From 300 Years of Innovation ................................72

Loving Your Job, and Getting Others to do Likewise!..........72

Make Better Decisions ..........................................................72

Managing a Parallel Career ..................................................72

Managing Diffi cult Personalities ...........................................72

Managing Your Project Stakeholders’ Expectations ............72

Mind Over Matter: Using Neuroscience to Become More Productive and Successful ...................................................72

Motivating and Engaging Teams ..........................................72

Motivating and Engaging Teams ..........................................72

Motivating in a Virtual Environment ......................................73

Organizational Change Myths and Patterns for Evangelists 73

Project Communications: A Project Manager’s Guide to Doing it Right! ......................................................................73

Same Rain, Bigger Drops – Maximizing Your Independent Consulting Worth ..................................................................73

Six Super Powers for Project Success .................................73

Success Lessons from Successful People ..........................73

Successful Program Management: Complexity Theory, Communication, and Leadership ........................................73

Targeted Communication - The Key to Effective Stakeholder Engagement ..........................................................................73

The Decision Model: Linking Business Leadership and Technology ............................................................................73

The Evolution of a Project Manager into a Project Leader ..73

The Politics of Meetings (for People Who Hate Politics) ......73

The Race to the South Pole: Lessons in Risk Management for Leaders .................................................................................74

The Socially Emerging Project Manager: High Impact Interpersonal Skills, Their Attributes, and Using Them to Achieve Success .................................................................74

TMI for PMI ...........................................................................74

Training Is Not the Goal of the Training Department ............74

Using Behavioral Economics to Rationally Understand the Irrationality of Your Teams .....................................................74

Yes, I Am Allowed To Do That! The Confi dence To Take Action ...................................................................................74

Your Words Make a Difference .............................................74

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FALL 2016 Catalog — PDU/CDU Approved WebinarsAGILE

BE A GREAT IT PROFESSIONAL!

Over 700 PDU & CDUApproved WebinarsAgile ..................................16

Application Development .22

Architecture ......................24

Business Requirements ....27

CMMI ................................29

CyberSecurity ...................29

IT management ................31

ITIL ....................................39

Measurement ...................39

Offshore & Outsourcing ....42

Process Improvement ......42

Process Estimation ...........48

Project Management ........50

Quality & Testing ..............63

Risk Management ............65

Soft Skills ..........................69

AGILE TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:31CHRIS ARMSTRONG

Agile Enterprise Architecture

This webinar explains how tradi-tional enterprise architecture (EA) practices can be augmented with agile project management and development best practices.


Length 01:00 (est)ANDY BERNER

Agile Estimation: Beyond the Myths

In this webinar, we explore com-mon myths about Agile in detail!


Length 00:49HASNAIN RIZVI

Agile for Non-Software Projects

In this webinar, we will share a top-ten list of agile principles that can empower non-software projects to deliver value in a more collabora-tive and effective manner.

AGILE


Length 01:28MARY GORMAN

Agile Business Analysis

This webinar debunks myths sur-rounding agile business analysis and explains what the work of agile analysis consists of and how it is essential.


Length 01:15JUTTA ECKSTEIN

Agile Development within the Corporation

Agile product or project develop-ment faces specifi c challenges posed by the larger corporate framework. In this webinar, we will learn how different departments can support or hinder agility.


Length 01:24PAUL DUVALL

Agile Engineering Patterns

This webinar covers Agile Engi-neering Patterns using working explanatory examples.

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FALL 2016 Catalog — PDU/CDU Approved Webinars AGILE


Length 00:57TOM LOVE

Agile Techniques for the Healthcare Industry

This webinar will describe the process of helping the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) enhance and reengineer their electronic medical records system using agile methods.


Length 01:44ALAN SHALLOWAY

An Agile Developer’s Guide to Lean Software Development

This webinar explains what Lean is from the perspective of Agile development, including the seven principles of Lean Software Devel-opment.



An Introduction to Kanban for your Team and Organization

This webinar introduces Kanban as a method to introduce change into organizations as well as a way to understand the basics of product development fl ow.


Length 01:12JOHANNA ROTHMAN

Agile Program Management: Networks, Not Hierarchies

In this webinar, you will learn how to create small collaborative world networks to assist your project teams in becoming increasingly agile.


Length 01:00 (est)DENISE CANTY

Agile Project Management

This webinar will discuss Agile Proj-ect Management in comparison to traditional methods.


Length 01:26BOB GALEN

Agile Projects: Beginning with the End in Mind

This webinar explores how to get Agile projects off to a proper start.



Agile Software Development on Large Projects

This webinar shows how to scale agile processes for teams of 10 to more than 300.



Agile Hiring-It’s a Team Sport

In this webinar Johanna Rothman, author of “Hiring Geeks Who Fit”, will discuss how to enable teams to make proper hiring decisions.


Length 01:18TOM CAGLEY

Agile is from Venus and PMOs from Mars

This webinar will provide a proven roadmap on how PMOs can operate in an agile environment based on the principals of the Agile Manifesto.



Agile Legacy Reengineering

This webinar will describe an innovative process for reengineer-ing applications using state of the art software technology and agile methods.


Length 01:57JIM DEMPSEY

Agile Lessons Learned

In this webinar, we will present valuable lessons learned on several large and small-scale Agile development projects that may help you avoid common hazards.

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Length 00:56JOE BURNS

Apply QA Testing in an Agile Development Methodology

In this webinar, we will discuss the appropriate approaches, artifacts, and metrics for successfully deliv-ering high quality products on time in an Agile methodology.


Length 01:00 (est)PEDRO SERRADOR

Are Agile Projects Really More Successful and Where?

This webinar examines the results of a large survey on agile project success (over 1000 projects studied).


Length 01:05LINDA RISING

Are Agilists the Bonobos of Software Development?

Chimpanzees are aggressive and hierarchical, while bonobos are gentle and promiscuous! This we-binar discusses the tie-in that this may have for those of us who favor agile development over plan-driven development.

AGILE STRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:11BETH LAYMAN

Assessing Your Readiness for Agile Development

This webinar describes an approach for assessing your “Agile Readiness”. You will learn what your organization’s current process, culture, and management can tell you about your readiness to make the transition.


Length 01:17JEAN TABAKA

Attacking Waste In Software: 3 Practices We Must Embrace Now

In this webinar, we will discuss 3 pivotal practices needed for aggressively attacking waste in software delivery.


Length 01:06BEN LINDERS

Becoming Agile, in an Agile Way

When you want to become more Agile and Lean, it’s good to fi nd out where you are right now. Many methods for introducing change in organizations assume that you are starting from scratch. Learn more in this webinar!



Benchmarking Agile Software Organizations

This webinar will provide a framework for benchmarking agile organizations and will explore the nuances required to benchmark agile organizations.



Creating Sprint Reviews that Attract, Engage, and Enlighten Your Customers

Join experienced agile coach Bob Galen to explore real-world patterns for how to increase the interest, energy, and value of your Sprint Reviews.

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Length 01:00 (est)BOB GALEN

Establishing Agile-Centric Release Criteria

In this webinar, we will explore the 4 levels of completion when it comes to Agile Release Criteria and explain the importance of each level.



Functional Metrics and Agile Estimation, Revisited - CMMI Compliance

In this webinar, we will explain how functional metrics allow you to incorporate additional process discipline into the estimation processes typically used by agile and lean teams.


Length 00:59BEN LINDERS

Getting Business Value out of Agile Retrospectives

This webinar teaches preparing and facilitating an agile retro-spective, creating an environment conducive to such retrospectives, and how to get more business value out of them.



Increasing Productivity: Uncovering Costs of Delay

In this webinar, we present simple tools and methods for uncovering hidden costs of delay and explain how an agile approach will help make these cost visible.



Integrating Systems Thinking into Enterprise Agile

Systems thinking — the process of understanding how things infl uence one another within a larger whole - can provide insights on overcoming challenges related to Agile.



Introducing Agility into an Organization; or: How to Become Agile

In this webinar,we provide insights in how to get started with agile, what pitfalls to watch out for in the transition phase as well how to ensure that the agile mindset will be preserved.


Length 01:56BRIAN LUCAS

Is Agile a Fad or an Evolution?

This seminar shows how agile methods are evolutionary and the next logical step in software project management and devel-opment.



Kanban Can Can!

This webinar will describe a Kanban System and how Kanban relates to software development.



Keys for Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Testing—Lessons from the Trenches

Moving from traditional to agile testing is often a high-wire balanc-ing act. In this webinar, our expe-rienced agile expert will share with you the critical lessons from teams he’s observed who’ve successfully made the transition.


Length 01:00 (est)ALAN SHALLOWAY

Lean-Agile Development: The 3rd Generation of Agile

This webinar introduces the lean-agile mindset and how one can select which of Scrum’s or Kanban’s practices best work in a given situation.



Lean-Agile Software Development: Where to Start

This webinar shows how Lean Principles can guide Agile devel-opment.

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Length 01:13PETER DEYOE

Managing Risk in Agile Development Projects

This webinar presents a Risk Management framework for Agile Development Projects.


Length 00:55MICHAEL BRAGEN

Nailing Jello to the Wall: Managing the Business Side of Development Contracts that use Agile/Scrum

This webinar examines the foun-dation for walking the line with approaches that yield the benefi ts of Agile/Scrum while maintaining a useful fl ow of information for management.


Length 01:50IAN SPENCE

Planning Agile and Iterative Projects

This webinar introduces a proven, scalable approach to planning and managing iterative projects that improves agility and control.


Length 01:00 (est)NADER RAD

PRINCE2 Agile: The Best of Both Worlds?

This new standard is a great oppor-tunity to revisit our understanding of Agility and its relationship with old-fashioned project management methods. This is also a solution for those who are already using a mature project management system such as PRINCE2, and like to become Agile.


Length 01:13CAROL WELLINGTON

Refactoring Your Software Process Toward Agility

This webinar will explain why the change to Agile is worth the risk and will provide a phased transi-tion plan that reduces that risk.



Rescuing a Troubled Project With Agile

This webinar will demonstrate how Agile can be used to rescue trou-bled projects. You will learn how to recognize that a project is in trouble and how Agile can promote recovery.



Risk and Agile: Managing Risk In Agile Isn’t Magic

In this webinar you will learn how to manage risk in an Agile project. You will also learn how Agile can provide a unique platform for risk vigilance.


Length 01:26MICHAEL EVANOO

Scrum for All Seasons

In this webinar we’ll explore how Scrum and Agile can be used for almost any type of project to obtain rapid results and excellent visibility.

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Length 01:19JORGE BORIA

Scrum Moments of Truth, a Baker’s Dozen

In this webinar, we will discuss the “moments of truth” that all agile adopters face when implementing Scrum; do these right and Scrum will work for you, do not heed them and your risks of failure will go up signifi cantly!


Length 01:33NEIL POTTER

Scrum: Lessons and Solutions from the Trenches

This webinar will study lessons learned from working with different Scrum teams around the world.



Seven Tips for Improving Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team (At Least!)

In this webinar, you will learn how to make geographically distributed agile teams work.



Staying Agile in a Global World - Distributed Agile Software Development

This webinar discusses how to bring global and agile development together.



Strategic Planning or an Agile Environment: Are They Mutually Exclusive?

Today there is tremendous pres-sure to adapt to rapidly changing technology and emerging markets, yet businesses must stay on a sustainable track. In this webinar, you will learn how to do both successfully.



Strengthening Scrum – Adding Practices to Achieve Your Goals

In this webinar, we will examine various practices that you can add to scrum in order to take your scrum implementation to the next level.



The 3 Pillars Approach to Agile Testing Strategy

In this webinar you will learn how to establish an agile quality/testing strategy that is balanced across activities and tactics.


Length 01:03SCOTT STRIBRNY

The Agile Business Analyst: Embracing the Transition to Higher Performance

This webinar examines how the Ag-ile movement affects the historical business analyst role on a project

team and creates opportunities to learn new skills and develop new ways of working together.


Length 01:00 (est)MICHAEL NIR

The Agile PMO - Leading the Effective, Value Driven, Project Management Offi ce

In this webinar, we focus on the value driven PMO as an integrator, enabler, differentiator, and change agent in business, development and the organization in general.


Length: 01:00SUSAN PARENTE

The Art of Agile Risk Management

In this webinar we will go through the steps of identifying, assessing and managing risks and discuss how these pertain to Agile Prac-tices.



The Four Reasons 68% of Development Projects Will Not Succeed This Year

In this webinar, you will learn the 4 reasons that more than 2/3 of software development projects do not succeed and you will receive an unbiased view of which Agile methods can actually address your problems.

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Length 02:14MICHELE SLIGER

The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility

This webinar is aimed at software project managers who are new to Agile, and who would like to be able to relate the Project Manage-ment Institute’s best practices to equivalent practices in Agile.


Length 01:14JACK FERRARO

Thriving in the World of Agile: How to Adjust Your Leadership Competencies to Thrive in Agile Teams

This webinar will cover the critical adjustments practitioners and leaders need to make to thrive in an Agile world.



Top 10 Pitfalls in Agile Software Development

This webinar will discuss how we can recognize common pitfalls that prevent or limit success with agile.

AGILE LEADERSHIP

Length 01:00 (est)JUTTA ECKSTEIN

Toward a Learning Organization… through Agile Development

When regarded as part of a greater whole, agile initiatives lead to sustainable improvement

in areas such as interpersonal skills, personal responsibility, and continuous learning.



Understanding the Scaled Agile Framework

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is the only proven, publicly available framework for applying Lean-Agile practices at enterprise scale. This webinar outlines how to start and prescribes practices at various levels.



Using Functional Metrics in Agile Estimation

This webinar focuses on two case studies where functional metrics were used as a disciplined sizing technique.


Length 01:15JIM BENSON

Visual Management: Making Work Understandable and Predictable

In this webinar, we will discuss a simple lean framework which will lead to a more manageable work cadence for communication and prediction.


Length 01:04ELAINE LAW

What it’s Really Like to Work at an Enterprise Agile Organization

In this short session, we will de-scribe to you what Enterprise Agile truly is and what it really takes to collaborate in a true Enterprise Agile Organization.



Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain

In this session we discuss the pitfalls of “trust evaluation” while providing agile methodologies which can contribute to successful products and workplace relations.

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 00:53IAN BROWN

5 Key Software Maintenance Questions (or 5 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Software Maintenance Measurement but Were Afraid to Ask)

In this webinar we examine the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) framework and apply it to software maintenance to come up with the key items you should be measuring after software is deployed.

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APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 00:52CLAY NICKELS

Achieving Control with Standard Work Processes

During this webinar, we will review how work processes that are standardized can improve your organization.



Achieving Visibility with effective Service Level Management

During this webinar, we will review how to develop SLAs that are meaningful to Application Support and how they are a necessary fi rst step toward establishing Visibility within the organization.


Length 01:29CAPERS JONES

Analysis of New Development Technologies

This webinar uses a standard an-alytic approach for evaluating the effectiveness of new and emerging technologies.


Length 00:48MEGAN HOLSTEIN

Breaking into Mobile: Getting Your First Mobile App Made

This webinar will explain how to break into the iOS development market. We will cover how to get an app designed, developed, and marketed for the App Store.


Length 01:00 (est)ADOLFO VILLAFIORITA

Developing the System Interoperability Plan for the eGovernment Systems of Mozambique

eGovernment services are a big opportunity for supporting economic growth in developed and developing countries alike. This webinar reports on the making of an interoperability plan for the eGovernment Services of the Government of Mozambique.


Length 01:41SCOTT BAIN

Emergent Design: The Professional Nature of Professional Software Development

This webinar discusses common design questions by examining the essential nature of software development.


Length 01:05DAVID HERRON

Game On: How Gamers Will Impact the Future of Business

This webinar explores current research on gamifi cation: what can be learned, what are the benefi ts, and how it can be applied to the workplace.


Length 00:42NICK SPANOS

How to Identify Obsolete Applications and Plan for Application Retirement

This webinar discusses a Ratio-nalization process for identifying candidate applications that should be retired and also provides a framework for managing applica-tion retirement.


Length 00:59BILL BENTLEY

How TRIZ Can Get You Out of a Jam

In this webinar, we explore “TRIZ” - the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. It’s a simple and clever way of helping you get unstuck when you are faced with a dilemma.

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTSTRATEGIC & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)ARLENE MINKIEWICZ

How Wearable Technology Will Change Business

Wearable technology has the potential to be a game changer in many aspects of life. This webinar explores the current and future uses of wearable tech in business.


Length 00:54BOB LAWHORN

Managing Application Support to Yield Your Desired Business Outcomes

During this webinar, we will explore why it makes real business sense to start your improvement process with application support.

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Length 01:03GUENTHER RUHE

Release Planning in Consideration of Technical Debt

This webinar will discuss the key content, techniques and tools needed to plan for future releases in order to manage technical debt.


Length 00:58PETER HILL

Software Maintenance & Support: Benchmarking Insights

The ISBSG has been building a benchmarking repository of software maintenance and support activities since its inception. In this webinar, Peter Hill explores this data in search of insights.


Length 01:23MICHAEL OVERLY

The Legal In’s and Out’s of Mobile App Development

In this webinar, we will explore the common legal issues that arise in developing and deploying mobile apps.


Length 01:14JOE SCHOFIELD

The ROI of Defect Reduction (Pay Now AND Pay Later)

In this webinar we’ll explore how defect reduction might be the best investment organizations can make today.



Using ITIL to Improve Application Support by 20-30%

This webinar will review how ITIL’s Incident Management and Problem Management processes can be used to meet these Application Support challenges.


Length 01:01DAVID GARMUS

What Are You Getting for Your Software Maintenance Dollars?

This webinar will discuss current is-sues in maintaining legacy systems and identify systems that have the greatest potential for outsourcing or replacement.


Length 01:18DON ESTES

Why Legacy Modernization Projects Fail, and How to Ensure Success

This webinar explores the root causes of legacy modernization failures, and how to overcome them with technology and meth-odology.



Why Outsource Application Support?

This webinar discusses potential benefi ts from Application Support Outsourcing and provides a framework for successful support outsourcing.

ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURETECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:29BRIAN CAMERON

A Value Measurement Framework for Enterprise Architecture

This webinar will present current research in value measurement for enterprise architecture and will explore a new framework for de-termining the value measures that are right for your organization.

ARCHITECTURESTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT


Architecture Value Chain and Capability Model

This webinar discusses the archi-tecture value chain in conjunction with a supporting capability/ser-vice model.


Length 00:55ARLENE MINKIEWICZ

Clarifying The Cloud

This webinar discusses the bene-fi ts of cloud computing as well as barriers to adoption.

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Cost and Business Impacts of Service Oriented Architecture

This webinar describes what a SOA is and how it can be used to improve business practices within and beyond organizational boundaries.


Length 00:52DON SHAFER

Embracing the Cloud – How’s your POS system doing?

This webinar presents a current look at the malware running loose in the retail sector and will lay out the risks you face and how you can protect yourself.


Length 01:19LEON KAPPELMAN

Enterprise Architecture 102: Modeling Organizations

In this webinar, we explain how Enterprise Architecture (EA) can provide management with an on-line, real-time repository of everything of relevance about the enterprise.



Enterprise Architecture 202: Creating Information Age Organizations

In this webinar, we explain how to build an Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice by building on your

current capabilities in analysis, design, architecture, governance, and planning.



Enterprise Architecture: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How?

This webinar will introduce you to the basics of Enterprise Archi-tecture.



Establishing an Enterprise Architecture Practice

This webinar will discuss how to establish an effective and sustain-able enterprise architecture (EA) practice based on four fundamen-tal elements.



How to Build, Implement, and Use an Architecture Metamodel

Starting with identifying architec-ture stakeholders, the session con-tinues with capturing architecture concerns and how to use them to design an architecture metamodel and then describe the relevant architecture viewpoints.



Integrating Enterprise Architecture with Solution Delivery

The session will discuss EA effectiveness as it relates to max-imizing IT investments, promoting cross-project collaboration, and de-veloping more consistent solution architectures.

ARCHITECTURETECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)CHRIS ARMSTRONG

IT4IT – The Enterprise Architecture of IT

The IT4IT is an operating model that allows the IT function to achieve the same level of business discipline, predictability and effi ciency as other functions in the business. This webinar will provide an overview of IT4IT and describe how it is being used to drive orga-nizational change.



Making the Business Case for SOA

This webinar will look at the challenges, approaches, and com-ponents of setting up an effective SOA business case.


Length 00:36CHARLES BABCOCK

Monitoring the Cloud

In this webinar with Charles Babcock, we will examine several different forms of monitoring that are currently available to help you check on how well your cloud service is performing.

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Length 01:20NICOLAI JOSUTTIS

SOA in Practice

This webinar will present some of the most important steps and traps involved in bringing SOA into production.


Length 01:37THOMAS ERL

SOA, Cloud Computing & Semantic Web Technology: The Sequel – The Era of Intelligent Service Technology

This webinar explores how and where cloud computing and semantic Web technologies can be combined and layered independently and as part of ser-vice-oriented architectural models and service-orientation principles.


Length 01:12WASEEM ROSHEN

SOA-based Enterprise Applications Integration

In this webinar, we review the evolution of SOA-based enterprise applications integration with a view towards understanding services-based integration in a step-by-step manner.


Length 01:06MIKAEL LINDVALL

Software Architecture Visualization and Evaluation

This webinar discusses a tool and process that can be used to address the problem of inheriting another’s software.


Length 01:06STEPHEN COHEN

The Architects Role in a Globalized IT economy

This webinar will explore how the IT landscape is changing and the role of the Architect within this new landscape. We will focus on the big picture and the small steps architects can take to keep up.



The Art of Software Architecture

In this webinar we will discuss the impact, opportunity and approach-es used when crafting a truly bespoke software architecture.



The Cloud - Has it Lived Up to the Hype?

This webinar will bring everyone up to date on today’s cloud and what has happened along the way. Will all of us be in the cloud version of the “Trough of Disillusionment”? We shall see!

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Length 01:18THOMAS ERL

The Four Pillars of Service-Orientation

In this webinar, we will discuss the four fundamental “pillars” that need to be in place to address the critical success factors most relevant to service-orientation.


Length 01:26PAUL BROWN

Total Architecture: Coordinating the Design of Business Processes and Information Systems

This webinar will explore the concept of architecture and its applicability to business processes as well as information systems, highlighting the nature of the interdependencies.



Value Measurement for Enterprise Architecture (EA)

This webinar will present recent research on the current state of EA value measurement in a broad cross-section of organizations and will discuss best practices for communicating EA value.



Where to Start with Service Oriented Architecture

This webinar examines why it is important for SOA projects to be selected carefully, discusses a

process for evaluating where to start, and outlines how to develop a process for growing SOA.

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTSSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT


Agile Business Analysis: The Role of a BSA – Nothing or Everything?

This webinar will explore the question: is there a role left for a business systems analyst in an Agile environment?

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTSLEADERSHIP

Length 01:00 (est)DIETER KOFFI

Applying Deductive, Inductive, and Abductive Reasoning to the System Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)

This webinar examines 3 common types of reasoning: deduction, induction, and abduction.


Length 01:12ROBIN GOLDSMITH

BAseBOK—Business Analysis should employ (this) Body of Knowledge

This webinar introduces BAseBOK, a different and more appropriate approach to business analysis that offers opportunities for delivering far greater value to businesses and business analysis.


Length 01:25SCOTT FABEL

Earning IIBA’s Certifi ed Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certifi cation

This webinar will defi ne business analysis and explore the process of becoming a certifi ed Business Analyst.


Length 01:00 (est)MIKAEL LINDVALL

Ideas for Writing Great Software Requirements

In this webinar we will talk about requirements engineering in general.


Length 01:00 (est)BRAD MITCHELL

Leveraging Business Analysis to Manage the Project Portfolio

This webinar will discuss alignment concepts and the importance of basic business analysis skills to defi ne, assess and monitor the project portfolio.


Length 00:52BARBARA VON HALLE

Perfecting Requirements in 2013

This webinar will reveal a new requirements approach that is a signifi cant improvement on current practices. Case studies are includ-ed and will cover three different projects.

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Perfecting Requirements: A Framework, a New Model, and Visualization

This webinar introduces a new methodology for requirements defi nition. We explain the method-ology so that you can use it in your day to day activities.


Length 01:23GARY GACK

Re-certifi cation: Boon or Boondoggle?

In this webinar we will compare and contrast 2 popular certifi -cations - the Certifi ed Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), which requires recertifi cation, and the Certifi ed Requirements Engineering Professional (CPRE) which does not.


Length 01:00 (est)ROBIN GOLDSMITH

Requirements are Simply Requirements, or Maybe Not

In this webinar, we will analyze confl icting requirements interpre-tations and describe how user sto-ries and use cases fi t into a more appropriate business requirements model.


Length 01:22CHRISTOF EBERT

Requirements Engineering

This mini tutorial shows how to best use Requirements Engineer-ing and master its challenges. It describes how to develop and write good requirements and how to manage them during the project.


Length 01:14KARL WIEGERS

Requirements Reuse: Fantasy or Feasible?

This presentation, based on the newly-released book Software Requirements, 3rd Edition by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty, offers numerous suggestions about how to perform requirements reuse.


Length 01:32JANET RUSSAC

Requirements: Building a Solid Foundation for a Successful Project

In this webinar, we will teach you how to write requirements in order to more accurately estimate size, effort and schedule; and to deliver a higher quality product on time and within budget.



Right-Sizing Requirements Elicitation: Balancing Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile

This webinar examines the intersection of Agile, Lean, and Six Sigma as they relate to determin-ing Requirements.



Software Requirements: 10 Traps to Avoid

This webinar describes 10 typical requirements traps that can sabotage your project along with suggestions for avoiding or escap-ing each trap.


Length 00:58DON ESTES

Solving the Requirements Problem in Legacy Modernization

This webinar will recommend a methodology for successfully achieving a full and accurate set of functional requirements in legacy modernization.


Length 01:00 (est)ANGELA WICK

Virtual Requirements Meetings - Meaningful Dialog Secrets Exposed!

In this webinar you will discover the secrets to maximizing value from your virtual meetings.

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CMMI

CMMITECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)MICHAEL WEST

Leveraging Your ISO-based Compliance with CMMI-based Improvement

This webinar gives the audience facts, case studies, and how-to tips for synchronizing and leveraging your organization’s ISO-based standards with CMMI-based improvement.

CYBERSECURITY

CYBERSECURITYSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:29DEAN FOX

Cyber (Asymmetric) Warfare

This webinar will discuss the cur-rent state of cyber penetration and its relation to network speed.


Length 01:12JOHN MILLICAN

Cyber Crime – 2014

In this webinar we will inves-tigate the potential threats of cyber-crime, the law enforcement approaches to such misconduct and discuss the development of innovative risk management strategies.


Length 00:48DAN SAWYER

Cyber Risk Assurance

This webinar will discuss the application of risk engineering solutions for cyber risk assurance and continuous monitoring of IT and control systems.


Length 01:05ADINA SUCIU

Cyber Warriors : Who Are They and How Do You Become One

This webinar will discuss how IT and engineering professionals can become cyber warriors and increase cyber security.

CYBERSECURITYTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)HANS HOLMER

Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Everyone

Cyber is full of complicated words and alien concepts. In this webinar we will defi ne the concepts and phrases you need to know, and explain how to get started on cyber security.


Length 00:50DANIEL SHARP

IT Threat Response: What You Need to Know

This webinar describes how you and your company can anticipate and respond profi tably to threats to IT and other functions.


Length 00:50CAROLYN TURBYFILL

Managing Risk in Data Supply Chains

This webinar will cover how suppliers, partners, and other third parties are being impacted by data supply chains and the Federal government.


Length 01:18ED PERKINS

NIST Risk Framework: New Cyber Standard of Due Care

This webinar will discuss the NIST risk framework and its potential impact on IT systems.


Length 01:17MARK CIAMPA

Practical Computer Security: Turning Your Users into Human Firewalls

Providing users with the training to be “human fi rewalls” is critical in today’s defenses against cyberattacks. In this webinar we will explore practical steps that all users can take to prevent attacks.


