Monday, February 3, 2014

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2014

Dual-Track Agile
Presented by John Parker, CEO of Enfocus Solutions, Inc. @EnfocusSolution

The real challenge: project teams and executives rarely have a good process for evaluating and deciding on the right things to build. Project teams need a process to evaluate problems and opportunities, reduce risk, and to prioritize so that focus is placed on things that deliver the most value. Populating the backlog with user stories that have not been validated is certainly not the answer. In this webinar John Parker will discuss dual-track agile, a potential solution for solving this problem.
Dual-track agile is beginning to emerge as key concept in the agile community. Dual-track agile has two tracks: discovery and delivery. The discovery track is about quickly generating validated product backlog items, and the delivery track is all about generating releasable software
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Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 4, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Enfocus Solutions   @EnfocusSolution

Cost: Free


  

Fundamentals of Self-Organized/Self-Managed Teams
Presented by ASPE Training

High performing teams have a number of key characteristics. One of the most important is that they learn: from each other, from their leaders, from their customers, from... just about anyone and anything. Learning doesn't mean that they do everything they learn. Rather, it means that everything they do is informed by what they learn.
In this session, we'll develop a core foundation of understanding about levels of mastery, styles of learning, personality types, and how those are significant contributors to teams moving from just-a-team to a high performing, self-managing team.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 4, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 

Best Practices to Establish an Effective Projects Portfolio
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP of PMCentersUSA

While project management is about doing projects right, portfolio management is about doing the right projects. This webinar will explain the roles and responsibilities of people involved with portfolio management, along with processes including how projects are evaluated and selected; and monitoring and controlling the portfolio. Best practices for portfolio governance will be explained, along with effective techniques for portfolio risk management.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 6, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: PMCentersUSA   @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95   PMCentersUSA has a February Webinar special—4 webinars for $39.95


 

Finding Your Business Analysis Skills with Visual Models 
Presented by Joy Beatty @joybeatty of Seilevel and Laura Brandenburg @llbrandenburg of Bridging-the-Gap  

If you are curious about the business analysis field, or would like to transition your career in to requirements management, this is the session for you! Laura Brandenburg, author of 'How to Start a Business Analyst Career' teams up with Joy Beatty, author of 'Visual Models for Software Requirements' to discuss requirements modeling and identifying skills that can transfer to the BA field from previous work experience.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, February 7, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Seilevel   @Seilevel

Cost: Free


 

IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Bob Prentiss   @BobtheBA

This is a free chat session featuring questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning. Please note that this session will be an online meeting only.  There is no registration required.  Please use the following information below to participate at actual date and time of session.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, February 7, 2014; 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning   @WaternarkLearn

Cost: Free

For more information:  Watermark Learning Registration!

 

Expert Q&A: Scalable Agile in the Enterprise
Presented by Chris Knotts of ASPE, Inc. and Steve Davis of Davisbase Consulting

As Agile project practices move from the revolution phase into mainstream adoption, it becomes critical to take the flexible, values-driven principle of Agile and apply them in large-scale enterprise environments.
Join us for a one-hour discussion, including an open Q&A, on how it’s is being done and how some of our enterprise customers are avoiding pitfalls along the way.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 11, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free

 

 
Project Management is About Managing Value not Tasks
Presented by John Parker, CEO of Enfocus Solutions, Inc. @EnfocusSolution

In the past, project success was measured by whether a project was delivered on-time, on-budget, and on-scope.  However using these measures, a project could be deemed 100% successful, yet not provide any business value and be completely rejected by the users for not helping them solve their problem. The rapid migration of organizations to agile methods has turned the world of project management upside down.  There is no official role of project manager in an agile environment. Project management responsibilities are split between the product owner and the team and agile teams are self-managing meaning they define and manage their own tasks. However, as organizations start to scale agile across the enterprise, the need for project management becomes quite evident. However, the role of project management changes from one of managing tasks to managing the rapid delivery of value. In this engaging webinar, John Parker will discuss how project managers and PMOs can transform themselves to support a scaled agile environment and learn to focus on managing value instead of tasks.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 11, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Enfocus Solutions @EnfocusSolution

Cost: Free





Key Elements of Requirements Facilitation
Presented by Kate McGoey, Director of Product Development at B2T Training   @kate_mcgoey

The art of bringing people together, face-to-face or remotely, to elicit requirements and gain consensus on solutions is a valuable technique needed by all business analysis professionals.  A facilitated session provides business value by reducing the time that it takes to elicit and gain feedback about requirements. Well run sessions contribute to customer and user satisfaction because people get actively involved in the definition of their requirements and often form cohesive bonds as the project team works toward a mutual purpose.
This webinar will introduce business analysts to the key elements of facilitation, provide suggestions when facilitated sessions can be most useful and provide advice on how to structure a productive session.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 12, 2014; 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST

Host: B2T Training   @B2T_Training

Cost: $29


 

 
Vendor Showcase Webinar Series: Plan Business Analysis Activities
Presented by Vendors: LeanKit @LeanKit, Sandhill Consultants, and Polarion @PolarionNews

The purpose of Plan BA Activities is to determine the activities that must be performed and the deliverables that must be produced, estimate the effort required to perform that work, and identify the management tools required to measure the progress of those activities and deliverables.

·         Learn how these tools can support planning BA activities with focus on estimation of effort and tracking of progress of the activities against that estimate.

This webinar series is open to everyone in the BA community and we strongly encourage you to invite the senior leaders and key decision makers in your organization to attend.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 13, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: IIBA   @IIBA

Cost: Free


 

Delivering Change Successfully in Five QuickSTEPs
Presented by Kedar Kulkarmi, Business Transformation Practice Lead at Knowledge Partners International

Knowledge Partners International (KPI), originators of The Decision Model and thought leaders in Business Requirements and Business Process Management, invite you to learn more about QuickSTEP, a turn-key service product that brings Business and IT together for rapid and complete software development efforts to facilitate your business transformation projects.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 13, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: KPI International @kpiusa

Cost: Free

Register:  Register Here!

 

Building a Functional Test Automation Solution with Ranorex
Presented by Martin Schloegi of Ranorex

Ranorex is an excellent award-winning tool for test automation of many technologies allowing you to set-up robust test automation scripts for desktop, web and mobile applications and to manage and execute your automated tests. Throughout this web seminar you will get an overview of the major Ranorex advantages:

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 13, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 

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