Live Webinar August 19th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The dramatic growth in mobile and wearable computing activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a wide variety of user behavior in the digital world.

Whether mobile users are communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting others to their location, purchasing goods or services, redeeming coupons or reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Compounding this data generation is the imminent adoption and usage of different kinds of wearable computing devices.

Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself to deeper explanatory and predictive models in the realm of customer analytics.

Anindya Ghose (LinkedIn profile) will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from the use of apps and advertising on mobile devices and their integration with wearable computing devices, in the course of meeting some strategic goals and tactical issues for firms.

A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the “mobile shopper” using tools from business analytics that combine statistical and econometric modeling with randomized experiments “in the wild”.

3 learning points:

1. Understanding audience behavior and advertising effectiveness on mobile devices
2. Understanding how consumers respond to geo targeting and geo fencing strategies using smart phone technologies.
3. Exploring the implications of wearable computing devices on marketing.

This webinar will cover several projects that Anindya has undertaken in multiple countries in Asia and Europe as well as discuss the state of the art knowledge in this space.

Presenter: Anindya Ghose

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 10.2 Manage Communications

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’

Click to register for IIBA: Mobile and Wearable Computing: Using Data Analytics to Understand the Mobile Shopper

Online Webinar  – Recorded May 8th, 2014
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Process management helps to provide a line of sight from strategy through execution of organizational initiatives.

Akin to the business analysis (BA) requirements discipline, this traceability enables performance maturity, better communication, clearer roles and responsibilities, and good governance.

Clarification of problems or opportunities for improvement is integral to business analysis and process management.

In each, you must elicit and clearly state a specific problem that quantifiably affects business/operation and that ultimately matters to your customers.

Process management is:

• An integral part of business analysis, implementation, improvement, and sustainability,
• Solves problems, and
• Expedites risk identification, mitigation, and impact.

In this webinar I will explain how to:

• Tie process management to organizational strategy,
• Use process management as a foundation of good decision making, change management, and governance, and
• Increase efficiency and value optimization throughout the organization.

Presenter: Mark Barnett, PhD, MBA (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Executive Consultant, at Robbins-Gioia, LLC and has more than 15 years of experience leading complex business transformations within multiple industries, including oil & gas, high-tech R&D and manufacturing, telecommunications, and insurance and financial services.

Click to register for IIBA: Overcome Risk Using Process Management And Improvement

Live Webinar – August 1st 2014, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Understanding the real scope of any project is vital to controlling the project.

As a project manager or business analyst, it is key to first document the initial scope of the project and then direct, monitor and control the scope through Requirements Management techniques.

Learning these techniques provide the ability to more easily control the quality issues, costs, time and risks associated with on-going scope creep associated with requirements changes.

In this seminar you will:

• Review the role of a facilitator in running a Requirements Workshop.
• Learn the phases of a workshop and building the “Heart” of a workshop’s agenda.
• Review useful facilitation techniques along with failures and critical success factors.
• And more…

Presenter: Bob Keith

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.1 Plan Scope Management
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.5 Validate 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’

Click to register for Requirements Facilitation Workshop

Live Webinar – July 23rd, 2014 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

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Featured Speaker: Rob Stewart, IAG Consulting (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

Live Webinar July 24th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)

Join Jeff Adams, (LinkedIn profile) PMP CSM, Senior Director, PMO for software development, professional services and process improvement for HealthStream and Barry Young, (LinkedIn profile) HealthStream’s Associate Vice President of Business Analysis and User Experience as they detail how they used agile project management toimprove patient and project outcomes.

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

Click to register for Improving Patient & Project Outcomes Through Agile Project Management & Business Analysis Collaboration

Live Webinar July 24th, 2014 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU/CDU  Cat B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

1. A Process Analyst specializes in bringing change to organizations through the analysis, design and implementation of the business processes that keep organizations running, and the management of changes to those processes.
2. Business Intelligence practitioner makes use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory, predictive modeling and fact-based management to drive decision making. He or she helps the organization achieve business objectives faster, with less risk and at a lower cost by improving how information is recognized and acted upon.

If you are interested in building new skills or exploring BA career options, this webinar will provide information about

1. The role these business analysts play in organizational success
2. The Skills and knowledge needed for each role
3. The Skills and knowledge needed for each role
4. The Skills and knowledge needed for each role
5. The demand for those skills in the market place
6. The career path from where you are to what is possible

Click to register for IIBA: Beyond Requirements Business: Process Management and Business Intelligence