Live Webinar July 26th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Get more out of your requirements interviews and make better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple, but highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing skills.

This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements.

The key to this process improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate preparation, sequencing and delivery.

Interviewing is the cornerstone of elicitation techniques, and when done properly will reveal the answers you need.

You will learn how to:

• Identify the right stakeholders to interview and what you need to know
• Create a requirements questionnaire and prepare to ask the right types of questions
• How to properly engage the stakeholder and build a relationship
• Capture stakeholder responses
• Plan for follow-up and maintain the relationship
• Review lessons learned to improve for your next interview

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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The Art of the Interview:
How to Improve Your
Business Analysis Interviewing Skills

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

Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

In this day and age, many of us are working in a virtual environment, and managers may have employees scattered all over the world. As a result, communication techniques are rapidly changing.

How do you now effectively communicate with team members, partners, customers, and senior leaders?

This webinar will describe tools and techniques that managers can use to conduct virtual communications and provide insights into communication barriers that have to be overcome or minimized.

Attend this 1 hour presentation to learn how to manage your virtual communications using such tools as instant messaging, e-mail, web meetings, professional networks, etc., and to understand how to overcome new communication barriers.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Communication methods that best support virtual communications
• How the right communication process contributes to effective management of virtual teams
• Barriers that inhibit appropriate communication
• Techniques for combating communication barriers

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Management Communication In A Virtual World

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Live Webinar – July 18th 2018 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 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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Online Webinar  – Recorded
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU $12.95 USD
Provider:  Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

This webinar is the 2nd in a 3 part  Collaboration Series by Solutions Cube.  Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

The PMBOK® refers to the concept of progressive elaboration as a recommended method for defining the project’s scope and producing project outcomes.

Many teams struggle with applying progressive elaboration or lack the knowledge to apply these techniques in manner which allows for continual clarification of the project scope versus expanding the boundaries of the project scope.

Join Solutions Cube Group for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn how to avoid allowing progressive elaboration to become an uncontrolled scope creep dilemma on their projects.

Learn about:

• How to apply progressive elaboration concepts on the creation of project deliverables
• How to use the Wave Concept to develop project deliverables in a collaborative meeting setting
• Keeping stakeholders focused on the deliverable or task at hand during meetings
• Structuring a progress elaboration meeting activity expand the depth of knowledge for a deliverable without expanding the scope of the project effort

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Applying Progressive Elaboration Techniques

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Live Webinar June 28th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

Business Analysts and Architects are facing a challenge: well beyond defining digital systems or solutions, we are expected to lead the way into the digital future of a customer-centric, well-executing enterprise, apt to deal with disruption and rapid to adapt.

Yet IIBA methods and tools keep us busy gathering loads of requirements and documenting today’s complexity, making us seem like show stoppers rather than agents of change.

People’s eyes glaze over at long lists and complicated models, tired of the difficulties they entail.

Whilewe cannot ignore the complexity that surrounds us, we need better tools to engage, co-create, validate and convey the transformations and innovations we envision.

Join Milan Guenther (LinkedIn profile) in this informative webinar on how to reposition analysis, architecture and design work to reclaim the driver’s seat in digital transformation.

This means shifting our focus to Enterprise Design:

1. From modelling the inner workings to covering our ecosystem
2. From solution requirements to holistic design practice
3. From mapping today’s complexity to future strategic scenarios
4. From operations and technology to customer value creation
5. From busy diagrams to capturing what matters to our audience

Links
* Smarter with Gartner blog post
** Enterprise Design Framework

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IIBA: The Enterprise Design Framework:
An Alternate Approach To Define Challenges,
Scope & Frame Initiatives

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Live Webinar – June 27th, 2018 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 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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