Business Analysis Webinars for April 2015 - Part II

BPM of Things: Making Smart Objects Smarter
Presented by Philip Ozil, Bonitasoft

It’s been said that by 2020, there will be 10 times more connected objects than people. What does that have to do with BPM? Connecting smart objects to BPM is a way of extending their intelligence. And more - the “things” in the Internet of Things provide another way to interact with a process. (Instead of kicking off a process by clicking on a web form, imagine kicking it off with your garage door opener!)  Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the BPM of Things.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Bonitasoft     @bonitasoft

Cost: Free

Registration:   Bonitasoft Webinar Registration

 

Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration

Presented by Blueprint Systems

Accelerate projects and deliver more business value

Join us for a live, interactive demonstration of Blueprint, a visually driven requirements platform that resolves many of the time-consuming, costly, and error- prone functions, thus ensuring that mission critical projects are completed successfully, on time and on budget.

Blueprint helps:

•        Deliver applications that meet business expectations;

•        Increase standardization, consistency and reuse;

•        Improve visibility and accountability;

•        Improve application quality;

•        Reduce costs.

Offering seamless integration with application lifecycle management tools, Blueprint works with different development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Blueprint Systems   @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration

 

 

5 Best Practices of Successful Support Leaders

Presented by Rich Gallagher, Author

Every support manager or supervisor wants to be effective and, let’s face it, promotable. But did you know that there are specific, actionable traits that differentiate best-of-breed support leaders from everyone else?

Join former support exec and bestselling business author Rich Gallagher to learn five best practices that will make you an effective support leader.

During this free webinar, you’ll learn:

·         Ways to build responsibility and ownership within the team

·         How to deliver results without inviting burnout

·         What to look for when recruiting and hiring the perfect rep

·         And more...

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Ziff Davis    @ZDB2B

Cost: Free

Registration:   Ziff Davis Event Registration

 

 

How to Implement Change

Presented by: Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM

Projects are designed to implement changes needed by the business in order to grow, but most people have trouble embracing change. This webinar will discuss techniques for ensuring the organization and stakeholders are prepared to handle project changes, along with methods to make the change process efficient and painless.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: PM Centers USA    @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95

Registration:   PM Centers USA Webinar Registration

 

 

The 5 Critical Differences in Requirements for Package Software

Presented by: Angela Wick, Founder of BA-Squared, LLC.    @wickang

Requirements for vendor package software are different! Depending on the type of vendor package project the requirements process and artifacts are unique and need some special attention. Our typical templates and processes do not set these projects up for success.

In this webinar we will look at how the BA role may change, approach (agile or traditional), and how the requirements process and deliverables change.

Come learn what needs to be considered to successfully set up efficient requirements when working with COTS, vendor, and package software implementations. 

Learning Objectives

·         Learn what makes COTS, Vendor, Package Software projects different from a requirements perspective

·         Learn how the role and process changes

·         Learn how our BA artifacts, templates, and deliverables need to change

·         Learn tips and tricks to set these projects up for success

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, April 23, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Business Analyst Times   @BATimes

Cost: Free

Registration:   BA Times Webinar Registration

   

 

 

Under Pressure: Your Embedded System Needs to Modernize RM

Presented by: Andre Girard, Research Analyst at VDC

VDC Research analyst Andre Girard will describe the market drivers for modern requirements management and explain why your organization is in peril if it maintains the status quo. He will discuss how modern requirements management tools can dramatically improve delivery times, slash product line complexity and enhance communication across all players in the product ecosystem.

