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Future Proofing Your BA
Career in the ChatGPT Era
Presented by LN Mishra, CBAP and Victoria Cupet, CBAP
Chat GPT is increasingly becoming a household name. With 100
million+ subscribers and 1.8 billion searches, it is the most wildly popular
internet service. With such great power comes the natural question, how will it
affect business analysts? How can business analysts leverage these amazingly
capable systems to achieve higher productivity and better business performance?
In this live expert webinar, we will discuss how business analysts prepare
themselves for the future world.
This webinar tries to achieve the following objectives/outcomes:
• Why leveraging Chat GPT matters for
business analysts
• How business analysts can leverage
Chat GPT
• Skills that will remain evergreen even
in the presence of Chat GPT
• Q&A
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 5, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Adaptive US
@AdaptiveUS
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Essential Requirements
Practices
Presented by Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant, Process
Impact and Candase Hokanson, Business Architect, ArgonDigital
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.
** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, July 10, 2023; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Blackmetric Business Solutions @Blackmetric
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Ask a Professional
Scrum Trainer with PST David Sabine, Canada
Presented by David Sabine, 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, Davis Sabine
who is based in Canada will be available to answer your burning questions about
Scrum and the challenges you or your teams have.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Scrum.org
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Design Workshops: Where Agile
and Design Thinking Meet
Presented by Joseph Pierce, Trainer and Consultant, SoftEd
In this interactive session, we explore the power of design workshops
and how they serve as the nexus for Agile methodologies and Design
Thinking principles.
You'll gain invaluable insights into the collaborative
processes that foster creativity, user-centricity, and effective
problem-solving.
Throughout this webinar, we will delve into:
• How Design Thinking can tangibly increase your
organizational value.
• User-Centric Exploration: Uncover the strategies to deeply
understand the needs, motivations, and behaviors of your users, empowering you
to create solutions that truly resonate with their desires.
• Leveraging Agile and Design Thinking: Explore how
the marriage of Agile methodologies and Design Thinking principles
amplifies the effectiveness of design workshops, unlocking innovation and
enhancing collaboration.
• Design Thinking Tools and Techniques: Gain practical
knowledge of a range of design thinking tools and techniques that enable you to
tackle complex problems with creativity and precision.
• User Research and Validation: Learn how to conduct thorough
user research and effectively validate your designs, ensuring that
they align with user expectations and deliver exceptional
experiences.
• The Synergy of Agile and Design Thinking:
Experience the 5-step design sprint process, a user-centric approach championed
by Google Ventures, which empowers you to create, iterate, and improve products
and services with precision.
This webinar is a must-attend for professionals interested
in leveraging the power of Agile and Design Thinking, including:
• Product team members who want to unlock their creative
potential and harness the collective intelligence of Agile and Design
Thinking.
• Product Owners and Leaders seeking to foster a culture of
innovation and guide their teams with a user-centric approach.
• Individuals eager to apply design thinking principles to
transform their products, services, and overall problem-solving capabilities.
Join us to explore the convergence of Agile and
Design Thinking with Joseph Pierce.
Earn 1 PDU when you attend live.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: SoftEd and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter @SoftEdHQ @IIBABluegrass
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Data Analytics for
Beginners
Presented by Watermark Learning / Educate 360
What will you learn?
Understanding the various methods and best practices that
are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing,
and analyzing data in Power BI can help elevate your data and your business.
Register today to learn how to access and process data from a range of data
sources including both relational and non-relational sources.
Register today to learn:
• How to manage and deploy reports and
dashboards for sharing and content distribution.
• Ingest, clean, and transform data.
• Model data for performance and
scalability.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023; 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning / Educate 360
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Your Backlog is Broken
– here’s how to fix it
Presented by Shane Hastie, Global Delivery Lead, SoftEd
Agile software development introduced the backlog as a beautiful,
powerful, and delightfully simple tool for managing variability and uncertainty
in modern organizations. Unfortunately, the backlog can also be a major
impediment to flow and break the value stream with substantial economic loss.
This happens because our traditional model of backlog management presents the
backlog as a stack of plates reservoir for the development team.
Agile grew up, and now so does our model of the backlog.
Based on the recently launched book “The Rock Crusher”
(available from Amazon or the IIBA) this session introduces a flow-based model
for backlog management.
We explore how some organizations are managing their
backlogs well, yet others struggle, show how turbulence is necessary for
innovation, introduce the waste gate as a way to help focus on doing the right
work and show how using a rock crusher helps maximize the value generated for
our customers and stakeholders.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023; 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT
Host: SoftEd
@SoftEdHQ
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Essential Communication
Skills for Successful Stakeholder Engagement
Presented by Pamela Paterson, Jennifer Bedell, and Susan
Moore
As a business analysis professional, a significant part of
your job involves engaging with stakeholders, understanding their needs, and
discussing solutions. Join us for an informative webinar designed to equip you
with effective communication skills that will help you overcome common
challenges and build stronger relationships during business analysis
activities. In this webinar, our expert speakers will discuss:
• Importance of
effective communication in stakeholder engagement
• Core principles
of effective communication and techniques
• Strategies for
fostering trust and positive relationships with stakeholders
• Approaches to
handle challenging conversations with stakeholders
• Understanding
stakeholder communication preferences
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 13, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
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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.
** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 13, 2023; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst
@ModernAnalyst
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Lean Portfolio
Management Primer
Presented by Jessica Katz, Trainer and Consultant, SoftEd
Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your
organization's portfolio management practices? Join us for a comprehensive and
practical webinar with Agile Expert Jessica Katz.
In this 60-minute session, we will delve into the key
principles and practices of Lean Portfolio Management, equipping you with the
knowledge and strategies to drive business agility and maximize results.
Whether you're a seasoned project manager or new to the field of business
agility, this webinar is designed to provide valuable insights and actionable
strategies for success.
During the webinar, Jessica will guide you through a journey
of exploration, covering essential topics such as prioritizing and aligning
strategic initiatives, managing portfolios with agility, and measuring and
optimizing portfolio performance. Through real-world examples and practical
case studies, you'll gain a deep understanding of how Lean Portfolio Management
can transform your organization's approach to portfolio optimization.
By attending this webinar, you can expect to:
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of
Lean Portfolio Management and its relevance in today's business landscape.
• Discover best practices for
prioritizing and aligning strategic initiatives to ensure optimal resource
allocation and value delivery.
• Learn how to manage portfolios with agility,
adapt to changing market dynamics, and drive continuous improvement.
• Explore effective methods for
measuring and optimizing portfolio performance, enabling data-driven
decision-making.
• Acquire valuable insights and
practical strategies for driving business results and achieving long-term
success.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from industry expert
Jessica Katz and join a community of professionals dedicated to optimizing
their portfolio management practices.
Earn 1 PDU when you attend live.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, July 14, 2023; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: SoftEd
@SoftEdHQ
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