Make Room for the Agile
Business Analyst: Tips for Adding BA Skills to Your Next Agile Projects
Presented by Ori Schibi, Senior Trainer and
Consultant, Corporate Education Group
This dynamic session provides participants with knowledge,
concepts and techniques on how to perform the business analyst (BA) role effectively
in Agile environments and how to benefit from the skills the BA brings to the
Agile project. The availability of these skills can improve the project team’s
agility and help deliver project success.
More and more organizations and Agile practitioners are
realizing the value and critical need for business analysis skills – whether
through a dedicate BA role, or business analysis skills employed across the
team. This session provides a series of tips that can help maximize the
benefits that virtually any Agile environment can reap from having a BA or
business analysis skills on the project.
This webinar involves engaging participants with surveys,
practical concepts, useful tips and relevant real life examples that will help
perform the role of the BA in Agile environments effectively
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 15, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corp Education Group
Webinar Registration
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:
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How to define the complete scope of analysis
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How to develop comprehensive, integrated Requirements
Management Plans
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How to ensure the necessary and sufficient input is
available to optimize the high level architectural design decisions
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017; 10:00 am – 11:00 am
EDT
Host: IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
Managing Remote Teams
Presented by Dana Brownlee
Our workplace has certainly changed and one of the most
obvious illustrations of this is the prevalence of non-traditional work
environments. This webinar provides specific best practices and tips for how to
effectively support remote team members, how to build a sense of camaraderie
and maintain high levels of motivation without the luxury of the traditional
face to face work environment. You'll hear war stories that provide best
practices along with invaluable tricks of the trade learned the hard way!
Whether you are leading the team or collaborating with team members this
webinar will give you insight on how to set yourself up for success, when
working within a remote team environment.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members Only
Webinar Registration
10 No-Nonsense Behaviors
that Lead to Exceptional Performance
Presented by Neal Whitten, The Neal Whitten Group
I want to talk with you about you… Success does not just
happen—it is made to happen. Success is born of behaviors and choices that lead
to exceptional performance. In this webinar, I will reveal 10 important
leading-edge, best-practice, results-oriented behaviors that will promote your
professional and personal success. These are no-nonsense behaviors that I have
observed over the years as being common among those who are the most
successful. As you strive to achieve your dreams, these behaviors can lay the
foundation for your journey. As a senior guy who has been around the proverbial
block many times, I will tell you: This stuff works!
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times
@BATimes
Cost: Free
Registration: BATimes Public Webinar Registration
Elements of Requirements
Style
Presented by Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant,
Process Impact
This presentation describes numerous techniques for writing
software functional requirements, focused on the core objective of clear and
effective communication. You’ll see multiple styles of writing functional
requirements and you'll learn many vague “weak words” to avoid.
The presentation describes several common types of requirements ambiguity and shows how to rewrite ambiguous requirements to make them clearer. We’ll also explore the common issue of having solution ideas or design constraints embedded in requirements. Applying the techniques described in this presentation will help your requirements specifications speak more clearly to their various audiences.
The presentation describes several common types of requirements ambiguity and shows how to rewrite ambiguous requirements to make them clearer. We’ll also explore the common issue of having solution ideas or design constraints embedded in requirements. Applying the techniques described in this presentation will help your requirements specifications speak more clearly to their various audiences.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 17, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst
@ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration: Modern Analyst Public
Webinar Registration
Presented by Ross
Little, Executive Managing Partner, IAG Consulting
Business
architecture is a strategic differentiator. However there are practical
applications of tools and techniques that will support and link business
strategy to the tactical outcomes. By applying models and standards the business
analyst and the project managers benefit from the alignment, clarity and
re-usability of the business architecture. The objectives of the webinar are
to:
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Explain why bother doing business architecture
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Describe business architecture as a complementary and
supporting methodology to analysis deliverables
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Demonstrate some cool tools PMs and business analyst could
use
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Show you how to be a hero to your business, developers,
testers and customer
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Provide a description of value Participants will acquire a
functional knowledge of business architecture. The adoption of business
architecture tools and techniques will support the management of requirements
& risk by establishing clearer scope.
Audience: Public
Date/Time:
Wednesday, August 23, 2017; 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG
Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Webinar 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:
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The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies
·
Different Prioritization Techniques
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Why Prioritize?
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When to Prioritize Knowing
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What to Prioritize
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The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements
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Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors
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Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings
·
Rating Facilitation Methods
·
Next Steps
Audience: Public
Date/Time:
Wednesday, August 30, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG
Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits®
Seminar—Free Online Session
Presented by Eileen Land, E-Learning Strategist,
Senior Consultant 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 complimentary online session, 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 introduction to the world’s premier
leadership development solution.
What You Will
Learn
·
Why the 7 Habits® are relevant in the 21st century
·
What “effectiveness” means in an ever-changing, chaotic
world
·
How to grow our 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
program is COMPLIMENTARY, but reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 30, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA Public
Webcast Registration