Business Analysis Webinars for August 2017 - Part II

Make Room for the Agile Business Analyst: Tips for Adding BA Skills to Your Next Agile Projects

Presented by Ori Schibi, Senior Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

This dynamic session provides participants with knowledge, concepts and techniques on how to perform the business analyst (BA) role effectively in Agile environments and how to benefit from the skills the BA brings to the Agile project. The availability of these skills can improve the project team’s agility and help deliver project success.

More and more organizations and Agile practitioners are realizing the value and critical need for business analysis skills – whether through a dedicate BA role, or business analysis skills employed across the team. This session provides a series of tips that can help maximize the benefits that virtually any Agile environment can reap from having a BA or business analysis skills on the project.

This webinar involves engaging participants with surveys, practical concepts, useful tips and relevant real life examples that will help perform the role of the BA in Agile environments effectively

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 15, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration

Tips for Planning Requirements Elicitation on Large Projects

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

The large, complex project brings with it a unique set of problems that may not be encountered in a smaller project. This one-hour webinar will focus on the planning phase for a large, complex project. The participant will learn the importance of developing an understanding of the complete scope of analysis and developing an integrated series of requirements plans to eliminate redundancy of effort and to provide for better input to the high level architectural design decisions that must be made.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

·        How to define the complete scope of analysis

·        How to develop comprehensive, integrated Requirements Management Plans

·        How to ensure the necessary and sufficient input is available to optimize the high level architectural design decisions

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

Managing Remote Teams

Presented by Dana Brownlee

Our workplace has certainly changed and one of the most obvious illustrations of this is the prevalence of non-traditional work environments. This webinar provides specific best practices and tips for how to effectively support remote team members, how to build a sense of camaraderie and maintain high levels of motivation without the luxury of the traditional face to face work environment. You'll hear war stories that provide best practices along with invaluable tricks of the trade learned the hard way!  Whether you are leading the team or collaborating with team members this webinar will give you insight on how to set yourself up for success, when working within a remote team environment.

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration

10 No-Nonsense Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance

Presented by Neal Whitten, The Neal Whitten Group

I want to talk with you about you… Success does not just happen—it is made to happen. Success is born of behaviors and choices that lead to exceptional performance. In this webinar, I will reveal 10 important leading-edge, best-practice, results-oriented behaviors that will promote your professional and personal success. These are no-nonsense behaviors that I have observed over the years as being common among those who are the most successful. As you strive to achieve your dreams, these behaviors can lay the foundation for your journey. As a senior guy who has been around the proverbial block many times, I will tell you: This stuff works!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

Registration:    BATimes Public Webinar Registration

Elements of Requirements Style

Presented by Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant, Process Impact

This presentation describes numerous techniques for writing software functional requirements, focused on the core objective of clear and effective communication. You’ll see multiple styles of writing functional requirements and you'll learn many vague “weak words” to avoid.
The presentation describes several common types of requirements ambiguity and shows how to rewrite ambiguous requirements to make them clearer. We’ll also explore the common issue of having solution ideas or design constraints embedded in requirements. Applying the techniques described in this presentation will help your requirements specifications speak more clearly to their various audiences.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 17, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

Registration:   Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration

Top 10 Things about Business Architecture for BAs and PMs

Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner, IAG Consulting

Business architecture is a strategic differentiator. However there are practical applications of tools and techniques that will support and link business strategy to the tactical outcomes. By applying models and standards the business analyst and the project managers benefit from the alignment, clarity and re-usability of the business architecture. The objectives of the webinar are to:

·        Explain why bother doing business architecture

·        Describe business architecture as a complementary and supporting methodology to analysis deliverables

·        Demonstrate some cool tools PMs and business analyst could use

·        Show you how to be a hero to your business, developers, testers and customer

·        Provide a description of value Participants will acquire a functional knowledge of business architecture. The adoption of business architecture tools and techniques will support the management of requirements & risk by establishing clearer scope.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 23, 2017; 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting 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, August 30, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits® Seminar—Free Online Session  

Presented by Eileen Land, E-Learning Strategist, Senior Consultant at FranklinCovey

Create lifetime success with the 7 Habits®

Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular, hands-on seminar, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, based on the international bestseller. In this complimentary online session, discover how the 7 Habits® can help you to lead yourself more effectively, engage and collaborate with others more successfully, and continually renew these capabilities. Your team and organization can also learn and harness these qualities for maximum results.

If you’ve ever wondered if the 7 Habits® are right for you, or just want to learn more, don’t miss this introduction to the world’s premier leadership development solution.

What You Will Learn

·        Why the 7 Habits® are relevant in the 21st century

·        What “effectiveness” means in an ever-changing, chaotic world 

·        How to grow our personal capabilities and interpersonal relationships

·        How our paradigms affect our ability to achieve what matters most to us  

·        The importance of self-renewal in creating and sustaining results

Attending this program is COMPLIMENTARY, but reservations are required.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 30, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration