Live Webinar October 3rd, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected.

There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results.

Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

Learning objectives include:

• Understand the application domain
• Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders
• Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use
• Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques
• Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation
• Send input material to participants in advance with clearly defined objectives for the specific elicitation events
• Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources
• Assign a scribe for note taking and use a whiteboard or a smart screen to document the requirements
• Use a standardized requirements document template
• Continue to revalidate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon by those who read them – business stakeholders AND implementers

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile),, MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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Live Webinar – October 2nd, 2013 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)

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Live Webinar September 26th, 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)
Presented by:

We never have enough time to do it right, but we always have enough time to do it over.

Does this often quoted remark summarize projects that you’ve managed?

Poor project requirements not only “cost” time and money, they can “cost” you your job!

Study after study shows that it can cost 1,000 times more to fix a requirements problem during the execution phase (or worse, after the project has been delivered), than if that same problem were discovered in the planning phase.

Although the IT industry is the celebrated “poster child” for such requirements issues, no industry sector is immune from the problem; to be sure, the construction industry has certainly had more than its fair share of blunders and mistakes in the form of cost and schedule overruns, quality issues, and unhappy customers due to poor project requirements.

• Is there anything that can be done to mitigate the problem?
• Are we forever resigned to the fact that poor project requirements are just a part of life and the cost of doing business?

J. LeRoy Ward doesn’t think so, and he will present a pragmatic, proven approach to writing better project requirements learned from his more than 35 years of experience in the field. Using examples from multiple industry sectors, he will prove we don’t have to accept the status quo.

Poor project requirements not only “cost” time and money, they can “cost” you your job!

Learn the 4 steps to writing better project requirements including 11 elicitation techniques and 6 ways to document requirements for any project.

You can reduce your risk of incomplete and inaccurate requirements and delight clients at the same time.

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

Presented by: J. LeRoy Ward, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, PgMP®, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy & Management, ESI International is the author of many publications including: theDictionary of Project Management Terms 3rd edition, thePMP Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide, Eighth Edition, Conversations on Passing the PMP® Exam,, the PgMP® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide, Fourth Edition,

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Live Webinar – Sept 19th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
By BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hrs 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.99 USD for 2 PDU / CDU

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All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
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Enfocus Solutions Inc.’s Chief Visionary Officer, John Parker, discusses the complexities of agile requirements, sharing lessons learned and best practices specific to this iterative and incremental approach to development.

The webinar covers agile requirements in large enterprises, the role of business analysts, and how user stories can be defined and elaborated using test scenarios, user conversations, and functional and nonfunctional requirements.

The 2 hour presentation is a must-attend for organizations looking to move to agile, and for product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, and agile teams in organizations already using the method.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Learn how applying Agile in the Enterprise is different than using Agile on small software development projects.
• Learn about the fundamentals of agile requirements including user stories, conversations, and confirmations.Learn about how agile projects should start with clear business objectives and how each story should be directly tied to the business objectives.

More Learning Objectives:

• Learn why it is easier to start with epics instead of stories when appying Agile to enterprise projects.
• Learn how to trace development and test artifacts to user stories to epics and to business objectives.
• Learn why there is a need for multiple backlogs for managing agile requirements.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides
• Some Additional Practice Aids of how to Apply Agile in the Enterprise

Presenter: John E. Parker – (LinkedIn profile) Enfocus Solutions Inc. is a seasoned expert in IT strategy, requirements management, business analysis, project management, IT strategic planning, and IT value management. . Drawing from his vast knowledge of business analyses and project management, John leads the design and development of Enfocus Requirements Suite’s valuable mind maps, templates, examples, and tools. John also regularly blogs and shares his expertise and insights.

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Live Webinar Sept 18th, 2013 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

Delivering products and services to market is a major investment, therefore many organizations look to requirements reuse as a way to speed business innovation, reduce risk, and control costs. Requirements reuse enables you to create a set of requirements once and use those to support other products, markets, channels and customers.

Join Karl Wiegers, the renowned author and speaker on requirements management, and Matt Walker, Jama Solutions Architect, as they discuss the following topics:

• Different kinds of requirements reuse
• Classes of requirements information that have reuse potential
• Recommendations on how to make requirements reuse work for you

Presenters:

Matt Walker, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Architect, Jama Software

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.

His published books include:

• Software Requirements 3rd ed.
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice
• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture
• Pearls from Sand: How Small Encounters Lead to Powerful Lessons

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 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’

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Live Webinar – September 12th 2013, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Cat B – Free PDU
Hosted By: Systemation

Who’s Managing Scope In Your Latest Project?

The PM, the BA, the project sponsor, the consulting team, no one?

Scope management is everyone’s responsibility. But most people not only don’t know that, they don’t know how to take ownership of one of the most important parts of any work effort. It’s time for everyone to learn what it takes to own scope and manage it

Presenter: Tawnya Sawyer (LinkedIn profile)

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