Business Analysis Webinars for February 2021 - Part III

BA Fringe: Celebrating Ideas at the Edges (S2E2): Digital transformation, BA Trends, Stakeholder engagement with mindfulness, and New Next

Panelists: Roger Burlton, Alastair Somerville, Kathy Berkidge, Christina Tan

 

Get ready for a brand new type of event. A one-hour, livestreamed event that discusses ideas on the fringes of business analysis. This includes new perspectives, new ideas, and concepts from disciplines that intersect with business analysis.

In this episode:

✔ Roger Burlton discusses Digital Transformation
✔ Alastair Somerville discusses New Next: breaking our anchor to a WEIRD past for divergent and vast futures
✔ Kathy Berkidge discusses the importance of mindfulness when engaging with tricky stakeholders
✔ Christina Tan explores some key BA trends

That’s the #BAFringe. It’s fun, experimental and authentically live. 

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 17, 2021; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST

Host: Blackmetric Business Solutions     @Blackmetric

Cost: Free

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How to Find the Real Need with Socratic Questioning

Presented by Kent McDonald, Author, Speaker, Mentor

 

A common piece of advice is that your team should discover the true need of your project. Unfortunately advice on how to make that happen isn’t as prevalent. In this session you’ll have a chance to practice a simple technique to get to the core of what your stakeholders need that has been around for over 2000 years – Socratic questioning. 

Join Kent McDonald as he walks you through a technique aimed at uncovering the (not intentionally) hidden need that your stakeholders are trying to satisfy, without asking “why?” five times in a row. Kent describes the questions, why they work and in what context they work based on his experience with IT organizations and the Agile Alliance.

Come learn about and practice this technique so you can use it back at the office to drive toward the right outcome.

Learning Outcomes:
    • Learn what socratic questioning is
    • Learn how to identify your stakeholders needs using socratic questioning
    • Determine when Socratic question is an appropriate technique to use

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 17, 2021; 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST

Host: Cincinnati and Bluegrass IIBA Chapters     @IIBACincy    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Understanding Agile Culture Globally

 Panelists: Padma Satyamurthy, Adam Mitchell, Marie-Christine Legault, Camila Rodrigues

 

It has been 20 years since the Agile Manifesto was initially crafted. Since then, organizations and people have been adopting agile mindsets and practices. Over the past 5 years, agile adoption, mindset, and practices has grown to all parts of the globe, creating new challenges stemming from different cultural norms and behaviors.

In this panel discussion, we aim to understand more about the mindset of different cultures around the world adopting agile, with the goal of showcasing best practices and techniques used to adapt agile within those differing cultures.

In the session you will gain insights into:

    • Ways to understand global cultures to support change management conversations

    • Techniques to push more outcome-focused adaption of agile

    • Understanding of techniques to adapt agile within different regions of the globe

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 18, 2021; 8:00 am – 9:00 am EST

Host: Cprime    @CprimeLearning

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 :)

Hope to see you there!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 18, 2021; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST

Host: Blackmetric Business Solutions    @Blackmetric

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]