Live Webinar – July 12th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
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.

BA’s Have A Crucial Role To Play

DevOps focuses on being lean and eliminating waste by retaining the fundamental principles of Agile.  At the same time, it improves the collaboration between dev, IT and ops.

So how does all of this impact the BA?

BA’s have a crucial role to play in coordinating between teams.

DevOps is a cultural change. It’s about sharing business objectives and getting all the stakeholders working towards a common objective.

The BA role can be a key DevOps player and the go-to person for business success.

In this session, Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) will give you a quick introduction to DevOps and the impact it has on the BA and how the BA role can be a factor for organizations.

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Intro To DevOps For Business Analysts

Live Webinar July 6th, 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

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager.

Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

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Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

Live Webinar June 30th, 2016 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

This webinar shows business analysts how to embrace decision modeling as a new standard and how to develop a roadmap for organizational adoption.

This discussion between Barbara von Halle and Kramer Reeves, both of Sapiens DECISION, explores the true value of the DMN standard, importance of decision model science, lessons learned from real case studies, and an achievable vision for the future of modeling.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Navigate and leverage the unique world of DMN and TDM, bolstering one another with complementary strengths
• Supercharge your DMN models with proven science and techniques not available with DMN alone
• Taylor a roadmap for step-by-step decision modeling and management maturity
• Embrace an intriguing future (underway) in which decision models are the jumping-off point for more sophisticated models.

Presenters:

Barbara von Halle (LinkedIn profile) BA MS (Amazon Profile) is the co-inventor of The Decision Model,, The Event Model, and co-author of The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology  The 5th recipient of the Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from International DAMA, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1995. Her earlier book, Business Rules Applied: Building Better Systems Using the Business Rules Approach was a Jolt Award finalist from Software Development Magazine.  And her first book, Handbook of Relational Database Design, continues to be a standard reference in database design.  She was the most popular columnist in the leading publication, Database Programming and Design magazine for over five years.

Kramer Reeves (LinkedIn profile) VP Product Marketing Sapiens DECISION has 20 years  experience in the enterprise software industry leading global product, marketing, strategy and channel organizations. Currently Vice President of Product Marketing at Sapiens DECISION; he sets the vision, portfolio strategy and go-to-market plans for the company. Previously, Kramer held numerous executive and management positions at IBM, including Director of Product Management for Enterprise Social Solutions, and Director of Global Marketing for IBM’s Business Process Solutions portfolio.

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Embracing Decision Model Standards
For Business Analysts

Live Webinar – June 29th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm  EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 2 hour 2 PDU or  2 CDU 2 Category A – Free PDU

This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements.

This process is based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others —  and employing IAG’s experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.

This webinar will:

1. Explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn’t,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best.
2. Give participants a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.
3. Provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project.

Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

Live Webinar – June 28th 2016 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 28th 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Associaton for Project Management – APM

With globalization comes increased pressure to streamline and make processes more efficient. Customers expect more and it has become more important than ever to prioritise, focus and deliver.

During this webinar, Karolina Jackson-Ward will provide you with the tools to help you do this, using project and collaboration processes based on the lean and agile methods.

In fact, agile management has proved to be one of the most efficient ways of working, giving you the possibility to achieve your goals and grow your business.

Some of the topics that will be covered are:

• How to engage and shape behaviours with lean and agile principles
• The danger of multitasking
• Introduction to Kanban boards and how can they help your organisation achieve success
• Empower teams to self-organise
• Demonstration of how Projectplace can support a lean and agile way of working

Presenter: Karolina Jackson-Ward (LinkedIn profile) Planview Product Manager Projectplace,  has 20+ years experience in the IT industry in a variety of roles. Karolina is passionate about delivering value, efficient collaboration, leadership, customer focus and having fun. Besides the job as Product Manager, Karolina is an experienced presenter at events such as webinars and seminars around Europe.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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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How To Capture Business Benefits
Through Lean & Agile Management

Live Webinar – June 22nd, 2016 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 2 hours 2 PDU or  2 CDU 2 Category A – Free PDU

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