Business Analysis Webinars for February 2023 - Week IV

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Developing an Agile Culture

Presented by Josh Anderson

 

Join us as Josh Anderson shares how to establish and sustain a culture of collaboration, flexibility, and continuous improvement within their organization.

 

You will learn about:

    • the role of leadership

    • building effective cross-functional teams

    • implementing tailored processes that work for your company

 

The session will provide practical tips and real-life examples of successful cultural transformations. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how to foster a culture that promotes teamwork, adaptability, and growth.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 21, 2023: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: SoftEd    @SoftEdHq

Cost: Free

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Seeing the Vision and Making It Real: How to Think Strategically and Deliver Results

Presented by Lisa DiTullio, Consultant and Trainer, Corporate Education Group

 

Strategic thinking is having the ability to advance the interests of the organization by managing issues that have broad and long-term impact. In this interactive webinar, Lisa will talk about strategy development and implementation practices by guiding participants on ways to think strategically and how to translate strategy to reality.

    • What is Strategic Thinking

    • How to Think Strategically

    • Communicating the Strategy Story

    • How to Translate the Story into Results

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 21, 2023; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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Collaborative Leadership - Leading Into the Future of IT

Presented by Bekka Prideaux

 

The role of IT in an organisation is becoming more strategic, and the expectations of our team members are changing.  In this webinar, we will look at what this means for you as a leader and how you collaborate with your team and stakeholders, including practical tips you can implement right away as you lead into the future of IT.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 22, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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What Happened in the Job Market in 2022 and What to Expect in 2023

Presented by Elliott Ferrier, Recruiter, TEKsystems

 

Breaking down the Job Market of 2022 and looking forward to what we can expect in 2023. Making sense of the changes in the Technology Market locally and across the nation.

 

There will be case studies on how individuals and organizations can and have adapted to the changes in the market on a local and national level.

 

The presentation will include multiple subjects including:

    • Trends in Information Technology now

    • Local and National Market trends for Business Analysts and overall Information Technology Market

    • Employment Market Data for Louisville, Lexington and Cincinnati

    • Industry-Specific Technology Trends

    • Technologies/Practices that are gaining traction in both National and Local Markets

    • Best Practices for those looking for opportunities

    • Best Practices for those looking for qualified professionals

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 22, 2023; 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Be a Self-Growth Agile Organization, Be a Continuous Learning Agile Person

Presented by Rose Chu

 

Organizations all over the world face disruption more than ever, in order to survive & strive for success, many attempts made to apply different business agility frameworks & disciplines in IT & business functions, such as Scrum, Less, Safe, etc. Rose Chu will share her stories in agile facilitations & to discuss with you some techniques that may help you/your organization to be sustainably agile.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 23, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Professional

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 23, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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The Five Phases of Agile Maturity (Part 1): Phase 1 and 2

Presented by Dan Telxeira and Sarah Sego, Cprime

 

The journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. What do you need to know? What challenges might you face? Which tools will best meet your organization where it's at?

Join our experts on February 23, 2023 to explore what you should expect to see across the five phases of Agile maturity. In part 1 of this series, we will focus on Phases 1 and 2. Cprime’s Dan Teixeira (Head of Enterprise Agility & Tooling) and Sarah Sego (Agile Transformation Consultant) will share valuable advice about negotiating the turns, avoiding roadblocks, and enjoying the ride in your agile maturity journey. Plus, we’ll talk about the optimal tools to support you—enterprise product management software, like Atlassian Jira and Jira Align.

Learn:

    • Common maturity elements of Phase 1 of agile maturity (The Agile Team) and Phase 2 of agile maturity (The Team of Agile Teams)

    • Challenges you may face in the beginning of your agile maturity journey and how to overcome them

    • Software tools, features, and functionality that can support scaling

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 23, 2023; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST

Host: Cprime     @Cprime

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for February 2023 - Week III

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer with Sander Dur

Presented by Sander Dur, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

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 live session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Sander Dur will be available to answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams have.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 14, 2023; 11:00 am- 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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The Power of Emotional Intelligence for SDLC Professionals with David Mantica

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

 

You may be familiar with IQ, which measures your cognitive intelligence. But has anyone asked you about your EQ or emotional quotient? What is EQ? Simply put EQ, which is driven by your emotional intelligence, is your awareness of your actions and feelings, including how they impact the people around you.

Being emotionally intelligent means you understand the cause and effect of your actions and words. You understand what the impact of “being you” has on individuals and groups and you understand how to read others’ emotions and actions and work within their emotional limits. The key to remember is you can never change someone, but you can change and adjust yourself. Emotional Intelligence is about how to change and adjust yourself and includes these attributes:

    · Respecting others

    · Listening to others

    · Empathizing with others

    · Identifying with others

 

Knowledge workers, especially SDLC workers, do their work in teams. Teams are filled with “others”. Your ability to work with those “others” determines what you get done, how fast you get it done and how much value you deliver. If you have a high EQ, you get things done fast with minimal impact on the organization while providing high value.

 

After listening to this session, you will be able to:

    · Understand the meaning of emotional intelligence

    · Distinguish the differences between EQ and IQ

    · Identify emotional hot buttons

    · Determine which emotional intelligence competencies to improve when working with others

    · Detect the signs of emotional outbursts in others

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 14, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: SoftEd and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @SoftEdHq    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Future Forward - Practicing Business Analysis in the New Environment with Billie Johnson, CBAP

Presented by Billie Johnson, CBAP, Author | Trainer | Coach

 

As business analysts, it is our job to bring people together, build relationships, and forge a common understanding across the team. Normally, that involves getting people into the same room. Given current work environments, we cannot bring people together in the same manner. Does that mean we can’t build relationships or forge common understandings? Of course not! We just have to do it a bit differently.

 

Billie Johnson will share her insights on working in distributed teams and will show how those same techniques apply to the here and now.

 

Through this session, you will learn:

    • Challenges of working in a distributed environment

    • Changes that can be made to address those challenges

    • Techniques to use for improving results

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 15, 2023; 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer with PSTs Joanna Plaskonka and Magdalena Kucharska - Answering your Burning Scrum Questions

Presented by Joanna Plaskonka and Magdalena Kucharska, Professional Scrum Trainers

 

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 live session of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, Joanna Plaskonka and Magdalena Kucharska will be available to answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams have.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 16, 2023; 10:00 am – 11:00 am 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, February 16, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Why Agile? A discussion of the "so what?" of agility and agile frameworks with Ryland Leyton, CBAP

Presented by Ryland Leyton, CBAP, PMP, CSM, Agile Coach | Speaker | Author

 

Everyone knows agile frameworks and approaches are important…but do you know why? What’s the point of using one and what do you get out of doing so? This session talks about the concrete reasons that agile frameworks are so popular using straightforward language that will be familiar to any professional.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

 

    • Be able to understand & reiterate the value of agility with regards to earned value and risk.

    • Understand situations where agile frameworks are most and least helpful.

    • Use an understanding of agile framework benefits to build rapport and trust with clients and stakeholders.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 16, 2023; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST

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

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for February 2023 - Part II

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Agile And Traditional Approaches To Project Success: Is Hybrid A Poor Second Choice?

Presented by Pedro Serrador

 

Many organizations use a combination of Agile and Traditional practices: Hybrid Agile. Is this is poor decision or a rational one? Using data from 477 projects, worldwide, we examined the issue of how Hybrid Agile projects perform compared to the alternatives. In this presentation, based on an award-winning academic paper, we will give the answer.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 7, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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How to Improve Communication and Collaboration Between Developers and Scrum Masters

 

There is a common myth amongst Developers on Scrum Teams - "When the Scrum Master doesn't interfere with your work, it's already good." Such an opinion can be symptoms of a problem.

 

Scrum is a tool that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions to complex problems. If Scrum is a source of frustration (because, for example, "the Scrum Master keeps on distracting us"), it's a sign that it is not Professional Scrum but the team is just going through the motions and not embracing what Scrum has to offer. In this Scrum Pulse, PSTs Joanna  Plaskonka and Magdalena Kucharska will talk about these misconceptions and consider what you can do to make working with Scrum Master better and more effective through communication.

 

The audience will take away the following:

1) Scrum Masters have a lot of positive energy and they want to help Developers, sometimes too much. Scrum Masters may get lost, too. The audience will see Scrum Masters' efforts and channel them towards something useful and valuable in terms of product development and good collaboration within the Scrum Team.
2) Language and intentions matter. Focus on what's behind the words you are using in relations with Scrum Masters (and other Scrum Team members)
3) We all thrive towards greatness and mastery. Scrum is there to help us, as well as Scrum Master. The audience will get some ready to use communication tools that they can work with and support Scrum Masters on their road to excellence.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 8, 2023; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Transformation Readiness: How to Thrive in Changing Times

Presented by Traci Duez

 

The key to change isn't just a vision, planning, communication, or training. The key to growth is focusing your team on the value generated by the change and how they can most effectively create that value. Participants will learn how to make the mental shifts necessary, how to control their focus and learn the three-dimensional framework for making the biggest difference and handling the emotions around change.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 8, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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Creating Reliable Software in a World Where Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (Vuca) Is the New Normal

Presented by Stephen Cohen

 

We are in an era where good requirements, known environments, and everyone is on our network are things of myth and legend.   Today's software isn't a modernized version of past implementations.  Change isn't some abstract thing in the future its now, every day, every minute. In this session we will establish a new baseline for acceptable software.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 9, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Professional

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 9, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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One more time: Do we still have to write requirements?

Presented by Steve Blais, PMP

 

Sometimes it seems that the decades old debate between agile software development and non-agile approaches about whether requirements need to be written down is not going to go away. But the debate lingers on. On the one side, there are a number of reasons why we need to have a written record of project and software requirements. On the other side, we should just sit down and talk about it until we figure out what were going to deliver in the project or with the software. This webinar attempts to provide a definitive breakdown of both sides of the debate and a recommendation for what can be done to increase the potential for quality project results and working software.

 

Topics:

    • Why gather and document requirements?

    • How does a “no requirements” environment work?

    • What happens to the job of requirements definition?

    • What is a business analyst to do?

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 9, 2023; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Modern Analyst     @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for February 2023

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Continuous Status Monitoring of your Agile and DevOps Programs

Presented by Arlene Minkiewicz

 

This webinar briefly introduces agile and DevOps, presents the concept of continuous monitoring and the types of monitoring that are appropriate, and discusses some key metrics that are most likely to ensure successful monitoring for agile and DevOps Projects.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 1, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Professional

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 2, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Agile Facilitation Primer with David Mantica and Karla Ramos

Presented by David Mantica and Karla Ramos, SoftEd

 

With the new year comes a lot of planning. As we set out to establish our goals and decide the What and Why, let's dive into the How.  How can our Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, project managers and just overall team members help answer the

 

HOW:

    • How do we interact better with our teams?

    • How do we leverage our SMEs to get things done?

    • How we can incorporate Agility into facilitation

 

This will be an interactive, podcast-style webinar. We will discuss the challenges associated with the current economic landscape. We'll talk about clever and interactive ways of engaging your team during these uncertain times.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 2, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: SoftEd and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @SoftEdHq    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Agile Analysis Certification Chat

Presented by Anthony Allen, AAC, A-CSPO

 

This is a free online chat session with some of our Agile Analysis mentors. Whether you just want to learn more about the business analyst role in an agile environment, the agile framework, your organization is going through an agile transformation, or you are interested in obtaining the IIBA® Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA®-AAC) this session is for you. We can discuss the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide, the Scrum Guide™, the agile framework, or the IIBA®-AAC certification. Whatever you wish to discuss, come let’s talk. Anyone interested in talking agile, or pursuing the IIBA®-AAC Certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our Agile mentors. 

Target Audience:

    • Professionals seeking to understand the agile analyst role         

    • Professionals seeking knowledge of agile frameworks

    • Professionals seeking IIBA®-AAC Certification  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, February 3, 2023; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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