Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration
Accelerate
projects and deliver more business value
Join us for a live,
interactive demonstration of Blueprint, a visually driven requirements platform
that resolves many of the time-consuming, costly, and error- prone functions,
thus ensuring that mission critical projects are completed successfully, on
time and on budget.
Blueprint helps:
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Deliver applications
that meet business expectations;
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Increase
standardization, consistency and reuse;
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Improve visibility
and accountability;
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Improve application
quality;
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Reduce costs.
Offering seamless
integration with application lifecycle management tools, Blueprint works with
different development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EST
Host: Blueprint Systems
@Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Mindful Leadership: Staying On Course When You Feel
Overworked and Overwhelmed
Presented by
Scott Eblin, President at The Eblin Group
How to
Overcome Being Overworked and Overwhelmed
With everything you’re trying to accomplish in the week —
clearing out an overflowing inbox, juggling a calendar that’s racked and
stacked, deadlines, bosses, employees, customers, family commitments, personal
care, running your household, the list goes on — it’s no wonder you feel
overwhelmed.
Because of the demands of a do-more-with-less environment
and a hyper-connected way of life, more and more leaders find themselves in a
chronic state of fight or flight. The effects of that can be devastating
— for your effectiveness at work and personal relationships — as well as your
overall health, well-being, and satisfaction with life.
So, what's the alternative?
Author and executive coach Scott Eblin offers one in this
vital AMA webcast, based on the research behind his new, best-selling book, Overworked
and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative.
What You Will Learn
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Eblin has found that you don't have to meditate like a monk
to benefit from what science is clearly concluding: mindfulness works. In
this free webinar, you'll learn:
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What happens when you're overworked and overwhelmed
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How simple, easy-to-do mindful routines can help you feel
less stress and show up at your best
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How to create a Life GPS® that will guide you in showing up
at your best and creating the outcomes you want at work, at home, and in your
community
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
A River (of Requirements) Runs Through It
Presented by
Dave West and Derwyn HarrisUniting Agile Development & Product Improvement
As the union of hardware and software bestows upon the world new
innovations that amaze and awe the buying public, the builders behind these
creations try to keep the complexity of the products and the processes involved
from driving them crazy.
Hardware and software don’t play well with each other without a lot of
encouragement, and developers are under constant pressure to build and iterate
faster. In response, many software teams look to Agile development as a better
way to organize work, manage uncertainty and maintain quality.
In this webinar, Derwyn Harris, Jama co-founder and product manager, and
Dave West, Tasktop chief product officer, provide actionable guidance to
organizations that need to bridge the gap between formal requirements practices
and Agile software development.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 21, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EST
Host: Jama Software
@JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Developing Expertise in
Elicitation Techniques
Presented by
Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
There are many techniques for eliciting requirements, but
when and how should they be used? This webinar will provide a quick
overview of the different elicitation techniques, plus explain when each
technique is most effective. This webinar will include an example of a project
elicitation timeline and explain how use of one elicitation technique supports
other techniques.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 22, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: PMCenters USA
@PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
Don't spend so much time chasing down information! Instead
of project tracking, start project managing with the Kanban board in TFS 2013.
Kanban boards offer a way to visually manage your work. You can easily
understand what work is in progress, understand where issues are, and spot
bottlenecks. A live demo will walk you through using the Kanban board as well
as how to customize the board for your team!
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, January 23, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
From the world of manufacturing, to
Agile, to DevOps, the concept of "Kaizen" has become foundational to
linking the team mentality to the long-term quality of a team's actual output.
Literally meaning "good change," in Japanese, in a larger sense
Kaizen is a term that has come to mean continuous improvement in the world of
IT and software projects.
If you think stellar, delightful,
compulsive quality is important for your success – and you'd better – then the
concept of Kaizen is critical to how you teach your teams, how you lead your
teams, and how you perform your work. In recent years, the wide-open
marketplace and a rising Agile mentality has made it obvious that cultural
elements in the workplace are just as important as specific tools and
processes. Among these cultural elements, none is more important than a
well-established dedication to Continuous Improvement.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 27, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Presented by Tom Karasmanis, IIBA
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. In Part II we looked at writing good requirements and how
use cases and requirements work together. In this third and final instalment of
the series we will look at some more advanced requirements topics like managing
scope and requirements and a more detailed look at the relationship between use
cases and requirements.
Upon completion of this session you will:
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Learn techniques to effectively manage scope
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Understand traceability between requirements and use cases
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Learn about managing requirements
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 27, 2015; 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST
Host: IIBA @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA
Members Webinar Registration
The Ins and Outs of Capital Budgeting
Presented by
Daniel Feiman, MBA, CMC
Understanding
Sound Capital Budgeting Approaches
This webcast examines the practical use of capital
budgeting, also known as CAPEX, to make sound financial and capital expenditure
decisions in today’s increasingly competitive and lucrative M&A market.
What You Will
Learn
This program focuses on the importance of CAPEX, the tools
and tactics to deploy it correctly, and how you can benefit in making sound
capital expenditure decisions. The webcast will address the following questions
and more:
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How can you build a better capital budget to justify to senior
management?
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How can you use CAPEX to select the best investment
project?
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How can you use risk/reward analysis?
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What are the six tools of CAPEX decision making?
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What is equity and debt capital?
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What are the three types of leverage and when to use each?
Whether you are a seasoned line of business manager or new
to capital budgeting, this webcast uncovers the ins and outs of capital
budgeting, offering you tools, tips, and tactics to excel.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 28, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
You've written your query, mined millions of rows of
data, and tuned for maximum performance. Now it's time to share the information
you've found with your stakeholders. At a minimum, this causes at least a
moment of pause for many. Reporting – it's seemingly easy, yet complicated to
do correctly.
Whether it is a one-off report, simple dashboard, or
web-based portal, how you present your data is just as important as the data
itself. What good is information if you can't communicate it?
Over
the course of this hour, we'll discuss some field-tested strategies for
creating data visualization projects designed to deliver key information in an
intuitive and powerful way.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 28, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Business Analyst and Facilitator - Yes, You Can Be
Both!
Presented by
Phil Vincent, CBAP, PMP
When it comes to running a
requirements workshop, the business analyst is in a bit of a tough situation;
it’s hard to facilitate a group and to get the requirements at the same time.
Meetings drag on and on, users change their minds, they can’t agree amongst
themselves, or the scope keeps changing.
In this webinar, you’ll learn some key facilitation techniques to make your working sessions with users more effective. Learning objectives include:
In this webinar, you’ll learn some key facilitation techniques to make your working sessions with users more effective. Learning objectives include:
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A simple and straight
forward technique to plan an effective requirements gathering session
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What to do before the
workshop to make the session successful
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How to keep the
workshop focused and moving
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Tips and techniques
for dealing with difficult situations like the non-stop talker, the dominator, and
the quiet one and the group that can’t agree on anything
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 28, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EST
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Six Product Testing Misconceptions to Avoid and Fix
Presented by
Jama Software
Just as innovation drives the creation of new products, it
drives the ways companies build, test and deliver these products. While Quality
Assurance and Verification teams seek ways to improve their methods, outdated
assumptions persist, disconnecting the people from the process and putting the
success of the product at risk.
Important questions don’t get asked because it’s easier to
bury frustrations than to address them. But if you or your team has ever
wondered about what you should be testing, why it’s important, or who it’s
really for, you’re not alone.
We’ve learned a lot from our customers over the years about
how communication breakdowns lead to harmful misconceptions. In this webinar we
discuss the six most pervasive and persistent problems and their solutions.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 28, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EST
Host: Jama Software
@JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Virtual Requirements Meetings
- Kick 'em up a notch!
Presented by
Angela Wick, BA-Squared LLC|
Discover the secrets to maximizing your virtual meetings.
We will discuss tools and techniques that will show us how to stop the
multi-tasking and make virtual meetings more effective. Yes, there are things
you can do to stop others from multi-tasking, and make those virtual meetings
a great use of everyone's time! Virtual meetings are here to stay and are a
part of our work.
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Why are they so
painful?
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Why is everyone
multi-tasking?
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How do we get
everyone to participate, even quiet personalities, across borders, and
between timezones?
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How can we
neutralize strong personalities and bring out the quiet ones?
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How can we engage
and collaborate better with virtual tools?
If you are asking these questions, come discover the
tools and techniques that will change how you facilitate conference
calls.
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Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 29, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EST
Host: @BATimes
Cost: Free
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSP, 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, January 29, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: PMCenters USA
@PMCentersUSA
Cost $14.95
