Business Analysis Webinars for January 2018 - Part II

Tips for Planning Requirements Elicitation on Large Projects
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

The large, complex project brings with it a unique set of problems that may not be encountered in a smaller project. This one-hour webinar will focus on the planning phase for a large, complex project. The participant will learn the importance of developing an understanding of the complete scope of analysis and developing an integrated series of requirements plans to eliminate redundancy of effort and to provide for better input to the high level architectural design decisions that must be made.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

·        How to define the complete scope of analysis

·        How to develop comprehensive, integrated Requirements Management Plans

·        How to ensure the necessary and sufficient input is available to optimize the high level architectural design decisions

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 17, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration




The Voice of Leadership  
Presented by Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D., Speaker and Author

How Leaders Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results

No matter how compelling your vision or how brilliant your strategy, without strong communication skills, you may fail to get the attention and understanding of those you lead.

The ability to get buy-in, garner trust and inspire loyalty isn't a skill you have to be born with.

This preview of the AMA seminar, The Voice of Leadership, explains how this course helps you develop the skills to inspire others. In addition, this session gives you tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

What You Will Learn

·        How to get and hold your listener’s attention

·        Steps to ensure understanding

·        Ways to develop and use stories to get your message across

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 17, 2018; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration



  
Requirements Prioritization Best Practices
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

This 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:

·        The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies

·        Different Prioritization Techniques

·        Why Prioritize?

·        When to Prioritize Knowing

·        What to Prioritize

·        The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements

·        Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors

·        Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings

·        Rating Facilitation Methods

·        Next Steps

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

 

9 Essentials for Distributed Teams and Projects

Presented by: Christof Ebert

This webinar provides nine success factors to set-up and manage distributed teams and projects. Techniques and tools are shared for successfully handling global development and sourcing. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration




Agile: Leadership Required
Presented by: Tom Cagley

In this webinar you will learn about the four leadership concepts that can double the chances that your agile transformation will be effective. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 25, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration


  
  
Requirements Definition Best Practices for Business Intelligence Projects
Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner, IAG Consulting

This two-hour webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts. We will provide a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply process that analyzes and defines the business objectives, usage scenarios, questions and queries that will yield a conceptual multi-dimension model and form the basis of the business requirements for the data warehouse and business intelligence system requirements of your projects.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 31, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration




Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Presented by Susan Mason, Principal at Vital Visions Consultants

How to Lead with Presence and Impact

Why does Emotional Intelligence (EI) matter? Because at the core of every outstanding leader are the abilities to connect, achieve, inspire and act with resilience.

EI has evolved from an area of research to a recognized set of best practices and core competencies that are at the heart of successful leadership. Today we use EI as an integrated set of skills that underpin highly effective, fast-reacting and innovative organizations.

This preview offers you a powerful introduction to the highly popular hands-on AMA seminar, Leading with Emotional Intelligence. Our instructor will explain how the seminar uses the F.L.I.P. Modes of Conversation as a “must have” tool for collaboration and relationship enhancement, and gives you other powerful insights into EI.

 
If you want to become the consummate emotionally intelligent leader, this preview provides the perfect opportunity to hear how the AMA seminar can help you achieve your goals.
  

What You Will Learn

Join us to get a preview of what you can expect when you take the seminar, including:

·        Emotional Intelligence: What it is and why it’s such a critical leadership skill 

·        The 4 cornerstones of EI  

·        How EI underpins and facilitates 6 core leadership competencies 

·        The role EI plays in leading collaboration

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 31, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2018

FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits® Seminar

Presented by Eileen Land, E-Learning Specialist at FranklinCovey

Create lifetime success with The 7 Habits®

Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular, hands-on seminar, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, based on the international bestseller. In this preview, you will discover how The 7 Habits® can help you to lead yourself more effectively, engage and collaborate with others more successfully, and continually renew these capabilities. Your team and organization can also learn and harness these qualities for maximum results.

If you’ve ever wondered if The 7 Habits® are right for you, or just want to learn more, don’t miss this preview of the world’s premier leadership development solution.

What You Will Learn

Join us to get a preview of what you can expect when you take The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® seminar, including: 

      ·        Why The 7 Habits® are relevant in the 21st century 

·        What “effectiveness” means in an ever-changing, chaotic world  

·        How to grow your personal capabilities and interpersonal relationships 

·        How our paradigms affect our ability to achieve what matters most to us   

·        The importance of self-renewal in creating and sustaining results

Attending this preview is COMPLIMENTARY, but reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 3, 2018; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration




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, January 5, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat 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:

·        Business Use Cases and Business Requirements

      ·        Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process

·        The Components of a Use Case

·        The Different Forms of Use Cases

·        The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case

·        Detailed Use Case Modeling

·        Tips for Eliciting Use Cases

·        Use Cases and Business Rules

·        Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach

·        Next Steps - What do you do when you're done?

Get specific answers to:

·        "Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What's the difference between use cases and requirements?"

      ·        "What is the difference between a business and a system use case"

·        "How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?"

·        "How many use cases do I need?"

·        "How detailed do the use cases need to be?"

·        "What questions should I ask to build a good use case?

·        "How many alternate flows do I need?"

·        "When do I know I'm done?

·        "What is the purpose of use case diagrams?"      

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 10, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 am EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration




Live Storyteller Demonstration 
Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

Agile and DevOps processes have become popular with organizations that want to increase speed and realize value earlier. However, according to the PMI Pulse of the Profession 2016 survey, only 62% of projects met the original goals or business intent, and only 49% were completed on time.

Join us for a live and interactive webinar showcasing how Blueprint’s Storyteller can help you successfully scale your Agile and DevOps practice, that delivers tangible, measurable business value with faster release cycles.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

·        Facilitate engagement and collaboration across the organization, making definition of business needs clear and easy

      ·        Align business, development, and operations through up-front automation

·        Write and automate effective and consistent user stories, test scripts, and more

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 10, 2018; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST
Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration:   Blueprint Public Webinar Registration




How to Avoid Project Failure and Burnout
Presented by Bonnie Cooper, PMP, Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group

Projects are the mechanism to realize business strategy, create competitive advantage and achieve organizational transformation. Important stuff, but most often, projects are being done in addition to ongoing business operations with constrained resources. Therefore success is dependent on getting the right resources, spending your budget wisely, and keeping people focused and motivated to execute. Warning signs that a project is headed to failure include missed deadlines, confusion, conflict and churning. All this can contribute to project manager and team burnout. Effective project managers look for these early warning signs of failure and burnout so they can take corrective actions, but more importantly, they proactively work to avoid them.

In this webinar you will learn tips and techniques to:  

·        Cultivate a healthy environment for your project, your team, and yourself.

·        Create best practices you can rely on to drive the project forward.

·        Leverage relationships to support and motivate.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 10, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration


   

Effectively Communicating in the Moment
Presented by Susan Mason, Principal at Vital Visions Consultants
  
Speaking on the Spot with Clarity and Precision

It’s happened to all of us—you’re asked unexpectedly during a meeting to give a project update, or are stopped in the hallway with an important question, or are cornered in a challenging conversation. You can’t plan for these unrehearsed events, but you can take steps to always be confident and ready when they do happen. 

This preview of the AMA seminar, Effectively Communicating in the Moment, explains how this course helps you develop your in-the-moment communication skills and will offer some tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

What You Will Learn

Join us for a preview of this seminar and how it will teach you to navigate through unscripted moments, including:

·        Advice for keeping your composure while taking time to respond 

·        What to do when you are being pushed for an answer 

·        Ways to deliver your message confidently

·        Specific stalling techniques that exude competence

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 10, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration





How to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence
Presented by: Susanne Madsen

In this webinar we will examine what emotional intelligence is, how you can develop it and in which ways you can use it lead your team to peak performance.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 11, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration