Online Webinar – Recorded February 29th 2016
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event – More information will be available at the session.

BA’s Stakeholders In DevOps

With the application of DevOps management principles impacting entire enterprise IT departments, it is important for the BA to understand who the stakeholders are in a DevOps-style project and how they map to the stakeholder profiles described in the BABOK.

In this short session Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)  will explain the contemporary roles of the various stakeholders one might find along the way on projects which espouse the principles of DevOps.

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Mapping the BA’s Stakeholders in a DevOps Workflow

Live Webinar July 20th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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So you have defined the problem or opportunity, have a good knowledge about your stakeholders, feel confident about your elicited requirements and have come up with a number of possible solutions.

Now what? 

• How do you know which one is the best solution, and how can you insure that the decision process is thorough and unbiased?

In this webinar, Michael Boyle will go through the basic tenets of a business case. The business problem or opportunity, the analysis of the situation and probable solutions, the recommended solution and various techniques you can use as a Business Analyst to enable sponsors to make a sound selection.

Presenter: Michael Boyle (LinkedIn profile) PMP PfMP Michael’s professional dealings have been throughout Europe with numerous global projects throughout the years. Currently, Michael is the Managing Director of Procurro Solutions, specializing on all elements tied to Project Management, Business Analysis and Product Management.

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Recommend The Most Viable Option

Live Webinar July 19th, 2016 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 3 Hours Credits: up to 3 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Join Monal Daxini, Robert Aboukhalil, Homin Lee for 3 excellent 1 hour sessions and learn hour to Turn Big Data Into Knowledge

Netflix Keystone:
Cloud Scale Event Processing Pipeline

Keystone processes over 700 billion events per day (1 peta byte) with at-least-once processing semantics in the cloud. Monal Daxini details how they used Kafka, Samza, Docker, and Linux at scale to implement a multi-tenant pipeline in AWS cloud within a year.

Montal will also share plans on offering a Stream Processing as a Service for all of Netflix use.

A Deep Dive Into R For Python Developers

Increasingly, R and Python are occupying a large part of the data scientist’s toolbox.

For Python developers, using R means having access to numerous tools for statistics, data manipulation, machine learning, and graphing.

This talk is aimed at Python developers looking for a quick guide to the R language, and will cover R’s essential features, its quirks, and how to write efficient R code.

Detecting Outliers & Anomalies In Real-Time At Datadog

Datadog provides outlier and anomaly detection functionality to automatically alert on metrics that are difficult to monitor using thresholds alone. In this presentation, Homin Lee discusses the algorithms and open source tools Datadog uses, lessons they’ve learned from using these alerts on their own systems, along with some real-life examples on how to avoid false positives and negatives.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

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Turning Big Data Into Knowledge

Live Webinar – July 13th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

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Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

Live Webinar July 13th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

1. Are you disappointed at the number or type of BA job applications you’ve heard back from?
2. Have you received conflicting advice from one recruiter after another with regards to what they’d like to see on your resume?
3. Or, are you just starting your job search and want to make sure to get your BA resume in the best shape possible?

• Understanding who reads your resume and what they are looking for.
• Discovering how to position your BA qualifications for BA jobs.
• Learning how to write bullet points that capture attention and communicate your BA qualifications.

 Presenter: Laura Brandenburg (LinkedIn profile, @LLBrandenburg) CBAP is the author of How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide),  Bridging the Gap, which offers a BA career planning course (it’s free) to help you start your business analyst career. She’s reviewed hundreds of BA resumes and is ready to help you improve yours!

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IIBA: How to Create A Winning BA Resume

Live Webinar July 12th, 2016 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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According to PMI’s Pulse of the Profession, “When projects do not meet their original goals and project objectives, inaccurate business analysis/requirements management is cited as the primary cause 47% of the time.”

The increasing scale and complexity of projects is making it extremely difficult to assess and verify the project requirements.

As a result – a huge amount of critical errors in project and systems development arise in the initial concept & design stages.

In this presentation and workshop,  Mike Frenette,  and  Jordan Kyriakidis will focus on how harnessing automated computational tools utilizing Natural Language Processing can help project managers ensure their requirements are consistently clear & are a joy to work with.

Project managers, business analysts, engineers and by extension their clients, will benefit in the earliest stages of a project to ensure poorly written requirements do not infiltrate later project stages leading to reduced stress, increased confidence and higher project success.

Presenters:

Jordan Kyriakidis (LinkedIn profile)

Mike Frenette PMP CIPS CMC MCITP (LinkedIn profile @HalifaxPM) Founder of Corvo Project Management; was a principal PM with Sierra Systems for over 16 years. Mike served for over a dozen years with CIPS and PMI, with stints as president of both CIPS Nova Scotia & PMI Nova Scotia. He also led PMI Global’s Technology Member Advisory Group and managed the PMI’s Requirements Management Community with over 8,000 members globally, and is now a member of PMI’s Social Media Advisory Group. Mikes most recent areas of focus include Agile methodologies, enterprise project management, virtual communities and business process change.

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Rethink Requirements:
The Natural Language Processing Approach