Live Webinar October 3rd, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar examines how the Agile movement affects the historical business analyst role on a project team and creates opportunities to learn new skills and develop new ways of working together.

The speaker will provide practical guidance for how the business analyst integrates and collaborates with members of the agile team and will also discuss how to improve business analysis by applying agile principles.

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Live Webinar – October 3rd, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
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Successfully navigating stakeholder meetings requires strong stakeholder participation and communication skills.

It is critical to build stakeholder relationships and raise their level of skill to ensure business analysis activities produce high quality results.

Often, stakeholder meetings can devolve into a children’s soccer game – with participants not knowing when to chase the ball, defend the net, or stop for a snack.

This webinar will:

1. Eexplore the relationship between the Business Analyst and project stakeholders.
2. Provide Business Analysts with techniques to manage stakeholder dynamics, improve communication, and raise the level of participation in business analysis activities.
3. Help Business Analysts understand the techniques and approaches for handling difficult stakeholders
4. Highlight the importance of the relationships between the Business Analyst and stakeholders and the corresponding impact on effective requirements gathering.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the stakeholder role and the reality of conflicting stakeholder needs.
• Recognize the importance of communicating and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Understand how to effectively manage stakeholders and recognize when to change tactics.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance

Presenter: Michelina DiNunno, MBA (LinkedIn profile) Michelina DiNunno has been in the Telecomm Industry for over 10 years, working in Marketing, IT and as a Business Analyst. She currently works for Telus and is providing consulting services through Global Knowledge.

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Live Webinar October 4th, 2013 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Johan Bergström, (LinkedIn profile) Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden, will introduce the notion of risk in system design.

Following up on Richard Cook’s highly appreciated talk on safety in complex systems, during last year’s velocity conference, Johan will introduce how our risk management strategies are affected by our very perceptions of risk as a concept.

• Are we running risks or taking risks?
• Are we successful when we take risks or when we avoid them?
• Can risk ever be controlled, contained, mitigated or measured?

One risk we might have to take (or run?) is that the lecture will raise more questions than it will suggest answers.

Join Johanan for his an exclusive presentation from Velocity 2013 conference.

Presenter: Johan Bergström is responsible for running the Master Program of Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University in southern Sweden..

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Live Webinar October 3rd, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to revalidate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile),, MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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Live Webinar – October 3rd, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hr 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

You have spent money on software and hardware, implemented best practices, and believe you are secure, right?

You may have overlooked the weakest link: your employee.

Many breaches occur as a result of an employee mistakenly clicking on a link or visiting a site that allows a virus to be unknowingly downloaded, giving hackers access to your network.

Today, a well-trained workforce is a necessity and may even be your most important cybersecurity tool.

In this webinar, security expert David Willson (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how many breaches have occurred and are occurring, the tools and techniques hackers use to trick employees into clicking on links or opening attachments, and how to prevent such behavior.

Outline:

• Current state of cybersecurity and who is winning the battle
• What information needs protecting
• The biggest mistakes companies are making
• The industry most attacked and by whom
• Necessary security tools
• Performing a business self-assessment
• Policies you need
• How to train your workforce

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Live Webinar October 2nd, 2013 – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Does your organizational culture support engagement?

The way that managers and senior managers inform, interact with, and involve their employees in decisions that affect them has a direct impact on the organizational culture.

Culture is one of the top drivers of employee engagement; however it can also be one of the most difficult drivers to improve. Only 33% of employees surveyed rated their organization’s corporate culture as healthy.

This webcast will get you thinking differently about how to improve your culture to increase employee engagement through our “3I” model.

Improving your culture could really be as simple as improving the frequency and quality of the 3I’s:

• Informing employees about the why behind decisions,
• Interacting with them on a personal level, and
• Involving them in decisions that affect them.

During this webcast, you will learn how to:

1. Diagnose your organization’s dominant culture to better understand the challenges of each culture and how to minimize them.
2. Identify how the dominant culture impacts your current practices around the 3I’s at all levels of the organization.
3. Determine what the 3I’s look like in organizations with your desired culture and how managers can use them to improve engagement.

This webcast will provide you with the tools you need to develop a plan for improving your culture through the 3I’s.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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