Live Webinar – June 20th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
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 – June 6th, 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 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.

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

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

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Requirements Definition Best Practices For Software RFPs

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Live Webinar May 30th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
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 – April 25th, 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)

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 – April 18th, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour  2 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This webinar provides a practical framework to measure and manage improvement in the area of business analysis and requirements.

This session will help any champion, sponsor or manager implement positive changes in the area of requirements and business analysis.

If your organization is implementing agile or lean practices, integrating ALM or RDM tools, aligning requirements practices with your PMP or SDLC, designing training for BAs, or setting up a Center of Excellence, this webinar will help you bring it all together.

The 6 critical components to a holistic program for maturity improvement are:

• Process standardization and improvement
• Integration of best practices and techniques
• Technology implementation
• Competent staff resources
• Quality deliverables yielding improved results
• Infrastructure and organizational support

You will hear hard hitting statistics on the benefits of maturing your requirements management capabilities that you can use to help build a business case for your own improvement initiatives.

Learn dozens of key success factors and strategies for championing change throughout your organization’s business analysis and requirements management groups.

Go step by step, through the essential stages of a transformation program geared to improve any organization’s requirements practice.

Whether you have direct responsibility for your organization’s Business Analysis and Requirements Practice, or you are an advocate, a champion or a critical team member, you will undoubtedly take away ideas you can put to use to help improve your organization’s level of requirements management maturity.

Learning Objectives:

• How to start a requirements practice transformation program
• What is Requirements Management Maturity (RMM)
• How to assess your organizations current requirements practice using a Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (RMMA)
• How to use the RMM model to promote and drive change/improvement
• Understand key elements of an efficient project plan for improving your organization’s Requirements Practice
• What is the role of a Requirements Management Office

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Strategies To Requirements Definition &
Management Maturity

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Online Webinar  – Recorded Jun 20, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider:   IIBA

One of the most common questions I receive is “How do I become a business analyst if I’m a ______?” And in the blank goes anything from software engineer to tester to manager to customer service representative.

Each individual’s path into business analysis is unique, and depends heavily on their skills and career experience.

In this webinar, Laura will demonstrate the core skills to becoming a business analysis, and see how transferable skills show up in common job functions.

Presenter: Laura Brandenburg (LinkedIn profile, @LLBrandenburg) CBAP is the author of How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide),  Bridging the Gap, which offers a BA career planning course (it’s free) to help you start your business analyst career. She’s reviewed hundreds of BA resumes and is ready to help you improve yours!

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IIBA: Business Analysis Is Not Just A Job Title

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