Business Analysis Webinars for April 2017 - Part II

Requirements Definition Best Practices for Software RFPs
Presented by IAG Consulting
 
This two-hour webinar covers techniques and guidelines for defining the type of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for application software. In order for Project Managers and Business Analysts to evaluate vendors and their software proposals, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

The methods for defining requirements for a software product are different than for custom developed solution. The documentation and templates of business requirements is different when they’re being written for vendor selection. The level of detail and what included and excluded is critical to a successful vendor assessment. Learn answers to these questions and more in this valuable webinar.

Learning Objectives:

1.       Learn an effective approach for collecting requirements for inclusion in an RFP

2.       Understand the essential types of requirements to be elicited and included in commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) RFP

3.       Learn what should be included and the sufficient level of detail for an RFQ/RFP

4.       Learn the best format and templates for writing requirements for a COTS solution

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Connecting Agile and DevOps teams with the business: Building the bridge to business success
Presented by Michael Azoff, Principal Analyst at Ovum Research 
 
Agile and DevOps go hand in hand to increase your speed to market, get direct customer feedback earlier, and increase the quality of your releases.

There is one critical component missing from your toolchain – the connection to your business.

 
“DevOps practices must be built around business value. This is an absolute imperative if DevOps is to scale. Only with consistent visibility and traceability throughout the DevOps toolchain — from plan through live production and back to plan – will ROI to be achieved.”
 
In this webinar you will learn:
 

·         How DevOps can work effectively in regulated environments

·         Business support for DevOps: the role that legal, finance, and HR play in ensuring DevOps success

·         Extending automation to the front end of the SDLC – where to apply this, and how it can be done

·         Closing the loop between Operations and Business, so that feedback can be prioritized and used

·         How to focus on DevOps metrics that matter to the business

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Software System
Cost: Free
Registration:   Blueprint Systems Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
2020 Vision: What Leaders Need to Know to Navigate the Next Few Years and Beyond 
Presented by Kenneth W. Gronbach, President at KGC Direct   
 
Understanding the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead

What counties, states, regions, countries and continents will flourish, and which will be challenged because of shifting demography? As a forecasting tool, demographics are unparalleled for seeing what’s ahead in world culture, economics, politics, commerce and government.

 
During this insightful webcast, demographer Kenneth W. Gronbach will lead you into his fascinating world of counting people. He’ll explain to you why demographics precipitate economics, and not the other way around.
 
Ken’s demographic perspective is very macro, big picture and long term. His strategies are often integrated into strategic plans in diverse sectors because of their uncanny accuracy.
 
Demography is a science of simplicity and fascination. Join Ken for this exciting presentation and enjoy the ride.
   
What You Will Learn
 

·         Discover why the best days for the United States and the Americas in general are ahead of us, not behind us, because of above-replacement-level fertility

·         Understand why China’s economy will be crippled by its ill-fated One Child Only Policy

·         See clearly why housing in the United States will spike and not look back for the next twenty years

·         Grasp why The European Union’s future, economically and culturally, is in serious jeopardy because of anemic fertility and immigration

·         Hear why the continent of Africa will have a population explosion

      ·         Get a clear picture of how Generation Y, Generation X and Baby Boomers will dramatically  change future markets and the world
 
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration 
  
 
 
 
The Art of Constructive Conflict
Presented by David Snyder, ASPE Training 
 
In a workplace where Agile Leadership is both the mantra and the overarching style of management, one should never fear the idea of “conflict.”
 
In fact, in an environment where Agile Leadership defines the culture and business operations practices, “conflict” is considered good and is never viewed in a negative light—conflict, by definition, simply refers to honest, respectful discussions on better ways to approach a situation, where the goal is to reach consensus and produce the best possible product.
 
But, there is this caveat: in an atmosphere of Agile Leadership, people act and think like scientists—and emotion is excluded from the conversation. That is the huge difference between explosive, emotional, destructive, child-like conflict and scientific conflict, which attempts to determine best practices and best paths to success.
 
This webinar will discuss what conflict is, how Agile Leaders should deal with conflict, and how to engage in scientific and productive conflict.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Public Webinar Registration 
 
 
 
 
Business Analysis Certification Orientation
Presented by Vikram Sivaraman
 
In this session, we will discuss about Business Analysis Certification Orientation. The session is targeted at giving useful insights about the different types of globally renowned certifications available for the Business Analysts community wanting to add certain credentials to showcase their competency in the Business Analysis arena. The process towards orienting one’s aspiration of Business Analysis certification is also provided presented as a road map. Fhyzics Business Consultants Private Limited - An Endorsed Education Provider of IIBA®, Canada
 
Public: Audience

Date/Time: Thursday, April 20, 2017; 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT

Host: Fhyzics Business Analysis Company
Cost: Free
Registration:   Fhyzics Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
How to Design a Good Survey For Data Collection
Presented by Bill Brentley
 
In this webinar you will receive the basic rules for designing good surveys and for properly making sense of the data you get from them.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 20, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration 
 
 
 
 
The Strategic Business Analyst: Aligning Projects with Organizational Goals 
Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, 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, April 20, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration
 

   

  
 

In an Agile State of Mind 

Presented by Kupe Kupersmith, President at B2T Training
 
Can you hear Billy Joel playing the piano? Do you even know who Billy Joel is? On a serious note, understanding what it means to be agile can be a challenge. Too often, teams think they can be agile by following the process or set of practices as defined by one of the agile approaches (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, etc). This is just doing agile. While a “just do it” approach might work in sports, using it in a development effort can result in the team simply using a new spin on the same old practices and achieving the same old results. Teams adopt agile for a variety of reasons, but it’s not the process or set of practices that actually produce the results they seek. There is a mindset that goes along with the approach. The most successful agile teams understand the need to adopt the agile mindset in addition in order to truly be agile. In this session, you will learn specific techniques to adopt the agile mindset and what it means to be agile through the 4 key principles of Modern Agile. Also, you will learn how your role may change with the mindset adjustment and how to help your team move from doing agile into an agile state of mind and actually being agile.
 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 

·         Identify the key ideas that form the agile mindset

·         Define how you, your team and organization adopt the agile mindset

·         Review how a team should be formed to get the most from agile

  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 20, 2017; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times    @BATimes
Cost: Free
Registration:   BATImes Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
  
Drive Project Success Through Performance Management
Presented by: Hasnain Rizvi
 
In this webinar, you will learn why leaders who want their teams to deliver successfully must put an intentional focus on creating paths for performance improvement.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 25, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
  
 
 
 
Fire and Ice! How Agile and Traditional Methods Can Coexist and Complement Each Other
 
Presented by Benoit De Grace, PMP, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group
 
The rise in popularity of Agile methods during the last decade has been both a benefit and a challenge for project and portfolio management teams. While Agile methods have proven to increase and accelerate value to organizations by delivering faster and better results when applied to the right projects and in the right way, many organizations still struggle to figure out what to do with these new approaches for managing projects. When this happens, Agile methods can become an obstacle and hindrance to benefits realization. By breaking down the methodologies into smaller components, we will explore how the ingredients of traditional and Agile can be blended more easily, doing away with dogmatic approaches.

You will learn:
• How Agile is different but also similar to traditional methods
• How Agile techniques can complement more traditional approaches
• What other companies are doing to improve how they manage work this way.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 25, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration  
 
 
 
 
Optimizing Requirements Discovery
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements? Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful. Within this session, participants get new data from IAG's research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process. Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements. Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.
 
Learning Objectives:

1.       Executive perspectives on making requirements change

2.       Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery

3.       The tactics of requirements competency development

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2017; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Applying Agile Development Practices in Distributed Teams  
Presented by: Jutta Eckstein
 
This webinar focuses on the impact and application of agile practices like pair programming, collective code ownership, unit testing, refactoring and the like in a distributed setting.  
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
IIBA Leadership Series: A Study of The 360 Degree Leader - Module Two: Principles 360 Degree Leaders Practice to Lead Up 
 
Presented by Marlene Barker, Americas Western Regional Director at IIBA  
 
As a business analyst or chapter volunteer you may find yourself to be situated in the middle. Regardless of your position, how can you as leader effectively influence individuals above you when it seems that most leaders want to lead but not be led? As part of our Leadership Series, based on John C. Maxwell’s “The 360-Degree Leader”, you will learn nine principles and many practical tips on how to ‘lead up’.  Applying these ideas will help you in your role of leadership so that you can become a person of influence and perform like a 360-Degree Leader.
   
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2017; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members-Only Webinar Registration
   
 
  
  
Design Thinking for Business Analysts: a get-started guide to prototyping better products   
Presented by Victor Conesa, Principal Architect at JustInMind
 
Design Thinking isn’t just for design agencies anymore; recently, large organizations such as IBM, Deloitte and various US Government agencies have turned towards design driven approaches in their software development workflows. But instead of focusing solely on design for decorative purposes, large enterprises are using it to disrupt and improve their core work cultures, from engineering to business analysis. In our most recent guest post for Business Analyst Learnings, Justinmind looks at everything BAs need to know to start Design Thinking for themselves. 
 
Why do Business Analysts need Design Thinking?
 
Long gone are the days when BAs were tasked with following a set of requirements to the letter and producing a solution from the top-down. Nowadays, business analysis and product design is increasingly bottom-up, requiring BAs to apply creative thinking and flexibility to increasingly complicated business situations. A Design Thinking process allows BAs to solve the wicked business problems they face, always maintaining a user-centric perspective and following an understand-explore-prototype-evaluate workflow. 
 
In a nutshell, Design Thinking is a process that applies the creativity of designers to fit user needs with available technology and business demands – good business analysis applied appropriately and iteratively.
 
How BAs Can Apply Design Thinking
 
There are three areas that business analysts should apply design thinking techniques to assist them in collaboration with enterprise or project stakeholders.  The Justinmind prototyping tool can assist business analysts ensure that all stakeholders are seeing the same image.  There are three areas that business analysts should consider design thinking in their work:
 

1.    Scope definition

2.    Requirements elicitation and analysis

3.    Validation of decisions

 
Join us for this webinar to introduce a prototyping tool to assist in website, mobile apps and wearables design.  We’ll look at how Justinmind can assist UX designers, business analysts and all stakeholders collaborate on design.  This webinar is free for everyone to attend.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 27, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
Sponsor: JustInMind    @Just_in_mind
Cost: Free
Registration:   Bluegrass IIBA Chapter Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Establishing a Process Culture in Your Organization: Exploring the Challenges and Benefits
Presented by Paul Harmon, Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group
 
A successful business process management (BPM) implementation goes beyond using the right methods and putting the right systems in place. In fact, an important success factor for BPM is establishing the right organizational culture, that is, a culture that supports the achievement and maintenance of efficient and effective business processes. This webinar will cover the nature of organizational cultures, the problems with establishing a new culture, and the benefits associated with the successful establishment of a business process culture. Paul Harmon, author of Business Process Change, Executive Editor of www.bptrends.com and Chief Methodologist of www.bptrends.com, will review some examples of efforts to establish a process culture and describe some of the key challenges organizations face in undertaking such a transition.
 
Topics Covered:

- What is an Organizational Culture
- What does it take to Establish an Organizational Culture
- What are the characteristics of a Business Process Culture

- What problems you will face establishing a Business Process Culture

- What are the benefits of creating a successful Business Process Culture

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 27, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration 
 
 
 
 
Connecting Requirements to IP: Achieving Requirements Traceability from Ideation through Test
Presented by Vishal Moondhra and Kevin Andrewjeski
  
Increasing semiconductor complexity is creating headaches for product teams as they struggle to manage customer requirements from product design through testing. More than 40% of all new product starts fail or are abandoned due to requirements traceability or requirements management issues. Furthermore, certain industries like automotive, aerospace and medical device manufacturers need to prove compliance with demanding and challenging standards including:
 

·         ISO26262

·         IEC61508

·         IEC62304

·         DO178B

·         21CFR820.30

·         CMMI

 
Please Join us to see how Methodics, the leading semiconductor IP management solution provider, and Jama Software, industry leader in Requirements Management, are solving these issues by creating a solution to connect requirements to IP and deliver Requirements Traceability from product ideation through design and test.
  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 27, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
Registration:   Jama Software Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Requirements Reuse: Fantasy or Feasible? 
Presented by Karl E. Wiegers, Principal Consultant at Process Impact 
 
Reuse is an eternal goal for organizations seeking higher software capability. Reusing requirements can increase productivity, improve quality, and lead to greater consistency between related systems. But effective reuse is hard! 
 

This presentation, based on the recent book Software Requirements, 3rd Edition by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty, offers numerous suggestions about how to perform requirements reuse. It describes several kinds of requirements reuse, identifies some classes of requirements information that have reuse potential in various contexts, and presents some issues around making requirements reusable. The presentation concludes by identifying both barriers to effective reuse and success factors that can help your organization leverage its existing body of requirements knowledge.

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 27, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration:   Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration