Are you solving the right
problem? With James Robertson
Presented by James Robertson, The Atlantic Systems
Guild
Are you delivering software on time, but it doesn’t bring
about the anticipated benefits? This happens when a project team fails to solve
the right business problem.
The right problem is elusive, but here James Robertson gives
you his years of experience of problem solving, and shows you why you can
always uncover the right problem, and solve it.
During the
webinar, you’ll hear:
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Why starting with a product backlog is probably not a good
idea
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How to avoid the assumed solution
·
How safe-to-fail probes of candidates solutions help you to
connect more deeply with your customers or users
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Why double loop learning is helpful
·
Why re-framing the problem usually gives a better result
·
Seven rules for finding the right problem
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 16, 2019; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Host: Blackmetric Consulting @Blackmetric
Cost: Free
Managing Requirements
Operational Excellence
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
This session is for business analyst leadership and
development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to
their business analyst organization. IAG will draw from its project
experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value
of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.
Learning
Objectives:
1. How do you assess
the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus
for improvement?
3. What
implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 17, 2019; 10:00 am – 11:00 am
EDT
Host: IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Understanding your Supply
Chain Process
Presented by Jeffrey Giles, Principal Architect,
Sandhill Consultants
Globalization has become an undeniable part of commerce over
the last few decades. Large and small, public or commercial organizations have
grown to source labour and parts from national and international locations.
Supply chains have had to keep in step, passing through numerous suppliers to
obtain goods and services most efficiently and cost effectively. Supply chains
are growing more complex over time as evidenced and witnessed by the growth of
transportation and logistics companies that service the transportation
needs.
We only become consciously aware of how little we know of
our supply chain process when abnormal events occur that disrupt the smooth
operation of the supply chain.
During our webcast we will be focusing on the following:
·
How client’s can document their Supply Chain: For
example, any procurement and supply team that does not have a good
understanding of its supply chain, will be unable to identify , mitigate and
avoid risk. This is a major concern for the organization.
·
Understand Impact, and Lineage Analysis: Allows an
organization to visualize, walk-through and audit the steps in a client’s
supply chain.
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Socialization and Communication. The business can now
validate the steps and the documented supply chain then becomes a record of
what needs to be done, for normal business operations or should abnormal events
occur.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 17, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EDT
Host: Modern Analyst
@ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
A Journey Towards Building
Trust and Alignment in Data and Metrics
Presented by Vanessa Lam, Business Intelligence
Manager at Optoro
Optoro is a
technology company that develops solutions to eliminate waste from the reverse
supply chain. As such, we are frequently asked to measure our success through
numeric metrics. This presentation will walk you through Optoro’s journey from
vague, undefined terms to standardized metrics and definitions.
Using our Key
Performance Indicators as a case study, this presentation will cover
·
The pitfalls of
using a metric that has a meaning but not a definition
·
The importance of
getting alignment on all assumptions, both from the technical and business
perspectives
·
The benefits of
pushing data assumptions and definitions to the lowest possible layer
·
The continuous
movement towards both a single source of truth and democratized data
This on-going endeavor is yielding
benefits to Optoro, including
·
Increased
alignment on company goals
·
Improved ease of
communication between teams and with Senior Management
·
Consistency across external messaging
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 17, 2019; 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Host: IIBA Analytics Special Interest Group @IIBA
Cost: Free
Leading with Emotional
Intelligence - Free Seminar Preview
President by Susan Mason, Principal at Vital Visions
Consultants
How to Lead with
Presence and Impact
Why does Emotional Intelligence (EI) matter? Because at the
core of every outstanding leader are the abilities to connect, achieve, inspire
and act with resilience.
EI has evolved from an area of research to a recognized set
of best practices and core competencies that are at the heart of successful
leadership. Today we use EI as an integrated set of skills that underpin highly
effective, fast-reacting and innovative organizations.
This preview offers you a powerful introduction to the
highly popular hands-on AMA seminar, Leading with Emotional Intelligence. Our instructor
will explain how the seminar uses the F.L.I.P. Modes of Conversation as a “must
have” tool for collaboration and relationship enhancement, and gives you other
powerful insights into EI.
If you want to become the consummate emotionally intelligent leader, this preview provides the perfect opportunity to hear how the AMA seminar can help you achieve your goals.
If you want to become the consummate emotionally intelligent leader, this preview provides the perfect opportunity to hear how the AMA seminar can help you achieve your goals.