Embedded market companies face increasingly complex market pressures to accelerate the product-delivery process. Their business goals require products to be delivered to customer satisfaction, with no defects, and faster than ever. And yet, 42% of embedded systems are behind schedule. Among the many challenges to efficient, on-time product delivery are competing, yet equally critical, imperatives:

·         Managing growing complexity in distributed organizations, within their products, and across a network of interrelated and interdependent products

·         Maintaining consistent software security and quality standards

·         Integrating the supply chain, formalizing acceptance benchmarks for code from supply chain partners

·         Demonstrating compliance to process standards

·         Verifying requirements traceability

·         Inadequate and changing specifications

·         Shifting priorities

Despite widespread knowledge of these mounting challenges, engineering organizations are not doing enough to adapt. They need to make fundamental changes in the planning, management, and execution of system designs; they need new tools and methodologies to change outcomes because in-house and ad-hoc tools are inadequate for modern requirements management.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 28, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Jama Software    @jamasoftware

Cost: Free

Registration:   Jama Software Webinar Registration

 

 

 

Models for Data Requirements

Presented by: Joy Beatty, Vice President of Seilevel    @joybeatty   @Seilevel

Many analysts think that “data modeling” means designing databases and technical data models. Business users have no capability of creating and consuming that level of technical design, but they very much do care about their business data requirements. They can describe how the data is used to make business decisions and how they want to see it processed by the system.

This webinar will introduce a set of requirements models for data that help describe the relationship of data in the system, details about fields, how data is used to make decisions, and how data is processed by the system. We’ll describe how the models can be used together from top to bottom to create a complete picture of the data needs and how they integrate to other requirements models to fully round out the requirements. 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 29, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

Registration:   Modern Analyst Webinar Registration

 

 

Proven Best Practices for Managing Risks on Your Projects

Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP

Dealing with risks effectively has become a critical consideration on projects. This webinar will help you become more skilled at managing project risks. We will review and explain proven best practices for identifying, analyzing and responding to project risks. Instructions on how to prepare a thorough risk register using an Excel workbook will be presented and webinar attendees will receive a copy of the Excel Risk Management workbook. Attend this webinar and become a specialist in managing risks for your organization!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: PM Centers USA    @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95

Registration:   PM Centers USA Webinar Registration

 

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2015 - Part II

Top Pitfalls that Lead to Agile Troubles
Presented by David Mantica

With anything new there are going to be difficulties. What starts out a small test with a pilot team leads to a huge bandwagon affect. This is great but some bandwagoners get nervous when the problems start and ultimately become the naysayers and finger pointers that can kill Agile before it even gets a chance to provide benefit.

In this web seminar we will discuss in detail the top issues that lead to problems deploying Agile. This session will give you the information you need to keep the bandwagon's wheels here on earth and avoid the bubble burst when expectations are set too high.

Problems we will discuss include:

·         Self-organized team function

·         Poor Product Owner performance

·         Lack of adequate training and coaching

·         No change management plan

·         Lack of executive support

·         Inconsistent business unit support

Ultimately Agile success requires an organization to do some creative destruction which leads to inefficiency and confusion for a period of time. Be prepared to weather that storm by preparing your sponsors and management with an understanding of the problems you will face on your road to incorporating Agile methods into your organization.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 24, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

 

Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration

Presented by Blueprint Systems

Accelerate projects and deliver more business value

Join us for a live, interactive demonstration of Blueprint, a visually driven requirements platform that resolves many of the time-consuming, costly, and error- prone functions, thus ensuring that mission critical projects are completed successfully, on time and on budget.

Blueprint helps:

•        Deliver applications that meet business expectations;

•        Increase standardization, consistency and reuse;

•        Improve visibility and accountability;

•        Improve application quality;

•        Reduce costs.

Offering seamless integration with application lifecycle management tools, Blueprint works with different development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 25, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Blueprint Systems   @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration

 

 

Vendor Showcase Webinar Series on Document Elicitation Results 
Presented by Techno Solutions, Yonix, and iRise

As the definitive guide and the internationally recognized standard, the BABOK^® Guide is a comprehensive and essential tool for the practice of business analysis. In April 2015, IIBA will release BABOK^® Guide v3. This webinar will provide you with insight on the alignment of Document Elicitation Results from BABOK^® Guide v2 -- Task 3.3 and how they link to the new BABOK^® Guide v3.

IIBA^® Vendor Showcase Webinars will be hosted by industry expert Tom Karasmanis, IIBA and will be

open to all IIBA Members and non-Members.

Document Elicitation Results

One of the core activities of a business analyst is to document the various stakeholder needs and solution requirements. There are various formats and media than can be used to document the elicitation results. It is important to present the results in a format that is easy for the reader to understand and navigate and lends itself to updates that are sure to come. Activities include capturing and documenting requirements as well as importing and exporting them from various other formats.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: IIBA    @IIBA

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Public Webinar Registration

 

 

Business Analysis: Is it a Role or a Skill?
Presented by David Mantica

The Agile evangelists would say it is a skill the entire team needs. The IIBA would say it is a role that needs to grow in order for companies to gain competitive advantage with their technology deployments and internal automation. PMI (the Project Management Institute) has also spoken on this topic. Their position, based on the certification they developed (PMI-PBA) is it's a skill successful project managers add to their tool kit of skills and techniques. What can be factually attested to is the following; as SDLC practitioner positions like developers, testers and architects were being outsource, larger enterprise organizations depended on building software and systems for competitive advantage have been hiring Business Analysts. Just look at Indeed or Dice or Monster and see which tech jobs are HOT and Business Analyst will be in the top 5.

This presentation will break out the current trends in the software development industry and where BA is seen as skill and were it is being built out as a role. From there we will take a look at the pros and cons of each view and where things may end up in the end. Ultimately giving you critical information as you plan your career growth goals for 2015 and beyond.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

How to Prioritize Your Project Requirements

Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP

Requirements are not equal – and that’s the reason for prioritization, to ensure the implementation efforts focus on the most critical requirements. This webinar will discuss what’s needed to establish the basis for requirements prioritization. Techniques for prioritizing requirements will also be covered including timeboxing and budgeting, MoSCoW, Kano and risk analysis, and voting. Challenges in prioritizing requirements will also be reviewed.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: PM Centers USA   @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95

Registration:   PM Centers USA Webinar Registration

 

 

Webinar: Requirements for Business Analytics

Presented by Joy Beatty, VP at Seilevel

Normal people don't look at data sets just for fun; they analyze them to make business decisions. Business analysts are more frequently finding themselves on strategic projects that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which conclusive decisions and actions can be derived. Analysis of big data is already a reality today in most IT organizations and will grow in significance as businesses look to gain a better understanding for capturing, structuring and learning from their data.

In this presentation, we will offer advice on tackling requirements for business analytics projects. This webinar outlines how to elicit strategic analytics decisions to help prioritize requirements work, and how to prepare for the future of big data by specifying data needs. Participants will hear examples of questions they can use to engage businesses to think outside the box about their requirements, and consider new possibilities from analytics projects.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst   @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

Registration:   Modern Analyst Webinar Registration

 

 

How IT Megatrends Like Cloud Computing, Big Data and Mobility can Help Your Career

Presented by Eric Bloom, President and Founder at Manager Mechanics

Following the wave of new and exciting IT megatrends and leading edge technologies has forever been the road to rags or riches .

Trends like cloud computing, big data, mobility and others are now driving the industry and are here to stay. So as Project Managers and Business Analysts, what should you know about these technologies and how do you pivot yourself toward them, given your current skill set and current employment? Join us on the webinar and find out!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host:  BA Times   @BATimes

Cost: Free

Registration:   BATimes Webinar Registration

 

 

Owning the Collaboration Circle on All Your Future Projects

Presented by Jama Software

Learn how modern and collaborative requirements management tools make it easier to ensure everyone in the collaboration circle has a clear way to find out what is being discussed, what was decided, and where to provide input when expectations are not being met. Watch this recording webinar for tips on to help you get better visibility into the entire product lifecycle, identify and locate key stakeholders and develop continuous feedback loops that keep your projects humming along.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 25, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

Registration:   Jama Software Webinar Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for September 2014

What is DevOps? A Colorful Introduction
Presented by Chris Knotts

For decades, application developers and IT operations people have been set up in armed camps, often at odds with each other and unable to trace sources of frustration to their root cause. The business suffers while non-technical people wonder “what everyone in IT is doing.”

