Business Analysis Webinars for June 2018 - Part II

Scaling Product Backlogs to All Levels of the Enterprise: What, Who and How?
Presented by: Candase Hokanson

This webinar will provide an overview of some of the more popular approaches on the market for scaling product ownership for program and portfolio analysis.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 19, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI 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, June 20, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration




The Voice of Leadership  
Presented by Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D., “Champion of Introverts”, Speaker and Author

How Leaders Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results

No matter how compelling your vision or how brilliant your strategy, without strong communication skills, you may fail to get the attention and understanding of those you lead.

The ability to get buy-in, garner trust and inspire loyalty isn't a skill you have to be born with.

This preview of the AMA seminar, The Voice of Leadership, explains how this course helps you develop the skills to inspire others. In addition, this session gives you tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

What You Will Learn
  

·        How to get and hold your listener’s attention

·        Steps to ensure understanding

·        Ways to develop and use stories to get your message across

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 20, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration




Explore the Power of Microsoft Power BI
Presented by Greg Kutes, Technical Trainer and Consultant at Global Knowledge

Are you struggling to analyze and present your organization’s data in a meaningful and engaging manner? Is Excel no longer enough for you? Microsoft Power BI just may be the solution you need.

Power BI is a powerful new analytics tool used to evaluate data and share insights. This one-hour webinar will show you how to create dashboards using your data. You’ll be able to provide business users a 360-degree view with their most important metrics all in one place, updated in real time, and available on all their devices. Plus, see how you can install additional visuals for more engaging and complex reports.

Sign up for this webinar and you will learn how to:

Work With Your Existing Data

·        Connect to data

·        Shape and combine data

How to Create and Share Reports

·        Build reports

·        Distribute your work

Work With Additional Types of Data

·        Import and analyze data from a web page using Power BI Desktop

·        Analyze sales data from Excel and an OData feed

·        Use natural language to build visualizations

Where to Find Support

·        Download exciting new visuals

·        Examine ‘R’ visualizations

·        Stay up to date easily

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 21, 2018; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge
Cost: Free
Registration: Global Knowledge Webinar Registration

  


Requirements Definition Best Practices for Business Intelligence Projects
Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner at IAG Consulting

This two hour webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts. 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 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.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 27, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration




How to Grow Your Influence in a Complex, Networked World
Presented by Dr. Ed Barrows, Managing Director at Duke Corporate Education

People who are influential know how to get work done. In today’s volatile and rapidly changing environment, work doesn’t get accomplished through authority, it gets done through influence. Whether you’re a rising senior executive or front-end project manager, knowing how to influence is critical to success.

This live webinar, How to Grow Your Influence in a Complex, Networked World, will discuss how influence is not simply the product of personal charisma or charm, but instead, a skill that can be learned. Leaders can learn how to establish credibility, build trust, and effectively influence stakeholders, even if they lack the formal authority to make demands on resources.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 27, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Strategy Execution    @2080strategyex
Cost: Free
Registration:  Strategy Execution Public Webinar Registration




IIBA Leadership Webinar Series - Developing the Leaders Around You - Module 2
Presented by Kim Schilling, President of Minneapolis | St. Paul IIBA Chapter

Based on the best-selling book “Developing the Leaders Around You” by John C. Maxwell, Module Two addresses identifying potential leaders and nurturing them for success. Every leader of an organization hopes to identify and nurture leaders. How do we make this happen? We will discuss how to drive the right foundation for this journey, specifically: 

Identifying Potential Leaders 

·        Selecting the Right Players

·        Assessment of Current Leadership Qualities

·        Qualities to Look for in a Leader 

The Leader’s Crucial Task: Nurturing Potential Leaders 

·        The BEST Technique

·        Choose a Leadership Model for Yourself

·        Is My Model’s Strength Reproducible in My Life?

·        If My Model’s Strength is Reproducible in My Life, What Steps Must I Take to Develop and Demonstrate That Strength

·        Guidelines for Mentoring Relationships 

Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 27, 2018; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration




The Enterprise Design Framework: An Alternate Approach to Define Challenges, Scope and Frame Initiatives
Presented by Milan Guenther, Founding Partner at Enterprise Design Associates

Business analysts and Aachitects are facing a challenge well beyond defining digital systems or solutions; we are expected to lead the way into the digital future of a customer-centric, well-executing enterprise, while being apt to deal with disruption and rapid to adapt, yet our methods and tools keep us busy gathering loads of requirements and documenting today’s complexity, making us seem like show stoppers rather than agents of change.

