Sunday, August 14, 2016

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2016 - Part II

Is Innovation Just Good Business Analysis!
Presented by Tim Coventry, CEO, Business Analysis Pty Ltd
 
Innovation is the process of translating an idea into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay. Invention is not innovation, as invention is coming up with a great idea and innovation is executing a great idea and getting it to spread! The Business Analyst is the perfect person to foster and deliver innovation within organisations. Learn how the BA can be a driving force in the innovation process.
 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Monday, August 15, 2016; 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Host: IIBA    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
State of Agile 2016: Risks, Hopes, and Hype
Presented by David Mantica and Chris Knotts, ASPE Training
 
This is not a technical presentation. This is an industry trends presentation. If you are an SDLC professional wanting to career plan for the next 3 to 5 years, this is a great presentation for you. The entire series is based on change. So professional must stay on top of that change to career plan correctly. We will look at the following areas in the SDLC and IT environment:
 
·         What it means to be T-Shaped and why it is so critical
·         SAFE vs Dev Ops 
·         Dev Ops and manufacturing methods In Software 
·         Trends in Agile certification, there is a ton of hype out there 
·         Lean Start up and Enterprise Product Strategy Techniques using Agile 
·         The latest updates on Agile in other areas (Marketing, Sales, etc) 
·         What does the IT / SDLC professional look like in 2 to 5 years
 
ASPE spends considerable time and money researching industry trends, skills gaps and job task analysis, to help us development the courses professional will need in the future. We will use the information gather to give you a broad prospective of the changes our industry and professional careers are facing.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 16, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
 
 
 
 
All the Leader You Can Be: How to Develop Extraordinary Executive Presence
Presented by Suzanne Bates, CEO, Bates Communication, Inc.
 
Learn to Command Attention and Inspire Commitment
 
Every leader knows that executive presence is important. 

But what is it, really, and why does it matter?  Most people say, “I know it when I see it.”  But that doesn’t help you to develop presence and become all the leader you can be. 
 
In this webcast, bestselling author and top CEO coach Suzanne Bates will reveal new, breakthrough research on the essential qualities of executive presence and influence. Drawing from her new book, All the Leader You Can Be: The Science of Achieving Extraordinary Executive Presence (McGraw Hill 2016), Suzanne will share strategies for standing out in your organization and industry.
 
What You Will Learn
 
·         What enables a leader to win trust and goodwill essential to winning hearts and minds
·         How to build credibility with customers, managers, employees and your peers
·         The secrets that enable leaders to engage, align and mobilize people to go above and beyond
 
Bates coaches top leaders in the Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of industries globally. Join us for this practical, inspiring discussion of the X-factor in leadership. You’ll learn how to take a complementary pre-assessment survey that highlights areas of executive presence that could be important to you in your career journey.
 
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 17, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration
 
 
 
 
Managing Requirements Operational Excellence
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.  IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.
 
Learning Objectives:

1.       How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2.       Where do you focus for improvement?
3.       What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 17, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Managing Without Authority 
Presented by LN Mishra, Co-Founder and COO, Adaptive Processes
 
As business analyst and consultants we are expected to influence stakeholders/sponsors and their decisions many often. Managing/influencing without authority is one of the critical skills a BA needs to learn to make the project objectives success. 
 
This webinar tries to achieve following outcomes: 
 
1.       Sources of authority 
2.       Techniques for developing authority 
3.       Influencing without authority – some life experiences 
 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 23, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: IIBA    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
 
 
 
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, August 24, 2016; 11:00 am – 11:30 pm EST
Host: Blueprint Systems   @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration:   Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration
 
 
 
 
Strategies to Requirements Definition and Management Maturity
Presented by Keith Ellis, IAG Consulting
 
This webinar provides a practical framework to measure and manage improvement in the area of business analysis and requirements.

This session will help any champion, sponsor or manager implement positive changes in the area of requirements and business analysis. If your organization is implementing agile or lean practices, integrating ALM or RDM tools, aligning requirements practices with your PMP or SDLC, designing training for BAs, or setting up a Center of Excellence, this webinar will help you bring it all together.

 
We will discuss the six critical components to a holistic program for maturity improvement:
 
·         Process standardization and improvement
·         Integration of best practices and techniques
·         Technology implementation
·         Competent staff resources
·         Quality deliverables yielding improved results
·         Infrastructure and organizational support
 
You will hear hard hitting statistics on the benefits of maturing your requirements management capabilities that you can use to help build a business case for your own improvement initiatives.  We will give you dozens of key success factors and strategies for championing change throughout your organization's business analysis and requirements management groups.  And we will take you step by step, through the essential stages of a transformation program geared to improve any organization's requirements practice.

Whether you have direct responsibility for your organization's Business Analysis and Requirements Practice, or you are an advocate, a champion or a critical team member, you will undoubtedly take away ideas you can put to use to help improve your organization's level of requirements management maturity.

 
Learning Objectives:
 
·         How to start a requirements practice transformation program
·         What is Requirements Management Maturity (RMM)
·         How to assess your organizations current requirements practice using a Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (RMMA)
·         How to use the RMM model to promote and drive change/improvement
·         Understand key elements of an efficient project plan for improving your organization’s Requirements Practice
·         What is the role of a Requirements Management Office
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 24, 2016; 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Business Model Canvas
Presented by Venkadesh Narayanan, MBA, CBAP
 
The Business Model Canvas was initially proposed by Alexander Osterwalder based on his earlier work on Business Model Ontology. A business model canvas describes how an enterprise creates, delivers, and captures value for and from its customers. The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management and lean start-up template for developing new or documenting existing business models. Business model canvas is equally popular both in established companies and in start-up. A business model canvas describes how an enterprise creates, delivers, and captures value for an from its customers. During this webinar we will unravel the nine building blocks of business model canvas such as key partnerships, channels, key activities, customer segments, key resources, cost structure, value proposition, revenue streams and customer relationships.
 
Learning Outcomes:

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, August 25, 2016; 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Host: Fhyzics Business Analysis
Cost: Free
Registration:   Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
What’s Next: From BA to BRM
Presented by Susan Heidorn, Ed. D., PMP, CBAP, BRMP, Watermark Learning
 
Are you a senior BA wondering what’s next for your career path? Moving towards being a Business Relationship Manager (BRM) may be your next stepping stone. Many of the skills and behaviors necessary to be a successful BA can be leveraged in a BRM role. This session will provide you an introduction to the BRM role, why organizations need the BRM role, and how you can leverage your BA skills to move into a new opportunity.

Learning Objectives:


1.       Articulate the various maturity levels of the Business Relationship Model and how they interact with the business and service provider.
2.       Articulate the need for the BRM Role.
3.       Define the key competencies needed to be a BRM and how you can leverage your BA skills.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, August 26, 2016: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat Registration
 
 
 
 
Requirements Definition Best Practices for Business Intelligence Projects 
Presented by IAG Consulting
 
This webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts. The definition of the business requirements for analytical processing / decision support systems require different techniques than the process and data modeling used for transactional processing systems. For a BI project, Business Analysts and Project Managers need to identify the business questions, facts, measures, and dimensions needed for the data warehouse. We will provide a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply process that analyzes and defines the business objectives, usage scenarios, questions and queries that will yield the a conceptual multi-dimension model and form the basis of the business requirements for the data warehouse and business intelligence system requirements of your projects.

Learning Objectives 
 
·         How to conduct data warehouse business analysis
·         How to elicit requirements for the business intelligence aspects of projects
·         How to define requirements for on-line analytical processing and decision support systems
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 31, 2016; 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

Monday, August 1, 2016

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2016

Emotional Intelligence: Without it the Team Fails
Presented by David Mantica, President, ASPE Training
 
You may be familiar with IQ, which measures your cognitive intelligence. But has anyone ask you about EQ or Emotional quotient? What is EQ? Simply put EQ which is driven by your emotional intelligence is your awareness regarding your actions and feeling, including how they affect the people around you. Being emotionally intelligent means you understand the cause and effect of your actions and words. You understand what the impact of “being you” has on individuals and groups and you understand how to read others emotions and actions and work with their emotional limits. The key to remember is you can never change someone but you can change and adjust yourself. Emotional Intelligences is your about to change and adjust yourself and includes these attributes: 
 
·         Respecting others
·         Listening to others
·         Empathizing with others
·         Identifying with others
 
Knowledge worker do their work in teams. Teams are filled with “others”. Your ability to work with those “others” determines what you get done and how fast you get it done. If you have a high EQ, you get things done fast with minimal impact on the organization.

In this session we will cover:
 
·         The meaning of emotional intelligence
·         Distinguish the differences between EQ and IQ
·         Identify emotional hot buttons
·         Determine which emotional intelligence competencies to improve when work with others
·         Detect the sings of emotional outburst in others
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
 
 
 
 
Iterative Projects: Practical Tips and Best Practices for BA's
Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph. D., CBAP, OCUP, Senior Trainer and Consultant
 
Complex projects carry significant risk of failure. Recently, iterative (and agile) project execution methodologies have been developed to mitigate project risks and increase the chances that the final solution meets the stakeholder's expectations and the overall business needs.

In this webinar, you will learn how iterative methods differ from tradition waterfall methods and how specific iterative practices are used to reduce the chances for project failure. Upon completion of this webinar, you will understand how to break a project into iterations, how to pick an iteration length, how to manage iteration and project scope, and how to introduce risk mitigation practices.

 
·         Understand the difference between sequential (waterfall) and iterative methods
·         Learn how to define iterations, milestones, and releases
·         Increase the chances for project success and reduce risk factors
·         Contrast iterative and agile methods
·         Understand best practices for iterative (and agile) project execution
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 3, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Public Webinar Registration             
 
 
 
 
Requirements Definition Best Practices for Software RFPs
Presented by IAG Consulting
 
This two-hour webinar covers techniques and guidelines for defining the type of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for application software. In order for Project Managers and Business Analysts to evaluate vendors and their software proposals, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

The methods for defining requirements for a software product are different than for custom developed solution. The documentation and templates of business requirements is different when they’re being written for vendor selection. The level of detail and what included and excluded is critical to a successful vendor assessment. Learn answers to these questions and more in this valuable webinar.

Learning Objectives:
1.       Learn an effective approach for collecting requirements for inclusion in an RFP
2.       Understand the essential types of requirements to be elicited and included in commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) RFP
3.       Learn what should be included and the sufficient level of detail for an RFQ/RFP
4.       Learn the best format and templates for writing requirements for a COTS solution
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 3, 2016; 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Discussion and Overview of new BA Certification Track from IIBA
Presented by David Mantica, President, ASPE Training
 
The International Institute of Business Analysis has come up with a plan to institute four levels of certification. This plan includes incorporation of the current CBAP and CCBA certifications, but there will be adjustments.

In this 45 min web seminar, learn about the plan for the four certification levels based on available information. We will discuss impacts to the CBAP and CCBA, the currently proposed time for roll out and how this new certification stack can really help stimulate the BA hiring and position growth.

This is a great session for professionals in the SDLC who are BAs or are considering becoming a BA. It will provide an opportunity to consider career options and trends. As part of this session we will discuss the impacts that Agile project methods and DevOps software deployment processes have on the BA Profession.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 4, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Public Web Seminar Registration
 
 
 
 
Building Business Solutions: BAs Lead the Way to Business Excellence
Presented by Gladys S. W. Lam, Co-Founder and Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC
 
The bottom line for successful business analysis is delivering outstanding products to business partners, ones that ‘win’ for the business. What does creating a winning business solution require? What artifacts do you need? How can you develop them? One essential artifact is business rules, key to agile business solutions. Find out in this fast-paced session what business rules are really about, and how they can sharpen your interaction with both business partners and software developers. Learn about practical techniques to capture and validate business rules in concert with your other deliverables. Business analysis with business rules can give you the edge you’re looking for in establishing the right project dynamics, and the right focus on business requirements. 
    
Find out how you can develop effective, adaptable and complete business solutions using a business rules approach. Learn what you need to know to: 
 
·         Achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in business requirements 
·         Use business rules to sharpen business communication 
·         Deliver clear, well-aligned business solutions 
·         Engage business partners in deep dialog about operational excellence 
·         Guarantee system development produces the right results for the business
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 4, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst   @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration:   Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
 
CBAP and CCBA Certification Q & A
Presented by Susan Heidorn, Ed. D., PMP, CBAP, BRMP, 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, August 5, 2016: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat Registration
 
 
 
 
Influence: Highest Level of Professional Skill, Becoming Someone who gets Things Done
Presented by David Mantica, President, ASPE Training
 
As organizations flatten to meet the dramatic impacts that disruption and change are having on business, the dynamics of influence are changing rapidly. The old concept of managing up and managing down is being replaced by executing and engaging horizontally throughout the entire organization. To become effective you must show you can get things done while navigating the complexities brought by flat organizations. Flat organizations might at first seem simple to work through. But the reality is much different. Flat organizations can bring more politics and road blocks as the number of people involved in a decision increase. When you democratize the decision making in an organization, things will slow down and there will be some level of dysfunction. This presentation will explain why organizations have started to flatten and how professionals can successfully navigate any organization type. We will compare matrix, command and control, and bottom up influence. Then we will look at the psychology of organizational behavior in order to highlight the key professionals skills required to get execution as well as give real-world examples to show different pathways to execution. Things you will learn in this presentation:
 
·         Professional skills required to be a strong influencer
·         Basics of matrix organizations Basics of command and control organizations
·         Basics of self-organized management style
·         High level look at organizational psychology
·         What happens to "bad" or manipulative Influencers, staying away from the "strategy person" trap
·         Tips and techniques to be an executing Influencer
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration
 
 
 
 
Optimizing Requirements Discovery
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements? Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful. Within this session, participants get new data from IAG's research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process. Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements. Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.
 
Learning Objectives:

·         Executive perspectives on making requirements change
·         Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
·         The tactics of requirements competency development
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 10, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration