Online Webinar – Recorded September 28th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)

BI is clearly a top priority for organizations:

Gartner estimates close to 90% of the world’s organizations have already implemented some form of a BI capability.

They estimate annual worldwide spend on big data hardware, software and professional services tops $30B, with annual spend on advanced and predictive analytics close behind.

• What does this mean to your BA career?
• Have you considered the role of BI BA?
• Does data, information and analytics intrigue you?
• Have you noticed how much of your work already involves this?
• What did inclusion of a BI perspective in BABOK V3 mean to you?
• What would a role in BI as a BA entail? What would you need to fill this role?

Pam Clavier provides context for the BA considering the BI BA role. She  explains the role that the BA needs to fill in a BI team and typical BA deliverables as part of the project delivery lifecycle.

She describes:

• The differences and similarities between the BI BA and a Business Analyst;
• Examines common challenges experienced and …
• Sheds light on how to use your existing BA skillset to your BI team’s advantage.

In terms of typical BA BI deliverables, we reflect on real-life examples to demonstrate “a day in the life” of a BI BA.

The example recounts steps taken on BA BI deliverables, lessons learned on the particular deliverable, challenges overcome and how traditional BA skills were integrated into the BI BA role to add value.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the role, responsibilities and skills required in context of the BI team
• Challenges and opportunities in pursuing a successful career as a BI BA
• Learn about BI BA deliverables as part of the SDLC of a project in the form of a case study

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Pam Clavier (LinkedIn profile) CBAP  PMP is an Information Systems (IS) professional with 15+ years’ experience in Business Analysis, Change Management, Management Consulting, Project Management and Training in the full SDLC from initiation to support. An In demand Keynote Speaker, she led project teams and has managed BA and PM resources as a Senior Manager in a Business Intelligence (BI) department.  Pam has a Doctorate in IS, on a BI topic. Her thesis and published articles are available on her website .

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So, You Want To Be A BI BA?

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Live Webinar December 14th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

BONUS: Participants will be provided checklists
for use after the session as job aids.

By far the most requested topic from clients and people performing business analysis is “What are the right questions to ask?”

Asking questions is at the core of performing business analysis and the “correct” answer to this question is as varied as the projects analysts are involved with and the techniques they utilize.

This session will provide a framework for ensuring that you’re asking the right questions, at the right time, and of the right audience.

Discussions will include factors that will impact the types of questions required and techniques to help drive the right questions.

Session Roadmap

Discuss factors that impact the right questions:

1. Determine the right questions to ask based on where you are in the project
2. Discuss the use of techniques to drive and highlight the right questions to ask
3. Understand how validation is a critical component to ensuring you asked the right questions

In this enlightening and engaging webinar the famous “Kupe Kupersmith” provide a useful framework with takeaways to ensure that you’re asking:

1. The right questions,
2. At the right time, 
3. Of the right audience.

Presenter: Kupe Kupersmith CBAP®, President B2T Training,

B2T Training: Since its inception in 2000, B2T Training, has focused solely on providing business analysis training and professional development. As experts in the field, B2T Training continues to shape the Business Analysis discipline and the careers of BA professionals in major corporations across the globe through its high impact training sessions and valuable resources.

Kupe Kupersmith (LinkedIn @Kupe) possesses over 14 years of experience in software systems development. He has served as the lead Business Analyst and Project Manager on projects in the Energy, television, sports management and marketing industries. Kupe, a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®), is also internationally known for his strong mentorship of business analysis professionals.

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Ask The Right Questions

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Live Webinar – December 13th 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Our brains have not evolved to match the needs
of white collared business environments.

In many cases the natural reaction your brain has to issues in business are the complete opposite of what you should or need to do.

Aside from this, no one trains or teaches on this subject. We brush it under the rug and just assume we will adapt or worse yet, assume it really isn’t a problem.

The reality is that this problem is an epidemic and shows up in the staggering increases in stress related illness and death and the exceedingly high level of disengaged workers.

It is staggering to see the number of business professionals who don’t even know what self-talk is and the dangerous effects it may cause if left unchecked.

