Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2022 - Week IV

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Scrum Outside of Software – with Pawel Mysliwiec, Shirley Santiago and Mary Iqbal

Panelists: Pawel Mysliwiec, Shirley Santiago and Mary Iqbal

 

Scrum has been in existence for more than 25 years as a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. 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, PSTs Pawel MysliwiecShirley Santiago and Mary Iqbal answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams may be facing when using Scrum in a setting that is not software-based, such as marketing, governance, finance and more.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 25, 2022; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: Scrum.org

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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, August 25, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Sunday, August 14, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2022 - Week III

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Working in Agile – Clearing the Muddy Waters between PO, BA, and SM  

Panelists: Lisa Whitaker (SM), Aaron Whittenberger (BA), and Jonathan Hill (PO)

 

Do you currently work in, or are transitioning to, an agile environment such as Scrum or SAFe? Are you struggling with your role in this new working environment?

Proponents of Agile, especially the Scrum framework, will tell you that there is no BA role in Agile. Does that mean that you will have to transition to a Product Owner or Scrum Master role, or learn to code, to work in an agile environment? Our panelists will discuss this point as well as skills needed and techniques used in each of the roles. Our panelists will start the discussion then draw the audience in to allow you to share your views and experience on this important topic.

Come join the Bluegrass IIBA business analysis community and our panelists to discuss how business analysts can operate in an agile environment, and what other roles they may transition to if that is what the person wishes to do. This promises to be a fun and interactive discussion, one not to be missed!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 17, 2022; 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

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, August 18, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Friday, August 5, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2022 - Week II

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Dancing Inside the Waterfall: Borrowing Agile Concepts to Benefit your Waterfall Project

Presented by Ryland Leyton, CBAP, PMP, CSM, SPC4

 

Agile concepts can benefit every project, including waterfall implementations! In this session we show how to apply core Agile concepts in any Waterfall situation, and avoid saying agile “trigger” words that could create resistance.

   
Learn four key concepts applied in agile work efforts.
   
Understand the benefits and uses of these concepts in every project.
   
Learn how to avoid “agile prejudice” regarding using these ideas, and how to overcome objections.
   
Have a means for conversing about these ideas without mentioning agile.

This session is suitable for Business Analysts, Product Managers & Product Owners, Project Managers.

No agile experience is required. General software project experience is helpful.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 10, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

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, August 11, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Self-Organization and Team Success Webinar

Presented by David Mantica, VP and General Manager, SoftEd USA

 

When stuck on a challenging problem, is it better to have one person thinking through the issue, or a team of people working together to solve the issue at hand? If you are looking for speed in conjunction with the highest potential for success, the team wins hands down. Self-organized teams are about empowering those that do the work to decide how the work gets done, what to work on, and how to break through any challenges that may arise. Shifting the focus to support autonomy allows for an increase in output speed, as well as an increase in the usability of what is produced.

This session gets to the heart of the dynamics that drive self-organization. You cannot just throw the team together and hope for the best. There is a “contract” that needs to be established between the team and leadership. We will discuss the elements of that “contract,” the responsibilities of all the parties involved, and the problems faced when actualizing. Are you are looking to speed up completion of project work while maintaining quality and efficiently matching output to need? Self-organization is the tool you need to achieve those goals, and this seminar will help you plan your workplace transition correctly.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 11, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: SoftEd    @SoftEdHQ

Cost: Free

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Monday, August 1, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2022

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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, August 4, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Diagrams and Models for Business Analysts

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

The major part of the business analyst’s occupation is in creating diagrams and models of all sorts. While a requirements document or any other rendering of requirements, for many business analysts their primary output, is actually a model of the solution to be delivered, when we think or talk about diagrams and models we usually think of charts and drawings. Some of us love the idea of drying squares and arrows and turning human business processes into diagrams on the whiteboard.

Some of us hate the very idea of drawing anything, much less a diagram or model. And those of us involved with agile see the diagrams and models being thrown up on the whiteboard as part of a developer swarm and then erased shortly thereafter. And those of us working in the more traditional environment painstakingly create exact and accurate replications of business processes and proposed solutions which are then added to dozens or hundreds of others created in the past 20 years. So the question the business analyst has to ask is “models, what are they good for?” Or perhaps, “are there any models that are worthwhile spending my time on even if not required by the SDLC?” This webinar will try to answer those questions as well as provide an overview and lexicon of the models that business analysts generally use for better or worse.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 4, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Product Ownership Analysis Certification Chat

Presented by Denise Sandford, CPOA, CSPO, ICP-APO

This is a free online chat session with one of our Product Ownership Analysis mentors. Whether you just want to learn more about the business analyst role in an agile context to support the Product Owner, the agile framework, your organization is going through an agile transformation, or you are interested in obtaining the IIBA® Certificate in Product Ownership Analysis (IIBA®-CPOA) this session is for you. We can discuss the IIBA Guide to Product Ownership Analysis, the agile framework, or the IIBA®-CPOA certificate. Whatever you wish to discuss, come let’s talk. Anyone interested in talking agile, Product Ownership, or pursuing the IIBA®-CPOA Certificate is welcome to come and ask questions of our Product Ownership Analysis mentor. 

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, August 5, 2022; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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IIBA® Certification Chat

Presented by Dr. Susan Heidorn, Ed.D., CBAP, BRMP, AAC, Director of Business Solutions, 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: Friday, August 5, 2022; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning     @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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