Saturday, April 22, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for April 2023 - Week IV

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Agile Product Management: Moving from Project to Product Mentality

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

 

In this session we will dig into what is product management, how product management skills, tools and techniques can be incorporate into your projects, the benefits of moving from a project mentality to a product one, and the skills you need to develop to get there.

Value and outcome are replacing output, schedule management, and meeting time and budget constraints. From there long-term evaluation on project output to maintain value of what was built is becoming critical.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 25, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: SoftEd and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @SoftEdHQ    @IIBABluegrass

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Scrum Is Purposefully Incomplete- How Scrum Teams can Complement Scrum by adding practices, tools and frameworks

Presented by Lavaneesh Gautam, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Scrum is "purposefully incomplete," as quoted from the Scrum Guide. Scrum is a simple and lightweight framework and many Scrum Teams adopt other practices to make it work for them. In this Scrum Pulse, Professional Scrum Trainer Lavaneesh Gautam will discuss how you can complement Scrum by adding your own context and additional processes, techniques and practices such as Kanban, EBM, User Experience, Product Management and Liberating Structures.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2023; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: Scrum.org

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Understanding your Stakeholders

Presented by Betsy Stockdale

 

In this session we are going to look at some diverse ways to analyze our stakeholders. We will look at journey maps and empathy maps to help us understand how we can build and use them as part of stakeholder analysis. We will also look at how we can use these tools to help us write better requirements and deliver better products.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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Navigating the JEDI Journey

Presented by Kristina Kohl

 

Navigating the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) characterizing the business world in the 21st century requires a new paradigm, the JEDI North Star Vision, focused on an integrated bottom line – planet, people, and profit. Join us to learn about creating a JEDI North Star Vision for your organization to initiate transformative change.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, April 27, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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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, April 27, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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Sunday, April 16, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for April 2023 - Week III

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The Importance Of Measuring Your Teamwork

Presented by Nick Fewings

 

Invariably, project teams measure Key Performance Indicators, often related to cost, quality and time.  All of these are impacted by how effective and efficient your teamwork is, which very few teams measure.  In this webinar, find out about the 16 areas of teamwork that need to be working well, if you and your team are to achieve the success you deserve.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 18, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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Change Management

Presented by John Stenbeck

 

Good enough is no longer good enough because Decision Latency – that is, delays in making decisions – drive huge, negative impacts into program outcomes. Reversing it will supercharge program results, but it demands change leadership to invert analysis paralysis using Lean principles and Agile best practices... proactively!

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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Pivotal Process Flows

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

 

Process Flows have been an integral part of the BA’s toolbelt forever.  Pivotal process flows take your modeling to a new dimension!  These aren’t your Grandmother’s process flows. This webinar demonstrates how a new perspective on traditional modeling will engage and dazzle your stakeholders and elicit stronger requirements.  Great for beginners and advanced BAs alike.  

 

Objectives:

    Learn the steps:  Brainstorm, Summarize, Draw, Pivot

    Understand the connection between modeling and user stories/requirements

    Create two-dimensional flows 

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

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Ready Player One: Leveling Up Your Gamification

Presented by Jennifer Battan, CBAP, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Uncommon League

 

You’ve done the sticky note wall. You’ve done brainstorming. But have you taken the leap into the oasis to play games in sequence? This is beyond finding Halliday’s easter eggs and reigning supreme within the oasis. This is a real method you can use whether your goal is generating ideas, creating your product strategy, solving problems or making decisions. Games are a practical way to harness the creative and collaborative strengths of a group. Less talk, more play. More play, more collaboration. More collaboration, stronger teams. Stronger teams, stronger results. Start playing games that make a difference.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2023; 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

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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, April 20, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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The BA as an Agile Accelerator

Presented by Ryland Leyton, CBAP

 

Agile implementations often overlook the Business Analyst (BA) or casts them purely into the Product Owner role, which unintentionally excludes great parts of the BA value. This session sets the BA clearly into the agile space and explains how we enhance the classic roles.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, April 20, 2023; 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

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Saturday, April 8, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for April 2023 - Week 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, April 11, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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Portfolio Benefit Delivery

Presented by Jennifer Young Baker

 

Components of portfolios typically provide status on the deliverables of their work. Portfolio managers must show the value of their organization by translating project and program deliverable status into portfolio benefit delivery status. Attendees will learn how to translate project and program deliverable status into the benefit delivery information that stakeholders really want to see.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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Leveraging BABOK for Better Business Performance

Presented by LN Mishra, CBAP, Co-founder, AdaptiveUS

 

BABOK has been an established guide for project business analysis. More than 30000 practicing business analysts have been leveraging BABOK for successful projects. However, BABOK is also an excellent guide for enterprise excellence.

