Saturday, March 2, 2019

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2019


IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Co-founder at Watermark Learning

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, March 1, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free




Value Realization Stream Management: Increasing Business Agility
Presented by: Alan Shalloway

You should be reducing the cost of risk - not avoiding risk. This webinar discusses a holistic method for such an approach.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 05, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:  ITMPI 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, March 6, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free





Pushing Decisions to the Right Level of the Organization
Presented by: Payson Hall

In this webinar, we explore techniques for discussing priorities with sponsors and methods to assure decision making is consistent.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 06, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
  



Skyrocket Your BA Career with Certifications
Presented by Lora McCoy, CBAP and LN Mishra, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, AAC, Adaptive US, Inc.

 Achieving IIBA® certifications has significant impact on a Business Analysts career. IIBA certifications are sought after across all continents and help BA practitioners unlock their potential to a host of career opportunities. Gaining IIBA certification provides a holistic process on business analysis and trains professionals on various business analysis techniques.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
·        Requirements for various IIBA certifications
·        Detailed preparation process for IIBA certifications examination
·        Aspects to focus when one prepares for different IIBA certifications
·        Tips and tricks for different IIBA certification examinations from ~500 IIBA certified professionals
·        Resources available for IIBA® certification preparations

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 6, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Sponsor: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS
Cost: Free




FranklinCovey's Extraordinary Productivity - Free Seminar Preview  
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, Extraordinary Productivity: The 5 Choices That Drive Success.

What You Will Learn

Attend this webcast to learn about FranklinCovey’s seminar Extraordinary Productivity: The 5 Choices That Drive Success. 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, March 6, 2019; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
  


Essential Patterns of Successful Agile Transformations
Presented by: Bob Galen

In this webinar we explore critical patterns for agile transformations.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 07, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute     @ITMPI
Cost: Free

  


Accelerating Enterprise Agile Innovation with Storyteller
Presented by Chris Castle, Blueprint Software Systems

Storyteller is a complete Enterprise Agile Planning platform that allows organizations to easily align business strategy with IT execution in order to build and deliver the right software with speed, quality and efficiency.

Chris Castle, Director of Product Management at Blueprint, will be providing a quick technical product overview and demonstration of Storyteller's capabilities, including the improvements and added innovations from our most recent release.

Join us to discover how Storyteller's industry-leading features will enable your organization to:

·        Drive innovation and alignment between business planning activities and IT execution
·        Increase delivery velocity by automating manual tasks and removing process bottlenecks
·        Foster greater collaboration by including enterprise stakeholders in the development process
·        Improve visibility and understanding with precision mapping, traceability, and drill-down into all downstream assets
·        Reduce risk with an easy way to track and manage regulatory changes

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 7, 2019; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free

  


Selling Leadership on More than the Idea of Agile
Presented by Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman, B2T Training

Join our Agile Practice Lead, Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman, for a one-time, complimentary session of our new webinar!

In order for an agile transformation to be successful, there needs to be an organization-wide acceptance and adoption of the agile mindset. But what do you do when your leadership has only bought into the idea of agile and doesn’t understand the reality?

The challenge lies in selling them on the fact that in order to really facilitate the organization to leverage and receive the full benefits of agile, they HAVE to change their mindset. Join me for a session full of strategies and recommendations to target a leadership team that needs to understand the realities of an agile environment and how their buy-in and support is required to make it work!

Session Roadmap

·        Learn the importance of an organization-wide acceptance and adoption of the agile mindset
·        Identify the common thought processes that prevent leadership from buying into the agile mindset
·        Learn specific strategies for selling management on a mindset change

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, March 8, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host: B2T Training    @B2T_Training
Cost: Free




IIBA® "Re"-Certification Screen-side Chat
Presented by Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, Vice President, Professional Development 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.

We have a few chapter members that will re-certify their IIBA certification for the first time this year. So we will take this month to talk about the recertification requirements and process. We will also talk about becoming certified; studying, the exam, and the process. 

Anyone interested in ECBA™, CCBA® or CBAP® certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our CBAP mentor.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, March 8, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free




Cloud Migration
Presented by: Joe Burns

In this webinar we will discuss how a proven Cloud Migration model can helps drive enterprise wide DevOps transformation.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 13, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute     @ITMPI
Cost: Free




Effectively Communicating in the Moment – Free Seminar Preview
Presented by Susan Mason, Principal at Vital Visions Consultants

Speaking on the Spot with Clarity and Precision

It’s happened to all of us—you’re asked unexpectedly during a meeting to give a project update, or are stopped in the hallway with an important question, or are cornered in a challenging conversation. You can’t plan for these unrehearsed events, but you can take steps to always be confident and ready when they do happen. 

This preview of the AMA seminar Effectively Communicating in the Moment explains how this course helps you develop your in-the-moment communication skills and will offer some tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

What You Will Learn

·        Advice for keeping your composure while taking time to respond
·        What to do when you are being pushed for an answer
·        Ways to deliver your message confidently
·        Specific stalling techniques that exude competence
While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 13, 2019; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free




Coaching: Navigating Through Uncertainty and Helping People
Presented by: Tom Cagley

This webinar will layout the broad actions and frameworks required for a coach to be successful.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 14, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free

 


Agile Analysis Huddle
Presented by Richard Power, CBAP, Vice President, Administration and Finance, Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

This is a free online chat session with one of our Agile enthusiasts. Whether you just want to learn more about the agile or scrum framework, your organization is going through an agile transformation, or you are interested in obtaining the IIBA® Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA®-AAC) this session is for you. We can discuss the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide, the Scrum Guide™, the agile framework, or the IIBA®-AAC certification. Whatever you wish to discuss, come let’s talk. Anyone interested in talking agile, or pursuing the IIBA®-AAC Certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our Agile mentor. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, March 15, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free

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