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SUMMARY:BA29 User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Business Analysts (BAs)
DESCRIPTION:Credits: 14 PDUs/CDUs\nCourse Duration: 2 days\nCourse Level: Intermediate \nView Course Outline \nPrerequisites: \nKnowledge of requirements process and requirements elicitation techniques. \nCourse Objectives: \nThis 2 day workshop looks at the business issues which drive the need for a fully functional\nUAT process and describes the components of such a process. It is designed to help the\nBusiness Analyst (BA) develop an understanding of their role\, the process\, and the\ndeliverables associated with UAT. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/ba29-user-acceptance-testing-uat-for-business-analysts-bas/2025-05-01/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Live\, Instructor-Led
CATEGORIES:BA Courses: 2023 Schedule,BA Courses: 2024 Schedule,BA Courses: 2025 Schedule
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SUMMARY:AGL-22V Virtual Agile Scrum Simulation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Course Title: Virtual Agile Scrum Simulation Workshop \nCourse ID: AGL-22V\nCredits: 14 PDUs\nCourse Duration: 2 days ( or 4\, 3-hour sessions) \nCourse Level:\nThis course has been expressly designed for the beginner or intermediate agile team member \nOverview: \nThis 2-day virtual workshop puts the distributed agile team members through their paces\, by showing them how to conduct the five (5) scrum ceremonies\, while also simulating key activities within a sprint\, all while working remotely and using their own project (for private classes) as a case study for the exercises . This workshop utilizes an immersive learning approach\, along with role playing\, which allows students to assume their respective Scrum roles and practice the techniques as they learn. Students work remotely and experience an environment that is fully leveraging Agile concepts and culture. This format allows better understanding of their own role on the team\, and appreciate their team members contributions. \nThe highlights of this course include: \n\nVirtual Delivery – Students collaborate online while learning Scrum roles\, ceremonies\, tasks\, and techniques\nDynamic workbook – Macro-enabled worksheets help students build Backlogs\, Release Plans\, Burndown Charts\, etc.\nCompact Learning Format – Students perform 18 hands-on workshops in 2-days (or four ½ day sessions)\nTeam Building Exercises – The class will split up into 2 teams (7 or 8 people per team) and work together while simulating the Scrum ceremonies and an actual sprint\nPublic or Private Delivery – Delivery format can accommodate both open enrollment or corporate Agile teams\nNo Tool Required– Learn Scrum best practices without being encumbered by a tool (e.g.\, Jira)\n\nView Course Outline
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/agl-22v-virtual-agile-scrum-team-workshop/2025-05-01/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Live\, Instructor-Led
CATEGORIES:Agile Courses: 2023 Schedule,Agile Courses: 2024 Schedule,Agile Courses: 2025 Schedule
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260829T064532
CREATED:20191105T212753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T205757Z
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SUMMARY:PM10 Project Management Essentials/CAPM Exam Prep
DESCRIPTION:Course ID: PM10\nCourse Duration: 3 days \n23 Professional Development (PD) hours\nCourse Level: Basic/Intermediate \nThis course helps individuals gain more responsibility and increase their skills in their current project role by providing additional knowledge of current project management principles and terminology to work on a wide range of projects using a variety of approaches: agile\, predictive\, and hybrid. The course provides the essential knowledge in building a career as a project manager and provides the foundational knowledge and skills that project teams demand. It focuses on an individual’s knowledge of Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts. The course also includes components related to Predictive plan-based methods\, Adaptive (agile) frameworks/methods\, and Business Analysis frameworks\, covering the same Body of Knowledge that is covered in the PMI CAPM Certification. The understanding of this skillset is essential to pursuing entry and associate level project management career opportunities\, such as project coordinator and junior project manager. Whether you are looking to build on your current skillset or pursue an exciting new career\, the CAPM distinguishes your skills and empowers you to build the project management career of your dreams. \nView PDF \n 
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/pm10-project-management-fundamentals/2025-05-05/
CATEGORIES:PM Courses: 2023 Schedule,PM Courses: 2024 Schedule,PM Courses: 2025 Schedule
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250509T170000
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SUMMARY:BACP02 Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA®) Exam Preparation Course
DESCRIPTION:Course ID: BACP02\nCredits: 28 -35 CDUs*\nCourse Duration: 4 days\nCourse Level: Intermediate/Advanced \nView Course Outline \n* All students will obtain 28 professional development hours by attending the 4-day preparation course. CBAP candidates requiring 35 hours of professional development training in order to satisfy the eligibility requirements for the CBAP® application\, can attain the remaining hours by completing the six exercises provided in a supplementary student workbook. If interested in attaining the 7 extra professional development hours for this course\, please inform your instructor who will provide further instructions for attaining these hours. \nPrerequisites: \nAt least two years of business analysis experience with an interest in pursuing a business analysis certification\nfrom International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA®) or interest in obtaining information about the exam\,\nexam process\, and the content covered. \nCourse Objectives: \nThis is an intermediate/advanced course designed to provide participants with a clear understanding of the concepts covered within the CBAP® and CCBA® exams. The course provides valuable tips and techniques to help students prepare\, study\, and assess their personal readiness. \nParticipants will work through instructor led discussions on each of the six Knowledge Areas covered by A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of KnowledgeTM (BABOK® Guide) version 3 and will be provided opportunities to answer simulated questions to gain skill and familiarity with applying personal knowledge to answer sample questions.  Participants will review a number of business analysis techniques and personal skill competencies to understand how best to prepare for questions covering such topics. Each of the five business analysis Perspectives presented in the BABOK® Guide will be reviewed to support students in answering exam questions in these areas. \nAfter completing this course\, participants will be better prepared to develop their study plan and will have identified knowledge gaps so study efforts can be directed toward their most critical areas. Students will also gain a solid understanding of key business analysis vocabulary to support this work. \n 
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/bacp02-certified-business-analysis-professional-cbap-and-competency-in-business-analysis-ccba-exam-preparation-course-2/2025-05-06/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Live\, Instructor-Led
CATEGORIES:BA Courses: 2023 Schedule,BA Courses: 2024 Schedule,BA Courses: 2025 Schedule
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SUMMARY:AGL-19A Agile Requirements - Writing User Stories Workshop
DESCRIPTION:AGL-19A Agile Requirements – Writing User Stories Workshop \nCourse Code: AGL-19A \nCourse Length: 2 days \nAudience: \n This course is intended for Agile teams to communicate and write user stories to capture requirements. This would include Product Owners\, Stakeholders\, Business Analysts\, Testers and any person who wants to write user stories. \nCourse Overview: \nWriting User Stories Workshop will demonstrate how to manage\, write\, and communicate requirements in an Agile Environment. Participants learn to collaborate and identify business needs and communicate those needs through User Stories. Group activities will be performed to apply the learned knowledge in real time with the ability to use their own project. \nUpon successful completion of this course\, the attendee will gain knowledge in the following: \n\nOverview of Agile and understand common terms for Agile Teams\nDetermine Business Analysis Activities in Agile\nUnderstand how to Identify and Define User Personas\nWrite User Stories\nUnderstand all aspects of Product Backlog Items\n\nSolution Requirements\nSpikes\nTechnical Debt\n\n\nUnderstand Epics\, Features and Tasks\nApply User Story Analysis
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/3715/2025-05-08/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Live\, Instructor-Led
CATEGORIES:Agile Courses: 2023 Schedule,Agile Courses: 2024 Schedule,Agile Courses: 2025 Schedule
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250512T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250514T170000
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CREATED:20190430T192549Z
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SUMMARY:BA27 Writing and Managing Effective Requirements
