Live Webinar December 13th, 2012 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU/CDU Category B – Free PDU/CDU
Presented by: IIBA

A Business Analyst Needs To
Elicit, Analyze & Communicate Requirements

• But, how do you know what requirements to work on?
• And, how do you know when your job is complete?

Spending too much time working on unnecessary requirements can be as dangerous as missing needed requirements.

This webinar will review how tools help BAs understand the full scope of the requirements on which they need to work and how they are proceeding towards completion of their activities.

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

This webinar series is open to everyone in the BA Community and we strongly encourage you to invite the senior leaders and key decision makers in your organization to attend. This webinar will also be archived and posted on their website for further viewing.

For more information on these tools please visit IIBA.org under Professional Development, Vendor Showcase Webinars.

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Live Webinar December 13th, 2012 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
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.

Auditing a software vendor can seem like an expensive, time-consuming, and unnecessary undertaking. However, when performed within the framework of risk-based validation approach, vendor audits can provide significant payback!

This webinar shows you a practical approach.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 12 -Procurement

• 12.1 Plan Procurements
• 12.2 Conduct Procurements

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 – November 28th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

Do you know how to effectively identify,document,and model the repeatable operational decisions crucial to success?

Effectively capturing and managing requirements is critical in any IT project. Business analysts and others gathering requirements know how to capture and document processes, data and user tasks.

1. But what about the decisions at the heart of your business?
2. How can you effectively identify, document and model the repeatable, operational decisions crucial to success with business rules and predictive analytics?

Thiswebinar will share practical advice developed from real-world customer projects:

• How to define decisions and what information to capture
• Putting decisions in a business context by linking to processes and business metrics
• Using decision dependency modeling to understand decisions so you can implement them effectively
• Linking decisions to your business rules and analytic implementations for maximum business agility

CEO James Taylor (LinkedIn profile) will host this webinar on Decision Management Systems. For more great information read James’ books Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics and Why You Need Smart Enough Systems.

Presenter: James Taylor is the CEO of Decision Management Solutions, and a leading expert in how to use business rules and analytic technology to build Decision Management Systems. If you are looking for information on decision Management Systems Sign up for his newsletter – Decision Management News. Read his blog: JT on EDM; or Follow him on Twitter: jamet123. James is passionate about using Decision Management Systems to help companies improve decision-making and develop an agile, analytic, and adaptive business.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 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’

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Live Webinar November 22th, 2012 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST OR
By: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 2 Hr 2 Cat A PDU/CDUs – $89.95 USD for 2 PDU / CDU
OR …….. The course is included in an (over 100 PDUs Available)
All Access Pass – 6 Months for $229.95 USD or 1 YR $349.95
Please enter Referral Code 576587

Requirements Are Dynamic & Ever Evolving

Though constant change can often feel chaotic and unproductive. The Business Analyst constantly feels the pressure to complete requirements and confronts many obstacles to hinder progress.

Whether you’re dealing with stakeholders who are oblivious to one another’s needs or a project manager who suffers from lead singer disorder, meetings can seem like one step forward and two steps back.

Roles and responsibilities collide, quality deliverables are difficult to produce, conflicting expectations arise, and day to day BA activities become difficult. With any team – whether a project team, a music group or a sports team – it takes more than one person to deliver a project, produce a best-selling song or win a championship.

It’s no different with requirements. Each team member has a role to play. For the Business Analyst it’s about sifting through the requirements chaos. Successfully eliciting and articulating business requirements ensures business analysis activities produce high quality deliverables and solutions.

This webinar explores approaches to managing requirements chaos and reigning in disruptive sources of chaos.

Learning Outcome:

1. Learn to avoid requirements chaos through planning.
2. Recognize the importance of setting and managing expectations.
3. Understand the stakeholder role and the reality of conflicting stakeholder needs.
4. Build a foundation to effectively recognize stakeholder intentions and to plan around high risk areas and saboteurs.
5. Highlight the importance of the relationships between the Business Analyst, the project manager and stakeholders and the corresponding impact on requirements.
6. Grasp the role the Business Analyst plays in creating chaos and understand the means to resolution.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Understand the drivers of moving requirements.
• Recognize the importance of working in partnership with project stakeholders.
• Understand how to stabilize requirements and filter through the chaos.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Michelina DiNunno, MBA (LinkedIn profile) Michelina DiNunno has been in the Telecomm Industry for over 10 years, working in Marketing, IT and as a Business Analyst. She currently works for Telus and is providing consulting services through Global Knowledge.

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Live Webinar November 15th, 2012 – 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
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.

Spreadsheets are the most prevalent user-created software applications in business today

They’re quick and easy to create, and they’re useful not only for crunching numbers, but also for tracking data.

But, when and how should you validate these tools?

Join Praxis for a discussion of the best practices spreadsheet data and function validation.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan 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.’

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Live Webinar November 14th, 2012 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Featured Sponsor : Jama

• How do you deliver great products and services consistently that drive results?
• How do you manage the development process effectively with the entire business?

Product development is now a mission-critical function for organizations and it stretches beyond the engineering team demanding greater coordination and communication company-wide.

There are known challenges such as scope creep, managing change and quality control …

• But what about the hidden challenges?
• How do you avoid the pitfalls that are less obvious and exist in the “white spaces” within your company?

These challenges are very real and have a huge impact on speed, quality and costs.

Join experts from Jama Software and guest presenter Tom Grant from Forrester Research, Inc. as they address the top 5 hidden challenges of product delivery and provide real-world insights for how to solve them. Learn how new technologies are enabling companies to reinvent product delivery to meet their business needs.

Receive A Copy Of The Forrester Report: Webinar attendees will receive a complimentary copy of “High-Value Requirements Are Changing App Dev And Delivery” by Tom Grant, a $499 value.

Topics covered:

• Requirements management
• Product development and delivery
• Managing expectations
• Collaboration and communication

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 10.2 Plan 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’

Presenters:
Tom Grant, Ph.D. and Senior Analyst for Application Development and Delivery at Forrester Research, Inc.
Eric Winquist, CEO and co-founder at Jama Software

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