The Business Blueprint: Organizing your Chaos
Presented by Gina Schwalm
Regardless of industry, thousands of
technology investments are made every day. Get a glimpse into how you can use a
business blueprint to organize your enterprise and to make the right technology
decisions. Get a cursory view of the benefits, such as; navigating through the
complexity of information, visibly exposing opportunities for improvement and
ensuring a common understanding for quick decisions. Improve the way you
capture, validate and communicate various stakeholder views by understanding
what is out in the industry to help you in this effort.
What you will get out of this webinar:
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Importance of having a
business blueprint
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Ways to classify the
information through the use of frameworks and methods
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Key tools for
communicating the information (models and notations)
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Example use of automated
tools to capture the information.
Attendance: Public
Date/Time: Monday, August 18,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Mobile and Wearable Computing: Using Data
Analytics to Understand the Mobile Shopper
Presented by Prof. Anindya Ghose, NYU Stern
The dramatic growth in mobile and wearable computing
activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a
wide variety of user behavior in the digital world. Whether mobile users are
communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting
others to their location, purchasing goods or services, redeeming coupons or
reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Compounding this data
generation is the imminent adoption and usage of different kinds of wearable computing
devices. Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself
to deeper explanatory and predictive models in the realm of customer analytics.
Anindya Ghose will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from
the use of apps and advertising on mobile devices and their integration with
wearable computing devices, in the course of meeting some strategic goals and
tactical issues for firms. A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the
"mobile shopper" using tools from business analytics that combine
statistical and econometric modeling with randomized experiments "in the
wild". The webinar will cover several projects that Professor Ghose has
undertaken in multiple countries in Asia and Europe as well as discuss the state
of the art knowledge in this space.
Key learning points:
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Understanding audience behavior and advertising
effectiveness on mobile devices
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Understanding how consumers respond to geo targeting and
geo fencing strategies using smart phone technologies.
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Exploring the implications of wearable computing devices on
marketing.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 19,
2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Keep Data
in the Right Hands…Forever
Presented by
Sue Clark of Ovum Research and Todd Partridge of Intralinks
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 19, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ZiffDavis
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, August 20,
2014; 7:00 – 8:00 am EDT
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 20,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 20,
2014; 3:00 – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: @BlueprintSys
Cost: Free
Agile,
Iterative and Waterfall: Where does your team fall on the ‘spectrum’?
Presented by Tom
McGraw
More than a decade has passed since
the Agile Manifesto was written to help software developers implement a
light-weight mindset and more efficient processes on the projects. The ideas
have now transformed into something much larger with an impact that can be seen
across the majority of software development groups and organizations.
During this one-hour web seminar, we
will discuss a brief evolution of Agile in software development. Included will
be thoughts on the various flavors that are typically identified as Agile and
how they tie to the original Manifesto. Furthermore, we will discuss the idea
of a ‘hybrid’ Agile approach (“AgileFall?”) and whether these groups are
considered Agile. We will explore how Agile is viewed by practitioners, specifically,
whether Agile should be seen as black and white (i.e., your team is using it,
or your team is not using it) versus the idea that Agile can be viewed as a
spectrum, indicating that certain teams could be ‘more agile’ than others based
on their processes.
By the end of the seminar, you will be
equipped with the tools to better understand how your group is utilizing Agile
processes and determine “Where your team falls on the ‘spectrum’.”
Attendance: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 20, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
The Missing Link: Interpersonal Effectiveness for
Project Success
Presented by
Eileen Twichell of Corporate Education Group
Do you need help building, leading, and positively
influencing unified, high-performing project teams? In this webinar, you’ll
learn why interpersonal effectiveness delivers project success—and how you can
have both! Key learning points from this webinar include:
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Increase buy-in from team members and stakeholders by
understanding the connection between trust, conflict, and accountability
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Understand how to develop and maintain accountability with
project team members and stakeholders
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Learn to influence project participants on all levels of
the project who do not directly report to you including: clients, team members,
stakeholders, and vendors
Attendance: Public
Date/Time:
Wednesday, August 20, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Collaborative
Requirements for BAs: Keeping Future Projects on Track
Presented by
Will French, Solution Architect for Jama Software
As a Business Analyst or Project Manager, you are on the front lines of
bringing products to market that build value for your business. If you’re like
most BAs, however, you spend too much time reporting status, explaining context
and tracking decisions. In this session, learn tips and tools to help you keep
your teams aligned, provide better visibility and maintain a continuous
feedback loop so you can spend less time reporting and more time innovating.
