Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group
Projects are expected to address a business need and help
an organization attain its goals. Business Analysts are expected to ensure that
a project fits into the business context. In this webinar, participants will
learn how to conduct "enterprise analysis" in order to align projects
with organizational goals. The webinar explains the main tasks of Enterprise
Analysis according to IIBA®’s BABOK® Guide and then demonstrates select
techniques, including root cause analysis, assessing capability gaps, defining
solution scope, and leveraging Business Architecture frameworks, such as the
Zachman framework. Learning objectives include:
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Understand the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area
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Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs
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Identify capability gaps using Business Architecture
frameworks
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EST
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Writing Effective User
Stories for an Agile Project
Presented by
PM Centers USA
Even though Agile development is quickly becoming very
common at most organizations, there is still a lot of confusion about how to do
it properly. Some of the most common questions revolve around the Agile
requirements elicitation and documentation technique known as User Stories.
Come and learn what they are, how they are done, and where they fit into
successful Agile development.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EST
Host: PM CentersUSA
@PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
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, February 25, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00
pm EST
Host: Blueprint Systems
@Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
To Manage or to Motivate: 9
Need-to-Know Traits of the Best Leaders
Presented by
John Baldoni
Enabling Your
People to Succeed
Leadership, as Dwight Eisenhower once said, is the ability
to get people to do what they don’t want to do and like it. That quote
addresses two aspects of the power that a leader exercises. One is asking
people to do something. The second is motivating people to achieve.
At its core leadership is simple: moving others toward a
goal. However leadership is difficult: creating an environment that enables
people to succeed.
This webcast will focus on those traits a leader can
utilize to bring his/her people toward purpose that unites in common cause.
What You Will Learn
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Among the traits we will explore are:
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Demonstrating character
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Projecting authority
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Communicating through listening/learning
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Influencing through others
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Making tough decisions
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Showing humility
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Exhibiting humor
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Motivating from within
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Leading: be seen, be heard, be there
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Do You Have the Top 5 Skills
Agile BAs Need?
Presented by
Angela Wick, CBAP, PMP, PBA
Do you have the top five skills Agile BAs Need? Join Angela
Wick, CBAP, PMP, PBA and Founder/CEO of BA-Squared to find out, and learn how
to cultivate these skills. This free webinar takes place on Thursday, February
26, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST (New York Time).
Agile is happening in most organizations, and the BA role varies, no matter how the BA role is defined in agile environments the skills needed remain the same. Discover the top 5 skills needed to be successful in agile environments. Learn how BAs become agile, even in a hybrid world. Learn how to cultivate these top 5 skills and engage effectively as a BA with an agile mindset that can work on agile, traditional, and hybrid projects. We will take a deep look at each of the 5 skills, what they mean, and ways BAs demonstrate and cultivate these skills. We will look at the aspects of mindsets, behaviors and attitudes that bring out these skills on our journey to become more agile as BAs.
Learning Objectives:
Agile is happening in most organizations, and the BA role varies, no matter how the BA role is defined in agile environments the skills needed remain the same. Discover the top 5 skills needed to be successful in agile environments. Learn how BAs become agile, even in a hybrid world. Learn how to cultivate these top 5 skills and engage effectively as a BA with an agile mindset that can work on agile, traditional, and hybrid projects. We will take a deep look at each of the 5 skills, what they mean, and ways BAs demonstrate and cultivate these skills. We will look at the aspects of mindsets, behaviors and attitudes that bring out these skills on our journey to become more agile as BAs.
Learning Objectives:
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Learn what the top 5 skills are for agile BAs
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Learn how organizations are moving to hybrid models and are
looking at agile is an adjective, not a noun or methodology
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Learn how to cultivate and demonstrate the top 5 skills
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 25, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: BA-Squared, LLC
@WickAng
Cost: Free
Owning the Collaboration Circle on All of Your
Future Projects
Presented by
Jama Software
As a Business Analyst or Project Manager, you are on the
front lines of bringing products to market that build value for your business.
