Friday, October 16, 2020

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2020 - Part II

Cybersecurity: How Social Engineers are Pulling our Strings

Presented by Erich Kron, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4

 

In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month #BeCyberSmart, Security Awareness Advocate Erich Kron, along with IIBA® are working together to help raise awareness within the community about cybersecurity. Join us as we discuss a growing cybersecurity trend that can affect us both professionally and personally - Social Engineering.

Social Engineering methods and the cybercriminals behind these attacks are furiously innovating, doing their best to keep IT professionals and businesses off-guard. This session will explain social engineering and will look at the things social engineers use to trick users into performing actions that lead to security breaches. It will cover ways to identify and counteract these attacks and discuss recent real-world attacks and the social engineering tricks that made them effective.  

 

Webinar topics include:

- The Perception vs. Reality Dilemma

- Focus redirection

- Psychology behind the attacks

- Identifying and developing defensive practices

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 21, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Agile for the Business Analyst

Presented by Terrell Smith, Senior Consultant and Trainer, Cprime

 

Traditional system-development methodologies are rapidly being replaced by more iterative or agile approaches. More and more organizations are realizing the benefits of faster product deployment at a lower cost, with less rework due to missed requirements. Effective business analysis is key to developing those requirements and keeping projects on track. Come along as Terrell explores the contributions of good requirements development in an Agile environment and equips business analysts with the critical thinking, analytical skills, and necessary people skills they need to add value to every Agile project.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 21, 2020; 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Jeff Bubolz - Answering your Toughest Scrum and Product-Focused Questions

Presented by Jeff Bubolz, 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, Professional Scrum Trainer Jeff Bubolz will answer your questions about Scrum, including those burning product focused questions you have. How many backlogs should your department or organization have? What's the ideal number? Is one Product Backlog in Scrum really possible? He can answer questions about defining your "product" so you can define your Product Backlog. Join Jeff for an interactive session on how to rationalize your demand.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Unlocking Your Business Analysis Potential

Presented by Eno Eka, CBAP, Business Analyst, Change Agent, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 

Join us for a deep dive into understanding how your business analysis competencies are key requirements for a successful business analysis career.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Accelerating Positive Culture and Engagement with Distributed Teams

Presented by Eric Naiburg, Danny Presten and Derek Holt

 

Written in 2001 the Agile Manifesto states that in-person interactions are the most effective way to facilitate communication. As technologies and connectivity have evolved, so has the ability for teams to work in different ways. Successful organizations are embracing these new ways of working and reaping tremendous benefits as a result.

Since 2001 it’s become more and more common for team members to be geographically dispersed to the extent that throughout 2020 most teams have been working remote. We have found that not all remote teams perform at the same level, in addition it’s clear there are teams that are working even better remote while others are struggling to cope. With the recent pandemic, it has forced a new way of thinking and working making it critical that agile teams not only survive but thrive during this workplace transition.

Check out this webinar to learn about the practices, tools, and values that have allowed many agile teams to thrive while working remotely and the steps that your organization can take if you have teams or individuals who are struggling. We’ll discuss:


• What great can look like
• Signs that a team or team member may be struggling
• The role tools play in helping organizations navigate and stay productive
• Steps your organization can take to boost engagement and build positive culture

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 29, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Sunday, October 4, 2020

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2020

IIBA Certification Chat

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; October 2, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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From Analyst to Threat Hunter: How to Build the Skills for Tomorrow’s Hottest Cyber Jobs

Presented by Buffy Ellis and Julian Smith

 

Whether you’re a current cyber pro looking to specialize, or new to the industry and looking for direction, Focal Point Academy’s lead cyber workforce expert can give you the insight needed to fast-track a career into today’s most in-demand cyber jobs, like Threat Hunting and Reverse Engineering. We’ll profile the top job roles for the next few years, break down the knowledge, skills, and abilities required in each, and show you how to build a training plan that gets you the job you want. And best of all, we’ll end with a special offer designed to help jump start the process for you and your team.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• How to build the foundational skills for today’s cyber jobs
• How to prepare for the top cyber specialties of tomorrow
• How to go from a foundational skillset to a specialized skillset
• How top cybersecurity organization are developing their employees
• How you can get started with Global Knowledge and Focal Point Academy

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 6, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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Techniques for Advanced Scrum Mastery - moving from specific practices to working with principles

Presented by Lachlan Heasman, PST and Eric Naiburg

 

The role of the Scrum Master is a complex one. You are serving, coaching, facilitating and teaching the team all while helping to remove impediments and changing the organization.  In today's landscape it has become even more complex having to deal with people working remotely, added distractions and an overall unstable situation.  In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Lachlan Heasman and Eric Naiburg will take attendees through some of the practices from the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master II class that Scrum Masters can use to better serve their Scrum Team(s) focusing on the different stances that a Scrum Master may take on.  Some of the topics covered include:

  What Scrum Mastery may have looked like pre-Covid

  The current situation

  What principles can Scrum Masters start to enact

  What do leaders do? How does this work as a servant leader?

  How can we do this when we aren’t face-to-face

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 6, 2020; 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Agile Values and The Illusion of Control

Presented by Jeremiah Hopkins, Agile Coach, Consultant, Speaker

 

A look at how the adoption of Agile values helps us work more organically and develop effective systems, especially when situations are complex or even chaotic. Based on research findings as well as real world observations and experience.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Cybersecurity Awareness Fundamentals

Presented by Hesham Mahmoud

 

Join us as expert Hesham Mahmoud discusses the importance of cybersecurity, how to secure your IT infrastructure and detect the latest vulnerabilities.

Furthermore, this free webinar will cover the latest cybersecurity trends, you will receive information how to react to data breaches and Hesham will explain what the various types of cybersecurity threats you could encounter.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 8, 2020; 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT

Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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4 Dimensions and 12 Aspects of Business Agility – A Structured Approach To Help Teams Succeed

Presented by Steve Tallent, Ravi Verma and Nagesh Sharma

 

Agility is a buzz word that can be interpreted to mean different things to different people. In this session, we will explore some of these questions together:

 

  How might we create alignment and clarity around what agility means to our business?

  How might we start quantifying and measuring it?

  What approach might guide our enablement?

  Where do we get started?

  How do we measure, learn and course correct as we go along?

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 8, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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BA Open Mic Night

Presented by Adrian Reed, Blackmetric Business Solutions

 Join us for the Business Analysis Open Mic Night — an immersive, informal and interactive chance to discuss all things BA related (and many other things besides!).

This is not your usual webinar. In this session, webcams and microphones will be switched on, and you’ll have the opportunity to ‘grab the mic’ and speak for up to 3 minutes on a topic of your choice. Each 3-minute slot will be followed by a chance for anyone present to discuss and debate the topic in more detail. So if you have a hot topic you’d like to discuss, why not join us?

This session will be facilitated (or should that be ‘compered’) by Adrian Reed.

Feel free to attend to listen, to participate or to speak — the choice is yours. You don’t need to be a BA to attend–absolutely anyone with an interest in business analysis, change or any related discipline is welcome.

Since this is an interactive and informal ‘live’ event it won’t be recorded. Miss it, miss out 

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 13, 2020; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT

Host: Blackmetric Business Solutions

Cost: Free

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Why Business Analysts Wear Capes

Presented by Adrielle Houweling and Lavanya Reddy

 

For the longest time, Business Analysis practitioners have been known to be superheroes, often the ones to save the day (or project!). So, it comes as no surprise that as the entire world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, Business Analysis professionals across the globe, have joined the other superheroes in fighting this global pandemic; with each of them taking on different roles and tasks in various industries, quickly switching between waterfall and agile approaches, tools & techniques and of course, leveraging the skill they know best – Business Analysis.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 15, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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