Webinars
Our mission is to help advance the collective capabilities of the Business / Systems Analyst community by providing continued education, by industry experts, on topics relevant to our audience; including process improvements, new methods, tools and related human resource issues.
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Requirements Definition and Management with TFS and inteGREAT
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Siddharth Bhatia
Asif Sharif Chief Technologist – |
Date: April 25th |
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The inteGREAT ed Quest for Software Requirements
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Roxanne Miller CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest Author of The Quest for Software Requirements |
Date: April 23rd |
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Requirements ElicitationPart 2 – 5 Best Practices |
Sola Oduko, BA, MA, MBA
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Requirements ElicitationPart 1 – 5 No-Nos |
Sola Oduko, BA, MA, MBA
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Managing and Tracking Requirements with Microsoft ALM |
Adam Gallant
Asif Sharif |
Date: Jan 26, 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT |
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Managing Requirements Maturity |
Garry McGouldrick SVP of Sales & Professional Services with IAG Consulting
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Leading Innovation through Enterprise Analysis |
Jonathan Nituch, CBAP®, PMP® Business Analysis and Project Management Instructor at Sheridan and Conestoga Colleges
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BA Certification – Why and How |
Gary Gack, Founder at Americas Requirements Engineering Association;
Supporting Member at International Requirements Engineering Board; Trainer and Principal
Consultant, Owner at Process-Fusion.net
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Using Requirements for Test Automation In a fully integrated Microsoft ALM Solution |
Kathleen (Kitty) Hass
Adam Gallant
Asif Sharif
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Tool vs. Process: Which Comes First? |
Joy Beatty Vice President of R&D at Seilevel
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How to Get Sign-Off On Just About Any Deliverable |
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
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Date: August 24th, 2011 |
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Getting the Right Stakeholders Involved |
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of
Requirements Quest
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Get the Users "IN" the doghouse and keep yourself out "Eliciting Non-functional Requirements" |
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of
Requirements Quest
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Requirements Definition and Management
with TFS and inteGREAT
Siddharth Bhatia
Microsoft Visual Studio Principal Program Manager Lead
Asif Sharif
Chief Technologies –
During this webinar we will explain and demonstrate how the inteGREAT RLM software extends the capabilities of Microsoft’s TFS & Office platforms; combined providing a comprehensive, simple to use, highly scalable, requirements solution for all project stakeholders.
As part of this presentation we will demonstrate:
- Creating and saving requirements and specifications to a central TFS database
- Reusing requirements & specifications (data, process, actors, etc.)
- Modifying Word & Excel documents and performing an incremental import into inteGREAT
- Automatically generating project documents in Word, Excel & Visio; including Use Case, Test Case and traceability documents
- Automatically generating mockups of an application from previously created requirements
- Performing an Impact Assessment
- Creating a baseline of a project and comparing it to the current state
- Collaborating online to review and approve requirements or raise issues and tasks against them
Date: April 25th
Time: 1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
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The inteGREAT ed Quest for Software
Requirements
Roxanne Miller CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements
Join and Requirements Quest to see how the latest release of our Requirements Lifecycle Management tool, inteGREAT, supports the methodologies outlined in Roxanne Miller’s “The Quest for Software Requirements”
Date: April 23rd
Time: 1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Requirements Elicitation
Part 2 – 5 Best Practices
Sola Oduko, BA, MA, MBA,
ISEB ITIL® Expert accreditation in IT Service Management,
Are you a seasoned business analyst who is wondering why you haven’t been so successful eliciting requirements? Or, have you just been assigned to elicit requirements and don’t know how and where to start?
We all have been there. At one of your initial meetings you asked your users “What
are your requirements?” and got the following replies: “we don’t
know”; “to enable us perform our work better”; or, “we are
okay with whatever you suggest a best practice system can do”.
It’s time to stop struggling and increase your success at eliciting requirements by attending our two-part webinar series, on the 5 No-Nos and 5 Best practice methods for eliciting requirements. Sola will explore the five mistakes most people make while eliciting requirements and further expose you to how to make requirements elicitation a fun thing. Sola has lead implementation of several application and technology infrastructure projects, and has managed several business analysts in eliciting and documenting requirements.
