Live Webinar November 29th 2018 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

In this webinar, Mark Monteleone describes and compares functional and nonfunctional requirements and how to document them using declaratives, user stories, and use cases in the context of software applications.

Mark starts the webinar by briefly reviewing the source of business needs; enterprise analysis.

He lists four requirement levels:

• Business; needs that are required to compete or be in compliance
• Stakeholder; what stakeholder capabilities are needed to realize business needs
• Solution; what product or service requirements are needed to provide stakeholder capabilities and under what conditions are the capabilities effective and efficient
• Transition; what product or service requirements are needed to ensure a smooth change in implementing the new capabilities.

With that quick background, Mark focuses the webinar by further decomposing solution requirements into functional capabilities and nonfunctional conditions and formally defines the word requirement.

Mark highlights how these requirements are documented by business analysts using:

• Action Verbs for functional requirements with references to business rules, and
• Adjectives and nouns for nonfunctional requirements with embedded metrics.

Mark then shows how functional and nonfunctional requirements are documented using declaratives, user stories, and use cases.

To ensure clarity, he wraps-up the webinar by providing several examples of functional capabilities paired with nonfunctional conditions using the above techniques.

Presenter: Mark Monteleone, (BA Times bio) CBAP, PMP  an independent consultant and author of The 20 Minute Business Analyst: a collection of short articles, humorous stories, and quick reference cards for the busy analyst  Mark has also written several articles in Modern Analyst, BA Times, BA Connection, International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and Global Flipchart. Mark also instructs courses on business analysis and project management plus consults on business applications and projects in more than 35 countries.

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Functional vs. Nonfunctional Requirements

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Online Webinar  – Recorded October 8th 2018
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On Agile projects, requirements are susceptible to change as priorities shift and the customer or product owner discover additional needs or a new direction.

Instead of requirements being collected in one lengthy document, they are distributed in the form of user stories and epics.

In addition, the highest priorities can be condensed into a minimum viable product, or MVP, representing only what is needed to launch the product and nothing more.

Requirements gathering for Agile projects differs from other environments and carries its own challenges, including identifying all stakeholders, setting up frequent meetings, and more.

User stories, epics, MVPs, and backlog grooming are all unique features of Agile requirements gathering. How do business analysts use these features and work within Agile projects to generate requirements iteratively?

Join NK Shrivastava of RefineM & learn how to effectively gather business requirements on Agile projects. Be exposed to techniques including brainstorming, focus groups, user story splitting, and many others.

Leave the webinar ready to gather business requirements on Agile projects.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

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Business Requirements Gathering For Agile Projects

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Live Webinar November 6th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Requirements are at the core of any project, and, therefore, must be carefully managed.

Learn the essential requirements management practices, including the requirements life cycle from inception to implementation, requirements management planning, and requirements management tools.

Learn how to write SMART requirements statements that are useful and actionable, and finally, Martin will contrast and compare the traditional requirements management approach with agile requirements management.

Learning objectives include:

1. Understand the requirements management process
2. Learn how to write good requirements
3. Appreciate the value of a requirements management plan
4. Contrast plan-driven and change-driven requirements management approaches

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Getting it Right:
Best Practices For Requirements Management

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Live Webinar September 12th 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

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?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar September 13th, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Scott Ambler, a key founder of the Agile movement accurately stated, “If a requirement was misunderstood, all modeling decisions based on that requirement are invalid, the code written is also in question, and the testing efforts are now verifying the application under the wrong conditions”.

Project failures caused by poor requirements management are now reduced from 72% in 2005 to about 55% today by using proven best practices. We need to get closer to 10% to be a mature industry.

Imagine if 55% of the homes built had to be built over and over!

Requirements skills and importance continue to grow. Organizations who plan to survive rapid changes like cloud migration, cyber security threats, artificial intelligence, enterprise transformation projects and an aging workforce leaving with years of knowledge need to manage requirements across a wider landscape of stakeholders as the digital revolution gains in importance.

C Level leaders are learning that when their IT organizations ignore requirements quality, reuse, and traceability they suffer fines over $47 million USD.  Learn how to improve your practice using effective methods, techniques, and tools.

In this webinar you will learn insights, methods, techniques and tools used by a proven and pragmatic journeyman Business Architect Learn how to become a highly effective Business Analyst and save your organization pain and cost?

Topics covered include:

• Requirements across the entire landscape
• The semantics of Requirements
• Reuse Requirements
• Requirements traceability
• Requirements Management tools

Scott Ambler, (LinkedIn profile) Chief Methodologist/Agile, IBM Rational Scott travels the world helping clients to understand and adopt software processes that are right for them. A prolific author, Scott has received awards for several books, including those focused on the Unified Process, agile software development, Unified Modeling Language, and development based on the CMM (Capability Maturity Model). A widely recognized expert on Agile Process, he is a regular speaker at international IT conferences and a senior contributing editor for Information Week. Scott also wrote the Agile Software Development at Scale blog on IBM developerWorks.

Some Of Scott’s Award Winning Agile & Technical Bestsellers Are:

• Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
• Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process
• Process Patterns: Building Large-Scale Systems Using Object Technology (SIGS: Managing Object Technology series)
• More Process Patterns: Delivering Large-Scale Systems Using Object Technology

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Requirements In Context

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Live Webinar – July 25th 2018 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

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.

Presenter: Rob Stewart,(LinkedIn profile) IAG Consulting

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Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

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