Monday, October 20, 2014

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2014 - Part II

Harnessing the Strengths Within Your Team Using Belbin Team Roles
Presented by Max Isaac, CEO, 3Circle Partners

The formation of effective teams is more by good fortune than good judgment….it doesn’t have to be that way! The implementation of Belbin Team Role Theory capitalizes on nine years of intensive research conducted by Meredith Belbin plus over 30 years of successfully implementing Team Role practices in thousands of organizations across the globe. Belbin was able to predict with over 80% certainty which teams would win or lose in his research. The central theme that emerged from his research was that in order to be successful, a team requires the successful implementation of nine distinct Team Roles. How well individuals are able to contribute these roles to the operation of a team can be measured. In this webinar we will be discussing the nine Team Roles and techniques that can be used to implement their use in your teams.

The key learnings you will leave with are:

·         A thorough understanding of Team Role Theory, explaining the nine roles and providing insights into their use in teams.
·         A knowledge of how teams have used aided by an examination of mini-case studies
·         Actions you can take to implement Belbin Team Roles in your team

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free


 

 
Refine your ERP Selection Process to Evaluate Innovative ERP Solutions
Presented by Jonathan Gross, Vice President and Head of ERP Selection, Pemeco

With business volatility and accelerating software innovation cycles, it is more critical than ever that businesses consider the future before committing to an ERP system for the next 10 to 15 years.

The question companies have to ask themselves is this: how do they consider both future and existing requirements in their ERP selection project?

In this webinar, our leading ERP expert – Jonathan Gross, Vice President and head of ERP selection at Pemeco Consulting – will present an actionable methodology to deliver a successful ERP selection project; one that will deliver the solution that best supports short-term and long-term needs.

Jonathan will walk through an approach to define current and future business requirements, to convert those requirements into ERP vendor evaluation criteria, and to develop a methodological approach to evaluation. In his presentation, Jonathan will discuss how companies should evaluate the value of the latest software development trends, including:

        Modern user experience: dashboards, workflows, alerts, and exception reporting
        Contextual analytics and BI
        Mobility
        Social enterprise collaboration
        Cloud computing

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2014; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Ziff Davis   @ZiffDavisB2B

Cost: Free


 

 
Make Lemonade out of Lemons: Dealing with Difficult Employees
Presented by Casey Mitchell, Corporate Education Group

It’s no secret that difficult employees can negatively impact other team members, productivity and projects. It’s also no secret that many managers struggle to deal with the problem effectively. Often, the difficult person is ignored in hopes that the situation will somehow resolve itself. The problem never goes away on its own, of course. Successful managers address these kinds of situations before they become a distraction … or worse, a full-blown crisis. They recognize the symptoms of difficult behavior, seek to understand the motives and attitudes of the employee, and work with the person to clarify expectations and move toward a resolution. When the situation is addressed properly, a difficult employee can be transformed into a positive influence. As the saying goes, "What do you do with a bowl full of lemons? Make lemonade!"

This webinar will help you:

·         Go beyond your initial judgment and understand why someone is being "difficult"
·         Gain a clear perspective of the problem
·         Use a non-confrontational and problem-solving approach to the situation
·         Work with the employee to resolve the issue

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 22, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free



SQL for the Business Analyst - How to be an expert without knowing how to code
Presented by Peter Evans, Dell Software

Supporting the business with better decision making requires better information. To get better information you need data – all of your data. Yet analysts run into this problem daily because of siloed departmental and organizational data, which span different databases, data warehouse and BI systems, all with their own unique syntaxes and access issues. 

Data preparation is another problem analysts are challenged with, and knowing how write expert SQL to query and join it all. In this webinar, the database experts at Dell Software will show different tips and tricks to make you a SQL expert without writing a line of code, and how to automate SQL queries and reporting.

In this webinar, you will learn:

·         Tools analysts can use to access different data sources, including Excel/Access, database systems, data warehouse and BI systems, and NoSQL databases.
·         How to visually build cross-platform SQL queries without coding
·         Tips to accelerate integrating data while ensuring data quality
·         How to automate reoccurring reporting

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 22, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: @ModernAnalyst

Sponsor: @Dell

Cost: Free

 
 

How QuickSTEP Combines Agile, Decision Management & Visualization to Facilitate Organizational Change
Presented by Kedar Kulkarni

Sapiens DECISION invites you to learn how QuickSTEP can facilitate change in your organization.

Why is change in the enterprise so hard and how do you reduce the inherent associated risk? Our practice combines our own innovations with other declarative model based requirements engineering for proven success in change management initiatives.

Join us for an introduction to QuickSTEP, our method and approach for the Agile enterprise. Through this webinar you will learn about the specific steps of the methodology as well as review a case study of its implementation at a major financial services institution.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: @Sapiensins

Cost: Free

Registration:   Sapiens Webinar Registration



Business Capability Modeling: Theory & Practice
Presented by Leonard M. Greski, Director, eCommerce Transformation, Global eCommerce & Marketing Technology, Hewlett-Packard Company

This webinar will introduce participants to a framework for modeling business capabilities: unique combinations of people, processes, and physical assets that generate measurable value. We’ll discuss how capabilities fit into a larger strategy to results process, and explain how to analyze an organization’s capabilities using simple tools. 

Key takeaways from the webinar include:

·         Using capability models to make business decisions
·         Modeling capabilities in four “easy” steps
·         Practical considerations 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free



 
 
Reaching Superior Results on your Project with a High Performing Team
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP

High-performance teams consistently show high levels of collaboration and innovation and produce superior results. This talk will review the key characteristics and the ten key rules on quickly developing a high-performance team. If you’re looking to achieve superior results on your project, attend this webinar and learn how create a high performance team.

Audience: Public 

Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95                                                     October – 5 Webinar Package: http://ow.ly/AZWVH 


 
 

 
Project Rescue and Recovery: A Real-World Overview
Presented by Darrel Raynor, PMP

Projects fall behind, run over budget, or simply fail all the time. Changing market conditions, reduced budgets and staff levels, long working hours, increased available metrics, high turnover, and other influences all demand our continued efforts to manage "out-of-control" processes, projects, and results. This one-hour presentation by veteran project rescue specialist Darrel Raynor is a dive into how we can do it in the real world.

Implementing an effective Project Rescue/Recovery methodology focuses on value measured by Return on Investment (ROI). This lens forces us to see both our projects and each step of our processes according to that measure, so we can begin to get projects back on track. These methods can deliver value at any phase of a project, including areas that are seldom analyzed. We will touch on:

·         Discover the 5 Project Recovery techniques that should be used on any and all projects and operations.
·         Learn the common language and terms of Project Recovery learning areas, projects, and professionals.
·         Learn the basics of DMAIC: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control methodology.
·         Assess if Project Recovery and Lean processes are a fit for your organization.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free



 

Effective Communication Tools for Every Project
Presented by David Barrett, Founder of ProjectWorld, ProjectSummit and BusinessAnalystWorld

All of the work we do relies on a steady flow of well-timed, accurate and manageable information. We have tools, technology, techniques and a lot of people around us to make this information available to ourselves and others. But are we using them properly? Are using the right tools at the right time in the right place? Are the techniques we employ doing the job? And are the people around us helping or hindering the process?

Communicating effectively across our projects, at all levels, is one the most important keys to our success. This session will allow us to think about some of the key communication tools and techniques available to us to ensure our project success.

