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:
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A thorough understanding of Team Role Theory, explaining
the nine roles and providing insights into their use in teams.
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A knowledge of how teams have used aided by an examination
of mini-case studies
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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:
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:
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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
Registration: Ziff
Davis Events Webinar Registration
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:
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Go beyond your initial judgment and understand why someone
is being "difficult"
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Gain a clear perspective of the problem
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Use a non-confrontational and problem-solving approach to
the situation
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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
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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.
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
Business Capability Modeling: Theory & Practice
Presented by
Leonard M. Greski, Director, eCommerce Transformation, Global eCommerce &
Marketing Technology, Hewlett-Packard CompanyThis 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:
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Using capability models to make business decisions
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Modeling capabilities in four “easy” steps
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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.
Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
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.
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:
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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:
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The importance of good requirements definition
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How software quality is impacted when testing ties to
requirements
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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.
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:
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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
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How to tell your unique career story
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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
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.
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
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
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