Presented by Ruffin Veal
This webinar discusses the seven possible relationships within a project and their importance to project success.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 15, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices, and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems.
Learning Objectives:
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Know what material
must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
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See how documentation
defects impact project performance.
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Learn how to simplify
your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the
right time.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 15, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
Decisions to Make About What to Do – Not What Process to Implement
Presented by Alan Shalloway
This webinar will teach you how to cherry pick from different methodologies and best practice approaches, so that you are not limited to one single methodology or another.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 16, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metric and Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
The Art of the Interview: How to Improve Your Business Analysis Interviewing Skills
Presented by Terrell Smith, Senior Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group
Get more out of your requirements interviews and make better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple, but highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing skills. This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements. The key to this process improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate preparation, sequencing and delivery. Interviewing is the cornerstone of elicitation techniques, and when done properly will reveal the answers you need. You will learn how to:
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Identify the right
stakeholders to interview and what you need to know
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Create a requirements
questionnaire and prepare to ask the right types of questions
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How to properly engage the
stakeholder and build a relationship
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Capture stakeholder
responses
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Plan for follow-up and
maintain the relationship
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Review lessons learned to
improve for your next interview
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, June 17, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corp Education Group Public Webinar Registration
Managing Opposites: How Introverts and Extroverts Can Achieve Extraordinary Results Together
Presented by Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D., Global speaker and author
A Deceptively Easy but Highly Delicate Balancing Act
Think Jobs and Wozniak, Venus and Serena, and Mick and Keith. There are countless examples of introvert/extrovert partnerships that have changed history.
It’s true—opposites attract, but their success depends on how they interact. Without careful maintenance and balance, they quickly go off the rails.
In this interactive webcast, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the nature of your employees, partners, and teams and learn strategies to turn frustration into an incredible collaboration that yields long lasting results.
What You Will Learn
Based on her extensive research and experience, Jennifer Kahnweiler will walk you through a framework called The Genius of Opposites Process. You’ll see how to leverage and combine the innate strengths of introverts and extroverts to achieve remarkable results, including:
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Tips for defining introverts and extroverts accurately
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Landmines to watch out for
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The 5 key steps of success
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Practical solutions you can apply today
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While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 22, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA Public Webcast Registration
Analysis Planning in Agile - Yes, You Still Do It!
Presented by Ryland Leyton, CBAP, PMP, CSM
Planning in an Agile environment can often be a challenge. Add on that Agile approaches usually don't speak to the BA practice and BA's can have a problem deciding how to keep to good analysis practices in an Agile environment, and you can suddenly not know where to start or how to approach the solution at hand!
In this session we will talk about how to manage and prioritize scope with product owners and stakeholders, discuss work planning and collaboration, and how to sequence and digest your work in manageable chunks in an Agile environment.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 22, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: IIBA @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
Writing a Business Use Case in 7 Steps
Presented by IAG Consulting
This two-hour webinar gets right to the point and covers the essential steps of a practical process for writing business use cases. It is all based on industry best practices and employs IAG's proven experience and techniques for practical requirements definition. This webinar will explain what Business Use Cases are and how to document them. Using the business case of an innovative iPhone application, the course will follow a simple seven-step process for writing Use Cases as well as provide strategies for dealing with the common challenges of defining them. Participants will learn use-case documentation and modeling techniques using standard templates, worksheets and checklists. It will provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily identify and write the use cases they need for their next project.
Key content covered in the webinar:
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Business Use Cases
and Business Requirements
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Use Cases, the
Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
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The Components of a
Use Case
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The Different Forms
of Use Cases
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The Seven Steps to
Writing a Business Use Case
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Detailed Use Case
Modeling
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Tips for Eliciting
Use Cases
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Use Cases and
Business Rules
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Use Cases and User
Stories in an Agile Approach
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Next Steps - What do
you do when you're done?
Get specific answers to:
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"Which comes
first use cases or requirements? or What's the difference between use cases and
requirements?"
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"What is the
difference between a business and a system use case"
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"How do you
determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?"
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"How many use
cases do I need?"
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"How detailed do
the use cases need to be?"
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"What questions
should I ask to build a good use case?
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"How many
alternate flows do I need?"
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"When do I know
I'm done?
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"What is the
purpose of use case diagrams?"
In-depth sessions get you results - quickly. There's loads more you get.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 22, 2016; 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
IIBA Leadership Webinar Series: The Leadership Challenge: Practice Three: Challenge the Process
Presented by Marlene Barker, Regional Director, IIBA Americas Western Region
Marlene Barker has a passion for improving business performance focused on achieving the organization’s strategic goals and objectives. As Practice Lead and Senior Consultant with Veris Inc., Marlene provides a rich blend of expertise in management consulting, business analysis, organizational change management and project management. Services are aligned with global standards and best practices while tailored to meet the unique needs of organizations and their employees.
Marlene leads and is part of initiatives that result in positive sustainable change with corporations in private, public and non-profit sectors. She collaborates with executives, managers, professionals and team members to create and implement high quality, top notch programs to meet the desired business outcomes from complex initiatives. This involves performance improvements to organizational structure, job roles, business processes and systems.
Active in the international business analysis community, Marlene is the Director of the Americas West Region, International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®). This represents 5000 members across 20 Chapters in North, Central and South America. Marlene is Past President of the Calgary IIBA® Chapter, sits on the BA Advisory Committee at Mount Royal University in Calgary and presents at various international professional conferences.
In this Practice you will learn how Marlene’s life and leadership experiences has helped her to Challenge the Process!
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 22, 2016; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: IIBA @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
4 Easy Steps for BAs to Gather, Author, Approve and Manage Requirements
Presented by Jiri Walek, VP Product Management, Polarion
In today's hyper-competitive environment, innovation and time to market are the key pillars for success. While software in applications and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is also adding complexity.
Modern innovations such as Agile have proven to shorten product delivery, but come with their own set of challenges. The ability to empower all stakeholders to collaborate in a unified development environment can solve many of these challenges and increase performance.
This webinar will provide you with an insightful view of applying industry best practices and how a unified tool can:
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Positively impact innovation and time-to-market through
collaboration
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Give you full traceability
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Provide the advantages of electronic signatures
•
Highlight the benefits of centralized reuse and variant
management
•
Provide the ability to utilize Agile throughout the Product
Lifecycle
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 23, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration: Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration
Presented by David Mantica, President, ASPE Training
Nearly 60% of companies face a leadership talent shortage which impedes their performance. On top of that 50%-70% of new leaders fail. There is a very big difference between doing and leading and between a leader and a good leader. No matter what, leadership involves preparing, improving, and growing your skills continuously. What worked leading your team, group, department or company this year could very well be completely ineffective next. Without strong leadership skills within your organization, your Agile transformation will fail. Due to myths and misperceptions, leadership is the most misunderstood business concept. While numerous theories and styles exist, the key to becoming a successful leader is developing your own leadership style based on your fundamental principles and values rooted in leadership practices. In order to do this you have to understand what leadership styles are available and how they work. From there you have to get comfortable in that style and make it authentically yours. It is difficult to be strong leader without conveying authenticity.
In this chapter presentation you will:
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Identify the most common
leadership theories
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Learn best practices of
successful leaders
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Identify how to use power
bases effectively in work situations
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Discover how to build
trust and encourage teamwork
·
Understanding the brain
and its impact on leadership
·
Learn how to use Influence
within matrix structures as a leadership tool
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 29, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_inc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
Requirements Prioritization
Best Practices
Presented by IAG ConsultingThis two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements -- a process based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others -- and employing IAG's experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.
This webinar will explain why prioritization is important,
when it is needed (and when it isn't,) when it should be done, what different
strategies could be used and what techniques work best.
Participants will learn a practical process that is
adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of
environments from agile to waterfall.
It will provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with
a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to
easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next
project.
Key Content Covered in this Webinar:
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The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies
·
Different Prioritization Techniques
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Why Prioritize?
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When to Prioritize Knowing
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What to Prioritize
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The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements
·
Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors
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Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings
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Rating Facilitation Methods
·
Next Steps
Get Specific Answers to:
·
"How granular does my prioritization need to be?"
·
"How much time should we spend on
prioritization?"
·
"Is prioritization done just once or
iteratively?"
·
"What does prioritization mean if we're Agile?"
·
"What should we prioritize? Requirements? User
Stories? Use Cases?"
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"What factors should we consider when
prioritizing?"
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"What is the best 'scale' to use for prioritization?"
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"What is the difference between importance and
priority?"
Participants Also Receive:
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Presentation Material
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Requirements Prioritization Template
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Requirements Prioritization Example Worksheet
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Sample Requirements Prioritization House of Quality Example
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 29, 2016; 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
Business Capability Analysis
Presented by Venkadesh Narayanan, Principal Consultant, Fhysics Business Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Capability can be defined as an ability to do a particular task. Business capability refers to certain ability of an organisation to transform certain inputs into a desired output. Organisations which embark on projects without understanding or by overestimating their capability will not be able to accomplish a project. This is one of the major reasons for incomplete projects in organisations in spite of their financial strength. During this webinar, we will discuss few real-world examples of organisations that succeeded or faced problems related to business capability. Also we will discuss the various elements related to capabilities, using capabilities, performance expectations, risk model, strategic planning and capability maps.
Learning Outcomes: The participants will be able to:
1. Understand the technique and
its purpose
2. Gain insights on when and where to use the technique
3. Apply the technique in their day-to-day business analysis activities
4. Identify the software tool associated with the technique.
2. Gain insights on when and where to use the technique
3. Apply the technique in their day-to-day business analysis activities
4. Identify the software tool associated with the technique.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 30, 2016; 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT
Host: Fhysics Business Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Cost: Free
Registration: Fhysics Public Webinar Registration
Embracing Decision Model Standards for Business Analysts
Presented by Barb von Halle, Kramer Reeves
This webinar shows business analysts how to embrace
decision modeling as a new standard and how to develop a roadmap for
organizational adoption. This discussion between Barbara von Halle and Kramer
Reeves, both of Sapiens DECISION, explores the true value of the DMN standard,
importance of decision model science, lessons learned from real case studies,
and an achievable vision for the future of modeling.
Attendees will learn how to:
Attendees will learn how to:
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Navigate and leverage the unique world of DMN and TDM,
bolstering one another with complementary strengths
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Supercharge your DMN models with proven science and
techniques not available with DMN alone
·
Taylor a roadmap for step-by-step decision modeling and
management maturity
·
Embrace an intriguing future (underway) in which decision
models are the jumping-off point for more sophisticated models.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 30, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration: Modern Analyst Webinar Registration
