Live Webinar May 2nd, 2014 – 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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Live Webinar April 23rd, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

“How to truly adapt agile principles in today’s product-centric, customer-focused enterprise”

The Agile Manifesto has been great for engineers, but has presented real challenges for business analysts and other stakeholders involved in the process of “define, build, test” for application development.

The problems addressed by the agile manifesto in 2001 still exist today, magnified by the changing landscape of product delivery:

• Time to market has dramatically shortened and complexity has increased
• Information is available and abundant but continues go undocumented and is lost
• Communications gaps widen due to geographically dispersed teams and department differences
• Customer needs require iterative communication yet continue go unmet

And yet, our interpretation of the manifesto hasn’t changed in over a decade, despite the major changes to how we work and the environment around us.

• So what does today’s agile look like?
• Do the values of the manifesto still apply?
• When did Agile become more about process and less about the mindset?
• How can we merge the intention of the manifesto with the new way we work?
• How can we evolve agile concepts to tackle the challenges of today in a new way?

Join this webinar for an opportunity to rethink yesterday’s manifesto in a new light and deconstruct which concepts were home runs and which still need to evolve.

The session will cover the four key tenants of Agile and how to approach them based on new technologies and mindsets around collaboration, social integration and complex systems engineering to find balance for everyone involved and improve your enterprise agility.

Presenter: Derwyn Harris  (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Architect & Co-Founder at Jama Software

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3  Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 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”

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Live Webinar – April 24th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
By BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

OR …..  The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

• A common question asked by teams adopting agile is “what does business analysis look like in agile?”
• The common answer is “writing user stories”.

WRONG!

Okay, maybe not wrong, but certainly not the whole story (pardon the pun).

Business analysis in agile is concerned with understanding the problem and possible solutions in order to ensure the team is building the right thing. User stories can be helpful, but are certainly not sufficient for doing that.

This session describes how you can perform just enough business analysis to discover the right things to build. This includes how to really use value to decide what to build first, why process flows, data models, and mockups are still extremely helpful, and why the function of user stories is more important than their form.

Along the way, we share examples from a system replacement project and suggest ways you can apply these techniques to your own projects.
Webinar Roadmap

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Learn how techniques such as Impact Mapping can help you narrow your focus and test your assumptions
• Learn how to use analysis models to identify, and further explain user stories
• Learn how to establish a definition of ready for your effort and use it to determine “just enough” business analysis

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Kent J. McDonald (LinkedIn profile) is the author of the soon to be released book Beyond Requirements: Analysis with an Agile Mindset,  Kent is a speaker, and coach who helps organizations improve the effectiveness of their projects.  His extensive  experience includes business analysis, strategic planning, project management, and product development in a variety of industries. He also is co-author of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility and shares his thoughts on project effectiveness at BeyondRequirements.com.

Notes:

• You will need to Sign In or Sign Up for a free account to register
• Webinar will be presented by B2Training 6/9/2019 $29.00 USD
  

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Live Webinar – April 23rd, 2014 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

The use of business architecture principles by Business Analysts and Project Managers can be a significant ingredient to managing project and requirements risk.

There are established and proven Business Architecture best practices that can be easily used alongside project management, business analysis, lean and agile techniques to maintain and manage scope and alignment to business objectives and requirements.

As businesses, programs, and strategies evolve, Business Architecture concepts can help ensure that risk is mitigated. Business Modeling is a key component to a good Business Architecture. Learn from a couple of experts on how to employ business modeling to your advantage.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will acquire a foundational knowledge of business architecture modeling, the relationship to the business analysis methodology and the link to business strategy / objectives.

Specifically, it will:

• Bring a high level overview of the value of business modelling
• Demonstrate applicability regardless of the Change Agenda
• Illustrate the process architecture as a model type within the business architecture
• Describe the benefits

About William Ulrich and the Business Architecture Guild

The Guild is a “not for profit”, non-vendor aligned, organization with the objective of promoting business architecture best practices and expanding the discipline knowledge base. The board members are well published, distinguished business architects and trainers. The Guild’s 1000 membership community is actively developing the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BizBok), which is currently in V4 prepublication, with a planned release of Q4 2013. William Ulrich (LinkedIn profile), author of   Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation and world class practitioner, is President of the Business Architecture Guild, mentor and contributor to the BizBok.

Click to register for Business Architecture Business Modeling

Live Webinar – April 16th, 2014 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

Enterprise Business Architecture is quickly evolving into a mainstream business capability.

Some would argue that it is already there particularly when 50% of the world’s top performing organizations have embraced business architecture as a strategic differentiator ranging from Government, Telco’s, Manufacturing and Financial Institutions.

However there continues to be a large population of change executives, managers and resources who regard Business Architecture as a theoretical practice.

Strategic change initiatives proliferate in business today. The speed and rate of change demands we maintain holistic oversight of all the moving parts to ensure realization of target operating models and designs.

Historically only a few strategic programs would be at play. In the last decade this number has grown to include on-shoring/off-shoring, centralization, spans of control, business transformation, vendor outsourcing, modernization, mergers/acquisitions, channel optimization, client segmentation, journeys and experience.

To facilitate strategic alignment and execution of these initiatives, firms are investing in business architecture.

Beyond Theory will focus on what are the market and internal forces at work which have been driving and will continue to drive organizations to use the models to better understand business impact, scope, execution and benefits realization.

The discussion will address the deployment and adoption challenges and look at industry standards and Blueprinting for strategic opportunities. It will provide a foundational knowledge of the business architecture framework and model types to crystalize scope, identify stakeholders, manage risk and how early analysis, through the lens of the business architecture, will influence estimating, resourcing, time, cost and quality.

Business Architecture is the link between strategy and execution.

Learning Objectives:

1. Provide clear, rational reasons to do business Architecture.
2. Present a foundational set of Business Architecture Models, views and uses to mitigate project and analysis risk, drive the value proposition
3. Recommend a staged Execution Model

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Live Webinar April 16th, 2014 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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