Monday, May 19, 2014

Business Analysis Webinars for May 2014 - Part II

Xtreme Programming
Presented by Kevin Klinemeier

The Agile umbrella is far reaching, and it grows every day as others uncover new ways of delivering value within their software development organizations. One set of Agile practices, however, can take an organizations notion of agility to an extreme level. Continuous attention to technical excellence is a core Agile principle, an eXtreme Programming (XP, programming to the extreme) is a proven way to get there. During this one-hour web seminar you'll get an overview of how XP core values and principles align with Agile, exposure to the practices that are embraced by teams using XP, and a high-level review of some of the most popular tools that organizations are using to enhance their adoption of XP practices.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 20, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

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, May 21, 2014; 7:00 – 8:00 am EDT
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2014; 3:00 – 4:00 pm EDT

Host: @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free


 


 
Big Data 101
Presented by Darrel Raynor, Founder and Managing Director of www.dataanalysis.com and Chris Knotts PMP, ASPE Training

Everybody talks about it. Everybody wants to understand it. Supposedly all the Fortune companies are using it to reap exciting benefits. But what does big data mean for the rest of us? Rarely has there been so much buzz yet so little obvious substance around a business topic.

The reality is, big data capabilities are very real, and they offer very real rewards for those who know what they're doing. In this one-hour web seminar, data guru and veteran enterprise consultant Darrel Raynor will get past the obvious buzzwords and into the practical promise offered by big data. We will touch on:

·         When is data considered big data
·         What can be done in your own situation and how do you start asking the right questions?
·         What is Apache Hadoop and what can it do for you?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 21, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 



Demystifying Traceability
Presented by Ashu Potnis and Sue Thompson, TopTeam Analyst

Traceability is one of the most important principles of the Requirements Management discipline. It is the thread that ties all system artifacts together with meaningful relationships - i.e. trace links. We will explore how principles of traceability are used in different domains such as:

  • Business Applications - Tying Business Needs to the Application Functionality
  • Health Sciences – Ensuring compliance with FDA CFR 21 regulations. Linking URS, FRS, etc.
  • Product Development – Tying Product Features to Market Requirements
  • Manufacturing – Tying Requirements to Design to Technical Specifications

Learning Objectives: 

  • What is traceability? What is a traceability matrix? Traceability in practice.
  • What are leaf nodes? What are orphan nodes?
  • How to perform Gap Analysis? How to perform Impact Analysis?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 22, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @BATimes

Cost:  Free


 




Premier Surveys - A Quick Method for Determining Project Requirements
Presented by Bruce Chadbourne, PMP, PgMP, PMI-RMP

Surveys are often considered a “poor man’s” elicitation technique, but in fact a properly crafted survey can be surprisingly effective as well as being quick and inexpensive!  Come and see the best way to create surveys and their questions, and the best practices for getting them in front of your audience and analyzing the results.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 22, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost:  $14.95


 


Data Transformation: Why It’s Critical for Agile Analysis
Presented by William McKnight, Richard Winter, Joe Hellerstein

Refining raw data into something cleaner, and ready for rigorous analysis, is arguably more important in the big data world than it has been since the dawn of the data warehouse.  With big data refinement happening in place rather than through an extract, transform and load process, rigid pre-defined data modeling is giving way to more agile data transformation.  But the fact remains that uncleansed data will lead to a poor analytics experience.  Maybe that’s why it’s still the case that only an estimated 20 percent to 25 percent of the potential audience is using analytics to make decisions.

What Will Be Discussed:

·         ETL’s premise and why it doesn’t fit big data
·         How ETL in the BI world differs from data transformation in the big data world
·         Can restructuring, cleansing and de-duping be . . . fun?
·         How can analytics be applied to data transformation (not just vice-versa)?
·         Data transformation and unstructured data

Who Should Attend:

·         CIOs and CTOs
·         Data scientists
·         Business intelligence developers
·         IT decision-makers
      ·         Line of business managers

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 22, 2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: @Gigaom

Cost:  free


 
 
 
Critical Thinking Skills: A Practical Guide to Structured Analytics Techniques
Presented by Dave Caccamo PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP (VP of ASPE Inc.'s Project Management Curriculum)

Leaders often proceed under the mistaken belief that as organizational or technical experts, they can simply think their way through difficult problems. Yet experimental evidence has time and again illustrated that so-called experts often do no better than non-experts in such analytical situations. The Critical Thinking Skills course is focused on providing practitioners with both the whys and hows of proper analytical techniques. It provides a detailed presentation of the ways in which practitioners may consider alternatives and challenge assumptions, all the while illustrating how evidence-based techniques can greatly improve judgmental forecasting and decision making in any type of organization.

