Live Webinar February 17th, 2017 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Verifying and validating requirements early on will help ensure your team develops a solid set of project requirements with minimal change as the project progresses.

A good verification process not only weeds out the requirements you don’t need, but further identifies missing requirements you do need.

Requirements verification is critical to maximizing successful outcomes and aids the business analyst in determining when a design is complete.

Learn:

• What requirements verification is and what are its benefits
• Why we need verified requirements
• How to plan for verification and execution
• Requirement verification attributes
• Verification methods and modeling

The webinar will explore the four fundamental methods for requirements verification: Inspection, Demonstration, Testing and Analysis. You will be taken on a journey through the life of a requirement.

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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A Day in the Life Of A Requirement:
The Importance of Verification

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Live Webinar February 15th, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.

This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions project managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

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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Predicting Project Outcomes

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Live Webinar February 1st, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.

According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success.

Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher.

For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measurable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity

Learning Objectives:

1. The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives.
2. The Requirements Maturity Model.
3. A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities.

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Managing Requirements Maturity

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

• In an agile world do we still need requirements?
• How do requirements change in a world of agile development methods?
• What skills and tools do business analysts need to thrive in this space?

Agile methodologies have gained a lot of traction in recent years. Better risk mitigation and increased visibility into development have converted many waterfall aficionados.

Unfortunately, many agile pundits have singled out requirements as the source of bloat and inflexibility in the software development life-cycle, and some recommend not writing requirements at all.

The real goal of project managers, business analysts, developers, and users is project success. How, then, can business analysts work within agile methodologies and help them succeed?

What do requirements look like without all of the overhead? What is the right balance between agility and rigidity?

This presentation will answer these questions and provide tips and techniques analysts can use to add value in an agile world.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn specific techniques used to solve common problems with requirements in agile development cycles.
2. Participants will have a better understanding of the benefits and common problems with agile approaches.
3. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of the differences between a traditional requirements approach and agile approaches.

Presenters:

Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Candase Hokanson (LinkedIn profile) Senior Product Manager Seilevel, a requirements consulting firm that redefines how software requirements are created. Candase helps clients to clearly understand the desired business value of their projects and has cut up to 80% of project scope in unrelated or low priority requirements for multiple projects. Candase has also developed requirements for a variety of products such as: a management accounting and profitability application, a globally used consolidated sales tool and a globally used software portal where customers can access their digital products for a multi-billion dollar technology company.

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It’s An Agile World:
Requirements At The Speed Of Thought

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Live Webinar – January 17th, 2017 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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Tips For Planning Requirements Elicitation
On Large Projects

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Online Webinar  – Recorded August 8th, 2012
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Use cases are an effective and widely used technique for
“Eliciting Software Requirements”.

The use-case approach focuses on the goals that users have with a system, rather than emphasizing system functionality. This webinar presents an overview of the use-case approach to requirements elicitation in a practical and straightforward fashion.

Topics covered include:

• Where use cases fit into the requirements development process
• Types of projects for which use cases are and are not well suited
• User classes and actors
• Scenarios and use cases
• Components of a use case
• Use case diagrams
• Deriving functional requirements from use cases

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers PhD (LinkedIn profile,  @KarlWiegers)  Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software process consulting and education company in Portland, Oregon; Karl’s interests include requirements engineering, peer reviews, process improvement, metrics, and project management.

Previously, Karl spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company as a research scientist, software developer, software manager, and software process & quality improvement leader. Karl received a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. Author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds articles on many aspects of software development, management topics, chemistry, and military history,

Karl is also the author of a great  Consulting Tips and Tricks blog.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Software Requirements (3rd Edition)   Co-authored with Joy Beatty
• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice
• Pearls from Sand: How Small Encounters Lead to Powerful Lessons

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The Use Case Technique: An Overview

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