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ON DEMAND Webinar: What’s Hot and What’s Not: Trends in the World of Business Analysis
So much is going on in our project world and it’s hard to keep up. The way we complete projects keeps changing. The speed at which business changes is accelerating. Many of us have questions—lots and lots of questions. This presentation addresses hot topics in the world of business analysis and answers questions like...
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ON DEMAND Webinar: From Requirements Analyst to Benefit Analyst
In this webinar, Mark focuses on understanding all the components of business analysis and provides insight on why business analysts need to expand their skills beyond the elicitation of requirements to include benefits management skills. With the use of mind maps, Mark touches upon a number of topics including...
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ON DEMAND Webinar: How to Ace the IIBA Certifications in the Very First Attempt
Have you been a practicing Business Analyst for several years but you’re career growth has stalled? Or are you new to the profession and looking forward to grow your career to the next level? Or do you not have experience yet but are looking to start a career as a BA? If you find yourself in any of the above situations, then this webinar is a must attend for you.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Software Requirements and Organizational Culture: 10 Lessons Learned
When a software development organization wants to improve the way it works, it’s not enough to write a bunch of procedures, buy some tools, and run your staff through some training. The manager leading a change initiative also must consider the organization’s culture. A software engineering culture is a set of beliefs, behaviors, and technical practices that define an environment in which all team members are committed to building quality software products through effective and appropriate software processes. As requirements form the foundation of all the software work that follows, it’s especially important to instill a set of effective values, principles, and practices around requirements practices.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Elements of Requirements Style
This presentation describes numerous techniques for writing software functional requirements, focused on the core objective of clear and effective communication. You’ll see multiple styles of writing functional requirements and you'll learn many vague “weak words” to avoid. The presentation describes several common types of requirements ambiguity and shows how to rewrite ambiguous requirements to make them clearer. We’ll also explore the common issue of having solution ideas or design constraints embedded in requirements. Applying the techniques described in this presentation will help your requirements specifications speak more clearly to their various audiences.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Requirements Reuse: Fantasy or Feasible?
Reuse is an eternal goal for organizations seeking higher software capability. Reusing requirements can increase productivity, improve quality, and lead to greater consistency between related systems. But effective reuse is hard! This presentation, based on the recent book Software Requirements, 3rd Edition by Karl Wiegers and Joy Beatty, offers numerous suggestions about how to perform requirements reuse. It describes several kinds of requirements reuse, identifies some classes of requirements information that have reuse potential in various contexts, and presents some issues around making requirements reusable. The presentation concludes by identifying both barriers to effective reuse and success factors that can help your organization leverage its existing body of requirements knowledge.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Requirements Management Best Practices
Requirements development deals with getting good software requirements. Requirements management addresses the challenges of handling these requirements as the project proceeds over time. This presentation summarizes several best practices for requirements management. The following topics are addressed: • Version control of requirements documents • Change control • The change control board • Impact analysis of change requests • Requirements attributes • Tracking requirements status • Requirements traceability • Using requirements management tools
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ON DEMAND Webinar: The Business Analyst Catalyst: The Role of the BA in Today's Business World
ABOUT THE WEBINAR An effective organizational strategy should harden the intention behind mission and vision into goals that define the future direction—a direction that must reflect clear context, defined boundaries, and precise capabilities in order for programs and projects to reach intended targets with optimal success. Business a...
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ON DEMAND Webinar: It’s an Agile World: Requirements at the Speed of Thought
In an agile world do we still need requirements? How do requirements change in a world of agile development methods? What skills and tools do business analysts need to thrive in this space? The real goal of project managers, business analysts, developers, and users is project success. How, then, can business analysts work within agile methodologies and help them succeed? What do requirements look like without all of the overhead? What is the right balance between agility and rigidity?
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ON DEMAND Webinar: 4 Easy Steps to Gather, Author, Approve and Manage Requirements
In today's hyper-competitive environment, innovation and time to market are the key pillars for success. While software in applications and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is also adding complexity.

Modern innovations such as Agile have proven to shorten product delivery, but it comes with its own set of challenges. The ability to empower all stakeholders to collaborate in a unified development environment can solve many of these challenges and increase performance.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Software Requirements: 10 Traps to Avoid
Successful software projects are built on a foundation of well-understood requirements. However, many development organizations get caught in traps that prevent them from effectively collecting, documenting, or managing their requirements. This presentation describes ten typical requirements problems that can sabotage your project. Several symptoms that indicate you might be getting caught in each trap are presented, along with suggestions for avoiding or escaping from the trap.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: The Business Analyst’s Big (Data) Challenge!
Data Preparation is the core of every analyst’s job and nearly every one of them works with or within Excel spreadsheets. However, the increasing complexity of data required for driving business forward is above and beyond what spreadsheets are able to, or designed to, handle. IT has been maintaining legacy databases and investing in Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc., alongside a Cloud initiative to keep up with business demands. But are Business Analysts able to keep up with changing database technology with what they already have and use today? Using Toad, analysts can leverage their current expertise in Excel and prepare for their future data solutions. In this webcast, you will learn: • Top drivers for adoption of NoSQL technologies • Challenges with just using Excel-based analysis methods • How to leverage Excel expertise to evolving technologies using Toad
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Augmenting BPMN with DMN: Documenting Process Decision Logic
Via two examples and basic tutorials, this webinar reviews two Unified Model Language (UML) techniques: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and Decision Model and Notation (DMN).
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Building Business Solutions: BAs Lead the Way to Business Excellence
The bottom line for successful business analysis is delivering outstanding products to business partners, ones that win for the business. What does creating a winning business solution require? What artifacts do you need? How can you develop them? One essential artifact is business rules, key to agile business solutions. Find out in this fast-paced session what business rules are really about, and how they can sharpen your interaction with both business partners and software developers. Learn about practical techniques to capture and validate business rules in concert with your other deliverables.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: 4 Easy Steps for BAs to Gather, Author, Approve and Manage Requirements
4 Easy Steps for BAs to Gather, Author, Approve and Manage Requirements In today's hyper-competitive environment, innovation and time to market are the key pillars for success. While software in applications and embedded systems is emerging as the primary agent for innovation, it is also adding complexity. Modern innovations such as Agile have proven to shorten product delivery, but come with their own set of challenges. The ability to empower all stakeholders to collaborate in a unified development environment can solve many of these challenges and increase performance.
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