Learning objectives:
- Recognize and understand different techniques for eliciting requirements.
- Understand the 5 No-Nos of requirements elicitation.
- Become familiar with 5 Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
Course Outline:
- Overview of requirements elicitation techniques.
- The Five NO-NOs of requirements elicitation.
- The Five Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
- Applying what you have learnt at your workplace.
Requirements Elicitation Part 2 – 5 Best Practices :
Date: April 4th
Time: 1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Requirements Elicitation
Part 1 – The 5 No-Nos
Sola Oduko, BA, MA, MBA,
ISEB ITIL® Expert accreditation in IT Service Management,
Are you a seasoned business analyst who is wondering why you haven't been so successful eliciting requirements? Or, have you just been assigned to elicit requirements and don't know how and where to start?
We all have been there. At one of your initial meetings you asked your users "What
are your requirements?" and got the following replies: "we don't know";
"to enable us perform our work better"; or, "we are okay with whatever
you suggest a best practice system can do".
It's time to stop struggling and increase your success at eliciting requirements by attending our two-part webinar series, on the 5 No-Nos and 5 Best practice methods for eliciting requirements. Sola will explore the five mistakes most people make while eliciting requirements and further expose you to how to make requirements elicitation a fun thing. Sola has lead implementation of several application and technology infrastructure projects, and has managed several business analysts in eliciting and documenting requirements.
Learning objectives:
- Recognize and understand different techniques for eliciting requirements.
- Understand the 5 No-Nos of requirements elicitation.
- Become familiar with 5 Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
Course Outline:
- Overview of requirements elicitation techniques.
- The Five NO-NOs of requirements elicitation.
- The Five Best Practice methods for eliciting requirements.
- Applying what you have learnt at your workplace.
Requirements Elicitation Part 1 – 5 No-Nos :
Date: March 28th
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Managing Requirements Maturity
Garry McGouldrick
SVP of Sales & Professional Services with IAG Consulting
Garry McGouldrick is the Senior Vice President of Professional Services at IAG Consulting
, the largest consultancy in North America solely focused on business and systems
requirements. Over the last seven years with IAG Consulting, he has worked on dozens
of high profile strategic projects ensuring that both business & project objectives
are realized in a timely and cost effective manner. With almost 20 years of experience
assisting large organizations to manage technology and related IT projects, he is
well known for his ability to assist clients to scope requirements and implement
a budget and plan to provide true business value.
Managing Requirements Maturity
Improving organizational Requirements Maturity is a strategic approach to improving
project success and aligning IT with the business to meet objectives on time and
on budget consistently.
According to the recent IAG BA Benchmark study of 437 large and medium organizations
in North America and Europe, the organizational level of Requirements Maturity is
directly proportional to the likelihood of project success. Companies invest millions
of dollars in recruitment, hiring, and training of Business Analysts every year
without a detailed understanding of the role and how to integrate into the enterprise;
the average Requirements Maturity level in North America is only 1.8 on a scale
of 1-5, and only a fraction of those measured qualified at a level 3 or higher.
For individual and organizations that are serious about improving in a consistent
and measureable way, IAG will explain the key concepts and results you can expect
by improving organizational Requirements Maturity
Learning Objectives:
- The impact of requirements maturity on overall business and project objectives
- The Requirements Maturity Model
- What are the 5 levels of maturity
- The key requirements capabilities
- All process areas that should be considered when measuring requirements maturity
- How to assess requirements maturity
- A high level roadmap to improving requirements capabilities
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Date: March 15th, 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Leading Innovation through Enterprise Analysis
Jonathan Nituch, CBAP®, PMP®
VP of Operations at Fortress Technology Planners
Contributor at The BA Coach.com
Business Analysis and Project Management Instructor at Sheridan and Conestoga Colleges
Jonathan Nituch is the VP of Operations at Fortress Technology Planners and has over 14 years of experience in business analysis and project management. Through his work at Fortress, he has helped dozens of companies to identify their business needs, select an approach, and successfully execute projects to meet those needs. A passionate and energetic speaker, Jonathan’s enthusiasm encourages audience members and motivates them to move forward with their goals. He has contributed some popular articles and podcasts to The BA Coach.com and teaches project management and business analysis at two community colleges in Ontario.
Leading Innovation through Enterprise Analysis
Innovate or die.Organizations can no longer deny this simple truth in today’s economy. How can companies achieve the innovation needed to survive in this environment? What type of leadership is required? How can business analysts, project managers and business stakeholders work together to reach this goal? In this webinar, Jonathan Nituch will discuss how enterprise analysis can be used to face these challenges. You will learn the type of environment necessary for innovation to occur and the style of leader that is needed to create and maintain such an environment. Jonathan will also share a simple but powerful methodology to create, validate, and evaluate innovations for your business unit.
Key Content:
• Discussion of a key trend in leadership
• Examination of the myths surrounding innovation
• Exploration of the environment for innovation
• Quick review of enterprise analysis, portfolio management, and strategic planningtheory
• A lightweight, bottom-up enterprise analysis (strategic planning/project portfolio
management) methodology
• Results and pitfalls of the methodology.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe leadership as defined through understanding of needs.
- Identify the components of an environment for innovation.
- State the definition of enterprise analysis, portfolio management, and strategic planning.
Employ a 5-step methodology to lead innovation through enterprise analysis.
Date: February 15th, 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
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BA Certification – Why and How
Gary Gack, Founder at Americas Requirements Engineering
Association; Supporting Member at International Requirements Engineering Board;
Trainer and Principal Consultant, Owner at
Process-Fusion.net
Author of
Managing the Black Hole: The Executive’s Guide to Software Project
Risk
Process-Fusion.net is owned and operated by Gary A. Gack, a senior software and IT professional with more than 40 years of diverse leadership experience in the areas of business analysis, requirements engineering, requirements management, business requirements discovery, software quality, software metrics, and project management – both domestic and international.
BA Certification: How and Why
Have you ever wondered how you can convince management to provide funding for professional education and certification? In this webinar Gary will review the benefits of and business case for professional certification. You will take away an “elevator speech” that will help convince the boss. Are you aware that there are several different approaches to certification (and re-certification? Not all certifications have the same requirements or use the same process. In the final section of this presentation Gary will provide a comparison of the two most widely accepted certification regimes for Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis – those offered by the International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA) and by the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB).
Key Content:
- The “business case” for RE/BA training and certification
- Certification requirements comparison
- Training
- Experience
- References
- Re-certification
- Costs
- Content comparison of two popular certification regimes
- IIBA
- IREB
Learning Objectives
- Understand the value of training and certification for professionals
- Understand the value of training and certification for employers
- Understand the differences in requirements between the two most popular RE/BA certifications
- Understand the differences in content and approach offered by the IIBA and by IREB
Date: February 1st , 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EDT
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Managing and Tracking Requirements with Microsoft ALM
Adam Gallant
Technology Solutions Professional, Microsoft
Asif Sharif
Chief Technologist,
The goal of a successful requirements management process is to get a consistent
interpretation of the requirements from all the stakeholders.
The goal of process improvement is for people in your organization to work in new
ways that yield effective results.
- A process that is “Documented” can be repeated.
- A process that is “Repeatable” can be measured.
- A process that is “Measurable” can be improved!
Using the right integrated platform that support requirements definition & management,
collaboration, project management, test management & automation and software
development activity is key to any successful project. Microsoft Visual Studio along
with inteGREAT can provide just such a platform.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
1. Apply key principles to develop a repeatable and measureable process to help improve
project delivery
2. See how inteGREAT works with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to Elicit,
Analyze, Represent, and Validate requirements
3. Understand how Visual Studio provides a comprehensive ALM Solution that engages
all stakeholders
4. Realize how you can continue to work with many familiar tools such as Word, Excel,
Visio and SharePoint within a state of the art integrated ALM platform.
Date: Jan 26, 2012
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
Using Requirements for Test Automation In a fully integrated Microsoft ALM Solution
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Kathleen (Kitty) Hass President, Kathleen Hass and Associates, Inc. |
Adam Gallant |
Asif Sharif |
The concept of linking your software requirements with testing is well known and the benefits are clear – deliver software on time, with the required features and sufficient quality. Involving QA teams at the start of the project helps to identify risks before they make it into the plan, where they will be harder to find and costly to correct. For QA teams to effectively evaluate risks in the project plan, requirements need to be clear, unambiguous and properly documented.
Industry research shows that the root cause of more than half of all errors identified
in projects are introduced in the requirements phase. As a result, many organizations
are looking to reduce their risk by implementing formal requirements management
practices. The adoption of a formalized requirements management discipline can be
leveraged by the quality assurance organization by implementing a requirements-based
testing methodology that ensures comprehensive test coverage. Requirements-based
testing can increase efficiency, reduce the risk of failure, and improve overall
software quality.
Learning Objectives (at the end of the session, participants
will be able to):
- Apply a Knowledge Management Approach to Requirements Development and Test Automation
- Define Use Case and Auto-generate Test Case with full traceability
- Understand how inteGREAT and Visual Studio provides a comprehensive ALM Solution
Date: Oct 26, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Tool vs. Process: Which Comes First?
Joy Beatty Vice President of R&D at Seilevel
Joy Beatty is Vice President of R&D at Seilevel, a professional services company
focused exclusively on helping Fortune 1000 clients change the way they create requirements
in order to enhance business outcomes. As a managing principal at Seilevel, Joy
drives innovation and development for new methodologies that improve requirements,
assisting clients as they build business analysis centers of excellence. She has
developed the curriculum for Seilevel’s well-regarded training and leads select
training sessions. To date, Joy has provided training to more than 600 business
analysts via professional association seminars, industry conferences, and Seilevel
classes.
She has presented at numerous requirements-related conferences and speaking events.
Joy is currently working on a book about a requirements modeling language, RML®;
the book includes how to create and use a wide variety of models.
Tool vs. Process: Which Comes First?
Are you thinking it’s time to update (or finally define) your requirements best
practices? Have you also realized you need a requirements management tool? Do you
want to avoid rework and the wasteful “unlearning curve” later? If so, this webinar
is for you.
Joy Beatty, VP R&D at Seilevel, is going to compare the reasons to start with
the requirements process to reasons why you might start with the requirements tool,
highlighting some non-obvious ways to think through this decision. During this webinar,
she will recommend which approach to use—tool first or process first—including tips
to make it work and approaches to deal with common challenges. At the end of the
webinar, she’ll also share a free take-away, a copy of Seilevel’s recent requirements
management tool research. That research includes reviews of 16 tools against 200
criteria, and is set up so you can manipulate the priorities for your own tool selection
decision.
What you will learn:
- Strengths and weakness of the reasons to start with requirements processes as compared
to requirements tools
- A recommended approach to putting both processes and tools in place
- Suggestions to successfully implement a new requirements management tool
Date: September 21st, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
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How to Get Sign-Off On Just About Any Deliverable
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements
Roxanne Miller, a self proclaimed ‘Requirements Super Freak’, is the founder of Requirements
Quest and has been consulting on business analysis practices for over
15 years. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®)
and an active member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®).
Her energetic and entertaining style make her a back-by-popular-demand speaker in
the business analysis community. Roxanne Miller’s book, The Quest for Software Requirements, is an in-depth
reference guide with over 2,000 elicitation questions and a tested framework to
help individuals succeed in developing and installing software systems.
How to Get Sign-Off On Just About Any Deliverable
Are you tired of wasting time in 3-hour-marathon meetings to review deliverables, only to end up frustrated because you still have not reached consensus? Roxanne Miller reveals a tested technique called Ink-Free Sign-Off™. Discover how to increase stakeholder buy-in and commitment to deliverables. You will gain an understanding of role-based participation as a key to stakeholder contribution. Roxanne will provide a format for tracking and monitoring this iterative and incremental approach, which can help you report on progress. Tracking review progress can increase stakeholder accountability for identifying and resolving issues with the deliverable under review. Register now and learn how to eliminate ‘sign-off’ as an obstacle to your project success.
Key Content:
• Reasons why most deliverable reviews don’t work
• Role-based participation
• Three steps to the Ink-Free Sign-Off™ approach
• Agenda preparation
• ‘2-5-30 Rule’ for planning deliverable reviews
• Format for conducting a review
• Three review outcomes
• Track and monitor review progress
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how role-based stakeholder participation is key to raising issues
with the deliverable under review.
2. Discover a 3-step approach that can increase stakeholder buy-in, commitment,
and accountability.
3. Gain templates and tips for conducting a successful deliverable review.
Date: August 24th, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. EDT
Getting the Right Stakeholders Involved
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements
Roxanne Miller, a self proclaimed ‘Requirements Super Freak', is the founder of
Requirements Quest
and has been consulting on business analysis practices for over 15 years. She is
a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and an active
member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®).
Her energetic and entertaining style make her a back-by-popular-demand speaker in
the business analysis community. Roxanne Miller’s book, The Quest for Software Requirements,
is an in-depth reference guide with over 2,000 elicitation questions and a tested
framework to help individuals succeed in developing and installing software systems.
Getting the Right Stakeholders Involved
The Standish Group International reports, yet again, that user involvement is the
number one success factor for information technology projects. If user involvement
is so important, why are we still failing to get it? Have you ever worked on a project
where the Sponsor told you what people you could (and could not) talk to? Would
you like a tangible tool for securing the people you really need? This session will
show you the proven, step-by-step technique to identifying the right stakeholders
for your project, as well as securing the resources needed. It is not "Who
you know;" rather, it is "What Who knows" that leads to project success!
Learning Objectives(at the end of the session, participants will
be able to):
- Understand the key to the stakeholder profiling technique in order to identify potential stakeholders.
- Identify a tangible means to securing resources for your next project.
- Take a role-based approach to creating a reusable stakeholder list.
Date: June 21st, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
Get the Users "IN" the doghouse and keep yourself out "Eliciting Non-functional Requirements"
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements
Roxanne Miller, a self proclaimed ‘Requirements Super Freak,’ is the founder of Requirements Quest and has been consulting on business analysis practices for over 15 years. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and an active member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). Her energetic and entertaining style make her a back-by-popular-demand speaker in the business analysis community. Roxanne Miller’s book, The Quest for Software Requirements, is an in-depth reference guide with over 2,000 elicitation questions and a tested framework to help individuals succeed in developing and installing software systems.
The day of the big move is upon you. The semi-truck stuffed with all of your personal furnishings pulls up to your new home. The moving crew gets to work at once, and swiftly begins unloading and carrying your things through the front door. Suddenly the harmonious dance that the crew performs comes to a screeching halt.
As eyes roam back and forth from the front door to your magnificent grand piano, your heart nearly stops as you realize that the piano is not going to fit. What are you going to do?
Functionally, the home builder constructed a beautiful home. However, somehow this non-functional detail was missed. Does this scenario sound familiar to any of the missed requirements on your projects lately? Do operation requirements such as response time, throughput, capacity, and availability get missed? What about flexibility requirements such as scalability, multi-lingual, installability, and extendability? Roxanne Miller will reveal "patterns" of non-functional requirements that can reduce the possibility of missed requirements that cause project rework. Come and find out what you've been missing.
Learning Objectives (at the end of the session, participants will be able to):
- Recognize the difference between functional and non-functional requirements.
- Understand various categories of non-functional requirements.
- Discover the simplicity of this frequently misunderstood and overlooked requirement type.
Date : May 11th 2011
Time : 1 pm -- 2pm EDT