Presented by Michael Delis, Senior Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group
Are your projects consistently late and over budget? Are your stakeholders and/or customers disengaged and unsatisfied with the final result? Are your efforts in process/tool development not yielding the project outcomes you are expecting? Stop spinning your wheels amidst constantly changing client requirements and stop repeating errors from project to project by integrating Agile methodologies into your project management process.
This webinar will help participants identify key Agile factors, tools, and techniques to promote project success! You will learn:
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Factors that contribute to project success, challenges and
failure
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Agile values and principles
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Best-practiced Agile tools and techniques, including:
time-box, iteration, backlog, daily stand-up meetings, task board, and
retrospectives
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, September 19, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corp Education Group Public Webinar Registration
The Role of Capabilities in IT / Business Strategy Alignment
Presented by Brian Cameron, ITMPI
In this webinar, traditional views of IT/Business alignment will be challenged and a more realistic, proven approach to alignment via business capabilities will be explored.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
How Prioritizing Purpose Improves Organizational Performance
Presented by ASPE Training
According to Harvard Business Review, Purpose prioritizing organizations outperform their peers on 7 out of 8 categories. The measurable value of Purpose to individuals is just as remarkable: longer lives, enhanced performance, greater value-add to the organization, increased happiness and satisfaction, reduced stress levels, increased creativity and innovation, among others. In a world where initiative overload, data and communication inundation, competitive pressures and a focus on bottom line performance increase stress and impede productivity, the 3As, Articulation, Alignment behind and Activation of Purpose can make the difference between organizational, business unit, change initiative or process improvement success. In this session you’ll:
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Be introduced to the indisputable
evidence supporting a purpose-driven approach
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Understand Why a Purpose-driven
approach inspires and holds much higher likelihood of achieving your goals
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Gain exposure on how to use the 5
Whys to find individual, initiative or organizational Purpose
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Learn how to communicate from the
inside out in order to gain alignment and support for you and your efforts
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See examples of how to create compelling
metrics and KPIs to keep Purpose visible, insure alignment and drive what you
want to see
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Training Public Web Seminar Registration
Managing Requirements Maturity
Presented by Doug McGouldrick, Sr. VP, Professional Services, IAG Consulting
Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.
According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success. Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher. For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measureable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity
Learning Objectives:
1. The impact of
requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives.
2. The Requirements
Maturity Model.
3. A high level
roadmap to improving requirements capabilities.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2016; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration
Presented by Blueprint Systems
Join us for a live, interactive demonstration where we will demonstrate how Blueprint helps teams and stakeholders engage effectively to produce great business applications.
Learn more about:
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Defining requirements
for large enterprise Agile projects;
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Driving efficiency
through reuse across multiple projects;
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How multiple groups can
engage to seamlessly implement project changes
Offering integration with application lifecycle management tools, Blueprint works with different development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
Register now and see why Blueprint is a better, visual way to drive the success of mission critical IT projects
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2016; 11:00 am – 11:30 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Systems @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration: Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration
Get Big Things Done: Unleash Your Connectional Intelligence
Presented by Erica Dhawan, Founder and CEO, Cotential
We typically associate success and leadership with smarts, passion and luck.
But in today’s hypercompetitive world, even those gifts
aren’t enough. Strategist Erica Dhawan argues that the game changer is a
thoroughly modern skill called Connectional Intelligence (CxQ). Virtually
anyone can maximize his or her potential, and achieve breakthrough performance,
by developing this crucial ability.
So, what is CxQ?
Connectional Intelligence is the ability to combine knowledge, ambition and human capital to forge connections on a global scale that create unprecedented value and meaning. As radical a concept as Emotional Intelligence was in the 90s, Connectional Intelligence is helping people enlist supporters, accelerate innovation, develop strategies and sustain solutions to big problems.