Length 01:17MARK CIAMPA

Practical Computer Security: Turning Your Users into Human Firewalls

Providing users with the training to be “human fi rewalls” is critical in today’s defenses against cyberattacks. In this webinar we will explore practical steps that all users can take to prevent attacks.

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Length 01:00 (est)MARK CIAMPA

Teaching Your Users about Practical Passwords

In this webinar we will explore how passwords are broken, how they can be made strong, and how other types of authentication are being used today to increase security.


Length 01:00 (Est)MARK CIAMPA

Teaching Your Users about Practical Passwords

In this webinar we will explore how passwords are broken, how they can be made strong, and how other types of authentication are being used today to increase security.


Length 01:00 (est)MARK CIAMPA

The Basics of Cryptography

This webinar looks at the funda-mentals of cryptography and how it can be used for keeping data secure from attackers.

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Length 01:00 (est)DON SHAFER

The State of Oil & Gas CyberSecurity: Oil Price + Political Instability = Disasters

This webinar highlights the growing importance of cybersecutiry in the oil industry, especially after Stuxnet.

IT MANAGEMENT


Length 01:27MICHAEL OVERLY

“Understanding and Negotiating Cloud Agreements: Avoiding Common Pitfalls”.

Many businesses fail to appreciate the unique risks presented by the cloud and how to mitigate them. In this webinar, you will learn re-al-world techniques for identifying and addressing these risks.


Length 01:15KEITH CUSTER

10 Things You Need to Know about Earned Value Management

In this webinar, you will be intro-duced to the basic concepts and terms of Earned Value Manage-ment (EVM).



21st Century IT Trends

In this webinar, Leon Kappelman will take a glimpse into the future of IT.

IT MANAGEMENTLEADERSHIP

Length 01:07PAYSON HALL

Better Problem Solving in One Hour

As infants, we begin as problem solving machines, learning to navigate a complex world. In this webinar, we will show how you can regain lost skills and learn new ones to become better problem solvers.


Length 01:00 (est)SHERIF SAKR

Big Data Processing Systems: State-of-the-Art and Open Challenges

In this webinar, we will provide an overview and analysis of the state-of-the-art in big data.


Length 01:19MARTHA HELLER

Breaking the CIO Paradox

This webinar offers guidance to CIOs on how to attack, reverse, or neutralize the paradoxical ele-ments of the CIO role, and level the playing fi eld for IT’s success.


Length 00:57DAVE SMITH

Building an IT Command and Control Center

In this webinar, we will discuss a method for controlling and auto-mating the fl ow of IT information so that it can be made available to teams, managers, and executives.


Length 00:51DAVE SMITH

Building an IT Control Room

In this presentation, Dave Smith will share some of the challenges he has faced in IT over the last 25 years.


Length 00:40NAT BOUGHTON

Business Pipeline Management: Leveraging Capability Modeling to Drive Strategic Agility

In this webinar we will explore a proven IT Management approach that integrates business prioritiza-tion with IT delivery and execution.



BYOD and the Implications for IT

This webinar introduces the concept of BYOD and examines BYOD successes and failures in the industry to date.

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Length 01:01RICHARD DOOLEY

Capturing the Discretionary Energy of Today’s Business and Systems Professional

This webinar will provide a framework of ideas, actions, & perspectives, to overcome, quickly, the negative possibilities of near term work outcomes, derived from the context many are in.



Cloud Computing and Big Data – What’s the Big Deal

This webinar briefl y introduces the concepts, implications, and inter-relationships of cloud computing and big data. Examples will be provided on the uses of big data in industry.


Length 01:19SHAWN HAYASHI

Conversations for Creating Collaboration and Getting Results

In this webinar we will explore how your preferred communication style, workplace motivators and EQ can all help you become a more effective communicator.


Length 00:53RICK KLOMPE

Creating business value by improving software quality

This webinar discusses a num-ber of tools and measures to enable more fi nancial based de-cision-making regarding software choices.


Length 01:19CAROLYN TURBYFILL

Cybersecurity across Critical Infrastructure Protection Sectors (CIPS)

This webinar will provide an overview of the most current Cybersecurity requirements and standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection.


Length 01:05KIM PRIES

Data discovery and Big Data

This webinar will teach you how to extract value from the world of Big Data. We will suggest the best tools for liberating information, fi nding ways to avoid specious cor-relations, and driving decisions.


Length 01:01BERT BRIJS

Data to Action, the Real Deal in BI

This webinar focuses on how to turn Business Intelligence deliverables into improved decision making.



Decision-Focused Dashboards: Answering the Right Project Questions

In this webinar, we will learn how to set up IT project dashboards so that they provide meaningful information to managers.


Length 01:02NAT BOUGHTON

Do the Right Things/Do Things Right

In this webinar we will explore a proven IT Management approach that integrates business prioritiza-tion with IT delivery and execution.


Length 01:23PAT O’TOOLE

Do’s and Don’ts of Process Improvement

This webinar provides practical advice that will help attendees invigorate their process improve-ment programs.


Length 01:09GARY COKINS

Driver-Based Budgeting and Rolling Financial Forecasts

In this webinar you will learn about the four components of the enter-prise performance management framework and how they can clarify your annual budget exercises.

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Earning IIBA’s Certifi ed Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certifi cation

This webinar will defi ne business analysis and explore the process of becoming a certifi ed Business Analyst.


Length 01:30TOM DEVANE

Eight Best Practices for Addressing the Human Element of IT Project Implementations

This webinar will present four simple tools and four methods tor addressing that often pesky aspect of large IT implementations – the people part.


Length 01:00 (Est)RICKI HENRY

Emerging Technology for all Industries – What’s the Latest and How to Keep Up?

Today all organizations need to know what technology is out there to better serve their customers and employees. This webinar will discuss emerging technologies.


Length 01:12CHUCK KEELER

Ensuring Project Success Through Automated Project Governance

This webinar proposes a solution to this problem of failed software projects.


Length 01:12CHUCK KEELER

Ensuring Project Success Through Automated Project Governance

This webinar proposes a solution to this problem of failed software projects.


Length 01:06JIM RYAN

Getting the Most Out of Your Consulting Engagement: Understanding the Consulting Engagement Life Cycle

This webinar will outline the elements of the consulting life cycle so that you can master it and get the most value from your consultant investments.



Global Software and IT

This webinar summarizes experi-ences and guidance from industry in a way to help knowledge and technology transfer.



How Business Analysis for Business Intelligence (BA4BI) Creates Strategic Value

This webinar presents a case to consider BA4BI as a special discipline, differing from classical

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application development tracks. It also presents arguments for ana-lysts to go further than gathering requirements.



How is Business Intelligence and Analytics Impacting the CFO Function?

This webinar will discuss the value of business analytics and how it can help organizations and CFOs gain insights for better and more timely decision making.

IT MANAGEMENTSTRATEGIC & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)PHIL WEINZIMER

How Strategic CIOs Change the Dynamics of the Business Enterprise

Strategic CIOs develop business strategies that leverage informa-tion and technology to improve competitive advantage. In this webinar, you’ll learn four key skills needed to become a strategic CIO.



How to Keep Business Intelligence in Sync with Your Strategic Priorities

This webinar shows the way to improve strategy formation, formu-lation and execution by synchro-nizing the business intelligence delivery process with your strategic priorities.


Length 01:31NAOMI KARTEN

How to Survive, Excel and Advance as an Introvert

This webinar will help introverts overcome career challenges and strengthen their effectiveness in working with their more extrovert-ed teammates, colleagues, and customers. Extroverts welcome.



How Will The Affordable Care Act Impact IT Organizations?

This webinar will discuss the impacts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPCS) on IT organizations and computer systems.


Length 00:00GAD SELIG

Implementing a Winning IT Governance Strategy and Action Program

In this webinar, you will learn how to plan, deploy and sustain a successful IT governance envi-ronment.



Implementing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Methodologies – Pitfalls and Speed-Bumps

This webinar presents an overview of Enterprise Performance Man-agement (EPM) methodologies and how they can easily be integrated.



Implementing ERP Software Packages: Risks, Time, Costs

This webinar examines the break-down of time spent on ERP pack-age implementations using history data from recent projects.



Important Advances in Modeling 2015: The Decision Model, OMG Standard, and the New Frontier of Event Modeling

In this webinar you will learn about Event Modeling, how it has its roots in the Decision Model, and how it can be of use for Big Data.

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Length 00:54JILL PRITCHET

Improving performance by effective application of IT Service Management models

This webinar will take a practical look at improving IT Service Man-agement performance using some tried and tested approaches.


Length 00:46AHMAD SHUJA

Incremental Value-Focused Optimization for Your Confi guration Management Database

This webinar presents the Incre-mental Confi guration Management Database Optimization process, which will ensure that CMDB optimizations are carried out in a controlled and targeted manner.


Length 00:46STEVE HEILENMAN

Innovate or Go Extinct

With the future of IT in question, CIOs need to restructure their organizations around innovation to remain relevant. In this webinar, CIO presenter Steve Heilenman will layout an innovation strategy.



Introverts and Extroverts in the Workplace

This webinar is for anyone who wants to better understand the introversion/extroversion dynamic and its implications in the work-place.


Length 01:24DAN GALORATH

IT Affordability Analysis: The Role of Cost / Schedule Risk / ROI Modeling In Improved IT Performance

This webinar will discuss afford-ability analysis and how it deter-mines the risk adjusted Total Cost of Ownership and return for an IT investment, specifi cally as related to development, maintenance, and operations.


Length 01:18SHAUN WALKER

Key Elements to Building a Successful Mobile Experience

In this webinar, we’ll outline the key elements to build and support a breakthrough mobile experience.



Lean Development

This webinar will introduce you to lean principles and practices..



Lean Development: Potentials, Principles and Practices

This webinar provides an overview of lean principles and practices. Concrete guidelines and a step-by-step case study will be provided.


Length 01:29MICHAEL WEST

Lessons (Not) Learned

This webinar reveals the major reasons that most attempts at lessons learned fail.


Length 01:13GIRISH SESHAGIRI

Lessons learned in Motivating Software Engineering Process Groups to Focus on Achieving Business Goals, Not Just Maturity Levels

This webinar will share a real example of how the combined use of Goal/Questions/Metrics (GQM) with Balanced Scorecard (BSC) was able to link Software Process Improvement (SPI) goals with business objectives.


Length 01:30RAJ KAPUR

Management’s Seven Deadly Sins

In this webinar you will be the learn the mistakes all managers often make, and practical strat-egies for re-orienting in a more productive direction.

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Length 01:09JOE WISDO

Next Generation Agility: Leveraging Interactions in Logistics and Supply Chain to enhance Management Insights

This webinar introduces the funda-mentals of Agility 2.0 and how the supply chain can benefi t from their implementation.



Organizational Change: 5 Roadblocks and How to Overcome Them

This webinar will talk about fi ve roadblocks to successful change.


Length 01:43RICK BRENNER

Organizational Politics for People Who Hate Politics

This webinar will present some strategies and lessons learned in dealing with, and avoiding, offi ce politics.


Length 01:19GRANT RULE

Output Based Outsourcing Contracts

In this webinar, you will learn how Output-Based Contract Manage-ment methods can greatly simplify many aspects related to software development.



Product Management for IT and Software

This webinar introduces product management for IT and software.


Length 01:00 (est)CHRISTOF EBERT

Product Management: From Requirements to Business

The success of a product depends on the product manager. This webi-nar introduces product manage-ment for software driven products, IT and services.


Length 01:01CURT FINCH

Profi tability Mapping: Navigating your Way to a Profi table Future

This webinar will explain the critical components of profi tability – plan-ning, execution and measurement – and provide important guidelines for each.



Pros and Cons of Investing in Project, Resource, and Product Decisions

This webinar discusses many factors regarding decision-making when it comes to projects and resources.



Real-time Product Release Management and its Tool Support

This webinar shows how Real Time Project Management (RTPM) helps release managers make better decisions across the product man-agement life cycle.


Length 00:53ROSEMARY COATES

Rethinking Field Service - Hidden Opportunities for Revenue and Success

Field Service is the wild west of supply chain – full of opportunity and potential big profi ts. But to be an effective and really successful Field Service organization, you need to break some rules. Learn how in this webinar!


Length 01:00 (est)ROBERT GORDON

Reverse Logistics Management

This webinar will offer tools and proven techniques where one can integrate reverse logistics into a project in order to minimize loss and capture new revenue streams.



Social Networking and Corporate Productivity

This Webinar will provide an over-view of several major (and minor) social networking sites while pro-

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viding solid evidence of increased productivity in the workplace through their use.



Software Total Ownership Cost

This webinar will provide a sys-tematic approach to addressing total cost of ownership across the software lifecycle.


Length 00:43LOU MARCHESANI

Spend a Little, Save a Lot: The Effects of Service Desk First Level Resolution

This webinar teaches how increas-ing FLR can dramatically reduce the cost of your support, reduce lost productivity and create a posi-tive image of your IT department.


Length 01:12PAM MORRIS

Starting the Decision Making Process before the Business Case

This webinar provides techniques for demonstrating the value of IT to the business and for prioritizing IT investment so that it is aligned with changes in organizational strategic direction.



Stuxnet – 10 Years Later, have we learned anything?

This webinar will explore the fallout from the success of the Stuxnet virus and why this hyper-sophis-

ticated worm has threatened our automation infrastructure from the laptop to the cloud.



Taking Responsibility for Technology

This webinar presents lessons learned from real world hardware and software technology disasters.



Taming the Turbulence: Changing How You Communicate During Change

This webinar offers offers advice and recommendations for coping with change, introducing change, and managing change efforts.



The Art and Science of Making Product Release Decisions

This webinar explains the impact of several factors on product release decisions.


Length 00:40ALLEN BENNET

The Business Case for Software Process Improvement

This webinar will examine the costs and benefi ts of SEI models. The data for this presentation comes from the experiences of ITT Corporation.


Length 01:02DON MARTIN

The CIO and Their Role with the Customer

This webinar with Don Martin, former CIO of Armstrong Industries, covers the why, what, and how of the CIO’s direct role with their customers and offers insights on how CIOs can drive value.



The Decision Model in 2012

This webinar will reference real-world Decision Model projects across industries.



The Decision Model: the Missing Model for Business Analysts and the Business

This webinar reveals the danger-ous state of decisions today and why decision-making is becoming the focus of systematic analysis.


