Business Analysis Webinars for May 2017

IIBA Analytics SIG: Analytics in Manufacturing
Presented by Marcel van Maasdam
 
Join IIBA^® Business Analytics SIG Guest Speaker and oil & gas industry expert Marcel van Maasdam for a real-world discussion of big data and analytics as applied in manufacturing. Marcel will also share a high level framework for business analysts to get started with analytics.
 
Key topics that will be discussed in this webinar include: 

·         An Introduction to Analytics

·         The application of Analytics in Manufacturing

·         Requirements for Analytics Development

·         Requirements for Analytics Runtime Applications

·         Requirements for Analytics Support Services

·         High level framework for BA's to start Analytics

 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Monday, May 8, 2017; 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
 
  
 
 
Building a Leadership-Driven Organization through People and Process
Presented by Tonya Peterson
 
This webinar will discuss the areas you must focus on if you want to maximize business value through transformational leadership.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 9, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

 
 
 
 
Strategies to Requirements Definition and Management Maturity
Presented by Rob Stewart, 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, May 10, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Mapping IoT Product Requirements
Presented by Nate Fleming, Forrester; and Scott Roth, Jama Software
 
Creating IoT products requires changes to development and management processes
 
To understand the implications and help you prepare, join guest speaker Forrester Analyst Nate Fleming and Jama Software CEO Scott Roth, as they discuss:
 

·         How leading companies manage their IoT development process to drive business results

·         Actionable recommendations for hardware and software engineering teams to work together

·         How to align around requirements to develop great connected products

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 10, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Jama Software    @jamasoftware
Cost: Free
Registration:   Jama Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
IIBA Leadership Series: A Study of The 360 Degree Leader - Module Three: 360 Degree Leaders Practice to Lead Across
Presented by Jared Gorai, CBAP, Chair, Volunteer Chapter Network, IIBA
 
To rise to a higher level of leadership, we must strive to lead in all directions including being able to lead our peers. We’ll go through the seven principles leaders practice when leading across an organization.
 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 10, 2017; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Business Analysis Certification Orientation
Presented by Vikram Sivaraman
 
In this session, we will discuss about Business Analysis Certification Orientation. The session is targeted at giving useful insights about the different types of globally renowned certifications available for the Business Analysts community wanting to add certain credentials to showcase their competency in the Business Analysis arena. The process towards orienting one’s aspiration of Business Analysis certification is also provided presented as a road map. Fhyzics Business Consultants Private Limited - An Endorsed Education Provider of IIBA®, Canada.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 11, 2017; 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT
Host: Fhyzics Business Analysis
Cost: Free
Registration:   Fhyzics Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Agile and Business Analysts – Is There a Place For Us?
Presented by Michelina DiNunno
 
As organizations embark on agile initiatives, business analysts can serve a critical role in ensuring the success of those initiatives. This one-hour webinar will explore why business analysts embody core values and skills to thrive in an agile world.
 
In this one-hour webinar, you will learn:
 

·         Common myths about agile and business analysis

·         Agile roles for business analysts

·         BA skills for succeeding in an agile world

·         Maximizing value – at the core of the BA role

 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 11, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge
Cost: Free
Registration:   Global Knowledge Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Requirements Meeting Facilitation Best Practices
Presented by Rob Steward, IAG Consulting 
 
In this two-hour instructional webinar, you will learn some of IAG’s best practices, tips, and techniques for facilitating Requirements Discovery Sessions. We will discuss the role of the session leader/facilitator in a requirements meeting. We will explain a simple repeatable process for eliciting business requirements. And, we will provide a variety of tips, techniques and questions you can ask during the session to keep the meeting on track – and moving toward a successful conclusion with well defined business requirements and satisfied session participants.
 
Key content covered in the webinar:

·         The role of a facilitator

·         Facilitation fundamentals

·         Top 10 success factors for requirements facilitation

·         Preparation for a requirements meeting

·         Steps to follow in the session - the main agenda items, using use-case and other modeling techniques

·         Key questions to ask during a session

·         Critical and immediate next steps following your meeting

 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 
      ·         How to conduct productive requirements meetings

·         How to organize the topics to be discussed

·         A process to keep the meeting on track

·         Facilitation tips and techniques specific to requirements meetings 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 17, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
How to Speak So Your Sponsors Can Hear
Presented by Kristy Neckowiczk
 
Your success depends on your ability to communicate with and enroll your sponsor and stakeholders. In this webinar you will learn useful and practical tips for how to collaborate with anyone.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 17, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Developing an Executive Presence
Presented by ASPE Training
 
In this intensely inspirational, moving but practical webinar, David will discuss the four foundational pillars of building an Executive Presence.
 

1.       Finding Reasons to Be Proud of Yourself

2.       Slamming the Door on Self Doubt

3.       Being Humble

4.       Sharing Your Story and Letting Others Share Theirs

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 17, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Training Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Creating and Nurturing Your Collaborative Agile
Presented by Johanna Rothman
 
In this webinar you will learn how to create a high-performing, cross-functional, collaborative agile team. You will learn about the practices that work, and the practices that don't work.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 18, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Motivation: Driving Potential and Performance
Presented by Casey Mitchell, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group
 
How do we motivate people? While someone may possess the knowledge, skills, and desire to do great work, he or she needs the opportunity --and the proper environment and support -- to do so. This webinar explores the nature of motivation as a means of unleashing potential and driving organizational success. We’ll discuss external and internal motivation and how each impacts performance. You will learn how to identify what drives an individual to want to do their best work. You will acquire tools and strategies to create and sustain an environment that fosters highly motivated and engaged employees.
 
This webinar will help you:
 

·         Discover approaches to motivation that support the complex nature of work today.

·         Explore the nature of external rewards and their effect on performance.

·         Identify key motivation factors; the internal drivers that move people to action.

·         Create the conditions necessary for people to use their full potential.

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 18, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group   @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corporate Education Group Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Scaling Agile Implementation for Your Organization: A Guide to SAFe
Presented by Michael Delis, CSM, PMP, ACP
 
This webinar will help create a shared understanding of SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) by defining what it is, and how it supports organizations to achieve enterprise agility. We will review the SAFe framework “BIG Picture,” including an Agile Release Train (ART) and the most basic and necessary aspects of the framework called Essential SAFe.

You will learn:

·         Organizational challenges that are addressed by SAFe

·         An introduction to the SAFe framework “BIG Picture”

·         How an Agile Release Train (ART) powers SAFe

·         Getting started with Essential SAFe

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, May 19, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corporate Education Group Public Webinar Registration