Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2016

Agile BA Panel with Angela Wick and Ryland Leyton
Presented by Angela Wick and Ryland Leyton
 
Agile Business Analysis - It's coming to a team near you! Or maybe you are already on a team as an Agile BA? Angela and Ryland will answer your Agile BA questions and offer some nuggets on Agile BA Topics like:

·         What are the common challenges of an Agile BA?
·         What's my role with the Product Owner?
·         Can I use my known BA techniques, or is it just User Stories?
·         Do I work on multiple teams and project? Waterfall and Agile?
·         Is there a middle ground? Sort of Agile BA?

Come listen in, ask questions, and discover more about being an agile BA.
 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

·         Learn what are the common challenges of an Agile BA
·         Discover the relationship the BA has with Product Owners
·         Learn techniques to use as an Agile BA
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 1, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Business Analysis Times    @BATimes
Cost: Free
Registration:   BA Times Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

How Leaders Succeed by Embracing Fresh Perspectives
Presented by Al Pittampalli
 
Understanding the Power of Flexible Decision Making
 
For leaders, changing your mind has always been perceived as a weakness.

But in a world that is changing faster than ever, successful leaders are realizing that the willingness to change your mind is now the ultimate leadership advantage.
 
In this webcast, you'll learn that being persuadable helps leaders make better decisions, respond quickly to threats and new opportunities, and utilize feedback to improve their skills at an accelerated rate.

Beyond just discussing why you should be persuadable, this webcast will teach you how. We'll discuss the key practices of persuadable leaders that you can use to improve the quality of your business and life.
 
What You Will Learn

·         How to make more accurate decisions by actively trying to falsify your own thinking

·         Ways to get honest feedback from your team so you can improve yourself at an accelerated rate

·         Tips for adapting to changing circumstances powerfully by "killing your darlings"
 
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 2, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration

 

 

 

 

Mapping the BA's Stakeholders in a DevOps Workflow
Presented by Chris Knotts, ASPE Training
 
With the application of DevOps management principles impacting entire enterprise IT departments, it is important for the BA to understand who the stakeholders are in a DevOps-style project and how they map to the stakeholder profiles described in the BABOK. This short session will explain the contemporary roles of the various stakeholders one might find along the way on projects which espouse the principles of DevOps.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 2, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPE-SDLC
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration  

 

 

 

 

Process Architecture: Designing a Process Management System That Gets Used
Presented by Beth Layman
 
This webinar describes how to think about process architecture and how to build a process management system that is accepted and embraced by the workforce.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 3, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 am EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Live Webinar Registration

 

  

 

 

CBAP and CCBA Certification Q & A
Presented by Dayle Beyer, PMP, CBAP, ACC
 
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, March 4, 2016: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: Watermark Learning    @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat Registration

 

 

 

 

The Business Value of Networking Transformation
Presented by Sandeep Dhingra and Leslie Rosenberg
 
Enterprises are embracing cloud, big data analytics, social and mobile technologies at an alarming rate in order to keep pace and compete. They want to embrace change, empower innovation, gain business agility, and improve operational efficiencies, but aren’t sure how to proceed, especially when it comes to overhauling their network architectures and operational practices. Enterprises often struggle with questions relating to network automation, network virtualization, SDN, and what approaches are best suited to their business objectives, application environments, cloud strategies, and resources.

Join this webcast to hear Leslie Rosenberg from IDC discuss critical requirements for leveraging the network and more as she reviews insights from a recent IDC Business Value study. Hear Sandeep Dhingra, Global Partner, Network Consulting Services at IBM as he explains a step-by-step approach to network transformation that is aligned to your business needs of the present and future.

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 8, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Ziff Davis
Cost: Free
Registration:   Ziff Davis Event Registration

 

 

 

 

Four Ways To Optimize Customer Data for Deeper Insights
Presented by Jen Underwood, Microsoft, Dan Ganancial and Scott Jones, Alteryx
 
To keep up with rapidly changing customer demands, businesses need to gain deeper insights into their customer data. However, business analysts must deal with increasing volumes and complexities of the data before they can deliver better insights relating to customer targeting and marketing spend. Register now for this webinar and see how business analysts can utilize 4 best practices to deal with the increasing volume and complexity of customer data:

1. BLEND your customer data from multiple sources to deliver a comprehensive view of your interactions

2. CLEANSE the data in a few simple clicks to remove bad data, outliers, and null data for better insights

3. PREDICT highest lifetime value customers without having to know how to program or code in R

4. VISUALIZE your data-driven analysis and increase your speed to insight

Attend this webinar and see how Alteryx and Microsoft Power BI enable business analysts to optimize customer data in order to generate deeper insights.

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 9, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Modern Analyst     @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration:   Modern Analyst Webinar Registration

 

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