Live Webinar October 26th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

In many companies, the Requirements Definition process fails to define the “REAL” Business Need for a project.

What may appear to be a great solutions are often developed without any tie to the real project needs. Unfortunately, the discovery of missing, out of scope, or poorly defined requirements often happens much too late in the project lifecycle leading to project failure.

Avoiding these costly mistakes requires a clear understanding of the requirements definition process and the right tools and techniques to define complete requirements for a project.

Solutions Cube Group’s Building the Foundation for Clear Requirements webinar enables participants to recognize the barriers preventing project teams from defining clear requirements.

Participants will learn how to create a requirements definition foundation that engages the right stakeholders, alignment on the project scope and progressive elaboration techniques for maintaining the right level of focus throughout the requirements definition lifecycle.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• How to use the Project Scope Statement deliverables to guide the team’s creation of “real” project need and project solution statements
• How to use collaborative techniques to lead team members through requirements creation activities
• How to use the Wave Concept to progressively build requirements using collaborative techniques
• Techniques for ensuring the Requirements Definition efforts are on the right track, from the onset of the project

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Live Webinar – October 24th, 2012 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

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Live Webinar OCtober 19th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – FREE PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Over 66 % of projects fail never making it to implementation or deliver less than expected capabilities.

What stands between the project team’s efforts to understand and communicate project needs and a successful project implementation of those needs?

Learn how to recognize and overcome these far too common barriers regarding project requirements development.

In this webinar participants learn about :

• Barriers to stand in the way of communicating project needs
• Pre-requisite project work necessary to develop clear requirement statements
• Common problems associated with writing requirement statements

Solutions Cube Group webinars are presented by experienced staff members and partners who have over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing and running facilitated project meetings and delivering project management training courses.

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Live Webinar – October 10th, 2012 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

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Live Webinar OCtober 5th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Most projects have limitations they must operate within, pre-determined success criteria they must deliver on and unknown decisions that influence project work.

Finding out what these are after a solution is defined results in a waste of valuable project budget and schedule due to costly retrofitting or likely project failure.

It is crucial to understand the project limitations, regarding work being performed, and success factors the project is being measured on, as early as possible in the lifecycle.

Solutions Cube Group’s “Defining Project Constraints, CSFs and Assumptions” webinar provides an in depth lesson on developing three key Project Scope Statement deliverables: Project Constraints, Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Project Assumptions.

Students will learn how these deliverables help define the boundaries of the project work and the value they provide throughout the project lifecycle for making informed scoping decisions.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn to:

• Understand how to document Project Constraints to influence the manner in which the project is run and clarify the limitations the project solution must conform to:
  • Develop Critical Success Factors that define the key factors used to measure the success of the project
  • Define Project Assumptions to keep the project moving forward when decisions outside the control of the project team are yet to be made
  • Communicate why work has been included or excluded from the project effort
  • Understand how to use the CSFs and Project Assumptions to reduce subjectivity in determining when change requests are in or out of scope for a project

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Live Webinar – October 3rd, 2012 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

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.

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