Business Analysis Webinars for April 2018 - Part II

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, April 18, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Public Webinar Registration

  
  
  
How Project Managers Should Think About Business Value
Presented by: Scott Stribrny

This webinar provides a framework for looking at business value at the portfolio and project levels, using a customer-focused, data-driven process that demonstrate bottom line impact.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 18, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute     @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration




How to Ace the IIBA Certifications in the Very First Attempt  
Presented by LN Mishra, Trainer and President at Adaptive US Inc.

Have you been a practicing Business Analyst for several years but you’re career growth has stalled? Or are you new to the profession and looking forward to grow your career to the next level? Or do you not have experience yet but are looking to start a career as a BA? If you find yourself in any of the above situations, then this webinar is a must attend for you. 

Learning Objectives/Outcomes: 

Regardless of how far along you are in your career path, obtaining an IIBA® certification will provide you with definite quantifiable benefits. IIBA certification provides Business Analysts with a certification that has international market recognition. 

Certification also helps BA practitioners unlock their potential to a host of career opportunities. Gaining IIBA® certification provides a holistic process on business analysis and trains professionals on various business analysis techniques.  This webinar will provide you with: 

·        A detailed preparation process for IIBA® certifications examination. 

·        Aspects to focus on when preparing for different IIBA® certifications. 

·        Tips and tricks for different IIBA® certification examinations from the mentor who has successfully trained 300+ IIBA® certified professionals. 

·        Resources available for IIBA® certification preparations

  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 18, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst     @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration:   ModernAnalyst Public Webinar Registration




The Voice of Leadership
Presented by Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D., Global 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, April 18, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration
  

  

Amazing Presentations
Presented by: Carl Pritchard

This session will explore four simple steps for taking your briefings to the "amazing" level.  You'll learn to create new connections, abbreviate your stories and leave audiences wishing you had just a little more time.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 19, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration




Energize Leadership
Presented by Bob Faw, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group

Learn secrets of motivation being unlocked by researchers. Bob Faw has turned these scientific insights into tried-and-true tools. He's taught these simple tools to many thousands of people around the world.

Energize others. Leaders, use Energize to motivate your teams. Jam-pack your communication with these tools to calm fears, energize passion, and convince people. Even influence those you have little power over using these neuroscience nuggets. Become a master of motivation. Ignite passion for goals, involve people in meaningful ways, and inspire the action you need.

Learning Objectives:

·        Motivatethree areas of the brain critical to long-term performance through calming, convincing, and energizing.

·        Rebalance your own negativity biases to be more realistic and optimistic.

·        Positively prime yourself and others for more positive attitudes.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 24, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Ed Group Webinar Registration




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, April 25, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Public Webinar Registration
  
  
  
  
Live Storyscan for Storyteller Demonstration
Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

Storyscan for Storyteller accelerates your legacy modernization initiatives whether they require re-platforming of existing functionality or a complete rewrite of your applications.

In this Storyscan for Storyteller demonstration, you will learn how you can :

·        Capture the current state of your system by leveraging existing test cases

·        Transform your test cases into new visual process models to facilitate the modernization process

·        Reduce redundancies by comparing potential areas of duplication across your regression test suites

 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 25, 2018; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT
Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration:   Storyteller Live Demo Registration




Disrupting Requirements: Finding a Better Way
Presented by Christer Froling, Michael Jastram, and Colin Hood

There’s no magic key to unlock requirements management.

What works for an automotive company may be irrelevant to a team building complex software.

That’s why we’re gathering a group of requirements management experts for a discussion, debate and Q&A session on:

1.      Best practices that can be applied in various industries

2.      Properly communicating requirements through writing

3.      Completeness, correctness and consistency of requirements

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 26, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Jama Software    @jamasoftware
Cost: Free
Registration:   Jama Software Webinar Registration




A Lightweight Framework for Agile at Mid-Scale
Presented by: Alan Shalloway

This webinar will help you understand what must be done to achieve agility in a mid-sized technology group (100-500 people).

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 26, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration