Live Webinar October 23, 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category B – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

Requirements definition and management and business architecture are complimentary disciplines that must blend together to create the tune everyone wants to hear: Project success and business value.

Organizational strategies need to be linked to:

• Objectives,
• Goals,
• Projects,
• Capabilities,
• Functions,
• Processes, and
• Use cases

While requirements are instrumental in clarifying visions and building solutions into the business architecture.

These two ends of the spectrum of planning and operationalizing value need to function together to maximize business benefits from IT investment.

In this one-hour webinar, Enfocus Solutions, Inc., CEO Keith Ellis (LinkedIn profile) details how to synchronize the projects and requirements layer and the business architecture layer.

Participants will leave with new insights on how to harmonize requirements, manage impact, and value management – all to drive organizational performance, decrease costs, and increase efficiencies

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 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.’

Click to register for Harmonizing Requirements and Business Architecture

Live Webinar October 22nd, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Business Analysis Continues To Evolve

Within companies, new roles and titles like product manager, strategic analyst, enterprise analyst are emerging.

…. And outside, some BAs are starting to peddle their services as independents.

That small but growing number of consulting BAs face many challenges and decisions in booting up their solo practice.

This session will elaborate several different approaches and business models to going independent, and will present case studies from five different practitioners who have “taken their show on the road”.

Upon Completion, You will:

1. Know the challenges and rewards of going independent
2. Understand four valid business models for solo BA practice
3. Gained confidence to begin exploring your own possibility for going solo
4. Hear directly from BAs who have made the jump

Presenter: Curtis Michelson (LinkedIn profile, @SpecsRex) is a Board officer of IIBA Central IIBA Florida chapter and brings a diverse professional background to bear on his consulting practice as a solo business analyst, speaker and trainer.With over 15 years in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as well as prior work in Marketing and Communications, he brings a wide-angle view to organizational change initiatives.

Click to register for IIBA: Taking Your BA Show On The Road: A Closer Look At Those Who Are Going Independent

Live Webinar – October 17th 2013, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
RESCHEDULED to October 31st 2013, 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

In this webinar, Rob will review best practices in organizing how to break requirements into topics for elicitation for a particular project.

While there are many ways to extract requirements such as individual interviews, job shadowing, facilitated requirements workshops, surveys, reviewing existing documentation, etc., this webinar focuses on identifying what you need to achieve when you employ those various elicitation techniques.

For example, it would be ineffective to just starting asking:

• “What are your requirements for the new system”
• ….. And then start a long list of ideas all over the continuum.

You need to identify a strategy:

• What’s in/out of scope?
• What are the functions?
• Or what are the use cases?
• Or what processes are we automating/improving?

Consider these situations:

• Requirements for new product,
• Requirements for a data warehouse for reporting,
• Requirements to improve a website for customers doing online ordering,
• Requirements for new capabilities for an existing system,
• Requirements for a system to replace an existing system, etc.
• Who are the SMEs for these various topics?
• What can I do to maximize getting unambiguous requirements once I’ve identified the SMEs?

This webinar addresses these and other issues.

Presenter: Rob Snowden (LinkedIn profile, bio)

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management

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 Foundations of Requirements Development

Live Webinar October 17th, 2012 – 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)

Is your Requirements & Collections Management Effective?

Join this vibrant PMI Community Of practice to gain insight into increasing your effectiveness collecting and managing them

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

Presenter: Frank Parth (LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Effective Requirements Collection & Management

Live Webinar October 11th, 2013 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?

This question will be answered during our 1 hour Webinar: Tackling 4 Requirement Pitfalls Leading to Project Failure.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• 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

Join the Solutions Cube Group for this free 1 hour webinar and learn how to recognize and overcome these far too common barriers regarding project requirements development.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

Click to purchase Tackling 4 Requirement Pitfalls

Live Webinar – October 8th 2013, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

Note: You may have to click the “Public Sessions” tab on the top of the page for this opportunity to appear.

Improved communication skills” emerge repeatedly on surveys and research as an ability critical to project success.

This webinar will consider the good, bad, and ugly of communication and provide tips and techniques for project communication that works.

• Understand the format of user stories and acceptance criteria,
• Discuss hints and tips for writing them, and
• Review ways to “discover” them through collaborative techniques.

Presenter: Alison Sigmon(LinkedIn profile)

Click to register for Walk the Talk on Projects: Effective Communication that Goes the Distance