Business Analysis Webinars for June 2016

Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration
Presented by Blueprint Systems
 
Join us for a live, interactive demonstration where we will demonstrate how Blueprint helps teams and stakeholders engage effectively to produce great business applications.

Learn more about:

·         Defining requirements for large enterprise Agile projects;

·         Driving efficiency through reuse across multiple projects;

·         How multiple groups can engage to seamlessly implement project changes

 
Offering integration with application lifecycle management tools, Blueprint works with different development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
 
Register now and see why Blueprint is a better, visual way to drive the success of mission critical IT projects
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 1, 2016; 11:00 am – 11:30 pm EST
Host: Blueprint Systems   @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration:   Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration
 
 
 
 
Virtual Requirements Meetings – Meaningful Dialog Secrets Exposed!
Presented by Angela Wick, PMP, CBAP
 
In this webinar you will discover the secrets to maximizing value from your virtual meetings.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 1, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Fast Tracking Project Concepts
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
So you’ve been assigned a complex, poorly defined project concept… now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is:  strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity.  These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction. Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours?  What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

 
Learning Objectives:

·         Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?

·         The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.

·         Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 1, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Implementing an Enterprise Benefits Realization Management Strategy
Presented by Carlos Serra
 
This webinar will explain the relevance of having a benefits realization management strategy in place on organizational level and will explain what such a strategy looks like.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 2, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
CBAP and CCBA Certification Q & A
Presented by Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP, 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, June 3, 2016: 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat Registration
 
 
 
 
JetBlue Chairman: The 10 Laws of Trust
Presented by Joel Petersom, Chairman, JetBlue Airways
 
Building the Bonds That Make an Organization Great
 
Trust is the glue that holds an organization together. It turns deflection into transparency, suspicion into empowerment, and conflict into creativity. With it, a tiny company like John Deere grew into a worldwide leader.
 
Without it, a giant corporation like Enron toppled.
 
In this webcast, JetBlue chairman Joel Peterson explores how a culture of trust gives companies an edge.
 
Consider this: What does it feel like to work for a firm where leaders and colleagues trust one another? Freed from micromanagement and rivalry, every employee contributes his or her best. Risk taking and innovation become the norm.
 
Join us to gain practical insight into ways to establish and maintain a culture of trust.
 
What You Will Learn
 
This program gets you on the path to planting the seeds of trust—and reaping the rewards of reputation, profits, and success.
 
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 8, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration
 
 
 
 
Strategic Decision Making: Minimize Risk and Think Like a Leader
Presented by Claudette Rowley
 
Making business decisions is your most important function as a leader and your riskiest. Your personal brand is made or broken by the quality of your decisions. Are your decisions as solid as they could be?

In this webinar, you will learn how to apply strategic decision-making processes in order to reduce risk and choose the best course of action for the project, team, the organization, and you. You’ll learn the steps necessary in making strategic decisions align with business objectives as well as how to address a range of challenges that every leader encounters. resolution.
 
What will you learn: 

•         Distinguish between strategic thinking, planning and decision making

•         Develop insight into your individual decision-making style

•         Utilize tools for solving problems and making sound decisions

•         Systematically prepare for your most important decisions

•         Determine the appropriate level of stakeholder involvement

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 8, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Harmonizing Agility & Discipline  
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
This session demystifies the wide range of agile and more traditional requirements and development methodologies.  The session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.  This session refocused the agility versus discipline dialogue:  it is not that these practices are mutually exclusive - the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.
 
Learning Objectives:

·         Look at the structure of agility and discipline-based methods

·         Provide guidelines for adding agile practices to traditional software development environments

·         Provide guidelines for reapplying traditional development practices to the agile software development environment.

  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 8, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
 
IIBA Leadership Webinar Series: The Leadership Challenge: Practice Two: Inspire A Shared Vision 
Presented by Jamie Champagne, President, Hawaii IIBA Chapter
 
A champion of process improvement and innovation, Jamie Champagne enjoys culture change challenges that utilize her strong background in business analysis, project management, knowledge management and information technology. As a Senior IT Business Analyst with The Queen’s Health System in Hawaii, she greatly enjoys working with business areas to properly scope projects and prioritize them for rapid delivery of business value. Previously at Hawaiian Telcom, she managed requirements and testing while driving innovation throughout the process and culture. She is an active leader of the Hawaii BA User Group and has recently stepped up to take a lead role as President of the Hawaii Chapter, IIBA to focus on chartering the Chapter. When not in the office, she can be found on the water on a surf board. 
 
