Online Webinar – BATimes
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2  PDU/CDUs – Free
Provider: Diversified Business Communications REP 1811
2  PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Are You Too Soft?

Most Project Manager/Business Analyst leaders are not consistently willing to make the tough and unpopular project-related decisions, even though their instincts warn them that they are not taking the most effective action.

Witness examples of PM/BA actions (or inactions) that are indicative of too-soft behaviour.  Will you recognize familiar behaviour?

You do not have to be rude, insensitive, arrogant, or a bully
to avoid being too soft!

None of these attributes are acceptable …ever!

Come prepared to rethink what constitutes effective project management and business analyst leadership behaviour.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• How to become a more effective leader
• How to avoid being too soft
• How to become a more effective leader

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Download – Power Snippets
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Neal Whitten PMP (LinkedIn profile) President Neal Whitten Group, is a Keynote speaker, trainer, consultant, mentor, and best-selling author in the areas of leadership, project management, & employee development with 35+ years of front-line project management experience. A writer for professional magazines including PM Network® magazine.

Neal is also the author of several books including:

• Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice For Successful Projects
• Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success
• The Gift of Wisdom: Lessons for a Lifetime
• Becoming An Indispensable Employee in a Disposable World
• Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success, New Edition
• The Enterprize Organization: Organizing Software Projects for Accountability and Success

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The #1 Reason Why PM’s & BA’s Fail:
BEING TOO SOFT!

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Live Webinar March 3rd, 2022 11:00 am – 11:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar Sam Drauschak, PMP, CSM (LinkedIn profile) will be exploring where business analysis has gotten lost in many applications of agile project methods and what we can do to combat the trend.

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Business Analysis & Agile Methodologies

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Live Webinar July 9th, 2020 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Data mining has been considered the province of the data scientist and data analyst. But the data scientists and data analysts only solve the business problems that are given to them provided those business problems can be solved with data.

Someone has to analyze the processes and conditions of the business to determine what the problems are and then determine whether data can solve those problems and answer the questions related to those problems. And that someone is the business analyst.

On this webinar Steven P. Blais provides guidelines to determining business problems that can be solved with data and provides the details of what data mining is all about.

Topics: 

• Business analyst or data analyst or data scientist?
• Determine the right data
• The process of getting value from data
• Produce actionable insights
• Provide the questions and interpret the answers

Presenters: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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The BA & Data Mining

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Live Webinar – April 28th 2020, 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

A quick 30 minute introduction to Business Analysis for those who are considering the field.

This webinar looks at why the BA is essential to the business, what BAs do, and certification paths for Business Analysts.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Define business analysis and explain why it is essential for identifying business needs and defining solutions
• Summarize what a BA does and identify the different job titles a BA may have
• List and define the core BA skills
• Differentiate between the two worldwide organizations addressing the practice of business analysis and their respective BA certifications

Presenter: Paul LaSalle (LinkedIn profile) has 40+ years of experience as a trainer who brings an understanding and appreciation of business needs and objectives into the classroom. Working through numerous organizations, Paul has served as a Systems Analyst, Network Analyst, Network Architect, Project Manager, Management Consultant, and Business Analyst. He is a co-author of the TCP/IP Bible.

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Business Analysis In 30 Minutes

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Online Webinar – Recorded – June 12th 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2 PDU – Free
Provider:  IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

PDU Of The Day has published THOUSANDS of Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2019, we are publishing some  of our readers & editors favorite recorded opportunities, as a special treat for our readers!

Each of these webinars is available online!

This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements.

This process is based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others —  and employing IAG’s experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.

This webinar will:

1. Explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn’t,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best.
2. Give participants a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.
3. Provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project.

Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

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Live Webinar October 10th, 2019 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

What problems could you solve and what solutions would you build if you had a programmer at your disposal at all times?

With Quick Base, you don’t need one. Instead of going to IT, you can build an application for capturing, storing and managing data about your business systems – without learning how to code.

Quick Base is an award-winning cloud software platform for creating custom solutions to everyday business challenges.

Quick Base is fast, customizable, and allows non-programmers to build solutions while still reaping the benefits of standardization, governance and security offered by commercial software products.

Learn how to:

• Design a data model of your business problem
• Build an application using that model
• Manage User Roles, Reports, Dashboards and more

The no-code platform empowers business analysts and other non-programmers to:

1. Build your own automated workflows and processes to increase team efficiencies
2. Connect whatever data sources you need with ease
3. Build reports and dashboards that track key metrics and information that’s important to you
4. Build multiple prototypes to explore alternate solutions.

Putting continuous improvement tools in the hands of BAs allows all aspects of the business to constantly experiment, iterate and improve.

During the webinar Erich Wehrmann, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Consultant at Quick Base for this webinar to see how Quick Base can be used to solve common business problems & give you an introduction to the Quick Base platform and demonstrate how to build an app to manage your workflows and automate your processes without coding.

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How BAs Can Use Technology To Implement
A Continuous Improvement Plan

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