Learning Objectives:

·         Understand what tools and techniques are available to us
·         Learn how to use the right tool in the right place
·         Learn how to establish a sound communications process for all levels of our project

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: @BATimes

Cost: Free



 

Balancing Software Requirements & Test Needs
Presented by Polarion Software and Vector Software

Software test needs and software requirements are often perceived as a balance of yin and yang, where software requirements are thought to be the “yin” to software testing’s “yang”. While traditional software engineering often separates the software requirements and testing processes, best-in-class development mandates integration of testing with requirements. This webinar, sponsored by Vector Software and Polarion, provides practical information about how to integrate software requirement definitions and testing activities, and covers:

·         The importance of good requirements definition
·         How software quality is impacted when testing ties to requirements
·         Why tracing requirements to test is even more critical to modern software engineering processes
·         How automation makes requirements definition and traceability to tests easier than ever before

By tradition, software coding is central to software development; it’s the compiled code which provides hoped-for functionality. But modern software development is accelerating away from tradition in two areas: increased software complexity coupled with a shorter time-to-market. Hoped-for “functionality” increasingly requires a more rigorous software requirements process. Verifying that functionality falls upon integrated testing, and recognizing the tight relationship between requirements and code.

As humans improved their building tools to readily construct modern buildings, software tools have similarly progressed to promote increased complexity and faster schedules. This webinar demonstrates how complex software functionality can be safely, and quickly, managed with automated “continual test” occurring in parallel.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: @PolarionNews

Cost: Free



 

Being a BA - Technical Excellence Webinar: From Use Cases to Requirements
Presented by Tom Karasmanis, IIBA

When eliciting and documenting requirements, should we capture them with use cases or with traditional functional requirements? Are these techniques mutually exclusive or do they complement each other? In this session we will learn about use cases and their limitations and how the various requirements types complement use cases to provide a complete picture of the target solution. We will also learn what makes good use cases and functional requirements. This is the first of three sessions on use cases and requirements.
Upon completion of this session you will:

·         Understand the benefits and limitations of use cases
·         List the different types of requirements
·         Derive requirements from use cases
·         Write a testable functional requirement

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free



 

Networking & Personal Branding
Presented by Gaby Fisch Coaching & Consulting  

Building and maintaining your professional network in akin to planting the seeds of career success.  Equally as important as developing a networking strategy, is refining your targeted communication for each touch point (in person, email, informal, interviews).  Your personal brand is the impression you leave with people.  All of your interactions serve to reinforce this brand, so why not be thoughtful and deliberate about the impression you are leaving behind?
Key Learning Points:

·         Understand the various approaches to networking, and the circumstances when each is most effective.  
·         Understand your current brand, or the impression you leave behind
·         How to tell your unique career story
·         How to define, then articulate your value proposition
·         Practical exercises to get ready and confident to  “get out there” and grow your network

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 28, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA



 

The Education of a Value Investor
Presented by Guy Spier, Hedge Fund Manager

A Story of Carving a Path to Financial Acumen and Personal Growth

Join us to hear Guy Spier discuss his unforgettable lunch with legendary icon Warren Buffet and his transformation from a young hedge fund manager and Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated value investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.

What You Will Learn

This program explores Guy Spier’s transformative quest for wealth, wisdom, and enlightenment in the world of finance, emanating from the $650,100 lunch with Warren Buffet. The webcast will be an insightful conversation exploring:

·         The journey of transformation and the lessons learned
·         Meeting Warren Buffet and the key takeaways from the legendary lunch
·         Investing tools – best practices for the value investor 
·         Defining true value in business and in life

Whether you are a recent graduate or a seasoned professional in finance, in business, or simply carving a path to your own personal transformation for growth and finding true value in business and in life, the webcast should be on your must-attend list!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: American Management Association   @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration


 

Expert Q and A – The Most Common Uses of Enterprise Data
Presented by Damian Herrick and Chris Knotts

It helps to know what your competitors are doing. In this one-hour info session, we will take Q and A with Damian Herrick of Lake Hill Analytics. Damian is the founder of Lake Hill Analytics, and an expert data analysis instructor for ASPE. Damian consults with all types of business on modeling, mining, and analyzing data.