DESCRIPTION:Course ID: BA27 \nCredits: 21 CDUs\nCourse Duration: 3 days\nCourse Level: Beginner to Intermediate \nView Course Outline \nPrerequisites: \nNo prerequisites – This course is suitable for both beginner and intermediate business analysts who want to\nincrease their skills for eliciting\, analyzing\, writing and managing effective requirements on projects. \nCourse Objectives: \n• Obtain a thorough understanding of the core responsibilities of the business analyst\n• Understand the main professional associations and standards supporting business analysts in the\nindustry\n• Discuss and explore the components of each of the domains/knowledge areas that comprise the work\nof business analysis\n• Obtain a clear understanding of the various requirements types and the significance for eliciting each\ntype\n• Discuss requirements packages and types of requirements documentation\n• Obtain hands-on experience with a number of business analysis techniques and models\nThis course is compliant with IIBA’s Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK® Guide) version 3 standard in\nbusiness analysis and is aligned with and upholds the practices as discussed in PMI’s Business Analysis for\nPractitioners: A Practice Guide. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/ba27-writing-and-managing-effective-requirements/2025-05-12/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Live\, Instructor-Led
CATEGORIES:BA Courses: 2023 Schedule,BA Courses: 2024 Schedule,BA Courses: 2025 Schedule
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250515T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T170000
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CREATED:20190430T193722Z
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SUMMARY:BA28 Requirements Analysis and Documentation
DESCRIPTION:Course ID: BA28\nCredits: 14 PDUs/CDUs\nCourse Duration: 2 days\nCourse Level: Intermediate \nView Course Outline \nPrerequisites: \nKnowledge of requirements process and requirements elicitation techniques. \nCourse Objectives: \nThis 2-day course provides a strong foundation in the mechanics of use case diagramming and\nwriting textual descriptions of use cases. In this highly interactive workshop\, you will learn how to\nenhance and refine your use case skills\, how to involve your stakeholders in the use case process\,\nand how to develop use cases that provide valuable information to the designers and testers. Use\ncases that meet the needs of designers can be too technical and too detailed for other stakeholders.\nUse cases that satisfy business users are usually not very helpful to designers and testers. How do\nyou satisfy these two disparate interests? And how do you handle the details like business rules\,\ndata validations and user interface specifications? \n 
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/ba28-requirements-analysis-and-documentation/2025-05-15/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Live\, Instructor-Led
CATEGORIES:BA Courses: 2023 Schedule,BA Courses: 2024 Schedule,BA Courses: 2025 Schedule
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T170000
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CREATED:20210621T153932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250218T164000Z
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SUMMARY:BA39 - Software Testing
DESCRIPTION:BA39- Software Testing Workshop – 2 Days\nCourse ID: BA39\nCredits: 14 PDUs/CDUs\nCourse Duration: 2 days\nCourse Level: Intermediate \nAudience: \nThis course is designed for developers\, systems analysts\, and testers who are involved with testing the functionality of technology projects. \n Prerequisites \nIt is recommended that the participants have a basic knowledge of the software life cycle \nCourse Overview: \nAll too often the software products delivered to the business do not meet their expectations\, especially with regard to the quality of the product.  An effective testing process addresses this issue by confirming the functionality and performance of the product prior to its release to the business. \nThis two day class looks at the business issues which drive the need for a fully functional testing process and describes the components of such a process.  It is designed to help the testers develop an understanding of their role\, the process\, and the deliverables associated with testing. \nCourse highlights \n\nDevelop an understanding about basic concepts associated with software testing\nSee how testing applies to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)\nRecognize benefits of improved quality of deployed software using testing techniques\nIdentify the key roles\, activities and deliverables which make up requirements-based testing\nUse a business Use Case to define scenarios for testing\nLearn how to create a test plan and write test cases with test data\nUnderstand the process for testing functional requirements\nIdentify the challenges of testing vendor-supplied applications\n\n 
URL:https://rgfgroup.com/event/ba39-software-testing/2025-05-19/
LOCATION:Virtual\, Live\, Instructor-Led
CATEGORIES:BA Courses: 2023 Schedule,BA Courses: 2024 Schedule,BA Courses: 2025 Schedule
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