Length 01:04PAUL STRASSMANN

The Economics of Thin Clients

This webinar describes the current implementation of “thin client” confi guration by a number of ven-dors, to demonstrate the economic advantages of centrally managed computing.

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The Essential Product Owner: Partnering with the Team

In this webinar, Bob Galen will share real-world experiences where he’s observed product own-ers who deliver truly balanced val-ue for their business stakeholders, and he will explain how they do it.


Length 00:56DON MARTIN

The Future CIO

This webinar with CIO Don Martin outlines a framework of practices for building a stronger bridge between IT and other business functions.



The Marriage Between IT and the Business: Making it Work

This webinar discusses the key ingredients for “marital” success between IT and the Business.


Length 01:20ALAN SHARK

The Seven Trends that will Transform Local Government Through Technology

This webinar will take you on a short journey to the near future and will help businesses, citizens, and public managers alike better understand what these trends real-ly mean and how can one benefi t.



Training Your Help Desk Analysts Requires a Balanced Approach

In this webinar, you will learn how to ensure that your help desk training program fi nds a balance between interpersonal skills and technical skills.


Length 00:55SUE RULE

Transforming IT from Cost Centre to Strategic Enabler

In this webinar, we will share with you the secrets to maximizing IT and software value for any organization.


Length 01:05TERRY SCHMIDT

Turning Strategic Goals into Successful Projects

This webinar will demonstrate how IT groups in various organizations have used the Logical Framework Approach to improve processes and deliver outstanding results.

IT MANAGEMENTSTRATEGIC & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)JAY ARTHUR

Turning Your Data into Dollars Using Spreadsheets and Charts

With all the attention on “big data”, business owners and corpo-rations sometimes ignore “small data” and the valuable information it offers, easily accessible through Excel.


Length 01:27ED YOURDON

Using Twitter in the Enterprise

This webinar will address questions about Twitter and Web 2.0, and illustrates the answers with case studies and real-world examples.


Length 00:53JOE WISDO

VICS and Computer Aid present a webinar on VICS CPFR® and the Health of Your Supply Chain

In this webinar, you will learn proven techniques for effectively developing business partner relationships and predicting future supply chain performance based on 7 key performance predictors.



Why SLAs Fail and How to Make Yours Succeed

This webinar will present caveats, recommendations and guidelines to help you avoid the pitfalls that cause SLAs to fail or fall short.



You Need Real ROI To Make Decisions that Payoff

This webinar explains how to determine right, responsible, and reliable REAL ROI™ that overcomes pitfalls while guiding you to deci-sions that pay off.

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ITIL

ITILSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT


Improving Application Support Service with ITIL Service Management

During this webinar, we will review how ITIL’s Continual Service Im-provement practices can be used to meet these challenges.

ITILTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (Est)BOB ANDERSON

ITIL Service Management for Application Support

This webinar discusses how having a well defi ned and fi eld proven ser-vice management framework for your Application Maintenance and Support service is much easier and less risky than trying to make up one on your own.


Length 01:00 (Est)CLAY NICKELS

Meaningful Service Level Agreements for Application Support

ITIL provides an industry recognized set of standards for bringing process consistency and measureable improvements to your IT Maintenance and Support services. This webinar is the second in the ITIL for Application Support series.


Length 01:00 (Est)SCOTT FABEL

The Five Processes of ITIL Service Operation

In this webinar you will receive an overview of the fi ve processes of ITIL Service Operation.



The ITIL Value Proposition

In this webinar, you will learn about the value that ITIL provides both to you as a professional and to your organization.



Using ITIL Service Management to Reduce Business Application Software Incidents

During this webinar, we will review how ITIL’s Incident Management and Problem Management prac-tices can be used to meet these Application Support challenges.

MEASUREMENT

MEASUREMENTSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT


10 Absolutely Essential Habits of Successful Measurement Programs

This webinar will discuss the top 10 essential habits which can lead to a successful software manage-ment program.



5 Core Metrics for Surviving Software Endgames

In this webinar, you’ll learn how Project Managers can focus the entire team on a few key perfor-mance metrics to improve the overall endgame experience.


Length 01:04PAM MORRIS

A Guide to Effective Benchmarking of Application Development

This webinar discusses the Terms of Reference that need to be established for a Benchmarking activity to ensure that the results are valid and fi t for purpose.

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Length 01:26PHIL ARMOUR

A Practical Approach to Measuring Software Development Productivity

This webinar will present a useful and practical approach to produc-tivity measurement based on a mathematical model of systems development and over thirty years of research.


Length 00:48TONY ROLLO

A Process Approach to Benchmarking

This webinar will explain how the use of a process based approach can ensure that the requirements of the organization are clearly expressed and understood by all parties involved.



Are We There Yet? A Look at Software Development Performance over 20 Years

In this webinar, we will discuss whether the software industry has improved its performance over 20 years.


Length 00:46JOE HESSMILLER

Driving Innovative IT Metrics: Focusing on the CONDITIONS for Success

This presentation was designed for IT managers who understand the importance of managing with metrics and want to increase their understanding of what the “right” measures are.

MEASUREMENTLEADERSHIP


Enabling Trust in Your Measurement Systems

This webinar shows how under-standing the sources of mea-surement systems problems can enable them to be identifi ed and avoided in the fi rst place.


Length 01:14JOYCE STATZ

Enterprise Measurement: What Makes it Useful to All of Us

In this webinar we discuss best practices for enabling enterprise measurement to be effi cient and useful, with a minimum amount of data gathering and analysis.



How to Use IT Project History Data to Improve Software Project Performance

This webinar will examine what historical IT data is available and show its practical uses. Rules of

Thumb derived from the data will be provided along with valuable graphs and charts.


Length 00:55JOOST VISSER

Improving Software Quality with Clear, Standards-Based Metrics

In this webinar we explain a pragmatic model based on ISO 9126 standards for measuring software product quality that has been developed by the Software Improvement Group.



Leveraging Measurement in Your CMMI and Compliance Initiatives

This webinar explains how mea-surement can play a role at both the IT project/application and at the organizational level.


Length 01:25JOE SCHOFIELD

Lines of Code: Statistically Unreliable for Software Sizing?

Software projects are notorious for costing more than expected. This webinar will examine what the data is screaming to tell us.

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Length 01:08CHARLES SYMONS

Making Sense of Software Industry Performance

This webinar proposes a set of improvements and educates software customers on the levers that are available to obtain better performance from their suppliers.



Management Awareness of Software Measurement

This webinar will provide an overview of Function Point Analysis and Software Measurement, with implementation strategies for a successful measurement program.


Length 01:56RILEY RICE

Measurement Display for Maximum Effect

In most cases, little thought is giv-en to the many factors that affect whether a measurement package can achieve the needed effect. In this webinar, participants will gain a better understanding of the art.


Length 01:37HANS SASSENBURG

Measuring the Immeasurable: What is Your Real Performance Capability?

In this webinar, a powerful set of 16 best practice KPIs is presented, using a multi-dimensional perspec-tive that will help you measure your software’s capability.


Length 01:03PAT O’TOOLE

Metrics that Motivate Behavior

This webinar uses a case study to discuss behavioral expectations of organizations that achieve high maturity.



Paving the Road to a Software Measurement Program: How to Avoid Pitfalls, Potholes and Speed Bumps

In this webinar, we will identify pitfalls, potholes and speed bumps as well as proactive steps to take for ensuring success when imple-menting a software measurement program.


Length 01:18PEKKA FORSELIUS

Quality of Benchmarking Data

This webinar outlines various solutions for mitigating data quality risks within your benchmarking processes.



Software Metrics: The State of the Art (and Science)

This webinar will review a wide range of software metrics and will compare and contrast the advantages and limitations of var-ious approaches. Insights derived from Lean and Six Sigma on the effective use of metrics will also be discussed, and sources of bench-mark data will be reviewed.


Length 01:04DICK FAIRLEY

The Software Extension to the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition

The structure of SWX mirrors the 13 chapters of the PMBOK® Guide; the two documents are to be used together. In this webinar, we will present the major elements of SWX.

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MEASUREMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 00:53PRASHANTH SOUTHEKAL

Understanding and Using the Goal Question Metric (GQM) based Measurement Model for IT Projects

This webinar will discuss several stakeholder driven measurement models for improved decision making.



Using Function Points for Economic Analysis of Software Methodologies

This webinar with Capers Jones shows how standard “test beds” using function points can be used to evaluate software methods.

OFFSHORE & OUTSOURCING

OFFSHORE AND OUTSOURCINGSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 00:56ROSEMARY COATES

Bring Manufacturing Back – the Rush to Reshore

The decision to reshore isn’t as simple as you might think. In this webinar, we will look at the reshoring decision from several perspectives.


Length 00:53TANDY GOLD

Ethics in IT Outsourcing: Best Practices and Defi nition of a Working Model

This webinar will defi ne a model of applied ethics in the context of offshore outsourcing, and explore the current best practices as represented by certifi cations and other sources.

OFFSHORE AND OUTSOURCINGLEADERSHIP


Overcoming Cultural Differences by Focusing on Similarities

This webinar will explore various techniques that have helped her create a common culture on differ-ent global projects.


Length 01:21JOYCE STATZ

Planning for Outsourcing - Getting it Right from the Start

This webinar will discuss the basics of identifying a sourcing strategy and how to construct an argument for that strategy.


Length 01:16WAYNE WEIL

Practical Approaches to Managing Risk in Outsourcing

This webinar will discuss how you can better manage outsourcing relationships while mitigating the risk of the unexpected.



Successful Selection and Management of Software Development Outsourcing

This webinar will use a case study to demonstrate how software sizing and project history data can help achieve successful outsourc-ing outcomes.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

PROCESS IMPROVEMENTSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)WILLIS THOMAS

A Quality Approach to Determining ROI

This webinar presents practical approaches for determining Return on Investment (ROI) for Computer and Software Validation (CSV).

PROCESS IMPROVEMENTTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)DANIEL SHARP

Achieving “Continuous Resilience©” for IT and Other Functions

This webinar explains the concept of Continuous Resilience© and how to implement and use it.

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PROCESS IMPROVEMENTSTRATEGIC & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)GARY COKINS

Analytics-based Enterprise Performance Management

This presentation will describe how to complete the full vision of analytics-based enterprise performance management and improvement.



Appraisals and CMMI Gotchas - Lessons in CMMI Use and Appraisal Preparation

You’re thinking about using the CMMI or conducting an appraisal and arriving at Maturity Level X soon? This webinar shares lessons that can help you spend your efforts well while avoiding common pitfalls and hazards.



Axiomatic Design Applied to IT Process Development

This webinar will explain how Axiomatic Design (AOD), a highly structured framework of require-ments modeling, can be applied to the design of IT processes.


Length 00:58JAY ARTHUR

Breakthrough Improvement with Microsoft Excel: Finding the Invisible Low Hanging Fruit

This webinar, will discuss the ben-efi ts of Excel in relation to speed, quality, and overall profi tability. This session is recommended for frequent Excel users.


Length 01:00 (est)LARRY GOLDBERG

Case Studies from the Field: How The Decision Model (TDM) has Improved Requirements and Business System Development

This webinar will examine case studies from the fi rst 5 years of production systems built on the basis of TDM based architecture, and examine the impact that these systems have had on the organi-zations that have pioneered this development approach.



CMMI for Services

In this webinar, we will discuss the newest model in the CMMI con-stellation: the CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC).



Comparing Scrum and CMMI: How They Can Work Together

In this webinar, CMMI and Scrum are compared and explored, since they are two commonly used frameworks - frameworks that groups often struggle with when using together.


Length 01:00 (est)ALAN SHALLOWAY

Decisions to Make About What to Do-- NOT What Process to Implement

This webinar will teach you how to cherry pick from different methodologies and best practice approaches, so that you are not limited to one single methodology or another.


Length 01:23MUKESH JAIN

Delivering Successful Projects with TSP and Six Sigma: A Practical Approach

This webinar talks about his experiences delivering successful projects using TSP and Six Sigma.

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Doing Process Improvement in an IT Service Organization – Making it Real, Making it Useful

This webinar describes a straight-forward, systematic approach to planning and implementing a pro-cess improvement program inside service delivery organizations.



Evolution of Software Development Lifecycles: Waterfallacies and Agile Methods

This webinar explores the history and evolution of the software lifecycle.


Length 01:00 (est)MIKAEL LINDVALL

From Requirements to Testing: A New Software Development Approach

We are all constantly searching for a way to develop better, working software. In this webinar we will describe a new experimental approach.

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Getting Performance from Process Improvement

This webinar addresses connections between process improvement and performance improvement. You will learn how to leverage process improvement efforts to optimize organizational performance.



Global Software and IT - Lessons from Industry

This webinar summarizes concrete experiences and guidance on managing distributed projects on an industrial scale. It looks to techniques and tools for handling global software development and sourcing.


Length 00:48ALFRED ALLIK

How to Roll Out the CMMI and Reach Level 5

This webinar will explain how im-plementation of CMMI was accom-plished in a very complex software development environment.



If You Build It, Will They Come?

In this webinar you will learn to recognize the four variables that are germane to planning a process improvement transition, and how they work.


Length 01:18MIKE FELLUCA

IT Performance Improvement – Successfully Managing the Big 3!!

This webinar will examine the ‘big 3’ areas all IT organizations must focus on in order to improve overall performance.



IT Processes That Are Easy to Analyze and Improve

This webinar will illustrate some IT process examples which lend themselves to easy process improvement efforts. Examples of how similar projects were conduct-ed will be provided.


Length 01:25JAY ARTHUR

Lean Six Sigma Simplifi ed

In this webinar, you will learn the essential concepts, methods, and tools of Lean Six Sigma.



Lean Six Sigma, CMMI, and Agile Methods: Can They Co-Exist?

In this webinar, various process areas will be reviewed and connec-tions between Lean Six Sigma and CMMI Goals and Practices will be examined.


Length 01:09HASNAIN RIZVI

Leverage Lean Six Sigma Principles to Navigate Effectively Through Software Projects

This webinar will discuss the partnership of Lean Six Sigma and Project Management to foster col-laboration within software projects.


Length 01:16LARRY DRIBIN

Maintain Your Success By Using the Best: Using CMMI & ITIL to Become Excellent at Maintenance and Support

In this webinar, you will learn how the integration of the CMMI and ITIL can provide an excellent process foundation to guide maintenance.



Making CMMI and Process Improvement Useful

This webinar shows how to keep the use of improvement frameworks focused on running business. The webinar is geared towards senior managers, and project or program managers.

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Length 01:00 (est)JANET BURNS

Measuring the Value of Your PMP Using Six Sigma Tools

This webinar will provide a brief overview of the synergies between Six Sigma and project manage-ment. We will also discuss some key metrics, how they are used in Six Sigma, and how they translate to the project management arena.



Objective Driven Software Process Improvement

This webinar will demonstrate how to set up and drive a process im-provement program with business goals and concrete development challenges.



Performance Improvement for Excellence and Improvement

In this webinar, we will describe an agile lean approach to process improvement that improves the organization’s performance and provides an excellent foundation for innovation.


Length 01:00 (est)BETH LAYMAN

Process Architecture: Designing a Process Management System That Gets Used

This webinar describes how to think about process architecture and how to build a process man-agement system that is accepted and embraced by the workforce.



Process Improvement in a Multi-Model World

This webinarwill discuss how to manage process improvement in a complex, multi-model environment.



Process Improvement Tar Pits and How to Avoid Them

In this webinar, process improve-ment paleontologist Beth Layman analyzes the bones of failed process improvement efforts and discusses various traps into which the unwary have wandered.



Return on Process (ROP): Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improvement

In this webinar you will learn how to measure the “return on process” (ROP) so that your pro-cess improvement efforts remain valuable business pursuits.



Right-Sizing Requirements Elicitation: Balancing Lean, Six Sigma, and Agile

In this webinar, we will explore how you can combine some of the best features of several different approaches to “tame the tiger”.


Length 01:04KIM PRIES

Six Sigma for Software Development

This webinar will teach how to use Design for Six Sigma to produce high-quality software from the inception of their projects.



Small Changes, Big Performance Improvement

In this webinar, you will learn how to achieve big results with small changes. This webinar is based on the recent book “Return on

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Process: Getting Real Performance Results from Process Improve-ment.”



Software / IT Lifecycle Recipes: Making a Process Do What You Want it To Do

In this webinar you will learn how Agile, CMMI, Lean, and PSP/TSP development practices can help you meet the needs of your cus-tomers, teams, and organizations.



The Tools to Help in the Journey Beyond…

In this webinar, we will explore the concepts, tools and techniques from various quality engineering perspectives that can take you beyond your immediate destination and toward excellence.



To Survive, Get to Process Level 5

This webinar explores the need for IT organizations to pick up the pace to reach CMMI Level 5 and become ITIL & ISO9000 compliant.


Length 01:15ARLO BELSHEE

Two Heads Are Better Than One: Pair Programming

In this webinar you will learn why pairing works, how to tell good pairing from bad, and what you can do to improve your pairing.


Length 01:00 (est)NEIL POTTER

Typical (Great) Industry Software Development Practices - Just Do Them!

Don’t worry whether you are Agile, a couch potato or a CMMI Level 5 superstar. Lets talk about some great practices that organizations do when they build software that works.



Understanding Process Data

If you are tasked with improving part of your IT process, you need to have an understanding of the data available to you. This webinar will talk about what you need to know about data to pull this off.



Using “Process Throttling” to Appropriately Apply Software Processes in Multiple Environments

This webinar explains how project teams can identify processes that should be enhanced to address heightened risks on their projects.


Length 01:00 (est)DAN HOLTZ

Want Better Results? Get Better at Process

In this webinar, we dig into the heart of process and its relation-ship to success.



When Best Practices Aren’t the Best Choice

This webinar looks at the current state of “Best Practices” and presents a way to assess the value of individual practices on your projects.


Length 01:16TODD SCHRUBB

Why I Don’t Care that You Had a CMMI Level 5 Rating!

In this webinar, we will discuss the two representations of CMMI levels and what the ratings mean - and do not mean - about vendors and their capabilities.

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Zen Maturity – A Natural Multi-Model Approach

All too often companies apply standards and models (such as CMMI, ISO) by fi rst training a core team, then creating and imple-menting “best practices” oriented processes. In this webinar we will describe a more Zen-like approach to achieving lasting improvements.

PROCESS ESTIMATION



A Fool With A Tool: Improving Software Cost and Schedule Estimation

This webinar will discuss some of the more typical challenges en-countered in software estimation and the benefi ts and pitfalls of tool usage.



Adding Realism to Software Project Bidding

This webinar reviews the history of failed software development contracts. It provides compelling evidence of the importance of a credible estimation process for both the bidder and the evaluator.

PROJECT ESTIMATIONSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT


Are We Really That Bad? A Look at Software Estimation Accuracy.

In this webinar, we will conduct an analysis of 6000 software projects to reveal how good or bad we are, as an industry, at estimating.


Length 01:00 (est)TOM CAGLEY

Budgeting, Estimation, Planning, #NoEstimates and the Agile Planning Onion - They ALL make sense!

There are many levels of estima-tion, including budgeting, high-lev-el estimation and task planning (detailed estimation). This webinar challenges the listener to consider estimation as a form of planning.



Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves

This webinar demonstrates how hard it is to see our poor estimat-ing skills and describes how to avoid self-deception.



Establishing an Estimating Center of Excellence

In this webinar, you will learn a low impact, cost effective approach for centralizing an estimating function in your organization around a se-ries of estimating best practices.



Establishing the ROI on Software

This webinar explores how to more accurately estimate total ownership costs and benefi ts so that portfolio decisions can be op-timized and IT can be transformed into a profi t center.


Length 01:00 (est)CAROL DEKKERS

Estimation Poker - Bluffi ng (and Winning) with Metrics

Project estimation can be a game where opportunity, risks, rules, probabilities, skill, and even luck determines success. In fact, it almost sounds like poker!



Estimation, Planning & Control Can Make the Difference Between Project Success and Failure

This webinar covers estimation best practices, estimation pro-cess maturity, and examples of estimation planning and control done right.

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Estimation; Better Information, Better Decisions

In this webinar, we will examine the information that is necessary to produce realistic estimates allowing for better and more informed decisions.


Length 01:04BRAD CLARK

General Principles of Cost Estimation

This webinar will discuss various approaches to estimation, from the simple to the complex.



Introduction to Project Estimation

Fortunately, the principles, prac-tices and techniques for proper estimating are well defi ned and easy to learn. This webinar teaches such principles and more!


Length 01:17LARRY PUTNAM

IT Demand Management and Capacity Planning: Why Estimation is Vital to Balancing the Scale

This webinar will discuss the layers of estimation and provide tools on how to utilize estimation for project success.



Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics – A Look at Producing Software Productivity Benchmarks from Two Data Sources

This webinar explores the importance of understanding the sources and attributes of data that are used for benchmarking and estimation.


Length 01:30CAROL DEKKERS

Navigating the Minefi eld: Estimating BEFORE Requirements

This webinar explores what happens when project estimating moves back a phase – before requirements - and you are forced to develop estimates based on unknown requirements.



Navigating the Minefi eld: Successful Software Estimation before Requirements are Complete

This webinar outlines how to take a requirements-based approach to project estimating in order to cre-ate realistic project estimates even before requirements have gelled.


Length 01:00 (est)JOHANNA ROTHMAN

Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost

This webinar will help you see how to apply several pragmatic estima-tion approaches to your project or program.


Length 01:00 (est)JOHN STENBECK

The Five Time-Tested Keys to Estimating

During this webinar you will learn how to attain complete mastery of estimation.


Length 01:13LOUIS POULIN

Translating Time Cards into Something that can be Used for Software Estimation and Comparison Purposes

This webinar looks at an approach for converting large amounts of collected data into something that can be meaningfully used.


Length 00:40TIM LISTER

We Need it By October: What’s Your Estimate?

This webinar will offer practical advice on dealing with estimating after being given deadlines.

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Length 01:15DICK FAIRLEY

10 Considerations for Planning and Organizing IT Projects

In this webinar, we will present 10 considerations for planning and organizing plan-driven and agile software projects.


Length 01:16LYNDA BOURNE

10 Steps to Effective Stakeholder Engagement

This webinar defi nes the important steps in understanding stakehold-er expectations and effective com-munication so that the best results are ensured for everyone.



15 Tips for Speeding Up Your Project

This webinar shares 15 tips on how to start projects faster, how to steer projects faster to the end, and how to avoid the it-never-ends syndrome.



21 Project Management Success Tips

This webinar shares 21 tips for project management success that can be applied to any project!


Length 00:34STAN KATZ

A Gantt Chart is NOT A Project Plan

In this webinar we will examine the differences between a Gantt chart and a project plan. To be successful in a project requires a project plan. Your Gantt chart is NOT a project plan.


Length 01:18DON KIM

A Radically New Project Management Framework

This webinar outlines the basis for a new PM framework that accounts for the remaining 95% of human cognition not addressed by current industry standards or best processes models.


Length 00:52NICK PIETROCARLO

America may run on Dunkin(TM), but Projects run on People

This webinar will discuss the lever-age which project managers have via the motivation provided by their team members.


Length 01:32TERRA VANZANT-STERN

Applying Lean Concepts to Project Management: PMBOK, Prince2, ISO21500

There are three primary bodies of knowledge for project manage-ment. This webinar will explore

how to apply Lean concepts to these by means of the Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC).


Length 01:00 (est)KERRY WILLS

Assessing IT Projects to Ensure Successful Outcomes

This webinar will provide guidance on structuring and conducting an IT project assessment, from planning to presentation.



Assessing the Viability of Projects Before You Commit

This webinar will discuss the specifi c project indicators and measures that can be used to de-termine a projects viability BEFORE you commit.



Avoiding the 90% Syndrome: Why Status Reports are Often Wrong and What You Can do About it

In this webinar we’ll explore the causes of and remedies for overes-timating your progress.

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BA and PMs Unite to Avoid Projects Destined to Fail

This webinar demonstrates how appropriate Business Analysis (BA) is essential for initiating successful projects.



Better Problem Solving in One Hour

This webinar will show how you can regain lost skills and learn new ones to become better problem solvers.


Length 01:00 (est)KRISTY NECKOWICZ

Bridging the Gap between Portfolio and Project Execution

This webinar will explain the typical areas where processes and tools must be improved for organizations to bridge the execution gap.


Length 01:00 (est)PRASHANTH SOUTHEKAL

Building a Strong Business Case for Data Quality Projects Using the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) Model

This webinar presents a case study on managing a data quality project using the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) Model.


Length 01:24MARK PERRY

Business Driven PMO Success Stories

In this webinar, the author of “Busi-ness Driven PMO Success Stories” explains the concept of PMO Acumen and presents research fi ndings on the top 5 mistakes that PMOs make.

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Length 01:00 (est)PABLO LLEDO

Business First, Project Management Later!

This webinar will discuss the importance of business skills in evaluating whether our projects are worthwhile or not.


Length 01:25ELLI BENNATAN

Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Projects Back on Track

This webinar presents a ten-step process for disentangling a software project catastrophe and getting it back on track.


Length 01:00 (est)FERNANDO COLLEONE

Challenges and Opportunities of Global Projects: a Perspective From Brazil

In this webinar you will see how a Brazilian Project Manager manag-es Global Projects and learn about some of the unique challenges he faces.


Length 01:00 (est)SCOTT STRIBRNY

Change Management: Successful Strategies For Projects in an Ever-Changing Environment

This webinar will describe both successful and unsuccessful efforts for bringing about large-�scale change and will illustrate the critical success requirements for successful interventions.



Changes to PMI’s PMBoK Fourth Edition

In this webinar, you will learn about key changes to PMI’s new edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).



Changes to the 5th Edition of the PMBOK® Guide

In this webinar, you will learn about key changes to the new edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).


Length 01:09LAURA BURFORD

Common Project Management Mistakes within a Flat Organization

This webinar discusses fi ve orga-nizational characteristics often found in fl at organizations as well

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as the most common mistakes made by project managers in such organizations.



Conversations for Change: Say It Right When It Matters Most

In this webinar you will learn how to master your infl uence and move a team forward.


Length 01:33JAMISON MANION

Creating and Utilizing Logic Models and Strategy Maps to Focus Teams and Simplify Project Management

This webinar explains how strategy maps and logic models can help an organization accomplish its mission and achieve desired outcomes.


Length 01:00 (est)HOLLY RIPLEY

Creating Sense from Chaos - Building a PMO from Scratch

This webinar outlines a simple guide for creating order out of chaos when building a PMO from scratch.



Developing Career Enhancing Persuasion Skills

In this webinar you will learn how to persuade others of the merits of your perspective. We will look at credibility-building tips and will review guidelines for presenting your ideas.


Length 01:00 (est)DAVID SHIRLEY

Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel

This webinar will introduce you to the six elements of the Sustain-ability Wheel (Respect, Refl ect, Connect, Detect, Reject, and Proj-ect) to help you better understand how your projects fi t inside an organization.


Length 01:30BRUCE FALK

Earned Value Management You Can Actually Use

This webinar will teach you what you need to set up and use an ef-fective Earned Value Management (EVM) system.


Length 00:49JOSEPH PHILLIPS

Earning PMI’s Program Management Professional Certifi cation

This webinar will defi ne program management and project manage-ment, and explore various related topics.


Length 01:27RANDY ENGLUND

Everything I Wish I Knew [about Project Management] When Beginning My Career

Experienced practitioner turned consultant, Randy Englund, refl ects in this webinar upon key skills that make a difference in achieving greater success on projects.


Length 01:24JIM STEWART

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Project Management Professional Certifi cation

In this webinar, we will lay out the facts about what is involved in obtaining a PMP Certifi cation. We will cover such things as cost, how much experience you need, how diffi cult the test really is, and more.

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Length 01:00 (est)NICK LAVINGIA

Excellence in Project Management for the Energy Industry (Safe, Better, Cost Effi cient and Faster Projects)

This webinar will cover the four main topics that are key to suc-ceeding in the energy industry.



Exploding Management Myths

In this webinar we will discuss the creation of management solutions necessary for knowledge workers.


Length 01:23DUX RAYMOND SY

Fast Track Project Management for Sharepoint 2013

In this webinar you will learn how to deliver project management success by leveraging SharePoint with relevant tools.


Length 01:00DAVID GRITZ

Finish Projects On-Time by Leveraging a Secret Internet Community

Crowd-sourcing has opened the fl oodgates to people who are will-ing to help you do your job better and faster. In this webinar, you will learn how online communities can improve your productivity and project success rates.


Length 01:08MICHAEL DOBSON

Good, Fast, or Cheap? Using the Triple Constraints To Defi ne Project Parameters

“Did you want it good, fast, or cheap? Pick two.” This may be the most central management deci-sion you’ll ever make on a project.


Length 01:34TOM DEVANE

High-Leverage Actions to Dramatically Boost Intact Team Performance

In this webinar we’ll provide proven, pragmatic techniques for boosting the performance of an intact team.


Length 01:25LARRY TRACY

How PMs can “Bring Home The Bacon” when they lead Orals Teams Competing for Government Contracts

This webinar will demonstrate the different tactics for incumbents and challengers, as well as how to conduct a simulated orals.



How to Be Productively Disruptive in a Crazy World!

This webinar gets you out of your professional comfort zone, challenges you, creates spirited dialogue, and empowers you to be a more sought-after manager.


Length 00:56SEAN WHITAKER

How to Build a Project Management Methodology

In this webinar we will discuss the tools and templates required to create a personal project manage-ment methodology. We will also investigate the pitfalls of generic methodologies available within the market.


Length 01:00 (est)AMERICO PINTO

How to Make Your PMO Survive

This webinar presents an inno-vative framework called the PMO VALUE RING, whicih was the result of an extensive six-year research program.


Length 01:00 (est)REINE KASSULKER

How to Prioritize Any List without Criteria

In this popular webinar you will learn a simple, proven method to quickly and easily prioritize your list of projects.

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Length 00:42PETER LECHNER

How to Put Your Best Project Manager on Every IT Project

This webinar will explain how Automated Project Offi ce (APO) can strengthen governance, increase visibility, and provide greater insight and control.


Length 01:00 (est)JOE COOPER

Improving Focus and Predictability with Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)

In this webinar you will learn how chain project management (CCPM) improves project speed, quality, on-time performance, and team morale.


Length: 01:17JIM STEWART

Increasing Project Manager Maturity in Your Organization by Using Assessments

In this webinar we will discuss how assessments can be used to gauge not only project manager maturity but also the healthiness of your projects.


Length 01:00 (est)AVRAHAM SHTUB

Integrating Systems Engineering and Project Management

In this webinar, we will present a new approach that includes a methodology for enhancing the

decision making process when the design of a new product is considered.



Intelligent Disobedience

In this webinar we will explore the value of intelligent disobedience, how to practice it, and how this practice can help deliver better outcomes, improved morale and higher business IQ.


Length 00:40ANDREW NEUMAN

Intercultural Differences in Project Management (English)

This webinar will discuss inter-cultural differences in project management, with a focus on Japanese and US project manage-ment styles.


Length 00:57ANDREW NEUMAN

Intercultural Differences in Project Management (Japanese)

This webinar will discuss inter-cultural differences in project management, with a focus on Japanese and US project manage-ment styles.



Is it Alive? Read the Project Vital Signs

This webinar will discuss a highly effective eighteen-point plan for monitoring project vital signs.


Length 01:33DAVID SHIRLEY

IT Project Management – How Green is Your Valley?

In this webinar, we will discuss techniques to help IT project managers “green up”, We will also examine companies that are at the top of their game when it comes to green IT.



Lean Project Management

This webinar discusses how we can apply Lean concepts to project management to reduce costs while improving quality and value to the business.


Length 01:09CESAR ABEID

Leveraging the Internet to Empower Your Project Management Career, Image, and Reputation

In this webinar, you will learn how to shape what the internet has to say about you as a professional.


Length 01:11ERIKA FLORA

Leveraging the Power of PRINCE2 and PMI’s PMBOK Guide

This interactive session will provide an overview of PRINCE2, how PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) compliments

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PMBOK, as well as ways to incorpo-rate PRINCE2 concepts for project success.


Length 01:11ERIKA FLORA

Leveraging the Power of PRINCE2 and PMI’s PMBOK Guide

This interactive session will provide an overview of PRINCE 2, how PRINCE2 compliments PMI’s PMBOK, as well as ways to incorporate PRINCE2 concepts for increased project success.


Length 01:00 (est)NIKITA DEVEREAUX

Leveraging the POWER of Virtual Teams

In this webinar, we will give you the tools to determine if fl exible work is right for your organization.


Length 01:00LAURA BURFORD

Making a Halt, Cancel, or Go Decision

This webinar will discuss how to structure “Go/No-Go” project decisions. Knowing how to ap-proach these decisions in a formal, structured manner is a critical skill for project managers and project teams.


Length 01:00 (est)KENT CRAWFORD

Making the Most of PM Maturity: How to Leverage the Findings of an Assessment for Business Success

This webinar will help attendees understand how to leverage PM high-maturity areas for business success, while remedying gaps in their PM processes. It includes a case study focusing on PMO of the Year fi nalist, DTE.



Managing IT Projects for Social Development

In this webinar, we will explore some initiatives in the IT area, with the goal of highlighting the role of IT and the specifi c management challenges these projects pose.



Managing IT Projects in a Developing Country

In this webinar, the presenter will discuss some his experiences and lessons learned from a project management perspective in Africa.


Length 01:00 (est)RICK BRENNER

Managing Projects in Fluid Environments

In this webinar, we’ll explore meth-ods for executing projects success-fully by exploiting knowledge about where change comes from in fl uid environments.


Length 01:17AVRAHAM SHTUB

Managing the Fuzzy Front End of Projects

This webinar will discuss the proper tools and methodology in your Front End planning process which can lead to fewer risks and increased benefi ts.


Length 01:21ROBERT GORDON

Managing Virtual Mega-Projects

This webinar will review best practices for the virtual project management offi ce (VPMO), complexity theory (CT), and reverse logistics management (RLM) in the business life-cycle of a program and within the context of mega-projects.



Maximizing Project Success with Concrete Scope Management

In this webinar, you will learn scope approaches used around the world that have dramatically in-creased the success on IT projects by trained scope managers.



Mentors, Networks & Role Models: Owning Your Career Development

This webinar will offer tips for building relationships that will be immediately applicable in your career.

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Length 01:00 (est)JERRY MANAS

Napoleon on Project Management

This webinar will explore the key principles behind Napoleon’s successes, the triggers that led to his downfall, and the lessons PMs can learn from his demise.


Length 01:00 (est)HASNAIN RIZVI

Navigate Through Project Fraud to Deliver Superior Results

This webinar will outline six key steps every project manager must take to mitigate fraud. Practical insights from previous and current projects will be included.



Negotiating With a Project Sponsor

In this webinar, you will observe the good, the bad, and the ugly about what happens - or should happen - during negotiations.

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Length 01:12PETER PARKES

NLP for Project Managers

This webinar will provide an overview of the application of NLP to project management, and show how it can be used to help us achieve mastery by modeling the behaviors of those who excel.



Planning and Tracking a Software Project

This webinar speaks to techniques and approaches for planning and tracking software projects successfully.


Length 01:00 (est)LAURA BURFORD

PMO Primer: A Tactical Approach

This webinar walks you through the steps for building and improving a PMO, and includes key build deci-sions, ideas, and best practices.


Length 01:00 (est)DENNIS BOLLES

PMOs of Today and Tomorrow

This webinar will explore the changing role of the PMO, both in terms of past and present, and speculate as to the PMO’s future.


Length 01:08WES BALAKIAN

Power of Project Management

This webinar will focus on the importance of project manage-ment as the foundation for adding business process and delivering business results.


Length 01:00 (est)RICKI HENRY

Project Benefi t Realization: Writing Good Success Criteria, KPIs and Acceptance Criteria

In this webinar you’ll see examples of, and get direction on, how to write good Success Criteria, KPIs and Acceptance Criteria.


Length 01:00 (est)PAUL ROYER

Project Health Assessments

This webinar will walk attendees through the who, what, when, where, why and how of a project health assessment and present a set of ten critical success factors for each of the PMBOK® Guide’s Knowledge Areas and supporting processes.


Length 01:00 (est)KEMAL ATESMEN

Project Management Case Studies and Lessons Learned

This webinar is designed to help global project managers become more proactive, careful, disci-plined.


Length 00:50SUSANNE MADSEN

Project Management Coaching

In this webinar, we will coach the individual project manager through gaining clarity over what their ambitions are; i.e. what they want to achieve in their career and what type of project manager they want to become.


Length 01:00 (est)LORY WINGATE

Project Management for Research and Development

In this webinar, we discuss the concepts of project management from the perspective of R&D.


Length 01:00 (est)MARCO SAMPIETRO

Project Management for Team Members: The Forgotten Side of Project Management

In this webinar, we re-interpret project management using a bottom-up approach, adopting the team member perspective.

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Length 01:00 (est)ANNA KHODIJAH

Project Management in Indonesia: How Global Companies and Indonesian Stakeholders Can Collaborate and Succeed

This presentation will elaborate the typical project management prac-tices in Indonesia. This information will be invaluable for professionals and global project managers who want to succeed in the emerging market of Indonesia.



Project Management Is Dead, Long Live Project Management

This webinar will discuss why organizations undergoing agile transformations are reassessing the role of their project managers and why these project managers are still struggling.



Project Management Isn’t Enough: Essentials of Effective Sponsorship

This webinar explains why there are limits to what project man-agement practices can do for an organization that lacks effective sponsorship.


Length 01:00 (est)DAVID GRITZ

Project Management Lessons from a House Flipper

In this webinar you learn about the real project management challenges that one faces when transforming a house.


Length 01:07TONY CRAWFORD

Project Management Lessons Learned From The Movies

In this webinar, we will discover what can be learned from classics such as Titanic, Groundhog Day, Apollo 13 and The Wizard of Oz.


Length 01:14GERARD HILL

Project Management Methodology: 6 Activities for Successful Introduction and Use

This webinar will provide partici-pants with an examination of 6 ac-tivities that infl uence the success of methodology introduction within the organization.


Length 01:00 (est)VICKY WRONA

Project Recovery: Digging Yourself Out

This webinar provides a refresher on the fundamentals of project management and how getting back to such fundamentals can be used to get your project back on track.


Length 01:00 (est)RUFFIN VEAL

Project Relationship Management

This webinar discusses the seven possible relationships within a project and their importance to project success.


Length 01:00 (est)HOLLY RIPLEY

Project Retrospectives - How to Facilitate a Valuable Session

In this webinar, you will learn WHY project retrospectives are valuable and HOW to facilitate an effective session.


Length 01:00 (est)RUFFIN VEAL

Project vs. Program Management: Strategies for Successful Transition

Learn how to transition from project management to program management in this webinar!


Length 01:00 (est)PEDRO SERRADOR

Projects: Not Planning Well Enough . . . and Failing

This webinar will draw on a litera-ture review on planning that covers more than 270 sources, and will discuss the relationship between project planning and success.

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Length 00:59MATTHEW PETERS

Putting Your Best PM on Every Project: Virtualizing “Management by Walking Around”

This webinar will explain how Automated Project Offi ce (APO) can strengthen governance, increase visibility, and provide greater insight and control.


Length 01:24REBECCA STATON-REINSTEIN

Reduce Project Failure Following PM Basics

This webinar outlines the basics of solid project management and how such practices can be integrated into any methodology or technology.



Resource Planning and Management: Job One for Software Project Managers

This webinar discusses bad project planning – why it happens, how it happens, and how it can negatively impact the business.


Length 01:00STAN KATZ

Reviewing the Project Process: From Ideation to Project Success

This webinar provides information on a simple process that ensures only valid projects are initiated and completed successfully.


Length 01:00KURT BITTNER

Seven Habits of Highly Successful Software Teams

There are attitudes and habits that are common to every successful software team. This webinar exam-ines seven of the most important habits.


Length 01:00 (est)MARCO SAMPIETRO

Situational Project Management

This webinar will help you defi ne the best project management approach to take to your projects.



Six Dimensions of Project Team Motivation

There are six dimensions of motivation that always seem to be present in the top teams. In this webinar, you will learn what those six dimensions are.


Length 01:00 (est)AMY BAUGH

Stakeholder Engagement: Uncovering the “Hidden” Org Chart

This webinar will focus on how to identify an organization’s “Hidden” Org Chart.


Length 01:00 (est)MIKE FELLUCA

Successful Project Management Utilizing Exception Management

This webinar will demonstrate a method for successfully managing projects by teaching the project manager how to focus only on those areas that require attention.


Length 00:54KERRY WILLS

Summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro: A Project Management Case Study

In this webinar, Kerry Wills will compare his recent ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro to the adventure of managing a typical project.


Length 01:30THOMAS JULI

Surviving in a Matrix-Simple Techniques for Effective Project Management in a Matrix Organization

In this webinar we explain the value of motivation and continuous learning within a matrix organiza-

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tion. He will also discuss how to engage stakeholders in building a work package structure.



Taking the Creep out of Scope Creep: Managing Project Scope

This webinar will assist partici-pants in learning how better to determine the scope of a project, identify and manage changes to the scope, and involve the custom-er in decision making.


Length 00:57FIONA CHARLES

That’s an Elephant Over There (and Other Uncomfortable Project Truths)

In this webinar, we will share practical strategies and tips for delivering signifi cant messages successfully.


Length 00:59DON KIM

The Accidental Project Manager: The true story of my unorthodox career path and how becoming a project manager was a perfect fi t

From aspiring PhD Philosophy to corporate project manager and now independent consultant, Don Kim shares his unorthodox journey into a lucrative and fulfi lling career.

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Length 01:25LAURA BARNARD

The Building Blocks of an Effective and Sustainable PMO

In this webinar we will explore the art and science of how to make PMOs an effective change man-agement solution for your company



The Complete Project Manager

This webinar shares highlights about what it takes to be a com-plete project manager.


Length 00:59DENNIS BOLLES

The Elephant in the Executive Suite: Project Management and the PMO

This webinar shows how the de-ployment of the Project/Program/Portfolio Management Offi ce (PMO) has become a key business and organizational methodology for successfully managing projects.


