Business Analysis Webinars for August 2018 - Part II

Critical Thinking
Presented by Johannah (Jody) Jones, Ph.D., President at Strategic Transformations

Steps to Making Clearer and More Effective Decisions

In this fast-paced world, one thing is certain: We need sharp critical thinkers who are able to size up a situation, realize the potential where others may not, and seize opportunities through prompt decision making.

We all perform some level of critical thinking in our daily lives, yet most of us don’t really know what it entails or how we do what we do. 

This preview offers you a practical introduction to the highly popular AMA seminar, Critical Thinking. We’ll introduce you to the RED model of critical thinking and describe the basics of putting it into action using a practical case study.

What You Will Learn

AMA's Critical Thinking seminar walks you through making reasoned judgments that are well thought out. Join us to get a preview of how the seminar reveals the methods used to improve your ability to engage in logical and rational thinking, including: 

·        How the RED (Recognize assumptions, Evaluate arguments, Draw conclusions) Model is used to get to a decision point

·        The importance of separating facts from opinions

·        Three steps you can take to apply critical thinking skills right away

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 22, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Associations    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

  


The New Kid on the Block: What's the Role of a Business Relationship Manager and How Do You "Fit In"?
Presented by Bonnie Cooper, PMP, Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group

Your title may not illustrate it. Your job description may not sufficiently describe it. But you are known as a trusted advisor who delivers business value through projects and services. You are a prime liaison between service providers and business leadership. If you are a project manager, business analyst, account manager, or a functional manager within a corporate shared-service department like IT, Finance, HR, Legal, Customer Service -- you need to attend this webinar and learn how the role of business relationship manager is helping organizations realize value from day-to-day operations and project investments. As a strategic partner and overall valued consultant, the business relationship manager is the advocate who brings credibility to the table when business goals are at stake.

Learning Objectives:

·        Describe the responsibilities of a business relationship manager.

·        Learn how business relationship management contributes to organizational success.

·        Understand what business transition management is and why it's important.

·        Describe practical examples of effective business relationship management.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 23, 2018; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group
Cost: Free
Registration:  Corp Ed Group Public Webinar Registration




FranklinCovey's 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity™
Presented by Eileen Land, E-Learning Strategist at FranklinCovey

Discover How to Move from Distraction to Fulfillment and Accomplishment

Is your life filled with constant distraction? In today’s world, you are faced with constant demands from other people, technology and a nonstop workday.

If it seems like every moment is filled, preventing you from getting the truly important accomplished, FranklinCovey has developed a seminar that provides a solution.

To succeed in this environment, you need to learn how to make good decisions, focus your attention, use technology smartly, and sustain high energy, day in and day out. Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular FranklinCovey seminar, The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity.

What You Will Learn

Attend this webcast to learn about FranklinCovey’s seminar The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity. The seminar combines current neuroscience research with proven productivity principles to help you better manage your decisions, attention and energy.  

·        Discover the three productivity challenges we face in today’s world 

·        Understand how the 5 Choices will equip you with skills to address these challenges 

·        Learn about the tools and concepts that will help you achieve your most important outcomes

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 29, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2018

What’s Hot and What’s Not: Trends in the World of Business Analysis
Presented by Elizabeth Larson, PMP, CBAP, CSM

So much is going on in our project world and it’s hard to keep up. The way we complete projects keeps changing. The speed at which business changes is accelerating. Many of us have questions—lots and lots of questions. 

This presentation addresses hot topics in the world of business analysis and answers questions like:

·        Where is our industry heading? 

·        What is DevOps all about and how will it affect us?

·        What is the Digital Transformation?

·        Do we need to use Agile methods on Digital projects? 

·        Why do I need to do a business case if I’ve already been assigned to an Agile project? 

·        How can I be successful if I go out on my own? 

Attendees will be able to discuss:

·        The latest trends in business analysis and project management

·        What these trends mean for practitioners of business analysis and project management

·        Our role on Agile projects 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 2, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free
Registration:   Modern Analyst Public Webinar Registration

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA

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 ECBA, CCBA, or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, August 3, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat 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, August 8, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Webinar Registration




10 Steps to Effective Requirements Elicitation
Presented by Terrell Smith, MPA, PMP, CBAP, Senior Trainer and Consultant for Corporate Education Group

Requirements elicitation is the process of seeking, uncovering, acquiring, and elaborating requirements for business systems. It is generally understood that requirements are elicited rather than just captured or collected. There are discovery, emergence, and development elements to the elicitation process. Requirements elicitation consists of a variety of techniques, approaches, and tools.

