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For a 5-minute movie about the course,  Managing Projects Well, click here.

WEBinars (web-Based seminars)

What is a Webinar?
What does On Demand mean?
How do I Order and Register?
Guidelines
Frequently Asked Questions

Join us for Wednesday WEBinars the first Wednesday of each month. Next live WEBinars resume in the fall.

What is a WEBinar?  It is the next best thing to a live classroom environment. We select themes for each quarter based on input from you - our customers. Sometimes, we have guest speakers and panel-of-experts presentations. Our presentations qualify for QAI recertification credits (CPE) and PMI recertification credits (PDU). 

A WEBinar is a Web-based teleconferencing seminar with a teleconference telephone connection for audio. We use a special Web broadcast (interactive WEB cast) to present spreadsheets, web pages, documents, and Power Points together with interactive chat and graphics for presenter and attendees. 

We make our WEBinars available in two forms: 

1) live and interactive to optimize attendee interaction; and

2) in archival, pre-recorded form (On Demand) to fit your schedule and convenience. 

Many live WEBinar attendees also like to get the On Demand version to have a good review, especially since PowerPoint files are only available with the On Demand order.  A substantial discount for the On Demand version is available when ordered with the live WEBinar. 

What On Demand Means. On Demand WEBinars are pre-recorded versions of past live WEBinars. We provide links to the pre-recorded audio, Power Points and documents.  No CDs are provided or mailed. Although not valid for QAI recertification credits, the contents can be downloaded and viewed at your convenience. For a short time after live WEBinar completion, a live "video movie" of the WEBinar is also often provided as a bonus for early orders.  This movie runs on Macromedia Flash, needs no special software, and can be played back directly from our site, or downloaded and played back from your computer. 

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How to Order and Register. Past On Demand WEBinars are shipped via emailed link to a hidden page on our website, which has links to movies, PPTs, audio files, and documents. Upcoming On Demand orders are shipped the same way, automatically after the live WEBinar completes. 

Live WEBinars require entry of the attendee's name and email address during payment.  The next email that you get after registration contains a link you use to join the meeting at the selected time, including links to test connectivity.

The "event" page for your chosen WEBinar is found on our website, both on the home page, and under "webinars" within "site navigation" at the upper left of any of our web pages.  If you got an email promotion from The Quality Connection, Unicom, QAI India, QAI USA, or other sponsors, the registration link in that email points to the current event page as well.

An overview of the process appears below; for more detail; go to our Frequently Asked Questions.

  • Select the desired WEBinar subject

  • Determine time: Domestic / International

  • Determine type: live, On Demand, or both

  • Be sure it will run on your machine (before or after order): WEBinar Preparation * and Test WEBinar

  • Order product, using your (the attendee's) name and email address

  • Paypal processes the order; you can use your own credit card instead

  • You get an instant web page and email receipt

  • In 30 minutes, you get your order via email

  • For live orders, pretest link and login. 

  • Join WEBinar early, consider viewing WEBinar orientation movie. **

Times and Attendees

We usually conduct our Live WEBinars on the first Wednesday of each month. Most of our WEBinars are for a nominal fee; some are free. Our free WEBinars have open, competitive seating. Our paid WEBinars have pre-allocated, reserved seats. For both, we encourage individual attendance from multi-site organizations, and small conference room groups attending as a unit (using, for example, a projection monitor and speakerphone).  

For both our paid and free WEBinars, we provide enrollees with the following: 

  • An e-mail with an unique, private link, login, and password to join the WEBinar and the teleconferencing phone number and access codes -- no special software or downloaded programs needed.

  • Instructions to pre-condition your computer,  and conduct a practice login to a test WEBinar

  • Both live and pre-recorded orientations to our WEBinar interface for first-time users. 

  • A transcript of the chat log with your own and others' comments and questions, following the WEBinar.

Answers to many other questions you might have are addressed in our Frequently Asked Questions.

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* To download the WEBinar Preparation movie files for later viewing, via Windows Internet Explorer using "Save Target As,"  saving all the files in the same folder without changing the file names: (Then click on first downloaded file to playback)
first  right click here 
then right click here 
then right click here.

** To download the WEBinar Orientation movie files for later viewing, via Windows Internet Explorer using "Save Target As,"  saving all the files in the same folder without changing the file names: (Then click on first downloaded file to playback)
first  right click here 
then right click here 
then right click here.

 

On Demand Recording Library by Topic

Click on the Webinar title for detail on the on demand content   


Innovation & Risk Assessment


Surviving with Scenario Planning


Creativity and Innovation Day-long Apr 2007 Conference


Creativity and Innovation Concepts


Creativity and Innovation Tools


Persuading & Influencing Others


How to Convince a Skeptic


Confront Project Problems


Breakthrough Conversations: Getting Results with Others


Assembling the “Right” Project Team


Enhancing Senior Management/Sponsor Support


Gathering Requirements


Requirements Collection (All 4 Requirements Model 6-step WEBinars below) 


High Quality Requirement Model (Overview of Six Step Process) 


Requirements Gathering Strategies & Tools
(Step 1 of 6 in-depth)


Translating Customer Speak
(Steps 2 and 3 of 6 in-depth)


Resolving Requirements Conflicts
(Steps 4 thru 6 in-depth)


"Digging at a Requirement's Roots" ~ A Systematic Technique of Inquiry



Creating a "Well-formed" Requirement


Quality Assurance


Software QA: Fundamentals of Quality


Software QA: Principles of Quality


Software QA: Making Quality Happen Intro


Software QA: Making Quality Happen Final


Testing Projects


Managing Testing Projects Well


Using Software Testing Metrics for Effectiveness


Skills Inventory for Today's Software Project Managers


Addressing the Top Ten Testing Challenges


Communication Tools to Address the Top Ten Testing Challenges


Economics of Continuous Testing


Software Testing: Test Objectives


Software Testing: Test Design


Software Testing: Test Execution


Software Testing: Test Reporting


Project Management Techniques


Dealing with Conflicting Projects or Priorities


Effective Delegation


Estimating


Estimates That Really Work


Quality \conn\, To conduct or direct the steering of; the control exercised by one who steers a vessel