Business Analysis Webinars for June 2022 - Week IV

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Don’t Just go Through the Motions, Practice Professional Scrum

Presented by Eric Naiburg, COO, Scrum.org

 

Scrum was originally developed for complex software development projects, but is now being used on almost any type of team-based product work. The framework as defined in the Scrum Guide is a simple yet powerful way to bring order to complexity through learning by providing frequent opportunities for frequent feedback on both how we work and the thing we have and will be working on.

While many people are practicing Scrum, practicing it effectively requires something more than just following the mechanics and fundamentals of the framework. Professional Scrum helps teams get out of that mechanical, going through the motions habit when it comes to Scrum. In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Eric Naiburg, COO, Scrum.org will walk the audience through how Professional Scrum is different and how it requires the Scrum Values, mindset techniques for ways of working and thinking, focusing on outcomes and an environment that supports Professional Scrum including trust.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 21, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT  

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Beyond the Techniques: Tools to Get Stuff Done!

Presented by Kur Wondra, MBA, CBAP, PSM II, PSPO

 

These days, there are many easily accessible and oftentimes cheap (or free) online tools which can help BAs get stuff done. Whether you need to groom an Agile product backlog, manage and share spreadsheets, document process and data flow diagrams (like a systems development life cycle diagram), put together how-to documentation / SOP protocols, there are plenty of tools out there to help. In this presentation, we’ll touch on tools any good BA will want to have in their back pocket for their next project.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 22, 2022; 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

Host: Kansas City IIBA Chapter and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

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 23, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

A Quick Tour of Jama Connect for Modern Requirements Management

Presented by Aaron Perillat, Principal Solutions Architect, Jama Software

 

Jama Connect enables consistency, collaboration, and alignment across the enterprise by providing a continuous flow of accurate requirements information. This webinar demonstration tour provides an overview of the Jama Connect platform.

Join us for this product demonstration where you’ll learn how to:

    • Establish alignment across people, process, and technology to establish a single source of truth around digital requirements management

    • Collaborate across both internal and external teams using Review Center

    • Use traceability views to provide visibility across the entire product development cycle

    • Utilize our common integrations to extend the solution capabilities— including JIRA

    • Use Jama Connect to support testing, change management and impact analysis

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 28, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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10 Tips To Facilitate Effective Sprint Reviews

Presented by Ravi Verma, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

The purpose of the Sprint Review is to inspect the outcome of the Sprint and determine future adaptations. It is an impactful Scrum event that can potentially make or break your organization’s Scrum adoption. However, it might also be one of the most misunderstood and poorly facilitated Scrum Events.

 

Sometimes, the Sprint Review ends up as an event where Developers demo tons of details that make no sense to stakeholders. At other times, it can become an elaborate, choreographed promotional event to showcase the talent of the Scrum Team. In either case, the responses are usually underwhelming and the Sprint Review results in a waste of golden opportunities for valuable learning and course-correction.

 

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Ravi Verma will share some common real-world challenges his clients and students have faced in their Sprint Reviews and ten adjustments that have helped them overcome these challenges. As a bonus, if you submit your most burning question about Sprint Review facilitation, we will try to customize our content to address your needs.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 28, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

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 30, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2015 - Part II

Top Pitfalls that Lead to Agile Troubles
Presented by David Mantica

With anything new there are going to be difficulties. What starts out a small test with a pilot team leads to a huge bandwagon affect. This is great but some bandwagoners get nervous when the problems start and ultimately become the naysayers and finger pointers that can kill Agile before it even gets a chance to provide benefit.

In this web seminar we will discuss in detail the top issues that lead to problems deploying Agile. This session will give you the information you need to keep the bandwagon's wheels here on earth and avoid the bubble burst when expectations are set too high.

Problems we will discuss include:

·         Self-organized team function

·         Poor Product Owner performance

·         Lack of adequate training and coaching

·         No change management plan

·         Lack of executive support

·         Inconsistent business unit support

Ultimately Agile success requires an organization to do some creative destruction which leads to inefficiency and confusion for a period of time. Be prepared to weather that storm by preparing your sponsors and management with an understanding of the problems you will face on your road to incorporating Agile methods into your organization.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 24, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

 

Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration

Presented by Blueprint Systems

Accelerate projects and deliver more business value

Join us for a live, interactive demonstration of Blueprint, a visually driven requirements platform that resolves many of the time-consuming, costly, and error- prone functions, thus ensuring that mission critical projects are completed successfully, on time and on budget.

Blueprint helps:

•        Deliver applications that meet business expectations;

•        Increase standardization, consistency and reuse;

•        Improve visibility and accountability;

•        Improve application quality;

•        Reduce costs.

Offering seamless integration with application lifecycle management tools, Blueprint works with different development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 25, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Blueprint Systems   @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration

 

 

Vendor Showcase Webinar Series on Document Elicitation Results 
Presented by Techno Solutions, Yonix, and iRise

As the definitive guide and the internationally recognized standard, the BABOK^® Guide is a comprehensive and essential tool for the practice of business analysis. In April 2015, IIBA will release BABOK^® Guide v3. This webinar will provide you with insight on the alignment of Document Elicitation Results from BABOK^® Guide v2 -- Task 3.3 and how they link to the new BABOK^® Guide v3.

IIBA^® Vendor Showcase Webinars will be hosted by industry expert Tom Karasmanis, IIBA and will be

open to all IIBA Members and non-Members.

Document Elicitation Results

One of the core activities of a business analyst is to document the various stakeholder needs and solution requirements. There are various formats and media than can be used to document the elicitation results. It is important to present the results in a format that is easy for the reader to understand and navigate and lends itself to updates that are sure to come. Activities include capturing and documenting requirements as well as importing and exporting them from various other formats.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: IIBA    @IIBA

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Public Webinar Registration

 

 

Business Analysis: Is it a Role or a Skill?
Presented by David Mantica

The Agile evangelists would say it is a skill the entire team needs. The IIBA would say it is a role that needs to grow in order for companies to gain competitive advantage with their technology deployments and internal automation. PMI (the Project Management Institute) has also spoken on this topic. Their position, based on the certification they developed (PMI-PBA) is it's a skill successful project managers add to their tool kit of skills and techniques. What can be factually attested to is the following; as SDLC practitioner positions like developers, testers and architects were being outsource, larger enterprise organizations depended on building software and systems for competitive advantage have been hiring Business Analysts. Just look at Indeed or Dice or Monster and see which tech jobs are HOT and Business Analyst will be in the top 5.

This presentation will break out the current trends in the software development industry and where BA is seen as skill and were it is being built out as a role. From there we will take a look at the pros and cons of each view and where things may end up in the end. Ultimately giving you critical information as you plan your career growth goals for 2015 and beyond.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

How to Prioritize Your Project Requirements

Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP

Requirements are not equal – and that’s the reason for prioritization, to ensure the implementation efforts focus on the most critical requirements. This webinar will discuss what’s needed to establish the basis for requirements prioritization. Techniques for prioritizing requirements will also be covered including timeboxing and budgeting, MoSCoW, Kano and risk analysis, and voting. Challenges in prioritizing requirements will also be reviewed.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: PM Centers USA   @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95

Registration:   PM Centers USA Webinar Registration

 

 

Webinar: Requirements for Business Analytics

Presented by Joy Beatty, VP at Seilevel

Normal people don't look at data sets just for fun; they analyze them to make business decisions. Business analysts are more frequently finding themselves on strategic projects that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which conclusive decisions and actions can be derived. Analysis of big data is already a reality today in most IT organizations and will grow in significance as businesses look to gain a better understanding for capturing, structuring and learning from their data.

In this presentation, we will offer advice on tackling requirements for business analytics projects. This webinar outlines how to elicit strategic analytics decisions to help prioritize requirements work, and how to prepare for the future of big data by specifying data needs. Participants will hear examples of questions they can use to engage businesses to think outside the box about their requirements, and consider new possibilities from analytics projects.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst   @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

Registration:   Modern Analyst Webinar Registration

 

 

How IT Megatrends Like Cloud Computing, Big Data and Mobility can Help Your Career

Presented by Eric Bloom, President and Founder at Manager Mechanics

Following the wave of new and exciting IT megatrends and leading edge technologies has forever been the road to rags or riches .

Trends like cloud computing, big data, mobility and others are now driving the industry and are here to stay. So as Project Managers and Business Analysts, what should you know about these technologies and how do you pivot yourself toward them, given your current skill set and current employment? Join us on the webinar and find out!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host:  BA Times   @BATimes

Cost: Free

Registration:   BATimes Webinar Registration

 

 

Owning the Collaboration Circle on All Your Future Projects

Presented by Jama Software

Learn how modern and collaborative requirements management tools make it easier to ensure everyone in the collaboration circle has a clear way to find out what is being discussed, what was decided, and where to provide input when expectations are not being met. Watch this recording webinar for tips on to help you get better visibility into the entire product lifecycle, identify and locate key stakeholders and develop continuous feedback loops that keep your projects humming along.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 25, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

Registration:   Jama Software Webinar Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2015 - Part II

The Strategic Business Analyst: Aligning Projects With Organizational Goals
Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, OCUP, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group

Projects are expected to address a business need and help an organization attain its goals. Business Analysts are expected to ensure that a project fits into the business context. In this webinar, participants will learn how to conduct "enterprise analysis" in order to align projects with organizational goals. The webinar explains the main tasks of Enterprise Analysis according to IIBA®’s BABOK® Guide and then demonstrates select techniques, including root cause analysis, assessing capability gaps, defining solution scope, and leveraging Business Architecture frameworks, such as the Zachman framework. Learning objectives include:

-          Understand the Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area

-          Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs

-          Identify capability gaps using Business Architecture frameworks

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Corporate Education Group   @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corporate Education Group Webinar Registration

 

 

 

Writing Effective User Stories for an Agile Project

Presented by PM Centers USA

Even though Agile development is quickly becoming very common at most organizations, there is still a lot of confusion about how to do it properly.  Some of the most common questions revolve around the Agile requirements elicitation and documentation technique known as User Stories.  Come and learn what they are, how they are done, and where they fit into successful Agile development.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 19, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: PM CentersUSA    @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95

Registration:   PM Centers USA Webinar Registration

 

 

 

Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration

Accelerate projects and deliver more business value

Join us for a live, interactive demonstration of Blueprint, a visually driven requirements platform that resolves many of the time-consuming, costly, and error- prone functions, thus ensuring that mission critical projects are completed successfully, on time and on budget.

Blueprint helps:

•        Deliver applications that meet business expectations;

•        Increase standardization, consistency and reuse;

•        Improve visibility and accountability;

•        Improve application quality;

•        Reduce costs.

Offering seamless integration with application lifecycle management tools, Blueprint works with different development methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2015; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Blueprint Systems   @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Systems Live Product Demonstration Registration

 

 

To Manage or to Motivate: 9 Need-to-Know Traits of the Best Leaders

Presented by John Baldoni

Enabling Your People to Succeed

Leadership, as Dwight Eisenhower once said, is the ability to get people to do what they don’t want to do and like it. That quote addresses two aspects of the power that a leader exercises. One is asking people to do something. The second is motivating people to achieve.

At its core leadership is simple: moving others toward a goal. However leadership is difficult: creating an environment that enables people to succeed.

This webcast will focus on those traits a leader can utilize to bring his/her people toward purpose that unites in common cause.

What You Will Learn

·         Among the traits we will explore are:

·         Demonstrating character

·         Projecting authority

·         Communicating through listening/learning

·         Influencing through others

·         Making tough decisions

·         Showing humility

·         Exhibiting humor

·         Motivating from within

·         Leading: be seen, be heard, be there

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: American Management Association   @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration

 

 

 

Do You Have the Top 5 Skills Agile BAs Need?

Presented by Angela Wick, CBAP, PMP, PBA

Do you have the top five skills Agile BAs Need? Join Angela Wick, CBAP, PMP, PBA and Founder/CEO of BA-Squared to find out, and learn how to cultivate these skills. This free webinar takes place on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST (New York Time).
Agile is happening in most organizations, and the BA role varies, no matter how the BA role is defined in agile environments the skills needed remain the same. Discover the top 5 skills needed to be successful in agile environments. Learn how BAs become agile, even in a hybrid world. Learn how to cultivate these top 5 skills and engage effectively as a BA with an agile mindset that can work on agile, traditional, and hybrid projects. We will take a deep look at each of the 5 skills, what they mean, and ways BAs demonstrate and cultivate these skills. We will look at the aspects of mindsets, behaviors and attitudes that bring out these skills on our journey to become more agile as BAs.

Learning Objectives:

·         Learn what the top 5 skills are for agile BAs

·         Learn how organizations are moving to hybrid models and are looking at agile is an adjective, not a noun or methodology

·         Learn how to cultivate and demonstrate the top 5 skills

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 25, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: BA-Squared, LLC   @WickAng

Cost: Free

Registration:   BA-Squared Webinar Registration

 

 

  

Owning the Collaboration Circle on All of Your Future Projects

Presented by Jama Software

As a Business Analyst or Project Manager, you are on the front lines of bringing products to market that build value for your business. If you’re like most BAs, however, you spend too much time reporting status, explaining context and tracking decisions. In this session, learn tips and tools to help you keep your teams aligned, provide better visibility and maintain a continuous feedback loop so you can spend less time reporting and more time innovating.

By bringing in your stakeholders early and often, you can slay the productivity-killing monsters that wreak havoc on your job

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software   @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

Registration:   Jama Software Webinar Registration

 

 

 

Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) Certification – an Overview

Presented by Damian Herrick, CAP

In 2013, after a year of rigorous preparation, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) launched the first broad-spectrum data analytics certification available to analytics and data science professionals. We are pleased and proud to be partnered with one of the first data science consultants to earn this important credential – Damian Herrick, CAP. Damian is an experienced analytics consultant with years of experience helping enterprise organizations deploy end-to-end data science projects.

Damian took the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) exam and earned his certification in the fall of 2014. He will present an overview of the process, the exam, the requirements and the challenges associated with earning the CAP credential. This is a valuable opportunity for anyone who is interested in pursuing the only independent, peer-reviewed data analytics certification on the market. Join us to take a look at the CAP certification and what it means for the larger career options in the world of analytics and data science.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration

 

 

Prototyping - Demonstrating Success

Presented by PM Centers USA

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: Thursday, February 26, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: PM CentersUSA    @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95

Registration:   PM Centers USA Webinar Registration

 

  

Requirements vs. System Documentation

Presented by Jiri Walek, VP of Product Development at Polarion Software

There was a time in the BA’s not so distant past when the source code also served as the documentation of what was actually implemented. Quality assurance engineers could compare it with the BA’s requirement specifications relatively easily. Those days are gone. The sheer number of lines of code (LOC) has grown exponentially and continues to mushroom. A multimedia project can easily have 50 million lines and as BA’s you need the right tools and strategies to develop and link up supportive documentation with requirements specifications.

Nowadays, code is no longer a workable way to provide project documentation and ensure project integrity and consistency. Furthermore, effective BAs have to be good translators. They must be able to speak the language of the business, effectively interpret it for the analytical minds of the technical implementers, plus find the right vehicles to convey the information. In order to achieve all this, you need the right tools and strategies to develop and link up supportive documentation with requirements specifications. This webinar will provide you with practical tips and real life best practice recommendations for effectively managing requirements specifications and supportive documentation in the 21st century.

When you attend this event you will:
• Learn how to balance what is written in the user story and how the projects specifications are updated
• Unlock synergies across disparate development teams to empower all collaborators to resound faster to business requirements
• Find out about mitigating and managing risk in your regulatory compliance documentation?

Who can benefit from this webinar?
• Business Analysts
• Project Managers
• System Analysts
• Requirements Managers
• Quality Assurance Manage 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 26, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Sponsor: Polarion Software    @PolarionNews

Cost: Free

Registration:   Modern Analyst Webinar Registration

 

 

 

Transitioning from Waterfall: The Benefits of Becoming Agile

Presented by David Mantica

This web seminar will not be an hour infomercial pitching you on Agile with the end being a hard sell for coaching/training services or agile software. The goal of this session is to provide someone interested in Agile with an understanding of the benefits of Agile methods by comparing and contrasting the typical waterfall process with Agile.

In this web seminar we will do a very basic breakdown of SDLC (Software/System Develop Lifecycle) roles and responsibilities. From there we will look at those same roles in action in Waterfall and how those roles and actions change in Agile. After that we will look at the areas within Agile that provide higher visibility, less risk, greater adaptability and increased business value when compared with waterfall.

Ultimately we will discuss some of the top problems or challenges organizations face with looking to incorporate agile or some agile practices. And address those challenges with ideas on change management strategies to support an Agile transformation.

Nothing is as simple as marketing makes it seem. With Agile though there are some significant organization benefits, especially around meeting NEED with your software/systems work that makes worthwhile to investigate if your organization can make the transformation.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, February 27, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Web Seminar Registration