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Live Webinar – March 6th 2018, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU Provider: Offered by Techtown (REP 2161 was ASPE)
Note: ASPE has Re-branded as Techtown – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.
At the 2017 San Francisco AI Conference Andrew Ng admonished that one of the four tenets of becoming an AI organization requires ‘Talent and New Job descriptions’.
This Talent piece is ‘the foundation’ of success for an organization pivoting towards AI. The goal of this learning session is to showcase that that Talent Scarcity is a myth.
By leveraging a Talent Management Framework optimized for AI, you will gain insights on how to address, mitigate and resolve your challenges around the acquiring, reskilling, retaining and managing talent for your organization’s pivot towards AI.
In this session, Zaki Mohammad (LinkedIn profile) will get close to answering the question ‘is it better to re-skill or hire’ AI Talent?
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Live Webinar February 27th, 2018 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU free Provider: The Corporate Education Group( REP 1011 )
Projects are expected to address a business need and help an organization attain its goals. Business Analysts are expected to ensure that a project fits into the business context.
In this webinar, participants will learn how to conduct “enterprise analysis” in order to align projects with organizational goals.
The webinar explains the main tasks of Enterprise Analysis according to IIBA®’s BABOK® Guide and then demonstrates select techniques, including root cause analysis, assessing capability gaps, defining solution scope, and leveraging Business Architecture frameworks, such as the Zachman framework.
Learning objectives include:
Understand the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area
Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs
Identify capability gaps using Business Architecture frameworks
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Live Webinar – February 21st 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour s 1 PDUs free Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.
The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.
Learn:
The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.
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Live Webinar February 16th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU Provider:The Corporate Education Group( REP 1011 )
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.
Online Webinar – Recorded Jun 20, 2017 Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free Provider: IIBA
One of the most common questions I receive is “How do I become a business analyst if I’m a ______?” And in the blank goes anything from software engineer to tester to manager to customer service representative.
Each individual’s path into business analysis is unique, and depends heavily on their skills and career experience.
In this webinar, Laura will demonstrate the core skills to becoming a business analysis, and see how transferable skills show up in common job functions.
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Online Webinar – BATimes Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2 PDU/CDUs – Free Provider: Diversified Business Communications REP 1811 2 PDU/CDUs – Free PDU / CDU
Are You Too Soft?
Most Project Manager/Business Analyst leaders are not consistently willing to make the tough and unpopular project-related decisions, even though their instincts warn them that they are not taking the most effective action.
Witness examples of PM/BA actions (or inactions) that are indicative of too-soft behaviour. Will you recognize familiar behaviour?
You do not have to be rude, insensitive, arrogant, or a bully
To avoid being too soft!
None of these attributes are acceptable …ever!
Come prepared to rethink what constitutes effective project management and business analyst leadership behaviour.
Course Learning Objectives Include:
How to become a more effective leader
How to avoid being too soft
How to become a more effective leader
With the Course You Will Receive:
Download – Power Snippets
Personalized Certificate of Attendance
Copy of Presentation Slides
Presenter: Neal Whitten PMP (LinkedIn profile) President Neal Whitten Group, is a Keynote speaker, trainer, consultant, mentor, and best-selling author in the areas of leadership, project management, & employee development with 35+ years of front-line project management experience. A writer for professional magazines including PM Network® magazine.
Neal is also the author of several books including:
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