Monday, March 17, 2014

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2014 - Part 2

Setting Up and Maintaining a Sprint Room
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 EDT
Date/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


 
Business Book Reports: “The Speed of Trust” by S.M. Covey Jr.
Presented by Chris Knotts, PMP
 
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: 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


 

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

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