Business Analysis Webinars for September 2021 - Part III

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What does it mean to be a business analyst?

Presented by Yulia Kosarenko, Principal Consultant, Why Change Consulting

 

There is more demand than ever for business analysis professionals. But what does it mean to be a business analyst? What do they do all day?  What are their responsibilities? Do they just “gather” requirements?

In this session, we will focus on the key aspects of being a BA:

    • Required skills and competencies

    • How to “do business analysis”

    • Where do requirements come from

    • What are the deliverables of the business analysis process

    • What makes a business analyst successful

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 14, 2021; 7:00 am – 8:30 am EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Expert Panel Discussion: Understanding the Internet of Things (IoT) and its Impact

Panelists: Henry Will, Dr. Larry Dribin, Don Shafer

 

This expert panel discussion with Henry Will, Dr. Larry Dribin, and Don Shafer will explore the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT).

We will provide a basic introduction to the key concepts of IoT, we will discuss examples of IoT in the world around us, and we will examine how companies are leveraging the internet of things in innovative ways.

Our goal is to give attendees a vocabulary and mental model for understanding the impact of IoT in the modern world, and a roadmap for becoming more actively involved in this exciting new technology.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 14, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer

Presented by John Coleman, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. 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, John Coleman will answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges your teams are facing. Bring your toughest Scrum challenges for this interactive experience with an expert!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 14, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Systems Thinking: Practical BA Techniques for Business Agility

Presented by Adrian Reed, Principal Consultant, Blackmetric Business Solutions

 

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 organizations. Achieving agility can be tricky when working in large, seemingly bureaucratic, organizations 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 organizations 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.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 14, 2021; 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cincinnati IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 15, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Virtual Agile

Presented by Susan Parente

 

In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage agile project management best practices for virtual, agile teams that are not co-located.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 16, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for September 2021 - Part II

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Don’t Let Your Design Thinking Silver Bullet Be a Blank

Presented by Robin Goldsmith

 

Over-hyped design thinking can often mislead you. In this webinar, you will learn the secrets for delivering perfect, on-demand design innovation.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 7, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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Inherent Simplicity – How to Deal With Complexity in Knowledge Work in a Simple Way

Presented by Alan Shalloway

 

This webinar discusses how the concepts of Inherent Simplicity provide us with nine factors for efficient value streams in knowledge work.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 8, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 8, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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10 Steps to Integrate Evidence-Based Management with Scrum in 60 Days or Less

Presented by Anca Tanase, Magdalena Firlit, Nagesh Sharma and Ravi Verma

 

Many companies use the steady rhythm of Scrum to make steady improvements in quality or time to market. Over time, they start expanding their focus from optimizing activities to optimizing business outcomes like customer delight, customer retention, revenue, profit, and cash flow. This is when they start gravitating towards outcome-based frameworks like Evidence-Based Management (EBM). However, this is when they seem to run into some common challenges…

1. How to integrate outcome-based frameworks like EBM into Scrum principles, values, roles, events and artifacts?

2. How to create a starter set of steps to convert the theory of EBM into concrete actions?

3. How to integrate these steps into the pressure and rhythm of Scrum time-boxes to shorten the learning loop?

In this webinar moderated by PST Ravi Verma with Anca Tanase, PST Magdalena Firlit and PST Nagesh Sharma, they will propose one possible approach that evidence based Agile organizations can take to overcome these challenges. They will propose 10 steps that can be followed in 60 days or less to integrate EBM with Scrum.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 9, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum. Org

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for September 2021

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 1, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) in Scrum

Presented by Ralph Jocham

 

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) act as goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. OKRs are often misunderstood and are a powerful practice to create razor sharp organizational focus. Isn’t Scrum about goals and focus as well? There is the Vision, the Product Goal, the Sprint Goal as well as the Sprint Review.
These elements of Scrum can be very well combined with OKRs. Actually, you might want to turn it around, start with OKRs and map your Scrum implementation to them. In this Scrum Pulse webinar Professional Scrum Trainer Ralph Jocham with Agile Actors #learning will give a quick intro to OKRs, and you then you will learn how Scrum can benefit from using OKRs to create a network of responsibility from the vision down to individual Sprint Goals. This responsibility network offers a transparency most corporations long for.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 1, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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From BA To BA Product Owner - Navigating The Complexities Of Requirements in an Agile World

Presented by Chris Sims, CEO and Chief Product Owner, Sigoa Studios

 

Often, when organizations make their initial steps into the Agile world, their BA's are trapped as Product Owners.  Given their experience interacting with customers and teams, that makes sense.  However, this journey is fraught with potential pitfalls.  Learn how to identify and overcome those as your organization learns to accomplish twice the work in half the time.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 2, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Birmingham IIBA Chapter and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

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Business Analysis Webinars for August 2021 - Part IV

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 25, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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The Trick to Keeping High-Level Requirements High-Level

Presented by Dan Tasker, Author, Consultant, Business Analyst

 

The trick to keeping high-level requirements high-level is recognizing that an information system has five fundamental capabilities. This webinar discusses what those capability types are, and how they can be used to document HLRs that set the scene for either detailed requirements, or evaluating COTS solutions.

This webinar will cover topics such as:
    • Similarities and differences between an HLR and an unrefined user story
    • How HLRs refine a project’s initial scope
    • The five fundamental capabilities of an information system
    • How to avoid detail-level requirements during HLR elicitation
    • The critical difference between stakeholders and subject matter experts

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 26, 2021; 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for August 2021 - Part III

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 18, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Making Data POP! Telling Better Stories with Numbers

Presented by Lavina Wiebe, Business Analyst

 

Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and large data sets. By using visual elements like charts, graphs, maps, and other visuals data visualization makes it easier to identify, understand and share real-time trends, outliers, and patterns in data.

 

Our eyes are drawn to colors and patterns. We can quickly identify red from blue, square from circle. Our culture is visual, including everything from art and advertisements to TV and movies. Data visualization is another form of visual art that grabs our interest and keeps our eyes on the message. Data visualization helps to tell stories by curating data into a form easier to understand, highlighting the trends and outliers. A good visualization tells a story, removing the noise from data and highlighting the useful information. Find the story hidden in your data. Data visualization is important to see what’s happening, why, and what to do next.

 

Join Lavina Wiebe as she discusses how to make your data POP! and tell better stories using data to your senior management team. This allows the Business Analyst and Data Analyst to use data to support more informed decision making.

 

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 18, 2021; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

Cost: Free

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Ace the Case – Solving Case-Study & Scenario based CBAP Questions

Presented by Satheesh Sathyaseelan, CBAP, Assistant Manage, KPMG

 

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) is the most recognized Business Analysis certification in the World. Getting CBAP certified enables a professional to build credibility and gain confidence in the workplace. IIBA® Certified professionals (CBAP/CCBA) earn higher salary than non-certified professionals.

 

CBAP Certification Exam comprises Case-study and Scenario based questions. Answering these questions requires understanding of the concepts, their relationships, and application.

 

How is this webinar going to help?

 

We will focus on providing clear and actionable tips and tricks to solve the Case study and Scenario based questions efficiently.

 

Preparing for CBAP or CCBA certifications? Think of this session as a pit stop. You can join this guided and useful session to see how CBAP / CCBA exam questions are solved?

 

TAKEAWAYS

This session will help you to assess your preparation level or help you get started with the practice session.

 

Each participant will get free access to 50 questions with answers and explanations from the TECHCANVASS CBAP Question Bank.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, August 19, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for August 2021 - Part II

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Which Agile Technique Should I Use?

Presented by Stephanie Hawkins, MSIA, CISA

 

Agile business analysis practitioners apply their experience and judgment in determining which agile techniques are appropriate to a given context and when to use a technique. A technique is a manner, method, or style for conducting a business analysis task or for shaping its output, according to the BABOK® v3 Guide Glossary

In this presentation, we will explore a variety of techniques in the "Agile Extension to BABOK® Guide V2" and which technique might be useful in a given context.

By participating in this discussion, you will learn technique as it relates to:

What are the three Agile planning horizons
    * How to relate contexts to techniques
    * What techniques work well for internal teams
    * What techniques work well with stakeholders external to the team

This presentation will be in American English.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2021; 7:00 am – 8:30 am EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

Cost: Free

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Experiencing Agile Through Play

Presented by Alison (Ali) Orr Cox LEGO® Serious Play® Method Facilitator, ICAgile-Agile Coach, CBAP, AAC, PMP, PBA, SAFe Agilist, CSM, TKP, MBA, Management 3.0, ICAgile ICP

 

I am often asked why team members should do things like limit their WIP, or meet every day, or do retrospectives. The truth is that the Agile approach and its related practices can be hard to fully understand and embrace unless you experience them personally. For some, the first time they apply Agile is in the midst of their organization’s Agile Transformation efforts, which can be overwhelming and cause people to fall back on “the way we’ve always done it.”

 

I have found that when people step outside of the context of their work and instead walk through a high-level, fun simulation of Agile, it allows them to more fully grasp not only the concepts but also why the concepts are important. We use gamification because we believe games help a team experience new processes in a fun, supportive environment that enables them to understand key points in a relevant, clear, and memorable way through the 'serious play'.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Palmetto IIBA Chapter    @Palmettoiiba

Cost: Free for IIBA Members, $5 for Guests

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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From Project to Product: “Big Rock” Constraints and How to Overcome Them

Presented by Anne Steiner, Vice President, Product and Technology, Cprime

 

Project-based thinking and process is often the largest inhibitor of achieving agility. It explains why the notion of ‘Project to Product' has gained such popularity to the point of becoming a buzzword in recent years.

Despite the enthusiasm about becoming a product-driven organization, many companies still hang onto their old project-based ways due to some “big rock” constraints, including funding and separation of IT and business.

So, what can you do to make a successful shift?

Join Anne Steiner, Cprime’s VP of Product & Technology, to explore the challenges you may face in your product agility journey and how to overcome them. We’ll explore:

    • Common constraints you may encounter when shifting from project to product and how to address them

    • How to shift to product-based funding models

    • The role of the product manager

    • Benefits you’ll experience with true product agility

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 12, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 3: Epic Management - Take the Exits

Presented by Michiko Quinones and Jean Dahl

 

Organizations might have set up all the process steps for portfolio flow: the monthly strategic portfolio review, the portfolio kanban, even the lean business case. But, they are still not getting the idea that small, testable, constantly evaluated initiatives are what really increase your output of value to the customer and put you way ahead of the competition.

In part 1 of this webinar we explored how signs of imitation LPM show up in an organization’s approach to strategy. In part 2, we covered how to organize around value streams with examples of successful LPM.

Now, in this third webinar in our Lean Portfolio Management series we’ll join Cprime's Michiko Quinones (Jira Align Consultant) and Jean Dahl (General Manager, Scaled Agility) to learn techniques to:

    • Question performing work that doesn't clearly align to your organization's strategy

    •         Develop a process that makes things smaller and testable when it comes to initiative creation and management

    • Build a culture that allows work to stop if it's not going to meet its intended purpose

    • Make sure that you are "thinking lean," rather than just "doing lean"

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 12, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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Navigating Difficult Conversations

Presented by Andrea Brockmeier, PMP, PBA, ECBA, AAC, Watermark Learning

 

Engaging in difficult conversations constructively is a skill that can make or break working relationships. Environments where people are able to have tough discussions in a safe, positive way are more collaborative, creative, and productive. In this presentation, explore the myths surrounding conflict and get a new perspective on how to approach those dicey discussions most of us would rather avoid. You will learn the various responses to conflict and get an opportunity to reflect on your own biases. A structured conversation approach will be illustrated that can be used to create better outcomes for everyone involved. Expect to leave with fresh perspectives about how to navigate difficult conversations often resulting from the inevitable differences we experience when working with others.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 13, 2021; 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Agile Analysis Certification Chat

Presented by April Llamas, AAC

 

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, August 13, 2021; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm PHT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

Cost: Free

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Business Analysis Webinars for August 2021

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

The demand for BAs is all time high with the US Department of Labor predicting a 14% increase every year. IIBA certified BAs earn 19% more, they progress faster in their career and win the best jobs. At the same time, IIBA examinations are hard to conquer. ~30% students are unable to complete the certification in their first attempt. In this live expert webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

 

Agenda

    • How to earn $100K+ with IIBA certifications
    • IIBA certification requirements

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

    • Study aids and support from Adaptive for getting yourself IIBA certified.

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 4, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

IIBA® Certification Chat

Presented by Andrea Brockmeier, PMP, PBA, ECBA, AAC, Watermark Learning

 

The event is a free chat session. 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 6, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning     @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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