Business Analysis Webinars for September 2020 - Part II

Finding Value as a Product Owner

Presented by Jim Sammons, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

In this Webinar Professional Scrum Trainer Jim Sammons will talk about the big "V" in Scrum, Value.  Much is said about this term, but what "is" value?  How do I find it? When I "think" I know what is valuable, what do I do next?  How can I validate the value with my customers?

During this session Jim will look at some models around prioritizing work, understand what "negative value" is,  and how to order work to improve feedback loops.  All of this in the hope of delighting customers and user.  Jim will do his best to give some advice on what to do when value isn't well understood and we just need to "get it done".  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 15, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Cybersecurity Analysis Virtual Study Group Series | Session 3

Presented by Mohamed Zahran, Business Analysis Principal Consultant

 

Session 3 | Enterprise Risk The cybersecurity virtual study group webinar series is an exclusive benefit for IIBA members to help guide you through the key learning areas for the Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA). Each session will cover the core concepts in cybersecurity. including the following topical areas: Introduction to Cybersecurity, Enterprise Cybersecurity Concepts, Enterprise Risk, Cybersecurity Risks and Controls, Securing the Layers, Data Security, User Access Control, Solution Delivery, and Operations. An interactive Q&A is included at the end of each session.  

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis is DEAD… and more Fake News

Presented by The Uncommon League

 

What can business analysts learn from journalists? Both disciplines value communication, critical thinking and research skills, the ability to remain neutral, to absorb information quickly, assess situations, and the tenacity to investigate every side of a viewpoint or problem. Let’s see where journalism and business analysis intersect. How can BAs become better story tellers and better investigators? How can we battle bias and remain neutral advisors? Neither BAs nor Journalists are enemies of the people (really!) let’s learn from the history of journalism so we can focus on what provides value to our projects.

 

Learning Objectives: 

  •  How the principles of Journalism apply to business analysis

  •  How to craft a meaningful story, sure to make business cases and requirements more valuable and easier to communicate

  •  How to maintain objectivity, manage bias and be a committed observer and reporter of the truth

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2020; 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: The Uncommon League

Cost: Free

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10 Tips for Enterprise Agility

Presented by Ali Cox, General Manager USA, Netmind

 

The days of thinking that transformation is isolated to the IT department are over. One of the biggest challenges of a global organization is not only adapting to market demands but doing so in a way that advances new business lines, encourages customer-oriented collaboration, and promotes continuous improvement. This new way of working must be based on promoting new cultural changes, rethinking management practices, transforming processes organization-wide, and optimizing all departments by focusing on the core business.

As a result, many organizations are adopting agile principles and practices to effectively respond to today’s volatile business environment and better meet customer needs. But adopting agile is not the same as achieving business agility.

 

Join me for a webinar to understand:

  •  What is Agile (beyond the buzzwords)?

  •  How the scope of Agile has gone beyond IT and translates to the entire enterprise

  •  What practices enable enterprise agility

  •  Applying analysis at all levels of the enterprise

  •  Actionable items you can implement to enhance agility

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2020; 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Study Smarter, Not Harder: ECBA Certification

Presented by Michael White, BA Doctor and Isabel Feher-Watters, IIBA

 

Business analysis is a rapidly growing field and many professionals wonder how to get started with the ECBA™ certification. In this webinar, we will share the starting point in the ECBA certification exam process. The speakers will discuss the ECBA certification requirements and provide proven study strategies to help structure your time management, study materials, and resources. They will also discuss stress management techniques so you can study and prepare for the certification exam efficiently and effectively.   

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 17, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Scrum for Distributed Teams: Overcoming the Myth that Scrum and Agile only work for Colocated Teams

Presented by Atlassian University and Scrum.org

 

Distributed teams are not new, but our global pandemic has made them the norm. Atlassian University and Scrum.org will team up in this webinar to explore the myth that agile and Scrum Teams need to be colocated and walk through real-world examples of how products get delivered from distributed teams.

Together, we will:
- Dispel the myth that you cannot use Scrum for distributed teams.
- Learn best practices for working in a distributed manner.
- Explore what to avoid when employing Scrum with a distributed team.

We'll be incorporating and answering questions from those who attend the live webinar. This recorded session will be made available on-demand, as well.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 17, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

Agile Analysis Certification Screen-side Chat

Presented by Cindy Herrmann, AAC, BA Manager

 

This is a free online chat session with one of our Agile Analysis mentors. Whether you just want to learn more about the business analyst role in an agile context, the agile framework, your organization is going through an agile transformation, or you are interested in obtaining the IIBA® Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA®-AAC) this session is for you. We can discuss the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide, the Scrum Guide™, the agile framework, or the IIBA®-AAC certification. Whatever you wish to discuss, come let’s talk. Anyone interested in talking agile, or pursuing the IIBA®-AAC Certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our Agile mentor.  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, September 18, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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How to Ace Your Next Business Analysis Job Interview

Presented by LN Mishra, President, Adaptive US

 

Job interviews are the most widely used technique by organizations to recruit new business analysts. Being prepared for the job interview enhances one’s prospect of getting his/her dream job. However, most BA's are not aware of the process that one needs to follow to ace the job interview.

  • Aspects that organizations look for in their new BA's

  • How to prepare oneself for the BA job interview

  • How to lead the job interview

  • How to showcase one’s business analysis knowledge and skills during the interview

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 22, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Sponsor: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Actionable Awareness: Unlock Your Influence

Presented by Mark Wavle, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

As Agilists, we strive to help people and teams improve their effectiveness and interactions but we often find ourselves without objective data, jumping to conclusions and operating out of assumptions. Blinded by our own perspectives, we end up using ineffective approaches to address the least impactful issues, and we are left wondering why our impact isn't bigger.

Whether you're trying to figure out how to help your team improve, just starting with a new team, or mentoring a Scrum Master, the key to unlocking your influence is the ability to have actionable awareness. In this webinar with Professional Scrum Trainer Mark Wavle, you will learn about and apply the Actionable Awareness Canvas and the set of skills it prompts you to use, pausing your own viewpoints, slowing down your thinking, and broadening your awareness. You'll be able to build a Backlog of targeted, impactful actions, and then use the canvas to see the impact on the team's performance. With some focused and intentional effort, you can increase your actionable awareness to grow your influence.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 24, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Data Science In Project Management – Science Fiction Or Reality? Don’t Delay Your Business Future, When You Can Benefit Now!

Presented by Fred Radnoti, Tara Donnelly and Vladomir Urbanovich

 

Advanced analytics and business intelligence are poised to improve cost performance for project driven companies. Industries, such as Infrastructure, Technology and Finance, specifically in Project Management discipline, relied on traditional methods and tools and until recently were slow in adopting modern digital technology. In the past number of years, the Industry digitalized most of its Project Management information, generating volumes of data that are beyond capacity of people and regular information management tools. Audiit is on a mission to turn Project Management Data into an asset that revolutionizes and disrupts the industry pushing it to perform at the levels of technology driven companies. Employing Deep Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to Project Management Data makes it work harder for the Industry. To support the move from static to advanced dynamic business intelligence, companies need to leverage historical and real-time transactional data to provide insights and intelligence.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  •  Learn about current and future business intelligence tools and methods.

  •  Learn to align daily Project Management activities with strategic company goals.

  •  Learn how advanced analytics in Project Management improves business performance and outcomes.

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 24, 2020; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

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How BAs Can Achieve Business Maturity: The Prerequisite for Agile Projects

Presented by Rob Allen and Lisa Cates

 

A central business object repository is not hard to set up; and it delivers substantial value by creating and maintaining operational maturity, which is a prerequisite for an organization to be agile.

  •  every organization has many perspectives, 

  •  the age-old problem of silos of information persists in the era of big data, 

  •  2020 is THE year in which change management will be tested, 

  •  performance improvement must be centered on value streams.  

The best way to achieve Process Maturity through a comprehensive process methodology is by using a shared business object repository. In this way business analysts, enterprise architects, human resource managers, and resource managers can share information through a big data repository to optimize an organization and help members of the C suite perform their management role. When attending this webinar, you will: 

  •  understand how a business object repository works and delivers value 

  •  learn how easy it is to start small and evolve the environment to maturity level V just by using the right tools 

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 24, 2020; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Academia: Meeting The Changing Needs of Business Analysis Job Market

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis

 

In this webinar panel, discussion hear success stories from Academic Program members and how they are fostering the next generation of business analysis professionals by remaining relevant with the latest trends, skills, and competencies that are in demand in the industry.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 30, 2020; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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User Experience Fishbowl - Join, Learn and Participate

Presented by Barry Overeem and Christiaan Verwijs

 

How can Liberating Structures be used to fortify Scrum Teams? Join this virtual User Experience Fishbowl and learn from practitioners how they have used the Liberating Structures Conversation Cafe and/or User Experience Fishbowl to support their Scrum Teams. What was made possible by using these Liberating Structures? What challenges did people run into? What made it easier?

The webinar will be filled with interactive polling to help you engage as an audience and is a companion to our recent case study. We invite you to try and follow Linda's example from the case before you join. 

Our facilitators Barry Overeem and Christiaan Verwijs will lead the discussion through polling to help give the floor to participants who have used used either Conversation Cafe or User Experience Fishbowl with their teams. The webinar is a great place to learn not from experts, but from other Scrum practitioners.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 30, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

Cybersecurity Analysis Virtual Study Group Series | Session 4

Presented by Suzanna Rawlins, Director of IT/Business Analysis, CGI

 

Session 4 | Cybersecurity Risks and Controls Let us guide you through the key learning areas for the Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA). Each session will cover the core concepts in cybersecurity including the following topical areas: Introduction to Cybersecurity, Enterprise Cybersecurity Concepts, Enterprise Risk, Cybersecurity Risks and Controls, Securing the Layers, Data Security, User Access Control, Solution Delivery, and Operations. An interactive Q&A is included at the end of each session.  

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 30, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

Business Analysis Webinars for December 2018 - Part II

Regulatory Change Manager Live Product Demo

Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

Blueprint’s Regulatory Change Manager (RCM) is an enterprise-class platform that helps organizations in heavily-regulated industries easily manage compliance with the regulations that impact their business.

Fitting into your existing technology eco-system, RCM works to streamline, interrelate, and simplify the myriad of ever-changing regulatory and business information used to mitigate risk and ensure compliance.

Regulatory Change Manager is disrupting the market and helping to simplify a dynamic landscape of business and information risks, regulatory requirements and control activities.

Join us to see how RCM will help your organization regain control of regulatory changes and compliance.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 18, 2018; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Public Webinar Registration

 

 

Managing a Virtual Team

Presented by David Nicholls, IAG Consulting

The reality across many organizations is that managing geographically dispersed individuals on a “virtual team” becomes more and more viable every day. However, running a virtual team effectively is not as easy as setting up some fancy technology and managing remote individuals in the same way they’d be managed if they were collocated.

This one-hour webinar will explore the best practices that can be employed to overcome the inherent challenges of managing an effective and cohesive virtual team, as well as highlight many of the benefits which can be achieved using the virtual team management techniques that are currently used by IAG to manage our teams of consultants and client engagements across North America.

Participants will come away from this webinar with practical methods they can apply in their environment to help them communicate with, track progress on and improve results from the remote individuals and teams they manage.

Key content covered in the webinar:

·        Assessing the team and environment

·        Preparing for virtual communication and team management

·        Facilitation techniques for running virtual meetings

·        Leveraging tools and technology

·        Tracking individual/team progress

·        Resolving individual/team issues

·        Identifying areas for improvement

Get specific answers to:

·        “What steps can a manager take to prepare to manage their virtual team?”

·        “What facilitation techniques can be used to effectively elicit and communicate information in a virtual environment?”

·        “Can a manager “read” someone over the phone/ video-conference?”

·        “How can the technology at hand be leveraged and used effectively by a virtual team?”

·        “Which standard management techniques need to be enhanced (and how) to maintain control over and develop a strong virtual team?

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 19, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Webinar Registration

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: A 16-Month Agile Transformation Case Study

Presented by Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman, PMP, CBAP, SAFe Agilist

Join our Senior Instructor, Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman, for a one-time, complimentary session of our new case study webinar!

Many organizational objectives today include increasing the ability to adapt to a changing environment, strengthen and refine the core business and adopt a more market-centric and customer-focused experience. Once identifying that an agile transformation is the best way to accomplish these goals, you start training right? Right and wrong.

Find out why jumping right in can often cause more problems than solutions. In this specific scenario, team members had received various agile, scrum and Kanban training, but nothing consistent. This left the team confused and with an overall negative perception  that began to overwhelm any benefits of agile.

It became clear that a more structured approach to agile was needed. This included a focus on healthy teams, changing corporate culture, addressing bad behaviors and bad habits, changing how your reward and recognize success, trust and transparency, failing fast, just enough development, etc. Once these pain points were addressed, the transformation became full circle to include SAFe incorporation, KPI establishment, team restructuring and self-sustaining program development. Leave this presentation with a radical, yet consumable real-world approach to an agile transformation.

Roadmap

·        Review a 16-month real-world agile transformation roadmap

·        Understand the human aspect of an agile transformation

·        Identify how to overcome roadblocks that make an agile transformation unattractive

·        Discuss the importance of an organization-wide acceptance and adoption of the agile mindset

·        Address common transformation pain points and provide solutions

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 19, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: B2T Training    @B2T_Training

Cost: Free

Registration:   B2T Training Public Webinar Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2018 - Part II

Creating Project Teams to Realize Sustainability Benefits

Presented by: Kristina Kohl

In this webinar we will learn how to combine project management methodologies with social and environmental vision to reap shared benefits. 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 13, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

  

Fast Tracking Project Concepts

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

So you’ve been assigned a complex, poorly defined project concept… now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is:  strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity.  These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction. Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours?  What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning Objectives:

1.      Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?

2.      The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.

3.      Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 14, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

FranklinCovey's Ultimate Loyalty: Building Teams That Wow Customers

Presented by Sandy Rogers, Global Customer Loyalty Practice Lead at FranklinCovey

7 Secrets to Winning Breakthrough Customer Loyalty

Are you engaging your team to win loyal customers for your organization?

Even as an experienced manager, you still may not be aware that more than 70% of what makes a customer experience great is the behavior of frontline employees. The truth is that great behavior doesn't happen without inspiration and accountability, and that requires a bottom-up approach—not the typical top-down corporate method. 

The bottom line?

If your employees are enthusiastic promoters of your organization, the sentiment will resonate with your customers too!

What You Will Learn

Attend this program for a preview of FranklinCovey’s seminar, Ultimate Loyalty: Building Teams That Wow Customers. Based on 20 years of research and hands-on learning with a wide range of organizations, this seminar provides a unique approach to building employee loyalty first, and then customer loyalty through the following:

·        Discovering the real "job to be done" for customers and employees

·        Giving and receiving feedback that builds people up

·        Inspiring your team to share their best thinking and ideas

·        Running effective loyalty team huddles

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST

 Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

Agile Scheduling with Rolling Wave Deliverable Roadmaps and Backlogs

Presented by: Johanna Rothman

In this webinar, we will discuss how you can sequence work, break apart features into features sets so you can create a minimum viable product, and use rolling wave deliverable-based planning.   

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 15, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

  

The Art of the Interview: How to Improve Your Business Analysis Interviewing Skills    

Presented by Terrell Smith, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group

Get more out of your requirements interviews and make better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple but highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing skills. This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements. The key to this process improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate preparation, sequencing, and delivery. Interviewing is the cornerstone of elicitation techniques, and, when done properly, will reveal the answers you need.

You will learn how to:

·        Identify the right stakeholders to interview and what you need to know

·        Create a requirements questionnaire and prepare to ask the right types of questions

·        How to properly engage the stakeholder and build a relationship

·        Capture stakeholder responses

·        Plan for follow-up and maintain the relationship

·        Review lessons learned to improve for your next interview  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, February 16, 2018; 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration

Business Agility Innovations and Experiments at Riot Games

Presented by Ahmed Sidky, Riot Games

At Riot Games, we aspire to be the most player-focused game company in the world. Among many other things, this means that we are constantly innovating our Riot Operating System (aka “How We Work”) to enable us to deliver greater value to players by being agile and responsive. In this webinar, Ahmed Sidky, Head of Development Management at Riot, will share some “How We Work” innovations and experiments, beginning with an overview of what we do at Riot Games, followed by a deep dive of how we organize into audience-centric, cross-functional teams across the entire company (including our back office). Ahmed will also share how agile roles and responsibilities (aka The Riot Hats Model) are used to structure and provide clarity for team leadership roles. Lastly, he will present the latest iteration of Riot's strategic product management framework and how teams us it to balance a bi-directional (top-down and bottoms-up) workflow.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 20, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Agile Alliance

Cost: Free

Registration:   Agile Webinar Registration

Improving Performance and Engagement Utilizing Adaptive Leadership

Presented by: Jamison Manion

In this webinar you will learn how to move beyond situational leadership to adaptive leadership so that you can more intuitively respond to the needs of others. 

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 20, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

Telling Stories with Data

Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, Senior Consultant and Trainer at Corporate Education Group

Good decisions are made when executives and managers understand the story behind complex data. In this presentation, we look at how data can be presented visually in an impactful and compelling way that drives action and decision. Participants will learn about different chart types and how to summarize data in explanatory visualizations. Through many examples, the webinar will demonstrate how to create effective visualizations, such as charts and graphs, and make them easier to read and understand. It is geared towards anyone who wants to use visualizations to tell a story with data.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 20, 2018; 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST

Host: Corporate Education Group   @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration

Myth-busting The Path to Requirements Success

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation.  Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success. 

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world's leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome.  We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results and will discuss:

- The Facts of Performance:  What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
- Myth Busting:  there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
- Path To Success:  What activities can be taken to improve development success

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

  

Live Storyteller Demonstration 

Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

Agile and DevOps processes have become popular with organizations that want to increase speed and realize value earlier. However, according to the PMI Pulse of the Profession 2016 survey, only 62% of projects met the original goals or business intent, and only 49% were completed on time.

Join us for a live and interactive webinar showcasing how Blueprint’s Storyteller can help you successfully scale your Agile and DevOps practice, that delivers tangible, measurable business value with faster release cycles.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

·        Facilitate engagement and collaboration across the organization, making definition of business needs clear and easy

·        Align business, development, and operations through up-front automation

·        Write and automate effective and consistent user stories, test scripts, and more

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Public Webinar Registration

Bringing Intention to the Quality of Relationships

Presented by: Carrie O'Brien

This webinar will address specific steps we can take to raise the level of relatedness we experience with anyone who is critical to our success at work. 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:  ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

FranklinCovey's 13 Behaviors of High-Trust Leaders

Presented by Steven M.R Covey, Cofounder of CoveyLink and FranklinCovey Global Speed of Trust Practice

Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular, hands-on seminar, The 13 Behaviors of High-Trust Leaders®, based on the international bestselling book The Speed of Trust, by Stephen M.R. Covey.
In this preview, you will discover how 13 powerful behaviors can help you break down barriers that keep your team stuck when there is an overall lack of trust in the organization.

You’ll come away understanding that everything you do takes more time and costs more money when there’s low trust between you and those you depend on (and those who depend on you!).

Over time, when there’s low trust, relationships decay, projects fail, customers go to competitors and initiatives under-perform. 

What You Will Learn

Join us to get a preview of what you can expect when you take The 13 Behaviors of High-Trust Leaders® seminar, including:

·        The power of trust as a key engine for driving performance and productivity 

·        What tools you can use to manage change and lead high-performing teams  

·        How to practice specific behaviors that increase trust 

·        That with increased trust comes increased personal credibility  

·        How you can influence your team to become high performing, agile, innovative and engaged

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST

 Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

  

Top 10 User Story Tips!

Presented by Angela Wick, Founder and CEOl at BA-Squared, LLC

Discover 10 tips to make your user stories great! In this webinar we will look at common mistakes and challenges in user stories and tips to correct and avoid them.

Learning Objectives

·        Discover and see examples of the common mistakes in User Stories teams make

·        Discover and see examples of how to fix the common mistakes made with user stories

·        Learn the top 10 tips to get to high quality user stories and avoid the common mistakes.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018; 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

Registration:   BA Times Public Webinar Registration

The Strategic Business Analyst: Aligning Projects with Organizational Goals  

Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, Senior Trainer and Consultant, 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 the IIBA 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: Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration

5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process. More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.  This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

 

Learning Objectives:

1.      Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning

2.      Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity

3.      Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 28, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration