Live Webinar February 25th 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

This webinar is about Business Process Management (BPM) – the running and improving of a business via its processes.

Mark Monteleone CBAP / PMP, the webinar presenter, defines and provides insight in the use of BPM by answering six questions:

• As a business analyst, what should you ask for when joining a business?
  * What is the difference between managing a business by function vs. process?
• Why would you redesign rather than incrementally improve a process?
• Why should your process analysis cover a value chain rather than a sub process?
• Why should you establish leading and lagging metrics to control a process?
• What is the most challenging part of business process management, improving the process or managing the resistance?

Besides addressing the above questions, Mark will include a Business Analyst (BA) Quick Reference Checklist for conducting a “process redesign or incremental improvement analysis” plus explanations on various BPM terms and references.

Presenter: Mark Monteleone, (BA Times bio) CBAP, PMP  an independent consultant and author of The 20 Minute Business Analyst: a collection of short articles, humorous stories, and quick reference cards for the busy analyst  Mark has also written several articles in Modern Analyst, BA Times, BA Connection, International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and Global Flipchart. Mark also instructs courses on business analysis and project management plus consults on business applications and projects in more than 35 countries.

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Business Process Management (BPM) For BAs

Live Webinar February 24th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems.

Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

You will have to register – then the webinar will load in the page Please be patient this may take a min or two to load. (You may have to use the side scroll bar to place the webinar on pause)

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Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation

Recorded Version Information: If you watch the recorded version of this webinar it is a good idea to record the information about this webinar date, time, and list this prerecorded event for your PDU Audit folder.

Click to view a recorded version (2008-10-28) of:
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation .

Live Webinar February 24th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST or …
Live Webinar February 24th 2016 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EST
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Exploratory testing is a name given for a technique of using knowledge, experience, and skills to test software in a non-linear, investigatory fashion.

• Is it a powerful and important part of each professional tester’s repertoire, or actually magic quality pixie dust?
• Is this the only real way of testing, or is there room for other forms of validation as well as verification?
• What are the origins of exploratory testing, and who actually invented the technique (as opposed to coining the current name)?
• Does it always degrade into an unmanageable, unaccountable, random bug hunt, or are there ways to instill order, measure coverage, and build confidence with it?

In this webinar, Rex will explore and burst some of the myths of exploratory testing.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of:
Myths Of Exploratory Testing

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Myths Of Exploratory Testing

Live Webinar February 24th 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Guerrilla User Research has gotten itself a bad rap because the way in which it is often conducted is not methodical.

Through a Hollywood café case study, this presentation will outline exactly how to plan, conduct, and quickly analyze measurable feedback through cost-effective qualitative field research.

This technique is perfect for for stakeholders and teams with little time or low budgets, but desperate for answers to help determine if the value proposition of their digital product is on target.

Presenter: Jaime Levy (LinkedIn profile) For over 25 years Jaime has been a pioneer in the creation of innovative digital products and services. Heading  JLR Interactive she helps organizations transform their business concepts into innovative and scalable online solutions. A Speaker at design and innovation conferences worldwide and conducts public workshops and in-house training. Jamie also teaches a graduate level course on UX design and strategy at USC in the Viterbi School of Engineering.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 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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Conducting Methodical Guerrilla User Research Without Monkey Business

Online Webinar – Recorded August 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID:  WS07301

NOTE: This is only a 1 Hr webinar not 3 Hrs as described on the ASPE page.

Understanding the real scope of any project is vital to controlling the project.

As a project manager or business analyst, it is key to first document the initial scope of the project and then direct, monitor and control the scope through Requirements Management techniques.

Learning these techniques provide the ability to more easily control the quality issues, costs, time and risks associated with on-going scope creep associated with requirements changes.

In this seminar you will:

• Review the role of a facilitator in running a Requirements Workshop.
• Learn the phases of a workshop and building the “Heart” of a workshop’s agenda.
• Review useful facilitation techniques along with failures and critical success factors.
• And more…

Presenter: Bob Keith

PDU Documentation Details (PMBOK 5):

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate 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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Requirements Facilitation Workshop

Live Webinar – February 17th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

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Harmonizing Agility & Discipline