You will learn:

·         How to decompose information into smaller elements in order to arrange these into a logical pattern
·         Employ rigorous brain storming techniques that encourage a broad range of perspectives, including minority and dissenting opinions
·         Improve your performance as a leader, manager, and analyst
·         Master techniques to generate hypotheses that explain available information and can be used to perform tests to confirm/deny
·         Demonstrate an ability to assess cause and effect and then perform a critical review of the premises, assumptions, and logic of the analysis
·         Know how to properly structure and test your hypothesis
·         Recognize biases and prejudices that get in the way of reliable analysis
·         Learn how to select the best analytical tool for a situation from an array of analytic techniques

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, May 23, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 


 
Certificação CCBA/CBAP - Qual é a mais apropriada para você?
Presented by Marcelo Neves, Anelox

O que você acha de ser um profissional certificado em análise de negócios? Qual o valor de uma certificação no mercado atualmente? Profissional certificado é sinônimo de bom profissional? Esse webinar abordará o valor da certificação e como você pode conquistá-la. Examinaremos todos os pré-requisitos para a certificação, as vantagens de ser um profissional certificado e qual certificação é a mais indicada para você. 

Neste webinar darei algumas dicas de como você deve preencher sua application e como submetê-la ao IIBA. Falaremos sobre como é o exame e fornecerei dicas apara sua preparação. Mais do que fazer um exame o processo de certificação é uma boa oportunidade de aprendizado. 

1.   O que é a certificação em análise de negócios
2.   O que é necessário fazer para tirar a certificação
3.   Benefícios em ser um profissional certificado

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, May 26, 2014; 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free




 
Introduction to MapReduce
Presented by Sriram Mohan

MapReduce is a programming framework introduced by Google in the early 2000's. It is targeted at solving problems that have to work on huge datasets. Rather than devising an algorithm that works on the entire dataset, the map reduce framework works on several chunks of the same dataset in parallel during the map phase and combines the results together during the reduce phase. MapReduce can take advantage of locality of data, processing data on or near the storage assets to decrease transmission of data. In this 75-minute session, the author will lead the participants through the following:

·         Introduction to the MapReduce paradigm in Hadoop
·         Code-walkthrough in Java
·         How does MapReduce work in Hadoop? – This part will provide an explanation for the internal workings (Shuffle-Sort) of MapReduce, job scheduling and failure handling in classical MapReduce.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 27, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 


Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders
Presented by Bob Galen CSC, CSPO, Principal Agile Evangelist at Velocity Partners

Currently so much of agile adoption—coaching, advice, techniques, training and even the empathy revolve around the agile teams. Leaders are typically either ignored or marginalized at best, and in the worst cases often vilified. But Bob Galen contends that there is a central and important role for managers and effective leadership within agile environments.

In this workshop, we'll explore the patterns of mature agile managers and leaders. Those that understand Servant Leadership and how to effectively support, grow, coach, and empower their agile teams in ways that increase the teams' performance, accountability, and engagement.

We'll explore training and standards for agile adoption, and situations and guidelines for when to trust the team and when to step in and provide guidance and direction. We'll examine the leader's role in agile at-scale and with distributed agile teams.

Good leadership is a central ingredient to sustaining your agile adoption. Bad leadership can render it irrelevant or a failure. Here we'll walk the path of the good, but also examine the bad patterns in an effort to inspire you and your teams.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 28, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free

 


 
Top 7 Negotiation Blunders Certain to Kill Your Deal
Presented by Kurt W. Mortensen

Secrets That Only Top Negotiators Know

Negotiation is a different form of influence.  There is a time to influence and a time to negotiate.

Have you ever LOST a negotiation?  Most people have and don’t even know it!  What underhanded tactics are other negotiators using on you?  How can you counteract them?  

The worst time to learn a negotiation skill is when you need it.  Negotiation must be mastered before it is needed, or the opportunity is lost forever. For example, are you tired of:

·         Losing business deals
·         Not closing sales
·         People not listening
·         Being told no
·         Losing negotiations
·         Not getting your way

There are 7 negotiation blunders you are making right now that cause people to resist you and your offer. This webcast will get down in the trenches and reveal the secrets that only top negotiators know. 

Each blunder is like driving around town with your emergency brake on. All the time, you are wondering why your car (or negotiation) never has much power. 

These problems are simple to fix, but expensive to have.  Negotiation has changed dramatically over the past 20 years.  And ironically, some of these negotiation blunders are still being taught in expensive courses as the techniques to use!

What You Will Learn

This webinar is certain to open your eyes to the NEW world of negotiation and influence. 

What does it take to negotiate with power in any encounter? Think about it. When was the last time you didn't get something you wanted?  What happened?  Did you fail to get your point across? Were they influenced by someone else? Here’s a sampling of what you will discover:

·         Dirty deeds unscrupulous negotiators will use against you
·         Discover negotiation secrets only known to seasoned negotiation professionals
·         Top blunders average negotiators frequently make
·         How following your natural instinct will cost you millions
      ·         How to establish instant credibility (even when you don’t have any)

We don’t want this webinar to be informational.  It will be TRANSFORMATIONAL.  We want you to internalize these techniques and start using them as soon as possible.  

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 28, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @AMAnet

Cost: Free




IBM Webinar Featuring Forrester: Realizing the Business Value of Social ContentIBM Webinar featuring Forrester: Realizing the Business Value of Social Content IBM Webinar featuring Forrester: Realizing the Business Value of Social Content
Presented by Cengiz Satir, IBM and Rob Koplowitz, Forrester

Collaboration is a critical investment for many organizations looking to drive competitive advantage by better arming knowledge workers with information, access to expertise, and the ability to act collectively on trusted content. Forrester data shows that over 50% of organizations have implemented or are expanding their implementation of packaged collaboration software. While the strategy remains valid, the challenge of driving user adoption of new and different tools can diminish time-to business value.  

Key takeaways:
·         Learn what are the key challenges with increasing the adoption of collaboration software.
·         Understand why an integrated strategy for collaboration and content management may help adoption and drive business value.
 
 Audience: Public
 
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 28, 2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
 
Host: @IBM
 
Cost: Free
 
 

 
 
 

Top 5 Data Skills for Project Professionals
Presented by Darrel Raynor, Founder and Managing Director of www.dataanalysis.com and Chris Knotts PMP, ASPE Training

Technology evolution and rapid change means projects get more complex every day. A big part of that complexity revolves around data. As project managers and specialists evolve to keep up, they face a dual dilemma: first, how do they avoid getting overwhelmed in their projects by the proliferation of data dependencies? Second: how can they actually leverage that data to increase their effectiveness?

In this one-hour web seminar, expert data guru and project turnaround veteran Darrel Raynor presents the top five data-related skills every project professional should be adopting. We will cover:

·         The Basics, your Project Management Information System
·         Status Reports should be Data, not Opinion…
·         Data Modeling and how it can help you
·         Why you should start Data Analysis & test Data Conversions Early!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 29, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free



 

 

 
Stakeholder Management - A Key Skill Needed by PM's and BA's
Presented by Mark Moore, PMP, M.Ed
Do you know all of the stakeholders on your project? This webinar will discuss techniques to identify and analyze all project stakeholders, along with how to develop a plan for engagement of stakeholders and management of their expectations. Best practices for communicating with stakeholders will be discussed, along with how to deal with incompatible stakeholders expectations.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 29, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95
 

 

 

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Business Analysis Webinars for May 2014 - Part 1

Drawing New Insights from Traditional Sources
Presented by Eliot H. Sherman, CPA Senior Lecturer, in Finance at Northeastern University

Traditional ratio analysis provides traditional assessments. Re-examining a few of these key measurements may yield some different but extremely valuable management opportunities. We will look at a few basic financial statement ratios and extend their interpretation beyond the norms, traditionally developed in the discussion of financial analysis.

Specifically, we will focus on three areas:

·   Inventory Turnover – traditionally measures how well a company manages its inventory. How can inventory turnover be expanded to apply to all industries and to a range of perceptions of inventory?

·   Average Collection Period – traditionally measures the management of accounts receivable. How can average collection period provide an expanded view of company management?

·   The DuPont Approach – traditional helps to explain the generation of Return on Equity.  How does the DuPont Analysis give license to creative analysis?

