Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2015

Leadership Development Simple Truths: The Power of a Situational Approach
Presented by Dr. Victoria Halsey and David Witt

Build Strong Work Relationships to Boost Team Performance

To improve the level of engagement and performance among team members, managers must master the art of flexing their leadership style to increase the quality and quantity of their conversations with the people they lead.

During this webcast, you’ll learn the timeless truths and proven practices of the most widely-used leadership model in the world.  Look at the ways managers—new and experienced alike—can improve the way they connect and communicate with others to improve performance.

The bottom line is that you’ll discover how to:

·         Save time by being more purposeful and intentional in your conversations with your people
·         Build a sense of partnership by aligning with others on goals, development level, and the leadership style match
·         Use a common language of leadership to create a motivating, high performance work environment

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to partner and work effectively with team members, peers, or colleagues in a side-by-side relationship and explore new ways to learn, experience, and apply Situational Leadership® II.

Take your first steps in learning a common leadership language and approach that builds stronger work relationships through focused, engaged, and more meaningful conversations. You’ll walk away inspired and with specific ideas that you and your team can put into practice right away to improve engagement and performance. While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 1, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration

 
 

 

Agile Product Delivery Connects Your Business with Development Teams End to End
Presented by Jama Software

Although Agile has been around for quite some time, larger organizations with complex product portfolios are still struggling to enjoy the real benefits across the enterprise. There are two dimensions to scaling Agile: 1) adopting strong Agile practices in the upstream by streamlining the process with the business as well as streamlining the process in the downstream with testing and operations 2) replicating what you have done and achieved successfully in isolated teams across the enterprise. Easier said than done. According to Forrester Research, scaling Agile and adopting more mature practices across the organization, though hard, is possible*.

Join Jama Software and Guest Presenter Diego Lo Giudice, VP and Principal Analyst for Forrester Research, to learn actionable recommendations for successfully scaling Agile adoption across the enterprise. You’ll also learn from Jama Software how its Agile Workflow Design facilitates fluid communication without a heavy-handed process to give your engineering teams visibility upstream to the business strategies and requirements defining their sprints, participate in spec definition and review and make better decisions about their tasks.

By embracing mature agile practices across product, project and development teams, your organization can scale Agile across the enterprise to deliver better products to market faster.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 2, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Jama Software    @jamasoftware

Cost: Free


 
 

 

Consulting Skills: The Art and Science of Success
Presented by Michelle Moore, Global Knowledge

Every business needs to have a consultative approach that increases organizational buy-in, enhances client relationships and improves customer service. Applying consulting skills can mean greater success for individuals and organizations alike.

In this one-hour webinar, Michelle Moore will provide an overview of the Consulting Skills Lifecycle and present practical ideas from our McMaster Certified Consulting Skills Program. You'll learn how to:

·         Engage your clients.
·         Gather and analyze information.
·         Present findings and recommendations.
·         Plan and implement recommendations.
·         Conclude the engagement and evaluate results.

Outline

·         Use the five-step Consulting Engagement Life Cycle.
·         Identify any skills gaps you might have.
·         Immediately use some pragmatic and impactful consulting tools.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 7, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Global Knowledge    @globalknowledge

Cost: Free


 
 

 

Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
Presented by Liz Wiseman, researcher, executive advisor, speaker, author

How Being New, Naïve, and Even Clueless Can Be an Asset

In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Rookies are unencumbered, with no baggage to weigh them down, no resources to burden them, and no track record to limit their thinking or aspirations.

For today’s knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery. Leadership expert Liz Wiseman argues that the most successful rookies are hunter-gatherers — alert and seeking, cautious but quick like firewalkers, and hungry and relentless like pioneers.

Most importantly, she identifies a breed of leaders she refers to as “perpetual rookies.” Despite years of experience, they retain their rookie smarts, thinking and operating with the mindsets and practices of these high-performing rookies.

This webcast explores the questions every experienced professional faces: “Will my knowledge and skills become obsolete and irrelevant? Will a young, inexperienced newcomer upend my company or me? How can I keep up?”

The answer is to stay fresh, keep learning, and know when to think like a rookie.

Liz will offer vivid illustrations, personal reflection, and practical tools to help leaders keep themselves and their entire team fresh, relevant, and performing at the top of their game.

