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The following courses are available as Instructor-led Webinars hosted by IAG and held periodically throughout the year.
Check here for the schedule of upcoming webinars
7 Steps to Writing a Business Use Case (2 PDUs - 89.99 $CDN)
This two-hour webinar gets right to the point and covers the essential steps of a practical process for writing business use cases. It is all based on industry best practices and employs IAG's proven experience and techniques for practical requirements definition. This webinar will explain what Business Use Cases are and how to document them. Using the business case of an innovative iPhone application, the course will follow a simple seven-step process for writing Use Cases as well as provide strategies for dealing with the common challenges of defining them. Participants will learn use-case documentation and modeling techniques using standard templates, worksheets and checklists. 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 identify and write the use cases they need for their next project.
Bringing Software Requirements to Life
An Innovative Approach to Beating the Odds in Requirements Discovery & Management
(with David Walker, Borland Software)
Requirements definition and management has long been blamed for project failure, yet it still remains the most neglected discipline within software development today. It's also one of the more complex - although that often goes unrecognized until too late. Automating requirements processes can improve your chances of success, but technical limitations in your product selection can lead to troublesome and abrupt gaps in your workflow, ultimately sabotaging the success of your software projects. This is particularly true in the area of requirements definition.
Join us for an in-depth look at:
• Why requirements definition is even more critical to your project's success than requirements management
• The visual power of prototyping & simulation to better engage with stakeholders
• How a fully integrated Requirements Definition and Management solution can save your projects from falling victim to a growing requirements failure epidemic
Harmonizing Agility & Discipline (1 PDU, 1 CDU)
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.
Learning objectives
1. Look at the structure of agility and discipline-based methods
2. Provide guidelines for adding agile practices to traditional software development environments
3. Provide guidelines for reapplying traditional development practices to the agile software development environment.
Being RATIONAL in an Accelerated World
Tired of having tools that slow your requirements discovery and management? When tools get implemented, time is of the essence! What is the total time needed to get clear, accurate and complete requirements - and - how much time are your stakeholders spending in requirements discovery sessions. Many tools cannot support highly accelerated requirements elicitation - IBM Rational® Requirements Composer® can. We're going to show you how - and - we're going to change your thinking on how to configure tools and analyst teams to get greater performance and efficiency.
Learning objectives:
1. Identify the benefits of using a Rapid Requirements elicitation approach.
2. Know the IBM Rational® products and the way of using these products for Rapid Requirements gathering.
3. Identify the artifacts and deliverables that result from this elicitation process
5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning (1 PDU, 1 CDU)
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.
Learning objectives
1. Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning
2. Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity
3. Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document
Predicting Project Outcome (1 PDU, 1 CDU)
An advanced webinar for senior project managers... This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling. This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model. This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions Project Managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.
Learning Objectives:
1. Quantify the impact of requirements quality on project time and cost
2. Learn an assessment tool for identifying high risk projects
3. Understand proactive strategies for driving success when faced with odds stacked against you
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation (1 PDU, 1 CDU)
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.
Learning Objectives
1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time.
Managing Requirements Operational Excellence A Framework for Accelerating Organizational Development (1 PDU, 1 CDU)
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.
Learning Objectives:
1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?
Optimizing Requirements Discovery (1 PDU, 1 CDU)
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.
Learning Objectives:
1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development
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