Live Webinar August 5th 2015 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

Click to register for Optimizing Requirements Discovery.

Live Webinar – July 29th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Hiring the right people is the most important thing a manager can do and a great business analyst can have a profound impact on your organization.

The challenge is in determining if a job candidate is a great BA or just someone who talks a good game.

After attending this webinar, you’ll understand how to attract the right talent to your organization and identify great business analysts.

You’ll find out how to separate great business analysts from mediocre ones and learn what to do after the offer is accepted to set your new hire up for success.

Presenter: Dave Saboe (LinkedIn profile)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.2 Acquire Project Team

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 Hiring For Business Analyst Success

Live Webinar July 10th, 2015 – 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.

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

Live Webinar July 10th, 2015 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: .5 Hour Credits: .5 PDU/CDU Category C – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: Watermark Learning (REP 1025)

NOTE: Although Watermark Learning is an REP they have chosen to have participants record their sessions as a Category C Activity. For more information contact Watermark Learning or see their “Self Reporting” page.

Thinking About A BA Certification?

Many Project Managers are looking to increase their skill set by adding proven Business Analysis techniques to their playbook.

This event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning.

Topics include anything related to IIBA’s certifications you want, ranging from the CBAP or CCBA application to the exams to re-certification.

Speaker : Dayle Beyer, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP, ACC, PMI-RMP, IT-SVM has inspired excellence by providing international best practice tools and techniques for project management, business analysis, to drive successful organizational change initiatives. Contributor to the PMI-SP Exam Success Series: MP3 Audio Flashcards and Discovering the PMBOK Guide Dayle has served in executive roles for information technology and telecommunications solution providers, and is a board member of the Chicagoland Coach Federation.

Click to register for CBAP And CCBA Certification Q & A

Online Webinar – Recorded May 16th 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

In the last couple of years, more and more organizations have switched to Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) as their preferred (often, the standard) way to capture, model, and analyze business processes.

There are several reasons for this trend:

• Simple notation: easy to learn and communicate with all stakeholders, on both the business and the technical sides
• Flexible: 3 levels of abstraction that allow modeling simple high-level processes (Descriptive level), analysis and optimization (Analytic level), and specifying complex processes for IT implementation and/or execution (Execution level)
• Showing the whole-picture + hierarchal structure: allows abstraction at high-levels and elaboration into further details, without losing the relationships between different process components
• Efficiency/reuse: projects and analysts reuse/elaborate same models as more details are added throughout the Solution/System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Widely adopted standard: common set of conventions and symbols, with no need to (re)invent the wheel
• Wide adoption by tool providers: virtually all major vendors, commercial or open-source, have adopted BPMN

In this seminar we will introduce core concepts and principles of Business Process Management (BPM) and BPMN and demonstrate how this knowledge will significantly improve Business Analysts’ ability to elicit/capture, analyze, manage, and communicate business and solution requirements.

Presenter: Razvan Radulian’s (LinkedIn profile) CBAP OCEB PMP passion has always been to help/coach people analyze and solve problems and to design & implement business/technical solutions. Razvan is fond of rescuing troubled projects, tackling the most challenging problems and delivering “impossible” solutions.  Rasvan holds on MS in Biochemistry from the University of Bucharest and an MBA from Duke University.

Click to register for Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN) Primer

Live Webinar June 24th, 2015, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT
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 .