Data Modeling
Best Practices for BA's and PM's
Presented by Ross
Little, Executive Managing Partner at IAG Consulting
In this two-hour
webinar participants will learn the essential concepts of data modeling
required of today's Business Analyst and Project Manager. Effective
requirements definition requires a fundamental understanding of data modeling.
This webinar lays a foundation of the essential aspects of defining the data
model and requirements for a project. IAG, the developer of this program, believes
very strongly in this key Business Analysis competency. Every Project Manager
and BA involved in requirements definition and modeling needs to know these
critical concepts. Without a solid basis of data modeling skills, there is a
significant risk that quality and value of use-case, business requirement, and
business rule documentation will be significantly compromised. This 2 hour
webinar is a perfect course that will give most PMs and BA's everything they
need to mitigate this risk and be successful in their roles.
For someone
involved or responsible for the business requirements, business architecture or
business analysis on a software development project, there are large number of
questions to be answered.
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Do I need to be an expert in data modeling? (No, by the way)
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How detailed do I need to define the data,
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Why do I need a data model - especially if we're working on
an existing system?
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Do I need to produce a logical data model?
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Do I need to know normalization theory (I hope not)?
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What do we do about data if we're 'Agile'?
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What about modeling or data definitions for a Business
Intelligence project?
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When and how do I gather data requirements with the SME's?
What's the best way?
Learning
Objectives:
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Understand the key concepts of conceptual and logical data
modeling
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Learn the steps to building a data model
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Write clear and concise and consistent data definitions
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Apply acceptable modeling principles
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Use/apply consistent naming standards
Audience: Public
Date/Time:
Wednesday, January 16, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG
Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Strategic Thinking
Presented by Johannah (Jody) Jones, PhD, President at
Strategic Transformation
Steps to
Developing a Strategic Mindset
Many organizations have the tendency to lose their grasp on
long-term plans in order to get immediate results. That’s why strategic
thinking skills are essential for employees at all levels.
Everyone needs to be able to evaluate ideas, devise
alternatives, make hard choices and align tactics to reach business objectives.
This program offers you a powerful introduction to AMA’s
Strategic Thinking seminar, explaining the combination of concepts around the
skills needed to think strategically, and the practices that allow participants
to develop and hone their skills in a classroom environment.
This course is designed for people who want to be able to
move beyond day-to-day, reactionary thinking to gain a more long-term and
future-focused perspective.
What You Will
Learn
·
Traits that determine the ability to think strategically
·
An introduction to AMA’s 9-part model for strategic thinking
·
Tips for putting the model into practice in your daily life
While attending
this preview is FREE, reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 16, 2019; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Design Thinking and Project
Management
Presented by: Bruce Gay
This webinar explores the intersection between design
thinking and project management.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 17, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Agile Transformation or
Evolution?
Presented by Michael Roberts
In this webinar, we will discuss the pains of the “agile
transformation” and determine if the organization is undergoing a
transformation or an evolution of their people and processes.
Topic Areas:
·
Realizing that there is a change
in the organization
·
Determining where your
organization currently stands
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Is the Agile mindset present?
·
Transform or Evolve?
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 22, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_Training
Cost: Free
Requirements Definition Best
Practices for Software RFPs
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant at 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:
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, January 23, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
EST
Host: IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Change By Project!
Presented by: Lorenz Gareis
In this webinar we explore the relationship between projects
and change.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 23, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Reclaim Your Success:
Lessons from Disrupters - Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold
Presented by Dr. Patti Fletcher, Best Selling Author
“Disrupters: Success Strategies for Women Who Break the Mold”
This webcast will inspire you to view yourself as a leader
fully capable of disrupting the status quo. It will also offer
insights into how to develop the mindsets and characteristics of supernova
women who disrupt the world around them for the greater good.
Dr. Patti Fletcher, speaker, advocate, leadership futurist,
and author of Disrupters: Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold,
shares how a disrupter's mindset enables women to not just break the glass
ceiling, but shatter it against all odds. You will take away an action plan
with specific lessons learned that can be put into practice right away.
What You Will
Learn
·
Inspiration to see themselves as key leaders who are on
point and fully capable of disrupting the status quo
·
Enablement to understand the common factors and
characteristics of supernova women who disrupt the world around us for the
greater good
·
An action plan with specific lessons learned that can be put
into practice immediately and continued in the future.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 23, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Effectively Communicating in
the Moment
Presented by Susan Mason, Principal at Vital Visions
Consultant
Speaking on the Spot with Clarity and Precision
It’s happened to all of us—you’re asked unexpectedly during
a meeting to give a project update, or are stopped in the hallway with an
important question, or are cornered in a challenging conversation. You can’t
plan for these unrehearsed events, but you can take steps to always be
confident and ready when they do happen.
This preview of the AMA seminar Effectively
Communicating in the Moment explains how this
course helps you develop your in-the-moment communication skills and will offer
some tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective
communicator.
What You Will
Learn
·
Advice for keeping your composure while taking time to
respond
·
What to do when you are being pushed for an answer
·
Ways to deliver your message confidently
·
Specific stalling techniques that exude competence
While attending
this preview is FREE, reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 23, 2019; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
9 Things Ultra Successful
Project Leaders Do Differently
Presented by: Hector Del Castillo
This webinar shares nine insights to help you become an
ultra-successful project leader.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 24, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
BA Toolkit: Top Visual
Models for Complete Business Analysis
Presented by Elizabeth Larson, Founder and CEO,
Watermark Learning
How often do we hear “Create a data model? That’s not BA
work,” or “Prototyping? Our developers do that.” Or “Use cases? Why won’t they
just go away?!” Many organizations think that business analysis is all about
asking questions and documenting the requirements. Although important, those
skills are not enough. If we want a complete set of requirements, we need to
model them. This presentation provides the key modeling techniques and tips for
using them for project success.
During this presentation we cover the top models business
analysis practitioners can use in their “toolkit” for complete requirements
analysis. We will review each of the models by category and discuss the
importance of modeling to getting the requirements right, emphasizing the
relationship between elicitation and modeling.
This presentation focuses on:
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The importance of modeling in getting requirements right
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How models work together to reduce analysis time and provide
complete requirements
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When to use data, process, use case and prototypes models
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Which models to use during major stages of the project
lifecycle
·
The iterative nature of requirements elicitation and
modeling
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 24, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Modern Analyst
@ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Five Principles for Managing Your Application Lifecycle with
SpiraTeam®
Presented by Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan, Inflectra
Corporation
This webinar opens Inflectra's five-part online training course
on agile project lifecycle management called: Journey Into
Agile With Inflectra.
WHY THIS WEBINAR:
The value of any software is in the solution it brings to
customer’s problems. This value cycle is not linear but cyclical as the
application lifecycle evolves. This webinar establishes the five essential
steps in the lifecycle framework:
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Requirements gathering
·
Test case development
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Requirements traceability
·
Defect Management
·
Management transparency
This webinar will introduce a framework agnostic ALM
tool, SpiraTeam -
for participants to apply the theoretic aspects discussed during the webinar.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, January 24, 2019; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Host: Inflectra Corporation @Inflectra.tech
Cost: Free
Registration: Inflectra Public
Webinar Registration
The Project Revolution
Presented by Antonio Nieto-Rodgiquez, Mike Canning
Projects are becoming the essential model to deliver change
and create value for organizations around the world. Join Antonio
Nieto-Rodriguez and Mike Canning in a conversation to learn more about the
project revolution and the new skills required of today’s successful leaders.
This live webinar will cover:
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How the Project Landscape is Changing Around the World
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What these changes mean to you
·
The implications for you as a leader
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 29, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EST
Host: Strategy Execution
@2080strategyex
Cost: Free
Writing a Business Use Case
in 7 Steps
Presented by 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
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The Different Forms of Use Cases
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The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
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Detailed Use Case Modeling
·
Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
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Use Cases and Business Rules
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Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
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Next Steps - What do you do when you're done?
Get specific
answers to:
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"Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What's
the difference between use cases and requirements?"
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"What is the difference between a business and a system
use case"
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"How do you determine what the uses cases are for a
system/project?"
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"How many use cases do I need?"
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"How detailed do the use cases need to be?"
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"What questions should I ask to build a good use case?
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"How many alternate flows do I need?"
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"When do I know I'm done?
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"What is the purpose of use case diagrams?"
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 30, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 am
EST
Host: IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits®
Seminar
Presented by Eileen Land, e-Learning Strategist 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 preview, you will 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 preview of 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 your 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
preview is COMPLIMENTARY, but reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 30, 2019; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
EST
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
