Online Webinar – Recorded – April 5th 2015
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2 PDUs – Free
Provider:  RequirementsWizard

PDU Of The Day has published THOUSANDS of Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2018, we are publishing some  of our readers & editors favorite recorded opportunities, as a special treat for our readers!

Each of these webinars is available online!

In this Introduction to Business Analysis demo session, you will learn the fundamentals of business analysis discipline, role of a business analyst, how our training program is structured and most importantly how Requirements Wizard can help you transform your career into a successful business analyst role.

In today’s competitive environment, business analyst’s role is no longer of simply ‘A bridge between Business and IT’. T

here has been a paradigm shift in the role of business analyst in recent years.

In today’s resource scare environment, customers expect business analyst to have knowledge and skills to conduct enterprise analysis, perform end-to-end business processes re-engineering, identify bottlenecks in their value streams, and most importantly develop solutions that would solve their problems and integrate their vision-strategy-technology towards a common organizational goal.

Requirements elicitation and documenting them is a very small subset of a modern day business analyst’s role.

This course has been specifically designed keeping in mind the expectations customers have from a seasoned business analyst.

In addition to the business analysis skills, project management skills are equally vital for a business analyst. Since the natural career trajectory of a business analyst curve towards project management discipline, this course has included key topics of project management as well, which in a ‘real-world’ scenario, any experienced business analyst must be familiar with.

Note: This session is designed for any individual with IT/Non-IT background who aspires to make their career in business analysis discipline.

Presenter:  Chetan V Mehta (LinkedIn profile) PMP CBAP BPM Principal Instructor RequirementsWizard, is a former analyst from Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Ahmedabad), Asia’s ivy-league business school, is a highly experienced professional in the field of business architecture, business analysis, project management and business development discipline. With 15+ years of corporate experience, solid management education, Chetan trains/coaches people, to pursue their career in the field of business analysis or project management. He succeeds at building a solid core competency in his selected disciplines.

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Business Analysis Fundamentals

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Live Webinar – December 5th 2018 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:

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

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Live Webinar – November 28th 2018 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

As a project manager with the State of Maryland Department of Social Services,  Jeff Bongiovani was tasked with clearing up case backlogs for Medical Assistance and Food Supplement Payments.

In order to break the yearly cycle of backlogs recurring, Jeff was not only able to advocate using Microsoft Project, but helped establish an ongoing method of analysis across multiple projects.

Join this session as Jeff demonstrates  real world experiences and the techniques he employed within Project as well as Excel to produce meaningful and significant reports.

Presenter: Jeff Bongiovani (LinkedIn profile) is an Instructional Designer for Edwards Performance Solutions, creating and developing courses in Project Management and Systems Engineering. Previously, he had been a technology trainer for fifteen plus years, teaching courses in Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, and several programming languages.

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This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Data Analysis Using Project With Excel

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Session Is Now Recorded!
Activity Type Now: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free

Live Webinar – November 20th, 2018- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Most of us learned Visio by doing: a boss or a colleague said

1. “Can you create an org chart of our division?” or
2. “We need a flowchart of this process. By tomorrow.” or
3. “Fred created this diagram before he left. Can you update it for Monday’s staff meeting?”

We make do with what we know, but never had formal training or time to discover better techniques.

This session will give you 20 tips and tricks to move you past where you are now and into a world of new features and enhanced productivity.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Uncover hidden dialogs, techniques, and features in Visio
• Learn keyboard shortcuts and ribbon tips that will make you a Visio power user
• Turn Visio diagrams into business intelligence dashboards

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Scott Helmers (LinkedIn profile  @VisProcess) Visio MVP – Based on his knowledge of Microsoft Visio and his active participation supporting Visio online, Microsoft has named Scott a Visio Most Valuable Professional, one of 13 in the world. Scott recently wrote “Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step” for Microsoft Press as a followup to his bestsellers Visio 2007 For Dummies & Microsoft Visio 2013 Step By Step.

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20 Visio Tips In 60 Minutes

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Live Webinar – November 14th, 2018 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 webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts.

The definition of the business requirements for analytical processing / decision support systems require different techniques than the process and data modeling used for transactional processing systems.

For a BI project, Business Analysts and Project Managers need to identify the business questions, facts, measures, and dimensions needed for the data warehouse.

IAG will provide a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply process that analyzes and defines the business objectives, usage scenarios, questions and queries that will yield the a conceptual multi-dimension model and form the basis of the business requirements for the data warehouse and business intelligence system requirements of your projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. How to conduct data warehouse business analysis
2. How to elicit requirements for the business intelligence aspects of projects
3. How to define requirements for on-line analytical processing and decision support systems

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Requirements Definition Best Practices
For Business Intelligence Projects

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Live Webinar November 13th 2018 – 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0.5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

For nearly ten years, RBCS has run a highly successful free webinar series, with almost 50,000 registrations from around the world.

In 2017, we introduced a short-format webinar into the mix, the One Key Idea series that focus on delivering an intense shot of practical knowledge in a 20 minute package.

Now, in 2018, we continue to innovate. We’re adding the Two Points of View at Two series to our monthly webinar rotation. I

n each of these sessions, Rex Black will talk with another software luminary about topics of mutual interest, where the two have some different views.

After their talk, Rex will open the floor to questions. You will get powerful insights on important topics in software testing, software quality, and software engineering. Make it a point to join the conversation.

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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Two Points Of View At Two:
Short High Impact Talks About Testing

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