Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2017

NextGen Business Competencies for PMs and BAs Part 1: Insight
Presented by Curtis Michelson, Minds Alert, LLC

Fast moving agile businesses need engaged teams that drive out faster testable insights for extremely reduced time from concept to cash. NextGen Project Managers and Business Analysts meet this challenge with their own NextGen business competencies - to build shared understanding of trends, customer/market forces and organizational imperatives to drive fast value decision making. They exert new forms of leadership to help teams of all kinds (IT and beyond) to seed their backlogs with innovative pre-flight tested, market ready ideas

This series will be a four part deep dive into a competency wheel for new project leaders called the Discovery Leadership framework. Developed by Kupe Kupersmith and Curtis Michelson with guidance from a global community, the framework is a holistic set of competencies grouped into four chunks.

How far can we see - into the future, into the business and into the customer and market forces that impact us? That's the differentiating edge we'll explore in this first session.

There are two lenses through which we'll peer in this session: the systems thinking lens and the customer and design thinking lens. Those two lenses drive us to three core outcomes: 1) better problem statements or "hypotheses", 2) richer multi-perspectival value stories and 3) a laboratory for creating experiments to test your NextGen ideas.


Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 03, 2017; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times    @BATimes
Cost: Free
Registration:   BA Times Public Webinar Registration




Fast Tracking Project Concepts
Presented by Rob Stewart, Sr. 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:
1.      Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2.      The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3.      Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 4, 2017; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration




Creative Leadership
Presented by: Cassandra Peck

Creative organizations find solutions. They take risks, and they’re objective, but they’re quick and unafraid to change course. In this webinar you will learn the techniques of creative leadership.


Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 4, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration




The Problem-Goal-Solution trinity 
Presented by Hans van Loenhoud, MSc, Treasurer of the International Requirements Engineering Board e.V.

Problems, goals and solutions for an inseparable trinity.
 

  • In order to develop a proper solution, the whole landscape of problems and goals must be clarified. A problem is a current state in the context of stakeholder, that is experienced as negative, because it inhibits certain behavior.
  • A goal is a future state in the context of a stakeholder, that is seen as desirable, because it enables certain behavior.
  • A problem always relates to a goal, being the desired, but inhibited behavior. A goal is only recognized as such if something (a blocking issue being the related problem) has to be overcome first.
  • A solution is the roadmap for an intervention in the context of the stakeholder, that solves the problem and enables the goal.
  • A negative state where no solution is thought to be possible, will not be recognized as a problem, but as an unfortunate fact. In the same way, a goal without a solution is a daydream.
  • Problems and goals do not exist in reality: they are subjective concepts of stakeholders. The same context state can be considered a problem by one stakeholder and a goal for another one. Consequently, they can only be unveiled by elicitation.
Requirements engineering is about developing solutions for stakeholders. Proper solutions can only be found, if the whole landscape of all related problems and goals is clarified.

In this session, you will learn that:
  • A problem is a subjective concept of a stakeholder about a current state in his context that is experienced as negative.
  • A goal is a subjective concept of a stakeholder about a future state in his context that is experienced as desirable.
  • A solution is a mental construct: a roadmap for an intervention in the context to remove the problem that inhibits the goal.
  • Problems, goals and solutions always come together.
  • Problems, goals and solutions are recursive.

Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Thursday, October 5, 2017; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis     @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration




Ready for Evaluation
Presented by: Troy Lightfoot

In this webinar we will explore a Lean Startup approach to Agile Adoption along with an innovative new Catalog which compiles practices across a variety of frameworks, each mapping back to desired business outcomes. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 5, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration 



 
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Rich Larson, CBAP, PMP

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 ECBA, CCBA, or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, October 6, 2017; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration

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