Live Webinar January 10th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

New Year, new rules. If you manage a remote team, you already know the pros and cons to this growing workflow style.

While remote employees are still making headlines in business news, the growing trend is here to stay as more and more businesses are opting in and expanding in different, innovative directions from the comfort of their home.

If getting organized made your list of project management resolutions, then we have you covered.

WCore Performance Concepts will review some of the most common pros and cons revolving around managing remote teams, but most importantly we will discuss one key point – how to keep your remote team organized.

Common knowledge suggests that co-located teams are far more organized than remote teams – we’re here to change that. Get the best practice breakdown and some tips along the way to get your remote team organized this new year!

Benefits:

• Learn which tools and methods are effective for keeping your communication and projects centralized
• Ditch the email! Learn how to implement project management and time tracking into your workflow for more efficient results
• Discuss how to keep your virtual team engaged

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Best Practices For Remote Teams

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Online Webinar – Recorded –  August 2013
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Alex Papworth’s BA Mentor

PDU Of The Day has published over 8000 Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2017, we are publishing some new opportunities,  and some of our readers & editors favorite articles, as a special treat for our readers!

Each of these webinars is available online!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_HWbIgfaP4

• Is Business Process Modelling still relevant?
• What standards can we use?
• Can I use BPM with agile and user stories?

This was a community driven event drawing on BPM and sharing the experiences of BPM experts.

BA Mentor  had lots of requests for a BPM webinar, so this was a chance to discuss the most common questions about BPM and how it fits with requirements gathering with an  expert community panel.

This webinar was part of the ‘Be a Better BA’ Webinar Series brought to you in association with Yonix and BA Mentor .

Or View On YouTube:
BPM & How It Fits With Requirements Gathering

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Live Webinar – December 20th, 2017 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 covers techniques and guidelines for defining the type of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for application software.

In order for Project Managers and Business Analysts to evaluate vendors and their software proposals, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

• The methods for defining requirements for a software product are different than for custom developed solution.
• The documentation and templates of business requirements is different when they’re being written for vendor selection.
• The level of detail and what included and excluded is critical to a successful vendor assessment.

Learn answers to these issues and more in this valuable webinar.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn an effective approach for collecting requirements for inclusion in an RFP
2. Understand the essential types of requirements to be elicited and included in commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) RFP
3. Learn what should be included and the sufficient level of detail for an RFQ/RFP
4. Learn the best format and templates for writing requirements for a COTS solution

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Requirements Definition Best Practices For Software RFPs

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Online Webinar – Recorded  November 15, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

A wrap-up of all the fundamental IT methodology webinars, this session focuses on how the various lifecycles can be implemented.

Review the QAIassist Integrated Methodology and learn the benefits that can be derived from its successful implementation.

Ensure that you have a solid foundation to before you get started!

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Implementing IT Methodology

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Live Webinar – November 8th, 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

In this two-hour instructional webinar, you will learn some of IAG’s best practices, tips, and techniques for facilitating Requirements Discovery Sessions.

This session will:

• Discuss the role of the session leader/facilitator in a requirements meeting.
• Explain a simple repeatable process for eliciting business requirements.
• Provide a variety of tips, techniques and questions you can ask during the session to keep the meeting on track & moving toward a successful conclusion with well defined business requirements and satisfied session participants.

Key content covered in the webinar:

• The role of a facilitator
• Facilitation fundamentals
• Top 10 success factors for requirements facilitation
• Preparation for a requirements meeting
• Steps to follow in the session – the main agenda items, using use-case and other modeling techniques
• Key questions to ask during a session
• Critical and immediate next steps following your meeting

Learning Objectives:

• How to conduct productive requirements meetings
• How to organize the topics to be discussed
• A process to keep the meeting on track
• Facilitation tips and techniques specific to requirements meetings

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Requirements Meeting Facilitation Best Practices

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Live Webinar – November 1st, 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour  2 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This webinar provides a practical framework to measure and manage improvement in the area of business analysis and requirements.

This session will help any champion, sponsor or manager implement positive changes in the area of requirements and business analysis.

If your organization is implementing agile or lean practices, integrating ALM or RDM tools, aligning requirements practices with your PMP or SDLC, designing training for BAs, or setting up a Center of Excellence, this webinar will help you bring it all together.

The 6 critical components to a holistic program for maturity improvement are:

• Process standardization and improvement
• Integration of best practices and techniques
• Technology implementation
• Competent staff resources
• Quality deliverables yielding improved results
• Infrastructure and organizational support

You will hear hard hitting statistics on the benefits of maturing your requirements management capabilities that you can use to help build a business case for your own improvement initiatives.

Learn dozens of key success factors and strategies for championing change throughout your organization’s business analysis and requirements management groups.

Go step by step, through the essential stages of a transformation program geared to improve any organization’s requirements practice.

Whether you have direct responsibility for your organization’s Business Analysis and Requirements Practice, or you are an advocate, a champion or a critical team member, you will undoubtedly take away ideas you can put to use to help improve your organization’s level of requirements management maturity.

Learning Objectives:

• How to start a requirements practice transformation program
• What is Requirements Management Maturity (RMM)
• How to assess your organizations current requirements practice using a Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (RMMA)
• How to use the RMM model to promote and drive change/improvement
• Understand key elements of an efficient project plan for improving your organization’s Requirements Practice
• What is the role of a Requirements Management Office

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Strategies To Requirements Definition &
Management Maturity

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