Sunday, November 14, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for November 2021 - Part III

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Common Sense Scrum: Why Scrum Gets So Much Resistance

Presented by Eric Tucker, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

 

One common belief is that Scrum was designed to help you solve problems as you develop products and/or services. In fact, the primary benefit of Scrum is the opposite. If executed the way it is intended, Scrum’s superpower is its ability to reveal your problems, rapidly. Why do so many companies cherry-pick parts of Scrum to execute, while discarding other parts? Because by human nature, we don’t like having our shortcomings thrown in our faces. In this webinar, we’ll look at the Scrum framework and provide common-sense reasons why Scrum should be practiced in its entirety — or not at all. The short-and long-term benefits far outweigh the short-term discomfort.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, November 15, 2021; 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST

Host: Corporate Education Group     @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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Creating Requirements During Times of Constant Change

Presented by Pamela Paterson, BJ, MS, CBAP, LEAN Six Sigma

 

As business analysts, we are known for being experts at identifying and managing business requirements. But, how should our most notable skills be adapted as COVID-19 has the world around us going through constant change? The remote BA cannot depend upon “hallway” networking and face-to-face interpersonal skills. A completely remote or hybrid environment can block the flow of communication with our stakeholders. Furthermore, as the financial markets fluctuate, business priorities are encountering unexpected shifts. There is a need for the BA to have a sense of personal agility, whether their workplace culture is agile or not. And although always important, requirements traceability is now more important than ever. Amid business disruption, the BA needs to track requirements changes using the best practices and tools at their disposal. So, how can a BA, whether remote or not, continue to deliver the value expected in requirements creation and maintenance amid this constant change? Join us and learn the answers.

 

Learning Objectives:

    How to overcome remote communication blockers

    How to incorporate personal agility into requirements elicitation and management

    How to use best practices and tools to maintain requirements traceability

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 16, 2021; 6:30 AM – 8:00 AM EST

Host: Philippines IIBA Branch and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @PhilippinesIIBA @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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How To Say No Politely and Professionally — And Make It Stick

Presented by Michael Dobson

 

In this webinar, you’ll learn when to say no to work-related requests, how to refuse (even when it’s your boss or customer), and how to deal with pushback or negative responses.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 16, 2021; 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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BA Career Series: AI & ML; How to Future Proof Your BA Career

Presented by Michael Roberts, Cprime

 

Join us and Michael Roberts, CPrime® as he provides some in-depth and informed recommendations on how Business Analysis practitioners can stay relevant with additional skills in the worlds of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 16, 2021; 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and South Florida IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Charting Your Career: Business Analyst to IT Leader

Presented by John Michael Muraski, DBA, PMP, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, College of Business at University of Wisconsin

 

Discover how to leverage your business analyst experience to actively manage your career, add value to your organization, and seek career advancement opportunities. Join the live webinar on Wednesday, November 17 from 12–1 p.m. CT. 

 

On November 17, learn how to leverage your business analyst experience to advance your career in information technology. During this 60-minute live webinar hosted by UW Extended Campus, industry professional and assistant professor, John Michael Muraski, DBA, PMP, will examine how the business analyst role is changing, why your business analysis background is critical to information technology teams, and how to leverage your experience into future opportunities.

 

Specific topics include: 

    Understanding the importance, role, and techniques of the business analysis function in your

       organization

    Optimizing your business analyst skills to advance your career

    Taking stock of where you are and what you have accomplished

    The business analyst role today and into the future

    Charting your next steps to take control of your career

 

Audience: Public

Date/time: Wednesday, November 17, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: University of Wisconsin, Extended Campus

Cost: Free

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Panel Discussion: The Value of Product Ownership Analysis

Panelists: Craig Leger, CPOA, Stuart Edeal, CPOA, Tom Tomasovic, CPOA, Aaron Whittenberger, CPOA

 

In June, Bluegrass IIBA Chapter hosted a Certificate in Product Ownership Analysis (IIBA®-CPOA) Study Group to assist IIBA Members to take advantage of a 100% exam fee rebate offer from IIBA. Six of the seven participants in that study group passed the IIBA®-CPOA exam in June.
We will discuss the product ownership analysis role in an agile approach, and the Certificate in Product Ownership Analysis certification with a few participants from that study group. We will discuss how the product ownership role works in collaboration with the Product Owner and Agile Analyst. We will also discuss the Certificate in Product Ownership Analysis and how it can help a business analysis career path. Attendees of this panel discussion will learn:
    • How Business Analysts can move into Product Ownership Analysis role
    • Delineation between Product Owner, Agile Analyst, Product Ownership Analysis
    • Value of the Certificate in Product

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 17, 2021; 6:00 PM – 7:45 PM EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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How Business Value Engineering Unlocks The Potential of Digital Transformation

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

 

By attending this webinar, you will learn how Business Value Engineering helps align stakeholders and delivers the basis for successful change efforts. Business Value Engineering involves understanding how stakeholders perceive value before using that insight to shape the vision for future state offerings and then optimizing the steps needed to get there.

As business colleagues collaborate, they gather and structure knowledge information supported by focused “pathways” that help them answer questions such as:


• Which innovations should we prioritize and why? What are the costs and resources versus the

    expected benefits identified?
• What does the roadmap look like for a given business capability? What’s the best way of

    “chunking” change and capability uplifts over time?
• Ultimately, how do we align investment decisions with the potential for value contribution to the

    things our stakeholders care about?

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, November 18, 2021; 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

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, Canada, Europe, Africa and India

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, November 18, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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The Business Analyst: Managing Up and Over

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

 

As a business analyst, do you manage your manager? Do you know what information to provide to your manager, when to provide it and how to provide it in the best and most influential manner? Are you ever in a position where you need to “manage” other people on the project or even those outside the project, even though you have no authority to do so?

In a survey of CIOs conducted a few years back, the majority mentioned some form of upward management as a contributor to their success in achieving their executive level positions. The role of the business analyst is one in which the exercise of upward management contributes to their future success, but it is also necessary to their basic survival and success in their role. Upward management and what we might term “sideways management”, or the management of others outside the project who are in a supervisory role, is a form of applying influence to get things done without exerting authority.

This webinar discusses the different aspects of upward and sideways management, providing tips and techniques to employ as well as pitfalls to avoid.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, November 18, 2021; 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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