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ON DEMAND Webinar: How Analysts Can Easily Conquer Today's Data Challenges - A Case Study
Are you an analyst perplexed by the ever growing data challenges? In this webcast, Rebekah Anderson, BI Director for Concordia University (CUI), shares how her team conquered numerous data analytics challenges.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Use Cases and User Stories for Agile Requirements
This presentation outlines how use cases and user stories should be used together when gathering requirements for Agile projects. Many Agile business analysts are hesitant to employ certain requirements elicitation and development techniques such as user stories and use case studies because they are traditionally considered aspects of the Waterfall or traditional method of Project Management.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: How Requirements Repositories and Reusability can Help Achieve a Competitive Advantage
How do companies profitably go about harvesting and holding their corporate knowledge? When you’re dealing with general reference information, it’s pretty easy to use technologies such as Wikis and Sharepoint to push out information on policies to specific user communities. But requirements information is vastly different in structure, as are the uses of information, and user needs for access. The benefit scenarios for requirements repositories need to be practical and grounded in the unique nature of this information.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Combine Big Data with Enterprise Data to Improve Business Performance
Big data opens an entirely new data universe to consider and use to improve decision making. But how does a business/systems analyst turn it into actual usable data so that it can be used for operational improvements that result in real business value? Success depends on how fast and seamlessly you can combine your big data with your enterprise data and present that collective information to your decision makers.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Instant Analytics: 1hr Practical Analytics Webinar
Business leaders depend on data analysts like you to provide the crucial guidance they rely on to make decisions every day. They need the right results, right now. Waiting in line for IT budget or specialists isn’t going to get you what you need. New sources of data from Hadoop and social media promise fresh customer insights, but make it even harder to create the analytic dataset you need. Sign up for this webinar today to experience Instant Analytics.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Software Requirements: 7 Critical Success Factors
This presentation describes seven critical success factors that will go a long way toward making the requirements activities in your organization pay off for the many project stakeholders.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: 6 Common Traps to Avoid When Collaborating on Requirements
Product delivery teams get caught in traps that prevent them from effectively eliciting, documenting, or managing requirements. It is no wonder they often get out of sync on what they are supposed to build and why. How confident are you that everyone is in sync?
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ON DEMAND Webinar: How to use Sociocracy to Improve Collaboration and Expand Agile Practices
...successful Agile projects require organization-wide Sociocracy to create a structure that involves all members throughout the organization “in the flow” in decision-making, while producing a strong, transparent, efficient decision-making structure. Join Derwyn Harris, Solutions Architect and Co-Founder at Jama Software, as he shares how to use tools, language, process, and Sociocracy to improve and expand Agile practices in an organization.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Top 10 Business Analysis Trends of 2013
2013 is here and with it a changing organizational environment for Business Analysts... The top 10 BA trends for 2013 include information on the importance of requirements, the new Agile landscape and the new ways in which Business Analysts will be expected to work.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Achieving BPM Excellence with Visio 2013 and BPMN 2.0
This webinar will educate Business Analysts on how they can use Microsoft Visio 2013's powerful process diagramming, standardization, automation and validation capabilities in conjunction with a strong integration with Microsoft Office to enable a highly participative BPM foundation. Also, Business Analysts will learn about creating and validating BPMN 2.0 diagrams using Microsoft Visio 2013.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Elements of Requirements Style
This presentation describes numerous techniques for writing software functional requirements, focused on the core objective of clear and effective communication. You’ll see multiple styles of writing functional requirements and you'll learn many vague “weak words” to avoid. The presentation describes several common types of requirements ambiguity and shows how to rewrite ambiguous requirements to make them clearer.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Rapid Analytics – A visual, live approach to requirements gathering and business analytic development
Most analytics and business intelligence projects fail because the analytics delivered by IT don’t meet the requirements of the business users. Agile analytics or agile BI has been viewed as a potential solution to this problem, but applying agile development methods to traditional analytics and business intelligence design cycles often means getting to the wrong result faster and does not result in an analytic solution that hits the requirements exactly.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Create a BA Center of Excellence and Improve Business Performance and Innovation
Business Analysts are now emerging from requirement writers for IT projects to serving as a pivotal link in business change and transformation. However, to be successful, business analysts have to have the right set of skills and competencies... A Business Analysis Center of Excellence (BACoE) provides an effective method for organizations to increase business analysis maturity and consequently deliver more business value and reduce the risk of projects.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Business Process Modeling Across the SDLC - and its Links to Other BA Tools w/ Howard Podeswa
The presentation explains how Business Process Modeling (BPM) is used in practice by following a case study through the project life cycle. At each point, BPM activities and deliverable are highlighted and their links to complementary BA techniques is explored. Special emphasis is placed on the BPMN and UML standards and guidelines are provided for when to use these standards over the life cycle.
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ON DEMAND Webinar: Thorny Issues in Software Requirements w/ Karl Wiegers
This presentation addresses ten such “thorny issues” and tricky topics in requirements engineering. I’ll explain why each topic is important, and I’ll offer some practical advice about how to deal with each of these issues on your projects.
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