Monday, October 14, 2019

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2019 - Part II


How Much Should This Cost?
Presented by Ian Brown

In this webinar, you will learn analytical techniques for objectively analyzing the costs of software development proposals submitted by vendors.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 15, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration


  

Making Meetings Matter: Leading High-Impact Meetings
Presented by Eileen Twichell, Trainer and Consultant for 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, October 15, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free




Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Rich Visotcky- Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions
Presented by Rich Visotcky, PST

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it is difficult to master. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing. 

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Rich Visotcky will be available to answer any Scrum related questions you may have live on this webinar. He'll connect us with what Scrum says, or doesn't say, about each topic and help us explore the connections and experiments we can run to steer us towards healthier Scrum. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity! 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 16, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Scrum.org
Cost: Free




Why Business Analysts need to embrace Smart Management
Presented by Kuno Brodersen, Co-founder & CEO of QualiWare

To stay competitive, enterprises need to react rapidly to market dynamics. Decision-making and implementation of required transformations are made difficult by the complexity of business and the fact that most people, view change negatively. It is therefore crucial that you have the right tools for successful and proactive business transformations, and change management, to ensure that the entire enterprise is united, agile and strategically collaborating towards a shared set of goals.

During the webinar, Kuno Brodersen, Co-founder & CEO of QualiWare, will give you an introduction to QualiWare X – the complete Smart Architecture & Smart Management tool for Business Analysts and Enterprise Architects.
Among others, you will see how to:
·        Create Business Ecosystems, to help you assess your enterprise to the market and the environment it operates within.
·        Create Digital Twins, enabling you to monitor, manage, and optimize your enterprise, assets, and similar business processes.
·        Improve your Customer Management, and gain new insights and perspective into the entire enterprise and its operations by identifying new opportunities.
·        Produce and implement Strategic Models, to identify new strategies and reach your goals, business opportunities, critical capabilities, outline strategic milestones, analyze the impact of digital disruption, and asses cost, risk, and strategy alignment to increase value generation and reduce time-to-value.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 17, 2019; 9:30 am – 10:30 am EDT
Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free




Reconciling Product Owner (PO) and Business Analyst (BA) Roles  
Presented by Robin Goldsmith

This webinar evaluates how both the PO and the BA can participate to mutual advantage and thereby enhance Agile project success.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 17, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration
  



Value Stream and Process Flow Mapping  
Presented by Tom Cagley

This webinar will provide tips to develop Value Stream and Process Flow Maps and explore the differences.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 22, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free




Strategic Leaders Deliver Value; Learn the Secrets to Lead in a Digital World!  
Presented by Naomi Caietti

This webinar will reveal key leadership competencies and behaviors for tomorrow’s leaders and explores creative approaches to drive innovation and lead successfully.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 23, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration




Cracking The Code Of High-Performance Teamwork
Presented by Nick Fewings

In this webinar, Nick Fewings, CEO of Ngagementworks, will share hints and tips to help you and your team achieve even greater success.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 24, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration




What Makes a Mindful Leader? Are You One?
Presented by Colleen Cassel

Mindful leadership - the best kind of leadership to lead a team.  What it entails and what you need to know.   

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 29, 2019; 11:00 – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration


  

Agile Leadership Toolkit- Learning to Thrive with Self-Managing Teams
Presented by Peter Koning, PST

We live in uncertain times created by the move from the age of mass production to the digital age. Traditional management and leadership practices were developed to manage work, to build the process, and to provide the intelligence for work to be done. We are moving to a world where, by necessity, teams have to be empowered to respond to their environment. Agility is turning the world upside down. Agility is the future.
But how do you create this thriving environment for self-managing teams? How do you facilitate teams in such a way that they take real ownership? How do you create enough structure to prevent chaos but also avoid falling back into micromanagement? Is your role as a leader to sit on your hands and trust the autonomy of the teams?
This webinar will focus on the key areas in the new book, Agile Leadership Toolkit- Learning to Thrive with Self-Managing Teams. Peter Koning, Professional Scrum Trainer and author of the book, will provide practical, concrete tools and examples to give you the ability to create an environment in which your teams will thrive. Peter will also dive into the Agile Leadership Toolkit presented in the book. The agile leader has the following practical tasks:

1.      Co-create goals
2.      Facilitate ownership
3.      Learn faster
4.      Design healthy habits

Peter will touch on how successful agile leaders provide their teams with the support they need by successfully mastering each of these four tasks and how they can make better decisions based on the clear goal, create perseverance and energy with ownership, and respond quickly based on fast learning ability, all in an inspiring culture with healthy habits.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 30, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Scrum.org
Cost: Free



 
Making Teleworking and Virtual Teams Work
Presented by Vicki Wrona

Do you work from home? Manage virtual team members? Learn to adapt your skills to overcome common problems when depending on remote team members.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 30, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration
  

  

Modern Requirements Management: Embracing Yesterday’s Favorite Tool To Manage Tomorrow’s Development Complexities
Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

To keep up with the pack - never mind lead it - Agile teams need to handle the growing complexities of software development with structure, discipline, and governance. 
Perhaps it's time for Agile teams to reconsider an old friend - requirements management tools. 
Join us for a live webinar to discover how your organization can leverage requirements management tools to support your Agile environments more efficiently. 

What You'll Learn: 
·        The 3 culprits of change and why you're struggling to overcome them
·        3 requirements for improving your requirements definition and management process 
·        The new features and capabilities of requirements management tools 
·        5 rules for picking the best tool for your organization 
  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 30, 2019; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free




All Aboard! How to Engage and Win Over Stakeholders
Presented by Sam Chin

In this webinar, Sam will share his own process for creating engagement and getting stakeholder buy-in.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 31, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2019

Top 10 User Story Tips
Presented by Angela Wick, CBAP, PMP, Founder of BA-Squared and BA-Cube

Discover 10 tips to make your user stories great! Angela Wick will reveal common user story mistakes and offer strategies to avoid them. Teams are struggling to truly get to small increments that they can get learning and feedback on. We will cover the top 10 tips to make sure you and your team are on the right track with user stories. We will solve your team's pains with estimating, discovering, slicing and getting frequent feedback on feasible stories that delight users. Discover 10 tips to make your user stories great! Not only will we look at common mistakes and challenges in user stories, we will discover ways to correct and fix them. Come learn more about how to best deliver value when creating great user stories!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
·        Discover and see examples of the common mistakes teams make in user stories
·        Discover and see examples of how to fix the common mistakes made with user stories
Discover how high impact user stories can be the difference in many agile team pain points and challenges 

Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 1, 2019; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free




AI for Bas: Business Analysis Applied in the Context of AI Projects
Presented by Kevin Dewalt, Co-founjder and CEO at Prolego

While there is a lot of great information on what AI is and how it is being used, there is not a lot available to the business analyst community in the way of tools and techniques for BAs to use on AI projects. Learn about the similarities and differences of AI project delivery compared to traditional project delivery, from the perspective of the business analyst.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 2, 2019; 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT
Host: Palmetto IIBA Chapter    @PalmettoIIBA
Cost: Free




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

Getting IIBA certified can transform one’s business analyst career. Research has proven that certified business analysts earn 16% more on average. Listen from IIBA experts as how you should prepare for IIBA certifications. Transforming one’s BA career with IIBA® Certifications.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
·        Key success factors to succeed in the exam
·        Tips and tricks to crack IIBA certification exams on the first attempt
·        IIBA Application process
·        Strategy for managing time and attempting questions
·        Any other questions on IIBA certification exams

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 3, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Adaptive US   @AdaptiveUS
Cost: Free




Top Benefits of Moving to a Modern Requirements Management Tool
Presented by Aaron Perillat and Darcy Moss, Jama Software

Is your product development team encumbered by a legacy requirement management (RM) solution that is difficult to use, slow to adopt, and too bulky for your Agile development processes?
Join Jama Software’s Aaron Perillat, Principal Solutions Architect, and Darcy Moss, Product Marketing Manager, on Thursday, October 3 at 10 a.m. PT for our webinar, “Top Benefits of Moving to a Modern Requirements Management Tool.”

In this webinar, we'll cover:
·        The top reasons clients move away from legacy RM solutions
·        The key benefits of moving to a modern requirements management solution
·        Migration strategies to accelerate the switch with consideration for your data, processes, and people
·        Practical examples with positive business outcomes

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 3, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware
Cost: Free

  


IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Susan Heidorn, CBAP, PMP, CSM, BRMP, AAC, Director of Business Solutions 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, October 4, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free



How to Help Your Non-Software Colleagues Adopt Agile
Presented by With Gil Broza

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, October 7, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Coaching Agile Journeys    @CoachingAgileJo
Cost: Free




Building Microservices Architecture with Docker and Kubernetes
Presented by Christian Melendez, ASPE Training

Microservices have been here for a while now, and there are many ways how you can build a microservices architecture. With the increasing popularity of Docker and Kubernetes, things have changed, for sure. Many of the Kubernetes features fit very well for distributed applications, and especially microservices. For instance, features like service discovery, auto-recovery, or configuration management come built-in in Kubernetes. Although building microservices with Kubernetes makes a lot of sense, it's not an easy task, and there are a lot of concepts and considerations you need before you start this journey.
In this webinar, you'll learn how microservices have evolved in recent years, and why Kubernetes and Docker are a perfect fit for this architecture style. You'll learn what tools, projects, and frameworks are at your disposal to get started quickly. Then, I'll showcase how you can build a microservices architecture by deeply looking at an existing application. I'll show you what things would change, and how you can deploy a change in seconds. Don't expect me to have a lot of slides. Instead, you'll see me having fun coding and playing with Docker, Kubernetes ... and why not, the cloud.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, October 8, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPE_Training
Cost: Free




Communicating UP!
Presented by Carl Pritchard

In this webinar, Carl Pritchard tackles the nerves, the quick pace and the power of talking UP the management chain.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, October 9, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration



  
Digital Transformation in a Project-driven World
Presented by Ryan McManus, co-founder of techtonic.io

There is a disconnect between how project leaders develop strategy and the new rules of the digital revolution. The digital world is very changed from the one that gave birth to popular strategic concepts.

By default, leaders are often:

·        applying out-dated strategy models and thinking to the new world.
·        trying to squeeze the exponential competitive realities of the digital revolution into linear strategic planning and execution concepts.

Join Ryan McManus as he discusses the scope of the digital era that's impacting project work and how adaptive leadership can guide you and your teams to thrive in disruptive times.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 10, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Strategy Execution    @2080strategyex
Cost: Free
  



Data Analytics and Agile Project Management, Irreconcilable
Presented by Bert Brijs

In this webinar we explain the origins and reasons for the gap between data analytics for project management and scrum.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 10, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration


 

How BAs Can Use Technology to Implement a Continuous Improvement Plan
Presented by Erich Wehrmann, Solutions Consultant at Quick Base

What problems could you solve and what solutions would you build if you had a programmer at your disposal at all times? With Quick Base, you don't need one. Instead of going to IT, you can build an application for capturing, storing and managing data about your business systems – without learning how to code.
Quick Base is an award-winning cloud software platform for creating custom solutions to everyday business challenges. Quick Base is fast, customizable, and allows non-programmers to build solutions while still reaping the benefits of standardization, governance and security offered by commercial software products. The no-code platform empowers business analysts and other non-programmers to:
·        Build your own automated workflows and processes to increase team efficiencies
·        Connect whatever data sources you need with ease
·        Build reports and dashboards that track key metrics and information that's important to you
·        Build multiple prototypes to explore alternate solutions.
Putting continuous improvement tools in the hands of BAs allows all aspects of the business to constantly experiment, iterate and improve.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 10, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free


  

IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat
Presented by Cathy Krist, CBAP, VP of Professional Development at Cincinnati IIBA Chapter and Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, AAC, VP of Professional Development at Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

This is a free online chat session with one of our CBAP® recipients and one CBAP® recipient from Cincinnati IIBA Chapter. This is a co-hosted webinar with Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cincinnati IIBA Chapter. The CBAP mentors 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 mentors.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, October 11, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
          Cincinnati IIBA Chapter    @IIBACincy
Cost: Free