Live Webinar January 23rd, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

Waiting until the project is delivered to the customer is not the time to confirm, or not confirm, that objectives of the project are met.

Project managers and business analysts must understand how to analyze the various risks of the project objectives and develop ways to intermittently validate the attainment of those objectives. Learn the roles and responsibilities of the project manager, business analyst and quality assurance teams in successful project delivery.

Objectives:

• Define what Validation means as it relates to project delivery
• Define team roles and responsibilities as it relates to validation
• Identify the types of validation necessary for your project
• Develop action plans to validate key components of the project

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Live Webinar January 16th, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category C – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Note: Modern Analyst suggests that this session is Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. This session may be listed as a Category A opportunity at time of presentation. Further documentation information will be available at the end of the session.

Over the years I’ve found that many software organizations struggle with the same issues when it comes to requirements. Such troublesome topics include:

• how to define project scope;
• the connection between use cases and functional requirements;
• distinguishing requirements from design; and…
• how to use requirements management tools effectively.

Some of the questions I’m asked repeatedly don’t have simple answers that fit all situations, such as:

• “How detailed should the requirements be?” and…
• “Is it okay to duplicate requirements in the spec?”

– Karl Wiegers

This presentation addresses ten such “thorny issues” and tricky topics in requirements engineering. Karl will explain why each topic is important, and he will offer some practical advice about how to deal with each of these issues on your projects.

Presenters: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope

• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.4 Verify 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 January 11th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Identify Your Gold Plating Today!

Join us the IIBA as they demonstrate how you can manage end-to-end traceability for your business applications, products and medical systems.

Learning Objectives:

• They will demonstrate how you can ensure traceability compliance with federal regulations such as FDA CFR 21;
• Learn about Performing Gap & Impact Analyses
  • Perform Gap A nalysis:Are all business requirements implemented in the system?;
  • Perform Impact Analysis:
    • If I change this artifact of the system, how wide and major are the impacts?
    • How much it will destabilize the system? How much will it cost us?
• Learn how traceability can also help you answer question such as:
  • Why are we building a certain feature?
  • Is it really needed by stakeholders or is it just gold plating?

Click to register for IIBA: How to Manage End-to-End Requirements Traceability for Business Applications, Products & Medical Systems

Live Webinar December 19th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA And TechnoSolutions

TechnoSolutions will demonstrate the techniques that you can use to avoid the two problems that plague Business Analysis:

1. Missed Requirements and …
2. Misunderstood Requirements

You will see how Use Case text is automatically converted into Activity Diagrams, Screen Mockups are built and linked to Scenarios and Application Walkthroughs are conducted with Stakeholders to get high quality feedback.

Ashu Potnis and Jim Cochell of TechnoSolutions will also demonstrate how you can request Online Reviews and Approvals from stakeholders, and finally – Automatically generate Test Cases from Use Cases with Top Team Analyst.

PDU Category B documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.4 Verify Scope
• 5.5 Control Scope

As a Category B activity, remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for IIBA: How to Visualize Requirements with Use Cases, User Stories & Screen Mockups

Live Webinar December 13th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

A Business Analyst Needs To
Elicit, Analyze & Communicate Requirements

• But, how do you know what requirements to work on?
• And, how do you know when your job is complete?

Spending too much time working on unnecessary requirements can be as dangerous as missing needed requirements.

This webinar will review how tools help BAs understand the full scope of the requirements on which they need to work and how they are proceeding towards completion of their activities.

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

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. This webinar will also be archived and posted on their website for further viewing.

For more information on these tools please visit IIBA.org under Professional Development, Vendor Showcase Webinars.

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Live Webinar – November 28th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

Do you know how to effectively identify,document,and model the repeatable operational decisions crucial to success?

Effectively capturing and managing requirements is critical in any IT project. Business analysts and others gathering requirements know how to capture and document processes, data and user tasks.

1. But what about the decisions at the heart of your business?
2. How can you effectively identify, document and model the repeatable, operational decisions crucial to success with business rules and predictive analytics?

Thiswebinar will share practical advice developed from real-world customer projects:

• How to define decisions and what information to capture
• Putting decisions in a business context by linking to processes and business metrics
• Using decision dependency modeling to understand decisions so you can implement them effectively
• Linking decisions to your business rules and analytic implementations for maximum business agility

CEO James Taylor (LinkedIn profile) will host this webinar on Decision Management Systems. For more great information read James’ books Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics and Why You Need Smart Enough Systems.

Presenter: James Taylor is the CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and a leading expert in how to use business rules and analytic technology to build Decision Management Systems. If you are looking for information on decision Management Systems Sign up for his newsletter – Decision Management News. Read his blog: JT on EDM; or Follow him on Twitter: jamet123. James is passionate about using Decision Management Systems to help companies improve decision-making and develop an agile, analytic, and adaptive business.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 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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