October 2020
BA01-Business Analysis Essentials
July 23-24, 2020 Class Guaranteed to Run! Course ID: BA01 Credits: 14 CDUs Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Basic/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites: this course is suitable for both novices and experienced practitioners who need to have a clear and systematic approach to Business Analysis. Course Objectives: This is an introductory course designed to provide participants with a basic understanding of the benefits, functions and impact a business analyst has within an organization. The course discusses the…
Find out more »BA08-Agile for Business Analysts
September 14-15, 2020 Class Guaranteed to Run! Course ID: AG-BA08 Credits: 14 PMI-PDUs, IIBA-CDUs (Professional Development Hours) Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Basic/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course is suitable for novice and experienced practitioners who are responsible for business analysis activities on projects using iterative or adaptive (agile) delivery methods. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling or have equivalent experience. Course Abstract: As more…
Find out more »BA03-Writing Effective Business Cases
Course ID: BA03 Credits: 14 CDUs Course Level: Basic/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course suitable for both novices and experienced people who need to develop and justify the business case. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling. Course Objectives: Learn the steps to effective business case development and support your strategic business recommendations with sound budgeting and financial back-up. The one course you need to make high-impact…
Find out more »BA17 Problem Determination Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Course ID: BA17 Credits: 14 PDUs Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Intermediate/Advance View Course Outline Prerequisites: This course is appropriate for individuals who have had some prior experience with root cause analysis. Course Objectives: At the completion of this course, you should be able to: • Identify the different types of tools and techniques available • Apply change management successfully • Review what to look for when applying business case thinking to Root Cause Analysis • Develop a process…
Find out more »DevOps-01 DevOps Foundation®
Course Code: DevOps- 01 Course Title: DevOps Foundation® (DOFD) Course Duration: 2 days Overview: This course provides an introduction to DevOps – the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration and automation in order to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows will result in an improved ability to design, develop, deploy and operate software and services faster. The DevOps Foundation course provides a baseline understanding of key DevOps terminology to…
Find out more »BA08-Agile for Business Analysts
September 14-15, 2020 Class Guaranteed to Run! Course ID: AG-BA08 Credits: 14 PMI-PDUs, IIBA-CDUs (Professional Development Hours) Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Basic/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course is suitable for novice and experienced practitioners who are responsible for business analysis activities on projects using iterative or adaptive (agile) delivery methods. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling or have equivalent experience. Course Abstract: As more…
Find out more »PMP31 PMP® Exam Prep Training
Course ID: PMP31 Credits: 35 PDUs Course Duration: 5 days Course Level: Intermediate/Advanced View Course Outline Prerequisites: 1. Project Management Concepts 2. Equivalent project management experience Course Objectives: • Prepare participants to successfully take the PMP® exam • Introduce participants to the methods and tools of project management contained within the PMBOK® Guide, 5th Edition • Provide students with ample opportunities to assess their readiness for the exam with module quizzes and a sample exam
Find out more »AGL-22V Virtual Agile Scrum Team Workshop
Course Title: Virtual Agile Scrum Team Workshop Course ID: AGL-22V Credits: 14 PDUs Course Duration: 2 days ( or 4, 3-hour sessions) Course Level: This course has been expressly designed for the beginner or intermediate agile team Overview: This 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 as…
Find out more »November 2020
BA04-Eliciting and Writing Effective Requirements
Course ID: BA04 Credits: 21 CDUs Course Duration: 3 days Course Level: Basic/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course is suitable for both novice and experienced practitioners who desire to improve their skills at eliciting and writing effective requirements. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling or have equivalent experience. Course Abstract: Successful projects are built on the foundation of clearly defined requirements but according to PMI’s August…
Find out more »BACP02 Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA®) Exam Preparation Course
Course ID: BACP02 Credits: 28 -35 CDUs* Course Duration: 4 days Course Level: Intermediate/Advanced View Course Outline * 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,…
Find out more »DevOps-02 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation
Course Code: DevOps-02 Course Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation Course Course Duration: 2 days OVERVIEW The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠ course is an introduction to the principles & practices that enable an organization to reliably and economically scale critical services. Introducing a site-reliability dimension requires organizational re-alignment, a new focus on engineering & automation, and the adoption of a range of new working paradigms. The course highlights the evolution of SRE and its future direction, and equips participants…
Find out more »BA08-Agile for Business Analysts
September 14-15, 2020 Class Guaranteed to Run! Course ID: AG-BA08 Credits: 14 PMI-PDUs, IIBA-CDUs (Professional Development Hours) Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Basic/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course is suitable for novice and experienced practitioners who are responsible for business analysis activities on projects using iterative or adaptive (agile) delivery methods. It is recommended that participants complete the BA01 – Business Analysis Essentials course prior to enrolling or have equivalent experience. Course Abstract: As more…
Find out more »BA27 Writing and Managing Effective Requirements
Course ID: BA27 Credits: 21 CDUs Course Duration: 3 days Course Level: Beginner to Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course is suitable for both beginner and intermediate business analysts who want to increase their skills for eliciting, analyzing, writing and managing effective requirements on projects. Course Objectives: • Obtain a thorough understanding of the core responsibilities of the business analyst • Understand the main professional associations and standards supporting business analysts in the industry • Discuss…
Find out more »DevOps-08 Certified Agile Process Owner
Course ID: DevOps-08 Course Title: Certified Agile Process Owner (CAPO) Course Duration: 2 days OVERVIEW This course provides guidance into the process Owner responsibilities so they can describe what they are doing as a process and provides the education needed to oversee the design, re-engineering and improvement of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes; particularly in the context of Agile Service Management. Participants learn how to apply Scrum practices to Process Owner responsibilities and use Agile and Lean principles and practices…
Find out more »PjM-13 Managing IT Projects
Course Title: Managing IT Projects Course Code: PjM-13 Course Length: 3 days In today’s dynamically changing business environment projects are initiated under tighter budgetary, resource and time constraints than ever before. This seminar focuses on the core project management skills required to manage an Information Technology project and will provide the attendees with proven "real life" tools and techniques applied to an IT Project case study. • Develop a foundation in core project management concepts. • Apply core project management…
Find out more »Agile-23D Agile for Developers
Course Title: Agile for Developers Course ID: Agile-23D Course Level: Intermediate/Advanced Course Description: This 2-day course explores how adapting Agile values and principles will improve product development. It contrasts traditional SDLC methods with the most popular Agile methods to set the stage for benchmarking performance. Then it introduces a comprehensive set of Agile techniques and practices, and gives attendees the opportunity to simulate an end-to-end project while using them. Attendees discuss significant issues such as how to transition traditional roles…
Find out more »AGL-101 Overview of Agile (1-day)
Course ID: Agile-101 Credits: 7 PDUs Course Duration: 1 day (Live in person class or virtual live only for groups of 10 or less) Course Level: Intended to provide an overview for executives and team members Course Description: This course aims at introducing its attendees to the core values, principles, and practices of Agile. This course discusses how to plan and manage Agile practices, not only those in Scrum. The course also goes into greater depth about all the roles…
Find out more »DevOps-06 Continuous Testing Foundation
Course Code: DevOps-06 Course Title: Continuous Testing Foundation (CTF) Course Duration: 2 days OVERVIEW This comprehensive course addresses testing in a DevOps environment and covers concepts such as the active use of test automation, testing earlier in the development cycle, and instilling testing skills in developers, quality assurance, security, and operational teams. The course is relevant for every modern IT professional involved in defining or deploying a DevOps testing strategy for their organization, as test engineering is the backbone of…
Find out more »BA30 – Foundations of Business Analysis
November 17-20, 2020 Class is Guaranteed to Run! Course ID: BA30 Credits: 28 CDUs Course Duration: 4 days Course Level: Beginner/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course is suitable for both beginner and intermediate business analysts who would like to increase their skills in order to better elicit, analyze, write and effectively manage requirements for their projects. Course Abstract: Why do more than 50% of projects fail to meet their original objectives? Why do we continue to…