What You Will
Learn
·
Emotional Intelligence: What it is and why it’s such a
critical leadership skill
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The 4 cornerstones of EI
·
How EI underpins and facilitates 6 core leadership
competencies
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The role EI plays in leading collaboration
While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are
required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 17, 2019; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
A Journey Towards Building
Trust and Alignment in Data and Metrics
Presented by Vanessa Lam, Business Intelligence
Manager at Optoro
Optoro is a
technology company that develops solutions to eliminate waste from the reverse
supply chain. As such, we are frequently asked to measure our success through
numeric metrics. This presentation will walk you through Optoro’s journey from
vague, undefined terms to standardized metrics and definitions.
Using our Key
Performance Indicators as a case study, this presentation will cover
·
The pitfalls of
using a metric that has a meaning but not a definition
·
The importance of
getting alignment on all assumptions, both from the technical and business
perspectives
·
The benefits of
pushing data assumptions and definitions to the lowest possible layer
·
The continuous
movement towards both a single source of truth and democratized data
This on-going endeavor is yielding
benefits to Optoro, including
·
Increased
alignment on company goals
·
Improved ease of
communication between teams and with Senior Management
·
Consistency across external messaging
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 17, 2019; 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT
Host: IIBA Analytics Special Interest Group @IIBA
Cost: Free
We’re Working on That?! -
How Project Selection is Broken, and How We Can Fix It
Presented by Vincent Mirabelli, Principal at Global
Strategy Synergy Group
Many businesses struggle when it comes to establishing a
standardized approach to project management. And nowhere is this more evident
than in the process and approach of project selection and prioritization. We
build layers of complexity and governance to select what our organizations will
work on this year, next year, and beyond, and yet, we know there exists a dirty
little secret about this process...it doesn’t matter. Projects are often
selected based on political reasons; whose pet project it is, what the HIPPO
wants, who holds “sway”, etc. This has the profound impact of generating
project waste, through investing time and money on things that simply don’t
matter, and on the flipside, missing out on opportunities offered by roads
untaken. Often, these projects are misaligned to the needs of the business, the
customer, and the staff. No wonder we’re all so frustrated!
In this presentation, we will go backward to find our way forward. Through leveraging a project prioritization tool borrowed from the Lean Six Sigma methodology, we’ll engage in a discussion on the current prioritization process, how incredibly painful it is, and a simple, but effective, alternative to our current project prioritization approach; one that supports and ensures alignment to objectives of the enterprise, supports the needs of the business, and improves the value given to customers. We will give you the power to focus on ensuring your organization is doing the right work, at the right time, in the right priority.
In this presentation, we will go backward to find our way forward. Through leveraging a project prioritization tool borrowed from the Lean Six Sigma methodology, we’ll engage in a discussion on the current prioritization process, how incredibly painful it is, and a simple, but effective, alternative to our current project prioritization approach; one that supports and ensures alignment to objectives of the enterprise, supports the needs of the business, and improves the value given to customers. We will give you the power to focus on ensuring your organization is doing the right work, at the right time, in the right priority.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 18, 2019; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times
@BATimes
Cost: Free
IIBA® Certification
Screen-side Chat
Presented by Bill Phillips, CBAP, Director of Agile
Certification at Bluegrass IIBA Chapter
This is a free online chat session for our primary
community 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, April 19, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free
Presented by Ross
Little, Executive Managing Partner at IAG Consulting
In this two-hour
webinar participants will learn the essential concepts of data modeling
required of today's Business Analyst and Project Manager. Effective
requirements definition requires a fundamental understanding of data modeling.
This webinar lays a foundation of the essential aspects of defining the data
model and requirements for a project. IAG, the developer of this program,
believes very strongly in this key Business Analysis competency. Every Project
Manager and BA involved in requirements definition and modeling needs to know
these critical concepts. Without a solid basis of data modeling skills, there
is a significant risk that quality and value of use-case, business requirement,
and business rule documentation will be significantly compromised. This 2 hour
webinar is a perfect course that will give most PMs and BA's everything they
need to mitigate this risk and be successful in their roles.
For someone
involved or responsible for the business requirements, business architecture or
business analysis on a software development project, there are large number of
questions to be answered.
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Do I need to be an expert in data modeling? (No, by the way)
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How detailed do I need to define the data,
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Why do I need a data model - especially if we're working on an
existing system?
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Do I need to produce a logical data model?
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Do I need to know normalization theory (I hope not)?
·
What do we do about data if we're 'Agile'?
·
What about modeling or data definitions for a Business
Intelligence project?
