Live Webinar December 6th, 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)

In this webinar, Marco Sampietro will discuss the main sources of unconscious mistakes that lead to unreliable estimates.

Presenter: Marco Sampietro (LinkedIn profile) Faculty Member, SDA Bocconi School of Management, has 15+ years experience in Project Management applied to National and Multinational Corporations. Marco is author of several books including, Empowering Project Teams: Using Project Followership to Improve Performance, and Governare e gestire l’innovazione. Cosa i manager devono sapere di project, program e portfolio management: Cosa i manager devono sapere di project, program e portfolio management (Italian Edition).

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The Psychology Of Estimates

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

In today’s hyper-competitive environment, innovation and time to market are the key pillars for success.

While software in applications and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is also adding complexity.

Modern innovations such as Agile have proven to shorten product delivery, but come with their own set of challenges.

The ability to empower all stakeholders to collaborate in a unified development environment can solve many of these challenges and increase performance.

In this webinar Jiri Walek will provide you with an insightful view of applying industry best practices.

Learn how a unified tool can:

• Positively impact innovation and time-to-market through collaboration
• Give you full traceability
• Provide the advantages of electronic signatures
• Highlight the benefits of centralized reuse and variant management
• Provide the ability to utilize Agile throughout the Product Lifecycle

Presenter: Jiri Walek, (LinkedIn profile) Director Product Management, Polarion ALM, brings 10+ years experience in software product management and engineering to Polarion. Previously, Jiri worked at Disnet Software, where he established a track record of successful projects initiatives. He also worked as a software developer and architect on visionary projects based on Meta-Object Facility standards and model-driven engineering. Jiri holds a master’s degree in Mathematics from the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

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4 Easy Steps To Gather, Author, Approve
& Manage Requirements

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Live Webinar November 30th 2016 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
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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Live Webinar – November 29th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

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

Introduction To Business Value Analysis

Agile is a great way to build solutions, products or software in a way to reduce waste, connect to needs, and protect you from risk.

But you still have to understand what to build.

A number of Agile teams are learning the hard way that their real value isn’t in following the science of the agile practices. It is about picking the right things to build for the right reasons.

Without a strong Product Owner, agile teams can start providing output that misses needs or opportunities in much the same ways as waterfall projects.

Business Value Analysis looks at the way teams make decisions on what to build next.

Usually this responsibility was left to the project sponsors (executives in the company) but the speed of change and the complexities of work systems are changing how decision on “what” is made.

This web seminar provides SDLC professionals with a first step in to understanding the very esoteric concept of Value.

It can mean many different things based on someone prospective or position, but this session will provide tangible ways to assess value and who critical thinking skills are used to support the decision process.

As well, this session will discuss how to look at business direction and connect it with the work you are planning to do.

Understanding this critical topic is the key to long term agile success, especially at the program and portfolio level.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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Introduction To Business Value Analysis

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Live Webinar November 22nd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

The life of a consulting business analyst (BA) presents many different challenges than those faced by “in-house” BAs – some obvious and some not.

As individual practitioners, consulting BAs have to be highly adaptable and able to plan and execute business analysis efforts quickly, in diverse organizational environments.

BA’s also play a role in the sales cycle: assessing tender documents, peer-reviewing proposals, and qualifying potential new business opportunities.

Version 1 is an IT consultancy in Ireland and the UK.  They recognize these challenges and have used the BABOK® Guide since 2009, as a key guide and reference to address them.

Hear from three senior consulting BAs at Version 1:

1. Scott Coombs (LinkedIn profile),
2. Keir Whytock (LinkedIn profile),
   
3. Sean Ryan (LinkedIn profile)

They will openly discuss their practice challenges, and provide details on their approach to turn those challenges into opportunities.

Specifically, they will share how the BABOK® Guide is used as the cornerstone of their own framework to,

• Build a thriving business analysis community of practice,
• Develop a “consulting perspective”,
• Build up their own skills development initiatives, and
• Broaden the impact of business analysis in their organization.

You will also gain insight into the special characteristics of the different industries in which these consulting BAs work (including, financial services and public sector) and how they affect business analysis practice.

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IIBA: Building Business Analysis Capability
In A Consulting Business

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Live Webinar – November 22nd 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

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Agile Is A Way Of Working
Based On Core Values & Principles.

Practices are developed from those core values and principles, .

Most people know Agile from specific practices like daily stand up, story points, user stories, etc., but the foundation of Agile is its fundamental values and principles.

Because of this, Agile is very extendable; meaning new flavors of Agile can be developed as well as new practices.

One of those new flavors of Agile is the Lean Start-up. Lean Start-Up or LSU, is a flavor of Agile dealing with Product Development and Launch.

It can tie in marketing and sales but at its core, it is a way of enabling your organization to test early and often and from there use what you learned to successful scale new products with much less long term risk.

Even though “Start-up” is in the name of this flavor of Agile, it isn’t just for small organizations or entrepreneur based organizations.

One of the big trend for large enterprise organizations is the concept of Intrepreneurership; basically incubating new products using entrepreneur tactics while working in a larger organization.

The same can be done with Lean Start-up.

In this presentation David will look at what Lean Start-Up is and techniques used to successfully take advantage of its practices and activities.

From that point, we will look at some practical real-world examples of how Lean Start-up can be executed within any organization type.

The goal is to provide both the theory of Lean Start-up with real-world details of how the theory can be executed to significantly reduce the risks involved in new product development and let the market help you make decisions over trying to plan where you think the market will end up.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile)  has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

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Lean Startup Primer:
How Any Size Organization Can Use It

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