Live Webinar – November 29th 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.

Introduction To Business Value Analysis

Agile is a great way to build solutions, products or software in a way to reduce waste, connect to needs, and protect you from risk.

But you still have to understand what to build.

A number of Agile teams are learning the hard way that their real value isn’t in following the science of the agile practices. It is about picking the right things to build for the right reasons.

Without a strong Product Owner, agile teams can start providing output that misses needs or opportunities in much the same ways as waterfall projects.

Business Value Analysis looks at the way teams make decisions on what to build next.

Usually this responsibility was left to the project sponsors (executives in the company) but the speed of change and the complexities of work systems are changing how decision on “what” is made.

This web seminar provides SDLC professionals with a first step in to understanding the very esoteric concept of Value.

It can mean many different things based on someone prospective or position, but this session will provide tangible ways to assess value and who critical thinking skills are used to support the decision process.

As well, this session will discuss how to look at business direction and connect it with the work you are planning to do.

Understanding this critical topic is the key to long term agile success, especially at the program and portfolio level.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) 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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Introduction To Business Value Analysis

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Live Webinar November 22nd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

The life of a consulting business analyst (BA) presents many different challenges than those faced by “in-house” BAs – some obvious and some not.

As individual practitioners, consulting BAs have to be highly adaptable and able to plan and execute business analysis efforts quickly, in diverse organizational environments.

BA’s also play a role in the sales cycle: assessing tender documents, peer-reviewing proposals, and qualifying potential new business opportunities.

Version 1 is an IT consultancy in Ireland and the UK.  They recognize these challenges and have used the BABOK® Guide since 2009, as a key guide and reference to address them.

Hear from three senior consulting BAs at Version 1:

1. Scott Coombs (LinkedIn profile),
2. Keir Whytock (LinkedIn profile),
   
3. Sean Ryan (LinkedIn profile)

They will openly discuss their practice challenges, and provide details on their approach to turn those challenges into opportunities.

Specifically, they will share how the BABOK® Guide is used as the cornerstone of their own framework to,

• Build a thriving business analysis community of practice,
• Develop a “consulting perspective”,
• Build up their own skills development initiatives, and
• Broaden the impact of business analysis in their organization.

You will also gain insight into the special characteristics of the different industries in which these consulting BAs work (including, financial services and public sector) and how they affect business analysis practice.

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IIBA: Building Business Analysis Capability
In A Consulting Business

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Live Webinar – November 22nd 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU Free
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.

Agile Is A Way Of Working
Based On Core Values & Principles.

Practices are developed from those core values and principles, .

Most people know Agile from specific practices like daily stand up, story points, user stories, etc., but the foundation of Agile is its fundamental values and principles.

Because of this, Agile is very extendable; meaning new flavors of Agile can be developed as well as new practices.

One of those new flavors of Agile is the Lean Start-up. Lean Start-Up or LSU, is a flavor of Agile dealing with Product Development and Launch.

It can tie in marketing and sales but at its core, it is a way of enabling your organization to test early and often and from there use what you learned to successful scale new products with much less long term risk.

Even though “Start-up” is in the name of this flavor of Agile, it isn’t just for small organizations or entrepreneur based organizations.

One of the big trend for large enterprise organizations is the concept of Intrepreneurership; basically incubating new products using entrepreneur tactics while working in a larger organization.

The same can be done with Lean Start-up.

In this presentation David will look at what Lean Start-Up is and techniques used to successfully take advantage of its practices and activities.

From that point, we will look at some practical real-world examples of how Lean Start-up can be executed within any organization type.

The goal is to provide both the theory of Lean Start-up with real-world details of how the theory can be executed to significantly reduce the risks involved in new product development and let the market help you make decisions over trying to plan where you think the market will end up.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile)  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He 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. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

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Lean Startup Primer:
How Any Size Organization Can Use It

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Live Webinar – November 9th, 2016 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Presenter: Rob Stewart, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

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Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

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Live Webinar November 8th, 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)

In this session, Kupe will be discussing the Underlying Competency of Decision Making.

After this session, you will look at business analysis in a whole new light.

If you have not attended a webinar presented by Kupe then check out this one – Kupe is an excellent presenter who presents topics with a sense of humor that will leave you understanding and remembering the content!

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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Decision Making: What A BA Does
With Kupe Kupersmith

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Live Webinar – October 26th 2016 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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