Live Webinar – May 17th, 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)

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 May 18th, 2017 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)

Business leaders struggle to develop a statement of work (SOW) that supports agile engagements.

Lawyers and procurement groups have a difficult time writing SOWs that support iterative development without having a large set of requirements documented.

This webinar will explore steps to establish agile SOWs that support frequent delivery without upfront well known requirements.

Benefits:

• Develop SOW agreements to enable agile engagements
• Discover the power of the vertical slice
• Learn how to increase customer engagements
• Earn 1 PDU or Scrum Alliance SEU

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.

Click to register for:
SOW For Agile Engagements

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Live Webinar May 17th, 2017 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)

Why Implement A
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?

This session describes the purpose of the SD lifecycle and provides descriptions for the nomenclature involved. Learn where and how the SD deliverables can be applied.

Walk away with a general understanding of the SD lifecycle and the fundamentals that are associated with it.

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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Leverage The Software Development Lifecycle

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Live Webinar May 3rd 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

Click to register for:
Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar April 26th 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar – April 19th, 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.

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

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

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Requirements Definition Best Practices
For Software RFPs

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