RECORDING – Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers and Business Analysts
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a “Different Kind of Smart”. As previously stated by PMI® Network Magazine: “Project leaders with high emotional intelligence inspire their team, connect with their peers and get the job done.” During this webinar we’ll discuss:
- What is emotional intelligence and why should technical and business analysts care about EI?
- Ways emotional intelligence contributes to improved project performance.
- What is emotional hi-jacking and how it can interfere with stated goals and expectations?
WEBINAR – Business Process Management: Methods, Tools and Competencies for Business Analysts and BPM Practitioners (5/8)
May 8, 2013 (8am PT / 11am ET)
Business Process Management (BPM) enables organizations to design, implement, measure and manage business processes to improve organizational performance. Business analysts can benefit from increasing their knowledge of process architecture, modeling, analysis and design. Using specialized methods, tools and techniques, BPM professionals can become an invaluable asset to any organization.
This webinar provides an overview of the methods and tools for improving processes and highlights the ways in which business analysts and process practitioners can build their process skills to enhance their capabilities and increase their value within the organization
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN… (Duration 1 hour)
- Business process concepts, scoping for improvement and building maps for understanding how work gets done
- Proven methodology and tools for improving business processes
- Competencies required for business process analysis and how business analysts can play a key role in this professional practice
- How various methods, tools and techniques contribute to organizational success
Managing Security Requirements in Agile Projects
Addressing security requirements from the early phases of software development is the most cost-effective way of preventing security defects. Most security requirements fall under the scope of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs).
As many practitioners have discovered, addressing security and other NFRs in agile projects is challenging for two reasons:
- Mapping NFRs to feature-driven user stories is not trivial.
- Security controls suffer from lack of visibility. Agile processes tend to bias development teams towards building features that visibly enhance the customer’s experience or fix defects.
This article goes into a bit more detail than usual….and could really help you see how you could do this in your projects.
Click here for full InfoQ article.
Top 5 Whitepapers on Getting Control of Requirements
Forrester just released their Top 5 whitepapers on a “taking control of requirements”.
Wish someone would explain requirements management in plain English? Or how to avoid management swoop in at the 11th hour? We’ve compiled a list of our top resources, covering topics from understanding Agile planning to the top frustrations in project management (and how to solve them):
- Requirements Management 101. Wish someone would explain requirements management in plain English? Have stakeholders that could benefit from understanding the value at a high-level? Your executives might not care about CMMI, BABOK or the nitty gritty details of functional requirements, but they do care about delivering what was promised to customers on time. And, that’s requirements management. To make sure your projects run smoothly, make sure everyone on your team understands the basics. Read more
WEBINAR – Sharing the Secret Sauce: Lessons from a Business Analysis Mentor (5/26)
May 26, 2011 (11 – 12pm EDT)
Many folks agree on the basic practices and techniques commonly used to analyze requirements. But what about the special ingredients needed to deliver valuable, holistic, timely requirements?
In this webinar, requirements expert Mary Gorman highlights lessons learned from 20 years of business analysis mentoring and shares practical ideas that will help you take your analysis skills to a higher level.
Presenter: Mary Gorman, CBAP, CSM, and VP of quality & delivery at EBG Consulting helps business and technical teams collaborate to deliver products your customers value and need. Read more
WEBINAR – The Lean BA (2/18)
February 18, 2011 (9-10 am PST)
The lean business analysis web seminar starts by explaining the foundations of lean IT before getting into the impacts of how lean IT affects business analysis. The presentation discusses how some existing approaches work well and others present more challenges to lean business analysis and projects.
SPEAKER: ASPE’s intstructor, Jake Calabrese.
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NEW RECORDING – Splitting User Stories
User Stories have become the bread and butter specifications for an Agile team, yet it is difficult to know how to do a good job of sizing them. In this Webinar we will answer some questions:
- Why split stories?
- Why will this make the team go faster?
- Why is splitting stories by architectural component bad?
- What is a better way of splitting user stories?
