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Live Webinar April 11th 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?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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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.

Presenter: Laura Brandenburg (LinkedIn profile, @LLBrandenburg) CBAP is the author of How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide)Bridging the Gap, which offers a BA career planning course (it’s free) to help you start your business analyst career. She’s reviewed hundreds of BA resumes and is ready to help you improve yours!

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IIBA: Business Analysis Is Not Just A Job Title

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar April 4th 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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The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

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Live Webinar April 3rd 2018 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing:

  1. Irrelevance/redundancy
  2. Ignorance of relevant skills or facts
  3. Obstructionism
  4. Adversarialism
  5. Nit-picking
  6. Blindness to project/organizational priorities
  7. Last-moment-ism

Are you your own worst enemy?

You might recognize your own behaviors, or behaviors of others on your test team. Rex will discuss these seven sins and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Rex gives examples of these behaviors through case studies, and tells you how to stop the behaviors and solve the problems those behaviors have created. For sinners and non-sinners alike, Rex offers ideas on how to become a testing saint.

Join Rex and discuss these seven deadly sins.
Presentation Slides

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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The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

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Live Webinar Mar 26, 2018 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .5 Hrs  .5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Technical debt is bad. It’s smart to carefully manage technical debt.  Defects are a form of technical debt.
Do you know how to measure how well you are managing defect – related technical debt?
In this One Key Idea session, Rex will demonstrate two simple defect metrics, easily extractable from any defect management tool,which can give you useful insights into what’s happening with defect -related technical debt.
Learn what these metrics can tell you and how you can use them to manage your technical debt better

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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One Key Idea:  Two Simple, Useful Defect Metrics

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Live Webinar March 21st, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider:
IIBA

Modern Requirements, in conjunction with IIBA, has developed the BABOK Guide® template for TFS / VSTS that enables Business / Systems analysts to Define, Manage and Analyze requirements in TFS, throughout the application lifecycle.

Learn:

  1. How to leverage and automate the techniques outlined in the BABOK 3.0 and build / maintain a repeatable process based on industry standards 
  2. How you can easily organize your work and comfortably collaborate with technical & business stakeholders; textually and visually •
  3. How to the bridge the gap between information and document management

Presenters:

Bob Savelson  (LinkedIn profile) SVP Sales & Marketing Modern Requirements is a 20 year veteran in ALM and has helped companies around the world optimize their ALM practices by discovering current process gaps, applying best practices and facilitating the adoption of technology based productivity solutions; with specific emphasis in requirements definition and management.

Asif Sharif  (LinkedIn profile) President, Modern Requirements & Founder  eDev Technologies is an  IT industry veteran.  Asif serves as the Chief Technologist of eDev Technologies where his leadership and experience drive the company’s corporate vision and business strategy.

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IIBA: 3 High-Impact Reasons To Extend TFS
For Requirements Management Leveraging BABOK Guide

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