Live Webinar – September 7th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  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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Live Webinar September 1st, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

For the past 40 years, the relational database has been the dominant model for persisting data.

While SQL databases are not going away anytime soon, the NoSQL (“not only SQL”) movement challenges the relational database as the default persistence layer for modern applications.

Learn how you can leverage both relational and NoSQL databases, as well as managed services, to improve your apps and provide compelling systems of engagement.

• For example, use ElasticSearch to provide full text search, PostGIS in PostgreSQL for geospatial capabilities, Redis for improved performance, or a document database such as CouchDB or MongoDB for a flexible schema.

Applying principles from Domain-Driven Design such as strategic design and bounded contexts, this presentation will help you choose and apply the right data layer for your application’s model or models.

Bradley will explore relational databases, graph databases, document databases, full text search, caching with key/value stores, polyglot persistence, horizontal scaling, eventual consistency, CQRS, event sourcing, and data layers for microservices.

Learn the answers to these questions:

• What open source NoSQL databases are available to developers today?
• What type of database or databases should I choose for my application?
• What is Domain-Driven Design and how can I use it to think about the data layer for my application?

Presenter:  Bradley Holt (LinkedIn profile) is a Developer Advocate with IBM Cloud Data Services. Author of several publications including Scaling CouchDB & Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB, Bradley is an in demand speaker at conferences worldwide including the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Bradley writes and speaks about topics such as CouchDB, PouchDB, offline-first applications, PHP, Node.js, and Domain-Driven Design.

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Designing Data Layers For Modern Web & Mobile Apps

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Live Webinar September 1st, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Customer analytics is a high priority for almost every organization, but organizations often get into the rut of thinking customer analytics is about segmentation strategies for acquisition, cross-sell and retention.

Although valuable, in limiting their thinking to these segmentation strategies, organizations are missing opportunities, as some of the most innovative and significant customer experiences are driven by other types of customer analysis.

Join Gareth Herschel (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) as he discusses how, based on over a hundred different examples of customer analysis, Gartner identified six different styles of customer analysis that can be relevant to almost every organization.

Executives responsible for customer strategy or analysis should learn from thought leaders in multiple industries about other styles of analysis. And consider how these best practices might be applied to their own organization.

Discussion Topics:

• The six styles of customer analytics
• How to prioritize them for your needs and organization

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The Six Styles Of Customer Analytics

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Live Webinar – August 18th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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.

Wastes is one of the main concepts integral to the application of “Lean Principles”.

Wastes are often inherent in our business processes and work flows and are at times, hard to identify.

Join Elena Gilbert in this session to more quickly identify information wastes and a few techniques and strategies to minimize and eliminate them.

Click to register for:
Identifying Information Wastes

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Live Webinar August 17th 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm 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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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

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

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