Live Webinar – August 18th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 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.

Wastes is one of the main concepts integral to the application of “Lean Principles”.

Wastes are often inherent in our business processes and work flows and are at times, hard to identify.

Join Elena Gilbert in this session to more quickly identify information wastes and a few techniques and strategies to minimize and eliminate them.

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Identifying Information Wastes

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Live Webinar August 17th 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar – August 9th, 2016 1:30 am – 2:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – August 9th, 2016 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

BRMConnect®  is the world’s premier networking and professional development event series for Business Relationship Managers.

Four global networking events have been scheduled for 2016, with the third event of the year starting on September 13 in Sydney.

BRMConnect is the perfect way to practice your craft, develop meaningful connections with peers from across the world, and learn exclusive tools and techniques from some of the leading experts in the field with the opportunity to undertake accredited training prior to the event.

This webinar will outline what you can expect from this event and is being delivered by Peter Lijnse, Managing Partner at Instrumental BRM in Calgary, Canada.

Instrumental BRM will be providing training before the conference in Business Relationship Management Professional BRMConnect®. It is also an opportunity to hear about the new Certified Business Relationship Manager (CBRM®) course.

Presenter: Peter Lijnse (LinkedIn profile) is an experienced Business Relationship Management (BRM) executive coach and trainer. He helps organizations to develop a BRM capability and coaches executives on how to get the most out of their BRM Capability.

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Connecting Business Relationship Managers In Canada

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Live Webinar August 10th 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
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 August 4th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category A – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category A as the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This most likely will be a category A presentation presented by Diversified Business Communications (Rep #1811 – parent company). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

The bottom line for successful business analysis is delivering outstanding products to business partners, ones that ‘win’ for the business.

• What does creating a winning business solution require?
• What artifacts do you need?
• How can you develop them?

One essential artifact is business rules, key to agile business solutions.

Find out in this fast-paced session what business rules are really about, and how they can sharpen your interaction with both business partners and software developers.

Learn about practical techniques to capture and validate business rules in concert with your other deliverables.

Business analysis with business rules can give you the edge you’re looking for in establishing the right project dynamics, and the right focus on business requirements.

Find out how you can develop effective, adaptable and complete business solutions using a business rules approach.

Learn what you need to know to: 

• Achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in business requirements
• Use business rules to sharpen business communication
• Deliver clear, well-aligned business solutions
• Engage business partners in deep dialog about operational excellence
• Guarantee system development produces the right results for the business

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Building Business Solutions:
BAs Lead The Way To Business Excellence

Live Webinar August 3rd, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Complex projects carry significant risk of failure. Recently, iterative (and agile) project execution methodologies have been developed to mitigate project risks and increase the chances that the final solution meets the stakeholder’s expectations and the overall business needs.

In this webinar, you will learn how iterative methods differ from tradition waterfall methods and how specific iterative practices are used to reduce the chances for project failure.

Upon completion of this webinar, you will understand how to break a project into iterations, how to pick an iteration length, how to manage iteration and project scope, and how to introduce risk mitigation practices.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Understand the difference between sequential (waterfall) and iterative methods
• Learn how to define iterations, milestones, and releases
• Increase the chances for project success and reduce risk factors
• Contrast iterative and agile methods
• Understand best practices for iterative (and agile) project execution

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Iterative Projects:
Practical Tips & Best Practices for Business Analysts