Live Webinar – April 3rd, 2013 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 March 28th, 2012 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Many shy away from use cases within an Agile approach because they resemble the ways of elicitation and analysis from the Waterfall approach. However, regardless of how one approaches requirements analysis, the end goal is the same: help business users/stakeholders identify their true needs and translate them into requirements.

For Agile requirements to be successful, both must be leveraged to get to the heart of the most appropriate business solution that brings value to the customer.

Webinar attendees will learn about when to use use cases and when to user stories, within requirements gathering, to gain maximum value from both. This webinar offers tips and techniques that can be used today to gather stronger requirements.

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

Presented by: Nancy Y. Nee, PMP (LinkedIn profile), CBAP, CSM, Executive Director of Product Strategy, ESI International

Click to register for Effective Agile Requirements Need User Stories and Use Cases

Live Webinar March 25th, 2013 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Government CoP (REP #S007)

If I could only give one piece of advice to a new project manager or business analyst it would be to strive to understand what the real problem is before leaping into a solution requested by their business clients. – David Marsh

Join PMIs Government CoP in their first collaboration with the Requirements Management Community, as we learn from David Marsh, an expert in use case driven and agile development, in this webinar that will change the way you view the project requirements.

In this webinar, David’s objective is to guide the audience away from order-taking and towards becoming business-enablers on public sector projects.

David:

1. Argues that the consequences of failure for public sector software projects is higher than it is for private sector projects, especially in terms of visibility (and publicity)
2. Recounts some typical order-taking scenarios and explains their impacts
3. Reviews some proven techniques for root cause analysis (e.g., 5-whys and fishbone diagrams)
4. And then describes some of his own techniques for ensuring that business clients maximize the benefits they receive from technology implementation.

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

Presenter: David Marsh, David is a former military officer who has a proven track record of delivering successful solutions at several levels of government (Federal, Provincial/State, and Municipal) and in the technology, manufacturing, industries. David is an expert in use case-driven and agile development, and has been engaged on several occasions by Ivar Jacobson (inventor of the use case and co-inventor of the Unified Process) to help clients adopt agile use case practices.

Click to register for Moving from Requirements Order Taking to Business Enabler

Live Webinar March 21th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Business Analyst Helps Business Define
The Value Of Any Given Solution

Value is what a customer is willing to pay for. What is delivered goes beyond a customer’s expectations – that is value. Value is something the customer cares about. Join our panel to discuss the definition of value and its application in the practice of business analysis.

You will:

• Explore your definition of value
• Be able to explain why the definition of value is an important BA activity
• Ask questions of the panelists
• Share your opinion

The BABOK^® Guide is the foundation of the business analysis profession, and the starting point for a business analysis career – but it’s not the whole story. In the years since IIBA published version 2, the Business Analysis community has discovered many important implications to the knowledge collected in the book. Many of these realizations are integrated into a new model for understanding the BABOK^® Guide, called the Business Analyst Core Concept Model^â„¢ (BACCM).

Each episode will bring together different thought leaders from the Business Analysis community, to explore some aspect of Business Analysis, and to provide advice to practicing BAs. Each hour-long show will begin with a presentation and discussion of some aspect of the BABOK® Guide, followed about 30 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

Panellists:

Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty 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 the newly published book, Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and is currently working on Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Mary Gorman CBAP, CSM (LinkedIn profile), is VP of quality and delivery at EBG Consulting. Mary works with global clients, speaks at industry conferences, and writes on requirements topics for the business analysis community. In addition to serving on the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® Committee for four years, Mary helped create the first CBAP® certification exam.

Julian Sammy(LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) (EBA, IIBA): Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK^® Guide

Click to register for IIBA: Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Episode III – What is Value?

Live Webinar – March 20th, 2013 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

Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and on budget consistently.

According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is directly proportional to the likelihood of project success.

Companies invest millions of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise; the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher.

For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent and measurable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect by improving organizational Requirements Maturity

Learning Objectives:

1. The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives.
2. The Requirements Maturity Model.
3. A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities.

Click to register for Managing Requirements Maturity

Live Webinar March 14th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Problem Tracking Systems
Ensure Issues Are Not Neglected Or Lost

Problem tracking provides an organized approach to tracking, management, and resolution of defects, issues, problems, and risks throughout business analysis activities.

Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure success. Problems may include issues, questions, risks, defects, conflicts, or other concerns that need to be tracked to resolution.

This webinar series is open to everyone in the BA Community and the IIBA strongly encourages you to invite your project Managers, senior leaders and key decision makers in your organization to attend. This webinar will also be archived and posted on our website for further viewing.

Join IIBA for their vendor webinar series dedicated to showing you specific tools that will help you perform your business analysis duties more effectively.

Click to register for IIBA: Vendor Showcase: Problem Tracking (BABOK® Guide Technique 9.20)