In this Practice you will learn how Jamie’s life and leadership experiences has helped to Inspire a Shared Vision. 
 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Thursday, June 9, 2016; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: IIBA    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Virtual Collaboration: Getting Beyond Productivity When Working Virtually
Presented by Andrea Brockmeier, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP
 
Long gone are the days in which collaborating virtually is something unique to special teams. The virtual project team environment is where most of us find ourselves working at least some of the time. As a PM, getting a group of people to identify, engage, and collaborate as a team is critical to project success. The additional dimension of working across time and space means tailoring those team development skills to a virtual environment. In this webinar, you will learn key techniques for getting virtual team members to identify as a team and tips for sustaining engagement and commitment to each other, the team, and project objectives. Find out how to improve your virtual collaboration skills and increase your project team’s effectiveness and ultimately project value.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, June 10, 2016: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning Public Webinar Registration
  
 
 
 

70% of Your Projects are Likely to Fail!

Presented by Paul Dandurand
 
We have all read the statistics about business projects and their success rate.  In this webinar, we will discuss why we think this failure rate has been consistent for 15 years and discuss what you can do to improve consistency of execution.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, June 10, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for May 2016 - Part II

Delivering Results through High-Impact Leadership
Presented by Kim Caughlin, Global Knowledge Canada
 
Leaders now require skills and competencies to ensure that they also build highly productive teams, accelerate organizational results and transform customer experiences in a fast-paced, highly competitive and global working environment.

In this hour-long webinar, leadership consultant Kim Caughlin will reveal and discuss the new high-demand skills and competencies required to lead effectively in the 21st century.

She will cover the following elements:  

·         Leading in complex times.

·         Leading high-performance teams.

·         Building your business IQ.

·         Making effective business decisions.

·         Leading innovation.

·         Leading continuous change.

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge
Cost: Free
Registration:   Global Knowledge Public Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

Less Pain, More Gain: Best Practices for More Effective Meetings

Presented by Crystell Anthony, M.Ed. MBTI, Corporate Education Group
 
Meetings are an opportunity to bring out the best in people in a collaborative, safe environment. Meetings can also be an incredible waste of time and resources if they’re not managed effectively. Creating an effective meeting involves making a series of conscious choices, and also preparing, conducting, and following through.

This webinar concentrates on how to use meeting effectiveness tools and best practices to promote energizing, focused meetings that produce results; it also provides opportunities to discuss specific meeting challenges and how to successfully facilitate your way to resolution.

What You Will Learn:

·         Foundation tools to set the stage for meeting effectiveness

·         Steps and actions to successfully manage the 3 phases of a meeting: Before, During, and After

·         How to prepare an action agenda

·         Strategies to keep participants engaged and focused

·         Facilitation skills and techniques to guide meeting interactions

·         Guidelines and tips for managing difficult behaviors and situations

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @corpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

Decision Making: Addressing the Question of Value

Presented by Kupe Kupersmith, CBAP, President, B2T Training
 
Many organizations are faced with project execution and experience high cost overruns and challenges to deliver the anticipated value. In working with many clients and reading study after study a root cause points to requirement issues. It could be missing requirements, too many requirements, conflicting requirements, or multiple interpretations of the same requirement. In the end this challenge and struggle relates to how organizations are making and communicating decisions before, during and after projects. Decisions need to be made with the right information available at the right time. In this session, Kupe will be discussing Decision Making. One of your main responsibilities is to help others make better decisions, and to make decisions yourself. If decisions are not made during a project nothing can get accomplished. Easier said than done right? Making a decision, especially when there isn’t consensus can be interesting to say the least. However, there are tools that can be used to help facilitate decision making – tools that will lead you and the team to the right decision. After this session, you will look at your role in a whole new light. PMI Talent Triangle – Business & Strategy Management
 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. The Importance of Decision Making to increase the success of projects

2. When you need to make decisions and the tools to help make them

3. How you help others make decisions

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Business Analysis Times    @BATimes
Cost: Free
Registration:   BA Times Public Webinar

 

 

 

 

2016 IIBA Annual General Meeting

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

 

The AGM provides IIBA the opportunity to report back to the Members with an update of the key activities of the association. As well, during the AGM, we will ask for ratification of resolutions requiring Membership support and present the 2015 audited financial statements.

