Live Webinar May 24th, 2017  10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

• 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

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3 Ways Business Analysts Enable Agile Success

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Live Webinar May 3rd, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

Preparing For Your 1st BA Interview?

Or perhaps it’s been awhile and you’ve heard that job interviews are a little different these days?

You also may have heard that interviewing as a business analyst is different than interviewing for a more technical or domain-focused role. (It is!)

Learn the 5 most common mistakes business analysts make when Interviewing for jobs, and how to avoid them.Laura

Laura founder of Bridging the Gap has been helping mid-career professionals like you start business analyst careers and find new business analyst jobs since 2008.

Laura’s been training and hiring managers, contractors, to be business analysts . .. Essentially, she’s seen the hiring process from every possible angle!

In this webinar she’ll be sharing her inside tips so you can get hired into your first or your next business analyst job.

You’ll leave ready to prepare for your business analyst job interview with more confidence.

Learn how to avoid the most common (and disastrous) mistakes!

Presenter: Laura Brandenburg (LinkedIn profile, @LLBrandenburg) CBAP is the author of How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide),  Bridging the Gap, which offers a BA career planning course (it’s free) to help you start your business analyst career. She’s reviewed hundreds of BA resumes and is ready to help you improve yours!

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IIBA: 5 Critical Job Interview Mistakes
That Keep You From Landing A BA Job

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Live Webinar May 3rd 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar April 26th 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

According to leading analysts, today’s most successful companies are data-driven, making informed decisions instead of guesses based on gut feel.

For software companies, that means meeting end-user expectations by infusing compelling data visualizations and analytics into every application you create and sell.

Modern data visualization and analytics applications, therefore, need to be designed from the ground-up to be quick and easy to embed for a mobile- and web-first world.

They also must capable of handling today’s rapidly evolving modern data management landscape so that your analytics does not lock you into using yesterday’s data stores.

If you’re a CTO, project manager, or software engineering leader, you may be curious about whether to build or buy an integrated analytics solution, how to evaluate the available offerings for embedded analytics, and how to most efficiently embed data visualization and analytics into your product.

To frame their discussion in a real-world context, you’ll hear how robotic process automation company Automation Anywhere worked through these issues.

Jay & Ian will cover the following topics:

• Assessing the current state of your application’s integrated analytics
• Approaching the build vs. buy decision
• Styles of embedding, from light to deep
• Considerations for deployment flexibility
• Security integration considerations
• Avoiding data storage platform lock-in
• Considerations for analytics on real-time streaming data

Join Jay and Ian in this webcast as we discuss these points and more.

Presenters:

Jay Bala, (LinkedIn profile) VP Analytics Products at Automation Anywhere, has deep expertise in big data analytics, digital marketing solutions, and data and enterprise resource planning applications built over 20+ years in business. Eight of those years were spent at Informatica. His versatile skill sets, attention to detail, and customer focus have helped many companies build successful revenue-generating products.

Ian Fyfe, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Director Product Marketing at Zoomdata,  is an accomplished product management and product marketing professional with a passion for creating, guiding, and bringing to market data analytics and data integration products and platforms. Ian’s prior experience in the embedded and big data analytics industry includes stints at Hortonworks, Pentaho, Jaspersoft, Peoplesoft, Epiphany and Business Objects.

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Infusing Modern Data Visualization & Analytics
Into Your App

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Live Webinar April 20th, 2017 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Projects are expected to address a business need and help an organization attain its goals. Business Analysts are expected to ensure that a project fits into the business context.

In this webinar, participants will learn how to conduct “enterprise analysis” in order to align projects with organizational goals.

The webinar explains the main tasks of Enterprise Analysis according to IIBA®’s BABOK® Guide and then demonstrates select techniques, including root cause analysis, assessing capability gaps, defining solution scope, and leveraging Business Architecture frameworks, such as the Zachman framework.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area
• Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs
• Identify capability gaps using Business Architecture frameworks

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Author of The Art of Business Process Modeling: The Business Analyst’s Guide to Process Modeling with UML & BPMN,  Nomadic Data Entry: Empirically Derived Performance Models for Data Entry Tasks in Mobile Situations, and  Solution Validation and Testing: The Business Analyst’s Guide to Solution Validation and Testing, Martin, is also a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, and an experienced software architect.

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The Strategic Business Analyst:
Aligning Projects With Organizational Goals

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