Live Webinar August 10th 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm 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 August 4th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category A – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category A as the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This most likely will be a category A presentation presented by Diversified Business Communications (Rep #1811 – parent company). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

The bottom line for successful business analysis is delivering outstanding products to business partners, ones that ‘win’ for the business.

• What does creating a winning business solution require?
• What artifacts do you need?
• How can you develop them?

One essential artifact is business rules, key to agile business solutions.

Find out in this fast-paced session what business rules are really about, and how they can sharpen your interaction with both business partners and software developers.

Learn about practical techniques to capture and validate business rules in concert with your other deliverables.

Business analysis with business rules can give you the edge you’re looking for in establishing the right project dynamics, and the right focus on business requirements.

Find out how you can develop effective, adaptable and complete business solutions using a business rules approach.

Learn what you need to know to: 

• Achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in business requirements
• Use business rules to sharpen business communication
• Deliver clear, well-aligned business solutions
• Engage business partners in deep dialog about operational excellence
• Guarantee system development produces the right results for the business

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Building Business Solutions:
BAs Lead The Way To Business Excellence

Live Webinar August 3rd, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Complex projects carry significant risk of failure. Recently, iterative (and agile) project execution methodologies have been developed to mitigate project risks and increase the chances that the final solution meets the stakeholder’s expectations and the overall business needs.

In this webinar, you will learn how iterative methods differ from tradition waterfall methods and how specific iterative practices are used to reduce the chances for project failure.

Upon completion of this webinar, you will understand how to break a project into iterations, how to pick an iteration length, how to manage iteration and project scope, and how to introduce risk mitigation practices.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Understand the difference between sequential (waterfall) and iterative methods
• Learn how to define iterations, milestones, and releases
• Increase the chances for project success and reduce risk factors
• Contrast iterative and agile methods
• Understand best practices for iterative (and agile) project execution

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Iterative Projects:
Practical Tips & Best Practices for Business Analysts

Online Webinar – Recorded February 29th 2016
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event – More information will be available at the session.

BA’s Stakeholders In DevOps

With the application of DevOps management principles impacting entire enterprise IT departments, it is important for the BA to understand who the stakeholders are in a DevOps-style project and how they map to the stakeholder profiles described in the BABOK.

In this short session Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)  will explain the contemporary roles of the various stakeholders one might find along the way on projects which espouse the principles of DevOps.

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Mapping the BA’s Stakeholders in a DevOps Workflow

Live Webinar July 20th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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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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Registration for these sessions fill quickly! If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 24 hours of the live session.

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Recommend The Most Viable Option

Live Webinar July 19th, 2016 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 3 Hours Credits: up to 3 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Join Monal Daxini, Robert Aboukhalil, Homin Lee for 3 excellent 1 hour sessions and learn hour to Turn Big Data Into Knowledge

Netflix Keystone:
Cloud Scale Event Processing Pipeline

Keystone processes over 700 billion events per day (1 peta byte) with at-least-once processing semantics in the cloud. Monal Daxini details how they used Kafka, Samza, Docker, and Linux at scale to implement a multi-tenant pipeline in AWS cloud within a year.

Montal will also share plans on offering a Stream Processing as a Service for all of Netflix use.

A Deep Dive Into R For Python Developers

Increasingly, R and Python are occupying a large part of the data scientist’s toolbox.

For Python developers, using R means having access to numerous tools for statistics, data manipulation, machine learning, and graphing.

This talk is aimed at Python developers looking for a quick guide to the R language, and will cover R’s essential features, its quirks, and how to write efficient R code.

Detecting Outliers & Anomalies In Real-Time At Datadog

Datadog provides outlier and anomaly detection functionality to automatically alert on metrics that are difficult to monitor using thresholds alone. In this presentation, Homin Lee discusses the algorithms and open source tools Datadog uses, lessons they’ve learned from using these alerts on their own systems, along with some real-life examples on how to avoid false positives and negatives.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

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Turning Big Data Into Knowledge