Live Webinar April 20th 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

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

Live Webinar April 20th, 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

Once a project has been officially launched it must be planned, the design must begin and the high level testing efforts should be identified.

This can be accomplished through leveraging the following deliverables: project plan, project deliverables, project schedule (work breakdown structure), CM Plan, QA plan, project procedures, project risk log, project issue log, change request log, user acceptance (UA) test plan, user acceptance (UA) evaluation criteria, user acceptance (UA) defect log and requirements traceability log.

After this webinar, you will understand the purpose and use of each of the listed deliverables.

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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Project Planning & Design with IT in Mind

Live Webinar – April 11th, 2016 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration X Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Are you sick of hearing that the difference is that agile BAs use user stories and are more flexible?

Dig deeper into what it takes to get to effective requirements in an agile, traditional, or hybrid model of business analysis.

Angela will explore the detailed differences in the practices, timing, documentation, mindset, and approaches in side by side comparisons.

In this session she will explore the typical day, week, and month of a BA on both types of projects.

Angela will also look at approaches to finding a balance when you need to find an approach that uses elements of both traditional and agile.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the similarities and differences requirements in traditional and agile teams
• Dig deep into differences other than user stories and flexibility
• A deep look into the day, week and month in the life of an Agile BA vs. Traditional BA

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Angela Wick (LinkedIn profile  @WickAng) CEO – BA-Squared, LLC With more than 15 years of consulting, mentoring and teaching, Angela knows that great BAs transform organizations. Angela encourages BAs to be agents of change. She helps BAs develop the skills they need to inspire collaboration, creativity and innovation. Get free BA tips and trends by following Angela on Twitter  or by visiting her site.

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Comparing Agile & Traditional Business Analysis Approaches

Live Webinar April 6th 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
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

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

Live Webinar – April 5th 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.

Disruptive Innovation: What Is It?

Regardless of what industry you’re in, today’s large companies share some remarkably similar characteristics.

We live and die by these common denominators:

• Heavy reliance on technology, IT teams, and software
• Complex, unpredictable organizational dynamics
• Siloed departments that suffer from lack of communication
• Difficulty understanding or predicting what customers and users want
• Constantly changing and uncertain marketing conditions

In the middle of this daunting mix, we are called upon to constantly innovate or fall behind.

But how?

Is it even possible to repeatably and methodically achieve this mythical “innovation” that everyone talks about?

Chris contends that it is!

Chris will introduce you to the following:

• Lean: what is it?
• A brief history of lean management principles
• Lean thinking
• Lean applied in today’s professions (IT, development, DevOps, project management) – Lean as a vehicle for value creation

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)   for a brief primer on Lean Innovation.

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The Lean Enterprise:
Intro To Massively Disruptive Innovation

Live Webinar April 1st, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Business Analysis, like most professions is fraught with moments of uncertainty, anxiety, fear and all sorts of emotions, both positive and negative.

We often have to deal with stakeholders who at one point or the other express feelings of project-related frustration based upon unmet requirements.

The ability to manage one’s emotions and that of others is necessary to become a mature Business Analyst (BA).

In this webinar Terrell will detail how we can become more emotionally mature and grow our skillsets as a BA.

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is about identifying and understanding our own and other people’s emotions with the objective of channeling these emotions towards a positive outcome.

A BA with high emotional intelligence is able to decipher their emotions as well as that of others to help form healthy working relationships; allowing the successful identification of project requirements.

This webinar will focus on the key intersection of EI and BA, and how EI can be applied to become a great BA.

Topics will include the following: 

• What is EI and how does it compare to IQ?
• Emotional IQ and the BA.
• The four key components to EI.
• Incorporating EI into your personal development plan.
• Moving from a good BA to a great one through improved EI.

About the 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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How Can Emotional Intelligence
Make Me A Better Business Analyst?