What You’ll Learn:
1. How to identify the
extended collaboration circle of product delivery in your organization. Who are
the personas, both upstream and downstream, with a voice on your project?
Beyond your team of peers and managers, are you in sync with customers? With
your development and QA teams?
2. The importance of
bridging the gap among different personas so you can streamline your work and
run projects more efficiently. You’ll gain valuable tips for eliciting,
validating, approving requirements and project details, as well as ideas for
more continuous feedback loops to minimize the impact of change.
3. How to use modern
requirements management tools to keep everyone in the collaboration circle
looped in on all the key discussion, decisions and input about the product
delivery process. You’ll be confident in your ability to meet expectations when
they are all clearly communicated and agreed upon.
By bringing in your stakeholders early and often, you can slay the
productivity-killing monsters that wreak havoc on your job, such as:.
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The 11th hour swoop-in. Don’t you love when an executive comes to you at the last
minute with some critical feedback you asked for weeks ago
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Decision recollection disorder. Isn’t it fun to revisit decisions months later? Don’t
you love trying to prove who decided what, when and why, even six months after
the fact?
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CYA Syndrome. Can you trace the final feature set back to the original business
objective? No? Can you explain why?
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The Missing Vault. Remember that one person who knew everything? Who left the company? How
can you tap into all that intelligence?
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Mismatched expectations. Ever had a product you drove met with a resounding
“meh.”? Or find out after the fact that so and so was expecting x, y, and z
instead of q, r, s.
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Missing pieces. Does everyone on your team even know enough about what your product
actually does to make sound decisions on the fly?
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 20,
2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ModernAnalyst @JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Enabling a More Natural Future for Your Application
User Interfaces
Presented by
Intel Software
When you look at natural user interfaces as a developer, it
isn't just fun and games. There are some very serious, real-world usage models
of how things can help make the world a better place – things like Intel®
RealSense™ technology. Check out this upcoming eSeminar and join the panel of
experts, both from inside and outside of Intel, as they discuss how natural
user interfaces will likely be getting adopted in a wide variety of different
usage models. Register today to gain insights for creating your own future
application interfaces.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 20, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EDT
Host: @ITBusinessEdge
Cost: Free
Presented by
Pam Baker, Author of Data Divination: Big
Data Strategies
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Confused about where to start or where to go next
with big data projects? Successfully using big data is about more than just
owning and mastering the tools- it is the strength and execution of the
strategy that makes all the difference.
This webinar with author and consultant Pam Baker will cover specific steps
on how to formulate both your overall big data strategy and winning
strategies for specific projects. From accurately calculating ROI to presenting a
winning business case and empowering your workforce, Pam will be sharing
many useful tips.
You'll also receive a pdf of a chapter from the greatly anticipated and soon-to-be-released
book: Data Divination: Big Data Strategies to help guide you
further in big data strategy development.
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Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 20,
2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ZiffDavis
Cost: Free
How to Mitigate Resistance to Change
Presented by Maureen McVey, CBAP
The BABOK® Guide v2.0 Task (7.3) Assess
Organizational Readiness is important for the success of a change initiative.
An organizational readiness assessment describes the effect a new
solution will have on an organization and whether it is prepared for the change
that the solution will cause.
In this session Maureen McVey, CBAP, will introduce you to
strategy to address the often overlooked requirement related to those impacted
by the change. Maureen will introduce you to tools and tactics for assessing if
the change will be successful and what is needed to address gaps.
Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to:
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List the elements needed for successful change
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How to identify resistance to change
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Describe the structure of an effective change team
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List the tools that can help with change
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 21,
2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Managing the Expectations of
Stakeholders
Presented by
Laura Gray
The biggest challenges in project work today involve
people. Everyone has their own opinion, view and agenda about the goals that
are related to be the outcome of their organization’s investment of time and
money. At first glance, this human factor may appear to be a wild card
and uncontrollable. Actually, there is a
way to significantly reduce the effects of these wild cards (those
stakeholders). It is with an approach that is just different than the
work of the project.
Learn what this approach is, and how to use it to achieve
success in all project work – regardless of what role you have.
Learn the top ten methods to understand those stakeholders,
and how to use that information to manage their expectations.