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2014; 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free


 
 
 
The Next Horizon: The Event Model
Presented by Barbara von Halle, Knowledge Partners International

Decades ago, the relational model drastically changed the way we perceive and leverage data.  Today, The Decision Model (TDM) is doing the same for the logic behind business decisions.  Both are pre-defined abstract models that are technology-independent.  Both existed before there was technology to fully support them.  This is important.  Each was a vision first and technology second.

This webinar proposes that the age of abstract pre-defined models need not end here.  If history is a guide, we have only just begun.  There is, at least one more important dimension to conquer.  It is one that deserves its own model, technology independent and business-focused.  It is a model for detecting complex events (called Situations) of business interest that require a course of action.  Sample Situations are suspicious account activity, luggage lost at carousel, and child not arriving home within expected time.   Similar to its predecessors, The Event Model (TEM) is defined by a set of well-defined principles and normalized sets of logic.  However, it also includes a full concepts model and  executes  against the “Internet of Things.”  TEM principles allow it to translate into program code, yet remain understandable by non-IT people.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @KPIUSA
Cost: Free
 
 

 
How to Defend Against Common Negotiating Tactics
Presented by Joe Lukas PMP, PE, CSM, CCP
Collaborative negotiations (win-win) are always nice, but what do you do when the other side starts using tactics to gain advantage? This webinar will cover the most common tactics used in negotiations along with suggestions on how to defend and counter when these maneuvers are used. You will also learn helpful methods to get the negotiation back on track. This webinar will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session afterward.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 6, 2014; 12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: Free
 
 
Overcome Risk Using Process Management and Improvement
Presented by Mark Barnett, PhD, Senior Executive Consultant, Robbins-Gioia, LLC
Process management helps to provide a line of sight from strategy through execution of organizational initiatives. Akin to the business analysis (BA) requirements discipline, this traceability enables performance maturity, better communication, clearer roles and responsibilities, and good governance. Clarification of problems or opportunities for improvement is integral to business analysis and process management.  In each, you must elicit and clearly state a specific problem that quantifiably affects business/operation and that ultimately matters to your customers. Process management is
·      An integral part of business analysis, implementation, improvement, and sustainability,
·      Solves problems, and
·      Expedites risk identification, mitigation, and impact. 
In this webinar I will explain how to:
·      Tie process management to organizational strategy,
·      Use process management as a foundation of good decision making, change management, and governance, and
 ·      Increase efficiency and value optimization throughout the organization.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 8, 2014; 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
 
Sapiens DECISION - Powered by The Decision Model -  Enterprise Scale Decision Management
You know Barbara von Halle’s and Larry Goldberg’s, The Decision Model, and the results it can deliver to your organization. But do you know how to take The Decision Model to the next level and enable adoption across your organization?

Sapiens DECISION is the first Decision Management Solution designed upon the principles of The Decision Model.  Developed as an enterprise-scale solution, Sapiens DECISION capitalizes upon the company’s decades of experience as a trusted solution provider in the financial services sector. Sapiens DECISION has been implemented by a number of the world’s largest and most successful institutions to enable more effective management of complex business logic.  As a result, these firms are significantly decreasing costs by improving operational efficiency, minimizing operational and regulatory risk by providing greater visibility to decision logic, and rapidly growing their business through their ability to adapt quickly to changing business conditions.
Audience: Financial Institution Professionals
Date/Time: Thursday, May 8, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @KPIUSA
Cost: Free
 
 
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.  This webinar will run 45 minutes long followed by a Q & A Session.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 8, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95     Special Deal: 4 webinars for $39.95
 
 
IIBA Chapter Leadership: Meet IIBA's New Leaders
Join us on May 14, 2014 at 1 p.m. EDT to meet IIBA's new leaders. This is your opportunity to learn about the vision for IIBA and for Chapters, and to ask your questions. The panel will include:
·      Stephen Ashworth, President and CEO
·      Lori Gotlieb, Head of Chapters and Volunteers
·      Kevin Brennan, CBAP, Chief Business Analyst and EVP
·      Heather Mylan-Mains, Vice President, Chapters
·      Brenda Cziraki, Chapter Operations Manager
We hope you will encourage all the leaders of your Chapter to attend – it promises to be a lively and informative discussion.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 14 2014; 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
 
