Live Webinar August 13th, 2018, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Organizations are allocating funds for blockchain without defining use cases, putting security and risk management leaders in a bind.

Security leaders need to support the adoption of blockchain, but manage the risks that result from relatively unproven tools.

In this webinar, Jonathan Care (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director, provides high-level concepts of blockchain and discuss how it will impact your organization’s information and data security.

Discussion Topics:

• How to trust distributed identity
• How to trust unknown cryptographic service providers on blockchain and distributed ledgers
• Recognize the can’t-happen-don’t-care state is more important than we think

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What Security Leaders Need To Know About Blockchain

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Live Webinar August 9th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

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 re-validate 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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10 Steps To Effective Requirements Elicitation

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Online Webinar  – Recorded Jun 20, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider:   IIBA

One of the most common questions I receive is “How do I become a business analyst if I’m a ______?” And in the blank goes anything from Project Manager to  software engineer to manager to Subject Matter Expert.

Each individual’s path into business analysis is unique, and depends heavily on their skills and career experience. In this webinar, you’ll learn about the core skills to becoming a business analysis, and see how transferable skills show up in common job functions.

Presenter:  Deborah Oliver (LinkedIn profile, BA Connection interview) started her career in Marketing Research and Project Management. Deb 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.

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IIBA: Business Analysis Is Not Just A Job Title

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Live Webinar August 10th, 2018 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Closing Q&A webinar for June 2018 Book Club on Practitioner’s Guide to Program Management by Irene Didinsky.

About Practitioner’s Guide to Program Management

Programs serve as a crucial link between strategy and the execution of business results and organizations implement them to achieve strategic goals.

Although the practice of program management has evolved in lockstep with the project management profession, the root causes of program failure remain.

In this step-by-step guide, Irene Didinsky (LinkedIn profile) offers a standardized approach to program management, closing the knowledge gaps and variations that currently exist across organizations and industries. For the first time, The Practitioner’s Guide to Program Management walks the reader through all the key components of effective program management.

Using a case study example of an actual process improvement program, Irene discusses the qualities of excellence in program leadership, the importance of organizational strategy alignment throughout the program life cycle, how a program realizes benefits, and how to manage conflicting priorities of stakeholders.

This comprehensive resource also includes an historical overview of the professionalization of the field, outlines the logistics of forming a program management community of practice, and concludes with a glossary of terms.

With this desktop manual in their hands, practitioners can expect to thrive and guarantee the success of their programs

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Practitioner’s Guide to Program Management:
June 2018 Book Club Q&A Closing Webinar

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Live Webinar August 9th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Data integration challenges have intensified as digitization proliferates real-time flow of data across a multitude of platforms.

Harnessing data at the speed of business compels organizations to get a handle on pervasive data integration demands for better flexibility.

In this webinar, Mark A. Beyer (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst outlines an approach, delivery, and strategies for diverse data management and governance demands.

Discussion Topics:

• How data governance liberates application development
• What data integration looks like in a multi-cloud provider and on-premises world
• When to collect data and when to connect to it to access in place

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Solve Your Data Integration Challenges

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Live Webinar – August 8th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

The reality across many organizations is that managing geographically dispersed individuals on a “virtual team” becomes more and more viable every day.

However, running a virtual team effectively is not as easy as setting up some fancy technology and managing remote individuals in the same way they’d be managed if they were collocated.

This webinar will explore the best practices that can be employed to overcome the inherent challenges of managing an effective and cohesive virtual team, as well as highlight many of the benefits which can be achieved using the virtual team management techniques that are currently used by IAG to manage our teams of consultants and client engagements across North America.

Participants will come away from this webinar with practical methods they can apply in their environment to help them communicate with, track progress on and improve results from the remote individuals and teams they manage.

Key Contents: Covered In This Webinar:

1. Assessing the team and environment
2. Preparing for virtual communication and team management
3. Facilitation techniques for running virtual meetings
4. Leveraging tools and technology
5. Tracking individual/team progress
6. Resolving individual/team issues
7. Identifying areas for improvement

In This Session Get Specific Answers To:

• “What steps can a manager take to prepare to manage their virtual team?”
•  “What facilitation techniques can be used to effectively elicit and communicate information in a virtual environment?”
• “Can a manager “read” someone over the phone/ video-conference?”
• “How can the technology at hand be leveraged and used effectively by a virtual team?”
• “Which standard management techniques need to be enhanced (and how) to maintain control over and develop a strong virtual team?

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Managing A Virtual Team

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