Design
Thinking Exercises You Can Use Today
Presented by Tina Arnoldi
Design
Thinking is about more than design! The process helps anyone approach problems
in a creative and innovative way. The goal of this approach is to understand
the users, challenge known assumptions, and seek solutions that may not be
obvious.
The exercises used on their own are not enough to incorporate a design thinking
mindset across your company culture. However, they are a fun and easy way to
introduce these ideas into a workplace hesitant to adopt a new approach to
problem-solving.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about several tools you can incorporate today,
such as The 5 Why’s, I Like/I Wish, Difficulty/Importance Matrix, while
learning the purpose of each one.
We will cover:
• Use Design
Thinking Tools to Approach Problem Solving
• Understand
Your User and Create Out-of-the-Box Solutions
• Begin Steps to
Incorporate a Design Thinking Mindset in Your Organization
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 6, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_Training
Cost: Free
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by 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, CBAP, or IIBA-AAC application to the exams to re-certification.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday; August 7, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
EDT
Host: Watermark Learning @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
Businesses Succeed by
Focusing on Quality
Presented by Harry Rever
Quality should be a core value for most companies.
Customers expect high quality products and services from companies they
frequent; otherwise they will go somewhere else. So it is essential to meet and
exceed customer and employee expectations in order to not only survive, but to
thrive as a business.
Therefore, an emphasis on quality improvement is
crucial. This webinar will focus on how a structured approach to addressing and
focusing on quality will enable your company to continuously improve and thus
satisfy the all-important customer.
We will discuss tips to promote quality management and
leadership within an organization and learn what leaders should do to promote
quality and help make quality and process thinking part of the business
culture.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
• After this
one-hour webinar, learners will be able to:
• Provide tips
to promote quality management and leadership within an organization
• Suggest ideas
for leaders to promote the topic of quality
• Emphasize the
importance of process thinking as part of the business culture
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, August 10, 2020; 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT
Host: International Institute for Learning, Inc. @IIL
Cost: Free
How
do I know which Scrum Certification is right for Me?
Presented by Angela Johnson
You’ve been asked to learn more about Scrum for your
current job or to land a new job. Great! Now how do you choose which path is
the right one for you?
Do you base your decision solely on what you have
been doing in your career? Where you want to go next with your career? A bit of
both?
The good news is that the Scrum Alliance offers
entry-level choices to help you get started.
Join us for this free webinar to learn more about:
• Certified
ScrumMaster® (CSM®) as an immersion into “Scrum 101” because it’s hard to be
the master of Scrum if you don’t understand the framework roles, events,
activities and values
• Certified
Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®) as an immersion into tools, techniques and
approaches for anyone in a Product Owner role, anyone assisting a Product Owner
or someone who coaches a Product Owner
• Certified
Scrum Developer® (CSD®) as an immersion into technology practices such as test
driven development, continuous integration and more
Additionally, registrants will receive a $100 coupon towards any upcoming Scrum
Course.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, August 10, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_Training
Cost: Free
Businesses Succeed by
Focusing on Quality
Presented by Harry Rever
Quality should be a core value for most companies.
Customers expect high quality products and services from companies they
frequent; otherwise they will go somewhere else. So it is essential to meet and
exceed customer and employee expectations in order to not only survive, but to
thrive as a business.
Therefore, an emphasis on quality improvement is
crucial. This webinar will focus on how a structured approach to addressing and
focusing on quality will enable your company to continuously improve and thus
satisfy the all-important customer.
We will discuss tips to promote quality management and
leadership within an organization and learn what leaders should do to promote
quality and help make quality and process thinking part of the business
culture.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
• After this
one-hour webinar, learners will be able to:
• Provide tips
to promote quality management and leadership within an organization
• Suggest ideas
for leaders to promote the topic of quality
• Emphasize the
importance of process thinking as part of the business culture
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, August 10, 2020; 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Host: International Institute for Learning, Inc. @IIL
Cost: Free
Business Analysis in 30
Minutes
Presented by Paul LaSalle
A quick 30-minute introduction to Business Analysis
for those who are considering the field. This webinar looks at why the BA is
essential to the business, what BAs do, and certification paths for Business
Analysts.
In this webinar, you will learn:
• Define
business analysis and explain why it is essential for identifying business
needs and defining solutions
• Summarize what a BA does and identify the different job titles a BA may have
• List and define the core BA skills
• Differentiate between the two worldwide organizations addressing the practice
of business analysis and their respective BA certifications
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
EDT
Host: Global Knowledge
@GlobalKnowledge
Cost: Free
Systems Thinking:
Practical BA Techniques for Business Agility
Presented by Adrian Reed, Principal
Consultant | Speaker | Author | Mentor
The business environment is moving at a rapid pace. More
than ever we need the ability to quickly sense and respond to change, and there
is increasing focus on enabling agility within organisations. Achieving agility
can be tricky when working in large, seemingly bureaucratic, organisations with
a whole legacy of technology, political and process issues that seemingly need
resolving. With tricky stakeholders and conflicting perspectives, change
initiatives stall and our organisations risk falling behind market and customer
expectations.
Business analysis is a crucial enabler that plays an important part in
overcoming these issues and helping organizations strive towards achieving
agility. As practitioners we can draw techniques and approaches from the world
of systems thinking to help us.
In this practical session you will hear:
• What systems thinking is, and
how it can contribute towards business agility.
• A practical set of systems thinking techniques that have direct applicability
for BAs.
• How systems thinking naturally fits with an agile BA mindset.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11, 2020; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass and Hawaii IIBA Chapters @IIBABluegrass @HawaiiIIBA
Cost: Free
Leverage your Business
Analysis Skills with Robotic Process Automation Initiatives and BPM
Presented by Leo Rodriguez
By 2020, 40% of large enterprises will have adopted an
RPA software tool (Gartner). As organizations hurry to implement RPA as quickly
as possible, most soon understand that implementing RPA is more challenging
than they had anticipated.
In this webinar, we will explore the following:
• The
role and value of Business Analysis professionals in RPA initiatives
• Draw
comparisons with the skills required for Robotic Process Automation and BPM
initiatives. Key Learning Outcomes:
• What
are the key skills that translate throughout all 3 businesses
• Why
understanding the 10,000 and 30,000 ft views is important
•
Understanding technical knowledge required for RPA and BPM
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 12, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Transforming Enterprise
RPA: How to Scale and Govern Process Automation at the Enterprise Level
Presented by Joseph Cutler, Cognizant and Tony Higgiins,
Blueprint Software Solutions
Scaling RPA to enterprise levels and ensuring
governance over automated processes is a major challenge for many
organizations. This not only impacts their ability to grow, but also to achieve
profit targets, ensure compliance, and maintain a strategic competitive
advantage.
So how can today's leaders not only scale their RPA
practice but ensure governance over process automation?
In this 45-minute session, experts from Cognizant and
Blueprint will discuss trends impacting modern business in 2020, and provide
recommendations for an end-to-end approach from process discovery through to
bot development that will effectively scale RPA enterprise-wide while ensuring
compliance across your digital workforce.
Key Takeaways:
• Why
digital process improvement is imperative in today's economic landscape
• How
teams are expanding on early success to scale automation
• Common
challenges when scaling RPA, and how to avoid them
• Best
practices for selecting and prioritizing what processes to automate to optimize
your enterprise ROI
• How
to scale RPA in size and complexity, accelerate automation delivery, reduce bot
maintenance costs, and govern digital workforces according to rigorous
enterprise and regulatory constraints using Blueprint
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, August 13, 2020; 11:00 am – 11:45 am
EDT
Host: Blueprint Software Systems @Blueprintsys
Cost: Free
Senior Business Systems
Analyst to Entrepreneur
Presented by Judy Alter
Join us on this transformation journey as Judy Alter,
a passionate leader and a dear friend of the IIBA family, shares with us her
career journey. Judy will share the highlights of her 35+ year career with
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Companies to becoming the CEO/Owner of her own
company. She performed Business Analysis and Project Management in Claims and
Policy-owner Services before those terms even existed. Judy was then promoted
to a Senior Business Systems Analyst for the remaining 16 years of her career
where she became a sought-after Leader and Mentor for other BA's. Risk-averse
to changing companies, Judy was continuously learning and growing at Mutual of
Omaha. She believes that staying in your comfort zone should not be a
destination; in August 2019, she decided to retire in early 2020 and pursue her
passions in the Business Analysis arena. Judy will share with you important
career lessons which led her to a successful career at Mutual of Omaha, and
more importantly have led her to obtaining her own company doing what she loves
the most – connecting with other business analysis professionals.
Judy's Important Career Lessons:
• Use Humor
& Stay Positive
• Pursue
Excellence, Not Perfection
• Never Stop
Learning
• Sr. Business
Analysts Should Be Leaders and Mentors
• Pursue Your
Passion
• Starting a
Business During a Pandemic Has Been Awesome
• Why Business
Analysts Should Be Involved in IIBA
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Thursday, August 13, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
IIBA® Certification
Screen-side Chat
Presented by Joann Sims, CBAP
This is a free online chat session with some of our
CBAP® and CCBA® recipients. The CBAP and CCBA mentors 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 and
CCBA mentors.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, August 14, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter @IIBABluegrass
Cost: Free
