Business Analysis Webinars for February 2022 - Part III

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Common Scrum Myths and How to Correct Them!

Presented by Mary Iqbal, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

The 2020 Scrum Guide provides only the necessary guidelines within which teams use Scrum to deliver value. Sometimes, myths about the guidelines of the Scrum framework can result in teams adopting practices which do not add value to the Scrum Team. By exposing these myths, you can help accelerate the delivery of value for your team. In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Mary Iqbal will discuss some of the most common myths about Scrum and how to correct them!

To determine which myths will be discussed in our upcoming webinar, please complete the optional survey in the Zoom form.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Boosting Resilience and Well-being

Presented by Christa Kirby, MA, LCAT, PMP, CSM, CSPO, Vice President of Talent Development and Leadership Practice Director, Corporate Education Group

 

How do we reclaim equilibrium and focus as we transition into the next-new-normal of hybrid work?  While we can’t control our external circumstances, there are some specific actions we can take to exercise agency and build peace of mind in the midst of adversity.  In this session, we’ll investigate science-based strategies for enhancing health and well-being.  Using a holistic 5-pillar model of resilience, we’ll examine various facets of the mind-body connection, including the relationship between psychological, social, and emotional health.  We will also explore ways to activate internal resources to deal with external pressures, creating a renewed sense of empowerment and possibility.

    • Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

    • Positive Stress, Negative Stress, and Burnout

    • The Biology of Stress

    • Boosting Resilience

    • Mindset and Locus of Control

    • Embracing Mindfulness

    • Connecting Intentionally and Building Team Health

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Corporate Education Group   @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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The Real Intent of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) — Keeping Up with Complexity

Presented by Cary Bryczek, Jama Software and Lou Wheatcraft, Wheatland Consulting

 

Today’s products are becoming increasingly complex and software intensive. This presents major challenges for organizations being able to effectively manage all the data, information, and artifacts across the lifecycle for these types of systems — and one of the key reasons that Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is fast becoming the standard approach to systems engineering for digital transformation today.

Since one size doesn’t fit all, an organization needs to assess the SE capabilities that best fit its domain, product line (degree of complexity), and culture. The level of SE capability an organization establishes needs to be tailored to the size and complexity of systems developed by the organization, whether small, medium, or large projects.

 

In this webinar, we will cover the following topics:

 

    • Challenges associated using 20th century document-based approach to Systems Engineering

    • What is MBSE?

    • What is the real intent of MBSE?

    • Is MBSE the same thing as SysML?

    • Benefits of implementing Systems Engineering from a data-centric perspective

    • How Jama Connect helps SE practitioners address these challenges

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software     @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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How to Succeed in Your IIBA® Exam in The 1st Attempt

Presented by LN Mishra, President, Adaptive US

 

By the end of this webinar, you’ll know:

    • How IIBA certifications can play an important role in your BA career

    • How to pass IIBA exam in the 1st attempt

    • Adaptive support for IIBA Exam prep

    • Q&A

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 24, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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The Pace of Change is Upping our Game:
How People, Products and Companies Can Thrive in Times of Change

Presented by Anne Steiner, CEO, Cprime

 

Change can be a friend. Change can be a foe. In order to thrive in the current challenging business climate and successfully address shifting priorities, while addressing the global tech talent shortage, our products (and we) must be more adaptable than ever before.

Join Anne Steiner, CEO at Cprime, as she analyzes the impact of the accelerated pace of change on companies, products, and people and shares insights on how to adapt, embrace change, and achieve success in both the workplace and the marketplace.

In this session, you will learn:

    • How the measures of individual value and success are changing

    • How personal agility fuels business agility

    • How business agility fuels product agility

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 24, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for February 2022 - Part II

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Let’s Connect!  The Human Factor In a Technological World

Presented by Deborah Herting

 

In a world awash in new technological powers, the human element is becoming more important than ever in project work. In this webinar you will learn how to play to your strengths in an integrated world where both people and tech must co-exist.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 15, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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The Inside Scoop on Building a Data-Driven AI Organization

Presented by Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala, Director of Data Science, Ericsson R&D, India

 

According to a recent survey from TechCrunch, 72% of big organizations haven’t been able to create a data-driven culture. Making data fundamental to business strategies and central to organizational culture helps companies understand burgeoning trends within their market, allowing them to analyze and make decisions that will lead to the best outcomes. Transformations, however, can be difficult, as there are many issues stopping organizations from becoming data-driven. From difficulties acquiring relevant data to organizing that same mass influx of data, organizations are struggling to become data-driven, finding these problems and many others preventing their progress. Most importantly, many companies are wondering how to make the data FAIR.

In this talk, Dr. Sunil will teach you:

    • How to create data centric AI

    • The role of Dark Data and give examples of using Dark Data

    • The challenges that appear while building the solutions

    • Why there is a need for Edge AI and Green AI

    • How to disrupt your current culture and become more data-driven

    • How to make data FAIR

    • The trade-offs with the PLASTER+SET framework

    • The virtuous cycle of AI and how to scale up

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 15, 2022; 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST

Host: Business Analysis Digest

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, February 16, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Software Development Pearls

Presented by Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant, Process Impact

 

Experience is a powerful teacher, but it is 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.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Modern Analyst     @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Little by Little Doing Big Things with Agile

Presented by Niel Magsombol, Agile Coach, Leadership Trainer, Speaker

 

This session takes a unique look at how several principles, highlighted by Lockes & Latham’s Goal Setting Theory of motivation and Agile’s incremental and adaptive approach.  Understanding these principles enables people to not only transform their teams into high performing teams, but also transform themselves into high performing individuals.

Key Learning Points:

    • Background - The New New Product Development Game

    • The BA’s role in The Cone of Uncertainty

    • How to Utilize The Lean Startup

    • Lockes & Latham’s Goal Setting Theory

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2022; 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Lessons Learned for Reducing Risk in Product Development

Presented by Kemi Lewis, Senior Consultant, Jama Software

 

Over the last 20 years, product development complexity has expanded exponentially, creating innovations in areas such as space tourism, autonomous vehicles, satellite communications, and more. In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how Jama Connect© creates Live Traceability™ through siloed development, test, and risk activities to effectively reduce risk in the product development process.

In addition to a walkthrough of the platform and our Live Traceability dashboard, we’ll cover:

    • The critical challenges to reducing risk in product development

    • Why deeming requirements “good enough” to allow teems to proceed with an acceptable level of risk culminates in static requirements, unplanned rework, and compounded product risk

    • How "Project management" activity is a fallacy — it is the management of requirements, people, risks, change, opportunities, expectations, resources, commitment, and suppliers

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software     @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Scaling Scrum with Nexus - Part 2

Presented by Patrick Kong, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, challenges do arise. 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 special episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer moderated by Patricia Kong, as a follow up to December's Ask a PST session, PSTs Kate Hobler, Rich Hundhausen, Venkatesh Rajamani and Jesse Houwing will answer questions related to Scaling Scrum using the Nexus framework. They will provide insights on scaling Scrum and will be available to answer questions about the challenges you are facing in your organization.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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How to Succeed in Your IIBA® Exam in The 1st Attempt

Presented by LN Mishra, President, Adaptive US

 

By the end of this webinar, you’ll know:

    • How IIBA certifications can play an important role in your BA career

    • How to pass IIBA exam in the 1st attempt

    • Adaptive support for IIBA Exam prep

    • Q&A

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Conducting Better Product Discovery

Presented by Hector Del Castillo

 

This webinar walks through a three-step process, sharing practical strategies that can help you facilitate the creation of valuable new products. We cover preparation, problem identification, creating ideas, testing and prototyping, and launching and scaling.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Managing Emotional Intelligence

Presented by Daniel Fay, PMP, PBA, Managing Director, BrenDaniel Productions Corp.

 

Everybody has at least one hot button. These are situations that well up our emotions and take control of the situation. To make it worse, there are people in our lives that just seem to know how to get at that hot button efficiently and effectively. Do you manage your emotions or do your emotions manage you? In this module, get tips to ensure that emotions do not manage the situation.

Learn how to identify and control stressful situations in your life. Strengthen your ability to take control during stressful, or emotionally charged situations. Get some key tips and a better understanding of why these situations are stressful, and what steps to get back on track.

If you find yourself in stressful situations, this webinar is important for you. If you feel that lack of managing your emotions has impacted your life, this webinar is critical for you.

Learning Points:
    • What is Emotional Intelligence
    • What are some of your Emotional Challenges?
    • The Emotional Intelligence Framework
    • Personal Competency versus Social Competency
    • Creating your Balance – Gaining control of your emotions

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for February 2022

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Solving the Agile Estimation Conundrum the SiSE Way!

Presented by Carol Dekkers

 

This session introduces the SiSE process, together with the open-source SiSE guidebook and associated MS Excel® based-SiSE sizing template. Attendees will learn how SiSE uses best practices to quickly estimate requirements and build a credible and defensible cost estimate

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 1, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Best Practices for Data Migration Towards MBSE

Presented by Richard Watson, Director of Practice, Jama Software

 

Data is one of the most valuable assets for organizations, but are we giving it enough attention? The prospect of moving to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is tantalizing but often seems difficult when considering the move from existing engineering assets.

In this webinar, Richard Watson, VP Practice Director at Jama Software, will discuss this topic and give best practices on how to formalize the process of MBSE migration to reduce risk of data loss. He will also walk through the risks of legacy requirements management tools and provide solutions for migration.

In this session we will cover:

    • What MBSE is and how it differs from SysML

    • Benefits of building a common data model for engineering

    • How to approach moving data towards MBSE

    • Best practices for data migration when moving away from legacy solutions

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 2, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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

Presented by Arlene Minkiewicz

 

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: Wednesday, February 2, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Software Product Management

Presented by Dr. Christof Ebert

 

This webinar will introduce you to product management for software driven products, IT and services. We will cover the five major life-cycle phases: product strategy, concept, development, market entry, and product evolution. The role and competences of the software product manager will be outlined. There will be a case study.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 3, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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How to Succeed in Your IIBA® Exam in The 1st Attempt

Presented by LN Mishra, President, Adaptive US

 

By the end of this webinar, you’ll know:

    • How IIBA certifications can play an important role in your BA career

    • How to pass IIBA exam in the 1st attempt

    • Adaptive support for IIBA Exam prep

    • Q&A

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 3, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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