Live Webinar February 26th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category B but the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This most likely will be a category A presentation by Diversified Business Communications (Rep #1811 – parent company). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

There was a time in the BA’s not so distant past when the source code also served as the documentation of what was actually implemented.

Quality assurance engineers could compare it with the BA’s requirement specifications relatively easily.

Those days are gone.

The sheer number of lines of code (LOC) has grown exponentially and continues to mushroom. A multimedia project can easily have 50 million lines and as BA’s you need the right tools and strategies to develop and link up supportive documentation with requirements specifications.

Nowadays, code is no longer a workable way to provide project documentation and ensure project integrity and consistency.

Furthermore, effective BAs have to be good translators.

They must be able to speak the language of the business, effectively interpret it for the analytical minds of the technical implementers, plus find the right vehicles to convey the information.

In order to achieve all this, you need the right tools and strategies to develop and link up supportive documentation with requirements specifications.

This webinar will provide you with practical tips and real life best practice recommendations for effectively managing requirements specifications and supportive documentation in the 21st century.

When you attend this event you will:

1. Learn how to balance what is written in the user story and how the projects specifications are updated
2. Unlock synergies across disparate development teams to empower all collaborators to resound faster to business requirements
3. Find out about mitigating and managing risk in your regulatory compliance documentation?

Who can benefit from this webinar?

• Business Analysts, System Analysts, Requirements Managers
• Project Managers, Quality Assurance Manage

Presenter: Jiri Walek, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Product Management, Polarion Software

Click to register for Requirements vs. System Documentation

Live Webinar February 18th, 2015 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

Government Leaders Face Enormous Pressure!

Let’s face it:
Failing to manage pressure is a significant reason why projects fail.

This webinar will explore how the brain functions under pressure and will explore ground breaking research on how Project Managers can excel under pressure and drive engagement, innovation, growth and deliver success in their projects!

Session Learning Points:

• How to better manage pressure to gain a competitive advantage
• Research on what the top 10% did to excel under pressure
• 3 pressure insights that will help you avoid the negative effects of pressure
• How pressure affects your brain and strategies you can use to perform under pressure
• Stories of government leaders and organizations who have managed pressure effectively to succeed

Note: The content and research for this program is based on an upcoming book “Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most” that IHHP is launching with Crown Publishing (Feb 24th, 2015).

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter: Bill Benjamin (LinkedIn profile) Institute for Health and Human Potential (IHHP) Bill has a rare perspective – he has advanced degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science and has 25 years of real world business experience as a senior leader. Bill leverages his experience to take a practical and scientific approach to helping people understand how the brain responds under pressure and how that can help increase leadership and performance.

I particularly enjoyed Bill Benjamin’s article “Emotional Intelligence for Truck Drivers.” Explaining the abstract concepts of Emotional Intelligence in real-world terms is a valuable skill for project managers and their communications with project stakeholders.

Click to register for Performing Under Pressure

Live Webinar – February 5th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1 Category C PDU- Free PDU

Services represent 78% of the US economy, and that percentage just keeps growing. Information Technology (IT) plays a major part in delivering services to customers.

Most organizations manage IT by defining and delivering services to business units, implementing IT service management processes.

Services offered are then described in a service catalog, enabling customers to view what services are available and to request a service electronically.

However, most organizations have done little in terms of improving their processes and practices for service design.

Service Design is an innovative and emerging discipline in which user-oriented strategies and concepts are designed to make services work better for an organization and their customers.

Service Design offers a competitive advantage for organizations by ensuring a better customer experience. Applying product design to services simply does not work. In this webinar, John Parker will present an overview of what service design is and the value an organization receives by placing more focus on service design:

• What is Service Design?
• Why is Service Design so important?
• Co-Creation and Design
• Understanding the Customer and their Needs
• Understanding Contexts
• Understanding Service Providers
• Service Design: Implications for BAs
• Service Design: Implications for PMs
• Applying Service Design to IT Service Management (ITSM)
• Applying Service Design in an Agile Development Environment

Presenter: John E. Parker – (LinkedIn profile) Enfocus Solutions Inc. is a seasoned expert in IT strategy, requirements management, business analysis, project management, IT strategic planning, and IT value management. . Drawing from his vast knowledge of business analyses and project management, John leads the design and development of Enfocus Requirements Suite’s valuable mind maps, templates, examples, and tools. John also regularly blogs and shares his expertise and insights.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities

As a Category B ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Service Design Fundamentals For BAs & PMs

Live Webinar January 28th 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

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

Click to register for 5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

Live Webinar January 21st, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama Software

Making Requirements Flow:
Harmonizing Agile development & sound requirements practices

As the union of hardware and software bestows upon the world new innovations that amaze and awe the buying public, the builders behind these creations try to keep the complexity of the products and the processes involved from driving them crazy.

Hardware and software don’t play well with each other without a lot of encouragement, and developers are under constant pressure to build and iterate faster.

In response, many software teams look to Agile development as a better way to organize work, manage uncertainty and maintain quality.

In this webinar, Derwyn Harris, and Dave West, Tasktop chief product officer, provide actionable guidance to organizations that need to bridge the gap between formal requirements practices and Agile software development.

Presenters:

Derwyn Harris, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Architect and Co-Founder at Jama Software

Dave West, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Product Officer, Tasktop Technologies and Research Director, Forrester Research, Inc.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for A River (of Requirements) Runs Through It

Live Webinar January 21st 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

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?

Click to register for Managing Requirements Operational Excellence