Managing Requirements Operational Excellence: A Framework for Accelerating Organizational Development - 1 PDU
This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization. IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation - 1PDU
This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices, and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems.
Harmonizing Agility & Discipline - 1PDU
This session demystifies the wide range of agile and more traditional requirements and development methodologies. The session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices. This session refocused the agility versus discipline dialogue: it is not that these practices are mutually exclusive - the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.
5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning - 1 PDU
Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process. More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation. This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.
Predicting Project Outcome - 1 PDU
This is an advanced webinar for senior project managers and giving them the facts to predict the outcome of their project based on the quality of the business requirements process and deliverables. Findings are based on extensive research, and a predictive risk assessment model is presented. The presentation also shows actions that project managers can take to mitigate risk should requirements issues be found.
Optimizing Requirements Discovery - 1 PDU
Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements? Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful. Within this session, participants get new data from IAG's research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process. Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements. Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.
Outsourcing Requirements Discovery - 1 PDU
This session is for project managers that sometimes need to contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their project a success. This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting approaches for the senior project manager. This session covers engagement models that drive value, identifying red flags in the contracting or managing stages of working with vendors, and the targets for vendor performance Supercharging a project by accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?
7 Secrets to Defining Requirements for Package Software Selection - 2 PDU
This two hour on-line course will provide Business Analysts and Project Managers with essential techniques and specific guidelines for gathering and defining the right kind of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for the selection of a vendor for application software. In order for Business Analyst's and Project Manager's to perform effective and efficient vendor evaluation, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured. If you have struggled strategies for commercial-off-the-shelf software acquisition, what level of detail is needed in an RFP, when and how to involve the vendors, what research is required, and what templates to use -- then spend two hours with us to help you set the right path for success with your next COTS project.
6 Steps to Prioritizing Your Business Requirements - 2 PDU
This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements - a process based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others - and employing IAG's experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization. This webinar will explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed and when it isn't, when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best. Participants will learn a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects from large to small and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall. It will provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project.
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