Live Webinar – November 1st, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Learn several techniques to effectively identify internal and external project stakeholders, methods to collect, define and organize requirements, and approaches to developing them into traceable, functional, and system requirements.

This session will cover several techniques to effectively identify internal and external project stakeholders, methods to collect, define and organize requirements, and approaches to developing them into traceable, functional, and system requirements.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe types of stakeholders and means of identifying them
• Create a stakeholder register
• Describe multiple tools and techniques for communicating with stakeholders effectively
• Transform stakeholder needs into requirements
• Describe types of requirements
• Define, analyze, and manage requirements
• Write complete, comprehensible, and verifiable requirements

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2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
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Requirements Management Tips For Success

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Live Webinar – March 9th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Are you struggling to get the support you need from stakeholders and managers for your programs to be successful?

If so, you are not alone.

In this webinar Dr Jim Kirkpatrick (LinkedIn profile) and Wendy Kirkpatrick (LinkedIn profile) will address the core challenges faced worldwide by learning and development professionals in getting a seat at the table, and securing the resources they need throughout the training and development process.

Join Jim and Wendy for this interactive discussion and learn concepts that will get you thinking and acting in new, more strategic ways.

You will come away from this action-packed hour armed to increase your interaction with stakeholders and drive program success. Transform yourself from a cost center to a trusted partner.

Objectives

• Explain the starting point for any successful initiative
• Define where the most value is created in the training and development process
• Identify specific ways you can increase your value in the eyes of stakeholders

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Getting The Resources & Support You Need For Key Programs

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Live Webinar April 5th, 2023 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

Buying Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software is a common way to achieve computer processing capabilities quicker, cheaper, and with less risk than building it.

However, acquiring COTS and other software still has a high rate of failure.

In this important interactive presentation Robin reveals the differences and gives guidance on defining requirements that make COTS acquisitions succeed.

Presenter: Robin Goldsmith (LinkedIn profile) author of Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success,  advises & trains business and systems professional on risk-based Proactive Software Quality Assurance and Testing™, requirements, REAL ROI™, metrics, outsourcing, project and process management.Robin is a subject expert for TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com and a subject expert/reviewer for the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK v2).  Robin  writes the Unconventional Wisdom blog on TestHuddle.com and is publishing his next book shortly – Cut Creep—Put Business Back in Business Analysis to Discover REAL Business Requirements for Agile, ATDD, and Other Project Success. Make sure to check out GoProManagement.com Robin’s site!

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Define Right Requirements For Acquiring COTS

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Live Webinar February 9th, 2023 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Sometimes it seems that the decades old debate between agile software development and non-agile approaches about whether requirements need to be written down is not going to go away. But the debate lingers on.

On the one side, there are a number of reasons why we need to have a written record of project and software requirements.

On the other side, we should just sit down and talk about it until we figure out what were going to deliver in the project or with the software.

This webinar attempts to provide a definitive breakdown of both sides of the debate and a recommendation for what can be done to increase the potential for quality project results and working software.

Topics: 

• Why gather and document requirements?
• How does a “no requirements” environment work?
• What happens to the job of requirements definition?
• What is a business analyst to do?

Presenter: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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One More Time: Do We Still Have To Write Requirements?

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Live Webinar – October 4th, 2022 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

You’re ready to figure out whether your training programs are working, worth the investment of time and other resources, and meeting their goals. What tools do you need to conduct a training program evaluation?

Program evaluation is about applying systematic methods to collect, analyze, interpret, and communicate data about a program to understand its design, implementation, outcomes, or impacts.

Simply put, it’s about asking good questions, gathering the right data, and using what we learn to make good decisions.

A robust program description and logic model are powerful tools that can inform a program evaluation plan. Well-designed surveys and focus groups are some of the most used tools for data collection.

In this session Sheila will provide a brief overview of five phases of program evaluation and dive into key considerations for creating these tools.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• The 5 phases of a program evaluation
• Why a robust program description is essential
• How to develop a program logic model
• Key considerations for creating surveys and focus group protocols

Presenter: Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., (LinkedIn profile) Custom Professional Learning, LLC, is a speaker, educator, and consultant with a passion for the science of teaching and learning, presentations, and asking questions. Through her talks, professional development workshops and university courses, Sheila teaches people how to make the most of professional learning and how to ask good questions, along with program evaluation, survey design, data visualization, audience engagement, and presentation design.  Sheila is also a Certified Presentation Specialist (CPS)™, Director of Education, Training and Advocacy at the Presentation Guild, and Senior Design and Facilitation Consultant with Evergreen Data.

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Tools For Training Program Evaluation

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Online Webinar  – Recorded  August 9th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to re-validate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile), MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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10 Steps To Effective Requirements Elicitation

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