 

This webinar tries to achieve the following objectives/outcomes:

    • What is the importance of enterprise excellence models

    • BACCM as a key framework for enterprise excellence

    • BABOK techniques for enterprise analysis

    • Method to improve enterprise excellence

    • Q&A

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

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The Mind Shift Required to Lead Successfully in a Virtual World

Presented by: Lisa Cox, Trainer, Coach, 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: Wednesday, April 12, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

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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, April 13, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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The Five Phases of Agile Maturity (Part 3): Phase 5

Presented by Sneha Crews, Rod Morrison, and Sarah Sego

 

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 April 13, 2023 to explore what you should expect to see across the 
five phases of Agile maturity. In the third and final part of this series, we will focus on Phase 5. Cprime’s Sneha Crews (Managing Director, Solutions Engineering), Rod Morrison (Partnerships Director, EMEA) 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 Align.

Learn:

Common maturity elements of Phase 5 of agile maturity (The Scaling Agile Enterprise)

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

How Jira Align’s features and functionality can support your Agile enterprise

How to utilize custom-tailored solutions to meet your specific needs

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, April 13, 2023; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT

Host: Cprime    @Cprime

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A New Look at Data Modeling and Data Analysis

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

 

Many business analysts who took business analysis for an undergraduate or even advanced degree in universities around the world found that they had to take at least one, and probably two, semesters of data modeling. They learned entities, relationships, normalization, resolution of the many to many relationships, and so forth. And then for the next twenty years of practicing business analysis never once engaged in creating a data model or in most cases, even seeing one. Obviously, the business analysts worked with data, defining it, refining it, organizing it, and so forth. But data modeling was left up to the database administrators.

 

Today, data modeling has a different meaning (not that creating entity-relationship or class models has gone away) in the analytics world. It has to do with a mathematical model of the data used for data mining and knowledge discovery. So, will business analysts be expected to know all about analytics and creating algorithmic data models, or is that someone else’s job as well.

This webinar will acquaint you with both forms of data modeling and answer the question: what does the business analyst have to do with any data modeling?

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, April 13, 2023; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

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Business Data Analytics Certification Chat

Presented by Sarah Pointer, Systems Development Manager, US Bank

 

This is a free online chat session with some of our Business Data Analytics mentors. Whether you just want to learn more about the business analyst role supporting data analytics initiatives, you are interested in obtaining the IIBA® Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA®-CBDA), or you just wish to learn the IIBA Guide to Business Data Analytics this session is for you. Our Business Data Analytics mentors will tell you of their journey to become IIBA Certified, provide tips & tricks related to the IIBA®-CBDA Certification from the application process to re-certification. Whatever you wish to discuss, come let’s talk and ask questions of our CBDA mentors.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, April 14, 2023; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

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Sunday, April 2, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for April 2023

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Avoiding a Project Death March

Presented by Neil Potter

 

A death march is when project staff members believe the project is destined for failure, or that it requires a stretch of unsustainable effort to achieve any success. This session will cover the common causes of death marches, how to develop data and options used in negotiation, and a simple negotiation approach to address the concerns of customers and managers.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2023; 11:00 am – 11:45 am EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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Define Right Requirements for Acquiring COTS

Presented by Robin Goldsmith

 

Buying Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software is a common way to achieve computer processing capabilities quicker, cheaper, and with less risk than building it.  However, acquiring COTS and other software still has a high rate of failure.  This important interactive presentation reveals the differences and gives guidance on defining requirements that make COTS acquisitions succeed.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 5, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer with PST Jay Rahman - Answering your Burning Scrum Questions

Presented by Jay Rahman, 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, PST Jay Rahman will be available to answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams have.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 5,2023; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

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The Nutritional Cost of Stress and What to Do About it?

Presented by Delia McCabe, MA, PhD

 

We live in a challenging, complex, and constantly changing world. We are faced with events that we're unable to control, bombarded with an avalanche of information that may or may not be useful, and may feel a sense of overwhelm in relation to both. Covid added an extra layer of complexity and stress to the lives of most people. The wellbeing of our brain, the organ that we rely on to navigate through this complexity, is very seldom addressed. However, our brain health can determine whether we thrive or stumble forwards, especially if we rely on creative and innovative thinking for our livelihood.

 

In this session we’ll examine how stress depletes our brain health and what we can do to establish a solid foundation for optimal thinking via our diet.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 5, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

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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, April 6, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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