Sunday, September 10, 2023

Business Analysis Webinars for September 2023 - Week II

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Empower Your Next Virtual Workshop With No Additional Technology

Presented by John Chen, CEO, Author, Speaker, Trainer

 

Using techniques from the book Engaging Virtual Meetings: Openers, Games, and Activities for Communication, Morale, and Trust (available free to IIBA Members through the Online Digital Library and available through Amazon), shows you the key secrets to having your attendees say, “I have more energy (rather than less) after 60 minutes meeting with you!”.  (Please note: IIBA Members will be prompted to login with their IIBA ID and password to access books, audio books and videos in the Online Digital Library)

 

When you learn Engaging Virtual Meetings, you will learn: 

•    The 6-step ENGAGE method to solve your virtual meeting and workshop challenges 

•    Fix attendees talking over each other 

•    How to look good virtually 

•    How to engage everyone even if someone else is talking 

•    How to use virtual tools to get work done 

•    Powerfully close your meeting and take steps to make your next meeting even more engaging 

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis     @IIBA

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Best Teams: Introverts, Extroverts, Ambiverts

Presented by Bob Faw, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

 

Every workplace today needs to leverage relationships and attitudes that get things done fast. Effective, high-performing teams within organizations generate new ideas and approaches that solve problems and create innovative solutions efficiently, cost-effectively, and with the highest level of quality. Best Teams engage all personalities optimally. In this webinar learn how to maximize the contributions of introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts within project teams and maximize productivity by eliciting and valuing input from all types of people.

Join us and discover:

    The key differences between the three “verts”

    The top 5 ways to engage introverts, focus on extroverts, and leverage ambiverts.

    Maximize the passion of all of the “verts”

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 13, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CEG

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

The AI-Powered Business Analyst: Five Ways to Work Smarter in the Age of Automation

Presented by Marc Balcer, Consultant and Trainer, SoftEd

 

Business analysts play a crucial role in eliciting requirements, analyzing needs, and ensuring solutions deliver value. But increasing complexity and demands on BAs can lead to inefficiency, inconsistent artifacts, strained stakeholder relationships, and underwhelming results. Many aspects of the job are just time-consuming and tedious.

 

Fortunately, advances in AI are transforming how BAs can approach their role for enhanced productivity and business value.

 

In this practical webinar, we'll explore five ways AI can make you a better BA:

    Producing artifacts quickly so you can focus on ideas
   
Accelerating research
   
Interviewing stakeholders
   
Rapidly generating prototypes and mockups for design
   
Maintaining consistency and traceability

 

You'll learn AI techniques and tools available today to help you work smarter, gain deeper insights, and deliver better analysis. By leveraging AI for repetitive and labor-intensive tasks, you can focus your time on high-value strategic analysis, gain deeper insights, be more productive, and provide greater business value.

 

We'll discuss real-world applications and provide tips to make AI work for you. If you're a business analyst looking to enhance your skills and contribution in the age of AI, don't miss this webinar!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 13. 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: SoftEd    @SoftEdHQ

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

Social Event to "Build a Community"

Presented by Steph Hawkins, Bluegrass Chapter, Cathy Warren, Southeast Michigan Chapter, and Marci Watts, Chicagoland Chapter

 

Join us for our Agile Tips & Tricks Social event as we continue to "Build our Community".

As we celebrate International Chocolate Day, what chocolate recipes do you have? Chocolate fudge, Boston Cream Pie, Chocolate Bunnies or Chocolate Martini? Since it is also National Peanut Day, add some peanuts to your chocolate. This will give you positive thoughts for Positive Thinking Day! Wear your favorite chocolate outfit and bring a friend to our Peanut Chocolate Positive Thinking Celebration!

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

The 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, September 13, 2023; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter, Southeast Michigan IIBA Chapter, Chicagoland IIBA Chapter   

                 @IIBABluegrass                         @IIBASEM2                               @IIBAChicagoland

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Essential Requirements Practices

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: Thursday, September 14, 2023; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

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Tina & Adrian’s Business Bookshelf: Begin with You…

Presented by Christina Lovelock and Adrian Reed

 

Tina and Adrian read a lot of books, and often find themselves discussing books that they particularly like. Recently, an idea emerged: why not have those conversations *online* so anyone interested in the book (or the topic) can listen in?

 

In this session, you can tune in as Tina and Adrian discuss their perspectives and key takeaways from the following book:

 

Begin with You: Invest in your mental well-being and satisfaction at work by Petra Velzeboer.

 

This is a LinkedIn Live Event. Not only can you listen, but since the event is live, you’ll be able to type your comments, live, into LinkedIn.

 

The event is unscripted, live and anything could happen…

So why not take 30 minutes out of your busy day, grab a coffee, tune in and chill out for some relaxed professional development.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, September 15, 2023; 8:00 am – 8:30 am EDT

Host: Blackmetric Business Solutions    @Blackmetric

[REGISTER HERE]

 


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