DevOps is a grassroots movement sweeping IT and project shops across the western world. Like any buzzword, there’s no exact definition and lots of misconception. However, the underlying forces and reasons behind the DevOps movement are clear. It’s an exciting and heady brew of corporate culture shifts, IT worker empowerment, amazing new tools, cloud computing capabilities, and movement towards a new vision of enterprise IT capability which is unified, agile, and oriented around the needs of the business. Properly understood, this movement reveals a world where it’s possible to deploy code faster and more effectively than ever – continuously, with an ethic of non-stop quality improvement and value for the business.

In this one-hour presentation, we will take you on a tour of the DevOps movement and explain the massive potential that lies behind it.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 2, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

 

Top Down Estimating Techniques for Early Project Estimates

Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM

Management wants accurate early estimates to make decisions on which projects to pursue. The problem is a lack of scope definition needed for preparation of a detailed estimate. This webinar will discuss best practices for preparing and communicating early project estimates. Techniques for making early estimates will be reviewed along typical accuracy ranges.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 4, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host; @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95                                                                        September package: Four webinars for $39.95

Registration:   PMCenters USA Public Webinar Registration

 

Achieving Scrum Mastery – A 1-Hour Coaching Clinic

Presented by Bob Galen and Chris Knotts

On the surface Scrum and agile practices seem simple — don’t they? At heart, they are. In fact, “doing Agile” is relatively straightforward. So why are so many organizations struggling to effectively implement agility?

There are several culprits. During this hour, ASPE expert and Certified Scrum Coach Bob Galen will address some of these impediments, and take your Q and A in a free one-hour coaching clinic. Come ready to listen to discussion and learn about:

·         Estimation

·         Release Planning

·         Agile at Scale

·         Done-ness

·         Investing in Technical Debt

·         Engaging Leadership

·         Enhancing Transparency

·         Effective User Stories

·         Team Buy-in

·         MVPs

·         Distributed Teams

If you’re struggling with various aspects of agility, getting the return on your agile investment or stuck “going it alone,” with no guide you through tough Scrum challenges, this free, one-hour coaching session with a pragmatic and highly experienced agile practitioner is for you! YOU create the Product Backlog for this workshop, so bring your questions and challenges and let’s see what “being Agile” looks like in the wild.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 4, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

 IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Vicki James, PMP, CBAP

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

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, September 5, 2014; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: @WatermarkLearn

Registration:   Watermark Learning Public Webinar Registration

 

 

Cloud Computing – Models, Progress and Context for BAs
Presented by Steven Woodward, CEO and founder of Cloud Perspectives

Many organizations are evaluating and migrating toward cloud computing solutions.  The innovation and business opportunities are substantial. The business analysts are now required to become familiar with Cloud Computing concepts and to recognize key opportunities and risks.

Steven Woodward shares updates from many of the international cloud standards-related organizations. In Canada, he leads several of the cloud computing initiatives in both the private and public sectors.
 

Steven describes key cloud ecosystems models, with policy, security, privacy, and cultural considerations in the context of business analyst impact.  Business analysts in the cloud need to be aware of the various options and specifically where they fit in the cloud ecosystem. Steven relates real-life practical scenarios to emphasize cultural and business perspectives for cloud computing opportunities and the benefits already quantified.  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday; September 9, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Public Webinar Registration

 

The New Security Landscape: Who’s in Charge?

Presented by Mike Beevers and Chris Knotts

Right now, the threat landscape for companies and their information is unlike anything most business unit leaders have seen before. Organizations are having sensitive data stolen every day, and suddenly everybody bears some responsibility for maintaining security in their area of responsibility. Corporate data is at stake, and so are the jobs of many in charge.

