Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Business Analysis Webinars for November 2017


Strategies to Requirements Definition and Management Maturity

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant at IAG Consulting



This webinar provides a practical framework to measure and manage improvement in the area of business analysis and requirements.

This session will help any champion, sponsor or manager implement positive changes in the area of requirements and business analysis. If your organization is implementing agile or lean practices, integrating ALM or RDM tools, aligning requirements practices with your PMP or SDLC, designing training for BAs, or setting up a Center of Excellence, this webinar will help you bring it all together.



We will discuss the six critical components to a holistic program for maturity improvement:

·        Process standardization and improvement

·        Integration of best practices and techniques

·        Technology implementation

·        Competent staff resources

·        Quality deliverables yielding improved results

·        Infrastructure and organizational support



You will hear hard hitting statistics on the benefits of maturing your requirements management capabilities that you can use to help build a business case for your own improvement initiatives.  We will give you dozens of key success factors and strategies for championing change throughout your organization's business analysis and requirements management groups.  And we will take you step by step, through the essential stages of a transformation program geared to improve any organization's requirements practice.

Whether you have direct responsibility for your organization's Business Analysis and Requirements Practice, or you are an advocate, a champion or a critical team member, you will undoubtedly take away ideas you can put to use to help improve your organization's level of requirements management maturity.



Learning Objectives:



·        How to start a requirements practice transformation program

·        What is Requirements Management Maturity (RMM)

·        How to assess your organizations current requirements practice using a Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (RMMA)

·        How to use the RMM model to promote and drive change/improvement

·        Understand key elements of an efficient project plan for improving your organization’s Requirements Practice

·        What is the role of a Requirements Management Office



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 1, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free


 

 

 



Making Architecture Real: From Idea to Deliverable Software Architecture

Presented by: Stephen Cohen



In this webinar we will discuss who is involved in architecture and how the research, derived information, and solution needs are brought together.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 1, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute   @ITMPI

Cost: Free




  





No Bull Agile

Presented by Marc Balcer, ASPE Training



Agile approaches, with their focus on delivering working software through short test-driven iterations, promise to improve quality, productivity, and satisfaction. Experienced Agile practitioners zealously tout their successes.



But to someone schooled in traditional processes, it can all seem strange. Those short iteration cycles can make it difficult to keep up. It’s a whole new vocabulary. On day one coders are coding and testers are testing. An Agile development team can be a “hungry beast” demanding to be fed with user stories. Without the big requirements document, or the time to write it, how can you be certain your teams will be delivering the right things and not wasting time and money?



This fun and engaging hour starts with the dirty little secret behind the origins of the Agile Alliance. Learn why test-driven, incremental development makes sense whether you’re agile, just considering it, or convinced you’ll never be. Cut through the seemingly absurd lingo, ritual, and ceremony that all too often gets in the way. Learn how a few simple yet powerful models can get you organized. See how a test-driven approach can clarify that all-important “definition of done.”



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 1, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc

Cost: Free






 



Whip WIP! Stop Letting Work in Progress Crush your Teams

Presented by Chris Knotts, ASPE Training



In this webinar, we will spend the hour examining one of today’s biggest obstacles to large-scale success in enterprise environments: Work In Progress (WIP). We will discuss and take your questions on where WIP is a concern, how it gets out of control, the stifling effects it has on productivity, and how to tame and manage it. From top-level portfolio and program management to back-office DevOps practices, WIP is a primary concern for teams at every level of the enterprise who are trying to help their organization achieve sustainable, scalable agility. Join us to ask questions and have a conversation about the best ways to manage WIP in your teams, and how doing so is the key to revolutionizing how technology work gets executed and how projects are managed.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, November 2, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 EDT

Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc

Cost: Free










The Customer Experience Lifecycle – General Guidelines for Identifying User Experience Requirements Along the Customer Journey

Presented by Thomas Geis, Managing Director at ProContext Consulting GmbH



Customer experience and user experience have become important concepts in manufacturing and marketing products successfully.



But how to institutionalize both concepts in the daily business? While traditional development process model start with “the birth” of the product and end with the “sun setting” of the product. A systematic approach to “customer experience management” uses a different approach: The “customer experience life cycle”. To identify and implement user requirements for customer experience, stakeholders such as marketing and sales must become part of the requirements engineering process.



This webinar introduces a practical customer experience lifecycle model that can be reused in projects as a checklist for planning customer research and to identify requirements for customer experience in a systematic style. Generic customer needs for each milestone are introduced that can be contextualized for every individual product development. The customer experience lifecycle can also be used as a structure for requirements management engaging stakeholders such as marketing and sales to actively specify user requirements.



Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Friday, November 3, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free






 



IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, CBAP, PMP



The event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning. Topics include anything related to IIBA's certifications you want, ranging from the ECBA, CCBA, or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, November 3, 2017; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free










Take a SAFe L.E.A.P. Part II

Presented by Inbar Oren and Vikas Kapila



Agility needed today in order to deliver to & satisfy our customers. SAFe highlights Leadership to Enterprise Agility and Prosperity (LEAP) with Continuous Delivery achieved through synchronized Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Release on Demand to build a rhythm for the enterprise, applying SAFe 4.5 values and principles. These work together in the same way as the three arms of the Grandfather Clock, remaining always in sync and predictable heartbeat to the date (milestone) perspective.



SAFe Fellow, Priciple Consultant, and Contributor Inbar Oren will join SAFe SPCT4 trainer Vikas Kapila to highlight how to use the Scaled Agile Framework to achieve enterprise prosperity and answer any attendee questions.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, November 6, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc

Registration:   ASPE Public Webinar Registration 









Creative and Innovative Change Leadership

Presented by: Frank Saladis



This webinar addresses the effect of change within an organization and offers suggestions about how to plan for change, how to involve the entire organization, and how to minimize fear and anxiety.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 7, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free




 





Requirements Meeting Facilitation Best Practices

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant at IAG Consulting 



In this two-hour instructional webinar, you will learn some of IAG’s best practices, tips, and techniques for facilitating Requirements Discovery Sessions. We will discuss the role of the session leader/facilitator in a requirements meeting. We will explain a simple repeatable process for eliciting business requirements. And, we will provide a variety of tips, techniques and questions you can ask during the session to keep the meeting on track – and moving toward a successful conclusion with well defined business requirements and satisfied session participants.



Key content covered in the webinar:

·        The role of a facilitator

·        Facilitation fundamentals

·        Top 10 success factors for requirements facilitation

·        Preparation for a requirements meeting

·        Steps to follow in the session - the main agenda items, using use-case and other modeling techniques

·        Key questions to ask during a session

·        Critical and immediate next steps following your meeting



LEARNING OBJECTIVES



·        How to conduct productive requirements meetings

·        How to organize the topics to be discussed

·        A process to keep the meeting on track

·        Facilitation tips and techniques specific to requirements meetings 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 8, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free


 

 

 

 

4 Critical Factors for GDPR Readiness—Interview and Demonstration with an Expert

Presented by James Sayles   



All companies doing business in Europe or handling the personal data of EU residents must comply with the new GDPR regulations, coming into effect on May 25th, 2018.



Compared to its predecessor, the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), GDPR gives data protection authorities more investigative and enforcement powers and the power to levy more substantial fines, equivalent to the greater of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover.



Interview with an Expert in GRC



Join us on November 8th, with industry leading compliance specialist, James Sayles, while he cuts through the noise to highlight the 4 key factors influencing your GDPR readiness.

•Understand the seven principles of the GDPR built on the GAPP framework.

•Perform risk-based data privacy impact assessments based on the Article 29 Working Party recommendations.

•Develop a roadmap to compliance and improve readiness for GDPR.

•Develop a GDPR compliance checklist to ensure compliance upon demand.



Product Demo: Blueprint’s Regulatory Compliance Manager



Following the interview, there will be a high-level product demonstration of how to manage GDPR compliance with the Blueprint Regulatory Compliance Manager (RCM) solution.



This demonstration will walk participants through RCM’s collaboration features, review and approval processes, end-to-end traceability, impact analysis, and how each of these features will support the adoption of GDPR compliance.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 8, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Blueprint Software Systems

Cost: Free


  








Know Thyself, Brand Thyself

Presented by: Michael Milutis



In this webinar, the ITMPI's own creator/director Michael Milutis will teach fellow IT professionals how to be happier and more fulfilled at work, with a clearer career path and a world class personal branding strategy.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 8, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free






  



How to Avoid Cloud Migration Pitfalls: Strategies for Success

Presented by Brian Eiler, Trainer and Consultant at Global Knowledge



Surprises can be a lot of fun, unless it happens in the middle of your cloud migration project. While moving to the cloud is no trivial matter, it doesn’t have to be stressful or surprising. Many steps and techniques are often overlooked or forgotten.



Join us for this 60-minute webinar with live Q&A delivered by cloud expert, course author and instructor, Brian Eiler. You’ll gain a better understanding of the scope involved for migrating workloads, plus tips and techniques that will enable your organization to get started in cloud computing without all the surprises.



What will you learn?

Key concepts related to cloud workloads, from planning and human elements to connectivity, security and data transfer.

Different design aspects that should be considered when planning a workload migration to the cloud.

How these factors impact the workload migration process.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, November 9, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Global Knowledge     @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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