Live Webinar February 5th, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
By: The Corporate Education Group (REP 1011) Course ID: BAW1234
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

Use cases and user stories are both excellent techniques for understanding what a user needs from a product.

While both have a similar purpose, use cases and user stories are not meant to be used interchangeably. That is why it’s important for a business analyst to understand the difference.

The older of the two techniques is the use case, which captures usage scenarios.

In other words, a use case documents how an individual uses a product to accomplish something of value. T

his technique works well for projects where functional requirements and usage scenarios must be – and can be – specified upfront. However, what if you can’t know the requirements upfront?

In a user story, the user and what they need the product to accomplish is also specified, but in contrast to use cases, at a much higher level.

Recognizing which technique is best suited to your situation is the key.

In this webinar you will learn to:

• Determine when to apply use cases and user stories to define stakeholder requirements.
• Elaborate use cases through scenarios.
• Augment use cases and user stories with diagrams and visuals for better communication

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect.

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How To Elaborate Requirements
Through Use Cases & User Stories

Live Webinar February 12th, 2016 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Fissure Corporation (Rep 1026)

Organizations are trying to increase their internal speed and flexibility by shedding current bureaucratic governance models and structures.

These organizations are looking at Agile as a potential “answer” to becoming faster and flexible. Agile principles have proven effective for software development at a team level, but can they do the same at the organizational level?

How do you scale agile principles and practices across the enterprise?

In this webinar Fissure will introduce you to the Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe and attempt to answer these questions.

In this webinar Fissure will:

• Introduce the Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe – what is it?
• Share a few key scaling agile concepts
• Look at some case studies of companies who have successfully applied SAFe

In the pursuit of enterprise agility, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) offers a framework that you can customize for your organization.

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Overview Of Scaling Agile With SAFe

February 10th, 2016 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration:  1 Hour  Credits: 1 PDU  Category B – Free PDU
Presented by:  Capella University

• Have you ever wondered if you could be more effective in your job if you had a mentor?
• Have you ever wondered what a mentor is or does?

Perhaps you’ve had one relationship that didn’t work well for you as mentor or mentee.

This webinar will describe what mentoring is and how it works, how to look for a mentor and how to find the right one for you.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

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Mentoring For Future Success

Live Webinar February 9th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar February 9th, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

IT policies help create a consistent level of performance within IT, and a consistent level of IT performance contributes to IT credibility within the enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• The role of policies within the overall IT communications framework
• An outline for an effective policy
• How to effectively develop, institute and maintain a policy library

Presenter: Heather Colella, (LinkedIn profile) Research VP

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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How Policies Improve Overall IT Performance