Whether or not your title is “Business Analyst”, business analysis work is expected from project managers, quality assurance professionals, and pretty much everyone in the organization. It is a complex and broad discipline! This course outlines the critical tasks which are included in the business analysis profession, along with definitions and examples of the various requirements types. It also will cover several key analysis techniques for eliciting, analyzing and presenting requirements.

Learn key concepts, terminology and tools available to effectively manage projects. Utilize a step-by-step process designed to help you organize your efforts to work faster and more efficiently. Using case studies, interactive exercises and instructor-led discussions, you will identify your project management knowledge and skills gaps, and then create a self-directed action plan that you can implement after course completion.

Designed for agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and senior managers looking to understand and apply the agile approach and practices to new product development. Understand the importance of a strong agile team, servant leadership aand other key concepts of Agile. You will learn what is needed to be successful on Agile projects in your organization from initiation and release planning to iterative retrospectives. Apply the fundamental models of creating personas and user stories, size a story backlog, and create a release plan.

Are you often involved with contracts on projects? Are you having trouble getting work delivered from a project-related vendor? Do you feel uncomfortable dealing with legal documents, attorneys and contract language? Do you need to get more work? If so, this invaluable 4 hour class is exactly what you need to master both buying and selling!

As an experienced project manager, you know that utilizing sound project management fundamentals and techniques gives you the best chance for success. But in many organizations, getting project management to work the way it needs to work is difficult, and sometimes impossible. Between the people around you who don’t practice good PM—and the lack of support from management—how can you be expected to succeed?

This IT-focused course is full of tools and techniques that can be applied immediately any IT project—to deliver them on time, on budget, and with fewer headaches. In addition to reviewing concepts like planning, scheduling and budgeting, this course moves BEYOND the basics to cover a number of real-world project management tools and techniques for IT initiatives. Students will leave the course with indispensable practical checklists, templates and exercises to reinforce learning—as well as dozens of tricks, insights and contributions from real-world PMs sharing their experiences with real-world IT projects. Get your IT projects back on track using proven, real-world project management tools and techniques!