Live Webinar – December 5th 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 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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:

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

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Live Webinar November 29th 2018 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

In this webinar, Mark Monteleone describes and compares functional and nonfunctional requirements and how to document them using declaratives, user stories, and use cases in the context of software applications.

Mark starts the webinar by briefly reviewing the source of business needs; enterprise analysis.

He lists four requirement levels:

• Business; needs that are required to compete or be in compliance
• Stakeholder; what stakeholder capabilities are needed to realize business needs
• Solution; what product or service requirements are needed to provide stakeholder capabilities and under what conditions are the capabilities effective and efficient
• Transition; what product or service requirements are needed to ensure a smooth change in implementing the new capabilities.

With that quick background, Mark focuses the webinar by further decomposing solution requirements into functional capabilities and nonfunctional conditions and formally defines the word requirement.

Mark highlights how these requirements are documented by business analysts using:

• Action Verbs for functional requirements with references to business rules, and
• Adjectives and nouns for nonfunctional requirements with embedded metrics.

Mark then shows how functional and nonfunctional requirements are documented using declaratives, user stories, and use cases.

To ensure clarity, he wraps-up the webinar by providing several examples of functional capabilities paired with nonfunctional conditions using the above techniques.

Presenter: Mark Monteleone, (BA Times bio) CBAP, PMP  an independent consultant and author of The 20 Minute Business Analyst: a collection of short articles, humorous stories, and quick reference cards for the busy analyst  Mark has also written several articles in Modern Analyst, BA Times, BA Connection, International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and Global Flipchart. Mark also instructs courses on business analysis and project management plus consults on business applications and projects in more than 35 countries.

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Functional vs. Nonfunctional Requirements

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Online Webinar  – Recorded October 8th 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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On Agile projects, requirements are susceptible to change as priorities shift and the customer or product owner discover additional needs or a new direction.

Instead of requirements being collected in one lengthy document, they are distributed in the form of user stories and epics.

In addition, the highest priorities can be condensed into a minimum viable product, or MVP, representing only what is needed to launch the product and nothing more.

Requirements gathering for Agile projects differs from other environments and carries its own challenges, including identifying all stakeholders, setting up frequent meetings, and more.

User stories, epics, MVPs, and backlog grooming are all unique features of Agile requirements gathering. How do business analysts use these features and work within Agile projects to generate requirements iteratively?

Join NK Shrivastava of RefineM & learn how to effectively gather business requirements on Agile projects. Be exposed to techniques including brainstorming, focus groups, user story splitting, and many others.

Leave the webinar ready to gather business requirements on Agile projects.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

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Business Requirements Gathering For Agile Projects

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Live Webinar – November 14th, 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:

1. How to conduct data warehouse business analysis
2. How to elicit requirements for the business intelligence aspects of projects
3. How to define requirements for on-line analytical processing and decision support systems

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Requirements Definition Best Practices
For Business Intelligence Projects

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Live Webinar – November 7th, 2018 10:00 am – 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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Live Webinar November 6th, 2018 – 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 )

Requirements are at the core of any project, and, therefore, must be carefully managed.

Learn the essential requirements management practices, including the requirements life cycle from inception to implementation, requirements management planning, and requirements management tools.

Learn how to write SMART requirements statements that are useful and actionable, and finally, Martin will contrast and compare the traditional requirements management approach with agile requirements management.

Learning objectives include:

1. Understand the requirements management process
2. Learn how to write good requirements
3. Appreciate the value of a requirements management plan
4. Contrast plan-driven and change-driven requirements management approaches

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Getting it Right:
Best Practices For Requirements Management

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