Vendor Showcase Webinar Series: Data Modeling - BABOK® Guide Technique
Presented by TechnoSolutions Corp., Sandhill Consultants, Polarion Software
Join us on Thursday May 15, 2014 at 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC/GMT -4 hours, Toronto, Canada) for our next Vendor Showcase on Data Modeling - BABOK® Guide Technique
The purpose of a data model is to describe the concepts relevant to a domain, the relationship between those concepts, and information associated with them.
·      Learn how these tools provide the ability to document and maintain the concepts, attributes, relationships, and metadata for a domain.
This webinar series is open to everyone in the BA community and we strongly encourage you to invite the senior leaders and key decision makers in your organization to attend.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 15 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free


Agile Business Transformation
Presented by John Parker, CEO of Enfocus Solutions

Agile has become mainstream for developing software. Organizations that have adopted agile have seen improvements in quality, cycle time, and customer satisfaction. Standish Group research shows that agile projects are three times more successful than traditional plan driven projects.

However using Agile Development practices does not make an agile organization. Frequent delivery of software provides little value if the software cannot be deployed because of rigid release and change management processes. Another significant challenge facing enterprises is how to coordinate agile teams across multiple projects in multi-disciplined environments.  Companies are appointing agile coaches to individual projects, but there is little or no company-wide coordination. In addition, little has been done to help transform the business to be able to respond more rapidly to change.

Agile transformation requires focus on four key areas:

1.       Agile Discovery
       2.       Agile Delivery
       3.       DevOps
       4.       Agile Business Change

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 15 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @EnfocusSolution

Cost: Free


 
 
How to Make Change Management Successful on Your Project
Presented by Joe Lukas PMP, PE, CSM, CCP
Collaborative negotiations (win-win) are always nice, but what do you do when the other side starts using tactics to gain advantage? This webinar will cover the most common tactics used in negotiations along with suggestions on how to defend and counter when these maneuvers are used. You will also learn helpful methods to get the negotiation back on track. This webinar will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session afterward.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 15, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95                        Special Deal: 4 webinars for $39.95
 
 

 
Business Book Reports: "Dealing with People You Can't Stand" by Dr. Rick Brinkman & Dr. Rick Kirschner

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 "Dealing with People You Can't Stand" by Dr. Rick Brinkman & Dr. Rick Kirschner.

Dealing with difficult people and getting things done in spite of interpersonal conflicts are some of the hottest human resource topics our customers talk about. In this fun yet comprehensive instruction manual, Drs. Brinkman and Kirschner skillfully illustrate how effective collaboration with difficult people essentially boils down to a set of communication challenges. Rather than trying to change someone's personality or get frustrated by their behavior, they argue the focus should really be on understanding why difficult people behave as they do and outsmarting it, adopting a practical set of tools for maintaining productive interaction despite unappealing personalities and habits.

Join us as we discuss how the authors break down annoying behaviors and personalities, including:
·         The know-it-all
·         The "no" person
·         The sniper
·         The meddler
·         The judge
·         Annoying behaviors regarding email, phone habits, and other communication challenges

We'll take a look at each, and learn a little about "bringing out the best in people at their worst."

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 15, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free


 

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Primer
Presented by Razvan Radulian CBAP, OCEB, PMP

In the last couple of years, more and more organizations have switched to Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) as their preferred (often, the standard) way to capture, model, and analyze business processes.

There are several reasons for this trend:

Simple Notation
Easy to learn and communicate with all stakeholders, on both the business and the technical sides.

Flexibility
3 levels of abstraction that allow modeling simple high-level processes (Descriptive level), analysis and optimization (Analytic level), and specifying complex processes for IT implementation and/or execution (Execution level).

Showing the Whole Picture + Hierarchal Structure Allows abstraction at high-levels and elaboration into further details, without losing the relationships between different process components.

Efficiency/Reusability
Projects and analysts reuse/elaborate same models as more details are added throughout the Solution/System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Widely Adopted Standard
Common set of conventions and symbols, with no need to (re)invent the wheel.

Wide Adoption by Tool Providers
Virtually all major vendors, commercial or open-source, have adopted BPMN.
In this seminar we will introduce core concepts and principles of Business Process Management (BPM) and BPMN and demonstrate how this knowledge will significantly improve Business Analysts' ability to elicit/capture, analyze, manage, and communicate business and solution requirements.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, May 16, 2014; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @ASPE-SDLC

Cost: Free