Seminars & Workshops
The PMI Chicagoland Chapter sponsors seminars and workshops to provide educational and professional development opportunities to its membership. Most of these events qualify for Professional Development Units (PDU's) toward PMP certification renewal. PDU's must be submitted personally by each PMP. More information is available on the Current PDU Offerings page in our Events Section.
PMP Examination Preparation Workshops for 2009
We have just competed contracting for and scheduling PMP Exam Prep workshops with DeVry. These workshops are sponsored by your Chapter and will be held over four consecutive Saturdays at DeVry's Oak Brook, Illinois facility according to the below schedule:
January 10th, 17th, 24thand 31st .
February 21st, 28th, and March 7th, 14th .
April 11th, 18th, 25th and May 2nd .
The above three workshops will use the PMBOK 3rd edition and allow participants to complete their preparations for taking the current PMP Certification Exam prior to the June 30, 2009 change in the exam to reflect the new PMBOK 4th edition.
July 25th, August 1st, 8th and 15th .
October 17th, 24th, 31st and November 7th.
The above two workshops will use the PMBOK 4th edition and allow participants to complete their preparations for taking the new PMP Certification Exam scheduled for availability after June 30, 2009.
January 2009 PMP® Exam Prep Workshop
The Project Management Institute (PMI®) Chicagoland Chapter is offering a 4-day workshop designed to improve your project management knowledge and foster your professional development. The workshop is intended to meet the needs of those wishing to prepare and earn PMP® certification, a professional certification acknowledged throughout the world.
Workshop Information:
Dates: January 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st
Continental Breakfast and Check-In: 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Workshop: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Lunch is provided. Please contact the Director of Certification if you need any special access or dietary needs at least one week prior to the event.
The workshop is worth 35 contact hours. These hours can be used towards the 35 contact hours required for your PMP application.
Cost:
$975 for PMI Chicagoland Chapter members
$1,100 for non-PMI Chicagoland Chapter members
Location:
DeVry University
http://www.devry.edu/locations/campuses/loc_oakbrook_map.jsp
Oakbrook Terrace Tower
One Tower Lane
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
To Register:
Number of registrants is limited, so reserve your seat now: Click to Register
Cancellation: Full refund less $50 for cancellation before January 7, 2009. No refund after January 7, 2009.
Note: Materials will be handed out to students at the start of class Check-In. Please have your confirmation ready for proof of registration.
Contact the Director of Certification at certification@pmi-chicagoland.org if you have any further questions or concerns regarding this event.
Agile Project Management 2-Day workshop - January 22 - 23, 2009
Agile Project Management (2-day course) by ASPE Technology
Cost: $995 each (reg. $1295) with PMI Priority Code presented at the time of registration with ASPE.
Registration must be made over the phone or via email (kgillooly@aspetech.com ) with ASPE Training Advisor. This pricing is not available through ASPE's e-commerce website nor will registrations be processed by PMI.
Location: Microtek - Downtown Chicago
230 W. Monroe
Suite 550
Chicago, IL 60606
PDUs: 14 Contact Hours = 14 PDUs
Description of material to be presented:
This workshop focuses on bringing non-traditional methods to bear within your software projects. With projects consistently failing at a +60% level for the past 10 plus years, it's clear that traditional techniques aren't working all that well. We'll explore how to blend traditional and non-traditional PM techniques to enhance your project success and delivery of real business value. We'll examine Agility as it relates to estimating, planning, risk management, change and release management. This workshop teaches you how to adapt and respond to challenges within your software projects.
Benefits to attendees / Course objectives
1. Learn how to blend aspects of Agility into your traditional projects
2. Learn the "key principles" behind Agile
3. Improve your coaching skills - learning how to provide feedback & guidance that drives improvement - the foundation of Agile Principles
4. Learn how to adapt from a plan-driven approach to include actual velocity-driven aspects into your planning and scheduling
5. Improve you communication skills within the team and to customers and stakeholders
6. Conduct project retrospectives and reviews that surface important changes for your projects
7. Learn how to make critical project adjustments, in real-time, that improve your schedule attainment
8. Discover how to adjust your PM style and approaches under various development methodologies
9. Improve your release readiness metrics so that you deliver on time and with higher visible quality
10. Gain a full understanding of Wideband Delphi and card-based collaborative planning approaches
11. Learn dynamic project tracking mechanisms that allow for ongoing predictive scheduling
12. Agile estimating techniques that can easily be used in traditional projects to great effect
13. Acquire techniques for ensuring technical viability and feasibility for your software projects
14. Learn how to serve as an agile change agent within your organization
15. Discover critical metrics and progress indicators to monitor within your teams
16. Improve your flexibility when adjusting PM techniques across different methodologies - Waterfall, RUP, and Agile
17. Gain insight into powerful facilitation and decision-making tools for coaches
18. How Lean Engineering techniques can be simply applied for great effect
19. Learn about "how much design is appropriate up front?"
20. Learn about the "Theory of Constraints"
Recommended prerequisites for attendees
• This class is appropriate for intermediate-level professionals who need to improve their job skills in the area of Project Management as it pertains to Agile Software Development. Students should also be familiar with the role of software development in their job position, and the reasons they will benefit from the subject matter taught in this course. No advance preparation is required.
Minimum and maximum number of attendees: Minimum 10, Maximum 30 per session.
Lee Lambert PDUs for Pennies @ PMI-Chicagoland : March 12 & 13, 2009
How to Avoid Separation anxiety Using the Tool of the PM Trade to Add Organizational Value
&
A Toolbelt for Requirements Capture
Instructors: Lambert Consulting Group - Lee Lambert & Greg Githens
Dates: March 12 & 13, 2009 (register for the 12th, the 13th, or both the 12th &the 13th )
Cost: $349.00 for either one day / $599.00 for both days
Location: Itasca Country Club
Course Descriptions:
DAY ONE: MARCH 12, 2009
How To Avoid "Separation Anxiety" Using the Tools of the PM Trade to Add Organizational Value
with Lee R. Lambert, PMP, CEO
In tough economic times the key to maintaining your employment status will hinge upon how valuable you are to the organization and it ability to continue to thrive and achieve its business objectives. The value you add will be determined by the impact your efforts have on achieving project success and organizational effectiveness.
Learn how to capitalize on the power of the PM tools to provide incredibly insightful decision support information that will earn you the honor of becoming the "go to person" in your organization. Learn how to provide the decision makers with realistic and truthful information about the quality of the project plan, the current status of the project compared to the plan, and potential actions to be taken. And, perhaps most importantly, you will learn how to uncannily predict the "future status" of the project-thus enabling decision makers to "act" in the timeliest and beneficial way.
This program will not only empower you to become a true professional in the use of value add tools and techniques of PM, but it will inspire you to reach new heights of personal and professional enthusiasm, enjoyment and satisfaction knowing your are making a substantial positive contribution to the success of your organization. This is a Win-Win-Win proposition. Your project wins, your organization wins and YOU win.
DAY TWO: MARCH 13, 2009
A Toolbelt for Requirements Capture
with Greg Githens, PMP, NPDP
This practical course will equip you to better satisfy your customers' needs, manage their expectations, banish scope creep, and assure project success. You will learn how design your personal toolbelt and add with tools for translating customer needs into project requirements, setting scope, and developing valid requirement specifications.
HOW WILL I BENEFIT FROM THIS SESSION?
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by learning to:
- Discover both spoken and unspoken requirements
- Ask the "three magic questions" that elicit essential information
- Use the G-O-A-T Matrix to select appropriate techniques for requirements capture
- Write concise, compact, specific and unambiguous detailed requirements that precisely describes needed functions and performance requirement
- Write use cases to clarify what does the user's "What" rather than the product's "How"
- Increase your leadership skills so that you can work collaboratively with customers
- Develop insights that will allow you to be more innovative and better serve clients
- Tailor a proven set of techniques to your own process
- Identify, confirm and document project boundaries
- Apply a basic template for specifying project requirements
- Recognize the difference between requirements and design specifications
- Establish priorities
- Recognize the pitfalls that lead to enormous costs, rework and errors (The #1 mistake is confusing design with requirements!)
- Describe the 1:10:100 rule of cost avoidance
- Distinguish between good and poor specifications
WHAT WILL MY SEMINAR EXPERIENCE COVER?
You will learn about the following essential concepts of requirements capture:
- Translating requests to requirements: Why and how to define wants, needs and requirements. You will learn critical leadership perspectives that allow the project team to work collaboratively with customers and sponsors to get a complete and correct understanding of the underlying business issues and scope, including unspoken requirements.
- Asking solid questions that help deliver the right solution. Effective questions that anybody can ask.
- Writing requirements: A straightforward, compact template for writing unambiguous, verifiable functional and performance requirements.
- Faster Projects and Awesome Products: Iterative and agile project management approaches that speed project delivery.
- Eliciting and validating business, system, and user requirements: Techniques include a simple, straightforward approach to developing and writing use cases, field observation, contextual analysis, "V" model, mind mapping, the includes-excludes table, and prioritization through the triple constraint.
- Defining scope: The three kinds of scope you must define and manage.
There are no currently scheduled seminars or other events.
