Live Webinar – September 28th, 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
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 – Sept 28th, 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
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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Live Webinar – September 29th 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU Free
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.

Once the organization has gotten beyond the harvesting “low hanging fruit” common with the beginning of a continuous improvement initiative, improvement efforts may require more sophistication.

Lean Six Sigma, the marriage of the tools and concepts in Lean and Six Sigma, bridge that gap!

This session will introduce you to Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), two of tools used to dial in value and further eliminate wastes when initial methods no longer provide gains and data or data capture is present or available.

Join Elena Gilbert in this session for an excellent introduction to statistical process control & measurement systems analysis.

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Lean Six Sigma:
Intro To Statistical Process Control &
Measurement Systems Analysis

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Live Webinar – September 30th, 2016 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 30th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

Join Dot Tudor (LinkedIn profile) in  this webinar to learn about the AgileBA (Agile Business Analysis) Handbook – published by DSDM Consortium – which offers useful, practical and comprehensive guidance on the role of the business analyst working in an Agile way.

AgileBA aims to give context to the business analyst role beyond the individual project, in relation to organisational mission and strategy, and to give additional depth and guidance for the business analyst role.

Effective business analysis skills are widely regarded in project management and product development circles as being critical in helping organizations to achieve their business goals.

With the project management industry seeing a boom in popularity of Agile approaches over recent years, AgileBA aims to address the need for clear and helpful guidance to support business analysts, particularly those operating in an Agile environment.

The Handbook also acts as reference material for the professional AgileBA certification from APMG.

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Best Practice For Business Analysts In An Agile World

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Live Webinar – September 26th 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU Free
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.

Frequent, continuous automated testing is key to successful agile development. But many teams resist fully automated testing, believing their testers need to have programming expertise in order to build automated tests.

While that may have been true at one time, recent advances have made it easier to implement automated testing without coding skills.

Join test automation expert Marc Balcer for an exploration of the different kinds of automation tools and techniques.

Learn how to create a strategy for implementing automation, tips for selecting the appropriate tools, and how to design applications for productive test automation.

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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Successful Test Automation Without Coding

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Live Webinar – September 21, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

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The Pokémon Go game has swept the world, combining first-person and multi-person action games, augmented reality, smartphones, and shoe leather – most of which is countable with IFPUG function points (the shoe leather is outside the boundary).

Tom Cagley and Shelia Dennis will walk participants through the process of applying IFPUG function point rules to a fast-paced augmented reality game, all the while trying to count them all!

Presenters:

Sheila Dennis (LinkedIn profile) Certified Function Point Specialist

Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled Software Process and Measurement Cast The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

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• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

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Function Points & Pokémon Go:
You Gotta Count Them All …
Counting Function Points From User Stories

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