Length 01:00 (est)PETER TAYLOR

The Lazy Project Manager

Learn how to transition from project management to program management in this webinar!


Length 01:00 (est)DON KIM

The M3 Project Leadership Framework: Improving the World One Project at a Time through Methods, Meditations and Mindfulness

This webinar examines mindful-ness and how it relates to project management.


Length 01:00 (est)KEITH CUSTER

The PMP Credential – Is This What Your Career Needs?

This webinar will inform you about the PMP credential, its history, why it will be benefi cial to you, and how you can obtain and keep it.



The Professional Certifi ed Scope Manager (CSM): a New IT Job Role

This webinar discusses how soft-ware development programs and projects are gaining remarkable benefi ts based on scope manage-ment best practices.


Length 01:00 (est)LORY WINGATE

The Project Management Approach for Achieving Positive Innovation Outcomes

This webinar will address the topic areas of innovation, project lead-ership, project defi nition, project planning, and project controls.



The Project Management Kung Fu Theater

This webinar reveals the similari-ties between project management and the kung fu movies of the 1970s.


Length 01:00 (est)DEBBIE CRAWFORD

The Skills that Drive Project and Organization Success

In this webinar you will learn about the wide range of technical, leadership and business skills that are currently in demand for project managers.

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Length 00:52DEBORAH HERTING

The Socially Emerging Project Manager: High Impact Interpersonal Skills, Their Attributes, and Using Them to Achieve Success

In this webinar we will discuss social awareness in relation to stockholder relationships and how project management contributes to 80% of organizational success.


Length 01:00 (est)BILL DOW

The Tactical Guide for Building a PMO

Topics covered in this webinar will include maturity models, staffi ng matrixes, and the importance of reporting and dashboards.



Three Myths that Kill Projects

In this webinar you will learn about the three myths that kill projects, why they kill projects, and how to avoid them.


Length 01:29TONY CRAWFORD

Top 20 Project Management Best Practices, Tips and Techniques

This webinar will review fi ve key ar-eas that are critical to the success of any project: goals, processes, skills, attitude and culture.


Length 00:51JON QUIGLEY

TQM tools applied to Project Management and PMO

In this webinar, we will show you how to use the tools and tech-niques of Total Quality Manage-ment with Project Management


Length 01:00 (est)SATISH SUBRAMANIAN

Transforming Business with Program Management

This webinar showcases a proven program management roadmap that attendees can readily apply within their own organizations.


Length 01:00 (est)ANGELO BARATTA

Triple Constraint: The 3 Dimensions of Change Every PM Must Understand for Every Project to Succeed

At the end of this webinar, you will understand the three dimensions of change and how each one is vital to project success.


Length 01:00 (est)TERRY SCHMIDT

Turning Strategic Goals into Successful Projects

This webinar will demonstrate how IT groups in organizations such as Boeing have used strategic goals to improve their processes and deliver outstanding project results.


Length 01:08JANA AXLINE

Turning the Titanic

If you’ve been handed a project that is off course, this webinar will teach you how to change direction before it’s too late.


Length 01:24REBECCA STATON-REINSTEIN

Use Cost of Quality to Quantify Effort and Reduce Project Failure

This webinar will discuss how to properly use Cost of Quality (COQ) to drive down the Cost of Failure and demonstrate positive ROI.



We Are All Biased!

In this webinar you will examine anchor, agreement and outcome biases in addition to attaining strategies for avoiding these draw-backs from affecting your project.


Length 00:41ELAINE LAW

What is Lean Coffee and How Can I Work it in as a Project Manager

In this session, you will learn the origin of Lean Coffee and how to understand the practice. You will also participate in an actual Lean Coffee session.

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Length: 01:04WES BALAKIAN

What is the Value of Project Management Training and How Can You Measure it?

In this webinar, you will learn what type of project management train-ing you or your organization need, and how to measure the value and success of that training over time.


Length 01:00 (est)JAMAL MOUSTAFAEV

What the Heck is Project Portfolio Management?

This webinar explains what Project Portfolio Management is, and provides case studies from around the world.


Length 01:00 (est)SUSAN DE SOUSA

Why Project Reporting Can Make or Break a Project Manager’s Career

This webinar will look at the fi ne line Project Managers tread when reporting on their delivery, and how to do it effectively.


Length 01:00 (est)FRANK SALADIS

Your Future as a Project Manager

This webinar focuses on the challenges of today’s project managers, the issues facing the profession in the near future, and the specifi c skills a project manager must attain to remain successful in this discipline.


Length 01:08ALFONSO BUCERO

Your Words, as a Project Manager, Make a Difference

In this webinar we will discuss the importance of vocabulary within the workplace and its contribution to greater success within project management.

QUALITY & TESTING

QUALITY & TESTINGSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:10REX BLACK

5 Testing Best Practices

This webinar will discuss what testing practices have been most effective over the past 25 years.

QUALITY & TESTINGTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT


Applying QA Testing in an Agile Development Methodology

In this webinar, our agile expert will educate attendees on the appropriate approaches, artifacts, and metrics for successfully deliv-ering high quality products on time in an Agile methodology.


Length 00:57RANDY RAYMOND

Automating a Cluttered and Ineffi cient Manual Regression Test Suite

This webinar will describe the challenges, considerations and business decisions surrounding the decision to automate a manual regression test.



Book Discussion: Foundations of Software Testing: ISTQB Certifi cation

Computer Aid University presents a book discussion on Foundations of Software Testing: ISTQB Certifi ca-tion by Rex Black, et al.


Length 00:44JON QUIGLEY

Confi guration Management and Successful Product Critique

This webinar demonstrates how confi guration management is linked to product testing and how the confi guration management plan and product growth plan can provide a road map for product critique.

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Length 00:30RANDY RAYMOND

Enabling IT to Reduce Application Maintenance & Development by 30-50% thru Quality Assurance

This webinar will describe six activities that an IT organization must do well in order to reduce application development and main-tenance between 30% and 50%.



Five Hard-Won Lessons in Performance, Load, and Reliability Testing

In this webinar, you’ll learn when to start performance, load, and reliability testing. how to build your tests, what to do and what not to do, and how models and simula-tions can validate your testing.


Length 01:23RON RICHARD

Inherent Quality

The simple beauty associated with inherent quality is that getting started is easy. In this webinar, you will how to instill this mindset into daily activities, so that quality and value are more intrinsic and pervasive in everything you do.



Managing Software Quality

This webinar will focus on the qual-ity aspect of the software deliver-able and how the organization can

design, implement and manage a quality management system for the software that they produce.



Model-based Testing for Everyone

This webinar will discuss the results from MBT studies in com-parison to manual testing.



Modern Automated Testing Approaches

This webinar will take a look at different tools and approaches that can be used for various types of automated testing, as well as different best practices related to automated testing.



Overcoming Common User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Misconceptions

This eye-opening webinar reveals the fl aws in common UAT beliefs and describes more appropriate models and methods that build user competence, confi dence, and cooperation.



Practical QA Testing in a Confi gurable World

This webinar will walk you through the appropriate techniques and approaches for testing different types of systems. A customer case study will be included.



Proactive SQA™ Overcomes the ‘Traffi c Cop’ Mentality

In this webinar, you will learn the six functions Proactive SQA™ performs to produce high quality software from the start.



Proactive Testing Puts Agile Test-Driven (and Other) Development on Steroids

This webinar shows how practical low-overhead Proactive Testing techniques reveal many important test conditions that are typically overlooked.


Length 01:21NATHAN PETSCHENIK

Reducing the Costs of System Testing

In this webinar, we will survey techniques for reducing system testing costs.

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Risk Driven Testing

This webinar is intended for software professionals who are re-sponsible for defi ning the strategy and planning of the testing effort and for managing it through its life cycle.


Length 01:29ED WELLER

Root Cause Analysis: When and How to Make it Effective

In this webinar, we will look at RCA as part of defect prevention and address why defects get into our work, how to identify the underly-ing causes of these defects, and how to create a process for doing cause-effect analysis.



Science-based Test Planning – Fewer Tests, Better Coverage

Combinatorial test design minimiz-es the number of tests required to achieve a specifi ed level of cover-age while reducing test costs by up to 40%. This webinar with Gary Gack will explain and illustrate this approach.



Setting Up a Testing Center of Excellence: Making it Work

In this webinar, we will demon-strate how to implement a Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) so that it is practical and productive within an organization.



Testing Automation ROI Webinar

In this webinar you will learn how Testing Automation will deliver the signifi cant Return on Investment (ROI) to your organization.



Testing Automation: Keys to Success

In this webinar, we will present a pragmatic approach for imple-menting a testing automation framework which will increase throughput and productivity for an organization.



Testing in the Enterprise Using Scrum

This webinar shows how to face scaled testing challenges.



The International Software Testing Qualifi cation Board Advanced Syllabus

In this webinar, you will learn how the ISTQB Advanced syllabus can guide you, your testing colleagues, and your organization toward better testing, reduced risk, and higher quality.


Length 01:06NATHAN PETSCHENIK

Using Measurement for System Testing Success

This webinar shares experiences and insights into the technical as-pects of collecting and interpreting measurements for system test.


Length 01:00 (est)FIONA CHARLES

Using Models in Your Software Test Strategies

This webinar will demonstrate how to use and combine common but powerful test modeling techniques and how to present them in such a way that stakeholders understand and accept your test strategy.

RISK MANAGEMENT

RISK MANAGEMENT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)PAUL DANDURAND

70% of Your Projects are Likely to FAIL!

We have all read the statistics about business projects and their success rate. In this webinar, we will discuss why we think this failure rate has been consistent for 15 years and discuss what you can do to improve consistency of execution.

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RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)PETER HILL

Acquiring a Software Package – Decreasing the Risk

In this webinar you will learn how to adopt an appropriate strategy to choose a combination of software package and provider.



Advanced Project Risk Management

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


Length 00:53RICKI HENRY

Advanced Risk Management: More than Impact and Probability

In this webinar we’ll discuss how to improve risk identifi cation, qualifi cation, quantifi cation, and mitigation.

RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT


Application Knowledge Capture: A Method for Capturing Critical IT Knowledge

This webinar will outline a method-ology for capturing the knowledge of those retiring before it is too late.



Balancing Software Risks, Software Value, and Return on Investment (ROI)

This webinar discusses the paths followed by the most successful software projects in the most successful software companies. ROI calculations are examined in-depth.


Length 01:00 (est)SUSAN PARENTE

Busting the Barriers to Managing Risk!

This webinar will address the hurdles to implementing risk management and provide you with tools and techniques to overcome these obstacles in your organiza-tion and on your projects.


Length 01:00CARL PRITCHARD

Critical First Steps Toward An Effective IT Risk Practice

In this webinar, Carl Pritchard pro-vides practical perspective on how to get your team to openly identify their concerns.



Data Collection for Risk Identifi cation

This webianr covers methods for collecting risk-oriented data and introduces technologies to support your data collection and analysis effort.



Ensuring Project Success through Automated Project Governance

This webinar will discuss an innovative new approach for automating and institutionalizing project governance best practices at both the executive and opera-tional level.

RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)LOUIS POULIN

Estimation of Financial Losses Due to Project Risks

This webinar focuses on risk management in general and on the estimation of risk-related fi nancial losses, in particular.


Length 01:00 (est)DAYLE BEYER

Hope is Not a Strategy: Key Concepts to Prevent Project Failure

During this webinar, you will learn about the 7 reasons projects fail and what you can do to prevent them from getting in the way of your success.

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Length 01:00 (est)MICHAEL DOBSON

How Good is Good Enough? Using the Seven Level Outcome Evaluation to Manage Risk and Quality

The Seven Level Outcome Eval-uation helps you establish clear benchmarks for risks and quality by defi ning the end state of the project at seven descending levels of quality: Perfect, Outstanding, Exceeds Expectations, Satisfacto-ry, Barely Adequate, Failure, and Catastrophe.



How to Avoid Loss of Knowledge Precision in Risk Analysis

This webinar discusses the difference between quantitative and qualitative risk management techniques.


Length 01:00 (est)BILL BENTLEY

How to Evaluate Risk with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). It’s So Easy a Child Can Do it!

FMEA is a simple technique for evaluating risk in all types of situ-ations. It’s easy to use and once you learn it, you’ll fi nd lots of uses for it in all your projects.


Length 01:00 (est)NICK LAVINGIA

Managing Risk for Mega Global Energy Projects

In this webinar you will learn how decision and risk analysis tools are used to identify, quantify, mitigate, and manage major project risks.


Length 01:00 (Est)NICK LAVINGIA

Managing Risk for Mega Global Energy Projects

In this webinar you will learn how decision and risk analysis tools are used to identify, quantify, mitigate and manage major project risks.



Managing Risk in Projects with Short Fuses

In this webinar, risk management expert Carl Pritchard takes us on a tour of risk practices when you don’t - or think you don’t - have time to add one more administra-tive layer.



Managing the Black Hole: The Executive’s Guide to Software Project Risk

In this webinar, Computer Aid University (CAI-U) hosts a book discussion on “Managing the Black Hole: The Executive’s Guide to Software Project Risk” with author Gary Gack.


Length 01:04VIC BASILI

Measuring Process Risk for Early Insights into Software Safety

This webinar will discuss how to measure process risk in order to glean early insights into software safety risks.


Length 01:18LOUIS POULIN

Monte Carlo Simulations: What are They, and How Can They Be Performed in Excel?

Monte Carlo simulations are a very powerful technique in risk man-agement, statistical modeling and predictive analytics. This webinar will demonstrate how to perform them in Excel.



Of Course We Elicit Requirements. We Interview Everyone

In this webinar,we will introduce a comprehensive process for the requirements stage. He will explain how the type and magnitude of risk should guide your process and will present rules for diminishing risk.



Risk and Risk Ethics

In this webinar, we will look at the connection between risk and risk ethics in dealing with the day-to-day. You will leave with three ques-tions for any situation to determine whether lines are being crossed.

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Risk Management for Larger Software Projects: Recognition, Prevention, Remediation

This webinar will discuss fi ve high leverage factors which are the primary drivers of success in large software projects.


