Live Webinar June 28th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

Business Analysts and Architects are facing a challenge: well beyond defining digital systems or solutions, we are expected to lead the way into the digital future of a customer-centric, well-executing enterprise, apt to deal with disruption and rapid to adapt.

Yet IIBA methods and tools keep us busy gathering loads of requirements and documenting today’s complexity, making us seem like show stoppers rather than agents of change.

People’s eyes glaze over at long lists and complicated models, tired of the difficulties they entail.

Whilewe cannot ignore the complexity that surrounds us, we need better tools to engage, co-create, validate and convey the transformations and innovations we envision.

Join Milan Guenther (LinkedIn profile) in this informative webinar on how to reposition analysis, architecture and design work to reclaim the driver’s seat in digital transformation.

This means shifting our focus to Enterprise Design:

1. From modelling the inner workings to covering our ecosystem
2. From solution requirements to holistic design practice
3. From mapping today’s complexity to future strategic scenarios
4. From operations and technology to customer value creation
5. From busy diagrams to capturing what matters to our audience

Links
* Smarter with Gartner blog post
** Enterprise Design Framework

Click to register for:
IIBA: The Enterprise Design Framework:
An Alternate Approach To Define Challenges,
Scope & Frame Initiatives

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Live Webinar – June 27th, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts.

The definition of the business requirements for analytical processing / decision support systems require different techniques than the process and data modeling used for transactional processing systems.

For a BI project, Business Analysts and Project Managers need to identify the business questions, facts, measures, and dimensions needed for the data warehouse.

IAG will provide a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply process that analyzes and defines the business objectives, usage scenarios, questions and queries that will yield the a conceptual multi-dimension model and form the basis of the business requirements for the data warehouse and business intelligence system requirements of your projects.

Learning Objectives:

1. How to conduct data warehouse business analysis
2. How to elicit requirements for the business intelligence aspects of projects
3. How to define requirements for on-line analytical processing and decision support systems

Click to register for:
Requirements Definition Best Practices
For Business Intelligence Projects

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Live Webinar – June 20th, 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

The large, complex project brings with it a unique set of problems that may not be encountered in a smaller project.

This one-hour webinar will focus on the planning phase for a large, complex project.

Learn the importance of developing an understanding of the complete scope of analysis and developing an integrated series of requirements plans to eliminate redundancy of effort and to provide for better input to the high level architectural design decisions that must be made.

Learning Objectives:

• How to define the complete scope of analysis
• How to develop comprehensive, integrated Requirements Management Plans
• How to ensure the necessary and sufficient input is available to optimize the high level architectural design decisions

What’s Included:

• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• Large Project Requirements Planning Checklist
• Large Project Vision and Scope Document Template
• Large Project Requirements Management Plan Template

Click to register for:
Tips For Planning Requirements Elicitation
On Large Projects

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Live Webinar – June 6th, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This two-hour webinar covers techniques and guidelines for defining the type of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for application software.

In order for Project Managers and Business Analysts to evaluate vendors and their software proposals, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

• The methods for defining requirements for a software product are different than for custom developed solution.
• The documentation and templates of business requirements is different when they’re being written for vendor selection.
• The level of detail and what included and excluded is critical to a successful vendor assessment.

Learn answers to these issues and more in this valuable webinar.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn an effective approach for collecting requirements for inclusion in an RFP
2. Understand the essential types of requirements to be elicited and included in commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) RFP
3. Learn what should be included and the sufficient level of detail for an RFQ/RFP
4. Learn the best format and templates for writing requirements for a COTS solution

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Requirements Definition Best Practices For Software RFPs

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Live Webinar May 16th 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

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

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Live Webinar – April 18th, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour  2 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This webinar provides a practical framework to measure and manage improvement in the area of business analysis and requirements.

This session will help any champion, sponsor or manager implement positive changes in the area of requirements and business analysis.

If your organization is implementing agile or lean practices, integrating ALM or RDM tools, aligning requirements practices with your PMP or SDLC, designing training for BAs, or setting up a Center of Excellence, this webinar will help you bring it all together.

The 6 critical components to a holistic program for maturity improvement are:

• Process standardization and improvement
• Integration of best practices and techniques
• Technology implementation
• Competent staff resources
• Quality deliverables yielding improved results
• Infrastructure and organizational support

You will hear hard hitting statistics on the benefits of maturing your requirements management capabilities that you can use to help build a business case for your own improvement initiatives.

Learn dozens of key success factors and strategies for championing change throughout your organization’s business analysis and requirements management groups.

Go step by step, through the essential stages of a transformation program geared to improve any organization’s requirements practice.

Whether you have direct responsibility for your organization’s Business Analysis and Requirements Practice, or you are an advocate, a champion or a critical team member, you will undoubtedly take away ideas you can put to use to help improve your organization’s level of requirements management maturity.

Learning Objectives:

• How to start a requirements practice transformation program
• What is Requirements Management Maturity (RMM)
• How to assess your organizations current requirements practice using a Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (RMMA)
• How to use the RMM model to promote and drive change/improvement
• Understand key elements of an efficient project plan for improving your organization’s Requirements Practice
• What is the role of a Requirements Management Office

Click to register for:
Strategies To Requirements Definition &
Management Maturity

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