 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2016; 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

 

Project Benefit Realization: Writing Good Success Criteria, KPIs and Acceptance Criteria

Presented by Ricki Henry
 
In this webinar you'll see examples of, and get direction on, how to write good Success Criteria, KPIs and Acceptance Criteria
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 18, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host:  IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

Three Ways Business Analysts Enable Agile Success

Presented by Garry McGouldrick, Andy Hayward, IAG Consulting
 
Are you a Business Analyst trying to find your role in an Agile project? Are you looking for ways to ramp up your Agile team's productivity? There are a lot of misconceptions about Business Analysis in an Agile development environment, and sometimes Business Analysts find it hard to adapt to the short iterations, just-in-time planning and minimalist documentation that characterizes Agile development.

This webinar is a frank discussion about what Agile demands from a Business Analyst and how Business Analysts can succeed and ensure their team succeeds.

 
Learning Objectives:

1. Dispel common myths about Agile, including the belief that Business Analysts aren't welcome in Agile
2. Explain why every development team needs excellent business analysis to be successful
3. Guide analysts in how to deliver the most value in Agile settings

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 18, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

What is Agile Leadership?

Presented by Angela Johnson
 
Typical Agile introductions focus on training teams or tend to focus on specific roles in an Agile or Scrum adoption.  Having a group of “agile” teams does not provide the holistic change that is required at various levels of an organization looking to improve by adopting Agile, Lean or similar practices.

Join us for this webinar to gain an understanding of: 

·        What Agile Leadership is

·        Why Agile Leaders play a critical role in assisting the organization changes to structure and process in any Agile transformation

·        Why Agile Leaders are instrumental in fostering shared vision, removing obstacles, enabling self-organizing teams, motivating and inspiring the organization to better serve their customers

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, May 20, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning Public Webinar

 

 

 

 

Case Studies from the Field: How The Decision Model (TDM) has Improved Requirements and Business System Development

Presented by Larry Goldberg
 
This webinar will examine case studies from the first 5 years of production systems built on the basis of TDM based architecture, and examine the impact that these systems have had on the organizations that have pioneered this development approach.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 24, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host:  IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

Change Management: Successful Strategies For Projects in an Ever-Changing Environment

Presented by Scott Stribrny
 
This webinar will describe both successful and unsuccessful efforts for bringing about large-‐scale change and will illustrate the critical success requirements for successful interventions.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 25, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host:  IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

How not to forget critical requirements for your projects

Presented by LN Misra, Co-founder and COO, Adaptive Processes
 
For many business analysts, non-functional requirements resonate with non-critical requirements. Stakeholders have very little idea about NFRs and NFRs often remain implicit. Lack of explicit NFRs can result in complete project failure and significant re-work.

This webinar tries to achieve 4 following outcomes:

·         Learn about Non functional requirements

·         How to identify Non-functional requirements

·         Typical challenges in gathering Non functional requirements

·         Best practices in gathering NFRs

 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 25, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration

 

 

 

 

Balanced Scorecard

Presented by Venkadesh Narayanan
 
The balanced scorecard originally developed by Robert Kaplan and David Norton is used extensively to measure and improve performance in both governments, private and non-profit organisations. It provides a framework for strategic planning and management of organisation and to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organisation. Today balanced scorecard has the equal reputation as that of lean and six sigma in process improvement. During this webinar we will discuss the various elements of balanced scorecard such as learning and growth dimension, business process dimension, customer dimension, financial dimension and measures or indicators.

Learning Outcomes:
The participants will be able to: 

1. Understand the technique and its purpose
2. Gain insights on when and where to use the technique
3. Apply the technique in their day-to-day business analysis activities
4. Identify the software tool associated with the technique. 

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 26, 2016; 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Host: Fhyzics Business Consultants Pvt. Ltd    @Fhyzicsindia
Cost: Free
Registration:   Fhyzics Public Webinar Registration