Presented by Dr. Fern Halper, TDWI Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Although it has been around for decades, predictive analytics is
a technology whose time has finally come. A variety of market forces have
joined to make this possible, including an increase in computing power, a
better understanding the value of the technology, the rise of certain economic
forces, and the advent of big data. Companies want to leverage their data
to become more proactive. So, how are organizations using predictive
analytics to derive value? What is the skill set required? How is
predictive analytics being deployed across the organization? These are
just some of the questions that companies are asking as they make the move to
predictive analytics.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 18, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IIBA @IIBA
Cost: Free
Options for Illustrating and Documenting Iterations, Backlog,
etc.
Presented by Leslie Morse of Davisbase Consulting
Communication and collaboration are keys to
success with both building high-performing Agile teams and bringing Agile
projects to fruition. One critical element lies within transparency of active
commitments, upcoming plans, and targeted completion dates. During this
one-hour web seminar, we will explore critical information radiators that can
be used to visualize information across all five levels of Agile planning. Less
focus will be placed on levels 1 & 2 (vision and roadmap) as the critical
information radiators truly lie within the ability to properly manage
stakeholder expectations. If you attend the seminar you will specifically learn
about illustrating and documenting artifacts of Level 3 (release planning)
through Digital & Tactile Release Plans, Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Release
Burn-Up Charts, Release Burn-Down Charts. You will also learn about techniques
for levels 4 & 5 (iteration and daily planning) in the form of Task Boards,
Iteration Burn-Down Charts, and Task Card appenders that create transparency of
work in progress. Be sure to come back to next month's seminar, "Setting
up and Maintaining an Agile Team Room," where you will learn how all these
techniques can work together for collaborative success.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 18, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IIBA ASPE
Training @ASPE-SDLC
Cost: Free
KPIs for Agile Project Managers and Business Analysts
Presented by John Parker, CEO at Enfocus Solutions, Inc.
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are high-level snapshots of an
organization or a business process using specific predefined performance
measures. If a Key Performance Indicator is going to be of value, there must be
a way to accurately define and measure it. For example, “Generate More Repeat
Customers” is useless as a KPI without some way to distinguish between new and
repeat customers. “Provide excellent project management and business analysis ”
won’t work as a KPI because there is no way to measure this.
Defining KPIs is a standardized skill for business improvement
(BI) analysts. However, if you try to find KPIs to measure business
analysis and project managers, you will find little written on the subject. In
this webinar, John Parker will present ideas of how business analysts and
project managers can best define KPIs to improve business analysis and project
management results and deliver more value to the business. The focus will be on
defining KPIs for an agile enterprise.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 19, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Host: Enfocus Solutions
@EnfocusSolution
Cost: Free
Top
Trends Shaping Product Delivery for 2014
Presented by Eric Winquist, CEO of Jama Software
Learn the top challenges, trends and strategies in 2014 for
building better products faster.
What are you doing this year to improve product delivery in your
organization? Release frequency is increasing, teams are growing, and yet most
products deliver late and fail to satisfy customer needs. The pressure to push
higher-quality products to market even faster is real. So what are leading
organizations doing to meet these challenges? Tune in to hear Eric
Winquist, CEO of Jama Software, reveal insights from a new industry survey on
the key challenges businesses face in 2014. You’ll also get actionable tips for
overcoming them to make product delivery a top strategic priority in your
organization.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 19, 2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Jama Software
@JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Creating
Premier Surveys – A Quick Method for Determining Requirements
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM of PMCentersUSA
Surveys are often considered a “poor man’s” elicitation
technique, but in fact a properly crafted survey can be surprisingly effective
as well as being quick and inexpensive! Come and see the best way to
create surveys and their questions, and the best practices for getting them in
front of your audience and analyzing the results.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 20, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Host: PMCentersUSA
@PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
PMCentersUSA has a February Webinar special—4 webinars for $39.95
They
Don’t Get Us! Marketing the BA Role for Growth and Success
Presented by David Barrett, Founding Member of IIBA and
Professional Speaker
We all get what we do for a living but wouldn’t it be nice if
the rest of the organization did? This session will offer advice, tips
and ideas on how to build up an awareness of the BA or PM cultures within your
company. Selling to the CIO or CEO. Promoting the role to the staff
you work with. Creating an internal awareness of the value a BA or PM can
bring to any project.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 25, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IIBA @IIBA
Cost: Free
Business Change is the Biggest Risk: A Guide for Project
Managers and Business Analysts
Presented by John Parker, CEO at Enfocus Solutions, Inc.
Research continually shows that companies have a difficult time
completing information technology (IT) projects on time or on budget. In fact
many IT projects are cancelled before completion or not implemented at all.
However project failure needs to consider more that just if the project was
completed on time and on budget. A completed project that was delivered on time
but provides no business benefit is money, time and resource all wasted
Risk management is a vital project management activity; however
many current risk management practices focus solely on project delivery risks
and not on risks associated with the organization receiving value and expected
benefits from the project. In this webinar, John Parker will address risk from
both a project management and business analyst perspective and describe how
impact and gap analysis can be key tools to identify and mitigate risk.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 25, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Host: Enfocus Solutions
@EnfocusSolution
Cost: Free
Essential Elements to Include in a Request for Proposal
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM,
CCP of PMCentersUSA
A badly written Request for Proposal (RFP) can result in a
unhealthy relationship between the buyer and seller. This webinar will cover
the essential elements of a well-written RFP to ensure contract execution goes
smoothly. Best practices and things to avoid when preparing a RFP will be
explained in this webinar.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 27, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Host: PMCentersUSA
@PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
PMCentersUSA has a February Webinar special—4 webinars for $39.95
Business Requirements Scoping Techniques
Presented by Joy Beatty, Vice
President of Seilevel @Seilevel
Organizations launch projects with the assumption that the new
or improved solution will provide worthwhile benefits for stakeholders and a
suitable return on investment. Understanding your business requirements can
ensure that your teams actually deliver those benefits. Furthermore, keeping user
and functional requirements aligned with the business requirements is a key
element of successful solution delivery.
In this webinar you’ll learn how to define clear business
objectives and corresponding success metrics, how to craft a focused vision statement,
and how to specify other elements of the business requirements. We’ll also
explore four different scope representation techniques you can apply at any
phase of a project.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 27, 2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Modern Analyst
@ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Q&A: Enterprise Business Analysis
Presented by Chris Knotts, PMP and
Kelly Bruns, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, CBAP of ASPE, Inc.
The panel will take a
look at how Allscripts, a global healthcare IT company, synchronized the tools
and processes of its BA teams to increase innovation and efficiency. The panel
will take questions about enterprise business analysis.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, February 28, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE-SDLC
Cost: Free
Register: ASPE Webinar Registration!
