Live Webinar – November 7th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

The large, complex project brings with it a unique set of problems that may not be encountered in a smaller project.

This one-hour webinar will focus on the planning phase for a large, complex project.

Learn the importance of developing an understanding of the complete scope of analysis and developing an integrated series of requirements plans to eliminate redundancy of effort and to provide for better input to the high level architectural design decisions that must be made.

Learning Objectives:

• How to define the complete scope of analysis
• How to develop comprehensive, integrated Requirements Management Plans
• How to ensure the necessary and sufficient input is available to optimize the high level architectural design decisions

What’s Included:

• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• Large Project Requirements Planning Checklist
• Large Project Vision and Scope Document Template
• Large Project Requirements Management Plan Template

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Tips For Planning Requirements Elicitation
On Large Projects

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Live Webinar – October 31st 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hours 2 PDUs/CDUs
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Key content covered in the webinar:

• Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
• Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
• The Components of a Use Case
• The Different Forms of Use Cases
• The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
• Detailed Use Case Modeling
• Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
• Use Cases and Business Rules
• Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
• Next Steps – What do you do when you’re done?

Get specific answers to:

• “Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What’s the difference between use cases and requirements?”
• “What is the difference between a business and a system use case”
• “How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?”
• “How many use cases do I need?”
• “How detailed do the use cases need to be?”
• “What questions should I ask to build a good use case?
• “How many alternate flows do I need?”
• “When do I know I’m done?
• “What is the purpose of use case diagrams?”

Click to register for:
Writing A Business Use Case In 7 Steps

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Live Webinar October 23rd, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Artificial Intelligence (AI) use cases reveal lucrative, disruptive, surprising, revolutionary, differentiating and inspiring stories across a wide range of industries and regions.

AI techniques pragmatically make a difference for small and large organizations alike, and the most efficient way to convey the power of these advanced techniques is to tell their stories.

Join Erick Brethenoux (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Directorfor this informative session.

Discussion Topics:

• The most mature AI techniques and what business problems they address
• AI techniques that redefine the art of the possible
• Use cases that best illustrate how your AI journey will reach a profitable destination

Click to register for:
The Power of AI: Real AI Use Cases

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Live Webinar – October 18th, 2018 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

The words “strategy” and “strategic” are frequently used in organizations and might be seen by some as “corporate buzzwords”.

Yet in reality, having a clearly articulated strategy is a crucial enabler for organizational alignment and success.

As change professionals, we need to ensure that our projects and programs align with strategy–else we may end up with different departments and teams pulling in different directions (and we may end up getting caught in the cross fire!)

The BA toolkit is broad, and there’s a huge opportunity for us to contribute. This is an area where collaboration between PMs and BAs is absolutely crucial. If we seize this opportunity we may find ourselves involved in shaping or defining organizational, project, program or business unit strategy.

In this presentation, Adrian Reed explores strategy through a business analysis lens, covering the learning objectives listed above.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• The role of strategy and strategic thinking in Business Analysis
• A ‘whistle-stop tour’ of some useful strategic analysis tools and techniques
• What is strategy?

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Adrian Reed (LinkedIn profile, @UKAdrianReed)Principal Consultant & Director Blackmetric Business Solutions is a true advocate of the analysis profession. Adrian is a Past President of the UK chapter of the IIBA® and he speaks internationally on topics relating to business analysis and business change. Adrian wrote the 2016 book ‘Be a Great Problem Solver ¿ Now!: The 2-in-1 Manager: Speed Read – Instant Tips; Big Picture – Lasting Results’ and the 2018 book ‘Business Analyst: Careers In Business Analysis (BCS Guides to IT Roles)’ You can read Adrian’s blog at http://www.adrianreed.co.uk and follow him on Twitter.

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Strategy A Crucial Enabler

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Live Webinar September 12th 2018, 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?

Click to register for:
Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar September 5th 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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