Online Webinar  – Recorded  August 9th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to re-validate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

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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10 Steps To Effective Requirements Elicitation

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 27th, 2013
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  PM Times (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Development Peer Review Is Effective
It Ensures A Higher Quality Product

Unfortunately, peer reviews of requirements documents often aren’t held when intended and those that are performed don’t always go as intended. Reviewers take only a superficial look and they often miss major defects that lurk in the specification, leading to delivery of a poor quality product.

In this webinar, Karl Wiegers, a best-selling author and speaker on requirements management and software peer reviews, gives practical advice to make requirements peer reviews more effective and encourage prospective reviewers to participate.

Listen in as Karl shares:

• An overview of the peer review formality spectrum
• Major characteristics of reviews
• Five steps you can take to improve peer reviews of requirements

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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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5 Steps To Better Requirements Peer Reviews

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Live Webinar July 10th, 2019 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514) – A Rommana Webinar

Whether your project is agile or not, it is critical that you practice good requirement and/or user story management.

Requirements and user stories do not just exist by themselves. Instead, they are linked to other artifacts such as test cases and test sets, scenarios and/or acceptance criteria, code and design components, tasks, risks, and actions.

Requirements and user stories also change during the course of a project and over the lifecycle of an application. Some requirements or user stories originate from user requests, some evolve from bug reports or issues, and some are even enhancements to existing functionalities.

A good requirement/user story management tool must support all these aspects of features.

In this webinar Magdy Hanna will demonstrate how the requirement / user story component of Rommana ALM supports all these aspects and more.

The intent is to help you understand true requirement and user story management so that you can make an informed decision regarding tool selection and tool adoption.

If you are already using a tool to manage your requirements and/or user stories, this webinar should help you customize your tool to support all these aspects.

Presenter: Dr. Magdy Hanna PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His highly rated seminars in various topics over the last thirty-five years have spanned various aspects and capacities of software projects and processes.

He has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. As a professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Thomas , he taught graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques.

Dr. Hanna developed new approaches and methods in software engineering including the Scenario-Based Development and Testing (SBDT), Requirement-Based Project Management (RBPM), Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model ( DOM ). Dr. Hanna and his instructors conduct hundreds of free online webinars each year.

Dr. Hanna also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Test Professionals, a publication of IIST, now the Bug Free Zone.

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Managing User Stories For Effective Development & Testing

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Live Webinar April 28th, 2020 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar Neil Potter outlines six immediately usable tips for elicing and defining software requirements.

Presenter:  Neil Potter (LinkedIn profile) is co-founder of The Process Group, a company formed in 1990 that consults on leadership challenges, software engineering, process improvement, Agile/Scrum, CMMI, and project management. With 28 + years of experience in software and process engineering, Neil has c0-authoredthe definitive process guides: Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations: A Concise Action Guide and Making Process Improvement Work: A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners. Neil is also a is a Certified Scrum Master, CMMI-Institute certified lead appraiser for SCAMPI appraisals, CMMI instructor (development & services) and Six Sigma Greenbelt. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Essex (UK)

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Six Immediately Usable Tips For
Eliciting & Defining Software Requirements

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Online Webinar – Recorded – September 15th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

PDU Of The Day has published THOUSANDS of Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2019, we are publishing some  of our readers & editors favorite recorded opportunities, as a special treat for our readers!

Each of these webinars is available online!

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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Online Webinar – Recorded – June 12th 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 2 PDU – Free
Provider:  IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

PDU Of The Day has published THOUSANDS of Professional Development Opportunities since our launch January 1st 2011.

These articles reflect the interests of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and agile professionals from over 150 countries.

In the last two weeks of 2019, we are publishing some  of our readers & editors favorite recorded opportunities, as a special treat for our readers!

Each of these webinars is available online!

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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