Events

How to Get Sign-Off On Just About Any Deliverable
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements

Roxanne Miller, a self proclaimed ‘Requirements Super Freak', is the founder of Requirements Quest and has been consulting on business analysis practices for over 15 years. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and an active member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®). Her energetic and entertaining style make her a back-by-popular-demand speaker in the business analysis community. Roxanne Miller’s book, The Quest for Software Requirements, is an in-depth reference guide with over 2,000 elicitation questions and a tested framework to help individuals succeed in developing and installing software systems.

How to Get Sign-Off On Just About Any Deliverable
Are you tired of wasting time in 3-hour-marathon meetings to review deliverables, only to end up frustrated because you still have not reached consensus? Roxanne Miller reveals a tested technique called Ink-Free Sign-Off™. Discover how to increase stakeholder buy-in and commitment to deliverables. You will gain an understanding of role-based participation as a key to stakeholder contribution. Roxanne will provide a format for tracking and monitoring this iterative and incremental approach, which can help you report on progress. Tracking review progress can increase stakeholder accountability for identifying and resolving issues with the deliverable under review. Register now and learn how to eliminate 'sign-off' as an obstacle to your project success.

Key Content:

Reasons why most deliverable reviews don’t work
Role-based participation
Three steps to the Ink-Free Sign-Off™ approach
Agenda preparation
‘2-5-30 Rule’ for planning deliverable reviews
Format for conducting a review
Three review outcomes
Track and monitor review progress

Learning Objectives:

Understand how role-based stakeholder participation is key to raising issues with the deliverable under review.
Discover a 3-step approach that can increase stakeholder buy-in, commitment, and accountability.
Gain templates and tips for conducting a successful deliverable review.

Date: August 24th, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Getting the Right Stakeholders Involved
Roxanne E. Miller, CBAP®, President of Requirements Quest
Author of The Quest for Software Requirements

The Standish Group International reports, yet again, that user involvement is the number one success factor for information technology projects. If user involvement is so important, why are we still failing to get it? Have you ever worked on a project where the Sponsor told you what people you could (and could not) talk to? Would you like a tangible tool for securing the people you really need? This session will show you the proven, step-by-step technique to identifying the right stakeholders for your project, as well as securing the resources needed. It is not "Who you know;" rather, it is "What Who knows" that leads to project success!

Learning Objectives(at the end of the session, participants will be able to):

Understand the key to the stakeholder profiling technique in order to identify potential stakeholders.
Identify a tangible means to securing resources for your next project.
Take a role-based approach to creating a reusable stakeholder list.

Date: June 21st, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m. EDT
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Roxanne Miller Get the Users "IN" the doghouse and keep yourself out "Eliciing Nonfunctional Requirements" Roxanne E.Miller , President of Requirements Quest author of " The Quest for Software Requirements"

Roxanne Miller, a self proclaimed ‘Requirements Super Freak,’ is the founder of Requirements Quest and has been consulting on business analysis practices for over 15 years. She is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and an active member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). Her energetic and entertaining style make her a back-by-popular-demand speaker in the business analysis community. Roxanne Miller’s book, The Quest for Software Requirements, is an in-depth reference guide with over 2,000 elicitation questions and a tested framework to help individuals succeed in developing and installing software systems.

The day of the big move is upon you. The semi-truck stuffed with all of your personal furnishings pulls up to your new home. The moving crew gets to work at once, and swiftly begins unloading and carrying your things through the front door. Suddenly the harmonious dance that the crew performs comes to a screeching halt.

As eyes roam back and forth from the front door to your magnificent grand piano, your heart nearly stops as you realize that the piano is not going to fit. What are you going to do?

Functionally, the home builder constructed a beautiful home. However, somehow this nonfunctional detail was missed. Does this scenario sound familiar to any of the missed requirements on your projects lately? Do operation requirements such as response time, throughput, capacity, and availability get missed? What about flexibility requirements such as scalability, multi-lingual, installability, and extendability? Roxanne Miller will reveal "patterns" of nonfunctional requirements that can reduce the possibility of missed requirements that cause project rework. Come and find out what you've been missing.

Learning Objectives (at the end of the session, participants will be able to):

Recognize the difference between functional and nonfunctional requirements.
Understand various categories of nonfunctional requirements.
Discover the simplicity of this frequently misunderstood and overlooked requirement type.

Date : May 11th 2011
Time : 1 pm -- 2pm EDT
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eDevTECH is a platinum sponsor for ProjectWorld * BusinessAnalystWorld Toronto 2011

http://www.projectworldcanada.com/toronto/sponsors-and-partners.html?show_id=PSBATOR2011

The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX)

Each year, the Canadian Innovation Exchange seeks out the hottest, most innovative technology-based products, services and companies in Canada.

http://www.canadianinnovationexchange.com/overview.php

Business Rules Forum

Business Rules Forum Conference 2010
October 17-21, 2010. Washington DC

2010 Conference Agenda Live
The agenda for the 13th International Business Rules Forum 2010, scheduled for October 17-21 at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, VA, is now live. This year your Business Rules Forum pass also gives you access to the complete seven-track Building Business Capability program, which incorporates the Business Process Forum and the Business Analysis Forum.
http://www.businessrulesforum.com/

Project Summit & BAWorld: Boston