·
When and how do I gather data requirements with the SME's?
What's the best way?
Learning
Objectives:
·
Understand the key concepts of conceptual and logical data
modeling
·
Learn the steps to building a data model
·
Write clear and concise and consistent data definitions
·
Apply acceptable modeling principles
·
Use/apply consistent naming standards
Audience: Public
Date/Time:
Wednesday, April 24, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG
Consulting @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
The Future of Work: It’s Closer Than You Think!
Presented by:
Christine Dykeman
This webinar anticipates the future of work and explores emerging trends and how we will need to collaborate to survive.
Audience: Public
Date/Tim:
Wednesday, April 24, 2019; 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics
& Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
SAFe 401: Dealing with Real
World Problems in Scaled Agile
Presented by Emily Harshman, ASPE Training
Is your organization implementing the SAFe framework and
running into issues with your teams? Is your culture trying to adjust to
PI planning and resource planning? Have you thought about how parts of
SAFe could fit with your organizations current setup? Join us on April
24th, 2019 to talk through real world examples and problems with Agile and
implementing the SAFe Framework.
·
SAFe Best Practices
·
SAFe and IT Management
·
SAFe and Resource Capacity
·
SAFe in Practice
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Delivering Value in the
Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Renaissance of Business Analysis
Presented by Emily Tom, CBAP, President at
Ottawa-Outaouais IIBA Chapter
We are in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,
with accelerated technology impacting all parts of society. We see exciting
trends such as AI, robotics, cyber, and the merging of the digital and
physical. As BAs, how can we understand this revolution through a BA lens so
that we can optimize the value that we provide?
Join Emily as she presents examples of challenges, techniques and accomplishments of the Italian Renaissance to draw parallels with today. Did you realize that famous achievers from the 1400's -1600's, such as Christopher Columbus, Galileo Galilei, and the Medici family, practiced business analysis? All of these people had a mindset to accomplish great things.
Attendees will learn ideas on how they too can develop an expanded BA mindset to succeed in the new revolution.
Join Emily as she presents examples of challenges, techniques and accomplishments of the Italian Renaissance to draw parallels with today. Did you realize that famous achievers from the 1400's -1600's, such as Christopher Columbus, Galileo Galilei, and the Medici family, practiced business analysis? All of these people had a mindset to accomplish great things.
Attendees will learn ideas on how they too can develop an expanded BA mindset to succeed in the new revolution.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Thursday, April 25, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Design Thinking for Business
Analysts
Presented by Steve Blais, Author, Consultant, Teacher
and Coach
Rather than waiting around for someone in the business to
give you a problem to solve, wouldn't you rather go out and solve a problem
before it has even been defined or acknowledged in the business?
The discipline of business analysis is in the forefront of innovation. Business analysis is behind all process improvement in the organization. Since the overall goal of business analysis is to add value to the organization how can you create and define innovative new solutions to existing business problems or come up with innovative ways of improving the business processes of the organization?
Design thinking is a way of approaching problems, products and processes in a way that generates innovative thinking and produces innovative solutions. This webinar takes you through the basics of design thinking and introduces techniques and practices you can start using right away to improve your ability to innovate and solve problems for the organization as well as for yourself Including techniques such as:
·
Value maps, customer maps, and hero maps
·
Improvisation and storytelling
·
Keeping a customer-centric focus
·
Personas and prototyping
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 25, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst
@ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Agile Analysis Huddle
Presented by Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, Vice
President, Professional Development at Bluegrass IIBA Chapter
"The Planning Horizons"
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.
In this session we will discuss the three (3) planning
horizons in the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide v2. What are these
three planning horizons? What do they mean to the organization? What do they
mean to the agile/scrum team? Come find answer to these questions and
more.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, April 26, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free
Making Meetings Matter:
Leading High-Impact Meetings
Presented by Eileen Twichell, Trainer and Consultant
at Corporate Education Group
Most employees cite meetings as a major time-waster. Experts
tell us that many professionals waste up to 30% of their time in ineffective
meetings. There is a way to eliminate the waste and design and conduct an
effective meeting, and that includes knowing when and when not to have meetings
and who should participate. In this webinar, you'll learn how planning and
preparation are key to conducting effective, high-impact meetings that all
participants find worthwhile.
Learning
Objectives:
·
Increase meeting success through planning and preparation.
·
Avoid common pitfalls and problems.
·
Learn techniques and phrases to handle difficult meeting
situations.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Registration: Corp Education Group Webinar
Registration
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