We see people’s eyes glaze over at our long lists and complicated models, tired of the difficulties they entail. While we cannot ignore the complexity that surrounds us, we need better tools to engage, co-create, validate, and convey the transformations and innovations we envision.

This means shifting our focus to Enterprise Design:
 

·        From modelling the inner workings to covering our ecosystem

·        From solution requirements to holistic design practice

·        From mapping today’s complexity to future strategic scenarios

·        From operations and technology to customer value creation

·        From busy diagrams to capturing what matters to our audience

Join Milan in this webinar on how to reposition analysis, architecture and design work to reclaim the driver’s seat in digital transformation.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 28, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Public Webinar Registration




Digital Trends: Secrets for Successful Business Transformation in 2018
Presented by: Varun Patel

This webinar will pull together and summarize a list of top digital trends that will be dominating the 2018-2019 year.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 28, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for June 2018

Agility as a Disruption: What Did We Learn, and What's Next?
Presented by: Nader Rad

In this webinar, we will explore the legacy of Agile disruption; the direct and indirect consequences that will outlive Agile itself.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 5, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration

  


Fire and Ice! How Agile and Traditional Practices Can Coexist and Complement Each Other
Presented by Benoit De Grace, PMP, Senior Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

The rise in popularity of Agile methods during the last decade has been both a benefit and a challenge for project and portfolio management teams. While Agile methods have proven to increase and accelerate value to organizations by delivering faster and better results when applied to the right projects and in the right way, many organizations still struggle to figure out what to do with these new approaches for managing projects. When this happens, Agile methods can become an obstacle and hindrance to benefits realization. By breaking down the methodologies into smaller components, we will explore how the ingredients of traditional and Agile can be blended more easily, doing away with dogmatic approaches.

You will learn:

·        How Agile is different but also similar to traditional methods 

·        How Agile techniques can complement more traditional approaches 

·        What other companies are doing to improve how they manage work this way.

  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 5, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration




Requirements Definition Best Practices for Software RFPs
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant at 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, June 6, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

  
  
  
Storyteller Product Demo – How to Scale your Agile Practice
Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

Do you manage teams that are responsible for Agile development? Are you focused on getting more successful products to market, and releasing faster than your competitors? If so, then let’s face it – your current agile planning and work management tools probably aren’t delivering the business value you’re intending and they can’t scale.

Don’t get left in the dust with tools that are limiting and difficult to scale.

Recognized on Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools, Blueprint is disrupting this fast-changing market with a product that boasts all of the same capabilities as tools like JIRA, plus game-changing features that go above and beyond traditional Agile planning and work management tools.

Join us on June 6th to learn:

·        How the Agile market is evolving and why Blueprint has been recognized as a disruptive leader by Gartner and Forrester

·        How to successfully scale your Agile practice by aligning business, development and operations teams

·        How to consolidate your existing technology investments for greater success

·        A deeper look at the next generation of Agile Planning capabilities Storyteller provides, including a live product demo

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration:   Storyteller Product Demo Registration



  
Critical Thinking
Presented by Jody Jones, Ph.D., President at Strategic Transformations

Steps to Making Clearer and More Effective Decisions

In this fast-paced world, one thing is certain: We need sharp critical thinkers who are able to size up a situation, realize the potential where others may not, and seize opportunities through prompt decision making.

We all perform some level of critical thinking in our daily lives, yet most of us don’t really know what it entails or how we do what we do. 

This preview offers you a practical introduction to the highly popular AMA seminar, Critical Thinking. We’ll introduce you to the RED model of critical thinking and describe the basics of putting it into action using a practical case study.

AMA's Critical Thinking seminar walks you through making reasoned judgments that are well thought out. Join us to get a preview of how the seminar reveals the methods used to improve your ability to engage in logical and rational thinking, including:

·        How the RED (Recognize assumptions, Evaluate arguments, Draw conclusions) Model is used to get to a decision point 

·        The importance of separating facts from opinions 

·        Three steps you can take to apply critical thinking skills right away 

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 6, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration




IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA

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, June 8, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration




IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat
Presented by Cody May, CBAP, Member at Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

