Monday, July 26, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2021 - Part IV

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Humans aren't resources; Change my mind

Presented by Coaching Agile Journeys

 

CAJ 064-Chris Stone-Humans aren't resources; Change my mind

Description and bio coming soon...

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, July 26, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Coaching Agile Journeys      @CoachingAgileJo

Cost: Free

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The Role of Data in Business Analysis

Presented by Yulia Kosarenko, Principal Consultant, Why Change Consulting

 

A business analysis professional is responsible for understanding the business, the context of the business problem, and the processes that drive the organization. But analysis may not include a review of the data. By exploring business data, new information can be discovered to build understanding of the business behavior and performance.

 

How can data analysis be useful in your business analysis activities? What are possible sources for data exploration? Join us and find out!

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 28, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis      @IIBA

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 29, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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From Project to Product: “Big Rock” Constraints and How to Overcome Them

Presented by Ann Steiner, Vice President of Product and Technology, Cprime

 

Project-based thinking and process is often the largest inhibitor of achieving agility. It explains why the notion of ‘Project to Product' has gained such popularity to the point of becoming a buzzword in recent years.

Despite the enthusiasm about becoming a product-driven organization, many companies still hang onto their old project-based ways due to some “big rock” constraints, including funding and separation of IT and business.

So, what can you do to make a successful shift?

Join Anne Steiner, Cprime’s VP of Product & Technology, to explore the challenges you may face in your 
product agility journey and how to overcome them. We’ll explore:

    Common constraints you may encounter when shifting from project to product and how to address them

    How to shift to product-based funding models

    The role of the product manager

    Benefits you’ll experience with true product agility

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 29, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime      @Cprimeinc

Cost: Free

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The Business Analyst and Strategic Thinking

Presented by Steve Blais, PMP, PBA, Author | Consultant | Coach

 

All projects are tactical. And as a result, project managers are trained as tacticians, tactical thinkers. However, all projects start as part of an overall strategy for the organization; each project is a step toward achieving one of the organization’s strategic goals. Successful projects never lose the strategic vision of which the project is a part. Recommendations, decisions, actions taken all have to have some sense in light of the strategic impact of those decisions or actions.

And who is going to provide that strategic oversight to the tactical project?

The business analyst is in the best role to apply that strategic thinking to a project to make sure the results of the project contribute to the strategic goals of the organization and those results do not have a negative organizational impact in the future.

This webinar discusses the things a business analyst can do to become more aligned to thinking strategically and applying that strategic thinking to the projects the business analyst is involved with, as well as to everything else the business analyst does in life.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 29, 2021; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst      @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Friday, July 16, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2021 - Part III

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How to Align your Investments with Future Strategic Outcomes Using Participatory Budgeting

Presented by Deema Dajani, Scaled Agile, and John Kosco, Cprime

 

Participatory Budgeting is the Lean Portfolio Management process of allocating the total portfolio budgets to its value streams. It offers Portfolio stakeholders the ability to gain cross-functional participation in portfolio budgeting decisioning while allowing organizations to optimize their investment dollars.

The results are higher quality investments, greater organization buy-in, better ownership of outcomes, improved morale, and better responsiveness to market demands.

Join Deema Dajani, SPCT Advisor and Scaled Agile Product Manager (Scaled Agile, Inc.) and John Kosco, Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach (Cprime), for a valuable 30 minute demo of Participatory Budgeting focusing on:

    Gaining alignment and commitment from key portfolio stakeholders

    lncreasing responsiveness, visibility and understanding future strategic investments

    Increasing effective use of investment dollars aligned to outcomes

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 20, 2021; 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm EDT

Host: Cprime      @Cprimeinc

Cost: Free

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Agile Metrics Survey 2021 — How Do You Compare?

Presented by Stefan Wolpers and Dr. Alex Bergmann

 

In 2020 and 2021, more than 1,153 participants from over 20 countries and organizations from less than 50 to more than 10,000 employees participated in a hands-on survey on agile metrics launched by Berlin-Product-People. The goal of this survey was to learn about who is using what agile metrics in which context to get a better understanding of how becoming agile is progressing at a team level or within an organization?

 

Join Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers and Dr. Alex Bergmann, Statistician to learn what they discovered!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 22, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    IIBA certification requirements

    IIBA certification process

    Tips for the examination

    Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 22, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Implement OKRs for Breakthrough Performance

Presented by Dan Weikart, Cprime, and Evan Campbell, Gtmhub

 

Numerous recent studies illustrate the woeful state of employee engagement, motivation and alignment in corporations across the globe. Engagement, Motivation and Alignment translate directly to measures of productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. Even employees with the best intentions are ineffective at best, destructive at worst if they’re working on the wrong things instead of producing outcomes that advance corporate strategy.

Successful strategy doesn’t come from defining a great strategy, it comes from deploying and executing a great strategy. Strategy deployment and execution must overcome the powerful force of entropy that produces strategy decay. Strategy decay causes the best strategy to become misunderstood and mis-implemented by your workers.

Join Dan and Evan as they illustrate powerful patterns and practices for maximizing alignment through OKRs, and will share the proven methods for maximizing knowledge-worker motivation and engagement, and share some simple models that demonstrate MASSIVE HARD FINANCIAL BENEFITS produced by mastering adaptive strategy through OKRs. 

 

3 Key Learning Objectives:

    Understand the linkage between employee alignment, motivation, and engagement

    Understand how the above three drive employee and organizational effectiveness

    Understand how OKRs combined with modern organizational leadership practices produce hard financial benefits and competitive advantage

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 22, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime      @Cprimeinc

Cost: Free

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5 Steps to Successful Negotiation

Presented by Susan Heidorn, CBAP, PMP, BRMP, CSM, AAC, ACA, Watermark Learning

 

Being able to negotiate well is critical for any project professional. You need to clarify what you hope to gain from negotiating, as well as understand the other side’s objectives to reach a mutually beneficial result. This webinar provides a quick overview of negotiation, the key components in a negotiation, and the 5 steps that will lead you to successful negotiation.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, July 23, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning      @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2021

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Punit Doshi - Answering Your Burning Questions about Scrum

Presented by Punit Doshi, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to implement. 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 Punit Doshi answers your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges your teams are facing.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 8, 2021; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar  

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    IIBA certification requirements

    IIBA certification process

    Tips for the examination

    Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    Q&A on IIBA Certifications

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 8, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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How Agile Analysis Drives Business Transformation | Fireside Chat with IIBA and Agile Alliance

Presented by Tim Coventry, Ellen Grove, Jas Phul and Keith Ellis

 

Guests Ellen Grove, Interim Managing Director, Agile Alliance, and Tim Coventry, CEO of Business Analysts Pty Ltd (BAPL), will join Jas Phul, Director IP/Product Development, IIBA to discuss business analysis and agile moderated by Keith Ellis, Chief Engagement & Growth Officer, IIBA. The pandemic reshaped how organizations work, rapidly adopting agile practices and creating opportunities for agilists and business analysis professionals to maximize business value together. Recognizing there are several important roles played in good agile, how can we better understand business objectives to improve our learnings? Ellen, Tim, and Jas will discuss how to better understand business problems you are trying to solve and how to improve capacity to learn and adapt to deliver good outcomes.  

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Thursday, July 8, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis      @IIBA

Cost: Free

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How Agile Analysis Drives Business Transformation | Fireside Chat with IIBA and Agile Alliance

Presented by Tim Coventry, Ellen Grove, Jas Phul and Keith Ellis

 

Guests Ellen Grove, Interim Managing Director, Agile Alliance, and Tim Coventry, CEO of Business Analysts Pty Ltd (BAPL), will join Jas Phul, Director IP/Product Development, IIBA to discuss business analysis and agile moderated by Keith Ellis, Chief Engagement & Growth Officer, IIBA. The pandemic reshaped how organizations work, rapidly adopting agile practices and creating opportunities for agilists and business analysis professionals to maximize business value together. Recognizing there are several important roles played in good agile, how can we better understand business objectives to improve our learnings? Ellen, Tim, and Jas will discuss how to better understand business problems you are trying to solve and how to improve capacity to learn and adapt to deliver good outcomes.  

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Thursday, July 8, 2021; 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis      @IIBA

Cost: Free

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