Find out more »December 2020
BACP02 Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA®) Exam Preparation Course
Course ID: BACP02 Credits: 28 -35 CDUs* Course Duration: 4 days Course Level: Intermediate/Advanced View Course Outline * 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,…
Find out more »BACP02 Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA®) Exam Preparation Course
Course ID: BACP02 Credits: 28 -35 CDUs* Course Duration: 4 days Course Level: Intermediate/Advanced View Course Outline * 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,…
Find out more »BA26 – Requirements Elicitation
July 27-28, 2020 class Guaranteed to Run! Credits: 14 PDUs/CDUs Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: General knowledge of the requirements process is recommended. The Business Analysis Essentials (BA01) course would provide this information. Course Objectives: Strong elicitation skills are a 'must have' for anyone charged with defining requirements for their project. Success is dependent on a mixture of technical skills (i.e. knowing which technique to use and how to use it) and interpersonal skills…
Find out more »DevOps-01 DevOps Foundation®
Course Code: DevOps- 01 Course Title: DevOps Foundation® (DOFD) Course Duration: 2 days Overview: This course provides an introduction to DevOps – the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration and automation in order to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows will result in an improved ability to design, develop, deploy and operate software and services faster. The DevOps Foundation course provides a baseline understanding of key DevOps terminology to…
Find out more »BA28 Requirements Analysis and Use Cases Workshop
July 29-30, 2020 Class Guaranteed to Run! Course ID: BA28 Credits: 14 PDUs/CDUs Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: Knowledge of requirements process and requirements elicitation techniques. Course Objectives: This 2-day course provides a strong foundation in the mechanics of use case diagramming and writing textual descriptions of use cases. In this highly interactive workshop, you will learn how to enhance and refine your use case skills, how to involve your stakeholders in the use…
Find out more »DevOps-02 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation
Course Code: DevOps-02 Course Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation Course Course Duration: 2 days OVERVIEW The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation℠ course is an introduction to the principles & practices that enable an organization to reliably and economically scale critical services. Introducing a site-reliability dimension requires organizational re-alignment, a new focus on engineering & automation, and the adoption of a range of new working paradigms. The course highlights the evolution of SRE and its future direction, and equips participants…
Find out more »BA30 – Foundations of Business Analysis
November 17-20, 2020 Class is Guaranteed to Run! Course ID: BA30 Credits: 28 CDUs Course Duration: 4 days Course Level: Beginner/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course is suitable for both beginner and intermediate business analysts who would like to increase their skills in order to better elicit, analyze, write and effectively manage requirements for their projects. Course Abstract: Why do more than 50% of projects fail to meet their original objectives? Why do we continue to…
Find out more »BA20 Business Process Improvement (BPI)
Course ID: BA20 Credits: 14 PDUs Course Level: Basic/Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: No prerequisites - This course suitable for both novices and experienced people who need to manage and implement a Business Process Improvement (BPI) initiative. Having an understanding of project management and business processes is helpful and recommended. Course Objectives: Many of today’s Project Management and Business Analyst Professionals are finding themselves leading, managing and analyzing Business Process Improvement Initiatives - only to find that many of the…
Find out more »BA29 User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Business Analysts (BAs)
Credits: 14 PDUs/CDUs Course Duration: 2 days Course Level: Intermediate View Course Outline Prerequisites: Knowledge of requirements process and requirements elicitation techniques. Course Objectives: This 2 day workshop looks at the business issues which drive the need for a fully functional UAT process and describes the components of such a process. It is designed to help the Business Analyst (BA) develop an understanding of their role, the process, and the deliverables associated with UAT.
Find out more »January 2021
DevOps-03 DevOps Leader
Course Code: DevOps-03 Course Title: DevOps Leader (DOL) Course Duration: 2 days OVERVIEW The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a DevOps evolution requires new skills, tools, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across an organization must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organization. The course highlights…
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