So who is really in charge of security now, and how can they manage it? In this one-hour presentation, Mike Beevers, CISSP, walks us through where your head should be if you touch anything in your organization that’s connected to sensitive information. He will touch on why the security certifications of the last 15 years are no longer adequate assurance of protection, and why we are seeing the traditional IT security role dissolve into a need for someone more literate in overall security goals, and more connected to the business side of incident avoidance, risk management and intelligent response when something happens.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 9, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

Coaching for the Time-Crunched Manager

Presented by Michael Bungay Stanier, Founder and Senior Partner at Box of Crayons

The Four Counterintuitive Truths About Effective Coaching

Coaching is an essential tool for managers and leaders to increase the impact and engagement of their teams. Your organization flourishes when people are self-sufficient and focused on the stuff that matters.

Coaching helps make that happen.

Getting managers to properly coach their employees is more easily said than done. No one has time for long "touchy feely" conversations. But wouldn't it be good if coaching could be practical and to the point, as well as useful and empowering?

Join us for this provocative webinar that shares insights and tools to help you make coaching a daily tool all your managers can use.

What You Will Learn

·         How coaching drives engagement and increases employee impact

·         Tips for providing focused, results-based coaching in ten minutes or less

·         3 key coaching moments that are doable by all managers, even those who are less people-oriented

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

 

Process Analysis and Redesign: The Key to Process Improvement

Presented by Paul Harmon, Co-founder and Executive Editor at Business Process Trends

A successful business process improvement program begins with a proven, well-thought out process analysis and redesign methodology. BPTrends Associates (BPTA) has developed a comprehensive, integrated approach to process analysis and redesign that blends best practices from each major process improvement approach. Those trained in any traditional approach will discover things that are familiar and learn some new ideas that can ensure a more complete analysis. Armed with a thorough analysis, you can develop a design that is more likely to solve your organization’s problems and improve performance.

This webinar will provide an overview of the BPTA Analysis and Redesign Methodology and demonstrate how it can help you focus on all considerations, resulting in a comprehensive analysis and an effective redesign. You will understand critical techniques like process scoping, flow modeling and developing business rules. And, you will walk away knowing how to solve employee and managerial performance problems, software requirements for IT and change management planning to ensure a successful project improvement program.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration

 

The Decision Model, a Powerful Tool in the Business Architect’s Repertoire

Presented by Ravi Singh, Knowledge Partners International

Knowledge Partners International (KPI), originators of The Decision Model and thought leaders in Business Requirements and Business Process Management, invite you to learn more about a powerful tool you can add to your repertoire.

KPI’s unique practice, developed through decades of leading enterprises to successful deployment of mission-critical applications, combines aspects of modern requirements gathering and agile project management.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @KPIUSA

Cost: Free

Registration:   KPI Web Event Registration

 

Dealing With Project Risk Before They Become Issues

Presented by MAX Training

Project Managers realize that they must manage risks and issues in a timely and effective manner. However, many project teams do not practice effective and continuous risk management throughout the project life cycle, preferring to wait until the risk becomes realized, and becomes an issue, before taking any action.  This presentation will discuss the differences between Project Risk Management and Issues Management and review some tools and best practices that make both jobs more effective.  It will also cover some techniques and recommendations for applying these tools.

In this webinar the presentation is to show the difference between risks and issues. We will cover the following topic areas:

·         How to best develop the effective mindset and attitude to deal with them

·         Learn risk management best practices, as well as risk management tools and techniques

·         Learn issue management best practices, and some effective tools for identifying, assessing and controlling issues on a project.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 11, 2014; 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm EDT

Host: @MAXCincinnati

Cost: Free

Registration:   MAX Training Webinar Registration

 

An Implementation of Skill Sets Needed to Drive Successful Interviews

Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM

Interviews are often considered the best way of eliciting detailed requirements, but they can be an expensive way of getting the job done.  If you are going to use them, use them right!.  Come and learn the best circumstances for using interviews, the communication and facilitation skills needed to drive them, and the best-practice techniques for successfully implementing them.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 11, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host; @PMCentersUSA                                               

Cost: $14.95                                                                        September package: Four webinars for $39.95

Registration:   PMCenters USA Public Webinar Registration