Presented by Ranjit Anand and Shanthala Rao, Boston Technology Corporation
The exercise of
requirement gathering and analysis for software applications has been around
for quite some time. However, do the conventionally used yardsticks and guiding
principles of business analysis, still hold ground in the face of the
disruptive mobile technologies today? While they definitely do, there is a
strongly-felt need, for an additional cognizance of the Mobility Factor.
The Mobility
Factor drives several considerations while building a mobile solution.
These include the ones brought about by the unique characteristics of the
mobile platform - limited screen space, availability of native device features,
the ‘on-the-move’ behavior of the user/device etc. However, it is
important to note that mobility is not just about making things work on the
mobile platform; it’s also about doing them better as compared to conventional
platforms. Right from improving the workflows of the business process to capturing
data with greater accuracy and delivering the best user experience, the
Mobility Factor brings in umpteen opportunities for improvisation in the form
of the mobile solution.
This webinar
will discuss how you, as a Business Analyst, can style your work to incorporate
the Mobility Factor. We will cover a range of mobile-specific considerations
that can help you design your mobile solution to best address your business
needs.
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Leveraging features provided by the mobile platform
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Using mobility to enhance/improve the business solution
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Delivering a good user experience on the mobile device
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 16, 2014; 11:00am – 12:00 pm
EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Presented by Chris Knotts
Each month we pick a valuable,
substantive business book we think will benefit the professionals we serve.
Some are new; some are classics. Either way, we do the reading, and then use
one of our free web seminars to deliver a one-hour "book report."
This month’s book pick is The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Taleb has written a book that explains
how the business world works now more than ever. It’s a world of fast-paced,
unpredictable events that are hard to keep up with and even harder to predict.
If you are a professional who struggles to cope with change or find ways to
deliver value quickly enough to respond to the market, this is a must-read.
Taleb put his finger on the dynamics
of a world where luck, evolution, unpredictability, and response time all
converge to make it seemingly impossible to navigate a market landscape that
just moves too fast. However, he also explains how navigation is possible for
those who understand the underlying drivers, and how it’s actually possible to
stay nimble and alert, ready to respond when events occur that are impossible
to predict – events Taleb calls “Black Swans.”
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 16,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Learn 5 Best Practices for Faster Product Delivery
Presented by
Jama Software
Effective product delivery
starts at the requirements of a project and relies on continuous communication
with the entire team throughout the development process. How do you ensure
everyone understands the scope of the project? Is everyone in sync? As projects
become more complex, this becomes more challenging.
Attend this live webinar to learn how a combination of collaboration, traceability, test coverage, change management and reuse helps to ensure greater responsiveness, better transparency, and faster delivery for critical projects
Attend this live webinar to learn how a combination of collaboration, traceability, test coverage, change management and reuse helps to ensure greater responsiveness, better transparency, and faster delivery for critical projects
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September
17, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host; @JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Presented by James Taylor, CEO, Decision Management Solutions
Business analysts know that modeling business processes,
rather than writing about them, defines them more accurately. Business process
models make it easier to validate requirements, easier to see opportunities for
improvement and easier to manage the process once it is implemented. Replacing
traditional specifications with logical business process models based on
standard notations like BPMN improves requirements and increases the likelihood
of project success.
Yet over-complex processes are common. Complex process
models make it harder to engage business owners and reduce the manageability of
implementations. One of the prime causes of over-complex processes is the
inclusion of decision-making in process designs. Business analysts that
identify the decisions in their processes and model them separately – not part
of the process but supporting it – find they can simplify process designs,
increase agility and bring business users and IT into better alignment. With
the publication of a new standard notation - OMG's Decision Model and Notation
- and the inclusion of decision modeling in the BABOK, it's time for business
analysts to improve their process models by modeling decisions.
Key learning points:
· Decisions are central to straight through processing, process
innovation and process effectiveness.