We will start with a quick review of what user stories are and then learn why large stories often limit your team’s progress. Then we will learn how to split them. Along with some examples in the presentation you’re invited to come prepared with your own user stories and we will see if we can help you split a few on the fly.
WORKSHOP – Dealing with the TOP 10 Issues During and After an Iteration (12/16)
December 16, 2010 (2-4pm EST)
What do you do when your customer changes a requirement? How do you keep going when a team member is pulled away for a production issue? What happens when you start coding and realize a feature is much bigger than anticipated? You will learn how to deal with these issues and more in this live virtual workshop. We will follow a case study, Acme Media, as they encounter issues and constraints in the middle of an iteration. We will also join them at the end of the iteration and see how they adapt and replan based on acceptance testing, team throughput, technical discoveries, and changes in the business environment. We will also answer common questions about adapting in an Agile environment: 1. Can we adapt at any time during a project? 2. If we adapt all of the time, how do we get any work done? 3. What is the process for adapting at the end of an iteration?
Real World Skills – Learn Today – Apply them Tomorrow !
LEARN HOW TO:
- Understand the most common issues with software projects.
- Select from multiple options for dealing with each issue type.
- Use a tradeoff matrix to drive triage decisions.
- Demonstrate and drive acceptance testing at the end of an iteration.
- Replan and prepare for the next iteration.
- Read more….
WORKSHOP – Planning, Managing & Tracking Agile Iterations for PMs and BAs
Real World Skills – Learn Today – Apply them Tomorrow !
What do you do when it’s time to start implementing the features and requirements you have in your backlog? ProjectTimes.com and BATimes.com are sponsoring a workshop specifically for PMs and BAs that will show you how to do Iteration Planning, Managing, Tracking and get your team setup to succeed using Agile Iterations. This is a very interactive workshop. Come ready to learn….
LEARN HOW TO:
- Envision detailed functionality
- Identify the specific tasks that the team will complete in the coming 2 to 4 week iteration
- Take the high-level user stories and break them down into hour-level tasks that you can do in an iteration.
- Obtain team buy-in for the proposed workload
- Manage task assignments
- Increase project status transparency
- How to use ITERATION ZERO to get your project off to a great start
- TAKE HOME tools and templates to use for your own projects
- Read more….
NEW WEBINAR RECORDING – Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron
Misconceptions abound about how agile projects analyze and develop requirements. In practice, requirements are the basis for planning, developing and delivering agile projects.
Agile requirements are congruent– they combine to form a sound and sensible union that drives successful delivery of business value.
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YOU WILL LEARN:
- The agile method of developing requirements and how ‘traditional’ requirements practices are adapted on agile projects
- The value of requirements analysis on agile projects
- Ways in which requirement form the basis for planning on agile projects
- How effective agile teams collaborate around requirements
PDU: 1
COST: Free
SPEAKER: Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant and Founder of EBG Consulting, Inc., helps business and technical teams collaborate to define and deliver products customers value and needs. Ellen is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, author, speaker, and expert on requirements development, product chartering, retrospectives, agile requirements, and collaborative workshops.
She is the author of two acclaimed books (Requirements by Collaboration and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger), Ellen speaks at industry conferences; writes articles, blogs, and tweets; and is an IIBA (BABOK®) expert reviewer and contributor to the (in progress) agile-BABOK addendum.
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My Speaking Engagements …..
-Feb 28: PMI Agile CoP: Agile Estimation 102
-Apr 18: TOYOTA HQ: Start Using Agile|Lean in your Projects Today
-Nov 10: HOW TO PLAN, MANAGE, and TRACK ITERATIONS (ProjectTimes)
-Dec 16: DEALING WITH THE TOP 10 ISSUES DURING & AFTER AN ITERATION (ProjectTimes)
-Jan 13: AGILE REQUIREMENT GATHERING & DOCUMENTATION - BEYOND USER STORIES (ProjectTimes)
-Feb 10: DEALING WITH THE TOP 10 ISSUES IN AGILE ADOPTION (ProjectTimes)
Some Agile User-Groups and Links…
