Live Webinar – November 8th, 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

In this two-hour instructional webinar, you will learn some of IAG’s best practices, tips, and techniques for facilitating Requirements Discovery Sessions.

This session will:

• Discuss the role of the session leader/facilitator in a requirements meeting.
• Explain a simple repeatable process for eliciting business requirements.
• Provide a variety of tips, techniques and questions you can ask during the session to keep the meeting on track & moving toward a successful conclusion with well defined business requirements and satisfied session participants.

Key content covered in the webinar:

• The role of a facilitator
• Facilitation fundamentals
• Top 10 success factors for requirements facilitation
• Preparation for a requirements meeting
• Steps to follow in the session – the main agenda items, using use-case and other modeling techniques
• Key questions to ask during a session
• Critical and immediate next steps following your meeting

Learning Objectives:

• How to conduct productive requirements meetings
• How to organize the topics to be discussed
• A process to keep the meeting on track
• Facilitation tips and techniques specific to requirements meetings

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Requirements Meeting Facilitation Best Practices

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Live Webinar – November 2nd 2017, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

In this webinar, Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)  will spend the hour examining one of today’s biggest obstacles to large-scale success in enterprise environments: Work In Progress (WIP).

Chris will discuss and take your questions on where WIP is a concern, how it gets out of control, the stifling effects it has on productivity, and how to tame and manage it.

From top-level portfolio and program management to back-office DevOps practices, WIP is a primary concern for teams at every level of the enterprise who are trying to help their organization achieve sustainable, scalable agility.

Join Chris and ask questions and have a conversation about the best ways to manage WIP in your teams, and how doing so is the key to revolutionizing how technology work gets executed and how projects are managed.

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Whip WIP!
Stop Letting Work In Progress Crush Your Teams

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Live Webinar – November 1st 2017, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Agile approaches, with their focus on delivering working software through short test-driven iterations, promise to improve quality, productivity, and satisfaction. Experienced Agile practitioners zealously tout their successes.

But to someone schooled in traditional processes, it can all seem strange. Those short iteration cycles can make it difficult to keep up. It’s a whole new vocabulary.

On day one coders are coding and testers are testing. An Agile development team can be a “hungry beast” demanding to be fed with user stories.

Without the big requirements document, or the time to write it, how can you be certain your teams will be delivering the right things and not wasting time and money?

This fun and engaging hour start with the dirty little secret behind the origins of the Agile Alliance.

• Learn why test-driven, incremental development makes sense whether you’re agile, just considering it, or convinced you’ll never be.
• Cut through the seemingly absurd lingo, ritual, and ceremony that all too often gets in the way.
• Learn how a few simple yet powerful models can get you organized. See how a test-driven approach can clarify that all-important “definition of done.”

Presenter: Marc J. Balcer (LinkedIn profile) Check out Marc’s books Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture and Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies

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No Bull Agile

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Live Webinar October 30th, 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Modern BI and analytics is not (only) about having the right set of tools.

Without the right organization model, the proper roles, skills, processes and governance, the chances of succeeding are slim.

In this webinar Joao Tapadinhas (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director identifies the best practices and critical success factors required to deliver according to user expectations.

Discussion Topics:

• Why modernize your data and analytics platform, and what are the possible approaches?
• What components can be used to modernize the data and analytics platform?
• What architecture, processes and organization must be put in place to succeed?

Click to register for:
Preparing Your Organization For Modern BI & Analytics

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Live Webinar October 25th 2017, 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 October 11th 2017 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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