Length 01:00TOBIAS KUIPERS

Risks in IT Projects

In this webinar, we will explore a method that can be used to identi-fy and mitigate your project risk.



Sizing, Cost, Schedule and Risk for Software: A 10 Step Process

This webinar will show how to properly estimate and plan costs, schedules, risks, and resources. A complete method for developing project estimates and plans will be provided.



Speaking the Language of Risk

This webinar will explain how to create a shared risk management vocabulary.



Straightforward Risk Management for Projects That You Can do Now

This webinar will step you through a straightforward risk process for assessing and managing risks that you can perform immediately with your team.



The First Five Traits of Risk Management Excellence

This webinar examines the fi ve crit-ical traits possessed by those who are truly organizationally ready and effective as risk managers, and of-fers tips on improving those traits.



The High Probability of Extremely Low-Probability Events

This webinar will show you the mathematical realities behind low probability events and illustrate with real-world examples.



The Organizational Politics of Risk Management

In this webinar, we will examine six fundamental principles that will teach you how to control how organizational politics impacts your risk management efforts.



The Risk Management Plan – REALLY!

This webinar discusses the most vital elements of a risk manage-ment plan.



The Software Baby Boomer Risk

This webinar will discuss the Boomer risk and explore the ques-tions that need to be answered.


Length 01:19MARK PERRY

The Top 10 Risks that Threaten Project Portfolio Management Success

This webinar provides a business-driven approach to project portfolio management that features a short case example fol-lowed by discussion on risks that threaten Portfolio Management Success.



Titanic Risk: 101 Years Later and It Still Matters

Using the epic tragedy of the Ti-tanic as a backdrop, Carl Pritchard (PMP, PMI-RMP) explores the interactive nature of risks and why a single threat normally doesn’t doom a project to failure.

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Length 01:14MICHAEL BRAGEN

Types of Risks on IT Projects, and How to Mitigate

In this webinar, we will examine types and sources of risks found in different IT projects. You will gain an understanding of the founda-tions of risk control and mitigation.



Unintended Consequences of Measurement

This webinar will explain the math-ematical realities behind highly probable low-probability events.



Using Decision Tables and Decision Trees for Quantitative Risk Analysis

In this webinar you will learn how to create Decision Tables and Decision Trees to assess the true impact of risks on your projects.



Welcome to the Land (and Brand!) of Risk

In this webinar, Carl Pritchard talks about steps that you can take to integrate your day-to-day risk management practices with your overall project brand.

SOFT SKILLS



3 Leadership Competencies Every Project Manager Needs

This webinar examines project management success and how to measure it.


Length 01:02TRACI DUEZ

5 Steps to Using Your Best Thinking to Go ALL-IN

In this webinar you will learn how to use your mind to change your brain and create new habits that generate greater value for you and those you lead.



7 Keys to Transformation from Project Manager to Project Leader

In this webinar we will discuss tips and strategies, and examine the attitudes and behaviors, that will help you transform yourself into a project leader.

SOFT SKILLSSTRATEGIC AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length: 00:58BILL BENTLEY

Alliance Networking - Increase Your Odds of Landing an Interview

This webinar will instruct you in a novel technique for using probabil-ity to increase your odds of getting call backs in your job search.


Length 00:52NICK PIETROCARLO

America May Run on Dunkin®, but Projects Run on People

This webinar will discuss the lever-age which project managers have via the motivation provided by their team members.


Length 01:00 (est)NICK PIETROCARLO

America May Run on Dunkin®, but Projects Run on People: Part 2

This webinar (Part 2) explores how Program Managers can get fi xated on costs, schedule, and scope while overlooking that their greatest leverage lies in the morale of their team.


Length 01:00 (est)SUSANNE MADSEN

An Introduction to Coaching

This webinar will explain how coaching is different from manag-ing and how to coach your team members.

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Length 01:00 (est)MICHAEL NIR

Bear in Mind – Infl uence without Authority

This webinar explores the best practices for leading and infl uenc-ing without authority, including the three essentials model: stakehold-er leadership, team orientation and individual adjustment.


Length 01:06AGNIESZKA GASPERINI

Becoming a World Class Coach

In this webinar, you will learn why it is important to develop better coaching skills and how you can take your coaching to the next level.


Length 00:57GINA ABUDI

Best Practices for Managing the Virtual Project Team

In this webinar, you will learn how a virtual project team leader meets challenges to function as a well co-located team.

SOFT SKILLSTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)LINDA RISING

Better Decision Making: Science or Stories?

This webinar discusses the merits of science and stories when it comes to decision making.


Length 00:55IAN SHARPE

Billion Dollar Win: Managing Challenging Stakeholders by Shifting the Context

The webinar discusses the context shifting worksheet (CSW) and how you can use it to establish productive relationships with any stakeholder.


Length 01:10PAUL GLEN

Building a Powerful Project Leadership Team

This webinar explores why rela-tionships between technical and business groups are so diffi cult and what you can do about it.


Length 01:00 (est)GORDON ADELSBERG

Communication Fundamentals for Project Managers, Introverts, and Geeks: 4 Secrets to Success

In this webinar we review four simple secrets that will improve your presentations, elevator speeches, customer meetings and even emails.



Communication in Global and Distributed Teams

This webinar will help people who sponsor, lead or participate in virtual organizations better communicate within global and distributed teams.


Length 01:12DAVID BARRETT

Connect! And Stay Connected: Managing your Professional and Personal Relationships

In this webinar, you will learn how to manage the portfolio of people relationships in your life.


Length 01:00 (est)JOHN STENBECK

Crash Course in Leadership for PMs

In this webinar you will learn how to unlock your personal PM power, develop yourself to maximum potential, and exponentially improve your effectiveness and your results.


Length 01:00 (Est)BOB GALEN

Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders

In this webinar, we’ll explore the patterns of mature agile managers and leaders: how they can effec-tively support, grow, coach, and empower agile teams.

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Length 01:00 (est)JEFF TESCHKE

Exploring the Power of LinkedIn for Project Managers

Too many of us simply accept connection requests! There’s a LOT more to LinkedIn. In this webinar you will learn how to get the maxi-mum leverage out of LinkedIn.



Get More Out of Your PMP

This webinar will explore leader-ship competencies that project managers must be aware of to move beyond the PMP to true Proj-ect Management Professionalism.


Length 01:00 (est)SATISH SUBRAMANIAN

How to Be a Business Transformation Leader

This webinar will shed light on a pragmatic leadership model that executives and leaders can apply to drive business transformation.


Length 01:26DAVE BRODERICK

How to Effectively Lead a Global Team

In this webinar, David Broderick, Director of Global Services Delivery for CAI, will share his experiences and insights on how to effectively lead IT teams dispersed across different countries.



How to Effectively Lead an Offshore Team - Part 1

In this webinar, we will share some facts, experiences, and insights on how to lead IT teams dispersed across different countries.



How to Effectively Lead an Offshore Team - Part 2 (A Case Study)

This webinar will walk you through a case study of a successful offshore transition to China and share in the learnings that were uncovered along the way.


Length 01:00 (est)KRISTY NECKOWICZ

How to Speak so Your Sponsors Can Hear You

Your success depends on your abil-ity to communicate with and enroll your sponsor and stakeholders. In this webinar, you will learn to quickly identify the different styles and motivators, along with some useful and practical tips for how to collaborate with anyone.



How to Start Your Self-Directed Leadership Journey

This webinar explains why self-di-rected learning is necessary for project managers who desire to development superior leadership capability.


Length 01:00 (est)CASSANDRA PECK

Infl uencing Others through Empowerment

In this webinar, Cassandra Peck uses her experiences as a Military Offi cer, and what she learned from the great leaders and mentors she had the pleasure of serving with, to help you increase your “Skills Tool Box”.


Length 01:01CECILIA BOGGI

Interpersonal Skills for Leading Projects

This webinar will enable partici-pants to gain the proper tools to manage skills and behaviors within teams to increase productivity and project success.



Leadership Competencies: Getting More Out of Your PMP

This webinar examines common questions PMPs have as well as current methods for developing the kind of competency that really matters.



Leadership Skills for Project Managers

In this webinar, you will learn how to use projects to propel yourself to the next level, how to become a true project leader, and how to differentiate yourself from the competition.

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Length 01:23ANDRE LAVIGNE

Leadership Skills to Sell Your Project Internally

This webinar will discuss the dimensions of the decision maker, how they decide, and the intrap-ersonal skills needed to infl uence them.



Leadership: Cracking the Code for Today’s Project Managers

What makes a great project lead-er? This webinar begins to answer this question by presenting a proj-ect management relevant fi ve-rule framework to apply in real life.


Length 01:13TRACI DUEZ

Leading the Way Head First to Heart First: Using Neuro-Axiology to Grow Your Career

This webinar will discuss how to evolve from a “Head-First Man-ager” to a “Heart-First Manager” based on the late management of Peter Drucker.

SOFT SKILLSSTRATEGIC & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Length 01:00 (est)BRUCE HARPHAM

Lessons From 300 Years of Innovation

In this webinar, you will learn about several major innovation case studies from the past 300 years, and how to foster an innovation en-vironment within your organization.



Loving Your Job, and Getting Others to do Likewise!

In this webinar you will learn three specifi c things you can start doing right away that will provide you and your team a higher sense of hope and enthusiasm for the days ahead.


Length 01:00 (est)JOHN JUZBASICH

Make Better Decisions

This webinar is designed to help participants improve their critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving while applying these new skills to workplace challenges.



Managing a Parallel Career

Individuals can no longer expect lifetime employment at a single company or even within the same profession. This webinar will teach you how to plan proactively for a second, parallel career.


Length 01:00 (est)VICKI WRONA

Managing Diffi cult Personalities

This webinar will help you under-stand the nature of confl ict, why people react so strongly to each other, and how to progress - in spite of this - towards productive outcomes.


Length 01:00 (est)SCOTT FABEL

Managing Your Project Stakeholders’ Expectations

In this webinar, you will learn how to work effectively with a variety of project stakeholders.


Length 01:00 (est)LISA DITULLIO

Mind Over Matter: Using Neuroscience to Become More Productive and Successful

This webinar will help you work smarter, be more focused and pro-ductive, stay cool under pressure and perhaps help you live longer.


Length 01:33MARIA MATARELLI

Motivating and Engaging Teams

In this webinar, you will learn how motivation and values infl uence behavior and gain insights into how you can improve relationships and manage confl ict — personally, professionally, and socially.


Length 01:33MARIA MATARELLI

Motivating and Engaging Teams

In this webinar, you will learn how motivation and values infl uence behavior and gain insights into how you can improve relationships and manage confl ict — personally, professionally, and socially.

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Length 01:00 (est)CARL PRITCHARD

Motivating in a Virtual Environment

This webinar shares tips and tricks on how to keep our virtual pro-fessional relationships engaged, enthused and participative.



Organizational Change Myths and Patterns for Evangelists

This webinar examines how you can learn to introduce new ideas; it is based on the book “Fearless Change”.


Length 00:43BILL DOW

Project Communications: A Project Manager’s Guide to Doing it Right!

In this webinar, we will walk you through tips and best practices for communicating effectively on your projects


Length 01:19DAVID FIELDS

Same Rain, Bigger Drops – Maximizing Your Independent Consulting Worth

In this webinar, we will discuss how to super-size your average project, how to earn a rock-star premium even if you’re an unknown per-former, and how to improve your negotiation skills.


Length 01:00 (est)ANDRE LAVIGNE

Six Super Powers for Project Success

What are the skills you must ac-quire to differentiate yourself? Join us in this webinar as we discuss how you can build super human skills and become a superhero in your fi eld.


Length 01:00 (est)DAVID GRITZ

Success Lessons from Successful People

Several years ago, David Gritz went on a quest to interview the most successful alumni from his alma mater. In this webinar, David will share with you the lessons that he learned from this adventure.

SOFT SKILLSTECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT


Successful Program Management: Complexity Theory, Communication, and Leadership

This webinar explores the clash between Program Management and Complexity Theory, and how to effectively balance both when managing.


Length 01:00 (est)LYNDA BOURNE

Targeted Communication - The Key to Effective Stakeholder Engagement

This webinar explores the effective ways to engage with stakeholders, who are different and unique for every project.



The Decision Model: Linking Business Leadership and Technology

This webinar we discuss the link between business motivations and related decisions and how those decisions are represented in a Decision Model.



The Evolution of a Project Manager into a Project Leader

This webinar explores trends in today’s changing project environ-ment for evolving from a Project Manager to a Project Leader.



The Politics of Meetings (for People Who Hate Politics)

In this webinar workshop, we will provide a general framework that helps meeting leaders focus on leading the people in the meeting rather than getting enmeshed in their politics.

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The Race to the South Pole: Lessons in Risk Management for Leaders

In 1911, Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. 35 days later, Rob-ert Scott followed. Amundsen’s party returned to base but Scott’s party perished. This webinar uses the history of this event to explore important lessons about managing risk.


Length 01:00 (est)DEBORAH HERTING

The Socially Emerging Project Manager: High Impact Interpersonal Skills, Their Attributes, and Using Them to Achieve Success

This webinar explains how interper-sonal skills are vital to continual project success.


Length 01:00 (est)KRISTEN ROCKENBACH

TMI for PMI

This webinar explores how neu-rolinguistic programming (NLP) can benefi t project managers. You will learn communication tactics and metaprograms to be aware of when communicating with clients and team members.


Length 01:00 (est)JAMISON MANION

Training Is Not the Goal of the Training Department

This webinar will teach how behavioral economics can help you diagnose the root cause of behavior.


Length 01:00 (est)DON KIM

Using Behavioral Economics to Rationally Understand the Irrationality of Your Teams

This webinar will show you how to use research fi ndings from the fi eld of behavioral economics that can be used to “nudge” irrational people toward a more rationally correct direction.


Length 01:00 (est)MARK MULLALY

Yes, I Am Allowed To Do That! The Confi dence To Take Action

In this webinar, you will learn exactly how much freedom you have to act, both within your orga-nization and on your projects. You will also learn how to exercise this license in a way that is responsible and effective.


Length 01:00 (est)ALFONSO BUCERO

Your Words Make a Difference

This webinar explains how your words, as a project manager, may generate different perceptions and reactions from different people; and how to select the right words with the right people.

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