Live Webinar – March 10th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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.

Is There Pain In Your Tech Plan?

•  Are new software releases large, epic events which cause anxiety, or even dread?
• Are your IT operations teams overworked, grumpy, and constantly defensive because they get blamed every time something breaks?
• Is your change management department uniformly disliked and viewed as a wet blanket on value creation?

These conditions are common, but we know that some companies have overcome them to astonishing effect: technology leaders (think Netflix, Etsy, Tesla, Amazon) have achieved mythical levels of collaboration and continuous value delivery.

But what about the rest of us?

For every mythical story you hear about, there are a thousand companies whose technology teams struggle with the complexity and competing incentives of today’s rapidly changing business conditions.

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) for a one-hour presentation in which we examine the tricky tensions between technology, people, large organizations, and the need to find creative channels for delivering value to your customers.

Chris will discuss:

• An editorial look at today’s IT landscape
• The role of the DevOps movement
• Value, creativity, engineering and software delivery
• Horses and unicorns
• Can engineers be creative?
• Can big companies be creative?
• The practical application of Lean and DevOps principles

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Creativity, Engineering & Unicorns 101

Live Webinar – February 29th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
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 – March 1st, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Agile Business Analysis – It’s coming to a team near you!

Or maybe you are already on a team as an Agile BA?

Angela and Ryland will answer your Agile BA questions and offer some nuggets .

Discuss Agile BA Topics like:

• What are the common challenges of an Agile BA?
• What’s my role with the Product Owner?
• Can I use my known BA techniques, or is it just User Stories?
• Do I work on multiple teams and project? Waterfall and Agile?
• Is there a middle ground? Sort of Agile BA?

Come listen in, ask questions, and discover more about being an agile BA.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Learn what are the common challenges of an Agile BA
• Discover the relationship the BA has with Product Owners
• Learn techniques to use as an Agile BA

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenters:

Ryland Leyton (LinkedIn profile) author of The Agile Business Analyst: Moving from Waterfall to Agile is a CBAP & consultant with Slalom Consulting;  an agile coach for the Atlanta IIBA nonprofit volunteer program and a frequent presenter at industry conferences. In the early part of his career, Ryland worked with strongly waterfall organizations & understands first hand the challenges of moving waterfall to agile. Ryland enjoys offering presentations & educational experiences teaching others to make the shift from waterfall to Agile principles.

Angela Wick (LinkedIn profile @WickAng) After 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 AngelaWick.com.

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Agile BA Panel With Angela Wick & Ryland Leyton

Live Webinar February 25th 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

This webinar is about Business Process Management (BPM) – the running and improving of a business via its processes.

Mark Monteleone CBAP / PMP, the webinar presenter, defines and provides insight in the use of BPM by answering six questions:

• As a business analyst, what should you ask for when joining a business?
  * What is the difference between managing a business by function vs. process?
• Why would you redesign rather than incrementally improve a process?
• Why should your process analysis cover a value chain rather than a sub process?
• Why should you establish leading and lagging metrics to control a process?
• What is the most challenging part of business process management, improving the process or managing the resistance?

Besides addressing the above questions, Mark will include a Business Analyst (BA) Quick Reference Checklist for conducting a “process redesign or incremental improvement analysis” plus explanations on various BPM terms and references.

Presenter: Mark Monteleone, (BA Times bio) CBAP, PMP  an independent consultant and author of The 20 Minute Business Analyst: a collection of short articles, humorous stories, and quick reference cards for the busy analyst  Mark has also written several articles in Modern Analyst, BA Times, BA Connection, International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and Global Flipchart. Mark also instructs courses on business analysis and project management plus consults on business applications and projects in more than 35 countries.

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Business Process Management (BPM) For BAs

Live Webinar February 24th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems.

Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

You will have to register – then the webinar will load in the page Please be patient this may take a min or two to load. (You may have to use the side scroll bar to place the webinar on pause)

Click to register for the live version of:
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation

Recorded Version Information: If you watch the recorded version of this webinar it is a good idea to record the information about this webinar date, time, and list this prerecorded event for your PDU Audit folder.

Click to view a recorded version (2008-10-28) of:
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation .

Live Webinar February 24th 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Guerrilla User Research has gotten itself a bad rap because the way in which it is often conducted is not methodical.

Through a Hollywood café case study, this presentation will outline exactly how to plan, conduct, and quickly analyze measurable feedback through cost-effective qualitative field research.

This technique is perfect for for stakeholders and teams with little time or low budgets, but desperate for answers to help determine if the value proposition of their digital product is on target.

Presenter: Jaime Levy (LinkedIn profile) For over 25 years Jaime has been a pioneer in the creation of innovative digital products and services. Heading  JLR Interactive she helps organizations transform their business concepts into innovative and scalable online solutions. A Speaker at design and innovation conferences worldwide and conducts public workshops and in-house training. Jamie also teaches a graduate level course on UX design and strategy at USC in the Viterbi School of Engineering.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule

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.’

Click to register for:
Conducting Methodical Guerrilla User Research Without Monkey Business