Live Webinar July 11th, 2019 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

High quality agile requirements are more than just user stories. They are visual models, testable acceptance criteria, and the result of collaborative facilitated sessions with your stakeholders and team. Given, When, Then (or Gherkin language) is an effective style for documenting acceptance criteria, particularly in support of teams engaged in behavior driven development processes.

In this interactive workshop, Candase Hokanson will talk about what it takes to get to a “good” user story, by starting with visual models that help identify and prioritize the right user stories, and using proven techniques to elaborate them into solid functional requirements in the Gherkin format (that could be consumed by automation tools like Cucumber!).

Presenter: Candase Hokanson (LinkedIn profile) Senior Product Manager Seilevel, a requirements consulting firm that redefines how software requirements are created. Candase helps clients to clearly understand the business value of their projects and has cut up to 80% of project scope in unrelated or low priority requirements for multiple projects. Candase has also developed requirements for a variety of products such as: a management accounting and profitability application, a globally used consolidated sales tool and a globally used software portal where customers can access their digital products for a multi-billion dollar technology company.

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Not Your Mama’s Acceptance Criteria:
A Product Owner’s Guide To Writing Excellent User Stories

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Live Webinar May 14th, 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

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How To Tell A Story With Data & Analytics

If you want to truly engage decision makers on your data findings, you must offer more than BI reporting or data visualization – you must tell a compelling data story.

This trend, data storytelling, is an extension of the now-dominant self-service model of business intelligence (BI), combining data visualization with narrative techniques.

In this data and analytics webinar, James Laurence Richardson (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director  Analyst looks at the skills you need and the steps you must take to become a powerful data storyteller.

Discussion Topics:

• What a data story is
• When and how data storytelling should be used
• What new skills and techniques you need to be a data storyteller

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Data Storytelling: Engage Decision Makers With Data

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Live Webinar – May 8th 2019 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hours 2 PDUs/CDUs
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Key content covered in the webinar:

• Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
• Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
• The Components of a Use Case
• The Different Forms of Use Cases
• The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
• Detailed Use Case Modeling
• Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
• Use Cases and Business Rules
• Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
• Next Steps – What do you do when you’re done?

Get specific answers to:

• “Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What’s the difference between use cases and requirements?”
• “What is the difference between a business and a system use case”
• “How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?”
• “How many use cases do I need?”
• “How detailed do the use cases need to be?”
• “What questions should I ask to build a good use case?
• “How many alternate flows do I need?”
• “When do I know I’m done?
• “What is the purpose of use case diagrams?”

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Writing A Business Use Case In 7 Steps

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Live Webinar March 29th, 2019 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514) – A Rommana Webinar

Many agile projects take a simplistic approach to “managing” user stories.

In fact, everything we learned in the requirement management discipline has somehow disappeared when user stories are used to describe desired functionality.

If we hope for the agile approach to scale up to help build complex systems and systems of system, then we need to go beyond the simplistic approach.

Very much like requirements in a non-agile project, user stories do not live in a vacuum. If you consider a more disciplined and more flexible agile project, then user stories change over time, they relate to other user stories, they related to test cases, scenarios, acceptance criteria and other project entities.

User stores are reviewed, finalized and approved. Tasks to implement user stories are assigned to team members and both estimated time and actual time to perform these tasks are tracked. Most importantly, progress in performing these tasks is tracked.

In this presentation,  Magdy will show how we can preserve much of the discipline we followed in the field of requirement management before agile and user stories ever existed.

The presentation will conclude with a short demo of the award winning Rommana ALM to show how we expect a tool to support a more disciplined approach to managing user stories.

Presenter: Dr. Magdy Hanna PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His highly rated seminars in various topics over the last thirty-five years have spanned various aspects and capacities of software projects and processes.

He has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. As a professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Thomas , he taught graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques.

Dr. Hanna developed new approaches and methods in software engineering including the Scenario-Based Development and Testing (SBDT), Requirement-Based Project Management (RBPM), Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model ( DOM ). Dr. Hanna and his instructors conduct hundreds of free online webinars each year.

Dr. Hanna also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Test Professionals, a publication of IIST, now the Bug Free Zone.

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Managing User Stories For Effective Development & Testing

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Live Webinar – March 19th 2019 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – March 19th 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Charter Court Financial Service Group and its subsidiaries form the UK’s leading specialist mortgage lender, they have a top 10 ranking in the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For and are recognised as one of the UK’s most inspiring companies in an influential report created by the London Stock Exchange Group.

Join Simon Drinkwater (LinkedIn profile) Head of Change Delivery, Sarah Ward (LinkedIn profile) PMO Manager and Baz Khinda, (LinkedIn profile) Commercial Director at Wellingtone to discover how they have transformed the visibility and focus of their project portfolio through Microsoft Project Online.

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Microsoft Project Online Customer Story:
Charter Court Financial Services

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Live Webinar – March 14th, 2019 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

The intentions of compliance training are very good. They save lives and protect assets.

BUT – Compliance courses are well-known to be dry, boring, hard to follow,  too full of legalese and often overly technical.  “Section 1078b of the code requires that you do so and so.” No wonder they don’t resonate with us!  People are social animals.  Don’t we connect with other people and their experiences better than rules and regs?

How would your learners’ minds engage with a lesson that starts “John lost his right arm due to an explosion” or “Food poisoning brought down Chipotle’s sales”?

Emotional, impactful stories make it easier for learners to quickly relate

to the point of compliance rules and accept them.

The challenge is to understand how to create and select the right stories and how to present them to be effective in achieving the goals of your compliance training.

In this webinar learn:

• How to select short and engaging stories to replace boring compliance lessons
• How to convert compliance legalese into easy-to-understand stories and experiences
• The step-by-step structure of effective story-based compliance lessons
• How to use story-based compliance lessons to meet regulatory reporting rules

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of “3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos“, “Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1)“, and “DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning“. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.

Workshop and briefing participants describe Ray as fun, engaging, Technically savvy, has depth in e-learning experience, balances theory and hands-on experience  and inspiring. Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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How Stories Can Bring Life & Relevance To Compliance Training

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