Live Webinar – December 21st 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hours 2 PDUs/CDUs
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Key content covered in the webinar:

• Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
• Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
• The Components of a Use Case
• The Different Forms of Use Cases
• The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
• Detailed Use Case Modeling
• Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
• Use Cases and Business Rules
• Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
• Next Steps – What do you do when you’re done?

Get specific answers to:

• “Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What’s the difference between use cases and requirements?”
• “What is the difference between a business and a system use case”
• “How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?”
• “How many use cases do I need?”
• “How detailed do the use cases need to be?”
• “What questions should I ask to build a good use case?
• “How many alternate flows do I need?”
• “When do I know I’m done?
• “What is the purpose of use case diagrams?”

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Writing A Business Use Case In 7 Steps

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Online Webinar  – Recorded April 5th 2015
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2 PDU – Free
Provider: RequirementsWizard

In this Introduction to Business Analysis demo session, you will learn the fundamentals of business analysis discipline, role of a business analyst, how our training program is structured and most importantly how Requirements Wizard can help you transform your career into a successful business analyst role.

In today’s competitive environment, business analyst’s role is no longer of simply ‘A bridge between Business and IT’. There has been a paradigm shift in the role of business analyst in recent years.

In today’s resource scare environment, customers expect business analyst to have knowledge and skills to conduct enterprise analysis, perform end-to-end business processes re-engineering, identify bottlenecks in their value streams, and most importantly develop solutions that would solve their problems and integrate their vision-strategy-technology towards a common organizational goal. Requirements elicitation and documenting them is a very small subset of a modern day business analyst’s role.

This course has been specifically designed keeping in mind the expectations customers have from a seasoned business analyst.

In addition to the business analysis skills, project management skills are equally vital for a business analyst. Since the natural career trajectory of a business analyst curve towards project management discipline, this course has included key topics of project management as well, which in a ‘real-world’ scenario, any experienced business analyst must be familiar with.

Note: This session is designed for any individual with IT/Non-IT background who aspires to make their career in business analysis discipline.

Presenter:  Chetan V Mehta (LinkedIn profile) PMP CBAP BPM Principal Instructor RequirementsWizard, is a former analyst from Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Ahmedabad), Asia’s ivy-league business school, is a highly experienced professional in the field of business architecture, business analysis, project management and business development discipline. With 15+ years of corporate experience, solid management education, Chetan trains/coaches people, to pursue their career in the field of business analysis or project management. He succeeds at building a solid core competency in his selected disciplines.

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Business Analysis Fundamentals

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Online Webinar – Recorded September 28th, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)

BI is clearly a top priority for organizations:

Gartner estimates close to 90% of the world’s organizations have already implemented some form of a BI capability.

They estimate annual worldwide spend on big data hardware, software and professional services tops $30B, with annual spend on advanced and predictive analytics close behind.

• What does this mean to your BA career?
• Have you considered the role of BI BA?
• Does data, information and analytics intrigue you?
• Have you noticed how much of your work already involves this?
• What did inclusion of a BI perspective in BABOK V3 mean to you?
• What would a role in BI as a BA entail? What would you need to fill this role?

Pam Clavier provides context for the BA considering the BI BA role. She  explains the role that the BA needs to fill in a BI team and typical BA deliverables as part of the project delivery lifecycle.

She describes:

• The differences and similarities between the BI BA and a Business Analyst;
• Examines common challenges experienced and …
• Sheds light on how to use your existing BA skillset to your BI team’s advantage.

In terms of typical BA BI deliverables, we reflect on real-life examples to demonstrate “a day in the life” of a BI BA.

The example recounts steps taken on BA BI deliverables, lessons learned on the particular deliverable, challenges overcome and how traditional BA skills were integrated into the BI BA role to add value.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the role, responsibilities and skills required in context of the BI team
• Challenges and opportunities in pursuing a successful career as a BI BA
• Learn about BI BA deliverables as part of the SDLC of a project in the form of a case study

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Pam Clavier (LinkedIn profile) CBAP  PMP is an Information Systems (IS) professional with 15+ years’ experience in Business Analysis, Change Management, Management Consulting, Project Management and Training in the full SDLC from initiation to support. An In demand Keynote Speaker, she led project teams and has managed BA and PM resources as a Senior Manager in a Business Intelligence (BI) department.  Pam has a Doctorate in IS, on a BI topic. Her thesis and published articles are available on her website .

