Monday, June 2, 2014

Business Analysis Webinars for June 2014

Complimentary Webinar: Who's Doing What? The Confusion on Roles & Responsibilities
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
                                                                                                                            
Many companies still use different terms and descriptions for Business Analysts and Project Managers, and many other roles can get integrated into both professions. These different terms and the differing corporate interpretations on the job positions can cause a lot of confusion, especially as you move from one company to another. Come and hear our take on this subject! This webinar will be 30 minutes long followed by a live question and answer session with our instructor.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 3, 2014; 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: Free



 
 

Five Easy Steps for Turning Data to Insight in an Hour in the Cloud
Presented by Adam Ronthal, IBM and Michael Lock, Aberdeen

If you are evaluating whether Cloud could be an option for your next data mart or data warehouse project, join us to learn how IBM BLU Acceleration for Cloud, IBM Watson Foundations' data warehouse solution on Cloud, provides everything you need to get started: analytics, R programming language, and the ability to connect your own preferred solution. Go from data to insight in an hour.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 3, 2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Ziff Davis, Inc. @ZDB2B

Cost: Free


 

 


BVUG: Blueprint Tips & Tricks, and Blueprint 5.5 Preview
Presented by Brian Partington, Enterprise Business Consultant at Lexis Nexis

Be sure to join us for our upcoming Blueprint Virtual User Group (BVUG) presentation. In this session Brian Partington, Enterprise Business Consultant at Lexis Nexis, will be demonstrating “Tips & Tricks” with Blueprint. Learned through several years of Blueprint usage, Brian and his team have evolved very efficient ways to work with Blueprint within their process, and will share several of these ‘tips & tricks’ during the session. After the presentation we will then demonstrate capabilities in the upcoming release of Blueprint, Blueprint v5.5.

Audience: Blueprint Customers and Partners

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 4, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @BlueprintSys

Cost: Free


 

 

 
IIBA Webinar Sponsor Series: Organizational Survival: The Double Meaning of Sustainability
Presented by Greg Balestrero, Strategic Advisor – Corporate Consciousness, Leadership, and Sustainability, International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL)

This webinar provides the motivation for organizations to look beyond a pure profit motive and take on social, economic, environmental, and ethical responsibilities to have a positive influence on global prosperity. Gregory Balestrero (IIL Strategic Advisor on Leadership, Sustainability & Corporate Consciousness and co-author of Organizational Survival: Profitable Strategies for a Sustainable Future) will discuss the results of nearly three years of research and share insight on how to increase value, enhance reputation, and improve image and brand through an integrated approach to strategic change.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 5, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free


 

 

Taming the Testing Beast
Presented by Marc Balcer

How do you know what to test?

There seems to never be enough time (or money or people) to adequately test systems. Rapid cycle times brought on by the adoption of agile approaches only seem to make things worse. Even with automated systems for running tests, you’re still left with the time-consuming problem of designing many test cases.

This webinar will introduce you to a simple yet powerful technique for modeling functional requirements and a tool that uses those models to generate effective test cases. This approach can be used for unit testing, user testing, and more. Tests can be developed from early specifications (use cases and user stories) and in response to bug reports.

You’ll see how to easily produce a good set of test cases – exhaustive enough to give your software a good workout, but intelligent enough not to waste time and effort.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 5, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 

 

 
How to Conduct a Successful Requirements Workshop that Helps Ensure Project Success
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
                                                                                                                          
At the beginning of a large project it is necessary to quickly get a solid understanding of the high level requirements.  This is needed for a number of reasons: to put some context around the true scope of the project, to bring the team into sync, and especially to form a solid basis for the balance of the requirements work.  The best way to achieve this is to conduct a Requirements Workshop.  Come and learn what this elicitation technique consists of, what its goals are, and how best to make it successful.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 5, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95                                        June Webinar Special: 4 Webinars for $39.95


 

 

IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Vicki James, PMP, CBAP

This is a free chat session featuring questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, June 6, 2014; 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free


 

 

 
Agile and ITIL
Presented by John Parker, CEO of Enfocus Solutions

At first Agile and ITIL seem at odds because of the rigid release and change management process of ITIL and the rapid delivery of software in agile.  However, the two frameworks are actually quite complimentary.

In this webinar, John Parker will describe how the design of End-to-End business services works in an agile development environment and how agile can easily be integrated into ITIL change and release management processes.

He will address the following topics:

·         Managing Services instead of Products
·         Defining Agile Services
·         Service Portfolio Management
·         Economic Benefit of Small Batch Sizes
·         Design Coordination Management
·         Creating a Service Design Package
·         Service Transition Management
·         Creating RFCs
·         Dealing with Release and Change Management
·         Continuous Delivery
·         Achieving Agility and Operational Excellence
·         Requirements: The Old way and the new way
·         Using ITIL for Scaling Agile

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 10, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @EnfocusSolution

Cost: Free


 

 

 
IIBA Webinar: Meet the Candidates

Presented by Michele Maritato, Board of Director, IIBA

Join us on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, for the IIBA® Board of Directors Election 2014 “Meet the Candidates” webinar. This is your opportunity to hear from the candidates who want to lead IIBA into the future.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 10, 2014; 3:00 – 4:30 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free


 

 

 
The Impact of Decision Modeling for Business and IT
Presented by Knowledge Partners International @PKIUSA

With the introduction of Decision Model & Notation as a new standard, the Object Management Group (OMG)  ushered in new era for decision modeling. Initially pursued by a small group of early adopters and thought leaders who evolved from the Business Process and Business Rules Management space, decision modeling joined the mainstream in early 2014.
 
This panel discussion, moderated by Larry Goldberg, Managing Partner at Knowledge Partners International, includes strategic leaders working with Business and IT in the financial services, semi-conductor and software development sectors.
 
Panelists:
 
Alan Holsztynski, Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Cole Taylor Mortgage
Dr. Nick Illingworth, Strategic Architect, SAP FSI Consulting EMEA
Cheryl Mascaro, Enterprise Architect, Strategy, Architecture & Innovation, Intel
Todd Schmitter, Executive Director CBB Architecture, JP Morgan Chase
 
Among the questions we will explore are:
  • How did decision modeling change the information exchange between Business and IT?
  • What impact has decision modeling had on the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?
  • How is decision modeling supported from an IT infrastructure perspective?
  • What is the outlook for the coming years?
These are just a few of the questions on which our panel will elaborate during the 1 hour long panel discussion.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 12, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @KPIUSA

Cost: Free


 

 

 
Taming the Testing Beast
Presented by Chris Knotts and Darrel Raynor

The amount of data available to software teams and the tools available to utilize it can easily become mind-numbing if you don’t know how to ask the right questions. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a data guru or a technical specialist to understand this fundamental truth: your data is only as valuable as the questions you ask. This is good news for project teams and business analysis professionals because it means you can quickly and realistically begin harnessing insights offered by data that’s readily available, as long as you understand how to frame the questions that yield those insights.

In this one-hour web seminar, data guru and veteran enterprise consultant Darrel Raynor will take your questions on how you can immediately begin framing the useful questions that will yield useful insights for your organization, using data analysis resources you probably already have in place. Darrel is the founder and Managing Director of www.dataanalysis.com and has decades of experience consulting with Fortune companies on uncovering useful business insights and turning around troubled projects using data-driven resources. Join us for this open Q&A in which we take as many of your questions as possible.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 12, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 

 
 
 
Everything You Need to Know About the New BABOK® Guide - v3
Presented by Phil Vincent, CBAP, PMP, Corporate Education Group
A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) from International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) is the leading global standard for the business analysis profession. Regularly reviewed and updated since its first publication in 2005, the BABOK® Guide - v3 is open for international public review until mid-July, 2014.
This webinar will provide a comprehensive review of the new content and structure of the BABOK® Guide - v3, including a spotlight on:
·         The realignment of the knowledge areas
·         The introduction of the five formal perspectives on business analysis
·         The changing definitions of business analysis and requirements
·         When the CBAP® and CCBA® Exams will change and how to determine whether you should wait or sit for the exam before it changes
This is an ideal webinar for both new and advanced business analysts.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, June 13, 2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
 
 


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