ANYTIME PDUs: COMBO PACK 4 (62 PDUs) Purchase Option No Longer Available PLAN SUMMARY The Anytime PDUs: Combo Pack #4 online training subscription plan includes 50 online courses that award a varying number of PDU credits per course for a total of 62 PDU training hours. Get these courses to learn how to be more effective in your communications with project stakeholders, solving problems with your project team, and negotiating with stakeholders. Plus, identify business analysis activities that are essential to setting up your projects for success. TAKE COURSES ONLINE 24/7** Login and start taking courses immediately once completing your order successfully online at our website. What You Can Use to Take Courses DESKTOP LAPTOP TABLET Point Advantage online training center your place for project management PDU courses. WINDOWS + MAC ipad + Android Technical Leadership Strategic 7.75 6.25 48.00 ** Online Training Center is open 24/7, except for 2 regularly scheduled maintenance times every week. See System Requirements at our website for computer, device and software required to play courses via our online training center. Point Advantage 2016 All rights reserved. CAPM, PMI, PMP, PMI-ACP and PgMP are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute Page 1 of 7
COURSE CATEGORY: CONSULTING SKILLS (21 PDUs) 3.75 4.00 13.25 21.00 COURSE SERIES OVERVIEW Essentials of Facilitating Series (3) Identify how to use facilitation skills as a project manager, to facilitate collaborative processes, and deal with the challenges of facilitating. Communicating Effectively with the 'C' Level Series (2) Prepare to communicate effectively at the 'C' level. Gain techniques that can be used for communicating effectively with senior executives. Running Effective Business Meetings Series (3) Prepare for effective business meetings, manage effective business meetings, and deal with common meeting problems. Basic Presentation Skills Series (3) Gain essential knowledge and skills for planning a presentation, creating a presentation, and delivering a presentation. Difficult Conversations Series (3) There comes a time in almost any project when you will need to engage in a difficult conversation with a project sponsor, team leader, client stakeholder or project staff member. This online course series presents ways to prepare for a difficult conversation, steps for engaging in a difficult conversation, and techniques to effectively handle the conversation. SUBSCRIPTION PLANS Consulting Skills Combo Pack #2 Combo Pack #4 Combo Pack #5 Talent Triangle Course Pack 2 Stakeholder Management Series (3) Identify who should be actively involved, when they should be involved and ways to effectively manage stakeholder involvement and expectations throughout the project (based on PMBOK Guide 5th Edition). Getting Results without Direct Authority Series (4) Increase your knowledge, skills and techniques for building relationships and credibility, using persuasive communication, using reciprocity, and influencing your boss in ways to get results without having the direct authority on your projects. Point Advantage 2016 All rights reserved. Page 2 of 7
COURSE CATEGORY: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS (20 PDUs) 1.00 0.75 18.25 20.00 COURSE SERIES OVERVIEW Negotiation Essentials Series (5) Define the term negotiation, plan for negotiation, communicate in a negotiation, persuade in a negotiation, and avoid common pitfalls encountered in a negotiation. Problem Solving and Decision-Making Strategies Series (6) Explore the fundamentals of problem solving, determine and build your strengths, and dig deeper into the problem. Explore the fundamentals of decision making, identify tools and techniques used for making decisions, and evaluate factors that lead to making a tough decision. SUBSCRIPTION PLANS Professional Skills Combo Pack #1 Combo Pack #4 Building and Maintaining Trust Series (2) Increase awareness and identify various ways to build trust with your project stakeholders, and rebuild trust when the situation arises to do so. Critical Thinking Essentials Series (2) Explore the essentials of critical thinking and apply critical thinking to your everyday activities as a project or program manager. Generating Creative & Innovative Ideas Series (3) Identify ways to enhance your creativity, maximize team creativity, and verify and build ideas from your project team and project stakeholders. Decisiveness Series (2) Develop character for decisiveness and overcome the barriers to decisiveness. Point Advantage 2016 All rights reserved. Page 3 of 7
