Monday, January 23, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2023 - Week III

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A Quick Tour of Jama Connect for Modern Requirements Management

Presented by Aaron Perillat, Principal Solutions Architect, Jama Software

 

Jama Connect enables consistency, collaboration, and alignment across the enterprise by providing a continuous flow of accurate requirements information. This webinar demonstration tour provides an overview of the Jama Connect platform.

 

Join us for this product demonstration where you’ll learn how to:

 

    Establish alignment across people, process, and technology to establish a single source of truth around digital requirements management

    Collaborate across both internal and external teams using Review Center

    Use traceability views to provide visibility across the entire product development cycle

    Utilize our common integrations to extend the solution capabilities— including JIRA

    Use Jama Connect to support testing, change management and impact analysis

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software     @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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The Mind Shift Required to Lead Successfully in a Virtual World

Presented by Lisa Cox, Trainer, Coach and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

 

It’s been a few years now, since many of us first shifted from leading co-located teams to primarily virtual teams. While we have learned how to utilize the tools and platforms available to connect us, in many cases we remain more disconnected than connected to our virtual teams. For leaders, the world of virtual work continues to offer new challenges as the traditional skills of “managing by walking around” and face-to-face connections have been replaced by email, instant messages, and conference calls. This webinar will focus on how to help leaders re-connect with their virtual teams by exploring the mind shift required, as well as the systems, work processes, and leadership practices that must change to lead successfully in the virtual world.

    The importance of increasing attentiveness

    Fostering a strong community among virtual team members

    Prioritizing employee development

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2023; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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Business Analytics Series: Introduction to Survey Questionnaire Design (Survey Design Stream)

Presented by Dr. Mark Griffin, Founding Director, Insight Research Services

 

Anyone can design a survey; it requires significant skill to design a survey well. There are a large number of places where biases can creep into our survey results. These include:
• Questions that are ambiguous (e.g., Counting the number of employees in a company is difficult. What do we do about casual employees and subcontractors for example?)
• Sensitive questions (e.g., which survey respondents feel comfortable talking about their salary?)
• Memory problems (e.g., how accurately do we remember workplace experiences two years ago?)
• Reporting problems (e.g., I know the answer that I want to give, but I don’t see my answer listed in the set of boxes that you want me to tick)

 

In this webinar we introduce a number of challenges that survey respondents might encounter as they seek to complete a survey (in a later webinar we will explore techniques that can be used to evaluate the significance of these potential challenges with members from the survey population). While we will present these challenges in the context where we are designing a survey which we will later administer, these challenges are also vital to consider when critiquing the data from surveys already collected or data collected through other mechanisms.

The importance of surveys is described in the IIBA Business Analysis Book of Knowledge (see Technique 10.45 Survey or Questionnaire).

Prior knowledge:
No previous knowledge of surveys is assumed, though participants with some prior experience in designing or conducting surveys will be more able to appreciate the more advanced material within this webinar.

 

Public: Audience

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 25, 2023; 3:00 – 4:00 pm EST

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, January 26, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2023 - Week II

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From Project to Product: “Big Rock” Constraints and How to Overcome Them

Presented by Anne Steiner, CEO of Cprime

 

Project-based thinking and process is often the largest inhibitor of achieving agility. It explains why the notion of ‘Project to Product' has gained such popularity, to the point of even becoming a buzzword in recent years.

Despite the enthusiasm about becoming a product-driven organization, many companies still hang onto their old project-based ways due to some “big rock” constraints, including funding and separation of IT and business.

So, what can you do to make a successful shift?

Join Anne Steiner, CEO at Cprime, to explore the challenges you may face in your product agility journey, and how to overcome them. We’ll explore:

Common constraints you may encounter when shifting from project to product and how to address them

How to shift to product-based funding models

The role of the product manager

Benefits you’ll experience with true product agility

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 17, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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Managing Functional Safety and Development Efforts for Robotics Development

Presented by Steven Meadows, Jama Software, and Nicole Papper, AlektoMetis

 

Industrial manufacturing firms are undergoing rapid transformation as they navigate talent shortages, supply disruptions, digital adoption acceleration, and more. At the same time, they work diligently to accelerate time to market, streamline risk management, and keep accuracy and safety at the forefront.

In this webinar, learn about functional safety challenges during the development of complex robotics systems, and how to conform to IEC 61508. Also learn about how Jama Software’s new robotics solution allows for developers to quickly leverage a template and documentation to kickstart development efforts ensuring quicker time to market, and higher quality and safer products.

 

Register now to learn about:

    Functional safety development challenges

    IEC 61508 best practices

    Tips and tricks on certification

    Jama Software’s new robotics solution offering and benefits

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 18, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software     @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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Tips to Overcome Agile Skepticism

Presented by Mary Iqbal, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

The idea of self-managing teams who have flexible scope and timelines can seem very daunting to Executives and senior leaders. In this session, Professional Scrum Trainer, Mary Iqbal will talk about some of the common misconceptions about Scrum and Agile in general from a leader’s perspective and how to overcome them.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 18, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Give Your Product a High Five – Five BA Essential Steps and Tools

Presented by Tomette Kirk, CBAP, BA Manager and Agile Coach, Humana

 

The five essential components of business analysis can be summed up in these steps: Stakeholder Analysis, Current State Analysis, Future State Analysis, Gap Analysis, and Requirements Management. Master these, and the rest is gravy. The session will focus on these five areas and corresponding tools that can be implemented at your desk tomorrow. Surprisingly, some of these areas are often overlooked leaving holes in a project. Essential Business Analysis is the core of any successful program. Give your product a High Five! 

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 18, 2023; 6:00 – 7:30 pm EST

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, January 19, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Context Diagrams: Your first and strongest go-to tool in your BA kit!

Presented by Ryland Leyton, CBAP  

 

The context diagram is a key tool for use in every BA situation.  It helps us focus on problems, capabilities, solutions, and stakeholders in a way that supports a breadth-before-depth thought process that is perfect for business analysts!

In this session we will talk about how using this technique will help you fully understand the scope of your solution at the right point in the project - the beginning! - so that you can collaborate with your project team as well as your internal & external customers.  Context diagrams enable you to have powerful and collaborative conversations with your team: clarify scope boundaries with your project sponsor, scope and risk with your project manager, and technology solution issues with your technical professionals.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
    • Understand the purpose and value of the context diagram technique.
    • Be able to start creating context diagrams during your BA work.
    • Apply agile analysis principles in support of this elicitation and modeling activity.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 19, 2023; 7:00 – 8:30 pm EST

Host: Birmingham, Bluegrass and St. Louis IIBA Chapters    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Monday, January 2, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2023

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IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat

Presented by Chris Bentley, CBAP

 

This is a free online chat session with some of our CBAP® recipients. The CBAP mentors will tell you of their journey to become IIBA® Certified, provide 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: Tuesday, January 3, 2023; 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST

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, January 5, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

Top Business Trends to Watch for in 2023 – A Panel Discussion

Panelists: Jason Cassidy, Amy Farber, Andrea Brockmeier, Norman Kennedy and Tynan Fischer

 

Hear thought leaders from the growing Educate 360 family of training companies share what they see as trends in our ever-widening areas of expertise, including project work, product delivery, data science, cloud and information security, and leadership. Join us to hear where our thought leaders think the business and technical worlds are heading in 2023 and share your thoughts, as well!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 5, 2023; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Dr. Susan Heidorn

 

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, ranging from the ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, or IIBA-AAC application to the exams to re-certification.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, January 6, 2023; 12:00 – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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