Live Webinar – June 22nd, 2016 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 2 hours 2 PDU or  2 CDU 2 Category A – Free PDU

Key content covered in the webinar:

• Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
• Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
• The Components of a Use Case
• The Different Forms of Use Cases
• The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
• Detailed Use Case Modeling
• Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
• Use Cases and Business Rules
• Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
• Next Steps – What do you do when you’re done?

Get specific answers to:

• “Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What’s the difference between use cases and requirements?”
• “What is the difference between a business and a system use case”
• “How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?”
• “How many use cases do I need?”
• “How detailed do the use cases need to be?”
• “What questions should I ask to build a good use case?
• “How many alternate flows do I need?”
• “When do I know I’m done?
• “What is the purpose of use case diagrams?”

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Writing A Business Use Case In 7 Steps

Live Webinar June 22nd, 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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Is analysis only required in a predictive approach?

If we cannot analyze our results, we cannot know if we are on the right track.

In this webinar, Michael Boyle will describe what an agile approach is, when agile is appropriate, and why Business Analysis is a key component of an agile way of working.

The roles and responsibilities of an Agile Business Analyst are described, and we give examples of how specific tools and techniques are utilized in an agile way by Business Analysts to be effective.

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

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Agile Business Analysis

Live Webinar June 23rd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: 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) VP Product Management, Polarion, 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 For BAs To
Gather, Author, Approve & Manage Requirements

Live Webinar June 16th, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1320
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Get more out of your requirements interviews and make better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple, but highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing skills.

This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements.

The key to this process improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate preparation, sequencing and delivery.

Interviewing is the cornerstone of elicitation techniques, and when done properly will reveal the answers you need.

You will learn how to:

• Identify the right stakeholders to interview and what you need to know
• Create a requirements questionnaire and prepare to ask the right types of questions
• How to properly engage the stakeholder and build a relationship
• Capture stakeholder responses
• Plan for follow-up and maintain the relationship
• Review lessons learned to improve for your next interview

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP  With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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The Art of the Interview:
How to Improve Your
Business Analysis Interviewing Skills

Live Webinar June 16th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

The business environment is competitive and moving at a rapid pace. Leaders want lean thinkers and the practice of agility to remain in the game.

Moving your adoption of agility throughout the enterprise can be a challenge.

In this discussion, we explore the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as a practice to foster business goals alignment and improve time to market.

The dialogue will focus on launching the Agile Release Train (ART). The ART is a team of agile teams usually 5 to 12 teams self-organizing to plan, commit, and execute to produce value for the organization.

Benefits:

• Train the leaders and teams
• Plan the logistics to mobilize people to participate
• Engage executive leaders to share a vision to unite the organization
• Develop cross-functional collaborative teams
• Measure Success
• May claim one (1) PMI PDU or Scrum Alliance SEU for attending this webinar

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Taking Your Organization To
The Lean & Agile Enterprise Level

Live Webinar June 16th, 2016 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Gathering & Analyzing IoT Data For Manufacturing

The mix of cheap sensors, fast networks, and distributed computing—the recipe for the Internet of Things (IoT) – is gaining increasing attention in the manufacturing industry, where maintenance must be conducted for both individual assets of interest and complex manufacturing processes.

In a talk aimed at data scientists, students, researchers, and nontechnical professionals, Danielle Dean introduces the landscape and challenges of predictive maintenance applications in the manufacturing industry.

Predictive maintenance, a technique to predict when an in-service machine will fail so that maintenance can be planned in advance, encompasses failure prediction, failure diagnosis, failure type classification, and recommendation of maintenance actions after failure.

Danielle reviews predictive maintenance problems from the perspectives of both the traditional, reliability-centered maintenance field and IoT applications.

She discusses problem coverage, applicable predictive models based on data available, and what data must be collected to perform predictive maintenance tasks.

You’ll learn how to bridge the data-driven approach and the problem-driven approach by articulating what types of data are needed for different predictive maintenance applications.

Topics include:

• What data must be gathered for effective predictive maintenance applications
• How to formulate a predictive maintenance problem into three different machine-learning models (regression, binary classification, and multiclass classification)
• The step-by-step procedure for data input, data preprocessing, data labeling, and feature engineering from the raw data to prepare the training/testing data
• How various types of learning models can be trained and compared using different algorithms

Presenter: Danielle Dean (LinkedIn profile) is a senior data scientist lead at Microsoft in the Algorithms and Data Science group within Cloud and Enterprise. She leads a team  on end-to-end analytics projects using Microsoft’s Cortana Intelligence Suite, and integrate them into customer solutions or build end-user dashboards and visualizations. Danielle holds a PhD in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 8 – Quality 11 – Risk

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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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Predictive Maintenance Meets Predictive Analytics