Live Webinar March 10th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

IKIWISI!

I Know What I Want When I See It!

Yes, customers don’t really know what they want and simply asking them to tell you won’t help. That is why Agile advocates using visual modeling techniques to engage your customer in ‘visioning’ what they really want.

Come learn some of the top Agile Modeling and Visualization techniques you can use to help your customers communicate their vision and reach deeper knowledge of their desired outcomes.

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Presenter: Sally Elatta,(LinkedIn profile) one of PMIs® LEAD Experts, is a dynamic Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker who is passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations into improving their project management and software development practices and delivering business value early and often. She is a certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner, Certified by IBM, Microsoft and Sun. is the President of Agile Transformation and an Enterprise Agile Coach. Sally is the Agile Expert for the PMI Learning, Education and Development (LEAD) community of practice and hosts a popular ‘Transforming to Agile‘ webinar series. She blogs on PMI.org and was on the review committee for the new PMI-ACP exam. She also publishes several short learning videos on www.AgileVideos.com.

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Live Webinar – March 11th, 2014 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU

Many organizations simply view business analysis as requirements development and management, however this view is vastly different from what is expressed in IIBA’s Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK).

The BABOK defines a Business Analyst as “Any person who performs business analysis activities, no matter what their job title or organizational role may be.”

The BABOK goes further and says that Business Analysts do not just have the title Business or System Analysts they may also be perform related roles such as Project Management, Developers, Quality Assurance and Interaction Design. This broad role of business analysis makes it appear more of a process than a role.

Business Analysis is about ensuring solutions deliver value to the business.

This includes tasks such as defining the problem, understanding stakeholder needs, defining requirements, building test cases, validating the right solution is being built, and measuring business value using KPIs.

In this webinar, John Parker (LinkedIn profile) will express how Business Analysis should be viewed as a collaborative team effort and not some narrow role of just serving as a note taker in interviews and writing requirements.

He will address the following topics:

• What is Business Analysis?
• Business Analysis is a Significant Risk for Most Organizations
• How Do We Move Away from the Requirements Mentality
• Business Analysis is a Team Sport
• Are Business Analysis and Business Design the Same Thing?
• Why Project Managers Should Care About Business Analysis?
• Does QA really perform an BA Role?
• Busting the Silos

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 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’

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Live Webinar March 6th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

A Wall Street Journal article postulates that innovation comes from inside a company through networks—not lone individuals.

The authors offers strategies to cultivate innovation, such as making efforts to break down the walls between company departments, rapidly testing and refining ideas, and figure out whether there are people in the chain of command who are hard to work with.

But for most large organizations, this “formula” for innovation is difficult to implement.

Change, especially innovative change, is often is met with organizational resistance. Conversely, the culture of the organization often expresses collective frustrations with the limitations of business processes and underlying technologies to support business needs.

Doug Jackson, (LinkedIn profile) senior director of the Business Analysis Practice for Robbins Gioia , and Paula Pierce, (Peridona Strategies bio, LinkedIn profile) CEO and principal transformation strategist, Peridona Strategies LLC, conduct an interactive session on integrating business analysis and organizational change management to create an environment for innovation and successful change.

They will examine problems that prevent establishing successful innovation networks and provide an approach using best practices from both disciplines to help organizations harvest and test innovative ideas.

Upon Completion, You will:

1. Identify the root of change resistance in our organizations
2. Identify and capitalize on existing networks
3. Apply BA and OCM best practices to create an environment for innovation.

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Live Webinar March 4th 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

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Speed …. If you had to summarize in one word what you need to succeed in business in today’s current market and climate, it would be that word. Laggards are treated harshly, just ask anyone who works or worked at Research in Motion (RIM). Once the darling of mobile communications, RIM is now fighting for its very survival.

Software development has become the foundation on which new business services and products are built. Whether you are selling financial services, global logistics, energy, or cars, it is software that is adding either capability or value to your product that increases your competitive advantage and drives sales.

Scope …. is the dirty word in software/systems development. Traditional project managers adhere to it rigorously. Agile evangelists really don’t consider it outside their two to four week iterations. Business Analysts worry more about effectiveness and use than it.

If the traditional PM is on one side and the Agile evangelist on the other the BA ends up smack in the middle when it comes to a mindset on scope.

The reality is unless business conditions adjust, there is no way SDLC professionals can put “change” in a box any longer. This doesn’t mean an organization has to become agile.

What it means is practitioners in the SDLC have to look at alternative methods to controlling “Scope Creep” in the face of rapid pace of change, especially on elongated projects.

In this presentation, David will discuss:

• An executive sponsors prospective on scope in a project
• What sponsors ultimately want and what they don’t care to hear
• The evolving role of the BA and how Project Managers can make better use of the BA position with regard to scope definition and management

With this said, there is still the issue of “in-project” change. Instead of the dreaded change order, we will take a look at agile practice of task boarding to see if there are ways to document “changes” in a highly visible way to potentially get to in project (if time allows) or after prioritizing after the project is completed.

The ultimate goal of this presentation is to highly how PM’s can utilize BA professionals in the Scope process and how elements of agile methods can help deal with change in complex and elongated projects.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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Online Webinar – Recorded Feb 27, 2014
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Organizations launch projects with the assumption that the new or improved solution will provide worthwhile benefits for stakeholders and a suitable return on investment.

Understanding your business requirements can ensure that your teams actually deliver those benefits. Furthermore, keeping user and functional requirements aligned with the business requirements is a key element of successful solution delivery.

Joy will also explore four different scope representation techniques you can apply at any phase of a project.

Topics covered include:

1. Business objectives and success metrics
2. Scope control using business objectives
3. Vision statements
4. Context Diagrams, Ecosystem Maps, Feature Trees, and Event Lists

In this webinar you’ll learn how to define clear business objectives and corresponding success metrics, how to craft a focused vision statement, and how to specify other elements of the business requirements.

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

Presenters: Joy Beatty (LinkedIn profile) has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

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Business Requirements Scoping Techniques

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Online Webinar – Recorded Jan 23rd, 2014
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

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Most Problems With
Project Requirements
Are Result Of Human Errors

Why are good and experienced project managers making bad choices that can dramatically affect the project?

The answers lie in human psychology. Often managers are making their choices not by logical and comprehensive analysis of the problem, but based on their own gut feelings.

This presentation includes a number of examples of how misjudgement can lead to major project failures.

Understanding a few basic concepts, such as how human mental machinery works, helps to improve project manager’s decision-making skills. Often manager’s decisions are affected by illusions, such as the illusion of the project being under control.

But what is the alternative to such intuitive decision-making process?

This presentation includes an overview of the project requirements management process. If a project manager and an organization follow such process, it usually leads to better decisions.

The presentation includes a number of case studies, illustrating how organizations significantly improved their performance through implementing requirements management process: Keystone Oil pipeline from Canada to US, Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, NASA’s Constellation space program, destruction of major power station in Russia, and others.

The presentation also includes recommendations on how requirements management can be implemented in an organization. Requirements management is not only a sophisticated quantitative analysis. First of all, it is a collection of basic principles, which help project managers think their way to project success.

The presentation is based on the books “Project Decisions: The Art and Sciences”, published my Management Concepts, 2007, and “ProjectThink – Why Good Project Managers Are Making Bad Choices!” to be published by Gower in 2013.

Presenter: Lev Virine PhD, (LinkedIn profile) has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer and project manager. In the past 15 years, he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes. He is the author of Project Decisions & ProjectThink and over 50 scholarly papers.

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