Live Webinar March 7th, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Surveys and focus groups are an important, but often overlooked, requirements gathering technique, particularly when dealing with large numbers of stakeholders.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys. Additionally, the webinar will show how focus groups can be used to gather stakeholder feedback. Finally, the webinar will teach how to communicate insights gained from surveys and focus groups.

• Learn the value of surveys and focus groups and when to use them
• Learn how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys
• Learn how to leverage focus groups
• Learn how to report results of surveys and focus groups

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Live Webinar March 5th, 2013 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Note: This is an evening session in North America.

Join us as for another A.B.C. Series webinar as author Tom Gosselin discusses his book Practical Negotiating: Tools, Tactics & Techniques.

Upon completion of this session you will be able to:

• Distinguish between wants and needs – yours and the other party’s
• Creatively develop and use currencies to close the gap
• Assess and improve your power in a negotiation
• Learn a simple model to manage the process of negotiating

Forget the image of negotiation being a battlefield. Tom guides you in the development of a road map so both sides become winners and leave the table victorious.

His writing is just like his training-clear, concise, and practical. You can apply the process immediately.
—Steven Myers, Manager Philips Lighting Company

Presenter: Tom Gosselin (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar February 28th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The Business Analyst Core Concept Modelâ„¢ (BACCM) is an important new tool for understanding the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) and for understanding the Business Analysis profession.

In this episode, regular panellist Julian Sammy (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) is joined by Matthew Leach (LinkedIn profile) and Emily Iem (LinkedIn profile) — two core team members working on version 3 of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge®. They will discuss the BACCM, and how it has affected their understanding of the BABOK® Guide and the Business Analysis profession.

Outline:

1. Overview of BACCM: The concepts, the model, and the design of the model.
2. Rediscovering the BABOK® Guide: Panellists discuss some key insights facilitated by the Core Concepts and the BACCM.
3. Q&A: What do you want to know about the BACCM and the BABOK® Guide?

Click to register for IIBA: Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Episode 2 -The Business Analyst Core Concept Modelâ„¢

Live Webinar February 27th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1313
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Well-run requirements workshops are considered one of the most effective ways for delivering high-quality requirements quickly and accurately. They can also promote trust, mutual understanding, and strong communications amongst the project stakeholders and project teams, and increase the probability of producing the desired deliverables to the end-users.

In this webinar, you will learn useful guidelines for planning and conducting an effective requirements workshop; additionally, you will also get familiar with some of the most common processes and techniques used to overcome the challenges of requirements elicitation.

About the Presenter: Scott Kastner, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, CSM (Certified ScrumMaster), manages the IT Systems Operations at jetBlue Airways, and is also a business analysis and project management instructor and consultant. Scott’s strong technical background coupled with his practical business understanding has made him highly regarded in both the business analysis and project management communities.

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Live Webinar February 26th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The dramatic growth in mobile activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a wide variety of user behaviors.

Whether mobile users are communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting others to their location, purchasing goods or services, or reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself to customer and big data analytics.

Anindya Ghose will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from the use of apps, advertising, and commerce on mobile devices in the course of meeting some strategic goals and tactical issues.

A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the behavior of mobile users using big data analytics that combines statistical modeling with randomized experiments “in the wild”. This webinar will also focus on the differences between web and mobile analytics. Most people make the mistake of assuming mobile analytics is similar to web analytics, while they’re actually poles apart.

If we care about measurement using data, we have to care about how data was generated in the first place before doing any predictive, experimental or econometric analyses.

Key Takeaways from this session:

1. Understanding how the fragmented nature of the mobile ecosystem makes mobile analytics very different from web analytics.
2. Understanding audience behavior and advertising effectiveness on mobile devices

Presenter: Anindya Ghose (LinkedIn profile) is an Associate Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and the Robert L. & Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is the co-Director of the Center for Business Analytics at NYU Stern. He is an expert in quantifying the economic value from user-generated content in spaces mediated by social media; modeling and estimating the monetization of content through search engine advertising; modeling consumer behavior on mobile platforms; examining the drivers of crowd-funding, and measuring.

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Live Webinar January 31st, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Exploring the BABOK® Guide, a new, public IIBA webinar series launches on January 31, 2013 at 11 a.m. EST. Each webinar brings together a panel of Business Analysis thought leaders to explore A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) and the new Business Analyst Core Concept Modelâ„¢ (BACCM).

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 Modelâ„¢ (BACCM).

In the first episode of the series Kathleen Barret (CEO, IIBA) and Kevin Brennan (Chief Business Analyst and EVP, IIBA) join regular panellist Julian Sammy (Enterprise Business Analyst, IIBA) to describe the series, and provide an overview of the BABOK® Guide.

Panellists:

• Kathleen Barret (CEO, IIBA) (LinkedIn profile) : Expertise
• Kevin Brennan (Chief Business Analyst and EVP, IIBA) (LinkedIn profile) : Expertise
• Julian Sammy (EBA, IIBA) (LinkedIn profile) : Enterprise Business Analysis, BACCM

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