Live Webinar Feb 26th 2014, 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

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 Feb 25th 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU

Research continually shows that companies have a difficult time completing information technology (IT) projects on time or on budget.

In fact many IT projects are cancelled before completion or not implemented at all. However project failure needs to consider more that just if the project was completed on time and on budget.

A completed project that was delivered on time but provides no business benefit is money, time and resource all wasted Risk management is a vital project management activity; however many current risk management practices focus solely on project delivery risks and not on risks associated with the organization receiving value and expected benefits from the project.

In this webinar, John Parker (LinkedIn profile) will address risk from both a project management and business analyst perspective and describe how impact and gap analysis can be key tools to identify and mitigate risk.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Business Change is the Biggest Risk: A Guide for Project Managers and Business Analysts

Live Webinar Feb 24th, 2014 – 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)
Presented by:

The Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) was faced with a

challenge; To deliver in just one year, a project that was estimated to take 3 years, that was technically complex and had already been stalled for 2 years. A monumental challenge for any organization.

Tasked with delivering a three-year project in less than a year, the project team knew that traditional waterfall methods were not up to the task and decided a new approach was needed—Scrum.

Agency executives worked with project team and gave the Scrum approach their full support.

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

Presenter: Joseph Flahiff (LinkedIn profile) PMP is a project planning coach, speaker and trainer with 15 years of PM success. Also Certified in Six Sigma methods and a Certified Agile Scrum Master, Joseph has experience in a wide range of market verticals including Telecommunications, Healthcare, Government, and Small Business.

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Improve your team’s agility in 10 minutes!
Video – by Joseph Flahiff 4:28

Notes: Use this new 10 minute exercise to increase your teams knowledge and skills in agility. Ensure you watch the full 4 and a half minute video as there are some very good suggestions near the middle and end of the video.

Back to Basics [3]: Points Estimation (Agile Estimation)

Notes: Points Estimation is supposed to be simple. But as we are often inclined to do we as human beings tend to over complicate things. In this brief (4 minute) video I present you with a concrete explanation of points estimation. Hope you enjoy it. NOTE: There is some background noise in the video.

Live Webinar Feb 25th 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Does everyone understand what Business Analysts do for a living? Wouldn’t it be nice if the rest of the organization did?

This session will offer advice, tips and ideas on how to build up an awareness of the BA or PM cultures within your company. Selling to the CIO or CEO. Promoting the role to the staff you work with.

Creating an internal awareness of the value a PM or BA can bring to any project.

Dave will discuss the use of information sessions, internal webinars, ‘lunch & learns’, a community of practice, public meetings and more. Attendees are encouraged to come with their own stories of marketing success or failures.

Learning Points:

1. Tools for internal marketing
2. Ideas for better internal communications
3. Thoughts on Centres of Excellence or PMOs or BAOs

Presenter: David Barrett (LinkedIn profile) is a Founding Member IIBA and Professional Speaker.He is also the Project Director for the Centres of Excellence in Project Management and Business Analysis at The Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University, the co-editor of ProjectTimes.com and BATimes.com.

Click to register for IIBA: They Don’t Get Us!! Marketing the BA Role for Growth and Success

Live Webinar – Feb 19th, 2014 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1 Hour 1 PDUs Credits: 1Category C PDU- Free PDU

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are high-level snapshots of an organization or a business process using specific predefined performance measures.

If a Key Performance Indicator is going to be of value, there must be a way to accurately define and measure it. For example, “Generate More Repeat Customers” is useless as a KPI without some way to distinguish between new and repeat customers. “Provide excellent project management and business analysis ” won’t work as a KPI because there is no way to measure this.

Defining KPIs is a standardized skill for business improvement (BI) analysts. However, if you try to find KPIs to measure business analysis and project managers, you will find little written on the subject.

In this webinar, John Parker will present ideas of how business analysts and project managers can best define KPIs to improve business analysis and project management results and deliver more value to the business. The focus will be on defining KPIs for an agile enterprise.

Presenter: John E. Parker (LinkedIn profile) President and CEO Enfocus Solutions Inc.

Click to register for KPIs for Agile Project Managers and Business Analysts

Live Webinar Feb 13th, 2014 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The purpose of Plan BA Activities is to determine the activities that must be performed and the deliverables that must be produced, estimate the effort required to perform that work, and identify the management tools required to measure the progress of those activities and deliverables.

Upon Completion, You will:

• Learn how these tools can support planning BA activities with focus on estimation of effort and tracking of progress of the activities against that estimate.

This webinar series is open to everyone in the BA community and we strongly encourage you to invite the senior leaders and key decision makers in your organization to attend.

Presenters:

LeanKit – LeanKit is a flexible, visual project management platform designed to improve team collaboration and efficiency. LeanKit’s built-in Forecasting and Risk Management tool provides the ability to harvest project data to accurately predict future delivery dates.

Sandhill Consultants –Sandhill Consultants is the leading provider of Process and Data Modeling solutions, services and training to organizations. Sandhill combines its process and data modeling experience with a standards-based repository to deliver successful outcomes between IT and the Business.

Polarion Software – Polarion Software are creators of an enterprise, web-based Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution. Polarion REQUIREMENTS, is an online Requirements Management solution to allow teams to create professional online Requirements Documents, leverage their existing Microsoft Office Documents, simplify collaboration, and support any process or workflow.

Click to register for IIBA: Plan Business Analysis Activities – BABOK® Guide Task 2.3