Business Analysis Webinars for May 2020 - Part II

Preparing for Digital Transformation

Presented by Steve Blais

Organizations today must keep pace with changing technology to stay abreast of the market demand. Keeping pace means a transformation of the entire organization into the digital age.

This webinar presents the challenges, benefits, and pitfalls of digital transformation and how it will affect you, and how you can be better prepared and positioned for the upcoming digital transformation.

After this one-hour session, you will be able to answer the following questions:

• What is the digital transformation?

• Why is the digital transformation different than what we have been doing with automation?

• Are there examples of successful digital transformations in organizations?

• How does the digital transformation in my organization impact my position, and what can I do about it?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, May 18, 2020; 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT

Host: International Institute for Learning    @IIL

Cost: Free

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Virtual Lean Coffee 008

Presented by Coaching Agile Journeys

Join us for our virtual lean coffee. We will be dynamically creating our agenda from agile topics and discussing as time allows.  If possible, please join the discussion with your video turned on.

You can learn about Virtual Lean Coffee in this post from Mark Kilby

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, May 18, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDt

Host: Coaching Agile Journeys    @CoachingAgileJo

Cost: Free

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Preparing for Digital Transformation

Presented by Steve Blais

Organizations today must keep pace with changing technology to stay abreast of the market demand. Keeping pace means a transformation of the entire organization into the digital age.

This webinar presents the challenges, benefits, and pitfalls of digital transformation and how it will affect you, and how you can be better prepared and positioned for the upcoming digital transformation.

After this one-hour session, you will be able to answer the following questions:

• What is the digital transformation?

• Why is the digital transformation different than what we have been doing with automation?

• Are there examples of successful digital transformations in organizations?

• How does the digital transformation in my organization impact my position, and what can I do about it?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, May 18, 2020; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT

Host: International Institute for Learning    @IIL

Cost: Free

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Ask Anything About The Scrum Master Role, An Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer Webinar

Presented by Stephanie Ockerman, 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. This particular episode will focus on the Scrum Master.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Stephanie Ockerman will be available to answer questions related to the role of the Scrum Master. She can provide insight on practices and techniques useful to Scrum Masters and Scrum Team Members alike. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity! 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 19, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Organizational Culture and Project Delivery

Presented by Deborah Herting

This webinar provides insight to a project manager’s ability to influence and lead within different organizational maturity contexts.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 19 2020; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Why IIBA Questions Live Discussions?

Presented by Adaptive US

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.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 19, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Exploring Enterprise Analysis

Presented by Vincent Mirabelli, PMP, CBAP, CCXP

There aren’t enough BAs moving into leadership positions in organizations. We’re not talking about leadership in a “subject matter expert” or “leader of BA practice” perspective, or even the idea of “leading without authority”, we’re talking about operational, decision making leadership roles, which impact the direction and success of an organization. That’s a huge miss, because for our money, business analysts are the best at in-taking information, synthesizing it into something meaningful, and acting on it. Which is exactly how an organization’s leadership should be making decisions. Ergo, more BAs need to make the move into leadership. But how? What are the gaps, and how can you close them? We’ll answer these questions, and more, during this must attend webinar.

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 20, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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2020 Leadership Series | The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - Module 2

Presented by Emily Midgley, CBAP, President at Cleveland IIBA Chapter

Want to effectively facilitate change in your organization? Looking to enhance your leadership skills? Organizations require strong leadership and as Business Analysis professionals we can facilitate the changes and lead our organizations through them! In this six-part series, using The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell as a “game book”, the goal of the presenters, five Business Analysis practitioners, will be to motivate existing leaders and inspire a new generation of Leaders!

MODULE 2: Building a Team with Trust and Respect

• The Law of Addition

• The Law of Solid Ground

• The Law of Respect

• The Law of Intuition

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 26, 2020; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Coaching Agreements with Scrum

Presented by Dave West and Maaike Klasen

From the previous webinar in January 2020, ‘Answering those hard questions about coaching in Scrum’, we received powerful questions and feedback from to continue the dialogue on Scrum and coaching. In this follow up webinar, we will bring these questions back to the discussion table. In the first webinar we touched on the International Coach Federation's (ICF’s) definition of coaching, coaching competencies and code of ethics. In part two, Dave West and Maaike Klasen will take you along further unpacking the topic: working with the ICF coaching agreement in Scrum and explore:

• Transparency & Confidentiality
• Psychological Safety as a basis for (high) performance
• Role taking in coaching and in Scrum
• The Scrum Master establishes the coaching agreement

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 27, 2020; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for May 2020

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Richard Larson, CBAP, PMP, Consultant 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, CBAP, or IIBA-AAC application to the exams to re-certification.  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday; May 1, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Fundamentals

Presented by George Bridges, PMP, Director of Business Analysis at International Institute for Learning

This webinar will provide an introduction and overview of business analysis and the role of the business analyst. What is a Business Analyst? What do they do? How do they fit into the development of a project environment? The content is designed to help those who are seeking to:

• Learn more about what a Business Analyst does

• Transition into the role of a Business Analyst

• Support Business Analysis from a management perspective

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, May 4, 2020; 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT

Host: International Institute for Learning    @IIL

Cost: Free

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 Culture-Shaping: An Agile Leadership Imperative

Presented by Bob Galen, Agile Practitioner, Trainer & Coach based in Cary, NC

It’s largely a chicken & egg problem. Where does organizational culture come from? Does it grow organically from the bottom-up? Is it tied to organizational structure? Is it strongly tied to the culture that leaders are setting?

While it comes from all of the above and more, Bob Galen asserts (and has observed in his coaching) that leaders play the most important role in culture-setting. But he doesn’t believe they really understand that responsibility, what it entails, and tactics for actively setting the culture. Thus, this workshop.

We’ll start by exploring the dynamics of leadership culture setting by going through a simple assessment exercise to determine your individual culture-setting maturity level. Next, we’ll focus on sharing a set of heuristics (thinking models) that describe effective culture-setting practices. Bob refers to them as your Walking Your Agile Leadership Talk (WYALT) heuristics. And we’ll drill down into the positive leadership behaviors that amplify each heuristic.

We’ll wrap up the talk by giving everyone an individual chance to create a personal WYALT improvement plan to close any gaps you found in your personal assessments. But no judgment, we’re all on a journey, right?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, May 4, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Coaching Agile Journeys    @CoachingAgileJo

Cost:  Free

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Supercharge Your Career Through a Powerful Personal Brand

Presented by Hector Del Castillo

This webinar is aimed at product leaders who want to build a personal brand that supercharges their career.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 5, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Why IIBA Questions Live Discussions?

Presented by Adaptive US

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.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 5, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Facilitating Virtual Scrum Events – Tips and Tricks for the New Normal

Presented by Mike Stuedemann, CSM, CSPO, Watermark Learning

We are in a new world. A global pandemic has forced an immediate change in our world of work. While Teams practicing Agile frameworks, like Scrum, are naturally predisposed to deal with change – interruptions, new competitors, shifts in priorities, shifts in markets, etc., they are not completely immune from the adjustments necessary to thrive in this new reality. In this session, we will review the adjustments that each Scrum Team must make as they work in a virtual world. Walking through the framework, we will explore the changes that need to be made in order to conduct a successful virtual Sprint including “tips and tricks” for conducting Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. Participants will leave with the ability to experiment with these techniques as they work in the new virtual world.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 6, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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The Turing Test: How Artificial Intelligence is Measured

Presented by Michael Dobson

What is intelligence? Can a machine have it? How could you tell? In this webinar we will learn about the very latest concepts in AI measurement.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 7, 2020; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT

Host: The Great Pro

Cost: Free

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3 Steps for Influencing Without Authority

Presented by Elizabeth Larson, PMP, CBAP, CSM, Consultant at Watermark Learning

In order to help organizations manage the rapid changes inevitable in today’s business environment, business analysts have to influence other stakeholders, regardless of their position in the organization. What makes this ability to influence without authority seem so easy for some and nearly impossible for others? Some follow the three steps which comprise the Influencing Formula. In this presentation, you will be shown how the Influencing Formula works and the three steps required to effectively influence without authority.

Specifically, this presentation describes:

• The distinction between influence, persuasion, and manipulation

• The relationship between authority and power

• What the Influencing Formula is and why it is needed to effectively influence

• Tips for building and maintaining trust

• How to be the trusted advisor to sponsors other stakeholders to help them manage change

• The role of courage in effective influencing.

At the end of this session, you will be able to…

• Describe why it is vital to influence stakeholders.

• Discuss what it really means to influence without authority.

• Describe the ingredients necessary to effectively influence without authority.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 7, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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The Business Analyst and Digital Transformations

Presented by Steve Blais

We business analysts are familiar with automation. We’ve been recommending changes in business to further automate manual procedures and to improve the current automated processes. However we are in the throes of a total disruption in which the mere automation of processes is no longer enough. We are looking at fully automated stores, “smart” branch banking, our life at our fingertips in the form of cell phones, and more and more digitization of everything we do. Does this change the role of the business analyst? The question is, will the business analyst continue to react to changes as they are occurring and spend their time defining software requirements and user stories or will the business analyst be at the forefront of the entire transformation process in the organization? This webinar provides a look at the disruption of digital transformation to business and to the job of the business analyst, and what the business analyst can do about it.

Topics:

• Automation versus Transformation

• Digital disruption • An eye toward innovation

• Maintain our business analysis edge  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 7, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Data Science In Project Management – Science Fiction Or Reality? Don’t Delay Your Business Future, When You Can Benefit Now!

Presented by Fred Radnoti, Co-founders of SAR Associates Inc.

Advanced analytics and business intelligence are poised to improve cost performance for project driven companies. Industries, such as Infrastructure, Technology and Finance, specifically in Project Management discipline, relied on traditional methods and tools and until recently were slow in adopting modern digital technology. In the past number of years, the Industry digitalized most of its Project Management information, generating volumes of data that are beyond capacity of people and regular information management tools. Audiit is on a mission to turn Project Management Data into an asset that revolutionizes and disrupts the industry pushing it to perform at the levels of technology driven companies. Employing Deep Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to Project Management Data makes it work harder for the Industry. To support the move from static to advanced dynamic business intelligence, companies need to leverage historical and real-time transactional data to provide insights and intelligence.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn about current and future business intelligence tools and methods.

• Learn to align daily Project Management activities with strategic company goals.

• Learn how advanced analytics in Project Management improves business performance and outcomes.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 7, 2020; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

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IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat

Presented by Alex Geller, CCBA; Helen Linda, CBAP; Kayla Robinson, CCBA; and Chary Scott, CBAP

This is a free online chat session with some of our CBAP® and CCBA® recipients. The CBAP and CCBA 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 and CCBA mentors.  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, May 8 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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