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

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 – April 27th, 2022 – 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Over their careers, Christina and Adrian have asked stakeholders thousands of questions. In this webinar, the tables are turned: they will each face five questions about their own career paths, professional challenges, predictions for the future and much more besides.

They won’t have seen the specific questions in advance, so they’ll have to react in the moment. This is not your usual webinar, you’ll be able to see them react in real time as they are put on the spot!

You’ll hear about topics including:

1. Career pathways and how to progress as a BA
2. The future evolution of the BA role
3. Current challenges and how to overcome them
4. How to be a trusted advisor that everyone wants to work with
5. You’ll also be able to ask your own questions too.

This is a rare opportunity to get to know two leading figures in the BA community and find out more about what makes them tick.

Presenters:

Christina Lovelock , (LinkedIn profile) BA Manager, University of Leeds  is a BA leader, who runs BA teams  from 5 to 120 Business Analysts and champions entry level BA roles. She speaks regularly speaking at events. Christina is an examiner for the International Diploma in Business Analysis and is also a director of the UK BA Manager Forum. She has co-authored the 2019 book, Delivering Business Analysis: The BA Service Handbook, which shares insights and findings from research into Business Analysis, practical guidance for BA leaders and case studies from across the professional community.

 Adrian Reed , (LinkedIn profile) CBAP, Director, Blackmetric is a true advocate of the analysis profession. Adrian acts as Principal Consultant and Director at Blackmetric & is a Past President of the UK chapter of the IIBA®. He speaks internationally on topics relating to business analysis and business change. Adrian wrote the 2016 book ‘Be a Great Problem Solver… Now’ and the 2018 book ‘Business Analyst’ You can read Adrian’s blog.

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Business Analysis: Retrospective & Introspective

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Live Webinar March 3rd, 2022 11:00 am – 11:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar Sam Drauschak, PMP, CSM (LinkedIn profile) will be exploring where business analysis has gotten lost in many applications of agile project methods and what we can do to combat the trend.

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Business Analysis & Agile Methodologies

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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 two weeks of 2021, 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 – December 14th, 2021 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  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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