Live Webinar September 3rd 2015, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar September 3rd, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Journey maps are a powerful technique for ensuring you create the right systems and experiences.

Traditionally used in marketing, they are now being used to design user and customer experiences.

But in a world of ecosystems and digital business, they can play an even more important role.

In this webinar we introduce and discuss three types of journey maps and illustrate how you can benefit from leveraging them.

Discussion Topics:

• How to use journey maps to help deliver the productivity your employees need
• How to deliver customer experiences that delight
• How to identify business moments, and evaluate business risks and opportunities

Presenters:  

Cathleen E. Blanton, (LinkedIn profile) Research VP

Mark McGregor,  (LinkedIn profile) Research Director  is author of the bestseller of Thinking of People-centric Process Management? Ask the Smart Questions and Thrive!: How to Succeed in the Age of the Customer. Mark McGregor speaks, writes and coaches all over the world. He is passionate about continuously finding new ways to help people “Think Differently” and to achieve greater success.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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’

Click to register for Three Journey Maps To Help Maximize Digital Business Opportunities

Live Webinar August 26th, 2015 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

• Are you a Business Analyst trying to find your role in an Agile project?
• Are you looking for ways to ramp up your Agile team’s productivity?

There are a lot of misconceptions about Business Analysis in an Agile development environment, and sometimes Business Analysts find it hard to adapt to the short iterations, just-in-time planning and minimalist documentation that characterizes Agile development.

This webinar is a frank discussion about what Agile demands from a Business Analyst and how Business Analysts can succeed and ensure their team succeeds.

Learning Objectives:

1. Dispel common myths about Agile, including the belief that Business Analysts aren’t welcome in Agile
2. Explain why every development team needs excellent business analysis to be successful
3. Guide analysts in how to deliver the most value in Agile settings

Note:  A recorded version of this session is available.

Click to register for Three Ways Business Analysts Enable Agile Success

Live Webinar August 26th, 2015 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

This is your opportunity to learn more about the changes to the Knowledge areas and ask questions.

Over the years, Deborah Oliver (LinkedIn profile) has honed her skill set as a Business Analyst to deliver on capability in the realm of website re/design, system procurement, technology upgrades/ enhancements, data migration and process improvement.

Her experience in enterprise-sized projects has strengthened her commitment to focus on how to manage the impact a capability change has on all aspects of an Organization’s environment.

In the role of Product Manager, Deb leverages her experience and drive to further the growth of the Business Analysis discipline through the creation and improvement of essential resources to support Business Analysis practitioners, as they deliver better business outcomes for their respective Organizations.

Deb has a lot to share – Join Deborah Oliver CBAP® Product Manager IIBA® – BA Professional Development as she presents the Knowledge Areas from BABOK v3.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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’

Click to register for IIBA: BABOK® Series Knowledge Area Webinar

Online Webinar – Recorded June 22nd 2015
1 Category A PDU  and / or CDU – Free PDU/CDU
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161)

With the launch of BABOK Guide v3, everyone is anxious to start delving into the finer details of the Guide to gain further insight into today’s global view and expectations placed on business analysis professionals to create better business outcomes and drive business success.

Join ASPE on June 22nd to discuss these expectations and the way in which BABOK Guide v3 expands the scope of business analysis to support the evolution of the business analysis profession.

Key Points:

•  The journey to BABOK v3
• What’s New… the Major Changes
• Why these changes are important to the Business Analysis practitioner

Click to register for Introducing The BABOK 3.0

Online Webinar Recorded Date: 10/12/2010
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Integration means bringing all of the concepts together.

In this webinar, Project Insight discusses how to bring the plan together, from initiating – planning – executing – monitoring and controlling – closing.

Learn how to identify what it takes to execute on a project, how to monitor and control the project, and provide some key tips on obtaining that elusive project ‘acceptance.’

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 4.5 Perform Integrated Change Control
• 4.6 Close Project or Phase

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’

Click to view Project Integration: The Iterative Methodology

Live Webinar August 26th, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

When coupled with a solid performance engineering discipline across the product lifecycle, continuous integration can result in a better user experience for web and mobile applications.

This web seminar digs deeply into continuous integration (CI) and the vital underlying test automation and build automation processes CI requires.

Dan Boutin explores the key factors that make or break CI in the real world, especially the flow among the “Big 3” CI processes: change management, configuration management, and release/build management.

Join this live web seminar for real-world insight on how SOASTA employed continuous integration and continuous testing to complete more than one hundred product releases last year.

Learn how continuous integration & testing will help you:

1.  Proactively find and fix defects early in the process
2. Increase team productivity with better tools and processes
3. Identify—and act on—essential build and test information
4. Deliver a much better user experience for web and mobile apps

Presenter: Dan Boutin (LinkedIn profile, @DanBoutinSOASTA) Senior Product Evangelist SOASTA, works externally to communicate SOASTA’s technical differentiation to solve problems. Dan also researches actual software development lifecycles, user experiences, and  how ITIL benefitsorganizations .

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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’

Click to register for Accelerate Software Delivery With Continuous Integration