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Live Webinar February 16th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU Provider:The Corporate Education Group( REP 1011 )
Get more out of your requirements interviews and make better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple, but highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing skills.
This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements.
The key to this process improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate preparation, sequencing and delivery.
Interviewing is the cornerstone of elicitation techniques, and when done properly will reveal the answers you need.
You will learn how to:
Identify the right stakeholders to interview and what you need to know
Create a requirements questionnaire and prepare to ask the right types of questions
How to properly engage the stakeholder and build a relationship
Capture stakeholder responses
Plan for follow-up and maintain the relationship
Review lessons learned to improve for your next interview
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.
Online Webinar – Recorded Jun 20, 2017 Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free Provider: IIBA
One of the most common questions I receive is “How do I become a business analyst if I’m a ______?” And in the blank goes anything from software engineer to tester to manager to customer service representative.
Each individual’s path into business analysis is unique, and depends heavily on their skills and career experience.
In this webinar, Laura will demonstrate the core skills to becoming a business analysis, and see how transferable skills show up in common job functions.
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While the 5 hour course is still available for Professional Development – qualifying for Online or Digital Media PDUs – PLEASE NOTE the course materials and examination are still available for those who wish to complete the course at their own pace, however certificates of completion will no longer being issued for this course.
This is the first lecture in the course
The Webinar Covers Introduction & Requirements Elicitation:
The role and purpose of business analysis
The nature and importance of requirements
Defining the nature of the problem or objective
The elicitation of requirements
The target audiences for this Short Course are those that:
Are interested in pursuing a career as a Business Analyst
Want to find out about the tools and techniques used by Business Analysts
Want to be able to work more effectively with Business Analysts
Are Interested in pursuing the Introductory Certificate in Business Analysis from Business Analyst International Qualifications (BAIQ)
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Live Webinar – January 31st, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 2 Hour s 2 PDUs free Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
This webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts.
The definition of the business requirements for analytical processing / decision support systems require different techniques than the process and data modeling used for transactional processing systems.
For a BI project, Business Analysts and Project Managers need to identify the business questions, facts, measures, and dimensions needed for the data warehouse.
IAG will provide a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply process that analyzes and defines the business objectives, usage scenarios, questions and queries that will yield the a conceptual multi-dimension model and form the basis of the business requirements for the data warehouse and business intelligence system requirements of your projects.
Learning Objectives:
How to conduct data warehouse business analysis
How to elicit requirements for the business intelligence aspects of projects
How to define requirements for on-line analytical processing and decision support systems
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Live Webinar – January 24th 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 2 Hour s 2 PDUs free Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
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:
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.
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.
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:
The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies
Different Prioritization Techniques
Why Prioritize?
When to Prioritize Knowing
What to Prioritize
The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements
Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors
Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings
Rating Facilitation Methods
Next Steps
Get Specific Answers to:
“How granular does my prioritization need to be?”
“How much time should we spend on prioritization?”
“Is prioritization done just once or iteratively?”
“What does prioritization mean if we’re Agile?”
“What should we prioritize? Requirements? user Stories? Use Cases?”
“What factors should we consider when prioritizing?”
“What is the best ‘scale’ to use for prioritization?”
“What is the difference between importance and priority?”
Participants Also Receive:
Presentation Material
Requirements Prioritization Template
Requirements Prioritization Example Worksheet
Sample Requirements Prioritization House of Quality Example
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Live Webinar – January 17th, 2018 10:00 pm – 11:00 am EST Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 Hour 1 PDU free Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
The large, complex project brings with it a unique set of problems that may not be encountered in a smaller project.
This one-hour webinar will focus on the planning phase for a large, complex project.
Learn the importance of developing an understanding of the complete scope of analysis and developing an integrated series of requirements plans to eliminate redundancy of effort and to provide for better input to the high level architectural design decisions that must be made.
Learning Objectives:
How to define the complete scope of analysis
How to develop comprehensive, integrated Requirements Management Plans
How to ensure the necessary and sufficient input is available to optimize the high level architectural design decisions
What’s Included:
Personalized Certificate of Attendance
Copy of Presentation Slides
Large Project Requirements Planning Checklist
Large Project Vision and Scope Document Template
Large Project Requirements Management Plan Template
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