What You Will Learn
This dynamic webcast explores using connectional intelligence to boost your professional success and leadership skills. You’ll hear real-life stories and leave with an action plan to become a power player in your organization, including:
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How anyone can excel not just through skills and smarts, but
through Connectional Intelligence
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Keys to leveraging your networks and connections, and
creating contagious positive results
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Successful tactics used to address connectional
overload in changing turbulent times
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How leaders create deep connections of fierce loyalty and
respect from their team and customers
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How connectionally intelligent leaders outperform the
competition and create remarkable results
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA Public Webinar Registration
Transition Requirements
Presented by Venkadesh Narayanan
During this webinar we will compare and contrast the transition requirements with other types of requirements such as business requirements, stakeholder requirements and solution (functional and non-functional) requirements. We will also discuss the stages when transition requirements need to be identified, how to identify them, how to validate and ensure its implementation.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
IIBA Leadership Webinar Series: “The Leadership Challenge” – Practice Four: Enabled Others to Act
Presented by Mooed Israr, President, Ottawa – Outaouais IIBA Chapter
Please join us as Moeed Israr explores the Fourth Practice of the book and uses his real life experiences to relate his leadership experiences and how his leadership style has Enabled Others to act!
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2016; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
Loving Your Job, and Getting Others to do Likewise!
Presented by Carl Pritchard, ITMPI
You can build enthusiasm or crush it like a grape. To succeed, enthusiasm and a positive attitude must be honest. In this webinar, we will examine how we can make our jobs more positive, even when they're not ideal.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 22, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
BABOK v3 Webinar
Presented by Susan Hiedon, Ed.D., PMP, CBAP, BRMP, Watermark Learning
Dr. Susan Heidorn (CBAP & PMP), Director of Business Solutions at Watermark Learning will share what's new in BABOK 3. She will also review IIBA's new certification levels, the timeline of the new BABOK test for 3.0 and the pros and cons of getting certified under v2 versus waiting for v3. Questions and discussion will follow. Watermark Learning, a global leader in CBAP certification prep and has the number 1 top selling CBAP Study Guide on Amazon.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, September 23, 2016: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration: Watermark Learning Public 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?"
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 28, 2016; 10:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
Compliant? Prove it.
Presented by Blueprint Systems
Achieving compliance has always been – and will continue to be – a major challenge. Standards and regulations are constantly changing, many people need input, and legacy applications complicate its realization. Even if you’ve jumped those hurdles and think your company is compliant, are you ready to prove it when the auditors knock on your door?
Heightened scrutiny from regulators and the general public has changed the way organizations have to do business today in every regulated industry. In this webinar, you will learn:
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Why achieving
compliance challenges most companies
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Why the answer
to “are we compliant?” is not a simple “yes”
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How to
demonstrate compliance for internal confidence and external validation
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 28, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Systems @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration: Blueprint Systems Public Webinar Registration
Business Analyst’s Big (Data) Challenge!
Presented by Julie Hyman, Senior Product Manager, Dell
Data Preparation is the core of every analyst’s job and nearly every one of them works with or within Excel spreadsheets. However, the increasing complexity of data required for driving business forward is above and beyond what spreadsheets are able to, or designed to, handle.
IT has been maintaining legacy databases and investing in Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc., alongside a Cloud initiative to keep up with business demands. But are Business Analysts able to keep up with changing database technology with what they already have and use today? Using Toad, analysts can leverage their current expertise in Excel and prepare for their future data solutions.
In this webcast, you will learn:
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Top drivers for adoption of NoSQL
technologies
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Challenges with just using Excel-based
analysis methods
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How to leverage Excel expertise to evolving
technologies using Toad
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 28, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration: Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration
So, You Want to be a BI BA?
Presented by Pam Clavier, CBAP, PMP, and Harman Brar, Decision Streams
BI is clearly a top priority for organizations: Gartner estimates close to 90% of the world’s organizations have already implemented some form of a BI capability. Added to which, they estimate annual worldwide spend on big data hardware, software and professional services tops $30B, with annual spend on advanced and predictive analytics close behind. What does this mean to your BA career? Have you considered the role of BI BA? Does data, information, and analytics intrigue you? Have you noticed how much of your work already involves this? What did inclusion of a BI perspective in BABOK V3 mean to you? What would a role in BI as a BA entail? What would you need to fill this role? We provide context for the BA considering the BI BA role. We explain the role that the BA needs to fill in a BI team. We describe the differences and similarities between the BI BA and a BI Analyst; examine common challenges experienced and; shed light on how to use your existing BA skill set to your BI team’s advantage.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the
role, responsibilities and skills required in context of the BI team
2. Challenges and
opportunities in pursuing a successful career as a BI BA
3. Learn about BI BA
deliverables as part of the SDLC of a project in the form of a case study
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday,
September 28, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDTHost: Business Analysis Times @BATimes
Cost: Free
Registration: BA Times Public Webinar Registration
