Online Webinar – Recorded February 18, 2009
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: American Management Association (REP 1294)

Is Business Analysis the Cornerstone of Successful Projects?

A major source of project failure is incomplete, inaccurate, and misunderstood requirements.

In a nutshell, if you don’t identify the “right” requirements for a project, problems will be magnified at every other step of the process.

The bottom line is that nailing down requirements for your initiatives is a high-stakes activity, even more so during a recession where every penny counts.

Faced with conflicting requests from customers, users, partners, competitors, and regulators; the role of the business analyst to define and prioritize requirements, foresee related impacts, and create actionable plans is critical.

In this Webcast, you’ll find out about the due diligence needed to keep projects on track using the tools of business analysis.

Whether you’re an experienced project manager or are just starting out, this program will help fine tune your understanding the basics of requirements management.

Learn:

• Leading causes of project failure and what you can do to minimize the risks
• How business analysis is the key to trimming project costs
• Ways to turn unrealistic expectations into realistic features
• Using BABOK to improve your requirements development
• How business analysis differs from project management
• And much more.

Presenter: Mike Levesque, PMP, (LinkedIn profile) is a Principal with Critical Solutions. He brings over twenty years of practical experience in the discipline of project management to AMA. As a project director, he has successfully planned and executed projects of varying complexity with budgets in the multimillion dollar range. His expertise extends to developing project management methodologies, critical chain project management, risk management, resource management, establishing long-term customer relations, organizational dynamics, change management, and instructional system design.

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Achieving Project Success Through Business Analysis

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Online Webinar  – Recorded September 2013
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

In this video Carl Dalton (LinkedIn profile) will Cover:

• What is estimating
• Why estimating
• What to include
• Types of estimating
• Data collection
• Cost engineering
• Verification and validation

OR…Click to watch on YouTube:
Estimating Back To Basics

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Live Webinar May 24th, 2017  10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

• Are you a Business Analyst trying to find your role in an Agile project?
• Are you looking for ways to ramp up your Agile team’s productivity?

There are a lot of misconceptions about Business Analysis in an Agile development environment, and sometimes Business Analysts find it hard to adapt to the short iterations, just-in-time planning and minimalist documentation that characterizes Agile development.

This webinar is a frank discussion about what Agile demands from a Business Analyst and how Business Analysts can succeed and ensure their team succeeds.

Learning Objectives:

1. Dispel common myths about Agile, including the belief that Business Analysts aren’t welcome in Agile
2. Explain why every development team needs excellent business analysis to be successful
3. Guide analysts in how to deliver the most value in Agile settings

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3 Ways Business Analysts Enable Agile Success

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Live Webinar – May 17th, 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
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 May 16th 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar May 16th 2017 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

If you are testing a simple mobile app, you may find it relatively easy to find representative test data. However, what if you are testing enterprise scale applications?

In the enterprise data center, one hundred or more applications of various sizes, comp lexity, and criticality co-exist, operating on various data repositories, in some cases shared data repositories.

In some cases, disparate data repositories hold related data, and the ability to test integration across applications that access these data sets is critical.

In this webinar, Rex Black will talk about the challenges facing his clients as they deal with these testing problems.

You’ll go away with a better understanding of the nature of the challenges, as well as ideas on how to handle them, grounded in lessons Rex has learned in over 30 years of software engineering and testing

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

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of:
Enterprise Challenges Of Test Data

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
Enterprise Challenges Of Test Data

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Live Webinar – May 11th 2017, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

As organisations embark on agile initiatives, business analysts can serve a critical role in ensuring the success of those initiatives.

This one-hour webinar will explore why business analysts embody core values and skills to thrive in an agile world.

• Common myths about agile and business analysis
• Agile roles for business analysts
• BA skills for succeeding in an agile world
• Maximizing value – at the core of the BA role

Presenter: Michelina DiNunno, MBA (LinkedIn profile)  is a seasoned management professional with extensive experience building high performing teams, leading organizational change initiatives and championing the business analysis profession.  She has led large-scale projects in various capacities including project sponsor, program manager, proxy product owner development manager leveraging SCRUM, agile consultant and change champion. She has been in the Telecomm Industry for over 10 years, working  for Telus and is providing consulting services through Global Knowledge.

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Agile & Business Analysts:
Is There a Place For Us?

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