This webinar shares 10 steps to effective requirements elicitation, guiding business analysts to deliver successful results. Requirements elicitation is all about learning and understanding the needs of users and project sponsors with the ultimate aim of communicating these needs to the system developers.

You will learn how to:

·        Understand the application domain.

·        Identify the sources of requirements and analyze the stakeholders. 

·        Select the techniques, approaches, and tools to use.

·        Prepare to use the selected elicitation techniques. 

·        Document your approach and create a “strawman” to generate the right conversation. 

·        Send input material in advance with clearly defined objectives.

·        Elicit the requirements from stakeholders and other sources. 

·        Assign a scribe for note-taking and use document the requirements. 

·        Use a standardized requirements document template. 

·        Continue to revalidate the requirements until they are clear and can be acted upon. 

  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 9, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:  Corp Ed Group Public Webinar Registration



  
IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat
Presented by Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, Vice President of Professional Development at Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

This is a free online chat session with one of our CBAP® recipients. The CBAP mentor will tell you of their journey to become IIBA® Certified, provide tips & tricks on anything related to IIBA Certification from the application process to re-certification. Anyone interested in ECBA™, CCBA® or CBAP® certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our CBAP mentor.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, August 10, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free
Registration:   Bluegrass IIBA Certification Chat Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2018 - Part II

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, July 18, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

Effectively Communicating in the Moment

Presented by Susan Mason, Principal at Vital Visions Consultants

Speaking on the Spot with Clarity and Precision

It’s happened to all of us—you’re asked unexpectedly during a meeting to give a project update, or are stopped in the hallway with an important question, or are cornered in a challenging conversation. You can’t plan for these unrehearsed events, but you can take steps to always be confident and ready when they do happen. 

This preview of the AMA seminar, Effectively Communicating in the Moment, explains how this course helps you develop your in-the-moment communication skills and will offer some tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

What You Will Learn

·        Advice for keeping your composure while taking time to respond 

·        What to do when you are being pushed for an answer 

·        Ways to deliver your message confidently 

·        Specific stalling techniques that exude competence

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 18, 2018; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA Webcast Registration




IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat
Presented by Joann Sims, CBAP, Vice President of Membership at Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

This is a free online chat session with one of our CBAP® recipients. The CBAP mentor will tell you of their journey to become IIBA® Certified, provide tips & tricks on anything related to IIBA Certification from the application process to re-certification. Anyone interested in ECBA™, CCBA® or CBAP® certification is welcome to come and ask questions of our CBAP mentor.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, July 20, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free
Registration:   Bluegrass IIBA Certification Chat Registration




What Is "Lean" Business Analysis?
 Presented by Tom Hathaway, Principal, BA-Experts

In an age of digital disruption, you must do more with less - and faster. You no longer have business as usual, so why do business analysis as usual?

With the widespread adoption of Agile, software development has gone through some serious remodeling. Agile teams build robust products incrementally and iteratively, getting fast feedback from customers to define ongoing work. As a result, the process of defining IT requirements is evolving rapidly.“Lean Business Analysis” is a response to the ever-increasing pace of change and optimally supports the new software development philosophies.

In this new world, the ones “wearing the business analysis hat” need new skills and must apply their old bag of techniques and tricks differently to take advantage of lean principles. Whether you are a product owner or a member of a business side team, you need to stay 1 step ahead of the technical team to avoid slowing them down.

This one-hour webinar is designed to address 3 fundamental questions:

1.      Is business analysis necessary in a Lean and Agile software development environment?

2.      How do lean principles affect the business analysis process?

3.      What does the difference mean to the business analyst role?

The webinar also shows you the kind of business analysis skills you need to succeed in an agile and lean environment.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 24, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Experts    @BAEXPERTS
Cost: Free
Registration:   BAEXPERTS Public 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, July 25, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration


  
  

FranklinCovey’s 7 Habits® Seminar

Presented by Eileen Land, E-Learning Specialist at FranklinCovey

Create lifetime success with The 7 Habits®

Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular, hands-on seminar, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, based on the international bestseller. In this preview, you will discover how The 7 Habits® can help you to lead yourself more effectively, engage and collaborate with others more successfully, and continually renew these capabilities. Your team and organization can also learn and harness these qualities for maximum results.

If you’ve ever wondered if The 7 Habits® are right for you, or just want to learn more, don’t miss this preview of the world’s premier leadership development solution.

What You Will Learn

Join us to get a preview of what you can expect when you take The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® seminar, including:

·        Why The 7 Habits® are relevant in the 21st century 

·        What “effectiveness” means in an ever-changing, chaotic world  

·        How to grow your personal capabilities and interpersonal relationships 

·        How our paradigms affect our ability to achieve what matters most to us   

·        The importance of self-renewal in creating and sustaining results

Attending this preview is COMPLIMENTARY, but reservations are required.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 26, 2018; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:   AMA Webcast 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: Thursday, July 26, 2018; 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration




Storyteller Product Demo – How to Scale your Agile Practice
Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

Do you manage teams that are responsible for Agile development? Are you focused on getting more successful products to market, and releasing faster than your competitors? If so, then let’s face it – your current agile planning and work management tools probably aren’t delivering the business value you’re intending and they can’t scale.

Don’t get left in the dust with tools that are limiting and difficult to scale.

Recognized on Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools, Blueprint is disrupting this fast-changing market with a product that boasts all of the same capabilities as tools like JIRA, plus game-changing features that go above and beyond traditional Agile planning and work management tools.

Join us to learn:

·        How the Agile market is evolving and why Blueprint has been recognized as a disruptive leader by Gartner and Forrester

·        How to successfully scale your Agile practice by aligning business, development and operations teams

·        How to consolidate your existing technology investments for greater success

·        A deeper look at the next generation of Agile Planning capabilities Storyteller provides, including a live product demo

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 26, 2018; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Registration:   Storyteller Product Demo Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2018

What it Takes to be a True Lean Agile Project Manager
Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner at IAG Consulting

This webinar is for Project Managers looking to become more lean and agile in their organization/career, for those transitioning into an agile organization, or those supporting a transformation to a lean agile project management environment. We will address what lean agile project management really means and what the main differences are with traditional project management. We will explain essential concepts and aspects of project management from various methodologies including Scaled Agile (SAFe®), DSDM, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP. This webinar is ideal PMs seeking or supporting their PMI-ACP, or AgilePM® certification and qualifies for 1 PDU.

Learning Objectives:

·        What does Lean Agile project management mean?

·        What are the principles of Agile Project Management?

·        When and why does Lean Agile Project Management makes sense?

·        What can I do to be Lean Agile?

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 4, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting 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, July 11, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration




Scaling and Automation Made Easy through Process Analysis
Presented by: Sam Chin

In this webinar we will discuss a process based approach for Increasing staff, implementing new systems, and delegating responsibilities, and growing your business.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 11, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
  

  

Strategic Thinking 

Presented by Jody Jones, Ph.D., President at Strategic Transformations

Steps to Developing a Strategic Mindset
Many organizations have the tendency to lose their grasp on long-term plans in order to get immediate results. That’s why strategic thinking skills are essential for employees at all levels.

Everyone needs to be able to evaluate ideas, devise alternatives, make hard choices and align tactics to reach business objectives.

This program offers you a powerful introduction to AMA’s Strategic Thinking seminar, explaining the combination of concepts around the skills needed to think strategically, and the practices that allow participants to develop and hone their skills in a classroom environment.

This course is designed for people who want to be able to move beyond day-to-day, reactionary thinking to gain a more long-term and future-focused perspective.

What You Will Learn

·        Traits that determine the ability to think strategically 

·        An introduction to AMA’s 9-part model for strategic thinking 

·        Tips for putting the model into practice in your daily life

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.
  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 11, 2018; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration:  AMA Webcast Registration

Robotic Process Automation

Presented by Pierrick Voulet, BonitaSoft Technical Evangelist

To gain market advantage in today’s highly competitive landscape, companies are increasingly seeking solutions to help them expedite operational processes, increase agility and deliver greater value to customers.

Intelligent automation through RPA integrated with Bonita offers a greatly enhanced approach for strategic digital transformation initiatives: a complete solution to manage end-to-end process automation that applies RPA where appropriate, but also includes exception management and complex decision-making by humans.

Repetitive, routine tasks in business processes can be fully delegated to a virtual digital workforce of software robots. Appropriate combinations of automation involving systems and humans deliver better user experiences.

During this event you will see how to:

·        Reduce operating costs though automation of complex but routine tasks, allowing employees to focus on innovation initiatives, to generate results – and revenue – sooner.

·        Automate back-end processing with a combined approach of RPA and BPM

·        Create highly personalized customer experiences by designing and connecting seamless user interfaces, processes and business data

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 11, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host; BonitaSoft Software     @BonitaSoft
Cost: Free
Registration:   BonitaSoft Public Webinar Registration


  
  
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA

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 ECBA, CCBA, or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, July 13, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration