Presented by Ted Kerr, CBAP VP Marketing IIBA Ottawa-Outaouais Chapter
For several years now, there has been a significant
movement toward using a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach within the Agile
software developer community. Test-Driven Requirements Management helps BAs to
ensure: all requirements are aligned to a business need; application behaviour
is obvious and testable; and it is safe to change requirements. Product
owners, BAs, testers and developers use tests as the central element for
requirements collaboration: this is the premise of using a Test-Driven (or
Test-First) approach. Quality is baked into the solution from the very
beginning of the project and a full set of executable specifications can be
included inside the working software. Testing is not left to a bunch of
isolated individuals off on an island somewhere, far removed from evolving
requirements and evolving code.
Learning Objectives:
1. How to use Given-When-Then to capture behaviour and document
requirements.
2. How automated scenario tests can become executable
specifications.
3. The effectiveness of writing requirements, tests and code for a
given feature in parallel.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 17,
2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Presented by Chris Knotts and Darrel Raynor
The information and decision-making
duties of project professionals and business analysts get more complex every
day. Data resources – and concerns – have become ubiquitous, and it’s critical
to stay on top of them. While BAs and PMs don’t need to suddenly transform into
data scientists, they must understand the data resources currently available,
what they offer, and how they’re being used. Most importantly, every BA and PM
should understand how data can be leveraged to deliver business value and
project solutions in their own work.
This one-hour open Q&A session
gives you a chance to get answers to common real-world data challenges. Join us
as we talk with top-tier data expert Darrel Raynor. Darrel is a veteran project
consultant and turnaround expert. He owns and runs www.dataanalysis.com and has
provided consulting services to many dozens of Fortune and enterprise
customers.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 17,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE-SDLC
Cost: Free
How to Prepare a Complete & Concise WBS
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP
This webinar will discuss the importance of having a
complete Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), including defining WBS quality and
tracing WBS elements back to project requirements. Decomposition of Work
Packages into activities will also be covered, including showing activities in
MS Project and the pros and cons of linking activities in the project schedule.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 17,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 June
Webinar Special: 4 Webinars for $39.95
‘Early Warning’ for IT Software Projects
Presented by
Tony Higgins, Barbara Davis and Mark Mullaly
At the beginning of your IT projects can you tell which are
heading into danger? Statistically one in six IT projects are “Black
Swans”, exceeding their original budgets by 200% on average. What if you
could tell, during the early formative stages of a project, whether it was
heading in the right direction? How much money, time, and frustration
would that save you and your organization?
Requirements are the “Blueprints” for a software
project. When they’re imprecise, incorrect, or incomplete it can – and
regularly do – spell disaster. To see into the requirements process and
detect if it is “on track” lets you steer the project onto the right
course. Join Barbara Davis as she presents how a handful of basic
requirements measures and a few KPI’s provide visibility that can transform
your projects. Tony Higgins from Blueprint will then demonstrate how
these are automatically generated using technology available today, across your
entire portfolio of projects.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 17,
2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @BlueprintSys
Cost: Free
The
Executive's Guide to Information Management Across the Extended Enterprise
Presented by
Tyler Shields, Forrester and John Giudice, Intralinks
IT Consumerization, particularly the “bring your own
device” phenomenon is continuing to reshape the way IT is purchased, managed,
delivered, and secured. While BYOD has the potential to increase worker
productivity, it also poses significant challenges. How do you balance the
needs for end-user flexibility without compromising organizational data? Join
our guest speaker, Forrester Research Sr. Analyst, Tyler Shields, a leading
expert on mobile and application security topics and Intralinks Director of
Product Management, John Giudice as they address the IT realities of today.
Attend this session to learn how you can easily share information across the
extended enterprise while maintaining security and control.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 17,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Ziff Davis, Inc. @ZDB2B
Cost: Free
IIBA Chapter Leadership Webinar: 2014 Chapter Awards Program Kick Off
Presented by
Jared Gorai, Deputy VP of Chapters, IIBA
Please join Jared Gorai, our new
Deputy VP of Chapters to officially launching the Chapter Awards Program. Learn
the merits of participating and what the program means to those chapters that
have participated in the past.
Audience: IIBA Chapter Leaders
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Blueprint 5.4 Live Product Demonstration
Presented by Blueprint Software
Join
us on for a live, interactive demonstration of Blueprint, a visually
driven requirements platform, that empowers companies to get complex IT project
requirements right from the start. Register now and see why Blueprint
is a better, visual way to drive the success of mission critical IT
projects.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18,
2014; 7:00 – 8:00 am EDT
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDTDate/Time: Wednesday, June 18, 2014; 3:00 – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: @BlueprintSys
Cost: Free
Owning the Collaboration Circle on All of Your
Future Projects
Presented by Jama Software
As a Business Analyst or Project
Manager, you are on the front lines of bringing products to market that build
value for your business. If you’re like most BAs, however, you spend too much
time reporting status, explaining context and tracking decisions. In this
session, learn tips and tools to help you keep your teams aligned, provide
better visibility and maintain a continuous feedback loop so you can spend less
time reporting and more time innovating.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @JamaSoftware
Cost: Free
IIBA Webinar: How to Introduce The Decision Model to your
Organization Successfully
Presented by
Barbara Von Halle, Managing Partner, Knowledge Partners International, LLC
The practice of Decision Modeling and Management is
becoming widely accepted as the best way for organizations to transform
business logic and business rules, often buried in process models or code, into
a highly visible, changeable, reusable asset. Doing so enables Business
and IT to collaborate effectively and efficiently while executing
organizational strategy. Productivity and agility improvements over other
approaches have proven to be significant, sometimes game-changing.
Published in 2009, The Decision Model provides
organizations with a uniquely rigorous, technology independent framework for
business decision modeling. The Decision Model finds its way into
organizations in many different ways: through a Center of Excellence, a pending
crisis or opportunity, an inspired individual, or a small investigative group.
Regardless, all paths to organizational decision modeling
encounter a common question: How do you introduce The Decision Model into an
organization? More specifically, how do you gain management attention for
delivering decision models as a standard practice? This webinar addresses that
question.
This webinar will
·
Describe goals for a presentation for introducing The
Decision Model to a management audience.
·
Provide insight on creating a visual story targeted at your
organization’s needs.
·
Highlight the key points you should include in your presentation
Audience: IIBA members
Date/Time: Thursday, June 19,
2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Presented by Chris Knotts
Each month we pick a valuable,
substantive business book we think will benefit the professionals we serve.
Some are new; some are classics. Either way, we do the reading, then use one of
our free web seminars to deliver a one-hour "book report."
This month’s book pick is “Monday
Morning Leadership “ by David Cottrell
Little known yet highly impactful,
this little gem of a book is required reading for every member of the
management team here at ASPE. Cottrell outlines 8 of the most fundamental and
useful principles any business professional should internalize for success in
business, work, or any leadership endeavor. Through a series of eight mentoring
sessions, the author uses the experiences of “Jeff,” a fictional manager at a
Fortune 500 company, to outline the framework of successful leadership:
·
Drivers and passengers
·
The “main thing”
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 19,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE-SDLC
Cost: Free
Real-Time
Actionable Insights for Better Business Decisions
Presented by
James Cancilla, IBM and Kimberly Madia, IBM
Real-time analytics enable
truly data driven decisions where and when you need them most. Streaming
applications must support business decisions in real time. IBM Operational
Decision Manager provides a rich environment for authoring and managing business
rules and InfoSphere Streams provides analytic toolkits to support the
execution of business rules created using Operational Decision Manager.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 19,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ZiffDavis @IBM
Cost: Free
Presented by David Mantica
PMI (Project Management Institute)
continues to meet the needs of Project and SDLC (Software / System Development
Life Cycle) professionals by offering another specialty certification.
The industry knows how critical a
working relationship between the BA and PM is for project success. Also it is
well understood that smaller companies can only afford to have Project Managers
yet still need strong business analysis work done. PMI as answered these needs
by offering this new certification.
Pilot applications are being accepted
through May 12, 2014.
This web seminar will go over in depth
the PMI-PBA handbook (costs and application requirements), the examination
content outline and the reading/outside knowledge requirements. We will save
you the time and energy of reading through the 70+ pages of documentation.
ASPE-SDLC promises to be a the
fore-front of this critical designation and this is our first step in providing
you the information, knowledge, and skills needed to achieve the designation
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 24,
2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE-SDLC
Cost: Free
IIBA Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors Election 2014
Presented by
Stephen Ashworth, President and Chief Executive Officer of IIBA and Indy Mitra,
Chair of the IIBA Board of Directors
On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, International Institute of
Business Analysis (IIBA) will be holding the 11th Annual General Meeting (AGM)
and Board of Directors Election. For more information on the Board of Directors
Election please visit here.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 24,
2014; 7:00 – 8:30 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Stand Up and Deliver Great Product with
Collaborative Requirements
Presented by Regg Struyk, Product Manager, and Jiri Walek,
Vice President, Product Management, Polarion Software
Process and organizational changes alone are no longer
sufficient to meet the mandate of improved quality, governance and auditability
in today’s complex, high-pressure development environments.
We will discuss the value of real-time collaboration, where everything is connected through bi-directional traceability, and all collaborators have access to the information and functionality they need to succeed. We’ll demonstrate why engaging stakeholders early and in context provides a clear path forward and helps uncover issues before defects occur. And we will share how easy access to previous work products combined with fully linked variant and change management can bring your team collaboration to the next level.
Topics covered in the presentation include:
* Integrate Workflow into your existing process
* Power of Granular Work Items
* Complete Traceability and Versioning
* Real-Time Collaboration using Social Media
We will discuss the value of real-time collaboration, where everything is connected through bi-directional traceability, and all collaborators have access to the information and functionality they need to succeed. We’ll demonstrate why engaging stakeholders early and in context provides a clear path forward and helps uncover issues before defects occur. And we will share how easy access to previous work products combined with fully linked variant and change management can bring your team collaboration to the next level.
Topics covered in the presentation include:
* Integrate Workflow into your existing process
* Power of Granular Work Items
* Complete Traceability and Versioning
* Real-Time Collaboration using Social Media
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 26,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Bringing your Big Data Strategy
to Fruition
Presented by Ziff Davis Events
Presented by Ziff Davis Events
IT professionals and business leaders alike know that the insights
gleaned from big data holds the key to growth and creating competitive
advantages. Giving lines of business and end users access to powerful
capabilities that let them harness their data for business value can mean the
difference between closing a deal and losing a deal to competitors or detecting
a data breach as it happens instead of ending up in the headlines. However,
knowing the potential of big data analytics and actually executing on a
holistic big data strategy are two very different things.
Ziff Davis recently conducted a User Insight Survey, investigating the capabilities of businesses to leverage their growing data resources. While it was clear that respondents understood the areas in which analytics could offer substantial benefit and insight, it was also apparent that many organizations were still developing a big data strategy but weren’t yet prepared to bring it to fruition.
Join Ziff Davis and IBM for a round table webcast where analysts and experts that understand what’s required for success with big data & analytics will discuss:
Ziff Davis recently conducted a User Insight Survey, investigating the capabilities of businesses to leverage their growing data resources. While it was clear that respondents understood the areas in which analytics could offer substantial benefit and insight, it was also apparent that many organizations were still developing a big data strategy but weren’t yet prepared to bring it to fruition.
Join Ziff Davis and IBM for a round table webcast where analysts and experts that understand what’s required for success with big data & analytics will discuss:
- How to operationalize big data
across lines of business
- Necessary infrastructure to
support big data analytics now and in the future
- Capabilities and delivery
options and considerations
Don’t miss “Bringing Your Big Data Strategy to Fruition,” where our
panel of experts will dive into the elements necessary to turn a big data
strategy into big data insights.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 26,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ZiffDavis @IBM
Cost: Free
Register: Ziff
Davis Events Webinar Registration
It's All About the Visuals: Effective
Modeling Techniques for Business Analysts
Presented by
Terrell Smith, MPA, PMP, CBAP, Corporate Education Group
Poor requirements lead to failed projects. There is solid
evidence that visualization of requirements result in higher quality results.
Engaging stakeholders by the use of a variety of modeling techniques results in
much higher quality requirements and greatly improved project results.
In this webinar, you will gain insight into a wide array of
modeling tools that assist in more effectively documenting customer
requirements. You will gain an understanding of how these tools can effectively
improve the communication with your clients. Examples of modeling tools will be
overviewed, including: context diagrams, use cases, activity diagrams, screen
flows and prototypes. This allows a business analyst to connect the dots when
documenting requirements.
Learning
objectives include:
·
Understand the value of creating a context diagram at the
beginning of the project
·
Learn how to derive use cases from the context diagram to
document functional requirements
·
Increase the effectiveness of process documentation by
developing activity diagrams
·
Learn how to create screen flows and use prototyping for
improved usability
·
Understand how these modeling techniques come together to
provide a true picture of requirements
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, June 27,
2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
