Business Analysis Webinars for July 2022 - Week II

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Psychological Safety: Making it Real for Your Teams

Presented by Christa Kirby, VP of Talent Development, Corporate Education Group

 

It’s been more than two decades since Amy Edmondson first introduced the concept of psychological safety as a key component of team learning and development. In today’s “workers economy,” employees are re-examining what work means to them, and they’re making new choices around how, when, and why they do it. We’re in the midst of a talent migration, and creating psychological safety at work is more important than ever.

In this webinar, we’ll explore the interconnected relationship between a sense of belonging, individual commitment, and team performance. You’ll gain insight into:
    • Why psychological safety is especially critical for organizations as we transition to hybrid work

    • Essential coaching behaviors that build trust and drive results

    • Ways to design team experiences for inclusion

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, July 11, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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The Critical Importance of Business Requirements

Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM

 

How do Business Requirements differ from other kinds of requirements? What information is being expressed and who is the audience? In this Lunchtime Learning presentation, we will take a close look at Business Requirements and their purpose focusing on their successful documentation and communication.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 12, 2022; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: PM CenterUSA    @PMCenterUSA

Cost: Free

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Top Resume Writing Tips from Business Analysis Recruiters & Career Coaches

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis

 

Are you looking for ways to have your resume stand out in a pool of business analysis candidates? In this webinar, Business Analysis and IT Recruiters and Career Coaches will share their tips for writing resumes that will get results.

They will cover:

- Key content to include (and exclude)
- Why sharing metrics is a powerful way to describe your contributions and kinds of metrics to share
- Which questions your resume should answer
- Resume optimization and formatting tips

You'll receive a a variety of tools, checklists and templates that you can use to kick start your resume writing in this content-filled webinar!

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 13, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

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, July 14, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Working within an Agile Culture

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

 

Agile is becoming the dominant practice for software development management and is being used to grow into all facets of an organization.

To remain valuable and keep your skills development at the pace of organizational change, this is a must have learning session to keep pace.

This session will cover:
    - Dealing with conflict
    - Negotiation basics
    - Criticality of facilitation
    - Understanding the underlining elements of change and change management
    - Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing
    - Working with others without freaking out
    - Making your own decisions including what you are doing and how to do it

There are very specific skills a professional requires to be successful working in the Agile way. The problem is too many times, we think Agile is a set of practices and nothing else. But knowing something doesn’t mean you can get things done. To be successful in Agile you must learn and develop very practical professional skills that form the foundation of Agile values and principles. Learn this and the practices come alive and have meaning.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 14 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: SoftEd USA    @SoftEdHQ

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for March 2021

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Managing Projects in a Fully Remote Work Environment

Presented by Lory Wingate

 

During this webinar, we will discuss key challenges in managing a fully remote work environment, and will provide specific examples and models that can immediately be used by the audience.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 2, 2021; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Improving Communications to Perform More Effectively

Presented by Rick Clare, CBAP, PMP, CSM

 

The world around us is shrinking.  Business Analysts, Technical Team Members and Project Managers are required to work more often with global stakeholders. Often, we are surprised by how differently things are done outside our familiar environment. One common communication mistake we make is to assume that “everyone is the same at heart." Human communication is not simple or intuitive. It is something that we all need to study and improve on throughout our careers to become more effective and succeed in our ever-shrinking world.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 2, 2021; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: PM Centers USA      @PMCentersUSA

Cost: Free

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Managing a Data Lake Project

Presented by Bert Brijs

 

In this webinar we will point out the differences between a data warehouse and a data lake project. For the latter, we will include a work breakdown structure template.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Visual Thinking Superpowers for Product Ownership

Presented by Pardeep Dhanda and Grant Wright

 

The Product Owner role has become a popular path for many Business Analysts and is vital for achieving business agility. But before a Business Analyst can master the art of product ownership they must learn how to adapt their mindset and find innovative ways to harness the wisdom of crowds to unlock creative thinking.

 

Follow our heroes on an epic journey where they will literally illustrate how Visual Thinking can help you to:

    - Learn about the PO role and how to adapt as your career advances (whilst avoiding some common pitfalls along the way)

    - Explore problems and spark creativity within teams

    - Produce simple but effective visuals to provide clarity, create alignment and open up new possibilities

 

Join us for an immersive hands-on session, where we will show you how to unleash your Visual Thinking superpowers and take your product ownership practice to the next level. Remember to bring a pen and plain paper so you can draw along during the session!

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Finding Your Place in a New, Digital World

Presented by Michael Milutis

 

In this webinar, we will address the bewilderment that many of you feel when faced with new, difficult to understand technology trends and will give you the mindset you need to flourish in this new world.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 4, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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7 Business Agility Practices That Work for (Almost) Any Team" Webinar

Presented by Netmind

 

We all know agile was initially designed with software development teams in mind. However, business agility is only possible if an organization has a quality-oriented culture that collectively shapes what we do as an organization and how we do it. To accomplish this, agile team practices have had to spread to all areas of an organization, so that now agile teams now exist in a wide variety of departments beyond IT, all with different functions and skills. Agile teams can now be found in HR, Marketing, Finance, and even Legal departments!

 

Ensuring that teams across an organization work with common practices inspired by the Agile values and with a Lean mindset is not easy. Teams are not always clear about what it means to be agile and which practices best fit their needs and enable them to respond to change efficiently and sustainably.

 

Join us for this free webinar to get the answer to the pivotal questions below and also, I will share 7 Lean Agile practices that are essential for any agile team who wants to respond in a sustainable way to the changing needs of its customers! 

 

    • What determines the success or failure of teams that contribute to the overall agility of an organization, no matter the business area they belong to?

    • What are some common patterns that we can find in teams that have really adapted to change?

    • Which practices should be shared by teams across departments?

    • Which practices should be left up to the teams to decide what is best for themselves?

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, March 5, 2021; 11:00 am – 11:50 am EST

Host: Netmind    @Netmind_US

Cost: Free

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Facilitation: A Core Skill for Today’s Leaders

Presented by Andrea Brockmeier, PMP, CSM, PBA, AAC, Director of Project Management at Watermark Learning

 

PMs, BAs, Scrum Masters, and others often see facilitation as part of their job description. What does it really mean to facilitate? If you lead team meetings, doesn’t that mean you’re facilitating? Let’s talk about it and learn how facilitation is different than other instances of leading a group. Importantly, we’ll discuss why it matters and how you can be more strategic in your interactions when you are clear about your role as a facilitator.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, March 5, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning     @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for February 2021

 Product Backlog Anti-Patterns — An Introduction to Forensic Analysis

Presented by Stefan Wolpers, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Forensic Analysis: “Forensic analysis refers to a detailed investigation for detecting and documenting the course, reasons, culprits, and consequences of a security incident or violation of rules of the organization or state laws.” (Source: https://enterprise.comodo.com/blog/what-is-forensic-analysis/.)

Even if you chose to use Scrum for the right purpose—solving complex adaptive problems and your product quality is high, and the team is self-managing entirely; If your Product Backlog is not actionable, your Scrum Team will be performing at a mediocre level at best—way below its potential.

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers will introduce ten critical anti-patterns in Product Backlog management, that both Scrum Masters and Product Owners should address immediately, once identified.

 

In this webinar, you will learn:
    -Why an actionable Product Backlog is essential for your Scrum Team’s success
    -How to spot and remedy issues that prevent your Product Backlog from becoming actionable,
    -How you can defend your Product Backlog from falling back into the “old ways.”

The webinar is also well-suited for those Scrum Masters and Product Owners that are new to a Scrum Team and need to learn about the team’s previous way of working.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 2, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Deciphering Requirements

Presented by Rick Clare, CBAP, PMP, CSM, Partner, PMCenters USA

 

This webinar will explain how to move from Business Requirements to Functional Requirements. Some of the topics that we will discuss include a review of the Business Analyst role, Business Requirements, the translation process and more. Technical team members can also benefit from this information since they are the recipients of these requirements and can learn from seeing how they come about.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 2, 2021; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: PMCenters USA     @PMCentersUSA

Cost: Free

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Trends in Cybersecurity

Presented by Ray Lugo, Instructor, Global Knowledge

 

Organizations and individuals are threatened with ever-growing cyber threats and must be prepared to address them. The more we are connected to networks, the more suspectable we are to attacks, therefore enterprises must stay current applying various cybersecurity measures and maintaining awareness of cybersecurity trends.

In this webinar, you will learn:
    - Drivers to cyber decisions
    - Future trends and threats
    - How connected are you, are you protected?
    - Preparation to continue to remain relevant

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 3, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Global Knowledge     @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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IIBA® Certification Chat

Presented by Watermark Learning

 

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

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, February 5, 2021; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning     @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for March 2017

Prototyping Explained – How to Ensure Product Success
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
 
Prototyping is a seldom used elicitation technique, even though some development methodologies such as Rapid Application Delivery are entirely based on it. This webinar will provide an in-depth review of this elicitation technique and explain best practices in using prototyping to deliver quality products.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: On Demand
Host: PM Centers USA     @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $9.85 until March 7, 2017
Registration:   PM Centers USA On Demand Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, Watermark Learning
 
The event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning. Topics include anything related to IIBA's certifications you want, ranging from the ECBAP, CCBAP or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, March 3, 2017: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: Watermark Learning    @Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat Registration

 

 
 
 
Requirements Prioritization Best Practices
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting
 
This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements -- a process based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others --  and employing IAG's experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.  

This webinar will explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn't,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best. 

Participants will learn a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.

It will provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project. 

 
Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

·         The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies

·         Different Prioritization Techniques

·         Why Prioritize?

·         When to Prioritize Knowing

·         What to Prioritize

·         The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements

·         Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors

·         Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings

·         Rating Facilitation Methods

·         Next Steps

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 8, 2017; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Leading Change through Emotions
Presented by Cecillia Boggi
 
In this webinar you will learn why and how great leaders inspire and lead through emotions.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday 8 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 

Building Digital Roadmaps

Presented by Agile Layer
 
Topics:

·         Framework & Method for Producing Effective Digital Roadmaps

·         Leveraging Digital Ideation Lenses and Catalogs

·         Creating Capability-driven, multi-level Roadmaps

·         Tying Digital Roadmaps to a Business Architecture

·         Applying Integrated Portfolio Management techniques

·         Review of Digital Capability Models (Mobility, Social, Big Data, IoT)

·         Demonstration: Road mapping Software-as-a-Service

 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 8, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Host; Agile Layer
Cost: Free
Registration:   Agile Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
 7 Habits of Highly Effective Business Analysts
Presented by Heather Mylan-Mains and Jared Gorai
 
As business analysts there are habits we can adopt for success. This presentation will focus on how habits such as planning, stakeholder analysis, understanding the real problem, communication and others will transform a business analyst to a highly effective problem solving machine!
 

Learning Objectives:

·         Plan for success

·         Understand the problem

·         The right communication

 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 8 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Order out of chaos: How to launch a product when the starting point is nebulous​
Presented by James Hulgan, Service Delivery Director, Seilevel
 
Like most IT projects, the most expensive part of launching a new line of business is integrating technology and business processes with new systems and organizations. The ultimate deliverable from a software development project isn’t a set of requirements--it’s a solution that solves a business problem or takes advantage of an opportunity.

Key take aways:
 

·         techniques for how to take a solution from concept to delivery

·         the value and impact of using visual models for a faster time to market

·         how to think about and drive user adoption early in the product development process

 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 8, 2017; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Host: Seilevel
Cost: Free
Registration:   Seilevel Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Value Mapping: Critical Business Architecture
Presented by Chris Armstrong
 
This webinar will review the principles and benefits of value mapping, the different kinds of value models, and how value maps contextualize other business architecture perspectives.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 9, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute   @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 

Building Digital Roadmaps

Presented by Agile Layer
 
Topics:

·         Framework & Method for Producing Effective Digital Roadmaps

·         Leveraging Digital Ideation Lenses and Catalogs

·         Creating Capability-driven, multi-level Roadmaps

·         Tying Digital Roadmaps to a Business Architecture

·         Applying Integrated Portfolio Management techniques

·         Review of Digital Capability Models (Mobility, Social, Big Data, IoT)

·         Demonstration: Road mapping Software-as-a-Service

 
Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, March 10, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host; Agile Layer

Cost: Free

Registration:   Agile Public Webinar Registration