Business Analysis Webinars for January 2019

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Co-founder, Watermark Learning

The event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning. Topics include anything related to IIBA's certifications you want, ranging from the ECBA, CCBA, or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, January 4, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration

Digitizing and Automating Your Manual Workflows

Presented by: John Costanza

In this webinar we explore digitizing and automating your enterprise's core workflows, and how this can improve everything from efficiency to employee sat.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 8, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.  IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1.      How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?

2.      Where do you focus for improvement?

3.      What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 9, 2019; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat

Presented by Bill Powers, CBAP, Vice President of Marketing and Communication, 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, January 11, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

Registration:  IIBA Certification Chat Registration

Data Modeling Best Practices for BA's and PM's

Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner at IAG Consulting

In this two-hour webinar participants will learn the essential concepts of data modeling required of today's Business Analyst and Project Manager. Effective requirements definition requires a fundamental understanding of data modeling. This webinar lays a foundation of the essential aspects of defining the data model and requirements for a project. IAG, the developer of this program, believes very strongly in this key Business Analysis competency. Every Project Manager and BA involved in requirements definition and modeling needs to know these critical concepts. Without a solid basis of data modeling skills, there is a significant risk that quality and value of use-case, business requirement, and business rule documentation will be significantly compromised. This 2 hour webinar is a perfect course that will give most PMs and BA's everything they need to mitigate this risk and be successful in their roles.

For someone involved or responsible for the business requirements, business architecture or business analysis on a software development project, there are large number of questions to be answered.

·        Do I need to be an expert in data modeling? (No, by the way)

·        How detailed do I need to define the data,

·        Why do I need a data model - especially if we're working on an existing system?

·        Do I need to produce a logical data model?

·        Do I need to know normalization theory (I hope not)?

·        What do we do about data if we're 'Agile'?

·        What about modeling or data definitions for a Business Intelligence project?

·        When and how do I gather data requirements with the SME's? What's the best way? 

Learning Objectives:

·        Understand the key concepts of conceptual and logical data modeling

·        Learn the steps to building a data model

·        Write clear and concise and consistent data definitions

·        Apply acceptable modeling principles

·        Use/apply consistent naming standards

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 16, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

Strategic Thinking

Presented by Johannah (Jody) Jones, PhD, President at Strategic Transformation

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, January 16, 2019; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

  

Design Thinking and Project Management

Presented by: Bruce Gay

This webinar explores the intersection between design thinking and project management.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 17, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:    ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

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 December 2018

Requirements Engineering for Cyber Security Requirements

Presented by: Mikael Lindvall

This webinar will discuss the process of identifying and defining security requirements based on qualifications of associated risk factors, attack surfaces, and future interoperability considerations.  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 4, 2018; 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

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

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

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

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

Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

·        The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies

·        Different Prioritization Techniques

·        Why Prioritize?

·        When to Prioritize Knowing

·        What to Prioritize

·        The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements

·        Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors

·        Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings

·        Rating Facilitation Methods

·        Next Steps

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 5, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

How to Use Design Thinking to Innovate Faster, Better and More Effectively  

Presented by Haywood Spangler, PhD, Founder and Principal at Work & Think, LLC

Design has become the “it” word and a defining element that can differentiate your business in an increasingly competitive world.

In an economy of rapid commoditization, keeping the customer “front and center” has become the most important factor to include in the innovation equation in order to maintain brand loyalty.

Whether you’re talking about cars, toothbrushes, office space or even the creation of an organization’s culture … Design Thinking gives you the tools to innovate, faster and better, in a customer-centric approach.

What You Will Learn

In this “must-attend” session, you’ll discover why Design Thinking has become the innovation method of choice across forward-thinking industries, and how best-in-class companies are applying it across their organizations.

You’ll also receive an overview of AMA’s Design Thinking course, including:

·        Exposure to the 10-step Design Thinking process and why it’s so important in a disruptive economy

·        How this rapid, collaborative process can help you and your team generate more customer-focused solutions

·        Steps you can take to integrate the process into your organization 

·        The realities of organizational culture, resistance to change and what you can do about it.

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 5, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:  AMA Public Webcast Registration  

How to get better results out of your customer journey map

Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

A customer journey map is a visual tool that displays how customers are obtained. The map is about visualizing how your customers experience the product and service along the way. The benefit of using a Customer Journey Map is that you can enhance your understanding of what motivates your customers and explore their needs and pain points.

Customer journey mapping combines two powerful instruments: storytelling and visualization. They are essential to the process because they effectively convey information in a way that is memorable, concise – creating a shared vision.

Join us in this webinar to learn how you can derive better results out of your customer journey map through:

·        Well-defined goals

·        Collaboration between Business and IT stakeholders

·        Storyteller’s Visual Solution Model

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, December 6, 2018; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Public Webinar Registration

  

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Co-founder, Watermark Learning

The event is a free chat session using webinar technology. It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning. Topics include anything related to IIBA's certifications you want, ranging from the ECBA, CCBA, or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, December 7, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat 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, December 12, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

 

 

The Voice of Leadership

Presented by Jennifer Kahnweiler, PhD, Global Speaker and The Champion of Introverts

How Leaders Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results

No matter how compelling your vision or how brilliant your strategy, without strong communication skills, you may fail to get the attention and understanding of those you lead.

The ability to get buy-in, garner trust and inspire loyalty isn't a skill you have to be born with.

This preview of the AMA seminar The Voice of Leadership explains how this course helps you develop the skills to inspire others. In addition, this session gives you tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

What You Will Learn

·        How to get and hold your listener’s attention

·        Steps to ensure understanding

·        Ways to develop and use stories to get your message across

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

Soft Skills: Essentials for Project Success

Presented by: Ruffin Veal

This webinar will provide practical tips and best practices to improve the professional soft skill development of PM personnel.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, December 13, 2018; 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration