Business Analysis Webinars for January 2022 - Part IV

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Why We Need to Focus On Success and Use an Engineering Approach to Achieve

Presented by Alan Shalloway

 

This webinar explores why so many organizations are not achieving success with Agile and outlines an approaching for remediating these common problems.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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The Costly Impact of Ineffective Requirements Management in the Medical Device Industry

Presented by Steven Meadows, Jama Software and Sandra Rodriguez, Axendia

 

Requirements management solutions enable the unification of siloed processes and data that often reside in outdated, disparate, and disconnected legacy systems. However ineffective and inefficient, the industry still relies overwhelmingly on static documents housed in Excel/Word and relies on manual processes that add significant risk to the development process.

 

Axendia conducted a research study focusing on the medical device industry's approach to requirements management with a goal to identify and analyze the drivers, barriers, trends, and value of requirements management across the product development lifecycle.

 

9 out of 10 (87%) Executives surveyed for this report admitted to having a ‘not effective or somewhat effective’ requirements management process.

 

In this webinar, Axendia’s Senior Industry Analyst, Sandra K. Rodriguez will share the outcomes of the research including:

    • The impact of having an ineffective requirements management process

    • The critical importance of requirements management to achieve improved patient outcomes, product quality, and time to market

    • The negative impact on budgets, verification and validation activities when relying on manual processes

 

Sandra will be joined by Jama’s medical and life science principal solutions lead, Steven Meadows, who will be sharing his experience and unique perspective on the above.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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Achieving More with Data: The Critical Role of Business Analysis in Becoming a Data-Driven Organization

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

 

Big Data presents an enormous opportunity for business. Stakeholders can make better decisions when they have insights from data. How does your organization collect, share, mine and analyze data to inform your stakeholder? And how involved are business analysis professionals in your data analytics projects?

As part of IIBA’s Global Research, the Achieving More with Data research analyzes the forces shaping the use of data and analytics at companies.

In this panel discussion, Keith Ellis, IIBA Chief Engagement and Growth Officer and David Marco, president of EW Solutions and a global authority in data governance, will reveal and discuss key findings from the research and the critical role of business analysis in becoming a data-driven organization.

Key Learnings:
    - Impacts data analytics has on today's businesses and need to become a data-driven enterprise
    - The critical role business analysis plays in driving success in business data analytics in terms of ROI and performance gains
    - Essential skills and opportunities for business analysis professionals in business data analytics
    - How core business data analytics practices contribute to the quality of analytic activities

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)     @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Analytics-Based Enterprise Performance Management

Presented by Gary Cokins

 

In this webinar you will learn how the seamless integration of enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) methods that are each embedded with advanced analytics can exponentially increase your organization’s performance.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 26, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Cybersecurity for Business Analysis Professionals: Working in and with Security

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

 

We’ll talk about how Business Analysis professionals can consider security when working on technology projects. We’ll also cover how to transition from Business Analysis to Security Analysis – transferrable skills, security functions to consider, and how to network with the security team.

  

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 26, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for January 2022 - Part III

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You Might Be An Agile Leader, If...

Presented by Bob Galen

 

Channeling his best Jeff Foxworthy, Bob Galen shares some patterns and anti-patterns that surround the leadership shift to more agile tactics and mindset that many leaders are facing and struggling to adopt.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 11:00 am – 11:45 am EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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How Effective Teams Can Scale Agile in the Enterprise

Presented by Chris Knotts, Cprime Learning

 

When the agile movement first saw broad adoption, there was tremendous success at the team level. It didn't take long for large organizations to run into challenges seeing that same type of success in larger, more complex initiatives. This presentation is an introduction to the expanded principles of agility intended to harness the effectiveness of agile teams and bring better organizational alignment to larger efforts built upon the effectiveness of highly agile teams.

This presentation focuses on how to expand the practice of agility to an enterprise level, based on the principles of lean and value stream management. Chris will review these key points:
    • Why highly performing agile teams are a good start towards implementing transformational work, but are only the beginning
    • How lean program and portfolio management enables enterprise-wide agility
    • The basics of how to prioritize, coordinate, and manage multiple streams of enterprise work
    • How and why finance and funding practices must change to align with enterprise agility
    • The difference between applying lean concepts for innovation and experimentation, vs. applying them to mainline work at scale

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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Your 2022 IT Risk Forecast

Presented by Michael Milutis

 

This live conversation between Don Shafer, Scott Stribrny, and Dr. Robert Charette will explore the many risks facing technology and business professionals in 2022, from unexpected failures in artificial intelligence and machine learning to talent shortages, technology debt, high profile cyber attacks, and more!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

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Influence and How to Advise and Motivate for Successful Results

Presented by Dave Davis, OhioHealth

 

You are in position to influence behavior of people competing project activities and advise key decision makers. How do you motivate workers and also advise executives? The answer is trust. This presentation will discuss trust and its importance to a project manager. Trust is not granted by title; it has to be earned. We will explore ways trust is earned, ways it is lost, and ways it can be rebuilt. Using a combination of life experiences, amusing anecdotes, and proven research, you will better understand how trust is the cornerstone soft skill for a distinguished project manager. Additionally, you will know how to build trust and respect among your team.

 

Learning Objectives

    • What is influence, and how does a project manager obtain and manage influence of critical behaviors?

    • What does it mean to be a trusted advisor and how does the project manager earn the right to advise executives.

    • What roles do Desire, Inspiration, and Ability play in achieving the end result

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: BATimes

Cost: Free

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Bringing Data to L.I.F.E. and Life to Data

Presented by Dr. Joe Perez, Chief Technology Officer, SolonTek Corporation

 

What does it mean to bring data to life? Does data take on a “LIFE” of its own, or does it have to be nurtured, prodded, refined, pushed, and pulled along the way? Why should we even care?  Marketing and customer experience expert Jay Baer once said, “We are surrounded by data, but starved for insight.”  Although it has been said that exabytes of new information are generated on a daily basis, how much of that data is actually meaningful? Does volume necessarily translate into value? What vision can we bring to bridge this gap?

 

A recent study involving more than 500 IT decision makers in the US and the UK found that businesses are missing out on $5.2 million in revenue due to untapped data.  Your data are only as powerful as the business decisions they fuel. In this session, discover the four “L.I.F.E.” pillars of relevant data that will bring meaning to these masses of numbers.  Catch the right blend of left-brain logic and right-brain ideas.  Recognize the value of answering questions you know and exploring questions you don’t know.  Find out how to turn obstacles into opportunities as you bring data to L.I.F.E. and life to data.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cincinnati IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass   @IIBACincy

Cost: Free

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Mastering Stakeholder Bias: The Key to PMO Success

Presented by Mark Perry

 

In this webinar, we are going to explain stakeholder bias and present tips and techniques for its application in both projects and PMO management.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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7 Steps To Reclaim Your Scrum Master Super Power

Presented by Nagesh Sharma and Ravi Verma

 

Over the years, we have trained, mentored and coached hundreds of Scrum Masters. As we reflect on our experience, one truth seems to stand out - many Scrum Masters we meet are driven by a purpose.

 

Being a Scrum Master is not just a job for them. It is a calling to help others. It is a calling to live by principles and values higher than the principle of survival. The Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team's effectiveness and they are most fulfilled when they are truly honoring their calling.

 

Unfortunately, in some organizations that claim to adopt Scrum, a Scrum Master is not always fully respected and they are only responsible for scheduling meetings, typing up notes, and being a management enforcer to deliver on-time, on-budget and ever-increasing scope projects. Being trapped in such roles can really affect the morale of purpose-driven Scrum Masters and they are unable to really utilize their super power of supporting the Scrum Team. But what can Scrum Masters do to avoid this pattern? If you are interested in the answers to this question, please join us in this webinar.

 

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainers Nagesh Sharma and Ravi Verma will share seven concrete steps that purpose-driven Scrum Masters can take to avoid and escape this trap while reclaiming their Scrum Master superpower.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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BA Career Series Webinar: Software Development Pearls of Wisdom

Presented by Karl Wiegers, Author, Principal Consultant at Process Impact  

 

Experience is a powerful teacher, but it’s also slow and painful. Software practitioners can’t afford to make every mistake others have suffered. You can compress the education and bypass much of the pain by absorbing lessons from others who have already climbed the learning curves.

 

Based on my more than 50 years of software experience and 25 years of helping software teams succeed in nearly 150 organizations, the book Software Development Pearls presents 60 lessons you can apply to projects regardless of the application domain, technology, development lifecycle, or your role. These pragmatic principles, perspectives, and practices cover six crucial domains of project success: requirements, design, project management, culture and teamwork, quality, and process improvement.

 

This presentation briefly introduces 24 of the 60 lessons and drills down into six additional lessons. Collecting such pearls of software wisdom can pay off quickly for anyone striving to build high-quality software products, whatever their project role may be.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass, Albany Capital District, Austin, Bay Area, Calgary, Cincinnati, DC Metro, 

Ottawa-Outaouais, and Phoenix IIBA Chapters                                                                            @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for January 2022 - Part II

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Cultivating Emotional Intelligence at the Workplace on the Time of the Pandemic

Presented by Vanessa Agriz, Certified Genos Emotional Intelligence Practitioner

 

As we kickstart the year 2022 with a renewed hope and enthusiasm, the newly established Philippines Branch would like to encourage the Business Analysis Community to promote the Emotional Intelligence as a skill-building capability that enhances our collaboration and communication between our stakeholders, co-workers, clients, and suppliers at the time when the vast majority is still working remotely. This webinar would like to uplift and develop leadership and influential skills for each participant as we continue our personal and professional development into the future from the global pandemic and adjusting oneself into the New Normal.

 

At the end of the monthly meeting, participants should be able to:

    • Improve collaboration and exercise good communication skills both inside and outside the organization

    • Enhance individual Influential Skills by utilizing Emotional Intelligence in our communications

    • Strengthen one’s leadership skills by applying empathy towards stakeholders, co-workers, clients, and suppliers especially during the time of crisis.

 

KEY POINT:

As we perform our duties in collaborating with different individuals within and outside our organization, it is crucial to improve our communication and influential skills for us to continuously deliver valuable services and/or products. This demonstrates how well-verse are we in exuding leadership qualities while dealing a crisis.

 

This presentation will be in American English.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 11, 2022; 6:30 am – 8:00 am EST (7:30 pm PHT)

Host: Philippines BA Community and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter   @PhilippinesBA   @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Organizational Maturity and Project Management

Presented by Sam Chin

 

In this talk, we'll cover the universal dimensions that impact an organization's maturity, as well as how maturity directly relates to project outcomes. Governance, capabilities, and history of success are only a few of the factors we will explore.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 11, 2022; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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When Training is Not the Answer: Knowing It Doesn’t Mean They’re Doing It

Presented by Jamison Manion

 

A McKenzie and Company study found that 75% training didn’t get the desired outcome.  In this webinar you will learn about the 7-step process that has proven effective in getting you better training results every time.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 12; 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Managing Product Development Complexities Across Hardware and Software Teams

Presented by Steven Meadows, Principal Solutions Lead, Jama Software

 

As products and software become more complex, so does the process required to build them. Without the proper tools and processes in place, these growing complexities can increase the risk of flaws — which can lead to expensive, and potentially reputation-harming recalls. Managing complexities across software and hardware development requires the entire development process to consider (and include) a variety of teams and interdependencies.

 

In the second episode of our Optimize with Jama Connect webinar series, we will discuss some of the key challenges that teams face when integrating hardware and software requirements, risks, and tests, with a document based or legacy tool approach.

 

In this 30-minute presentation, we’ll also discuss how Jama Connect and its integration capabilities helps teams developing complex systems and products to:

    • Reduce product development risk

    • Provide end-to-end traceability for all involved teams

    • Improve product quality

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 12, 2022; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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How to Define Done in an Agile (and non-Agile) Project

Presented by Neil Potter

 

When “done” is either poorly defined, or not defined at all, then it is easy for projects to miss deadlines and become completely unpredictable. In this webinar we will discuss actions that project teams can take to define “done” for any type of project.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 13, 2022; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Successful Atlassian Cloud Migrations and Optimizations: Real Life Examples

 

Migrating to Atlassian Cloud is a strategic initiative for many organizations. Along with its multiple benefits, the migration and optimization introduces several challenges.

In this webinar, learn how clients overcame challenges and appropriately prepared in order to successfully meet business and compliance needs, discuss the impact of optimization pre- and post-migration, and explore what may best fit your organization.

Join us on January 13, 2022, at 1pm ET for the last installment of our 3-part webinar series on Atlassian Cloud Migration & Optimization. Brandon Huff, VP, Atlassian (Cprime), and Pavel Fomin, Head of Migrations (Cprime), will share real client examples of successful migrations and optimizations.

You will learn about real client examples of:

    • Well planned and executed Cloud migrations

    • Cloud optimization and governance

    • The impact of optimizing before or after a migration

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 13, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat

Presented by Bluegrass IIBA Chapter CBAP Recipients

 

This is a free online chat session with some of our CBAP® recipients. The CBAP mentors will discuss the value of IIBA Certification and the impact the certification has had on their business analysis career. We can all discuss tips & tricks on anything related to IIBA® Certification from the application process to re-certification. Anyone interested in ECBA™, CCBA® or CBAP® certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our CBAP mentors.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, January 14, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for January 2022

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Where do I fit in Agile? Explaining how business analysis fits into Agile organizations

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

 

Agile implementations often overlook the Business Analyst (BA) role or casts it purely into a Product Owner role, which unintentionally excludes great parts of business analysis value. This session defines where business analysis fits in an agile organization and how it enhances and improves the typical agile roles. By the end of the session you will (1) understand and be able to explain the role & responsibilities of a business analysis professional in an agile environment, (2) state the value proposition and benefits to agile from business analysis and (3) respond to typical objections and misunderstandings about the role of business analysis in Agile.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 5, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)     @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Digital Transformation in Industry via Low-Code/No-Code Platforms

Presented by Arlene Minklewicz

 

This webinar introduces low-code/no-code platforms. We will provide examples of their successful use in industry and offer guidance and rules of thumb for how to estimate on low-code/no-code projects.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 6, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Establishing a "Common Language" on a Scrum Team

Presented by John Riley, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Words matter, especially when working in any team setting. Words that are spoken or written by one person can have different meanings when read or heard by another. Scrum Teams have multiple members, which means the interpretation of words used in the team setting increases with each member. The chances of misinterpretation also increases. Shared understanding among members is needed to reduce complexity and provide greater clarity. So the need for a "common language" becomes critical to produce value every Sprint.

Create your own playbook to help your teams and organization develop their "common language". In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer John Riley will demonstrate some theory and components behind a "common language". Words and phrases become less about jargon and more about shared understanding. You will also see some techniques to use in developing a team's common language, and how this language helps a team create artifacts. Some of these artifacts include Product Goals, team agreements, and Product Backlog Items.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 6, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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