Monday, February 16, 2015

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2015 - Part II

The Strategic Business Analyst: Aligning Projects With Organizational Goals
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:

-          Understand the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area
-          Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs
-          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:

        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, 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

·         Among the traits we will explore are:
·         Demonstrating character
·         Projecting authority
·         Communicating through listening/learning
·         Influencing through others
·         Making tough decisions
·         Showing humility
·         Exhibiting humor
·         Motivating from within
·         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

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration

 


 

 

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:

·         Learn what the top 5 skills are for agile BAs
·         Learn how organizations are moving to hybrid models and are looking at agile is an adjective, not a noun or methodology
·         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


 


 

 

Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) Certification – an Overview
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 Software

There 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


 

 

 
Transitioning from Waterfall: The Benefits of Becoming Agile
Presented by David Mantica

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


 


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