In this webinar, we will introduce you to how understanding
your stakeholders and their expectation can contribute to project and
organizational success. We will cover the following topic areas:
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The importance of the stakeholders’ role in achieving
project success
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Who are all the stakeholders in project work
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How understanding them as individuals is the key – it just
takes some time
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The top ten ways to understand them
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Learning their expectations - the easy part
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Managing those expectations – easier said than done
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How much time is required to implement these tasks into the
plan to achieve success
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 21,
2014; 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm EDT
Host: @MAXCincinnati
Cost: Free
Improve
your Software Development Processes with TFS 2013
Presented by
Bryon Brewer
Team Foundation Server 2013 is an
integrated platform for collaborating on software development projects. At its
core, it offers robust source control management. But it's much more than that!
TFS offers requirements management, defect management, project management
portal, test case management and automation, build automation, reporting, and
more. In this free web seminar, we’ll show how to use TFS 2013 to solve many of
the challenges your development teams face. We’ll look at the new source code
features including GIT, agile management features, portfolio planning,
requirements, task, and bug tracking, automated builds, and more.
Attendance: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 21, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
What every Business Analyst
needs to know about modelling
Presented by
Gerry de Koning of Global Knowledge
What are the different modelling techniques business
analysts should know about? We will discuss and compare the most important
modelling techniques used by BAs. For each model, we will answer three
questions: what is it a model of? what questions does it answer? and what does
the notation look like? A discussion of how to use models, and the strengths
and weaknesses of each type of model, will equip the participants to select the
right model for each situation and decide what models they should add to their
personal toolkit.
Learning
Objectives
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Become familiar with the main models used by Business
Analysts
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Decide what models to add to my toolkit
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Know when to use each model
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Attendance: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 21, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @BATimes
Cost: Free
The Business Blueprint to being a Successful PM or BA
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
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, August 21,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 August
package: Four webinars for $39.95
IT and Marketing: Extreme Collaboration
Presented by
Sheryl Pattek of Forrester Research, David Hatch of IANS, and Joe Yang of PGi
Media outlets love to focus on the tension between IT and
marketing. But if it's a war, both sides lose. Instead, CIOs have to partner
with CMOs to help deliver on aggressive business goals in an ever-changing
landscape. Here's how to increase and improve collaboration between the two
functions.
Points of discussion include:
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What your marketing department really needs from IT
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Social, mobile, local: The fractured customer journey
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Apps and infrastructure for advanced marketing intelligence
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Piloting for progress: Creating the process and systems to
support high-speed experimentation
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The IT guide to User Experience
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 26, 2014; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: @FierceCIO
Cost: Free
Top Ten Tips for Business Process Modeling
Presented by
Keith Sarre, International Institute for Learning, Inc.
Business Process Modeling: Art or Science? The goal of this webinar
is to introduce participants to the basic principles and concepts related to
Business Process Modeling (BPM). This webinar will also introduce the
participants to the best practices for BPM and demonstrate how it can be used
as a tool to add value to the enterprise.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 27, 2014; 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Host: @IIL
Cost: Free
5 Easy Steps to Accelerate and Improve Your QA &
Testing processes
Presented by
Andy Holton, Polarion Software
Technology is rapidly advancing and impacting almost every
aspect of your test practices; agile testing, requirements-based testing,
testing as a service and crowdsource testing. In this webinar join Andy Holton,
a Systems Engineer with Polarion Software for a 45-minute complimentary webinar
that will go through a 5-step process that will improve your current QA testing
processes, reduce costs and help you complete your projects faster. This
webinar will address today’s real time issues and constraints to help you
develop better software.
Agenda:
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Create and manage
test cases, defects, enhancement requests and test specifications quickly and
easily - with Polarion LiveDocs
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Define and execute
test runs with the Polarion Testing Framework
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Save time and money
by reusing all testing artifacts
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Work more efficiently
by completely integrating test cases from MS Office into your processes
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Seamlessly integrate
requirements management, test and defect management
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Manage all your
external testing activities from Polarion
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 27, 2014; 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
EDT
Host: @PolarionNews
Cost: Free
A Jump Start to Preparing Effective Data Models
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
Data modeling has long been considered a
Developer's job, and many Business Analysts persist in ignoring this
vital requirements analysis technique. Come and see how Data Modeling
truly fits into the BA world and get a jump start on making it work for you on
projects.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 28,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 August
package: Four webinars for $39.95
