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Workshops
Below is a snapshot of the workshops at this year's conference.
For full details please download our Workshops & Forum Explanations.
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Monday & Tuesday, November 6-7, 2006 |
Two Day Workshops |
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9:00 – 5:00
Learn how to
• Develop a personal study plan for the exam preparation
• Master the nine Knowledge Areas of the PMBOK
• Effectively prepare for success on your exam
Jerry Brown, PMP, PROJECT METHODS
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Successful projects don't just happen—they are made to happen...
Neal Whitten, President, THE NEAL WHITTEN GROUP
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Are you confused about Earned Value and how to actually implement on your projects? You are not alone...
Ray W. Stratton, PMP, EVP (Earned value professional), Author, President, MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES
For full details, please download our Workshops & Forum Explanations PDF.
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Monday, November 6, 2006 |
One Day Workshops |
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During this one day workshop, you will learn how to cut costs and delays by improving communication between business stakeholders and developers through comprehensive requirements analysis, modeling and documentation...
Phil Vincent, Adjunct Professor, BOSTON UNIVERSITY
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Until recently, Business Analysis Professionals have had to rely on their own experiences and the shared experiences of their peers to provide them with guidance on how to do their jobs properly. There was no external standard that agreed to best practices...
Kathleen Barret, President, IIBA & Senior Business Consultant, BMO FINANCIAL GROUP
For full details, please download our Workshops & Forum Explanations PDF.
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Monday, November 6, 2006 |
One Day Workshops |
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Agile methods (Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Crystal, Feature Driven Development, etc.) have been sweeping into the mainstream over the past few years. Industry leaders have discovered that...
Roland Cuellar, Jim York and Rodney Bodamer, Director, Senior Practice Manager, Managing Consultant,CC PACE
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The problems that result from specifying ambiguous and incorrect requirements are a major source of software failure and customer dissatisfaction. This experience-based workshop shares effective, time-tested practices for developing requirements quickly without compromising quality.
Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant, EBG CONSULTING, INC.
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This workshop is designed to provide a practical, effective and repeatable process for using Object Oriented Analysis and Design to develop functional business requirements, test scripts, and design classes.
Brad Carroll, PMP, Project Management Office, Sr. Project Manager, COMSYS IT PARTNERS
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High-end tools such as iRise can provide powerful benefits in helping BAs visualize and validate software specifications. But what if you're just getting started? Visualization tools must work hand-in-hand with methods...
Carolyn Snyder, Usability Consultant, author of Paper Prototyping
Carolyn Snyder has 23 years of experience in the software industry and has spent the past 13 years practicing user-centered methods, focusing on usability testing and paper prototyping. Carolyn wrote the book Paper Prototyping, which was published in 2003. She is also co-author of two other usability books. Carolyn will lead/moderate the iRise workshop on paper prototyping.
For full details, please download our Workshops & Forum Explanations PDF.
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Monday, November 6, 2006 |
Half Day Workshops |
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AM Workshop: 9:00-12:30
This workshop will focus on preparing for implementation of an Integrated Portfolio Management System (IPMS) by focusing on internal functions and preparation that must be determined in order for portfolio success...
David L. Davis, PMP, Chairman, PMI EBUSINESS SIG, AT&T
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PM Workshop: 2:00 – 5:00
It takes a paradigm shift in business processes and organization structure to develop and manage the people, processes, tools, and skills needed to create NCO focused products and services for internal/external usage...
William. J. Purpura, Technical Project Manager, BOEING
For full details, please download our Workshops & Forum Explanations PDF.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006 |
One Day Workshops |
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Tuesday November 7, 2006 9:00 -5:00
Knowledge Management (KM) is directly relevant to our project world because knowledge is the fuel that keeps out organizations alive and thriving competitively...
Joel S. Alleyne, Chief Information and Knowledge Officer, BORDEN LADNER GERVAIS LLP
Davis Brian, President, THE KAIETEUR INSTITUTE FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
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PMI's OPM3® is a model designed to assess project management maturity within an organization and implement continuous improvements. So …
Kim Sienkiewicz & John R. Winter, Program Development,INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING
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This full day workshop will arm those who contribute, write, review or verify requirements with various techniques to pull out of your "bag of tricks" to ensure you write clear, concise, and measurable requirements. It isn't a secret, requirements engineering, specifically writing "good" requirements is really hard to do...!
Debra Lavell, Program Manager,INTEL
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Business rules are an essential part of business analysis because they define, constrain or enable the behavior of software or business processes. Rules are at the heart of functional requirements. Deriving, specifying, verifying, and validating business rules that are high quality—correct, consistent, clear and complete—is an enormous challenge for business analysts...
Mary Gorman, Senior Associate, EBG CONSULTING, INC.
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Effective stakeholder and user involvement on any project can mean the difference between delivering business value quickly or building yet another product/process that no one wants to use. So how do you avoid hearing: "I can't use this...
Michal Patten, Senior Consultant, AGILE ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
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For solutions to be successful (internally and commercially) they must provide the required features/functions and must be designed so that those functions are usable by the identified users doing the identified work...
Brenda Kerton, Research Lead, INFO-TECH RESEARCH GROUP
IIBA POSITION: Chair, IIBA BODY OF KNOWLEDGE COMMITTEE
For full details, please download our Workshops & Forum Explanations PDF.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006 |
Half Day Workshops |
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AM Workshop: 9:00-12:30
If you need to plan a project, it's simple – just use Microsoft Project! Assign a junior member of your team, have them enter the dates of all the tasks, and you are done. Unfortunately, many projects experience serious difficulties...
John E. Moore, PhD, SYSTEMS ENGINEER
John E. Moore is a systems engineering who supports software project planning, software project tracking, and process improvement for a CMMI level 5 organization.
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AM Workshop: 9:00-12:30
PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Certification is quickly becoming the certification of choice for anyone who works on projects, or project managers who are not ready to pursue PMP Certification...
Louis Alderman, VELOCITEACH
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PM Workshop: 2:00 – 5:00
Companies who do not recognize that creative and innovative thinking is a requirement for success in the new world economy will be the dinosaurs of the next business age...
Paul R. Williams, PMP, Project Manager, THRIVENT FINANCIAL
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Process maps and use cases can be used as complementary business analysis techniques...
Susan Burk, Systems Architect, MASSMUTUAL
Welcome Reception
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Enjoy good networking, good food/beverages, with lots of surprises!
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