Live Webinar Sept 27th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

• Are you engaged in a ‘digital transformation’ project?
• Are you evaluating new technologies for automating business processes?

Business process automation is critical to the success of digital transformation projects.

But modern approaches to business automation demand far more capabilities than those of traditional business process management systems.

Join Phil Simpson, JBoss Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat to learn about their vision for process-driven applications, and how a wide range of new technologies are coming together to support the development of modern cloud-enabled process automation solutions.

In this session Phil will discuss:

• What is digital transformation?
  • What are the driving forces behind it?
• Technologies to consider for digital transformation projects
• The role of traditional business process management in digital transformation projects
• Examples from Red Hat’s most successful clients

Presenter: Phil Simpson (LinkedIn profile) JBoss Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, is responsible for the strategy & positioning of Red Hat’s business rules and business process management products. Phil has extensive experience with business rules and BPM, having held senior product management roles at an early business-rules pioneer and senior marketing roles at several leading enterprise technology companies. Prior to joining Red Hat, Phil was a product manager for the data analytics firm Renesys and was a director at SeaChange International, Ironhead Analytics, and Rulespower.

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IIBA: Business Process Management
In Digital Transformation Projects

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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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Online Webinar  – Recorded July 20, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
Once viewed your PDU Will automatically Be recorded with PMI®

ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead premium content
Is available to PMI® members.

So you have defined the problem or opportunity, have a good knowledge about your stakeholders, feel confident about your elicited requirements and have come up with a number of possible solutions.

Now what? 

• How do you know which one is the best solution, and how can you insure that the decision process is thorough and unbiased?

In this webinar, Michael Boyle will go through the basic tenets of a business case. The business problem or opportunity, the analysis of the situation and probable solutions, the recommended solution and various techniques you can use as a Business Analyst to enable sponsors to make a sound selection.

Presenter: Michael Boyle (LinkedIn profile) PMP PfMP Michael’s professional dealings have been throughout Europe with numerous global projects throughout the years. Currently, Michael is the Managing Director of Procurro Solutions, specializing on all elements tied to Project Management, Business Analysis and Product Management.

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Recommend The Most Viable Option

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Live Webinar – August 30th 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

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 – August 23rd, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Business architecture is a strategic differentiator. However there are practical applications of tools and techniques that will support and link business strategy to the tactical outcomes.

By applying models and standards the business analyst and the project managers benefit from the alignment, clarity and re-usability of the business architecture.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain why bother doing business architecture
• Describe business architecture as a complementary and supporting methodology to analysis deliverables
• Demonstrate some cool tools PMs and business analyst could use
• Show you how to be a hero to your business, developers, testers and customer
• Provide a description of value Participants will acquire a functional knowledge of business architecture. The adoption of business architecture tools and techniques will support the management of requirements & risk by establishing clearer scope.

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Top 10 Things about Business Architecture
For BAs & PMs

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Live Webinar –  August 16th, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

The large, complex project brings with it a unique set of problems that may not be encountered in a smaller project.

This one-hour webinar will focus on the planning phase for a large, complex project.

Learn the importance of developing an understanding of the complete scope of analysis and developing an integrated series of requirements plans to eliminate redundancy of effort and to provide for better input to the high level architectural design decisions that must be made.

Learning Objectives:

• How to define the complete scope of analysis
• How to develop comprehensive, integrated Requirements Management Plans
• How to ensure the necessary and sufficient input is available to optimize the high level architectural design decisions

What’s Included:

• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• Large Project Requirements Planning Checklist
• Large Project Vision and Scope Document Template
• Large Project Requirements Management Plan Template

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Tips For Planning Requirements Elicitation
On Large Projects

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