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

When a software development organization wants to improve the way it works, it’s not enough to write a bunch of procedures, buy some tools, and run your staff through some training.

The manager leading a change initiative also must consider the organization’s culture.

A software engineering culture is a set of beliefs, behaviors, and technical practices that define an environment in which all team members are committed to building quality software products through effective and appropriate software processes.

As requirements form the foundation of all the software work that follows, it’s especially important to instill a set of effective values, principles, and practices around requirements practices.

This presentation describes 10 lessons learned from leading requirements improvement initiatives.

Learn:

1. A commitment to effective requirements engineering is a hallmark of a healthy software engineering culture.
2. Clearly defined business requirements are the foundation of a successful project.
3. Taking a usage-centric approach instead of a feature-centric approach during elicitation better meets user needs.
4. Customer engagement is a vital contributor to building high-quality software.
5. The business analyst plays a central role in understanding and communicating a project’s requirements.
6. No single view of the requirements shows you everything you need to know.
7. A guiding principle of requirements

We hope that you will register today and we look forward to having you join us for this event!

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 & Organizational Culture: 10 Lessons Learned

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Live Webinar October 11th 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

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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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar Sept 27th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

• Are you engaged in a ‘digital transformation’ project?
• Are you evaluating new technologies for automating business processes?

Business process automation is critical to the success of digital transformation projects.

But modern approaches to business automation demand far more capabilities than those of traditional business process management systems.

Join Phil Simpson, JBoss Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat to learn about their vision for process-driven applications, and how a wide range of new technologies are coming together to support the development of modern cloud-enabled process automation solutions.

In this session Phil will discuss:

• What is digital transformation?
  • What are the driving forces behind it?
• Technologies to consider for digital transformation projects
• The role of traditional business process management in digital transformation projects
• Examples from Red Hat’s most successful clients

Presenter: Phil Simpson (LinkedIn profile) JBoss Product Marketing Manager, Red Hat, is responsible for the strategy & positioning of Red Hat’s business rules and business process management products. Phil has extensive experience with business rules and BPM, having held senior product management roles at an early business-rules pioneer and senior marketing roles at several leading enterprise technology companies. Prior to joining Red Hat, Phil was a product manager for the data analytics firm Renesys and was a director at SeaChange International, Ironhead Analytics, and Rulespower.

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IIBA: Business Process Management
In Digital Transformation Projects

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Live Webinar – September 20th, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDU 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 – September 15th, 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Requirements are the key aspects to successful projects and the foundational concept of where business analysts can bring value to an organization.

When done with rigor and discipline, requirements keep projects on scope, validate testing efforts and ensure alignment with overall organizational strategies while ensuring value continues to be delivered.

However, managing requirements well in our constantly changing and dynamic environments is the challenge every project manager, business analyst, product owner and subject matter expert today faces regardless if they are novice level and entering the analyst field or seasoned professionals managing complex environments.

In this session Jamie Champagne will walk through practical applications of requirements analysis & design and managing requirements in the ‘real world’ – where strict processes and templates may not always be followed (or even created), learn tips and tricks to help keep efforts on track and moving in a positive direction even when you’re not the leader or person in charge (or even get the title of Business Analyst of Requirements Manager) and while having some fun (didn’t know requirements were that exciting, did you…?) !

Topics to be covered during this session are planning for requirements elicitation, elicitation techniques, traceability, testing plans, validation, approvals, tracking and even reuse.

As well as there will be room for questions to bring up your own situations and challenges you face in your environments today.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the multiple facets of requirements
• Learn techniques for eliciting and managing requirements
• Gain tips and tricks to immediately apply to requirements in your own work

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Jamie Champagne (LinkedIn profile) Mana’olana International, LLC is a  champion of process improvement and innovation, & enjoys culture change challenges that utilize her strong background in business analysis, project management, knowledge management and information technology.  She worked as a senior IT business analyst with The Queen’s Health System in Hawaii, &  currently sits as the Publicity Director for PMI Honolulu Hawaii Chapter and the President of the Hawaii IIBA Chapter.

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The Who, What, When, Where, Why Of Requirements!

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Live Webinar – September 6th, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success.

This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager.

Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?

3 Learning Objectives from this Session:

• Effective analyst engagements models that drive value
• Red flags in your review cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your requirements discovery team.
• Setting targets for timetable and turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst team?

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Outsourcing Requirements Discovery

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