If you’re like most BAs, however, you spend too much time reporting status,
explaining context and tracking decisions. In this session, learn tips and
tools to help you keep your teams aligned, provide better visibility and
maintain a continuous feedback loop so you can spend less time reporting and
more time innovating.
By bringing in your stakeholders early and often, you can
slay the productivity-killing monsters that wreak havoc on your job
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EST
Host: Jama Software
@JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Presented by Damian Herrick, CAP
In 2013, after a year of rigorous preparation, the
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) launched the
first broad-spectrum data analytics certification available to analytics and
data science professionals. We are pleased and proud to be partnered with one
of the first data science consultants to earn this important credential –
Damian Herrick, CAP. Damian is an experienced analytics consultant with years
of experience helping enterprise organizations deploy end-to-end data science
projects.
Damian took the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) exam
and earned his certification in the fall of 2014. He will present an overview
of the process, the exam, the requirements and the challenges associated with
earning the CAP credential. This is a valuable opportunity for anyone who is
interested in pursuing the only independent, peer-reviewed data analytics
certification on the market. Join us to take a look at the CAP certification
and what it means for the larger career options in the world of analytics and
data science.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Prototyping - Demonstrating
Success
Presented by
PM Centers USA
Prototyping is a seldom used elicitation technique, even
though some development methodologies such as Rapid Application Delivery are
entirely based on it. This webinar will provide an in-depth review of this
elicitation technique and explain best practices in using prototyping to
deliver quality products.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: PM CentersUSA
@PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
Requirements vs. System
Documentation
Presented by
Jiri Walek, VP of Product Development at Polarion SoftwareThere was a time in the BA’s not so distant past when the source code also served as the documentation of what was actually implemented. Quality assurance engineers could compare it with the BA’s requirement specifications relatively easily. Those days are gone. The sheer number of lines of code (LOC) has grown exponentially and continues to mushroom. A multimedia project can easily have 50 million lines and as BA’s you need the right tools and strategies to develop and link up supportive documentation with requirements specifications.
Nowadays, code is no longer a workable way to provide project documentation and ensure project integrity and consistency. Furthermore, effective BAs have to be good translators. They must be able to speak the language of the business, effectively interpret it for the analytical minds of the technical implementers, plus find the right vehicles to convey the information. In order to achieve all this, you need the right tools and strategies to develop and link up supportive documentation with requirements specifications. This webinar will provide you with practical tips and real life best practice recommendations for effectively managing requirements specifications and supportive documentation in the 21st century.
When you attend this event you will:
• Learn how to balance what is written in the user story and how the projects specifications are updated
• Unlock synergies across disparate development teams to empower all collaborators to resound faster to business requirements
• Find out about mitigating and managing risk in your regulatory compliance documentation?
Who can benefit from this webinar?
• Business Analysts
• Project Managers
• System Analysts
• Requirements Managers
• Quality Assurance Manage
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 26, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EST
Host: Modern Analyst
@ModernAnalyst
Sponsor: Polarion Software @PolarionNews
Cost: Free
This web seminar will not be an hour
infomercial pitching you on Agile with the end being a hard sell for
coaching/training services or agile software. The goal of this session is to
provide someone interested in Agile with an understanding of the benefits of
Agile methods by comparing and contrasting the typical waterfall process with
Agile.
In this web seminar we will do a very
basic breakdown of SDLC (Software/System Develop Lifecycle) roles and
responsibilities. From there we will look at those same roles in action in
Waterfall and how those roles and actions change in Agile. After that we will
look at the areas within Agile that provide higher visibility, less risk,
greater adaptability and increased business value when compared with waterfall.
Ultimately we will discuss some of the
top problems or challenges organizations face with looking to incorporate agile
or some agile practices. And address those challenges with ideas on change
management strategies to support an Agile transformation.
Nothing is as simple as marketing
makes it seem. With Agile though there are some significant organization
benefits, especially around meeting NEED with your software/systems work that
makes worthwhile to investigate if your organization can make the
transformation.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, February 27, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
