Business Analysis Webinars for August 2019 - Part II

Facilitation for the Agile BA

Presented by Mara Svenne, Agile Coach at mPath Facilitation

“Facilitation for the Agile BA” is brought to you on behalf of a partnership between IIBA and the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). Mara Svenne will provide her perspectives on the role of a Business Analyst on agile teams and share techniques to facilitate user story discovery and prioritization. Participants will gain practical tips for helping agile teams build the right product for the customer.

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 27, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis     @iiba

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Member Only Webinar Registration

How to Be an Awesome BA

Presented by LN Mishra, CBAP, AAC, President at Adaptive US, Inc.

Excellence is a habit. As Business Analysts, we are constantly looking for opportunities to improve our organization's products, processes and technologies, so how do we develop ourselves?

Webinar objectives:

·        Explain characteristics of an awesome BA

·        How to excel in different BA skills

·        Show a structured path to develop oneself to be an awesome BA

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 28, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis     @iiba

Sponsored by: Adaptive US, Inc.    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Public Webinar Registration

You Need to Know Data: How to Become Data Literate in 7 Steps

Presented by RJ Williams

A recent study by AppDirect stated 80% of companies are in the process of digital transformation, but 90% of those companies are facing significant obstacles to success. 24% of these obstacles are related to a lack of understanding and knowledge, and one of the key areas that professionals lack familiarity with is data.

Data literacy involves understanding what data means, including how to read graphs and charts correctly, draw accurate conclusions from data, and recognize when data is being used in misleading or inappropriate ways. This basically means those who are data literate can work with and understand data.

Because data is one of the key pillars of digital transformation, every business professional needs to be data literate. If everyone in your organization is not harnessing the power of data, you and your organization will be bested by your data literate competitors.

This webinar will give business professionals who are lacking foundational data knowledge the terms and concepts they need to know so that they can thrive in this new digital landscape.

You will Learn:

·        Review core data terms and concepts every business person should know

·        Examine practical examples of data analysis and analytics for business

·        Learn how you can help create a data-driven corporate culture

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 28, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training    @ASPE_Training

Cost: Free

Registration:   ASPE Training Webinar Registration

How Stack Sports used Nexus to Scale Scrum and Maximize Value

Presented by Brandon Shangraw, Director of Product and Abel Rios, Director of Engineering from Stack Sports

Stack Sports had been practicing Scrum for 2 years and then had the need to scale quickly on multiple platforms. They needed to maximize value and create visibility across applications. Because of these needs they decided to use the Nexus framework for scaling Scrum to do so. Nexus extends Scrum to guide multiple Scrum Teams on how they work together to deliver working products in every Sprint. It shows the journey these teams take as they come together, how they share work between teams, and how they manage and minimize dependencies. They also eventually had a Nexus+ and descaled to separate Nexuses.

In this webinar Brandon Shangraw, Director of Product and Abel Rios, Director of Engineering from Stack Sports, along with Patricia Kong, Product Owner, Enterprise Solutions, Scrum.org will talk about their journey using Scrum and Nexus and hit on the following key principles that they focused on during their journey:

·        Keeping value at the core of the change with empiricism and Evidence-Based Management (EBM) being the foundation of decisions 

·        Remembering that Nexus can help you scale the value of multiple teams, but it is not the cure for all problems

·        Keeping people at the heart of Nexus to ensure success

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 29, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

Registration:   Scrum.org Webcast Registration

 

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2019

Transform Your BA Career with Certifications

Presented by Lora McCoy, CBAP and LN Mishra, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, AAC, Adaptive US, Inc.

Getting IIBA certified can transform one’s business analyst career. Research has proven that certified business analysts earn 16% more on average. Listen from IIBA experts as how you should prepare for IIBA certifications. Transforming one’s BA career with IIBA® Certifications.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

·        Key success factors to succeed in the exam

·        Tips and tricks to crack IIBA certification exams on the first attempt

·        IIBA Application process

·        Strategy for managing time and attempting questions

·        Any other questions on IIBA certification exams

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 1, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US   @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Webinar Registration

Exploring the "3rd Alternative" in Negotiation

Presented by Crista Kirby, Global Practice Director at International Institute for Learning LLC

Achieve more effective, more meaningful negotiations

Stephen Covey’s “3rd Alternative" does more than facilitate a win/win outcome − it involves a paradigm shift wherein opposing parties use synergy to transcend conflict and create something new.

Join our webinar to learn how to:

·        Differentiate between various approaches to negotiation

·        Articulate the four fundamental rules of principled negotiation

·        Summarize Stephen Covey’s “3rd Alternative” and how it relates to synergy

·        Identify ways to utilize the 3rd Alternative concept in your own life and work

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 1, 2019; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT

Host: International Institute for Learning, LLC    @IIL

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIL Webinar Registration

  

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Co-founder at 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, August 2, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration

Top 10 User Story Tips

Presented by Angela Wick, Founder at BA Cube

Discover 10 tips to make your user stories great! In this 1-hour webinar, Angela will reveal common user story mistakes and offer strategies to avoid them.

Audience: BA Cube Basic Members (Sign-up for Basic Membership for free)

Date/Time: Monday, August 12, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Cube

Cost: Free

Registration: BA Cube Webinar Registration

Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Martin Hinshelwood - Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions

Presented by Scrum.org

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it is difficult to master. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing. 

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Martin Hinshelwood will be available to answer any Scrum related questions you may have, including questions around using Scrum with DevOps, Scaling Scrum with Nexus and more. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 13, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

Registration:   Scrum.org Webcast Registration

Agile Virtual Meetup: "Getting through an Agile Transformation"

Presented by Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, Vice President of Professional Development at Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

Agile Virtual Meetup: "Getting through an Agile Transformation"

Your company management starts talking about Agile Transformation. Now you have been assigned to an agile team. You hear that there is no business analyst role in agile, but you have been a Business Analyst for the past five years or more; and you love it! Now what do you do? Do you have to learn a whole new way of working? Do you have to learn to code? What is so great about this agile thing anyway?

This is an online chat session with one of our Agile enthusiasts to explore those questions and more. Whether you just want to learn more about the agile or scrum 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 will talk about how business analysis professionals can find a role in an agile environment and provide value to the agile team and your organization.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 15, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

Registration:   Bluegrass IIBA Chapter Agile Meetup Registration 

IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat

Presented by Kathy Leigh, CBAP, President 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 16, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2019 - Part II

Legendary Service

Presented by Lisa Cox, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

A positive interaction with your customers can go a long way, especially in this age of social media and internet reviews. Customers who experience top-notch service are likely to tell others about it, which can translate into more customers and more buzz. When customers feel valued and appreciated, they are more likely to come back. But it’s not just customers that benefit from a service-minded culture – its’ also the employees of an organization. When employees feel empowered to go above and beyond to solve customer issues and provide next-level service, it creates a culture that puts service first in all relationships, internal and external, increasing collaboration, productivity, and the bottom line. This webinar will show you how to practice Legendary Service® and create a culture of service within your organization.

Learning Objectives:

·        Learn how to build customer loyalty by operating with a service mindset.

·        Create a sense of value in your customers.

·        Improve collaboration, innovation, and productivity throughout your organization by creating a culture of service.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 17, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration

Don't be a Ditka

Presented by Daniel Vacanti

How good are you at estimating value?

Most teams make suboptimal prioritization/value decisions every day because they are forced to make those decisions under:

Conditions of scarcity (not enough time, money, or people)

Conditions of stress (customers want their requests handled right now and delivered yesterday)

Conditions of uncertainty (imperfect information about their current state and future state)

These poor decisions adversely affect their ability to effectively, efficiently, and predictably deliver value to their customers. While teams will not be able to change these conditions, they can learn to make better decisions by embracing them.

We will explore these topics using the 1999 NFL draft as a backdrop. In that year, Mike Ditka famously was overconfident in his ability to estimate player value and disastrously bet the farm on one pick. We will explore the options Mike Ditka had (and every team has) in the NFL draft as well as prioritization options we have on a daily basis. We will expose some flaws in the commonly used prioritization methods (By Value, CD3, WSJF etc.). We will also propose a mode of working that helps with effective prioritization under conditions of scarcity, stress and uncertainty.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, July 22, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Coaching Agile Journeys    @CoachingAgileJo

Cost: Free

Registration:   Coaching Agile Public Webinar Registration

Becoming an Agile Leader

Presented by Scrum.org

Agile leaders help their teams and organizations grow to meet new challenges and find new ways of working. They amplify the nascent capabilities in their teams by helping them to achieve their full potential. The experience can be deeply rewarding, but it can also be at times lonely and uncertain; Most aspiring agile leaders have few role models from whom they can learn, and they can experience indifferent support from their own senior managers. They also can feel anxiety as they let go of their traditional responsibilities and authority in order to help others grow their capability.

In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Kurt Bittner from Scrum.org and Ralph van Roosmalen from Management 3.0 will discuss the challenges leaders face as they try to grow their agility, how they can help their organizations to improve, and tools and practices that can help them to help themselves and their teams. Questions discussed will include:

·        Why would a manager want to give up their traditional authority to help a team grow? What’s in it for them?

·        What tools and practices can help? 

·        How can a manager working in a traditional organization work to empower their teams? 

·        How can managers and teams decide when the teams are ready for more responsibility? And what things can the manager do to help them take it on?

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 24, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

Registration:   Scrum.org Webcast Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2019

Transform Your BA Career with Certifications

Presented by Lora McCoy, CBAP and LN Mishra, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, AAC, Adaptive US, Inc.

Getting IIBA certified can transform one’s business analyst career. Research has proven that certified business analysts earn 16% more on average. Listen from IIBA experts as how you should prepare for IIBA certifications. Transforming one’s BA career with IIBA® Certifications.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

·        Key success factors to succeed in the exam

·        Tips and tricks to crack IIBA certification exams on the first attempt

·        IIBA Application process

·        Strategy for managing time and attempting questions

·        Any other questions on IIBA certification exams

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 9, 2019; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US   @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Webinar Registration

 

Leading Virtually

Presented by Lisa Cox, Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

In a global, technology-focused culture, organizations are collaborating more and more through virtual means. Leading geographically dispersed teams working virtually can present unique challenges, as communication happens primarily through technology, and most of the leadership skills we’ve learned have been geared toward face-to-face interactions. This webinar will provide tools and techniques to adapt those leadership skills to a virtual environment, focusing on three leadership disciplines: focus attentiveness, foster community, and accelerate development.

Learning Objectives:

·        Increase your effectiveness as a virtual leader.

·        Use techniques to overcome challenges of virtual leadership.

·        Adapt your communications for virtual delivery.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration

 

Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Tolga Kombak - Answering Your Most Pressing Scrum Questions

Presented by Scrum.org

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it is difficult to master. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Tolga Kombak will be available to answer any Scrum related questions you may have, including questions around Scrum Mastery, empowering teams and more. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 11, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

Registration:  Scrum.org Webcast Registration

Best Practices for Improving Risk Management Using FMEA

Presented by Bethany Quillinan, Oregon Bioscience Association, and Joel Hutchinson, Jama Software

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), is a common and trusted risk assessment tool used by systems and product development teams. If used effectively, FMEA can help teams identify and manage risk early, preventing costly late-stage changes. Unfortunately, many QA and development teams rely on spreadsheets and lengthy meetings to manage risk and hazard analysis, which can be cumbersome and disconnected from the development process. There is a better way.

Join Bethany Quillinan, Senior Quality Systems Consultant with Oregon Bioscience Association, and Joel Hutchinson, Senior Product Manager at Jama Software, on Thursday, July 11, at 10 a.m. as we discuss how to define, manage, and improve your FMEA process to make risk management easier. We’ll demonstrate how to integrate risk and hazard analysis into the product definition and design process to ensure visibility into risk-related requirements and mitigations.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

·        Overcoming common pitfalls and challenges of risk and hazard analysis

·        Taking a team-based approach to FMEA that’s proactive, not reactive

·        Integrating risk analysis with requirements throughout the development process to improve alignment and mitigation

·        Aligning with industry best practices using FMEA templates

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 11, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Jama Software    @jamasoftware

Cost: Free

Registration:  Jama Public Webinar Registration

Not Your Mama's Acceptance Criteria: A Product Owner's Guide to Writing Excellent User Stories

Presented by Candase Hokanson, Senior Project Manager, Seilevel

High quality agile requirements are more than just user stories. They are visual models, testable acceptance criteria, and the result of collaborative facilitated sessions with your stakeholders and team. Given, When, Then (or Gherkin language) is an effective style for documenting acceptance criteria, particularly in support of teams engaged in behavior driven development processes. 

In this interactive workshop, we will talk about what it takes to get to a “good” user story, by starting with visual models that help identify and prioritize the right user stories, and using proven techniques to elaborate them into solid functional requirements in the Gherkin format (that could be consumed by automation tools like Cucumber!).

We will take a real-world example from idea to “ready” requirement, so you can walk away from this session with hands on experience at writing better stories.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, July 11, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

Registration:   Modern Analyst Webinar Registration

 

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Co-founder at 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, July 12, 2019; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for June 2019 - Part II

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: Tuesday, June 18, 2019; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Webinar Registration

Change by Projects!

Presented by: Lorenz Gareis

In this webinar we explore the relationship between projects and change.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 18, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public 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: Tuesday, June 25, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

   

   

Lessons From the Front Lines: Military Generals, Mindfulness, and Emotional Intelligence

Presented by: Susan Schwartz

This webinar centers around four key, military leadership attributes that can be viewed as take-away lessons on how to lead teams to success.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

 

Help Wanted! Creating an Actionable Data Strategy

Presented by: Dan Johnson

In this webinar, we discuss the building blocks for creating a data strategy that is both aspirational and actionable. 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, June 27, 2019; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration