Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Business Analysis Webinars for April 2020


Short Cycle-Time Projects
Presented by Carl Pritchard

In this webinar, we will help you identify the tools that are vital to the success of short-term projects with near-term goals.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 1 ,2020; 11:00 am – 11:15 am EDT
Host: The Great IT Pro
Cost: Free




Value Stream Mapping: What and Why
Presented by Alan Koch

Your organization’s success depends on your ability to deliver value to your customers. This is true whether your organization is for-profit, non-profit, educational, government, or any other type. With that in mind, a key question is this: How effectively do your organization’s processes deliver value?

Value Stream Mapping is a technique that is designed to give you the answer to that question. And more importantly, it gives your team the insights they need to tune, change, and automate the processes they use so they can deliver value in the most effective way. Instead of optimizing merely for cost (with the risk of negative impacts on our customers), we can seek the most efficient ways to delight our customers.

In this webinar, after clarifying what Value Stream Mapping is and how it differs from process mapping or process analysis, we will show how the Value Stream Mapping technique enables you to see your processes as more than just sequences of actions. We will see how to picture a process as a value-delivery mechanism, how to see waste as any negative impact on value delivery, and how to measure the efficiency of value delivery.

We will survey a variety of analyses that are done in Value Stream Mapping, the view of the process that they provide, and the insights they can provide to support true process improvement.

After this webinar, you will be able to:

·        Define Value Stream Mapping and contrast it to Process Mapping
·        Use your teams’ Value Stream Maps to truly improve your processes
·        Use results to improve customer satisfaction with your products and services

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 2, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPE_Training
Cost: Free




Digital Leadership – Best-in-class talent profiles for leading in the digital organization
Presented by Melissa Swift and Christoffer Ellehuus  

Organizations are projecting to spend more than $1 trillion globally on digital transformation in 2020 to change their business and products and refine the customer and employee experience. However, as many as 84% of those transformation projects fail. Lack of the right skills and capabilities of their people and leaders is a leading concern and reason why.

Organizations are looking for leaders with not only the right technical skills and understanding, but also with an adaptive and creative mindset; those with the ability to pivot and thrive amid unexpected change.

Korn Ferry has analyzed the traits, competencies and drivers of more than 511 best-in-class digital transformation leaders compared to a population of 4.5 million assessment data points to create a distinctive profile of the qualities needed for the digital age. 

Join this webcast to learn how you can transform your leaders with the skills and mindset needed to thrive in the digital age and realize your organization's growth objectives.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 2, 2020; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: Strategy Execution
Cost: Free




IIBA Certification
Presented by 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, CBAP, or IIBA-AAC application to the exams to re-certification.  
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday; April 3, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free




Intro to Microsoft Teams – Chat and Conversations
Presented by Andy Huneycutt

Learn how to effectively communicate in Teams. We’ll guide you through the different ways to chat with one or more teammates whether it's a private chat or an open conversation for the whole team. Learn how to manage conversations about work in channels as well as keeping the team informed with news and updates through announcements. Also, discover how to organize and search your communications. Finally, we'll discuss best practices to make everyone's Teams experience great!

We Will Cover:

·        Private chat for communicating 1-to1 or within a small group
·        Posts for open conversations for the whole team
·        Using the message formatter
·        Expressing yourself with emoji, GIFs, and memes
·        Making calls and scheduling meetings from chat/posts
·        Setting important and urgent messages
·        And More

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, April 6, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPE_Training
Cost: Free

  


Why IIBA Certifications Live Discussions?
Presented by Lora McCoy, CBAP and LN Mishra, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, AAC, Adaptive US, Inc.

IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. In this live training, Adaptive faculty will discuss different types of questions that come in IIBA exams, their answers and how to reach those answers.

This training is invaluable for all those who want to get IIBA certified.

The demand for BAs is all time high with US Department of Labor predicting 14% increase every year.

It's worth repeating that IIBA certified BAs earn significantly more, they progress faster in their career and win the Best jobs.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
·        IIBA certification requirements and process
·        IIBA exam model questions discussions (5 knowledge based + 5 scenario based)
·        Any other questions on IIBA certification exams or BABOK

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Adaptive US   @AdaptiveUS
Cost: Free




5 Tips for Uncovering Expectations
Presented by Elizabeth Larson, Consultant at Watermark Learning

Many stakeholders think once they’ve provided the vision of their solution, the project team should go away and give them what they’ve asked for. Yet they are often unhappy with the final product. This presentation provides tips and techniques for avoiding the trap of “Oh no! You gave me what I asked for.” Using scenarios and real-life examples, this presentation provides techniques for not only for defining the real need, but for asking the right questions to uncover expectations.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Palmetto IIBA Chapter
Cost: Free

 
  

Best Practices for Building Data Apps
Presented by Kevin McGinley, Field CTO at Snowflake

Whether you are building a startup or adding features to an existing data-intensive application, the underlying infrastructure and architecture is what will determine its scale, efficiency, and flexibility—and whether your app will gain user traction or not.

Snowflake provides builders and developers of data-intensive applications a platform to build solutions that meet the demands of today’s organizations and their customers

Join Kevin McGinley, Field CTO at Snowflake, for a live webinar and Q&A session, where he will cover key best practices for building data apps using Snowflake.

You will learn: 
·        Modern architecture for building apps that help break out of scalability, concurrency, and performance barriers 
·        Tips for keeping costs under control 
·        Key features that reduce DevOps overhead

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Host: Snowflake    @SnowflakeDB
Cost: Free




5 Tips for Uncovering Expectations
Presented by Elizabeth Larson, Consultant at Watermark Learning

Many stakeholders think once they’ve provided the vision of their solution, the project team should go away and give them what they’ve asked for. Yet they are often unhappy with the final product. This presentation provides tips and techniques for avoiding the trap of “Oh no! You gave me what I asked for.” Using scenarios and real-life examples, this presentation provides techniques for not only for defining the real need, but for asking the right questions to uncover expectations.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2020; 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Host: Palmetto IIBA Chapter
Cost: Free

 
 

Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Wim Heemskerk - Answering Your Questions about Scrum and Agile Leadership
Presented by Wim Heemskerk  

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 Wim Heemskerk will be available to answer any questions you may have live on this webinar. He is happy to answer any questions about challenges your Scrum team is facing, and has some deep expertise in facilitation and leadership in agile, specifically. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity!

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 8, 2020; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: Scrum.org
Cost: Free



  
Turning Data Into Dollars
Presented by Jay Arthur

Most companies will spend a fortune trying to increase sales, but few know how to analyze and reduce preventable costs. In this webinar you will learn how to use and manage data about defects, mistakes and errors to easily pinpoint and fix these problems.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 8, 2020; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT
Host The Great IT Pro
Cost: Free




Fixing YourScrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems
Presented by Ryan Ripley, Professional Scrum Trainer

Presentation will be from 12pm-1pm Eastern time. You must be a DC Agile member to receive access to the on-line event.

Broken Scrum practices limit your organization's ability to take full advantage of the agility Scrum should bring: The development team isn't cross-functional or self-organizing, the product owner doesn't get value for their investment, and stakeholders and customers are left wondering when something--anything--will get delivered. Learn how experienced Scrum masters balance the demands of these three levels of servant leadership, while removing organizational impediments and helping Scrum teams deliver real-world value. Discover how to visualize your work, resolve impediments, and empower your teams to self-organize and deliver using advanced coaching and facilitation techniques that honor and support the Scrum values and agile principles.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 8, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Derby City Agile
Cost: Free





BYOBA - (Bring Your Own BA!) Happy Hour Special!
Presented by Bob Prentiss (Bob the BA) and Amy Ruddell  

Join Bob and Amy for their first BYOBA (Bring your Own BA!) Happy Hour Special!
Bob will kick off the hour with a 15 minute presentation centered on maintaining calm and focus (both professionally and personally) in these uncertain times. We will then jump into a fully interactive experience: real time Q&A, Trivia, Prizes and - if you know Bob and Amy – a lot of singing! Bring your questions and your sense of humour (even a glass of wine!). Our goal is to have fun, share insight and experiences. Did we mention there will prizes? And wine? This will be the Happiest Happy Hour ever!
You are welcome to send your questions beforehand. They can be about the future of the Project/BA profession, your own career path, personal life etc. Mail to: aruddell@macgregorcom.com
We will try our best to answer all questions!

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 8, 2020; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times    @BATimes
Cost: Free