Live Webinar October 23rd, 2013 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, you will learn about the important relationship between Business Analysts and Project Managers, in the context of a four-step process for eliciting effective requirements.

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Live Webinar October 23, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Requirements definition and management and business architecture are complimentary disciplines that must blend together to create the tune everyone wants to hear: Project success and business value.

Organizational strategies need to be linked to:

• Objectives,
• Goals,
• Projects,
• Capabilities,
• Functions,
• Processes, and
• Use cases

While requirements are instrumental in clarifying visions and building solutions into the business architecture.

These two ends of the spectrum of planning and operationalizing value need to function together to maximize business benefits from IT investment.

In this one-hour webinar, Enfocus Solutions, Inc., CEO Keith Ellis (LinkedIn profile) details how to synchronize the projects and requirements layer and the business architecture layer.

Participants will leave with new insights on how to harmonize requirements, manage impact, and value management – all to drive organizational performance, decrease costs, and increase efficiencies

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 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 October 22nd, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Business Analysis Continues To Evolve

Within companies, new roles and titles like product manager, strategic analyst, enterprise analyst are emerging.

…. And outside, some BAs are starting to peddle their services as independents.

That small but growing number of consulting BAs face many challenges and decisions in booting up their solo practice.

This session will elaborate several different approaches and business models to going independent, and will present case studies from five different practitioners who have “taken their show on the road”.

Upon Completion, You will:

1. Know the challenges and rewards of going independent
2. Understand four valid business models for solo BA practice
3. Gained confidence to begin exploring your own possibility for going solo
4. Hear directly from BAs who have made the jump

Presenter: Curtis Michelson (LinkedIn profile, @SpecsRex) is a Board officer of IIBA Central IIBA Florida chapter and brings a diverse professional background to bear on his consulting practice as a solo business analyst, speaker and trainer.With over 15 years in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as well as prior work in Marketing and Communications, he brings a wide-angle view to organizational change initiatives.

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Live Webinar – October 17th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
RESCHEDULED to October 31st 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

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In this webinar, Rob will review best practices in organizing how to break requirements into topics for elicitation for a particular project.

While there are many ways to extract requirements such as individual interviews, job shadowing, facilitated requirements workshops, surveys, reviewing existing documentation, etc., this webinar focuses on identifying what you need to achieve when you employ those various elicitation techniques.

For example, it would be ineffective to just starting asking:

• “What are your requirements for the new system”
• ….. And then start a long list of ideas all over the continuum.

You need to identify a strategy:

• What’s in/out of scope?
• What are the functions?
• Or what are the use cases?
• Or what processes are we automating/improving?

Consider these situations:

• Requirements for new product,
• Requirements for a data warehouse for reporting,
• Requirements to improve a website for customers doing online ordering,
• Requirements for new capabilities for an existing system,
• Requirements for a system to replace an existing system, etc.
• Who are the SMEs for these various topics?
• What can I do to maximize getting unambiguous requirements once I’ve identified the SMEs?

This webinar addresses these and other issues.

Presenter: Rob Snowden (LinkedIn profile, bio)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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 October 17th, 2012 – 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)

Is your Requirements & Collections Management Effective?

Join this vibrant PMI Community Of practice to gain insight into increasing your effectiveness collecting and managing them

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

Presenter: Frank Parth (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar October 3rd, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

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 revalidate 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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