· Process models obscure decision-making and become over-complex
when it is embedded
· A standards-based approach to decision modeling is a key
technique for process analysts
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 18, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00
pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Improving your Leadership Skills to the Elite Level
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP
This webinar will provide a brief review of some of the
more prominent leadership theories, with a focus on the three levels of
leadership (3P) model. This model was developed as a practical guide for
developing effective leaders and the webinar will describe the public, private
and personal leadership levels. The webinar covers what a person needs to
develop themselves technically and psychologically as leaders.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 18, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 September
package: Four webinars for $39.95
Agile Best
Practices for BAs: Accelerating Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation
Presented by
Jiri Walek, Vice President of Product Management at Polarion Software
In today's hyper-competitive environment, innovation and
time to market are the key tenants for success. While software in applications
and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is
also adding complexity. In parallel, Agile has proven to shorten product
delivery, but comes with its own set of challenges.
As a Business Analyst, you are chartered to orchestrate the
successful delivery of innovative products, but likely find yourself bogged
down by having to spend too much time on reporting status, explaining context
and tracking down decisions.
Join this webinar to gain detailed insights on how leading organizations have been able to address the changing realities of modern software development, and learn actionable tactics to achieve product success. The following topics will be explored:
Join this webinar to gain detailed insights on how leading organizations have been able to address the changing realities of modern software development, and learn actionable tactics to achieve product success. The following topics will be explored:
·
transparent, real-time collaboration contextual testing and
risk assessment
·
intelligent change management
·
centralized reuse and variant management
·
comprehensive traceability and impact
analysis
Sign up today to learn how you can benefit
from the use of a unified tool that allows your team to directly connect
development efforts with the underlying business requirements so the inevitable
change arising during the product lifecycle can be managed in context and with
access to real-time feedback.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 18, 2014;
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ModernAnalyst
Sponsor: @PolarionNews
Cost: Free
Creating an Analytics
Organization – Using Data to Create Insights and Make Decisions
Presented by
Jonathan Wu, President of NaVinture, inc.
Most IT groups within an organization addressed these information
needs by simply deploying technology or creating subject matter reporting
solutions. However, these approaches are not
designed to provide cross-functional analysis or create an information centric
organization.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 18, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EDT
Host: @ZiffDavis
Cost: Free
Registration: Ziff
Davis Event Registration
Presented by Gaby Fisch, Principal, Gaby Fisch Coaching & Consulting
Are you on
LinkedIn? Perhaps, like 300 million others, you answered “yes”, but truly
optimizing LinkedIn is something very different. If you are someone who
has a skeleton of a profile and doesn’t understand what’s available beyond
that, then please join us for this tour through the hidden treasures and
multitude of career benefits that can come from amping up your presence and
activity on LinkedIn.
Key Learning
Points:
·
Understand how LinkedIn has fundamentally disrupted traditional
recruitment processes
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The Basics: Completing your profile and building your network
·
Personal Branding on LinkedIn
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Beyond Basics: Leveraging the multiple uses of LinkedIn
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 23, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EDT
Host: @IIBA
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, September
24, 2014; 7:00 – 8:00 am EDT
Date/Time: Wednesday, September
24, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDTDate/Time: Wednesday, September 24, 2014; 3:00 – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: @BlueprintSys
Cost: Free
Accounting for the Numberphobic
Presented by
Dawn Fotopulos, Founder of BestSmallBizHelp.com
Grow Your
Business by Overcoming Your Number Phobia
In this webcast, you’ll learn the importance of conquering
the fear of numbers in managing and turning around your small business with
practical examples and tips you can easily implement in your own start-up or
small business.
What You Will Learn
This webcast focuses on the key challenges facing start-up
founders and small business owners when it comes to the profitability and
financial success of their company. The webcast will address the following
questions:
·
Why is it important to understand the basic numbers in your
business?
·
What is an income statement and why is it important?
·
What is a cash flow statement and why is it important?
·
How can the Balance sheet show your company’s worth?
·
What is the Financial Dashboard?
·
How can you use the financial dashboard to speak to your
banker and accountant?
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How can you use a Financial Dashboard to make profit?
Whether you are a seasoned small business owner still
struggling to come up for air or a new start-up founder, this webcast offers
you specific, practical, applicable tips to conquer the fear of numbers and
make your company profitable.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 24, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00
pm EDT
Host: @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Continuous Build and
Delivery – Driving Speed and Control for the Enterprise
Presented by Tracy
Ragan of OpenMake Software and Regg Stuyk of Polarion Software
How to define a continuous build and deploy process, designed for
the enterprise, that delivers the speed and control needed to satisfy both
development and operations.
Agenda Topics:
·
Difference between defining a Project Based DevOps and Enterprise
DevOps Process
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Challenges of sustaining one-off scripts at the Enterprise level
·
Benefits of a Model Driven Continuous Build and Delivery process –
where speed and control meet.
·
Highlight the process of tracking objects through a footprint for
Audit and Governance
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Integration of Polarion ALM with OpenMake Continuous Build and
Delivery
·
Interactive Q&A
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 25, 2014; 11:30 am – 12:30
pm EDT
Host: @PolarionNews
Cost: Free
Registration: Polarion
Software Events Registration
Presented by Bryon Brewer
Automating your build and deployment
process helps implement consistency and gets your developers focused on what’s
important – developing code! Save time and effort by automated the build and
deploy process. We’ll learn how the build service compiles your source code,
packages into binary code, runs unit and automated tests against the new build,
and optionally deploys the code to a production environment. Attendees will see
a live demo of setting up a build definition, configuring continuous
integration, running a build, and deploying the build output to a production
server.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 25,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
The Critical Importance of Business Requirements
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
How do Business Requirements differ from other kinds of
requirements? What information is being expressed and who is the
audience? In this webinar we will take a close look at Business
Requirements and their purpose, focusing on their successful documentation and
communication.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 25, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host; @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 September
package: Four webinars for $39.95
Focus On Customer Value To Grow Organizational
Maturity
Presented by Derek Miers
Most
organizations aspire to implement outside-in, customer-focused,
cross-functional processes that transform the culture of their organization and
set it on the path toward continuous improvement. They are on a journey — but
while the long-term goal might be apparent, how to get there and the challenges
on the immediate road ahead are usually far less clear. Many of these
challenges represent entrenched, thorny organizational issues that are
difficult to tackle. Therefore, learning from other travelers who have been
down the road before can help you avoid obstacles and chart a route that moves
the organization forward. This webinar sets out a body of research based on
survey data from more than 500 organizational change programs. It will
articulate a set of best practices, strategies, techniques, and engagement
methods to support organizational transformation.
Key takeaways:
·
Transformation goals and challenges evolve as maturity improves.
·
How mature organizations focus on customer-facing processes and working
outside-in changes the engagement dynamic.
·
Debunking the change failure myth - how change programs in higher-maturity
firms almost never fail.
·
Best practice methods to engage the organization in an outside-in customer
transformation
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 30, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Presented by Chris Knotts
Each month we pick a valuable,
substantive business book we think will benefit the professionals we serve.
Some are new; some are classics. Either way, we do the reading, and then use
one of our free web seminars to deliver a one-hour "book report."
This month’s book pick is The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and
helping Your Business Win – by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr”
This best-selling novel about IT
Operations in a fictional Fortune manufacturing/retail company came out last
year, and is a business fable that everyone involved in technology projects or
operations should read. Enterprise tech visionary Gene Kim, along with longtime
IT Manager Kevin Behr and Gartner Research Director George Spafford have
written a compelling and illuminating book about the longtime pain points
experienced by people in IT and what they can begin to do about it.
Bottlenecks, choke points, legacy
systems, cumbersome security policies, overworked SysAdmins, developers who
don’t save any testing time for Operations…these are perennial difficulties
that will sound familiar to anyone who has ever had to deploy code that hasn’t
been managed well across the organization. Join us for this one-hour review of
The Phoenix Project to learn how Bill, a frustrated but savvy IT Manager copes
with these challenges and more.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 30,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