This is a free online chat session with one of our CBAP® recipients. The CBAP mentor will tell you of their journey to become IIBA® Certified, provide tips & tricks on anything related to IIBA Certification from the application process to re-certification. Anyone interested in ECBA™, CCBA® or CBAP® certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our CBAP mentor.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, June 8, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free
Registration:   Bluegrass IIBA Certification Chat Registration




Writing a Business Use Case in 7 Steps
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant at IAG Consulting

This two-hour webinar gets right to the point and covers the essential steps of a practical process for writing business use cases. It is all based on industry best practices and employs IAG's proven experience and techniques for practical requirements definition.  This webinar will explain what Business Use Cases are and how to document them. Using the business case of an innovative iPhone application, the course will follow a simple seven-step process for writing Use Cases as well as provide strategies for dealing with the common challenges of defining them. Participants will learn use-case documentation and modeling techniques using standard templates, worksheets and checklists.  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 identify and write the use cases they need for their next project.

Key content covered in the webinar:

·        Business Use Cases and Business Requirements

·        Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process

·        The Components of a Use Case

·        The Different Forms of Use Cases

·        The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case

·        Detailed Use Case Modeling

·        Tips for Eliciting Use Cases

·        Use Cases and Business Rules

·        Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach

·        Next Steps - What do you do when you're done?

Get specific answers to:

·        "Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What's the difference between use cases and requirements?"

·        "What is the difference between a business and a system use case"

·        "How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?"

·        "How many use cases do I need?"

·        "How detailed do the use cases need to be?"

·        "What questions should I ask to build a good use case?

·        "How many alternate flows do I need?"

·        "When do I know I'm done?

·        "What is the purpose of use case diagrams?"      

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 13, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

  


FranklinCovey's 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity™
Presented by Eileen Land, E-Learning Strategist at FranklinCovey

Discover How to Move from Distraction to Fulfillment and Accomplishment

Is your life filled with constant distraction? In today’s world, you are faced with constant demands from other people, technology and a nonstop workday.

If it seems like every moment is filled, preventing you from getting the truly important accomplished, FranklinCovey has developed a seminar that provides a solution.

To succeed in this environment, you need to learn how to make good decisions, focus your attention, use technology smartly, and sustain high energy, day in and day out. Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular FranklinCovey seminar, The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity.

Attend this webcast to learn about FranklinCovey’s seminar The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity. The seminar combines current neuroscience research with proven productivity principles to help you better manage your decisions, attention and energy. 

In the webcast, you will:

·        Discover the three productivity challenges we face in today’s world 

·        Understand how the 5 Choices will equip you with skills to address these challenges 

·        Learn about the tools and concepts that will help you achieve your most important outcomes

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 13, 2018; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration




Movement to Agile Testing
Presented by: Joe Burns

This webinar will educate on the appropriate approaches, artifacts, and metrics to successfully deliver high quality products on time in an Agile methodology. This will include customer experiences to show real life examples and techniques for successful “Agile” Testing.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 14, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration

  


Leading Multicultural Teams: Developing Your Cultural Intelligence
Presented by Marie Bankuti, PCC, CPCC, PMP, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group

Are you managing a team of individuals from different countries, or different cultural backgrounds? While research shows that diversity on a team is highly beneficial to creativity, effectiveness, and bringing out the best in each team member, if you aren't comfortable working with and managing the various approaches, it can feel like you're working in a foreign land yourself.

Cultural nuances around directness, formality, assertiveness, body language, and the like can lead to false assumptions about motivation and engagement, often resulting in decisions that further alienate. Performance can suffer, both individually and as a team.

In this interactive session you'll:

·        Gain insight into different cultural norms and values in business.

·        Develop confidence working with and leading folks from different cultures.

·        Understand how to assess, appreciate, and leverage cultural differences.

·        Support your team members and their interactions with less struggle.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 14, 2018, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration



   
Smart Process Automation Transforms Customer Experience
Presented by Rob Koplowitz, VP and Principal Analyst on Digital Process Automation at Forrester

Today’s digital business environment is driving an accelerating demand for unified omnichannel Customer Experiences and Business Agility. Join us to discover the capabilities that will help companies implement successful business transformation and develop a transparent, customer-centric solution.

On the agenda:

·        Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester on Digital Process Automation

·        Award-winning success story of how the public utility Group EPM digitally transformed and achieved customer excellence.

·        David Sorensen demonstrates the essential capabilities to accelerate strategic Business Transformation

·        Q&A

  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, June 14, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration:   Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration