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