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

This Discussion Takes Scope To Another Level

The Panelists

• Julian Sammy EBA, IIBA (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba )
• Deb Oliver, IIBA (BA Connection interview)
  
• Ronald G. Ross, (LinkedIn profile) Business Rule Solutions LLC profile

This Session:

The panelists will provide their views on what is relevant to change – context, and how context and the change itself represent the situation. They will discuss how the environment is analyzed to determine what is in context.This one-hour informative session will give you another perspective what a business analyst needs to consider for any change initiative.

The Series:

The BABOK^® Guide is the foundation of the business analysis profession, and the starting point for a business analysis career – but it’s not the whole story. In the years since IIBA published version 2, the Business Analysis community has discovered many important implications to the knowledge collected in the book. Many of these realizations are integrated into a new model for understanding the BABOK^® Guide, called the Business Analyst Core Concept Model^â„¢ (BACCM).

Each episode will bring together different thought leaders from the Business Analysis community, to explore some aspect of Business Analysis, and to provide advice to practicing BAs. Each hour-long show will begin with a presentation and discussion of some aspect of the BABOK® Guide, followed about 30 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

Click to register for IIBA: Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Environment, Situation, Context, Change – Episode 7

Recorded Webinar
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

Click to register for 5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

Live Webinar – June 26th, 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?

Click to register for Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

Live Webinar June 26th, 2012 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI Requirements Management CoP (REP #S055)
Presented by: Ellen Gottesdiener

Problems that result from an unclear, ambiguous, or inaccurate understanding of product scope can permeate and threaten your entire project. This is known as “scope creep”—the unrestrained expansion of requirements as the project proceeds.

Scope creep is often cited as a cause of excess costs, late delivery, and dissatisfied customers.

Yet discovering requirements is about gaining an ever‐growing understanding of them. So isn’t scope creep to be expected? Can—and should—you identify and limit the scope of a product’s requirements?

Join Ellen Gottesdiener, author, facilitator, practitioner, and trainer, as she shares tools and techniques for efficiently and effectively identifying and managing product scope. Learn how you can provide real value to your projects by reducing the risks of scope creep while establishing clear project focus.

NOTE: There will be EBG Giveaways during the live webinar

Three winners will receive a book of Ellen’s via a drawing from live attendees. The books to be given away are:

1. Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysisby Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman (EBG Consulting, Inc., 2012)
2. The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Teams Develop and Manage Requirements (GOAL/QPC, 2005)
3. Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs(Addison‐Wesley, 2002)

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

Presenter: Ellen Gottesdiener, (LinkedIn profile @ellengott), is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. As founder of is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, she works with global clients and speaks at numerous numerous industry conferences. Ellen has authored of two acclaimed books: Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger TM. – Ellen has recently co-authored (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices,Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning & Analysis.

Click to register for Rope Your Scope: Reining in Scope Creep

Live Webinar June 13th, 2013 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

This lively discussion explores the definition of change and the role of business analysis in change. The question “are project the only vehicle for organizational change?” will be explored. The many aspects of change will be addressed by our panelists. This session will give you a new perspective on what change is in an organization!

Presenters:

Julian Sammy (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) Enterprise Business Analysis and Core Team Lead BABOK® Guide, author of many articles and quick tips and the IIBA peer review journal Best Practices for Better Business Analysis

Celia Wolf, (LinkedIn profile) Publisher/CEO of BP Trends and Managing Director, BP Trends Associates has over 25 years of experience in business development, operations management, and marketing across a broad range of industries and markets.

Steven P.Blais, PMP (LinkedIn profile) has over 42 years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. He specializes in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment.

Click to register for IIBA: Project vs. Controlled Organizational Change – Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Episode 6

Live Webinar June 13th, 2013 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hours 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDUs
Presented by: Praxis (REP #1231)

NOTE: Although Praxis is an REP they have stated that this opportunity will not be registered with PMI® as a Category A opportunity. If you have any questions contact Mrs Jamie Morris with Praxis. See below for Category C documentation details.

Software Quality Assurance and Validation professionals operate in an ever changing regulatory environment.

It can be difficult to find the time to monitor the US and international information to be aware of new regulations, guidance documents, and enforcement trends.

This session will quickly bring you back up to the minute!

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.3 Control Quality

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 Software Quality Regulatory Trends