Live Webinar August 21st, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The BABOK® Guide v2.0 Task (7.3) Assess Organizational Readiness is important for the success of a change initiative.

An organizational readiness assessment describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether it is prepared for the change that the solution will cause.

In this session Maureen McVey, CBAP will introduce you to strategy to address the often overlooked requirement related to those impacted by the change.

Maureen will also introduce you to tools and tactics for assessing if the change will be successful and what is needed to address gaps.

Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to:

1. List the elements needed for successful change
2. To identify resistance to change
3. Describe the structure of an effective change team
4. List the tools that can help with change

Presenter: Maureen McVey  (LinkedIn profile) , Head of Learning and Development at IIBA

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Live Webinar – August 21st, 2014 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
By BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

What are the different modelling techniques business analysts should know about?

In this session Gerry will discuss and compare the most important modelling techniques used by BAs.

For each model, he will answer three questions:

• What is it a model of?
• What questions does it answer?
• What does the notation look like?

A discussion of how to use models, and the strengths and weaknesses of each type of model, will equip the participants to select the right model for each situation and decide what models you should add to your personal toolkit.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Become familiar with the main models used by Business Analysts
• Decide what models to add to my toolkit
• Know when to use each model

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Gerry de Koning (LinkedIn profile) has over 35 years experience as a practitioner, manager, consultant and educator.  His specialties include business analysis, process analysis, metrics, modeling, requirements management, consulting and training. Gerry works closely with Global Knowledge to deliver business analysis training to clients throughout Canada and the United States.

Click to register for What every Business Analyst Needs To Know About Modelling

Live Webinar – August 20th 2014, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 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 and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Business analysts have the responsibility to gather, analyze, and validate business and technical requirements for their projects, thus they need structured facilitation skills to manage requirements meetings and workshops.

In this one hour webinar you will learn the most important things to remember when planning a facilitated workshop and what types of questions to ask when eliciting requirements.

This webinar will address the following:

• The role of facilitation in business analysis
• Advanced elicitation questions to improve BA and BSA performance
• Plan a facilitated meeting Who Needs to Attend

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Live Webinar Aug 20th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

As a BA or PM, You Are On The Front Lines
Building 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.

What You’ll Learn:

1. How to identify the extended collaboration circle of product delivery in your organization. Who are the personas, both upstream and downstream, with a voice on your project? Beyond your team of peers and managers, are you in sync with customers? With your development and QA teams?
2. The importance of bridging the gap among different personas so you can streamline your work and run projects more efficiently. You’ll gain valuable tips for eliciting, validating, approving requirements and project details, as well as ideas for more continuous feedback loops to minimize the impact of change.
3. How to use modern requirements management tools to keep everyone in the collaboration circle looped in on all the key discussion, decisions and input about the product delivery process. You’ll be confident in your ability to meet expectations when they are all clearly communicated and agreed upon.

By bringing in your stakeholders early and often, you can slay the productivity-killing monsters that wreak havoc on your job.

In this session also learn about these Productivity Killers”:

• The 11th hour swoop-in.
• Decision recollection disorder.
•  CYA Syndrome.
•  The Missing Vault.
• Mismatched expectations.
• Missing pieces.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

PDU Category B documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate Scope

Remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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