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ON DEMAND Webinar: How to use Sociocracy to Improve Collaboration and Expand Agile Practices
...successful Agile projects require organization-wide Sociocracy to create a structure that involves all members throughout the organization “in the flow” in decision-making, while producing a strong, transparent, efficient decision-making structure. Join Derwyn Harris, Solutions Architect and Co-Founder at Jama Software, as he shares how to use tools, language, process, and Sociocracy to improve and expand Agile practices in an organization.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Top 10 Business Analysis Trends of 2013
2013 is here and with it a changing organizational environment for Business Analysts... The top 10 BA trends for 2013 include information on the importance of requirements, the new Agile landscape and the new ways in which Business Analysts will be expected to work.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Achieving BPM Excellence with Visio 2013 and BPMN 2.0
This webinar will educate Business Analysts on how they can use Microsoft Visio 2013's powerful process diagramming, standardization, automation and validation capabilities in conjunction with a strong integration with Microsoft Office to enable a highly participative BPM foundation. Also, Business Analysts will learn about creating and validating BPMN 2.0 diagrams using Microsoft Visio 2013.
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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.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Rapid Analytics – A visual, live approach to requirements gathering and business analytic development
Most analytics and business intelligence projects fail because the analytics delivered by IT don’t meet the requirements of the business users. Agile analytics or agile BI has been viewed as a potential solution to this problem, but applying agile development methods to traditional analytics and business intelligence design cycles often means getting to the wrong result faster and does not result in an analytic solution that hits the requirements exactly.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Create a BA Center of Excellence and Improve Business Performance and Innovation
Business Analysts are now emerging from requirement writers for IT projects to serving as a pivotal link in business change and transformation. However, to be successful, business analysts have to have the right set of skills and competencies... A Business Analysis Center of Excellence (BACoE) provides an effective method for organizations to increase business analysis maturity and consequently deliver more business value and reduce the risk of projects.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Business Process Modeling Across the SDLC - and its Links to Other BA Tools w/ Howard Podeswa
The presentation explains how Business Process Modeling (BPM) is used in practice by following a case study through the project life cycle. At each point, BPM activities and deliverable are highlighted and their links to complementary BA techniques is explored. Special emphasis is placed on the BPMN and UML standards and guidelines are provided for when to use these standards over the life cycle.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Thorny Issues in Software Requirements w/ Karl Wiegers
This presentation addresses ten such “thorny issues” and tricky topics in requirements engineering. I’ll explain why each topic is important, and I’ll offer some practical advice about how to deal with each of these issues on your projects.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Empowering the Business Analyst to Deliver Strategic Analytics with Ease
This webinar will discuss how using cloud-based strategic analytics tools
• empowers the line of business analyst
• eliminates the many layers to deliver accurate results to decision makers
• allows organizations to gain a competitive edge with faster and better analytics
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ON DEMAND Webinar: The Knowledge Explosion: How to crank up productivity and be a dynamite leader
No one is asking you to turn your company into a hippie commune, but the fact is that even your most senior executives can learn something from a new hire. Knowledge sharing without hierarchical boundaries will drive better results, increase sales, reduce costs, improve efficiencies and create leaders across your organization. Creating a knowledge-sharing culture within your organization where individual contributions and peer-to-peer mentoring is rewarded will result in a rich history of tribal knowledge and heightened employee engagement.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Got Big Data? How can you combine the Big Data with traditional enterprise data?
Most organizations today have both traditional data (ERP, relational, and other structured) as well as non-traditional (big data, cloud, BI metadata layers, and unstructured) data sources. Additionally, Big Data projects are popping up in your organization as well. All this data needs to be combined into a single view with business logic or rules applied to the combined set. How do you access this information, integrate the data, cleanse, and analyze in such disparate source environment?
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ON DEMAND Webinar: 10 Career-Crushers that Threaten Every Business Analyst – And How to Prevent Them!
Career opportunities for Business Analysts have never looked better. Both CNNMoney and Indeed.com rank Business Analyst (BA) among today’s most in-demand jobs. But even the brightest and most ambitious BAs can have their careers thrown off-track by falling victim to one of these 10 common pitfalls… This webinar will show you what they are, and give you some proven tools and strategies for avoiding them.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Managing Requirements in an Agile World: Avoiding the “Round Peg/Square Hole” Dilemma
Are requirements really as easy as having a user write a bunch of stuff on an index card and setting the developers free to code some miraculous product? Hardly. The truth is, nothing has changed where requirements are concerned. In fact, this presentation puts the world of requirements development and management into context and discusses the harmony that can be created when Agile practices are put into place.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Master BI: Becoming a Business Intelligence Guru with Toad
“Business intelligence,” “data warehouse,” or “big data” – are these buzzwords swimming through your organization, each with multiple definitions, owners, and requirements? In this educational session, you’ll discover the easiest way to gain control over, and benefit from, your changing data landscape.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Deliver Maximum Value through Better Business Analysis
This webinar describes several innovative methods for business analysts to deliver more value to the business and ensure completion of successful enterprise projects. Poor business analysis is the root cause of many project failures.
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