Design Thinking For Business Analysts

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Live Webinar April 25th, 2019 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Rather than waiting around for someone in the business to give you a problem to solve, wouldn’t you rather go out and solve a problem before it has even been defined or acknowledged in the business?

The discipline of business analysis is in the forefront of innovation. Business analysis is behind all process improvement in the organization.

Since the overall goal of business analysis is to add value to the organization how can you create and define innovative new solutions to existing business problems or come up with innovative ways of improving the business processes of the organization?

Design thinking is a way of approaching problems, products and processes in a way that generates innovative thinking and produces innovative solutions.

This webinar takes you through the basics of design thinking and introduces techniques and practices you can start using right away to improve your ability to innovate and solve problems for the organization as well as for yourself.

Including techniques such as:

  • Value maps, customer maps, and hero maps
  • Improvisation and storytelling
  • Keeping a customer-centric focus
  • Personas and prototyping

Presenters: Steven P.Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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Online Webinar  – Recorded March 28 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Find out about PMI’s fastest-growing certification: Professional in Business Analysis, PMI-PBA®.

Explore the business drivers that are making this certification so valuable to both organizations and the individuals who earn it.

Also learn what the requirements are for PMI-PBA certification and tips for applying past experience to count towards the required hours needed.

Project professionals who already have the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification will get perspectives on their project experience to help them capitalize on their PM-BA hybrid role.

Join Andrea Brockmeier  (LinkedIn profile@afbrockmeier) and come away with a clear idea of what the exam covers and tips for preparing for and passing the exam.

The key resources, including the Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide, and the The PMI Guide to Business Analysis, will be discussed to help attendees understand what will be involved in their PMI-PBA journey.

This session will include open Q and A from session participants with answers provided by the PBA-certified presenter.

Note: You have to sign in to ProjectManagement.com with your PMI® credentials to register for this opportunity. If you are not signed in with your PMI® credentials you will not see the “Register for this webinar” link

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PMI-PBA: From What It Is? To I Did It!

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Live Webinar April 17th 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

  1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
  2. Where do you focus for improvement?
  3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar – April 4th, 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Most of us are required to lead change as part of our regular roles whether you are in the BA or PM field. Our staff, clients, colleagues and vendors may think they are ‘change ready’ because of their expertise, yet no one is ready for change that might have a negative impact on them, or that might increase the amount of work they have on their plate!

What tools are available to help those of us navigate the speed of change as we try to get the people we influence engaged in our ideas? To evolve and be future ready for the changing environment, we need to build these capabilities as there’s no end to the multiple changes that happen at work.

In this interactive session, we will examine 5 strategies that you can use with your colleagues, co-workers and stakeholders.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

  • Identify ways to overcome challenges to leading change initiatives
  • Explore how brain science impacts our ability to lead, manage and adapt to change
  • Discover 5 strategies to move people down the path of change

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Gregg Brown founder of Change Ready Leadership, believes the key to successfully leading and managing change is understanding individual differences. Gregg has spoken at hundreds of conferences, seminars, for Fortune 500 clients and to a wide array of industries He is the author of Ready… Set… Change Again!: Take Control of Change Before It Takes Control of You In addition to having his PMP (Project Management Professional) designation, Gregg holds a Master’s of Social Science degree from the University of Leicester in the UK, with a focus on organizational psychology, leadership and performance and is an Associate

Note:  This session was rescheduled – If you have previously registered you do not need to re-register.

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Change Ready Leadership:
Strategies To Create Positive Change

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Live Webinar – March 21st, 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Most of us are required to lead change as part of our regular roles whether you are in the BA or PM field. Our staff, clients, colleagues and vendors may think they are ‘change ready’ because of their expertise, yet no one is ready for change that might have a negative impact on them, or that might increase the amount of work they have on their plate!

What tools are available to help those of us navigate the speed of change as we try to get the people we influence engaged in our ideas? To evolve and be future ready for the changing environment, we need to build these capabilities as there’s no end to the multiple changes that happen at work.

In this interactive session, we will examine 5 strategies that you can use with your colleagues, co-workers and stakeholders.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

  • Identify ways to overcome challenges to leading change initiatives
  • Explore how brain science impacts our ability to lead, manage and adapt to change
  • Discover 5 strategies to move people down the path of change

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Gregg Brown founder of Change Ready Leadership, believes the key to successfully leading and managing change is understanding individual differences. Gregg has spoken at hundreds of conferences, seminars, for Fortune 500 clients and to a wide array of industries He is the author of Ready… Set… Change Again!: Take Control of Change Before It Takes Control of You In addition to having his PMP (Project Management Professional) designation, Gregg holds a Master’s of Social Science degree from the University of Leicester in the UK, with a focus on organizational psychology, leadership and performance and is an Associate Member of the American Psychological Association.

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Change Ready Leadership:
To Create Positive Change

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Live Webinar – March 6th 2019 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements.

This process is based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others —  and employing IAG’s experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.

This webinar will:

  1. Explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn’t,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best.
  2. Give participants a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.
  3. Provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project.

Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

  • The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies
  • Different Prioritization Techniques
  • Why Prioritize?
  • When to Prioritize Knowing
  • What to Prioritize
  • The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements
  • Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors
  • Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings
  • Rating Facilitation Methods
  • Next Steps
Get Specific Answers to:
  • “How granular does my prioritization need to be?”
  • “How much time should we spend on prioritization?”
  • “Is prioritization done just once or iteratively?”
  • “What does prioritization mean if we’re Agile?”
  • “What should we prioritize? Requirements? user Stories? Use Cases?”
  • “What factors should we consider when prioritizing?”
  • “What is the best ‘scale’ to use for prioritization?”
  • “What is the difference between importance and priority?”
Participants Also Receive:
  • Presentation Material
  • Requirements Prioritization Template
  • Requirements Prioritization Example Worksheet
  • Sample Requirements Prioritization House of Quality Example

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

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