Business Analysis Webinars for June 2023 - Week IV

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Navigating Agile HR: Unleashing Leadership Support

Presented by Joseph Pierce, Trainer and Consultant, SoftEd

Join us as we delve into the essential role of leadership in driving Agile HR implementation and transformation within organizations.

In this insightful session, we will explore the critical connection between effective leadership and Agile HR practices. Discover how leadership support can propel your organization towards business agility, value flow, and enhanced team collaboration.

 

During this webinar, you will:

    • Learn how leadership can foster an Agile/Lean mindset and promote core values within HR roles, creating a culture of agility and continuous improvement.

    • Explore the impact of a growth mindset in cultivating learning cultures within organizations. Discover how leaders can inspire and empower employees to embrace learning, adaptability, and resilience.

    • Gain insights into the vital role of leadership in enabling and supporting agility across the entire organization. Understand how leaders can create an environment that nurtures collaboration, innovation, and effective decision-making.

    • Discover practical strategies for leaders to apply Agile mindset and practices to HR initiatives and operations. Learn how Agile principles can optimize HR processes, drive efficiency, and deliver value-driven HR services. 

Whether you are a seasoned HR professional or a leader looking to drive organizational change, this session will provide you with actionable insights and strategies to navigate the Agile HR landscape.

Earn 1 PDU when you attend live.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 27, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: SoftEd    @SoftEdHQ

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Data Literacy Series: Visualizations and Graphs - Master Class 5

Presented by Dr. David Marco, EW Solutions and Data Management

Graphs and visualizations are the staples of any analytics program. In this webinar, you will learn about the 23 major types of visualizations and when to use and not use each one.

Learning Points

    • What is the best use for each type of visualization or graph?

    • When should the visualization or graph not be used?

 

Audience: IIBA Member

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 28, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

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From Project to Product: The Need for Speed

Presented by Anne Steiner and Jeff Sussna, Cprime

As we look to enhance our ways of working and shift from project-based methodologies to product thinking, it's easy to overlook the technical aspects of this change. Let's not make that mistake.

In this webinar, Jeff Sussna, Director of Technical Agility at Cprime, and Anne Steiner, Chief Product Coach, delve into the technical aspects of switching from project to product. What does this mean for our engineers, testers, and product teams? Equally important, what does this mean to the health, resilience, and maneuverability of our codebases and environments?

We'll approach these topics across the following dimensions:

    • Development - new product development as well as maintenance and enhancements

    • Testing

    • Delivery Lifecycle

Lastly, we'll bring it all together to illustrate how engineering for speed + quality and the concept of "total product ownership" reduces time to market, enhances product quality, and fuels maneuverability.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 29, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime    @Cprime

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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, June 29, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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Business Analysis Webinars for June 2023 - Week III

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Communicating with Clarity and Impact

Presented by Susan Croft, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

 

The ability to get to the point in a succinct and focused manner is critical to communicating successfully with busy people. This webinar will teach you how to communicate with greater brevity and impact. Participants will leave with a greater appreciation of the communication process, as well as what they can do to dramatically improve their day-to-day interactions with colleagues, supervisors, clients, customers, and other stakeholders.

 

Topic areas:

    • Get right to the point with succinct messages

    • Distinguish between effective and ineffective communication skills

    • Elegantly transition from potentially difficult questions or conversations to those that will have a positive impact on the discussion

    • Influence others in a positive way

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 20, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporation Education Group    @CEG

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Developing a Strategic Mindset

Presented by Susan Croft, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

 

Strategic planning and fostering a strategic mindset is about getting your team, department or organization where it needs to go. Starting with the bigger picture and moving onto the practical implementation issues, this webinar takes you right through the strategic planning process with helpful tools, techniques and ideas at every stage.

 

Topic areas:

    • How to develop a strategic mindset

    • Using the strategic planning process to help you make choices about the future nature and direction of your organization

    • Assessing the benefits and risks of strategic planning

    • Setting strategic objectives

    • Implementing the strategy

    • Undertaking effective monitoring and evaluation

    • Communicating your strategy to the board and senior management

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 21. 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CEG

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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, June 22, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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Business Analytics Series: Visualizing data in context for a theme park

Presented by Scott A. Helmers

 

The key to successful data visualization is context. A collection of charts and graphs on a BI dashboard are great, but without context you’re likely to miss key insights. For example, the red bars on a hospital’s
environmental monitoring dashboard may alert you that a problem exists, but when you can click the red bars and see the exact location of the problem on a floor plan, you can formulate an immediate
response. Similarly, when a dashboard includes a network diagram that shows real-time server status and you can click a failed server to see the data required to initiate a fix, you’re two steps ahead.

How do you achieve this level of insight? There’s no better way to add context than to enhance Power BI reports with floor plans, network diagrams, process maps, or org charts created in Visio. This session
features a case study and multiple live demos of Visio/Power BI integration from an ongoing project. The customer’s goal was to provide frontline workers using Microsoft Teams with easy access to visualizations in Power BI. You may not manage theme parks for a living, but you and your colleagues probably do need to visualize data more effectively.

Key takeaways:
    • A Visio diagram viewed in a web browser can be a powerful data visualization tool
    • Power BI reports can provide visible context for data by using the Visio Visual
    • Filters and bookmarks can add sophisticated navigation to Power BI reports

 

Audience: IIBA Member

Date/Time: Thursday, June 22, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: IIBA Business Analytics Special Interest Group 

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Business Analysis Webinars for June 2023 - Week II

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Social Event to "Build a Community"

Presented by Steph Hawkins, Cathy Warren, and Marci Watts

 

Join us for a Father's Day themed Agile Tips & Tricks Social event as we continue to "Build our Community".

 

What kinds of food do you and your family serve at summer parties to celebrate your father? Fire up the grill and cook those hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken and more. Serve that mac & cheese and potato salad. Maybe homemade ice cream or fruit kabobs. Don’t forget the nice tall cold drink! Wear your favorite floppy hat and shades and bring a friend to our Father's Day party!

 

Bluegrass, Southeast Michigan, and Chicagoland IIBA Chapters are joining together to celebrate our fathers, and learn about some Agile Tips & Tricks from our resident experts. Bring your favorite summer time recipes and "dad jokes" to share as we continue to "Build our Community".

The Dad Jokes, Agile Tips & Tricks, recipes and what we build together as our BA technique will be shared with all participants following the event.

This promises to be a fun and interactive event. Don't miss it!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 14, 2023; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass, Southeast Michigan, and Chicagoland IIBA Chapters    @IIBABluegrass  @iibasemi2  @IIBAChicagoland

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Crisis Mode: How to help yourself (and others) in moments of crisis and uncertainty

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis

 

Everyone encounters situations of crisis, uncertainty, or which just make us anxious or afraid. Knowing yourself, knowing what makes you feel threatened, and how to function, manage, and mitigate in the worst of those moments is the mark of maturity as well as what can identify a senior practitioner.

 

In this session we’ll discuss the physical and mental reactions all people have to being in these “fight or flight'' situations, also called “being under threat”. In humanity’s past these situations were obvious - we see a lion, a bear, a snake, and that part of our brain takes over as an asset to us. Selected mental and physical reactions take over, enhancing survival focus and chemically charging our bodies for activity.

 

However…when that threat isn’t a lion, but a layoff; not a cobra but a conflict; not a famine but a failure, our biological threat reaction doesn’t serve us as well.

Learning how to manage yourself when threats occur - a major crisis as well as routine daily work - are equally important. This skill transfers directly to your life outside your job, as perceived threats don't start or stop at the office door.

 

Join us for this session about understanding the threat reaction, how to manage the harder aspects of it in modern life, and using these skills to help yourself and others weather the storms we all encounter.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Understand what constitutes “threat” to the mind.

2. Understand the process that occurs upon encountering a threat, what it enhances and what it inhibits.

3. Understand and be able to begin to employ techniques which allow you to mitigate, manage, and function within threat environments. Be able to introduce others to the same techniques. 

 

Audience: IIBA Member

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 14, 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, June 15, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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Critical Success Factors for Business Analysts

Presented by Steve Blais, PMP, Author, Trainer, Coach

 

One of the ongoing questions in the business analyst profession from those who manage business analysts to the business analysts themselves is “how do we measure business analysts?”

Since much of the success that business analysts achieve is based, in good part, on the work that others perform (as are the business analyst failures) it is difficult to carve out specific metrics that the business analyst (or the business analyst’s manager) can point to which support their claim to success or not. But there may be some critical success factors in the profession that determine whether a business analyst is performing successfully, with excellence, or just adequately. Or worse...

This webinar discusses the problems of business analyst metrics and how business analysts are typically measured in terms of their overall success.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 15, 2023; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

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WHEN WILL YOU BE DONE? How to Answer in an Agile Framework! with Ryland Leyton, CBAP

Presented by Ryland Leyton, CBAP

 

Answering “when will you be done?” to people outside the team – like the C-suite, directors, and managers – is often a challenge for teams focused on building software. Speaking to this group in a way comprehensible for an elevator or a hallway is a core competency for any agilist who wants to retain freedom and funding! This session takes a brief walk through the concept of velocity, explains the “cone of uncertainty”, burn-up and burn-down charts, and then shows you how to provide a ready and truthful answer about when you’ll be done.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

    • Understand the concept of velocity as used in common agile situations.

    • Understand what causes velocity to increase and decrease on teams.

    • Understand how to estimate large chunks of work to obtain useful range answers and project valid “finishing” answers for your stakeholders.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 15, 2023; 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT

Host: Birmingham, Bluegrass, Palmetto, and St. Louis IIBA Chapters

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Business Analysis Webinars for June 2023

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Leading with Agility

 

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, Agile has been seeping into organizations across a broad range of industries. The agile way of working isn't exclusive to tech companies or software development anymore; it is reshaping functions such as finance, marketing, human resources, and product management.

 

Fundamentally, Agile is about leadership - but not as traditionally understood. The command-and-control leadership paradigm disrupts the Agile process, especially when it comes to Business Agility.

Join us for this insightful webinar as we delve deep into the role of leadership in Agile, primarily focusing on self-leadership and self-management - the cornerstones of any Agile work structure. The discussion will be framed around the pioneering work ICAgile has done with their new certification offering, "Leading with Agility".

 

This session serves as an introduction to the transformation required to embrace and excel in Business Agility. We'll spotlight the core element that drives innovation and accelerates learning.

 

You will learn:

    • Comprehend the dynamics of Power and Influence

    • Discover the Leadership Styles conducive to Agile

    • Unearth the significance of Emotional Intelligence; particularly self-awareness and self-management

    • Understand the essence of Mindfulness

    • Recognize the role of Values and Purpose at the heart of effective work

    • Introduction to Growth Mindset

    • Grasp the Agile Values

    • Harness the power of Storytelling

    • Lead change, don't just manage it

    • Embrace Adaptability

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 6, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and SoftEd    @IIBABluegrass    @SoftEdHQ

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IIBA's Annual General Meeting

Presented by Delvin Fletcher, President and CEO, IIBA

 

Audience: IIBA Member

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 6, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

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From Project to Product: Leaders, Here's What It Means to You

Presented by Anne Steiner, Chief Product Coach, Cprime

 

Project to product is all the rage these days. You, your boss, or your company are already talking about this. Heck, your group has been "agile" for years now, but this next phase seems to just be a repackaging of that.

 

In this webinar, Anne Steiner, Chief Product Coach at Cprime, will get into Project to Product from the leader's perspective. We'll explore "why we should care" and "what this really means". Then, we'll deep dive into the following keys to leadership success in driving this change:

    • Your help, involvement, and willingness to influence change is critical. Team-level change isn't enough and will yield limited benefits.

    • You need more than just engineering/IT buy-in to be successful. It takes the whole enterprise.

    • Product management is a thing. We'll learn what it is, how it is different from project management, and why it is critical to market domination and product success.

 

Lastly, we'll leave you with some tips for success that will guide you in driving change whether you sit at the manager, director, VP, or C-level.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 7, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime    @Cprime

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Essential Requirements Practices with Karl Wiegers

Presented by Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant, Process Impact

 

Many big books on software requirements and business analysis recommend dozens and dozens of practices. They’re all useful in appropriate situations, but it’s daunting to try to remember—let alone implement—the whole set consistently. However, every project should perform 20 core requirements activities. These lay a solid foundation for success and help teams efficiently and effectively elicit, analyze, specify, validate, and manage their requirements. These practices are valuable for both traditional and agile projects, regardless of the kind of product you’re building.

 

This presentation identifies those 20 core practices and drills down into several of them. They can help project and product teams understand the business problem, engage the right participants, articulate effective solutions, communicate information among stakeholders, implement the right functionality in the right sequence, and adapt to change. Do you have to perform all 20 of these on your project? Maybe not, but you’ll feel less pain and get better results if you do.

 

Learning Objectives

    • Identify the 20 practices that contribute most heavily to business analysis success

    • Understand how to apply certain of those practices on both agile and traditional projects

    • Enable you to begin a self-assessment of how to improve your team’s requirements practices

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 7, 2023: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass, Chicagoland, Columbus, DC Metro, Halifax, Ottawa-Outaouais, Palmetto, Raleigh, St. Louis, South Florida, Southeast Michigan, and Tampa Bay IIBA Chapters    @IIBA Bluegrass

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Emotional Intelligence for Career Success

Presented by Dr. Jenny Woo, Founder and CEO, Mind Brain Emotion

 

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to understand your own emotions and the emotions of others and to apply that understanding to effectively lead, solve problems and make smart decisions. People with high EQ are associated with better workplace performance, physical and mental health, social relationships, and resilience. In practice, EQ is essential for standing out in job interviews, collaborating in teams, and influencing others. In this webinar, participants will learn about the dimensions of emotional intelligence and how to apply them to improve branding, communications, and leadership.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 7, 2023; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

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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, June 8, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

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Business Analytics Series: Choosing a Representative Group of People for a Survey

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

 

Within any survey we are interested in what the data says about a population (or community) of respondents. To obtain accurate results we need to hear from a representative group of people from that population, if we only really talk to one demographic within that population, we will obtain biased results. As an extreme example of this you can imagine going to a Coke factory and asking the staff whether they enjoying drinking Coke, and then going next door to the Pepsi factory and asking the staff there whether they enjoy drinking Coke. Are staff going to be answering the question in the same way (particularly if they know that their employers are listening to their responses). To address these issues, we ideally need to make sure that the people completing our survey have the same diversity as the people in our population of interest. While this is the ideal, this kind of bias might be reduced through a mathematical process during the data analysis called weighting.

 

Within this webinar we will explore the following topics:

    • What is representativeness?

    • What is the difference between the target population (the population we want to understand) and the sampling frame (the population that we can include in our survey)?

    • How do we choose a representative sample from the sampling frame (with mathematical techniques such as stratified sampling and cluster sampling)?

    • How can weighting be used to minimize potential bias during the data analysis? Surveys and  

 

Questionnaires are discussed in Section 3.17 of the IIBA Guide to Business Data Analytics.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 8, 2023; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT

Host: IIBA Business Analytics Special Interest Group

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Product Ownership Analysis Certification Chat

Presented by Madeline Miller, CSM, CBAP, AAC, CSPO

 

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. 

Target Audience:

    • Professionals seeking to understand the agile analyst role         

    • Professionals seeking knowledge of how the BA supports the PO in an agile environment

    • Professionals seeking IIBA®-CPOA Certification  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, June 9, 2023; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

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