Thursday, May 2, 2019

Business Analysis Webinars for May 2019


Requirements Definition Best Practices for Software RFPs
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, 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, May 1, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free

 

 
Transform Your BA Career with Certifications
Presented by Lora McCoy, CBAP and LN Mishra, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, AAC, Adaptive US, Inc.

Getting IIBA certified can transform one’s business analyst career. Research has proven that certified business analysts earn 16% more on average. Listen from IIBA experts as how you should prepare for IIBA certifications. Transforming one’s BA career with IIBA® Certifications.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
·        Key success factors to succeed in the exam
·        Tips and tricks to crack IIBA certification exams on the first attempt
·        IIBA Application process
·        Strategy for managing time and attempting questions
·        Any other questions on IIBA certification exams

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 2, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Adaptive US   @AdaptiveUS
Cost: Free


 

Virtual Facilitation
Presented by Angela Wick, CBAP, PMP, Founder, BA-Cube

Are you on top of your game? Come discover some thought-provoking and actionable tips to improve your virtual meetings. Angela will discuss how your approach can dramatically change the results and productivity!

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 2, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: BA-Cube    @WickAng
Cost: Free
Registration:   BA Cube Webinar Registration




IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Co-founder at Watermark Learning

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, May 3, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free




Accelerating Business Growth Thru Digital Transformation
Presented by: Joe Cooper

In this webinar you will learn how companies are keeping up with digital transformation by taking advantage of platform business models. 

Audience: Public
Date/Tim: Tuesday, May 07, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free




NextGen Business Competencies
Presented by Kupe Kupersmith, Business, Technology Consultant and Coach, BA-Cube

The future is here! Kupe will share how Amazon and others are leading the way. What’s the secret? There is no secret. It is easy to see. Great companies align with emerging trends, take risks, fail fast and learn.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 7, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: BA-Cube    @WickAng    @Kupe
Cost: Free
Registration:   BA-Cube Webinar Registration

  


Writing a Business Use Case in 7 Steps
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant 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, May 8, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free




Presented by: Mike Palladino

The next Industrial Revolution is upon us. Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Digital this and Digital that. Are you ready? 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 09, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free




Digital Transformation Chalk Talk  
Presented by Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO

This is an online chat session with one of our Digital World enthusiasts. Whether you just want to learn what it means to be digital, what does it mean to your day-to-day business analysis work, what does a digital transformation mean to your organization; this webinar series is designed for you. Our digital experts will give you different perspectives that will help you be prepared when your organization starts talking about digital transformation. Join us for this webinar and all the webinars in this series to learn more about what going digital means to you and your organization. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, May 10, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free



Next Generation Project Management & PMO
Presented by Jack Duggal, Transformational Leader

On average, only 31% of organizations are likely to deliver their projects on time.1

Whether you manage projects or programs, you are probably experiencing an accelerating volume, variety, and velocity of change, making it difficult to meet project goals.

DANCE – or Dynamic, Ambiguous, Non-linear, Complex, and Emergent – is how Jack Duggal defines the nature of business and organizations in today’s turbulent world.

You are invited to a conversation between international keynote project speaker and transformational leader Jack Duggal, and Strategy Execution’s Vice President of Product, Jonathan Gilbert, as they discuss the next generation of project management and what organizations need to do to prepare.

During this one-hour live webinar, you will:

·        Recognize the factors influencing complex, challenging, and competitive business environments
·        Understand how your current processes may need to evolve by viewing them through a new lens
·        Discover what is beneath the DNA, or essence, of successful strategy execution

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 14, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Strategy Execution    @2080strategyex
Cost: Free




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, May 15, 2019; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free




The Art of Communications for Project Managers in a Digital World
Presented by: Brian Wagner

This webinar will explain why communications are the most important part of the project management role, and the key to your success. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 15, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free




Requirements Management Best Practices
Presented by Karl E. Wiegers, Principal Consultant, Process Impact

Requirements development deals with getting good software requirements. Requirements management then addresses the challenges of handling these requirements as the project proceeds over time. This presentation summarizes several core practices for effectively managing any set of software requirements.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 15, 2019; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times    @BATimes
Cost: Free




Don’t Throw out the SDLC Baby with the Bath Waterfall: Combine it with the PLC
Presented by: Scott Stribrny

This webinar separates PLC steps from SDLC steps, so you can recombine them in different combinations. 

Audience: Public
Date/Tim: Thursday, May 16, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free

 


Mind the Gap: How to Align and Empower Teams to Deliver Better Products Faster
Presented by Chris Castle, Director of Product Management, Acquisition and Growth, Blueprint Software Systems

Alignment = Optimized Value Delivery

When your IT DevOps toolchain is aligned with your business' needs, it's dramatically easier to optimize value delivery and ensure compliance with regulatory obligations.

Join us on Thursday, May 16th at 2PM ET to discover how to create alignment between your people, processes and technology to significantly improve delivery velocity, quality, and compliance.
This webinar includes a live product demo of Storyteller's industry-leading features and recent enhancements that will enable your organization to:

·        Drive innovation and alignment between business planning activities and IT execution
·        Increase delivery velocity by automating manual tasks and removing process bottlenecks
·        Foster greater collaboration by including enterprise stakeholders in the development process
·        Improve visibility and understanding with precision mapping, traceability, and drill-down into all downstream assets
·        Reduce risk with an easy way to track and manage regulatory changes

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 16, 2019; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free

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