Live Webinar March 18th, 2015 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

Gain an understanding of project management fundamentals in an IT context.

This session will provide descriptions of basic project management phases and explain how they can be applied for project success.

Discuss how these project management deliverables can be leveraged to contribute to your projects being delivered on time.

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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Live Webinar – Recorded August 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID:  WS07301

Understanding the real scope of any project is vital to controlling the project.

As a project manager or business analyst, it is key to first document the initial scope of the project and then direct, monitor and control the scope through Requirements Management techniques.

Learning these techniques provide the ability to more easily control the quality issues, costs, time and risks associated with on-going scope creep associated with requirements changes.

In this seminar you will:

• Review the role of a facilitator in running a Requirements Workshop.
• Learn the phases of a workshop and building the “Heart” of a workshop’s agenda.
• Review useful facilitation techniques along with failures and critical success factors.
• And more…

Presenter: Bob Keith

PDU Documentation Details (PMBOK 5):

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate 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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Online Webinar – Offered by ProjectTimes.com
(Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hours 2 Category A PDU/CDUs –  Free PDUs

Note: IAG is the presenter but the session is offered by Diversified Business Communications

Description Of The Course:

This webinar will provide Business Analysts and Project Managers with essential techniques and specific guidelines for gathering and defining the right kind of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for the selection of a vendor for application software.

In order for Business Analysts and Project Managers to perform effective and efficient vendor evaluation, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

If you have struggled with strategies for commercial-off-the-shelf software acquisition, what level of detail is needed in an RFP, when and how to involve the vendors, what research is required, and what templates to use, then spend two hours with us to help you set the right path for success with your next COTS project.

Get answers to these questions:

• How are the methods for defining requirements for a software product different than for custom developed solution?
• How is the documentation of business requirements different when they’re being written for vendor selection?
• How much detail is needed for an RFP?
• How do I know what to exclude and include?
• How do we accommodate changing requirements?
• When do we hold vendor demonstrations?

Learning Objectives For The Course:

• How to understand the unique aspects of a defining requirement for COTS vs. custom developed software
• Learn the specific strategies for collecting the requirements to be included in an RFP
• Understand the essential types of requirements, sufficient level of detail, and best format for requirements to be included in a Software RFP

Included in the course:

• Access to the Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• RFP Outline Template
• Vendor Scorecard Template
• Vendor Scorecard Template

Speaker: Keith Ellis, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, IAG

Click to register for 7 Secrets to Defining Requirements for Package Software Selection: Preparing an RFP for Application Software

Live Webinar March 5th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

What Skills Do You Bring To The Table?

Business Analysis for Business Intelligence is a somewhat orphan discipline.

Many IT analysts believe the classical analysis and development methods will do whereas the customer i.e. the finance, marketing, operations, and general manager to name a few, often readjusts the brief as the development is under way. They do this claiming “Now I see the possibilities I can really define my requirements”.

In this session Bert Brijs will present a case for considering Big Data business analysis and project management as special disciplines.

Business Analysis for Business Intelligence is the first attempt ever to match the business intelligence analysis track with the strategy process the organization manages (or sometimes undergoes).

Only by synchronizing the analysis with the strategy process can we avoid costly rework, disappointed customers and frustrated developers!

When you discover Bert – Check out his site BA4BI  and the “New Stuff” section in his book – you will find additional material which is also published in IT Performance Improvement

Presenter:  Bert Brijs (LinkedIn profile) Senior BI Consultant, Lingua Franca bvba & Lingua Franca B.V, and is the author of the highly regarded book Business Analysis for Business Intelligence & the Business Analysis for Business Intelligence Blog: BA4BIBlog.

With expertise in PRINCE2 project management, CRM Projects, Business Intelligence projects, Branding strategies, Balanced Scorecard implementations, Knowledge Modelling and e-learning application management, BI, CRM & KM Enterprise Architecture, Data Mining strategies, Functional Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Quality Management, Master Data Management, Datawarehouse architectures – Bert is certainly the expert to get to know for your BI Projects!

Click to register for Business Analysis For Big Data

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Live Webinar – March 4th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or  1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

Business architecture is a strategic differentiator. However there are practical applications of tools and techniques that will support and link business strategy to the tactical outcomes.

By applying models and standards the business analyst and the project managers benefit from the alignment, clarity and re-usability of the business architecture.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain why bother doing business architecture
2. Describe business architecture as a complementary and supporting methodology to analysis deliverables
3. Demonstrate some cool tools PMs and business analyst could use
4. Show you how to be a hero to your business, developers, testers and customer
5. Provide a description of value Participants will acquire a functional knowledge of business architecture. The adoption of business architecture tools and techniques will support the management of requirements & risk by establishing clearer scope.

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Live Webinar March 4th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Organizations are becoming increasingly aware that no matter how well they manage projects, they won’t succeed if they don’t get the requirements right.

But what does it mean to have good requirements?

Is it creating a mountain of unnecessary paperwork? Is it a rejection of techniques that have served requirements practitioners well over the years? Where is the business analysis industry going?

Specifically, this presentation:

• Describes seven trends in the field of business analysis and why some of these trends are replacing time-honored traditions while others are not
• Describes four competencies that are needed to take advantage of these trends
• Discusses what this means for practitioners who do or manage business analysis work

Attendees will be able to discuss:

•  The latest trends in business analysis
• Which trends are apt to last and which will fade
• What is needed to take advantage of these trends

This presentation addresses these hot topics in business analysis.

Presenter: Elizabeth Larson , (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP CEO of Watermark Learning, Elizabeth has over 25 years of experience in business analysis, project management, training, and consulting. She is a frequent speaker at Business Analysis and Project Management conferences and co-author of the Practitioners’ Guide to Requirements Management, The Influencing Formula, and the  CBAP Certification Study Guide (2nd Edition). Elizabeth is on the team that is developing the PMI-PBA Practice Guide, was a lead contributor to the BABOK® Guide Version 2.0, Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition (Collect Requirements), and is the content lead for Scope Management for the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition.  Elizabeth has been cited in CIO and PM Network and regularly contributes articles to BA times, Project Times, and Modern Analyst.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Click to register for What’s Hot and What’s Not: Trends in Business Analysis