We will ask Damian questions about the most common – and most valuable – ways we can harness the information available to us for useful analytics. We will talk forecasting, probability, market basket analysis, and basic statistical analysis. Damian will walk us through examples of how each can be applied to the business, and what sort of useful decisions we can tie to these applications.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free




 
Evolve Your Definition of Traceability
Presented by Laura Ward, Jama Software

Although the purpose of traceability may seem straight forward—to control change and track coverage—it’s much more than that. In the age of modern product delivery, innovative teams are using traceability to streamline communication and improve organization alignment to deliver products with fewer challenges.

Of course you’re all for organizational efficiency, but how does it impact you and your work? What if you could ensure you were having the right conversations with the right people rather than wasting time trying to identify—and track down—who needs to know what? What about immediately knowing the impact of your decisions so you can prioritize and keep your work tightly connected to the core business value you need to deliver?

Join us for an opportunity to rethink traditional traceability and learn how to provide critical information and context faster. Your projects are complex—these tips help save time and simplify how you manage the countless decisions and pieces of information you need to track to deliver great products.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: @ModernAnalyst

Sponsor: @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free



 
 
Agile Business Analysis: Using Personas and User Stories to Improve Quality of Requirements!
Presented by Dr. Martin Schedibauer, Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP, Corporate Education Group

Personas and user stories are a simple, yet highly effective method for capturing better requirements of different types of users. User stories are a brief description of functionality that a user needs from a solution to meet a business objective. Personas bring a fictitious user to life based on either assumptions or data collected through research, and can represent different types of uses within a single social group. Personas provide business analysts with a tool to really understand users. Coupled with user stories, business analysts have the ability to understand what different types of users expect from a solution and how to segment its scope.

In this webinar you will learn how to:
·         Describe requirements from the user’s perspective with light-weight user stories
·         Understand users better and more thoroughly through personas
·         Write user stories using a narrative template
·         Develop personas using one or more perspectives
·         Understand requirements through personas and user stories

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free



 

Agile Requirements and Testing for Continuous Software Delivery
Presented by Diego Lo Guidice, Forrester Research

Digital disruption and the Age of the Customer have flipped the role of software in all industries, from banking to automotive. Software is your brand. So what’s different? Because business changes at the velocity of light, it demands unprecedented delivery speed! However speed cannot come at the expense of quality. So how do your delivery practices and capabilities cope?

Agenda Topics:

·         Industry trends on Agile and why Agile is key in this revolution
·         Why and how requirements, testing and deployment must change to keep up
·         What steps you should take

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 30, 2014; 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: @PolarionNews

Cost: Free



 
Expert Q & A – How to get from Agile, to Continuous Integration, to Continuous Delivery, to Continuous Operation?
Presented by Byron Brewer and Chris Knotts

Continuous Operation: the holy grail of a product release!

We've seen tools pop up to enable it. Microsoft TFS allows the fully Agile developer environment. Stuff like Jenkins and Git allow highly streamlined version control and deployment. On the operations side, admins can spool up countless new server instances in the cloud, auto-configure them with ease, and seamlessly collaborate with their developers.

We hear about companies like FaceBook and Etsy releasing software to the production environment so often that it becomes one steady flow of deployment, from development to customer-facing release. Glitches can be fixed so fast…changes implemented so rapidly…that applications are virtually updated in real time, without customers ever knowing.

Meanwhile, the rest of us struggle with the same old IT project challenges we've had for years: delays, inaccurate requirements, version control issues. Problems during release and operations that didn't show up in Dev. Is it reasonable to think that normal, everyday IT shops can achieve the kind of results we read about on the DevOps blogs?

Join us for an hour of open Q and A with our resident Agile release and TFS expert: Bryon Brewer. We will take questions from the audience on all of these issues and more.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 30, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

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, October 30, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95                                                 October – 5 Webinar Package: http://ow.ly/AZWVH 



 

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