Live Webinar November 23rd, 2016 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 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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Live Webinar November 22nd, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

The life of a consulting business analyst (BA) presents many different challenges than those faced by “in-house” BAs – some obvious and some not.

As individual practitioners, consulting BAs have to be highly adaptable and able to plan and execute business analysis efforts quickly, in diverse organizational environments.

BA’s also play a role in the sales cycle: assessing tender documents, peer-reviewing proposals, and qualifying potential new business opportunities.

Version 1 is an IT consultancy in Ireland and the UK.  They recognize these challenges and have used the BABOK® Guide since 2009, as a key guide and reference to address them.

Hear from three senior consulting BAs at Version 1:

1. Scott Coombs (LinkedIn profile),
2. Keir Whytock (LinkedIn profile),
   
3. Sean Ryan (LinkedIn profile)

They will openly discuss their practice challenges, and provide details on their approach to turn those challenges into opportunities.

Specifically, they will share how the BABOK® Guide is used as the cornerstone of their own framework to,

• Build a thriving business analysis community of practice,
• Develop a “consulting perspective”,
• Build up their own skills development initiatives, and
• Broaden the impact of business analysis in their organization.

You will also gain insight into the special characteristics of the different industries in which these consulting BAs work (including, financial services and public sector) and how they affect business analysis practice.

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IIBA: Building Business Analysis Capability
In A Consulting Business

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Online Course – Recorded  – $12.95 USD 1 PDU
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media – Course
Presented: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is First in a 3 part series series on Requirements Definition by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

In many companies, the Requirements Definition process fails
to define the “REAL” Business Need for a project.

What may appear to be great solutions are often developed without any tie to the real project needs. Unfortunately, the discovery of missing, out of scope, or poorly defined requirements often happens much too late in the project lifecycle leading to project failure.

Avoiding these costly mistakes requires a clear understanding of the requirements definition process and the right tools and techniques to define complete requirements for a project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Building the Foundation for Clear Requirements webinar enables participants to recognize the barriers preventing project teams from defining clear requirements.

Participants will learn how to create a requirements definition foundation that engages the right stakeholders, alignment on the project scope and progressive elaboration techniques for maintaining the right level of focus throughout the requirements definition lifecycle.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to use the Project Scope Statement deliverables to guide the team’s creation of “real” project need and project solution statements
• How to use collaborative techniques to lead team members through requirements creation activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to progressively build requirements using collaborative techniques
• Techniques for ensuring the Requirements Definition efforts are on the right track, from the onset of the project

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Foundation for Clear Requirements

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Live Webinar Nov 23rd 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar Nov 23rd 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Ask an IT organization to review its application project success track record over the past 10 to 15 years and chances are that they will express general satisfaction — most application projects are deemed to be successful.

Ask the current business managers what they think of the current portfolio of applications and they will express dissatisfaction — most applications are unpopular.

Discussion Topics:

• The root cause of this dichotomy and how can it be eliminated
• The difference between a successful project and a successful application
• How future application projects can ensure delivery of successful applications

Join Andy Kyte, (LinkedIn profile) VP & Gartner Fellow and learn how successful applications make for successful projects!

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Stop Aiming For Successful Projects:
Start Aiming For Successful Applications

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Live Webinar November 16th, 2016 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process.

More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.

This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

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5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

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Live Webinar November 17th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

For a terrific Print & Learn opportunity check out
Project Management Best Practices With Karl Wiegers

Successful software projects are built on a foundation of well-understood requirements.

However, many development organizations get caught in traps that prevent them from effectively collecting, documenting, or managing their requirements.

This presentation describes ten typical requirements problems that can sabotage your project.

Several symptoms that indicate you might be getting caught in each trap are presented, along with suggestions for avoiding or escaping from the trap.

The requirements traps discussed are:

1. Confusion about what a requirement is
2. Inadequate customer involvement
3. Vague and ambiguous requirements
4. Unprioritized requirements
5. Building functionality no one uses
6. Analysis paralysis
7. Scope creep
8. Inadequate requirements change process
9. Insufficient change impact analysis
10. Inadequate requirements version control

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

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Software Requirements: 10 Traps To Avoid

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