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 8, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration
 

 

 

Jump Start Your Business Analyst Career
Presented by Laura Brandenburg, CBAP, Principal at Clear Spring Business Analysis, LLC

·         Do you find yourself wondering what to focus on to achieve business analyst career success?
·         Are you looking for an extra edge to move your career forward more quickly?
·         Would you like to learn how to reset and finish 2015 in the best possible way?

Here’s a snapshot of what we’ll cover in this live webinar session:

·         An inside look at the business analyst job role, de-cluttering and de-mystifying what a business analyst does so you can decide where to invest in building up your skill set.
·         How to expand your business analyst experience and skills and get momentum even if you do not complete the entire business analyst role for an end-to-end project.
·         What goals and action steps make the most sense for you, given your career background and current career situation.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 8, 2015; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Bridging-the-GAP     @llbrandenburg

Cost: Free


  

 

Outside-In vs. Inside-out Requirements - Which view are you taking?
Presented by Angela Wick, Principal at BA-Squared, LLC

Are you communicating requirements inside out? Do your requirements come from a system perspective (inside out) or a user perspective (outside in)? Come discover techniques to ensure both views are used for the right requirements! Many requirements can be written from either perspective, and we will discuss the benefits and risks of each. We will learn techniques look at requirements from both of these critical perspectives, and when to use which perspective. We will also look at how agile and traditional approaches use each of these views to get to quality requirements. 

Learning Objectives
·         Understand the difference between inside-out and outside-in requirements
·         Learn the techniques to get at both views
·         Learn when to use which view of requirements

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 9, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Registration:   BATimes Webinar Registration

 

 

IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Richard Larson, Watermark Learning

The event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning. Topics include anything related to IIBA's certifications you want, ranging from the CBAP or CCBA application to the exams to re-certification.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, July 10, 2015; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free


 

 

The Art of the Interview: How to Improve Your Business Analysis Interviewing Skills
Presented by Terrell Smith, MBA, PMP, CBAP, Corporate Education Group

Get more out of your requirements interviews and make better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple, but highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing skills. This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements. The key to this process improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate preparation, sequencing and delivery. Interviewing is the cornerstone of elicitation techniques, and when done properly will reveal the answers you need. You will learn how to:

·         Identify the right stakeholders to interview and what you need to know
·         Create a requirements questionnaire and prepare to ask the right types of questions
·         How to properly engage the stakeholder and build a relationship
·         Capture stakeholder responses
·         Plan for follow-up and maintain the relationship
·         Review lessons learned to improve for your next interview  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, July 10, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free


 

 

Fundamentals of Lean Start-Up and How it Works in Large or Small Enterprises
Presented by David Mantica, President of ASPE Training

Agile is a way of working that is based on core value and principles. From those core values and principles, practices are developed. Most people know Agile from specific practices like daily stand up, story points, user stories, etc, but the foundation of Agile is its fundamental values and principles. Because of this Agile is very extendable, meaning new flavors of Agile can be developed as well as new practices.

One of those new flavors of Agile is the Lean Start-up. Lean Start-Up or LSU, is a flavor of agile dealing with Product Development and Launch. It can tie in marketing / sales, but at its core, it is a way of enabling your organization to test early and often and from there use what you learned to successful scale new products with much less long term risk.

Even though "Start-up" is in the name of this flavor of Agile, it isn't just for small organizations or entrepreneur based organizations. One of the big trends for large enterprise organizations is the concept of Intre-preneurship. Which is basically incubating new products using entrepreneur tactics while working in a larger organization. The same can be done with Lean Start-up.

In this presentation we will look at what Lean Start-Up is and techniques used to successfully take advantage of its practices and activities. From that point, we will look at some practical real-world examples of how Lean Start-up can be executed within any organization type. With real-world examples, this seminar will explain the theory of Lean Start-up, how it can be executed to significantly reduce the risks involved in new product development, and how it allows the market to help you make decisions over trying to plan where you think the market will end up.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Web Seminar Registration

 
 

 

The Challenge of Transitioning to Agile in Highly Regulated Industries
Presented by Blueprint Systems

Are you in a highly regulated industry (e.g. Finance, Healthcare, Telecommunications) and considering/attempting a transition to Agile?

In this webinar you will learn about:

·         The importance of non-functional requirements in regulated industries.
·         Traditional mechanisms for handling non-functional requirements in Agile, and why it is not adequate for large enterprises.
·         How Requirements Management tools can be used to capture non-functional requirements for Agile projects.
·         Blueprint’s mechanism to accelerate the elicitation and definition of non-functional requirements.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 15, 2015; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT

Host: Blueprint Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free


 

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