Friday, October 22, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2021 - Part IV

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CAJ 066-Jennifer Eolin-What’s the connection between data and storytelling and why is it important?

Presented by Jennifer Eolin

 

Have you ever had all the right data, but you were stilll unable to tell the right story, and why that story matters?

We all have that person in our lives who likes to join a movie in the middle. While we’re happy to have their company, the rest of the movie is mired with questions such as

    Who is that?

    Why are they doing that?

    How does that make sense?

We get frustrated and likely shut them down, hoping they just figure it out quietly on their own so we can enjoy the rest of the movie. What would you say if I told you that every time you present a static chart w/out context you are essentially starting a movie in the middle and expecting your audience to just “get it”?

This session will allow the audience to leave with a plan to immediately apply to the evolution and impact of their data reports. It will also dig into how contextual data engages audiences and naturally drives data-driven decisions without mandates or leading bias.

 

In short: Everything is a story and everybody is a storyteller.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, October 25, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Coaching Agile Journeys     @CoachingAgileJo

Cost: Free

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Dynamic Flow Within Teams: Understanding the Interacting Forces Bringing Teams Together and Tearing Them Apart

Presented by Jamison Manion

 

This webinar will introduce you to a dynamic theory of human temperaments called the Enneagram in which you’ll gain new insights into the patterns of flow that shape your life and the lives of everyone you work with.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 27, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Finding Your Place in a New, Digital World

Presented by Michael Milutis

 

In this webinar, we will address the bewilderment that many of you feel when faced with new, difficult to understand technology trends and will give you the mindset you need to flourish in this new world.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 27, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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How to Achieve 10X Growth in Your BA Career - Live Expert Discussion - US and Europe

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

Thousands of BAs Earn Significantly More with Us. Will You Be the Next? Attend the FREE IIBA Live Exam Prep Training with our expert faculty & Grab the LIGHTNING DEAL exclusively for webinar attendees! Offer will be announced at the end of the webinar!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 28, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2021 - Part III

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Expert Panel Discussion on the Autonomous Vehicle Revolution: Hype, Reality, and Impact

Panelists: Bob Lawhorn, Dr. Larry Dribin, Don Shafer

 

This expert panel discussion with Bob Lawhorn, Dr. Larry Dribin, and Don Shafer will explore the current autonomous vehicle revolution, and will seek to understand the opportunities, risks and impacts facing technology professionals as well as the economy at large.

 

There is no cost to attend this special interactive webcast but seating is limited, so please register while space is still available!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 19, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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WFH to RTO: the ABC's of Hybrid Work

Presented by Christa Kirby, VP, Talent Development, Corporate Education Group

 

The Big Quit. The Great Resignation. The take-this-job-and-shove-it economy. There are a lot of colorful names to describe the state of affairs in the workplace as many organizations contemplate – or implement – “return to office” guidelines. With the next-new-normal of hybrid work looming on the horizon, how are you reimagining the way teamwork might occur along the axes of time and place? Who is authoring the decisions about the parameters of flexible work, and how are you balancing individual and team needs and preferences with those of the organization? In this webinar, we’ll examine some often-overlooked aspects of hybrid work, exploring hidden power differentials and ways to balance key dynamics and decisions to create a fair and equitable environment.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 19, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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Slow, Small Projects - Miracles in Just 12 Years

Presented by Carl Pritchard

 

In this webinar, Carl Pritchard shares the power of working with perseverance over time, and he will put this in the context of his own 12-year journey of personal (and project) transformation.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 19, 2021; 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Enterprise Architecture Value Measurement - A Pragmatic Approach

Presented by Brian Cameron

 

This webinar describes a process for deriving EA value metrics that align with the value drivers that are particular to an organization: those that are important to both the core business as well as key stakeholders.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 20, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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A Low Code Approach: A framework for business analysis for low code platforms

Presented by Michael Grosky, Senior Director of Business Operations, Sympo, Inc.

 

Low code platforms, tools that use simple logic and drag-and-drop features to create business apps, are increasingly used in organizations as alternatives to lengthy development efforts. These platforms can lead to quick solutions that meet business needs, but they can also result in solutions that don't solve the problem. Business analysis can make all the difference on these projects. But because these platforms bring their own strengths, weaknesses, and constraints, business analysis professionals must understand how to focus their efforts to produce the best outcomes for their customers.

In this talk, Michael provides a 5-point framework that will help those new or experienced with low code platforms plan for and perform business analysis for any low code project.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 20, 2021; 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Problem Analysis

Presented by Sam Chin

 

This webinar will introduce the purpose of problem analysis in structuring and assessing business cases, as well as provide a standard method to conduct problem analysis in a universal project context.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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How to Achieve 10X Growth in Your BA Career - Live Expert Discussion - US and Europe

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

Thousands of BAs Earn Significantly More with Us. Will You Be the Next? Attend the FREE IIBA Live Exam Prep Training with our expert faculty & Grab the LIGHTNING DEAL exclusively for webinar attendees! Offer will be announced at the end of the webinar!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Minimum Detail Requirements – Maximum Requirement Detail

Presented by Dan Tasker, Author, Consultant, Business Analyst

 

This webinar answers the question, “How detailed should detailed requirements be?” The good news is that there should not be a lot of detailed requirement statements. The better news is that there are generic structures that can be utilized for recording requirement details – those structures supported by spreadsheets or extended requirements management tools.

This webinar will cover topics such as:
    • Capturing capability-specific NFR operational detail
    • The importance of detailed mock-ups for a UI or Report capability
    • Business-friendly Data Hierarchy Diagrams
    • Capturing requirement detail in structures rather than text
    • How to organize element-level detail within a meaningful business group

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021; 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst     @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Feedback: It's Not Mean, It's Clear

Presented by Traci Onkst, BACoE Director, Cincinnati Insurance Companies

 

Feedback is essential at every level of the enterprise, but most people cringe at the thought of giving negative feedback. We’re conditioned from childhood not to say anything if it isn’t “nice”. As a result, we miss the opportunity to provide clear, meaningful feedback that can change relationships and outcomes. Instead, we suffer in silence or we dance around the topic leaving the receiver dazed and confused and everyone’s energy zapped. Let’s get rid of the old approaches like sandwiching the negative between two positives- you’ll just end up with a watered-down version of your truth. Let’s learn to say what we mean so we get what we want. The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of your dialog but most of us don't have the confidence or tools to communicate this directly. If you are an Agile team member looking to improve the retrospective, a manager looking to provide better feedback to your team or if you want meaningful feedback that empowers you to improve your own performance, this session is for you. In this session you will learn:

    To-the-point techniques for providing effective feedback that gets results.

    How to provide the right kind of feedback in five minutes or less.

    Tips and tricks for building your confidence so you have the courage to talk with anyone about almost anything.

    How to get genuine feedback that can inspire you to do the best work of your career.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021; 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cincinnati IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass 

Sponsor: MAX Training    @MAXCincinnati

Cost: Free

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Saturday, October 9, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2021 - Part II

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What do employers look for when hiring for business analysis skills?

Presented by Jeff Geiger, Founder and Owner, J. Geiger Consulting

In this month’s meeting we will be talking with Jeff Geiger, founder and President of J. Geiger Consulting, a boutique consulting firm located in Northeastern Wisconsin. He will be answer questions we all want to know about:

1) What do employers look for when looking for someone with business analysis skills

2) What does a consulting firm look for when trying to match a customer with a business analyst resource

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 12, 2021; 7:00 am – 8:30 am EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

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A Few Things About The Internet of Things (IoT) – An Introduction

Presented by Henry Will 

In this webinar, you will be able to gain a better understanding of what IoT is, how it works, and where it’s used.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 12, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Unchain the Blocks

Presented by Dr. Larry Dribin

Blockchain can solve many business and technology issues.  But blockchain is a complex technology, too. This webinar will teach you how the blockchain actually works, and will discuss the benefits and challenges involved in implementing the technology.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Top Ten Meanest Scrum Anti-Patterns

Presented by Stefan Wolpers, Professional Scrum Trainer

Let us delve into the abyss of Scrum anti-patterns — from bad to really bad to ultimate, baddest anti-pattern imaginable — and what you as a Scrum practitioner can do about it. In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers will bring his top ten Scrum anti-patterns for a 20-minute introduction to the topic: from using Scrum for the wrong reasons to lemon code to stuffing your Product Backlog to patronizing team members. And then, we will have a Q&A session addressing the Scrum anti-patterns that are most challenging to you. After all, you need to excel at many things to become a good Scrum Team at the same time. Failing, however, is significantly “simpler.”

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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How to Achieve 10X Growth in Your BA Career - Live Expert Discussion - US and Europe

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

Thousands of BAs Earn Significantly More with Us. Will You Be the Next? Attend the FREE IIBA Live Exam Prep Training with our expert faculty & Grab the LIGHTNING DEAL exclusively for webinar attendees! Offer will be announced at the end of the webinar!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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From Project to Product: Don't You Dare Mess With Planning

Presented by Anne Steiner

If you work in tech, you probably have a love/hate relationship with project planning. We dislike it because to get it right, we need to accurately predict the future, a largely impossible task. On the other hand, we like it because it gives business leaders the "predictability" they long for in order to make sound decisions that drive business growth.

Some in the agile community have resisted the need for planning, while others have simply encouraged planning in shorter cycles. As the shift from 
project thinking to product thinking becomes mainstream, we need to reconsider the impact on planning.

Join Anne Steiner, Cprime’s VP of Product & Technology, in this fourth installment of our Project to Product series. In this session, Anne takes a deep dive into planning and discusses how this changes for the better as we shift from project to product. We explore:

    The difference between project plans and product horizons

    Turning the Iron Triangle over: Time, Budget, Scope is still a "pick two"

    How to estimate in ranges

    Ways to create roadmaps and product horizons at the portfolio, product family, and product levels

    The reasons to steer the conversation from "When will you be done?" to "What are we investing in next?"

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2: 00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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BAs on the Street with Yulia Kosarenko

Presented by Stephanie Hawkins, Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Yulia Kosarenko, Why Change Consulting

BAs on the Street is a new live event and video series in which we will have conversations with business analysis professionals in our local community to see what is going on in the local business analysis community. We will talk with business analyst all along the experience spectrum from those new to the profession to those with decades of business analysis experience. We will talk about the thrills and challenges of being a BA; and discuss the daily work of business analysts and where they may see the profession going in the future. We will then take questions from the audience.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, October 15, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

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Friday, October 1, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2021

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Promoting Data Driven Decisions

Presented by Kristina Kohl

 

In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage people analytics and machine learning to gather information that will allow you to make better people management decisions and improve organizational outcomes.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 5, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Is Your Team Self Functioning, High Performing and Adding Value?

Presented by Deborah Herting

 

In this webinar, you will learn how to build teams in which all members are having their intrinsic and extrinsic needs met; and, where organizationally they are able to add value consistently.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 6, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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IIBA® Certification Chat

Presented by Watermark Learning

 

The event is a free chat session. 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: Wednesday, October 6, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning     @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Building Business Analysis at Scale

Panelists: Keith Ellis, Damian Wilson, Gareth Jones, Tim Coventry

 

Business Analysis is a framework for solving business problems and capitalising on opportunities - enabling business to turn ideas to revenue, strategy to customer service, vision to product & strategy to implementation.

Many organisations struggle to scale their business analysis services creating bottlenecks in software initiatives or worse, resorting to subpar capability to plug 'gaps' creating far greater problems for organisations.

In this panel discussion, the IIBA and Australian consulting firm, Business Analysis (BAPL) will discuss the importance and process of building business analysis at scale to enable organisations to be both agile and successful in software delivery.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 6, 2021; 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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How to Achieve 10X Growth in Your BA Career - Live Expert Discussion - US and Europe

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

Thousands of BAs Earn Significantly More with Us. Will You Be the Next? Attend the FREE IIBA Live Exam Prep Training with our expert faculty & Grab the LIGHTNING DEAL exclusively for webinar attendees! Offer will be announced at the end of the webinar!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 7, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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An Introduction to Design Thinking for AI and Technology Services

Presented by Chris Knotts, Product Director, Cprime

 

This presentation will introduce you to the practice of design thinking, specifically as it applies in large organizational environments which incorporate advanced data technologies. Chris will walk you through the fundamentals, prerequisites, and basic principles behind using design thinking to create, test, and maintain artificial intelligence services in the real world.

You'll learn in this webinar:
    - Fundamental Design Thinking techniques as they apply to designing AI and advanced technology services
    - Examples of how leading technology providers marry design thinking to AI products
    - How to incorporate fast, continuous experimentation and testing into AI service design
    - Who on the team should b responsible for design thinking on technology and data teams
    - Organizational prerequisites for successful product management of technology which incorporates AI and machine learning

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 7, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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Enterprise Dojos: Values, Principles, and Cultural Perspective

Presented by David Laribee and Nate Ashford

 

When we talk about dojos there’s a tendency to focus on the mechanical aspects of the model -- the workflow, method, short iterations, and immersive learning. Perhaps more important is understanding what models and principles actually make the dojo innovative and successful. In this webinar, our dojo experts will unpack the foundations of the dojo -- the underlying models that make it work, the principles that guide our behaviors and choices, and how dojos help shift cultures from fixating on delivery to leveraging learning.

Join us on October 7 for Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series on Enterprise Dojos. David Laribee and Nate Ashford, pioneers of the dojo approach, will provide insight into the inner workings of the model.

You will learn about:

    Theories and research that make the dojo model work: deliberate practice, spaced repetition, etc.

    What are the values and principles that are common to successful dojos

    How dojos help shift an organization from a culture of delivery to a culture of learning

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 7, 2021; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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BA Career Series: Data Science, What It Can Get You & How to Get Started

Presented by Criss Wilson; Data Scientist, McLeod Software

 

In this session, we will help you begin to understand data science projects and how they take raw data and turn it into remarkable insights. We will cover how companies who have invested in data warehouses can take the first steps toward working in the world of data science with minimal expense.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October, 7, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Birmingham IIBA Chapter and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

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