Live Webinar June 22nd, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

State-of-the-art machine learning techniques offer extraordinary performance on everything from text analysis to feature classification, but they often function as “black boxes” that obscure their decision-making.

As artificial intelligence makes its way into critical processes in every industry, stakeholders will demand transparency from their models and algorithms.

In this webcast Andy Hickl will discuss the problem of interpretability in AI and address techniques for building transparent artificial intelligence applications with explainable outcomes.

Presenter:  Andy Hickl (LinkedIn profile) Chief Product Officer at Intel Saffron Cognitive Solutions Group; has led research in natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and ubiquitous computing. His work can be found in the proceedings of AAAI, ACL, SIGIR, and NIPS.  Previously was a Senior Director for Innovation at Vulcan Inc. co-founded the Vulcan Proving Ground & served as Executive Technical Advisor to Paul G. Allen. A serial entrepreneur, Andy has co-founded three startups: A.R.O. Inc. (Vulcan Ventures, Paul Allen), Swingly, and Extractiv. Andy also served as CEO of Language Computer Corporation, a leading natural language processing company.

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Transparency In AI Decision Making

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Live Webinar June 21st, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

As project requirements are gathered and the associated design evolves, the project team begins to build the necessary functionality.

This can be accomplished through utilizing the following methodology deliverables:

• high level design,
• detail design,
• requirements traceability log,
• programming specification(s),
• system integration test (SIT) plan(s),
• system integration test (SIT) evaluation criteria,
• unit test (UT) plan(s),
• unit test (UT) evaluation criteria, and
• training and support plan.

Walk away with a better understanding of how to apply these deliverables to your project.

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Executing Projects With IT Methodologies

Live Webinar June 8th, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Requirements development deals with getting good software requirements. Requirements management addresses the challenges of handling these requirements as the project proceeds over time.

This presentation summarizes several best practices for requirements management.

The following topics are addressed:

• Version control of requirements documents
• Change control
• The change control board
• Impact analysis of change requests
• Requirements attributes
• Tracking requirements status
• Requirements traceability
• Using requirements management tools

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Project Management Best Practices With Karl Wiegers

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:

• Software Requirements 2
• 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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Requirements Management Best Practices

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Live Webinar – May 10th, 2017 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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Live Webinar May 3rd 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar April 26th 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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