Live Webinar – July 13th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

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.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

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Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

Live Webinar July 13th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

1. Are you disappointed at the number or type of BA job applications you’ve heard back from?
2. Have you received conflicting advice from one recruiter after another with regards to what they’d like to see on your resume?
3. Or, are you just starting your job search and want to make sure to get your BA resume in the best shape possible?

• Understanding who reads your resume and what they are looking for.
• Discovering how to position your BA qualifications for BA jobs.
• Learning how to write bullet points that capture attention and communicate your BA qualifications.

 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: How to Create A Winning BA Resume

Live Webinar July 12th, 2016 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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According to PMI’s Pulse of the Profession, “When projects do not meet their original goals and project objectives, inaccurate business analysis/requirements management is cited as the primary cause 47% of the time.”

The increasing scale and complexity of projects is making it extremely difficult to assess and verify the project requirements.

As a result – a huge amount of critical errors in project and systems development arise in the initial concept & design stages.

In this presentation and workshop,  Mike Frenette,  and  Jordan Kyriakidis will focus on how harnessing automated computational tools utilizing Natural Language Processing can help project managers ensure their requirements are consistently clear & are a joy to work with.

Project managers, business analysts, engineers and by extension their clients, will benefit in the earliest stages of a project to ensure poorly written requirements do not infiltrate later project stages leading to reduced stress, increased confidence and higher project success.

Presenters:

Jordan Kyriakidis (LinkedIn profile)

Mike Frenette PMP CIPS CMC MCITP (LinkedIn profile @HalifaxPM) Founder of Corvo Project Management; was a principal PM with Sierra Systems for over 16 years. Mike served for over a dozen years with CIPS and PMI, with stints as president of both CIPS Nova Scotia & PMI Nova Scotia. He also led PMI Global’s Technology Member Advisory Group and managed the PMI’s Requirements Management Community with over 8,000 members globally, and is now a member of PMI’s Social Media Advisory Group. Mikes most recent areas of focus include Agile methodologies, enterprise project management, virtual communities and business process change.

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

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Rethink Requirements:
The Natural Language Processing Approach

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

BA’s Have A Crucial Role To Play

DevOps focuses on being lean and eliminating waste by retaining the fundamental principles of Agile.  At the same time, it improves the collaboration between dev, IT and ops.

So how does all of this impact the BA?

BA’s have a crucial role to play in coordinating between teams.

DevOps is a cultural change. It’s about sharing business objectives and getting all the stakeholders working towards a common objective.

The BA role can be a key DevOps player and the go-to person for business success.

In this session, Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) will give you a quick introduction to DevOps and the impact it has on the BA and how the BA role can be a factor for organizations.

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Intro To DevOps For Business Analysts

Live Webinar June 30th, 2016 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

This webinar shows business analysts how to embrace decision modeling as a new standard and how to develop a roadmap for organizational adoption.

This discussion between Barbara von Halle and Kramer Reeves, both of Sapiens DECISION, explores the true value of the DMN standard, importance of decision model science, lessons learned from real case studies, and an achievable vision for the future of modeling.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Navigate and leverage the unique world of DMN and TDM, bolstering one another with complementary strengths
• Supercharge your DMN models with proven science and techniques not available with DMN alone
• Taylor a roadmap for step-by-step decision modeling and management maturity
• Embrace an intriguing future (underway) in which decision models are the jumping-off point for more sophisticated models.

Presenters:

Barbara von Halle (LinkedIn profile) BA MS (Amazon Profile) is the co-inventor of The Decision Model,, The Event Model, and co-author of The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology  The 5th recipient of the Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from International DAMA, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995. Her earlier book, Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach was a Jolt Award finalist from Software Development Magazine.  And her first book, Handbook of Relational Database Design, continues to be a standard reference in database design.  She was the most popular columnist in the leading publication, Database Programming and Design magazine for over five years.

Kramer Reeves (LinkedIn profile) VP Product Marketing Sapiens DECISION has 20 years  experience in the enterprise software industry leading global product, marketing, strategy and channel organizations. Currently Vice President of Product Marketing at Sapiens DECISION; he sets the vision, portfolio strategy and go-to-market plans for the company. Previously, Kramer held numerous executive and management positions at IBM, including Director of Product Management for Enterprise Social Solutions, and Director of Global Marketing for IBM’s Business Process Solutions portfolio.

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Embracing Decision Model Standards
For Business Analysts

Live Webinar – June 29th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 2 hour 2 PDU or  2 CDU 2 Category A – Free PDU

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