Testing
From Start to Finish: How to Ensure that You Build the Best Software
Presented by
Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
Many organizations experience varying results in the delivery
quality of developed software, and often it turns out to be the Business
Analyst and their testing approach that makes the difference. Come and
learn the basic concepts and best practices behind successful testing and
become one of the difference-makers at your company.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 4, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
Registration: PM Centers USA Webinar Registration
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by
Rich Larson, PMP,CBAP, PMI-PBA
This is a free chat
session featuring questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from
Watermark Learning.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, December
5, 2014; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST
Host:
@WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Registration: Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat Registration
Expert Q&A – Tying Agile Development to Fast & Stable Deployment
Presented by
Byron Brewer and Chris Knotts
It's been exciting over the past year to watch
as big products become available that really give development teams the tools
they need to perform agile software engineering (we're thinking of Microsoft
Team Foundation Server in particular, but the story is bigger than that).
With tools like TFS and a host of others,
development teams can track and store all their code, automate their releases,
control versioning, automate testing, collaborate across the team and much
more. But how much are these tools doing to bridge the infamous gap between
development of the product and the production environment into which it is
released? For years we have heard about breakdowns between agile developers,
release teams, and operations staff who have to maintain system stability and
keep customer-facing software stable. We wanted to talk to a real-world expert
about how newer tools and techniques are being used to break down walls between
agile development and release engineering.
Join us for one hour of open Q & A with
our resident Agile Engineering guru and TFS expert, Brian Brewer. We will have
an unscripted conversation about how teams are using these tools, and how
real-world IT shops can use agile practices and have stable deployments too.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, December 5, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE
Event Registration
From
Use Cases to Test Cases
Presented by
Marc Balcer
Use cases and their agile brethren, user
stories, are popular forms for documenting functional requirements. Nearly
every requirements document, functional specification, or design document
contains some form of use cases.
Because they describe behavior and distinct
outcomes, use cases can be the foundation for test cases. This presentation
will show simple and sophisticated techniques for transforming use cases into
effective test cases.
Start with techniques for organizing systems
into processes and activities. Learn how to define the behavior of these
processes and activities in use cases. See how to define distinct scenarios, to
partition inputs into different characteristic values, and to relate those
scenarios and inputs to expected results. Finally, construct executable test
cases from those scenarios, inputs, and results.
You'll see how to easily produce a good set of
test cases – exhaustive enough to give your software a good workout, but
intelligent enough not to waste time and effort.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, December 8, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE
Event Registration
Less Pain More Gain:
Best Practices for More Effective Meetings
Presented by Crystell Anthony,
M.Ed., MBTI®
Meetings are an
opportunity to bring out the best in people in a collaborative, safe
environment. Meetings can also be an incredible waste of time and resources if
they’re not managed effectively. Creating an effective meeting involves making
a series of conscious choices, and also preparing, conducting, and following
through.
This webinar concentrates on how to use meeting effectiveness tools and best
practices to promote energizing, focused meetings that produce results; it also
provides opportunities to discuss specific meeting challenges and how to
successfully facilitate your way to resolution.
What You Will Learn:
·
Foundation tools to
set the stage for meeting effectiveness
·
Steps and actions to
successfully manage the 3 phases of a meeting: Before, During, and After
·
How to prepare an
action agenda
·
Strategies to keep
participants engaged and focused
·
Facilitation skills
and techniques to guide meeting interactions
·
Guidelines and tips
for managing difficult behaviors and situations
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, December
8, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corporate
Education Group Webinar Registration
Being a BA - Technical Excellence Webinar: From
Use Cases to Requirements – Part 2
Presented by Tom
Karasmanis
When eliciting and documenting requirements, should we capture them
with use cases or with traditional functional requirements? In Part I we looked
at use cases and their limitations and how the various requirements types
complement use cases to provide a complete picture of the target solution. We
also learned the characteristics of good use cases and functional requirements.
In this, the second part of the series on use cases and requirements, we look
at writing good requirements and use cases as well as deriving requirements
from use cases. Upon completion of this session you will:
·
Write a good functional requirement
·
Write a good non-functional requirement
·
Write a good use case
·
Derive requirements from use cases
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 9, 2014; 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA
Members Webinar Registration
Enterprise Agile Requirements
Presented by
Blueprint Systems
It is possible to scale agile for use on larger, complex IT
software projects but many challenges need to be overcome. A key challenge is
how to deal with requirements, which affect so many key business functions.
Join us for the live webinar and uncover how Requirements
Management fits in the agile process.
What will be covered in the webinar:
·
How traditional requirements approaches still apply and are
necessary, along with user stories, in projects using agile on a larger scale.
·
Separate the myths from the realities when it comes to making agile
work in the enterprise, so you can be better equipped to succeed in this
changing world.
·
A live demonstration of how Blueprint fits in the agile process and
integrates with agile ALM systems, such as Rally, Jira, VersionOne, and MS TFS.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 10, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00
pm EST
Host: @BlueprintSys
Cost: Free
Registration: Blueprint
Systems Webinar Registration
Four Keys to Simplifying Complex Product Delivery Problems
Presented by
Jama Software
Building a new product is like putting a large, complicated puzzle
together with a stopwatch counting down to completion. As you assemble the
puzzle, you see progress on one section and discover missing pieces in another.
There are so many pieces to keep track of and you’re under pressure to move
fast.
Four Keys to Simplifying Complex Product Delivery Problems outlines a
time-tested collaboration method that serves your teams’ needs and your
company’s business goals.
It’s a configurable, accessible solution that removes complexity
and greatly increases efficiency, no matter what you’re building or how you are
building it.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 10, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EST
Host: @JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Registration: Jama
Software Webinar Registration
The Business
Blueprint to being a Successful PM or BA
Presented by
Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
Think about some of the really successful Business Analysts and
Project Managers that you know. How did they get that way? What
steps did they take to maximize their success and their career trajectories?
This webinar will look at the common elements that show up over and over
again in the professional lives of successful BAs and PMs.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 11, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
Registration: PM
Centers USA Webinar Registration
The Year in Decision Modeling
Presented by
Barbara von Halle
Join thought leader and Knowledge Partners International (KPI) Managing
Partner Barbara von Halle as she reviews 2014's key events in Decision Modeling
and analyzes their impacts on the Business Analysis community
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, December 11, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: @KPIUSA
Cost: Free
Registration: KPI
USA Webinar Registration
