Presented by Ric Lee, Davisbase Consulting
To an untrained eye, an Agile Team Room can look like chaos, however, to
the trained eye, an Agile Team Room is a integrated set of Information
Radiators that transparently communicate project details, insulate the team
from distractions, and support an environment for continuous collaboration. If
you attended last month’s web seminar, "Options for Illustrating &
Documenting the Five Levels of Planning," then you got exposure to the
different types of information radiators that can be used to communicate details
about the scope of work an Agile Team has taken on.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 18,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Blueprint 5.4 Live Product Demonstration
Presented by Blueprint Software
Join
us on for a live, interactive demonstration of Blueprint, a visually
driven requirements platform, that empowers companies to get complex IT project
requirements right from the start. Register now and see why Blueprint
is a better, visual way to drive the success of mission critical IT
projects.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 19,
2014; 7:00 – 8:00 am EDT
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 19,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDTDate/Time: Wednesday, March 19, 2014; 3:00 – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Software @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Enfocus Requirements SuiteTM Product Demo
Presented by Enfocus Solutions, Inc.
Our business analysis and requirements management software,
Enfocus Requirements Suite™, provides organizations with the capabilities to
discover, validate, develop and manage better requirements and projects.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 19,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Enfocus Solutions
@EnfocusSolution
Cost: Free
Big Data Analytics for Communications Service Providers
Presented by Kimberly Madia, IBM @IBM
Big data has been a
reality for Communications Service Providers (CSP) for years. CSPs are now
demanding more from big data solutions to allow them to access, analyze and act
on all data faster. During this webcast, we will discuss how IBM Watson
Foundations is building cognitive and machine-learning analytics complete with
visualization to address these industry requirements. We will cover rapid
processing and analyzing of parallel data streams, retrospective analysis on a
wide variety of data to enhance subscriber and network intelligence, predictive
analytics and modeling, and more.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20,
2014; 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Ziff Davis Events @ZDB2B
Cost: Free
Register: Ziff
Davis Events Registration
Business Book Reports: “The Speed of Trust” by S.M. Covey
Jr.
Presented by Chris Knotts, PMPTo an untrained eye, an Agile Team Room can look like chaos, however, to the trained eye, an Agile Team Room is a integrated set of Information Radiators that transparently communicate project details, insulate the team from distractions, and support an environment for continuous collaboration. If you attended last month’s web seminar, "Options for Illustrating & Documenting the Five Levels of Planning," then you got exposure to the different types of information radiators that can be used to communicate details about the scope of work an Agile Team has taken on.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Strategic Leadership and Project Portfolio Management
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM of
PMCentersUSA
This webinar serves as a complement to the sessions on
Leadership, Project Portfolio Management and the Career Paths for both PMs and
BAs. It examines Portfolio Management in more detail, focusing on how an
organization can take control of its entire body of project work through the
creation of a High-value PMO. Such an entity operates at the highest
levels of a company, and the skills of both BAs and PMs are essential for
leadership success at this level. Come and see where you fit into such a
picture and learn what you need to prepare yourself to be part of it.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: PMCentersUSA @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 PMCentersUSA has a March Webinar special—4
webinars for $39.95
How to Write Effective Use Cases: A Step-by-Step Approach
Presented by Ashu Potnis and Sue Thompson, TopTeam
Analyst
Use Cases are widely recognized as
one of the most effective methods of documenting and communicating
requirements. We demonstrate how you can easily document clear, accurate and
complete requirements using Use Case Scenarios. This Webinar is useful for new,
as well as, experienced practitioners of the Use Case approach for defining
requirements.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: BATimes @BATimes
Cost: Free
Business Intelligence Concepts and Facilities
Presented by ProTech Professional Technical
Services, Inc.
Business Intelligence and associated tools are becoming
widely used for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data to enable
the enterprise to make sound business decisions. With so much jargon and so many technologies
involved, this one hour presentation provides a much-needed step-by-step
explanation of what's involved and how to use this powerful technology to
improve your business. Business Intelligence encompasses a broad collection of
tools and concepts designed to help business owners, managers, and technical
staff direct the effort effectively.
This presentation will share current trends and facilities to get you
started or update your staff.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: ProTech @protechtraining
Cost: Free
Top Professional Skills for Up and Coming BAs
Presented by Kelley Burns, PMP, PMI-ACP, CBAP, CSM,
ASPE Training
Knowing where to focus our efforts is one of the
tricky aspects of being and becoming an effective business analyst. I believe
it is important to analyze and prioritize our skill development, much like we
do in helping our customers with their requirements. In order to be effective
in our role, we will examine the "must-have,"
"nice-to-have," and "should-have" professional skills to
help you on your business analysis journey. Where you are located on the business
analysis career path has an impact on which skills need to be emphasized. This web seminar will help you identify what
is critical for your success, including strategies to help you enhance and
develop those essential skills.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, March 21,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Requirements: The Old Way and The New Way
Presented by John Parker, CEO of Enfocus Solutions
The vast majority of organizations are using archaic
methods to develop requirements based on methods from the 1970s and early
1980s. With the dynamic pace of business change, organizations that
continue to use these practices have continued to see a significant amount of
challenged and failed projects and have placed their organizations at a
competitive disadvantage. In fact, even with the recent emphasis on project
management practices and certification, Standish Group research shows that
there are more failed and challenged projects than there was in their original
1994 report when waterfall and traditional requirement practices are used.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 25,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Enfocus Solutions @EnfocusSolution
Cost: Free
Being a BA – Technical Webinar Series: Describing
Non-Functional Requirements
Presented by Tom Karasmanis, IIBA
Non-functional requirements are
often overlooked by the project team and can be difficult to accurately
describe in your requirements documents. In this session we will explore
the various types of non-functional requirements, why they are important and
the questions to ask to help define them. We will also look at some examples of
non-functional requirements.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 25,
2014; 7:30 – 8:30 pm EDT
Host: IIBA @IIBA
Cost: Free
Q&A – Agile Coaching: How Top Agile Leaders Guide
Enterprise Environments
Presented by David Mantica and Chris Knotts, PMP,
ASPE Training Join us to discuss some major Agile successes at large organizations. We'll take a look at what they did right, what almost went wrong, and how ordinary companies can replicate their success. This free, one-hour web seminar will be a panel discussion between ASPE President, David Mantica, and ASPE's Director of Communication Chris Knotts. Rather than a presentation format, this seminar will be an open Q&A for participants.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 27,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
How to Successfully Implement Earned Value on IT Projects
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP of
PMCentersUSA
Earned value (EV) provides quantitative project performance
information, and is normally associated with large construction projects. This
webinar will explain how you can successfully use EV on IT projects. The
webinar will briefly review EV terminology, formulas and key metrics. How to
successfully implement EV on IT projects will be covered including preparation
of an integrated Project Plan.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 27,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: PMCentersUSA @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 PMCentersUSA has a March Webinar special—4
webinars for $39.95
Requirements Reuse: Fantasy or Feasible?
Presented by Karl Wiegers, Process Impact @KarlWiegers
Reuse is an eternal
goal for organizations seeking higher software capability. Reusing requirements
can increase productivity, improve quality, and lead to greater consistency
between related systems. But effective reuse is hard! This presentation, based
on the recent book Software Requirements, 3rd Edition by Karl Wiegers and Joy
Beatty, offers numerous suggestions about how to perform requirements reuse. It
describes several kinds of requirements reuse, identifies some classes of
requirements information that have reuse potential in various contexts, and
presents some issues around making requirements reusable. The presentation
concludes by identifying both barriers to effective reuse and success factors
that can help your organization leverage its existing body of requirements
knowledge.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 27,
2014; 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times @BATimes
Cost: Free
Register: BATimes
Webinar Registration
Critical Thinking Skills: A Practical Guide to Structured
Analytics Techniques
Presented by Dave Caccarmo, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, ASPE
Training
Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or
technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems.
Yet experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that so-called experts
often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations. The Critical
Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys
and hows of proper analytical techniques. It provides a detailed presentation
of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge
assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can
greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of
organization.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, March 28,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