In this web seminar David Mantica will get into the very heart of brain dysfunction when tied to business interaction.

Learn about:

• The physiology of emotional intelligence
• Affective forecasting and its impact on decision making
• Cognitive biases and its impact on day to day business interaction
• Neuroplasticity and change management
  • How hard it is to change?
• Your lazy brain: How stereotypes and decision patterns are developed
• Self-talk and stress

Within all these topics we will discuss techniques you can use to help you work around the innate limitations your brain causes. If we let our brains act instinctually against the business challenges we face each day, we limit our productivity and career growth.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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Your Brain & Business:
Learn How They Don’t Fit & What You Can Do About It

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Live Webinar December 8thth, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

An effective organizational strategy should harden the intention behind mission and vision into goals that define the future direction—a direction that must reflect clear context, defined boundaries, and precise capabilities in order for programs and projects to reach intended targets with optimal success.

Business analysis transforms those aspirations into actionable scope by capturing, refining, confirming, and prioritizing the needs to be fulfilled. Only then is project management ideally positioned to achieve the reality envisioned by the strategy.

Successfully developing and implementing strategy requires a true partnership between the executives who define it and the business analysts and program and project managers who carry it out.

All parties need to understand each other’s perspectives, challenges, and roles, and then regularly interact with each other to confirm alignment, efficiency, and feasibility.

Eliminating any part of this undermines that partnership and the mutual clarity of purpose that it promotes.

In this webinar Mike Zambruski defines a concept labeled “the enterprise triple constraint” as the integration of strategy, analysis, and implementation. Without professional business analysis as the catalyst between dreams and reality, projects become exploratory initiatives burdened with avoidable cost, delay, and risk of failure.

You will leave this webinar with practical techniques for both communicating and applying the concepts presented, all based on actual experience and real results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how business analysts can leverage their role as the custodians and implementers of strategy
2. Learn the concept of “the enterprise triple constraint,”
   • Understand how integrating its three pillars of strategy, analysis, and implementation optimizes organizational success
3. Learn how to communicate and apply practical techniques that maximize the business analysts’ impact on their organization

Presenter: Michael S. Zambruski  MBA, PMP, CBAP, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Instructor
TwentyEighty Strategy Execution; is a senior consultant with 30+ years of experience providing strategic planning, comprehensive business analysis, and project management coaching. Author of two books, “The Business Analyzer and Planner: The Unique Process for Solving Problems, Finding Opportunities, and Making Better Decisions Every Day” & “A Standard for Enterprise Project Management (ESI International Project Management Series)”, Michael has played a key role in marketing, business development, process redesign, engineering, product development, manufacturing, quality control, product distribution, and technology integration activities. in several organizations

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The Business Analyst Catalyst:
The Role Of The BA In Today’s Business World

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Live Webinar December 1st, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

In today’s hyper-competitive environment, innovation and time to market are the key pillars for success.

While software in applications and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is also adding complexity.

Modern innovations such as Agile have proven to shorten product delivery, but come with their own set of challenges.

The ability to empower all stakeholders to collaborate in a unified development environment can solve many of these challenges and increase performance.

In this webinar Jiri Walek will provide you with an insightful view of applying industry best practices.

Learn how a unified tool can:

• Positively impact innovation and time-to-market through collaboration
• Give you full traceability
• Provide the advantages of electronic signatures
• Highlight the benefits of centralized reuse and variant management
• Provide the ability to utilize Agile throughout the Product Lifecycle

Presenter: Jiri Walek, (LinkedIn profile) Director Product Management, Polarion ALM, brings 10+ years experience in software product management and engineering to Polarion. Previously, Jiri worked at Disnet Software, where he established a track record of successful projects initiatives. He also worked as a software developer and architect on visionary projects based on Meta-Object Facility standards and model-driven engineering. Jiri holds a master’s degree in Mathematics from the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

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4 Easy Steps To Gather, Author, Approve
& Manage Requirements

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Live Webinar November 30th 2016 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
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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