COURSE CATEGORY: BUSINESS ANALYSIS + REQUIREMENTS (21 PDUs) COURSE SERIES OVERVIEW Introduction to Business Analysis + Essential Competencies (2) Define business analysis, identify the essential competencies required for effective business analysis, and provide a foundation for applying business analysis principles on any project. Introduction to Business Analysis Planning (2.5) Identify and select the best business analysis approaches, explore techniques for defining a business analysis approach, process modeling and structured walkthroughs, identify how to perform stakeholder analysis, and estimate effort for business analysis work on a project. Planning Business Analysis Communication + Monitoring (2.5) Planning for business analysis communications, planning for requirements management, planning on how to measure business analysis performance, and effectively performing lessons learned on a project. Business Analysis Requirements Elicitation (2) Define the purpose of requirements elicitation. Explore how to use brainstorming, document analysis, interface analysis, and prototyping techniques to elicit requirements. Document and confirm requirements. SUBSCRIPTION PLANS Business Analysis + Requirements Combo Pack #2 Combo Pack #4 Talent Triangle Course Pack 1 Business Analysis Requirements Management + Communication (2) Manage solution scope and requirements using baselining and problem tracking techniques. Maintain and prepare requirements with a requirements package. Communicate requirements through requirements workshops and structured walkthroughs. Business Analysis: Enterprise Analysis (2.5) Define business needs and gaps. Assess capability gaps. Determine a solution approach. Define solution scope. Define a business case for gathering data and being persuasive to justify a proposed solution. Business Analysis: Introduction to Requirements Analysis (2.5) Explore methods for prioritizing and organizing requirements. Identify how to specify and model requirements. Explain the basics of business analysis. Business Analysis: Verify and Validate Requirements (2) Identify techniques for defining project assumptions and constraints. Identify techniques that can be used to verify and validate and select the best technique to use in a given scenario. Business Analysis: Solution Assessment and Validation (3) Identify the elements and techniques for assessing a proposed solution, allocating requirements, and assessing organizational readiness. Explore ways to define transition requirements, and examine the techniques for validating and evaluating solutions and their performance. Talent Triangle PDUs Awarded Total PDUs 21.00 Technical (T) 3.00 Leadership (L) 1.50 Strategic (S) 16.50 Point Advantage 2016 All rights reserved. Page 4 of 7
TALENT TRIANGLE: CONSULTING SKILLS (21 PDUs) 3.75 4.00 13.25 21.00 Detailed Talent Triangle PDU Distribution by Course Consulting Skills Talent Triangle PDUs Total PMI Activity Number Course Title (Course ID*) T L S Total comm_27_a01_bs_enus Getting Results without Direct Authority: Building Relationships and Credibility 0.50 0.00 0.50 1.00 comm_27_a02_bs_enus Getting Results without Direct Authority: Persuasive Communication 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_27_a03_bs_enus Getting Results without Direct Authority: Reciprocity 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_27_a04_bs_enus Getting Results without Direct Authority: Influencing Your Boss 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_31_a01_bs_enus Preparing to Communicate Effectively at the 'C' Level 0.50 0.00 0.50 1.00 comm_31_a02_bs_enus Techniques for Communicating Effectively with Senior Executives 0.50 0.00 0.50 1.00 comm_32_a01_bs_enus Preparing for Effective Business Meetings 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_32_a02_bs_enus Managing Effective Business Meetings 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_32_a03_bs_enus Dealing with Common Meeting Problems 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_33_a01_bs_enus Basic Presentation Skills: Planning a Presentation 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_33_a02_bs_enus Basic Presentation Skills: Creating a Presentation 0.25 0.00 0.75 1.00 comm_33_a03_bs_enus Basic Presentation Skills: Delivering a Presentation 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 mgmt_36_a01_bs_enus Preparing for a Difficult Conversation 0.00 0.50 0.50 1.00 mgmt_36_a02_bs_enus Having a Difficult Conversation 0.00 0.50 0.50 1.00 mgmt_36_a03_bs_enus Handling Difficult Conversations Effectively 0.00 0.50 0.50 1.00 proj_29_a01_bs_enus Project Stakeholder Management (PMBOK Guide Fifth Edition) 1.00 0.25 0.25 1.50 proj_29_a02_bs_enus Managing and Controlling Stakeholder Engagement (PMBOK Guide Fifth Edition) 1.00 0.25 0.25 1.50 mgmt_31_a01_bs_enus Using Facilitation Skills as a Manager 0.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 mgmt_31_a02_bs_enus Facilitating Collaborative Processes 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 mgmt_31_a03_bs_enus Challenges of Facilitating 0.00 1.00 0.00 1.00 Consulting Skills Total 3.75 4.00 13.25 21.00 PDUs are awarded by PMI Registered Education Provider # 1008 (Skillsoft Corporation). When claiming PDUs at the PMI CCRS site or verifying the courses are registered with PMI, you must use the PMI Activity Number to locate the course. Students must enter/verify the PDU values for each Talent Triangle category for each course completed. Point Advantage 2016 All rights reserved. Page 5 of 7
TALENT TRIANGLE: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS (20 PDUs) 1.00 0.75 18.25 20.00 Detailed Talent Triangle PDU Distribution by Course PMI Activity Number Course Title (Course ID*) T L S Total comm_24_a01_bs_enus Negotiation Essentials: What Is Negotiation? 0.50 0.00 0.50 1.00 comm_24_a02_bs_enus Negotiation Essentials: Planning for Negotiation 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 comm_24_a03_bs_enus Negotiation Essentials: Communicating 0.25 0.00 0.75 1.00 comm_24_a04_bs_enus Negotiation Essentials: Persuading 0.00 0.25 0.75 1.00 comm_24_a05_bs_enus Negotiation Essentials: Avoiding Pitfalls in Negotiations 0.25 0.00 0.75 1.00 pd_09_a01_bs_enus Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas: Enhancing Your Creativity 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_09_a02_bs_enus Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas: Maximizing Team Creativity 0.00 0.50 0.50 1.00 pd_09_a03_bs_enus Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas: Verifying and Building on Ideas 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_12_a01_bs_enus Problem Solving: The Fundamentals 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_12_a02_bs_enus Problem Solving: Determining and Building Your Strengths 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_12_a03_bs_enus Problem Solving: Digging Deeper 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_12_a04_bs_enus Decision Making: The Fundamentals 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_12_a05_bs_enus Decision Making: Tools and Techniques 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_12_a06_bs_enus Decision Making: Making Tough Decisions 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_14_a01_bs_enus Critical Thinking Essentials: What Is Critical Thinking? 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_14_a02_bs_enus Critical Thinking Essentials: Applying Critical Thinking Skills 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_15_a01_bs_enus Building Trust 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_15_a02_bs_enus Rebuilding Trust 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_27_a01_bs_enus Developing Character for Decisiveness 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 pd_27_a02_bs_enus Overcoming the Barriers to Decisiveness 0.00 0.00 1.00 1.00 Professional Skills Total 1.00 0.75 18.25 20.00 PDUs are awarded by PMI Registered Education Provider # 1008 (Skillsoft Corporation). When claiming PDUs at the PMI CCRS site or verifying the courses are registered with PMI, you must use the PMI Activity Number to locate the course. Students must enter/verify the PDU values for each Talent Triangle category for each course completed. Point Advantage 2016 All rights reserved. Page 6 of 7
TALENT TRIANGLE: BUSINESS ANALYSIS + REQUIREMENTS (21 PDUs) 3.00 1.50 16.50 21.00 Detailed Talent Triangle PDU Distribution by Course PMI Activity Number Course Title (Course ID*) T L S Total ib_buap_a01_it_enus Introduction to Business Analysis and Essential Competencies 0.25 0.50 1.25 2.00 ib_buap_a02_it_enus Introduction to Business Analysis Planning 0.75 0.00 1.75 2.50 ib_buap_a03_it_enus Planning Business Analysis Communication and Monitoring 0.75 0.00 1.75 2.50 ib_buap_a04_it_enus Business Analysis Requirements Elicitation 0.00 0.00 2.00 2.00 ib_buap_a05_it_enus Business Analysis Requirements Management and Communication 0.25 0.00 1.75 2.00 ib_buap_a06_it_enus Business Analysis: Enterprise Analysis 0.00 0.00 2.50 2.50 ib_buap_a07_it_enus Business Analysis: Introduction to Requirements Analysis 0.00 0.00 2.50 2.50 ib_buap_a08_it_enus Business Analysis: Verify and Validate Requirements 1.00 0.00 1.00 2.00 ib_buap_a09_it_enus Business Analysis: Solution Assessment and Validation 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 Business Analysis + Requirements Total 3.00 1.50 16.50 21.00 PDUs are awarded by PMI Registered Education Provider # 1008 (Skillsoft Corporation). When claiming PDUs at the PMI CCRS site or verifying the courses are registered with PMI, you must use the PMI Activity Number to locate the course. Students must enter/verify the PDU values for each Talent Triangle category for each course completed. The Business Analysis courses in this Course Category are based on the Business Analyst Book of Knowledge (BABOK ) Guide Version 2 and still useful for continuing education purposes. However, if you are considering to pursue the CBAP certification exam through IIBA, select our Test Prep: Business Analyst Certification subscription plan to get the courses based on BABOK Guide Version 3 that align to the current exam (starting October 1, 2016). Point Advantage 2016 All rights reserved. Page 7 of 7