Live Webinar March 14th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

Problem Tracking Systems
Ensure Issues Are Not Neglected Or Lost

Problem tracking provides an organized approach to tracking, management, and resolution of defects, issues, problems, and risks throughout business analysis activities.

Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure success. Problems may include issues, questions, risks, defects, conflicts, or other concerns that need to be tracked to resolution.

This webinar series is open to everyone in the BA Community and the IIBA strongly encourages you to invite your project Managers, senior leaders and key decision makers in your organization to attend. This webinar will also be archived and posted on our website for further viewing.

Join IIBA for their vendor webinar series dedicated to showing you specific tools that will help you perform your business analysis duties more effectively.

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Live Webinar March 15th, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $15 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Project teams must be able to understand and document the full scope of their project effort and communicate all of the project deliverables that must be built. Without this complete picture of the project outcomes, the risk of project failure increases due to higher probability that requirements and related solutions will missed from the project effort.

Establishing the project’s Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) provides the most comprehensive baseline of expected project deliverables. Building the WBS is not a one time project activity. The WBS is expanded using progressive elaboration to incorporate growing knowledge of the project as the project scope is being defined.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn about:

• Factors that influence the content of the WBS
• Updating the WBS to reflect clarifications provided by Objectives, Context Diagram, Constraints, CSFs and Project Assumptions
• Ensuring the WBS accurately reflects only those deliverables that are in scope for the project

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join them for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn about how the Project Scope Statement provides valuable knowledge to build and adjust the WBS ensuring it represents the full scope of the project effort.

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Live Webinar March 7th, 2013 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Surveys and focus groups are an important, but often overlooked, requirements gathering technique, particularly when dealing with large numbers of stakeholders.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys. Additionally, the webinar will show how focus groups can be used to gather stakeholder feedback. Finally, the webinar will teach how to communicate insights gained from surveys and focus groups.

• Learn the value of surveys and focus groups and when to use them
• Learn how to construct, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys
• Learn how to leverage focus groups
• Learn how to report results of surveys and focus groups

About the Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) 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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Live Webinar February 28th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The Business Analyst Core Concept Modelâ„¢ (BACCM) is an important new tool for understanding the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) and for understanding the Business Analysis profession.

In this episode, regular panellist Julian Sammy (LinkedIn profile, @sci_ba ) is joined by Matthew Leach (LinkedIn profile) and Emily Iem (LinkedIn profile) — two core team members working on version 3 of A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge®. They will discuss the BACCM, and how it has affected their understanding of the BABOK® Guide and the Business Analysis profession.

Outline:

1. Overview of BACCM: The concepts, the model, and the design of the model.
2. Rediscovering the BABOK® Guide: Panellists discuss some key insights facilitated by the Core Concepts and the BACCM.
3. Q&A: What do you want to know about the BACCM and the BABOK® Guide?

Click to register for IIBA: Exploring the BABOK® Guide Webinar Series: Episode 2 -The Business Analyst Core Concept Modelâ„¢

Live Webinar February 27th, 2013 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1313
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Well-run requirements workshops are considered one of the most effective ways for delivering high-quality requirements quickly and accurately. They can also promote trust, mutual understanding, and strong communications amongst the project stakeholders and project teams, and increase the probability of producing the desired deliverables to the end-users.

In this webinar, you will learn useful guidelines for planning and conducting an effective requirements workshop; additionally, you will also get familiar with some of the most common processes and techniques used to overcome the challenges of requirements elicitation.

About the Presenter: Scott Kastner, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, CSM (Certified ScrumMaster), manages the IT Systems Operations at jetBlue Airways, and is also a business analysis and project management instructor and consultant. Scott’s strong technical background coupled with his practical business understanding has made him highly regarded in both the business analysis and project management communities.

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Live Webinar February 26th, 2013 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

The dramatic growth in mobile activities has led to a corresponding torrent of granular data that capture a wide variety of user behaviors.

Whether mobile users are communicating with others, posting or consuming digital content, alerting others to their location, purchasing goods or services, or reacting to ads, they are creating a “digital trail.” Such digital trace data on human interaction and activity lends itself to customer and big data analytics.

Anindya Ghose will discuss how to measure and quantify the value created from the use of apps, advertising, and commerce on mobile devices in the course of meeting some strategic goals and tactical issues.

A key goal is to gain a better understanding of the behavior of mobile users using big data analytics that combines statistical modeling with randomized experiments “in the wild”. This webinar will also focus on the differences between web and mobile analytics. Most people make the mistake of assuming mobile analytics is similar to web analytics, while they’re actually poles apart.

If we care about measurement using data, we have to care about how data was generated in the first place before doing any predictive, experimental or econometric analyses.

Key Takeaways from this session:

1. Understanding how the fragmented nature of the mobile ecosystem makes mobile analytics very different from web analytics.
2. Understanding audience behavior and advertising effectiveness on mobile devices

Presenter: Anindya Ghose (LinkedIn profile) is an Associate Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and the Robert L. & Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is the co-Director of the Center for Business Analytics at NYU Stern. He is an expert in quantifying the economic value from user-generated content in spaces mediated by social media; modeling and estimating the monetization of content through search engine advertising; modeling consumer behavior on mobile platforms; examining the drivers of crowd-funding, and measuring.

Click to register for The IIBA Business Analytics Series: Mobile Analytics: Apps, Advertising and Commerce in the New ‘Mobile’ Economy