Sunday, January 18, 2015

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2015 - Part II


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:

·         Deliver applications that meet business expectations;
·         Increase standardization, consistency and reuse;
·         Improve visibility and accountability;
·         Improve application quality;
·         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

·         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:
·         What happens when you're overworked and overwhelmed
·         How simple, easy-to-do mindful routines can help you feel less stress and show up at your best
·         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 Harris

Uniting 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


 

 
Using Kanban with TFS 2013
Presented by Byron Brewer

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


 

 
Kaizen: Practical Lessons on Adopting a Continuous Improvement Ethic
Presented by Chris Knotts

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


 

 
Being a BA - Technical Excellence: From Use Cases to Requirements, Part III
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:

·         Learn techniques to effectively manage scope
·         Understand traceability between requirements and use cases
·         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

 

 

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:

·         How can you build a better capital budget to justify to senior management? 
·         How can you use CAPEX to select the best investment project? 
·         How can you use risk/reward analysis?
·         What are the six tools of CAPEX decision making? 
·         What is equity and debt capital? 
·         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


 

 
Data Visualization Primer
Presented by Jeffrey Burns

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:

·         A simple and straight forward technique to plan an effective requirements gathering session
·         What to do before the workshop to make the session successful
·         How to keep the workshop focused and moving
·         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.
·         Why are they so painful?
·         Why is everyone multi-tasking?
·         How do we get everyone to participate, even quiet personalities, across borders, and between timezones?
·         How can we neutralize strong personalities and bring out the quiet ones?
·         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. 

Learning Objectives

·         Learn the secrets to why people multi-task on calls
·         Learn what tools and techniques will get them to stop
·         Learn about tools to innovate and kick your virtual meetings up a notch

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 29, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: @BATimes

Cost: Free


 
 
  
Improving your Leadership Skills to the Elite Level
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


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