Online Webinar  – Recorded November 22nd 2021
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The expectations and responsibilities of a Business Analyst (BA) are extremely versatile and vary based on the type of project that is being completed.

In this session Dave & Lynda cover the similarities and differences of the BA role in each of the predictive, incremental, and iterative project approaches. Focus is placed on working in the virtual environment and driving value centric delivery.

Borrowing the “Context Matters and Choice is Good” concept from Disciplined Agile, they explore how a BA analyzes the Context of the situation, defines an iteration goal of what is to be accomplished, and then selects the best approach to achieve that goal.

This three step approach requires a large range of skills and knowledge that helps define a distinguished Business Analyst.  The presentation will explore:

1. Context Matters:  What is the Delivery method that is being used to deliver value?  What do we currently know and what are our most significant uncertainties?  This step is a critical evaluation on WHERE ARE WE AT?
2. What is the most important goal to help the team deliver value to the team?  This is using a Rolling Wave planning approach to determine WHAT ACTION IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE at this time to help the team.
3. Referring to a tool box of process flows, methods, approaches and tools, the BA CHOOSES THE BEST APPROACH?  What is the proper criteria to make this decision and how to we execute on delivering?

Learning Objectives:

1. The participant will be able to compare and contrast the three project types of: Predictive, Iterative, and Incrementation.
2. The participant will be able to demonstrate how to define a goal for delivering value in the next iteration of the project and how to evaluate choices against the goal.
3. The participant will be able to select the appropriate approach based on choices and the goal and guide the team to accomplishing the goal.

Presenters:

Lynda Carter (LinkedIn profile) Author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Project Management: Simple, Effective Techniques That Deliver Business Value

David Davis, PMP PgMP (LinkedIn profile) is a self-proclaimed practitioner of WOW!  Dave Davis has enough credentials that all the associated acronyms would make a full bowl of vegetable soup.  A proven dynamic, creative, and enthusiastic leader.   Dave has the unique ability to share his experience in a light hearted effective style that educates and motivates.  He has shared his message in many web publications and presentations throughout Europe and North America. Few people can combine business intelligence with strong leadership and a sense for using structured Program Management to further a company’s strategy like he can. He stays on top of emerging technologies and its associated social impact, and knows what can benefit an organization.

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Flexing The Business Analysis

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Online Webinar – Recorded – July 26th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011 )

PDU Of The Day has published over 10,000 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 few weeks of 2022, we are publishing many new opportunities, and some of our readers & editors favorite articles, as a special treat for our readers!

Each of these webinars is available online!

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.

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The Art Of The Interview: How To Improve Your Business Analysis Interviewing Skills

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Live Webinar November 22nd, 2022, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Augmented analytics capabilities permeate all aspects of many Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) platforms.

Data and analytics leaders should be promoting capabilities that support analytic consumers as well as authors. At the same time, cloud ecosystems and alignment with both business and personal productivity applications have become key selection factors.

In this webinar Austin Kronz (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Principal Analyst; Anirudh Ganeshan (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Principal Analyst; & David Pidsley (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst explore how the latest insights on the market trends and vendor positions in the Gartner 2022 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms can help you determine the right direction for your organization.

Discussion Topics:

• Identify key trends shaping analytics and business intelligence buying
• Find out how to correctly use and interpret the Gartner Analytics and BI Magic Quadrant
• Get the latest insights on vendor positioning

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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The 2022 Analytics & BI Platforms Magic Quadrant Highlights

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Online Webinar  – Recorded June 22nd, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

This question often comes up: “I am a project manager and our company is moving to agile or Scrum, does that mean I will now become a Scrum Master?”

In response, The answer-er hesitates and then give the unwelcomed answer of “It depends.”

And it really does depend.

1. The Scrum Master role is deep and wide.
2. Scrum Masters need to support their teams while working with the rest of the people in their organizations to build awareness and enable greater agility.
3. A Scrum Master’s job is not to manage a project or deliver status reports — duties that people associate with the role of a traditional project manager.
4. As a matter of fact, Scrum Masters may not get involved in status reports at all.

In this webinar, Eric Naiburg, (LinkedIn profile) COO, Scrum.org, will discuss the potential move to an agile way of working, the role of the Scrum Master, and what that means for people currently in the role of Project Manager.

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Eric Naiburg, Chief Operating Officer, Scrum.org &
co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortal. Eric is currently responsible for all aspects of marketing, support, outbound communications and operations for Scrum.org. Previously he held the role of director of marketing for INetU (now ViaWest). Before INetU, Eric was program director at IBM and Rational Software responsible for application lifecycle management (ALM), DevOps and Agile solutions Eric has held product management and marketing roles with other organizations including: Ivar Jacobson Consulting, CAST Software and Logic Works Inc. (Acquired by Platinum Technologies and CA), as product manager for ERwin.

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Should A Project Manager Become A Scrum Master?

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Online Webinar  – December 14th, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Allan Thomson will show the synergies of using PRINCE2 and PMBOK together.  Join this informative session!

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Allan Thomson, (LinkedIn profile) AXELOS ProPath Ambassador, AXELOS. Allan is the Global PPM Product Ambassador responsible for representing AXELOS externally with regards to PPM products. Allan is a result driven PRINCE2 qualified Project Manager with over 25 years’ project, programme management and PMO experience. He is adept at implementation of PRINCE2 into organisations, Microsoft Dynamics solutions, risk management, business implementation, new product development, business improvement, software implementation and change management. Allan is an experienced Project Leader who through collaboration techniques integrates and leads teams to achieve business objectives. Have gained experience in agile delivery methods and their inclusion into PMO reporting.

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PRINCE2 & PMBOK

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Live Webinar August 4th, 2022 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

The major part of the business analyst’s occupation is in creating diagrams and models of all sorts.

While a requirements document or any other rendering of requirements, for many business analysts their primary output, is actually a model of the solution to be delivered, when we think or talk about diagrams and models we usually think of charts and drawings.

Some of us love the idea of drawing squares and arrows and turning human business processes into diagrams on the whiteboard.

Some of us hate the very idea of drawing anything, much less a diagram or model. And those of us involved with agile see the diagrams and models being thrown up on the whiteboard as part of a developer swarm and then erased shortly thereafter.

And those of us working in the more traditional environment painstakingly create exact and accurate replications of business processes and proposed solutions which are then added to dozens or hundreds of others created in the past 20 years.

So the question the business analyst has to ask is “models, what are they good for?” Or perhaps, “are there any models that are worthwhile spending my time on even if not required by the SDLC?”

In this webinar Steven will try to answer those questions as well as provide an overview and lexicon of the models that business analysts generally use for better or worse.

Presenter: 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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Diagrams & Models For Business Analysts

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