Live Webinar Feb 5th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Your Microsoft SQL Server database often contains the most valuable information in your organization. Get tips for securing it properly and effectively in this free, information-packed webinar with Microsoft SQL Server expert Gidget Pryor.

In just an hour, Gidget will demonstrate:

• Tthe layered security approach used by SQL Server.
• She will step you through the process and best practices of setting up logins, users, roles, schemas, and permissions
• She will review the security model changes that have taken place from SQL Server 2005 through SQL Server 2012.
• She will also review SQL Server 2012 training and certifications.

Presenter: Gidget Pryor, (LinkedIn profile) SQL Server is a SQL Server consultant and instructor with more than 20 years of database, systems engineering, application development, and programming experience. She worked with multiple database platforms including SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, FoxPro, Access, and Sybase. She especially enjoys business intelligence and performance tuning.

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Live Webinar Jan 30th, 2014 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Use Cases are widely recognized as one of the most effective methods of documenting and communicating requirements.

Join us for this webinar as we demonstrate how you can easily document clear, accurate and complete requirements using Use Case Scenarios. This Webinar is useful for new, as well as, experienced practitioners of the Use Case approach for defining requirements.

Key Learning Points:

1. How to identify Use Cases?
2. What is the “happy path”? Can there be unhappy paths?
3. What are “Alternate Flows”?
4. How can Use Case approach to requirements help you avoid the problems of “missed” and “misunderstood” requirements?
5. What is an appropriate size for the “Main Flow”?
6. What are the pros and cons of using IF structure in a Use Case?
7. How do I break down a large Use Case?
8. How do you “reuse” requirements in a Use Case model?
9. How are Use Cases similar to, and different from, User Stories?
10. What is the meaning of “include” relationship between Use Cases?

Presenters: Ashu Potnis, Jim Cochell and Sue Thompson , Technosolutions

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Live Webinar – Jan 29th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

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Live Webinar Jan 22nd, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
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

Waiting until the project is delivered to the customer is not the time to confirm, or not confirm, that objectives of the project are met.

Project managers and business analysts must understand how to analyze the various risks of the project objectives and develop ways to intermittently validate the attainment of those objectives. Learn the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, business analyst and quality assurance teams in successful project delivery.

Objectives:

• Define what Validation means as it relates to project delivery
• Define team roles and responsibilities as it relates to validation
• Identify the types of validation necessary for your project
• Develop action plans to validate key components of the project

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 January 9th, 2014 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

To help accomplish its mission of facilitating lawful international trade and ensuring dangerous and illegal cargo doesn’t enter the country, one of the government’s largest and most complex organizations initiated a multi-year project to modernize the business processes essential to securing U.S. borders.

A large part of the renovation was the use of customized Agile methodology to help deliver functionality to its end-users quicker and meet evolving business needs.

With the creation of Scrum teams and the addition of Business Analysts on those teams, this is the story of one Agile development team’s ability to push high-priority requirements through to convert product backlog into reality while the business stakeholders retain the capability to continuously refine and reprioritize that backlog.

What does Agile mean for the role of the business requirements analysts?

The case study offer perspective into the role of the Agile BA:

• Fully embrace the role of Product Owners Representative
• Structure the tool by sprints, not product
• Be flexible because of shifting product owner priorities
• Begin working with the capability owner and product owner early in the process
• Help think about velocity tied to use stories and picking the right work for the sprint

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Live Webinar – Jan 8th, 2014 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

Enterprise Business Architecture is Quickly Evolving
Into a Mainstream Business Capability

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

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 & Execution.

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