Business Analysis Webinars for October 2016 - Part II

Making Meetings Magic
Presented by Carl Pritchard
 
In this webinar we will provide powerful insight on ten tips and tricks that you can use to build energy, increase control and garner the all-important AMEN moment at your next presentation.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 18, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Business Analysis is Not Just a Job Title: How to Leverage Your Career Experience to Become a Business Analyst
Presented by Laura Brandenburg, CBAP, Host at Bridging-the-Gap.com
 
One of the most common questions I receive is “How do I become a business analyst if I’m a ______?” And in the blank goes anything from software engineer to tester to manager to customer service representative. 
 
Each individual’s path into business analysis is unique, and depends heavily on their skills and career experience. In this webinar, you’ll learn about the core skills to becoming a business analysis, and see how transferrable skills show up in common job functions. 
 
You’ll leave prepared to speak more confidently to the business analysis skills you have, based on your past experience in related roles under different job titles. You’ll also learn what steps to take to grow your business analysis responsibilities no matter what role you are in or what title you have. 
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 18, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Personal Credibility and Leadership
Presented by Byron Love
 
In this webinar, we will explore the relationship between your personal credibility and your leadership, and between your leadership and the success of your project.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 19, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute     @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices, and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems.
 
Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time.

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 19, 2016; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host; IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar 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, October 19, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
IIBA Leadership Series: Practice Five - Encourage the Heart
Presented by Jared Gorai, BA Consultant
 
The IIBA Leadership Series: A Study of “The Leadership Challenge” by James Kouzes and Barry Posner 
 
Please join us as Jared Gorai explores the Fifth Practice of the book and uses his real life experiences to relate his Leadership experiences and how his leadership style has Encouraged the Heart! 
 
Jared loves being a Business Analyst and has done so for almost 15 years. He is passionately employed for a Canadian Oil and Gas Company headquartered in Calgary Alberta. He holds his Bachelor of Arts degree in French from the University of Calgary and the Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP^®) designation. He is a Past President of the Calgary IIBA^® Chapter and is currently the Deputy VP of Chapters for International Institute of Business Analysis™ (IIBA^®). He will take any chance possible to evangelize the role of the Business Analyst and will talk your ear off about it if you let him. 

  

In this Practice you will learn how Jared’s life and leadership experiences has helped others by Encouraging the Heart. 
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 19, 2016; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:    IIBA Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Energize Leadership
Presented by Bob Faw, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group
 
Learn secrets of motivation being unlocked by researchers. Bob Faw has turned these scientific insights into tried and true tools. He’s taught these simple tools to many thousands of people around the world.

Energize others. Leaders, use Energize to motivate your teams. Jam-pack your communication with these tools to calm fears, energize passion, and convince people. Even influence those you have little power over using these neuroscience nuggets. Become a master of motivation. Ignite passion for goals, involve people in meaningful ways, and inspire the action you need.

 

Learning objectives:

·         Learning to motivate three areas of the brain critical to long-term performance through calming, convincing and energizing

·         How to rebalance one’s own negativity biases to be more realistic and optimistic

·         How to positively prime oneself and others for more positive attitudes 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 20, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
How Top C-Suite Cybersecurity Concerns Become Your Own
Presented by David Wilson, CISSP, Titan Info Security Group
 
Company reputation damage, financial loss and compromised intellectual property are just a few of the major issues that need to be conveyed and clearly understood. Collaboration and education throughout an organization are key to facing and overcoming the devastating effects of a data breach. Learn the issues, how to educate employees companywide and help your leaders move forward quickly with a cybersecurity action plan.
 
Learning Objectives:

·         Brief Introduction to the cyber security threat landscape

·         What are the pains and pressures faced by the C-Suite?

·         What risks exist for a company not prepared for a breach?

·         How to develop a risk mitigation plan

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 20, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge
Cost: Free
Registration:   Global Knowledge Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Concept Modelling
Presented by Venkadesh Narayanan, MBA, CBAP, CSCP, PMI-PBA, CBPP, CPRE-FL
 
Business analysis is like a two-sided coin. On one side we have the business analysts tasks and techniques and the other side we have the underlying competencies, of which domain knowledge is the most important competency. A concept model is used to organise the business vocabulary needed to consistently and thoroughly communicate the knowledge of a domain. During this webinar we will review the various elements of concept modelling such as noun concepts, verb concepts, categorisations, classifications, partitive connections and roles.

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: Tuesday, October 25, 2016; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: Fhysics Business Analysis Company  
Cost: Free
Registration:    Fhysics Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Getting it Right: Best Practices for Requirements Management
Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP, Senior Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group
 
Requirements are at the core of any project, and therefore, must be carefully managed. In this webinar, you will learn the essential requirements management practices, including the requirements lifecycle from inception to implementation, requirements management planning, and requirements management tools. In addition, you will learn how to write SMART requirements statements that are useful and actionable. Finally, we will contrast and compare the traditional requirements management approach with agile requirements management. Learning objectives include:

 

·         Understand the requirements management process

·         Learn how to write good requirements

·         Appreciate the value of a requirements management plan

·         Contrast plan-driven and change-driven requirements management approaches

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Requirements Prioritization Best Practices
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements -- a process based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others --  and employing IAG's experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.  

This webinar will explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn't,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best. 

Participants will learn a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.

It will provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project. 

 
Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

·         The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies

·         Different Prioritization Techniques

·         Why Prioritize?

·         When to Prioritize Knowing

·         What to Prioritize

·         The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements

·         Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors

·         Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings

·         Rating Facilitation Methods

·         Next Steps

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2016; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public 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, October 26, 2016; 11:00 am – 11:30 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Systems   @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration:   Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration
 
 
 
 
Techniques for Bringing Out True Soft Side
Presented by Angela Wick
 

This webinar will examine the soft skills that are critical to the success of an agile Product Owner.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:    ITMPI Public Webinar Registration