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So, You Want To Be A BI BA?

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Live Webinar December 14th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

BONUS: Participants will be provided checklists
for use after the session as job aids.

By far the most requested topic from clients and people performing business analysis is “What are the right questions to ask?”

Asking questions is at the core of performing business analysis and the “correct” answer to this question is as varied as the projects analysts are involved with and the techniques they utilize.

This session will provide a framework for ensuring that you’re asking the right questions, at the right time, and of the right audience.

Discussions will include factors that will impact the types of questions required and techniques to help drive the right questions.

Session Roadmap

Discuss factors that impact the right questions:

1. Determine the right questions to ask based on where you are in the project
2. Discuss the use of techniques to drive and highlight the right questions to ask
3. Understand how validation is a critical component to ensuring you asked the right questions

In this enlightening and engaging webinar the famous “Kupe Kupersmith” provide a useful framework with takeaways to ensure that you’re asking:

1. The right questions,
2. At the right time, 
3. Of the right audience.

Presenter: Kupe Kupersmith CBAP®, President B2T Training,

B2T Training: Since its inception in 2000, B2T Training, has focused solely on providing business analysis training and professional development. As experts in the field, B2T Training continues to shape the Business Analysis discipline and the careers of BA professionals in major corporations across the globe through its high impact training sessions and valuable resources.

Kupe Kupersmith (LinkedIn @Kupe) possesses over 14 years of experience in software systems development. He has served as the lead Business Analyst and Project Manager on projects in the Energy, television, sports management and marketing industries. Kupe, a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®), is also internationally known for his strong mentorship of business analysis professionals.

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Ask The Right Questions

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Live Webinar December 8thth, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

An effective organizational strategy should harden the intention behind mission and vision into goals that define the future direction—a direction that must reflect clear context, defined boundaries, and precise capabilities in order for programs and projects to reach intended targets with optimal success.

Business analysis transforms those aspirations into actionable scope by capturing, refining, confirming, and prioritizing the needs to be fulfilled. Only then is project management ideally positioned to achieve the reality envisioned by the strategy.

Successfully developing and implementing strategy requires a true partnership between the executives who define it and the business analysts and program and project managers who carry it out.

All parties need to understand each other’s perspectives, challenges, and roles, and then regularly interact with each other to confirm alignment, efficiency, and feasibility.

Eliminating any part of this undermines that partnership and the mutual clarity of purpose that it promotes.

In this webinar Mike Zambruski defines a concept labeled “the enterprise triple constraint” as the integration of strategy, analysis, and implementation. Without professional business analysis as the catalyst between dreams and reality, projects become exploratory initiatives burdened with avoidable cost, delay, and risk of failure.

You will leave this webinar with practical techniques for both communicating and applying the concepts presented, all based on actual experience and real results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn how business analysts can leverage their role as the custodians and implementers of strategy
2. Learn the concept of “the enterprise triple constraint,”
   • Understand how integrating its three pillars of strategy, analysis, and implementation optimizes organizational success
3. Learn how to communicate and apply practical techniques that maximize the business analysts’ impact on their organization

Presenter: Michael S. Zambruski  MBA, PMP, CBAP, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Instructor
TwentyEighty Strategy Execution; is a senior consultant with 30+ years of experience providing strategic planning, comprehensive business analysis, and project management coaching. Author of two books, “The Business Analyzer and Planner: The Unique Process for Solving Problems, Finding Opportunities, and Making Better Decisions Every Day” & “A Standard for Enterprise Project Management (ESI International Project Management Series)”, Michael has played a key role in marketing, business development, process redesign, engineering, product development, manufacturing, quality control, product distribution, and technology integration activities. in several organizations

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The Business Analyst Catalyst:
The Role Of The BA In Today’s Business World

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Live Webinar – December 6th, 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:BATimes Diversified Business Communications REP 1811

Where is data analytics today – and what should you understand before considering a BI solution?

Join Daniel Brault, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Manager Product Marketing at Qlik®, will explain how to maximize analytic value across your entire organization, including how to choose a solution that allows you to see the whole story in your data.

Learn the top trends in analytics today!

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Discovering best practices in business intelligence analysis
•  Understanding the current trends for analytics
• Learning about the analytic capabilities that helps you put your data to work

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

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Not All BI Is Created Alike:
Learn What To Look For & Why

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