Saturday, February 12, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2022 - Part II

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Let’s Connect!  The Human Factor In a Technological World

Presented by Deborah Herting

 

In a world awash in new technological powers, the human element is becoming more important than ever in project work. In this webinar you will learn how to play to your strengths in an integrated world where both people and tech must co-exist.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 15, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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The Inside Scoop on Building a Data-Driven AI Organization

Presented by Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala, Director of Data Science, Ericsson R&D, India

 

According to a recent survey from TechCrunch, 72% of big organizations haven’t been able to create a data-driven culture. Making data fundamental to business strategies and central to organizational culture helps companies understand burgeoning trends within their market, allowing them to analyze and make decisions that will lead to the best outcomes. Transformations, however, can be difficult, as there are many issues stopping organizations from becoming data-driven. From difficulties acquiring relevant data to organizing that same mass influx of data, organizations are struggling to become data-driven, finding these problems and many others preventing their progress. Most importantly, many companies are wondering how to make the data FAIR.

In this talk, Dr. Sunil will teach you:

    • How to create data centric AI

    • The role of Dark Data and give examples of using Dark Data

    • The challenges that appear while building the solutions

    • Why there is a need for Edge AI and Green AI

    • How to disrupt your current culture and become more data-driven

    • How to make data FAIR

    • The trade-offs with the PLASTER+SET framework

    • The virtuous cycle of AI and how to scale up

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 15, 2022; 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST

Host: Business Analysis Digest

Cost: Free

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Finding Your Place in a New, Digital World

Presented by Michael Milutis

 

In this webinar, we will address the bewilderment that many of you feel when faced with new, difficult to understand technology trends and will give you the mindset you need to flourish in this new world.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Software Development Pearls

Presented by Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant, Process Impact

 

Experience is a powerful teacher, but it is also slow and painful. Software practitioners can’t afford to make every mistake others have suffered. You can compress the education and bypass much of the pain by absorbing lessons from others who have already climbed the learning curves. Based on my more than 50 years of software experience and 25 years of helping software teams succeed in nearly 150 organizations, the book Software Development Pearls presents 60 lessons you can apply to projects regardless of the application domain, technology, development lifecycle, or your role. These pragmatic principles, perspectives, and practices cover six crucial domains of project success: requirements, design, project management, culture and teamwork, quality, and process improvement. This presentation briefly introduces 24 of the 60 lessons and drills down into six additional lessons. Collecting such pearls of software wisdom can pay off quickly for anyone.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Modern Analyst     @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Little by Little Doing Big Things with Agile

Presented by Niel Magsombol, Agile Coach, Leadership Trainer, Speaker

 

This session takes a unique look at how several principles, highlighted by Lockes & Latham’s Goal Setting Theory of motivation and Agile’s incremental and adaptive approach.  Understanding these principles enables people to not only transform their teams into high performing teams, but also transform themselves into high performing individuals.

Key Learning Points:

    • Background - The New New Product Development Game

    • The BA’s role in The Cone of Uncertainty

    • How to Utilize The Lean Startup

    • Lockes & Latham’s Goal Setting Theory

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2022; 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Lessons Learned for Reducing Risk in Product Development

Presented by Kemi Lewis, Senior Consultant, Jama Software

 

Over the last 20 years, product development complexity has expanded exponentially, creating innovations in areas such as space tourism, autonomous vehicles, satellite communications, and more. In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how Jama Connect© creates Live Traceability™ through siloed development, test, and risk activities to effectively reduce risk in the product development process.

In addition to a walkthrough of the platform and our Live Traceability dashboard, we’ll cover:

    • The critical challenges to reducing risk in product development

    • Why deeming requirements “good enough” to allow teems to proceed with an acceptable level of risk culminates in static requirements, unplanned rework, and compounded product risk

    • How "Project management" activity is a fallacy — it is the management of requirements, people, risks, change, opportunities, expectations, resources, commitment, and suppliers

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software     @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Scaling Scrum with Nexus - Part 2

Presented by Patrick Kong, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, challenges do arise. 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 special episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer moderated by Patricia Kong, as a follow up to December's Ask a PST session, PSTs Kate Hobler, Rich Hundhausen, Venkatesh Rajamani and Jesse Houwing will answer questions related to Scaling Scrum using the Nexus framework. They will provide insights on scaling Scrum and will be available to answer questions about the challenges you are facing in your organization.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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How to Succeed in Your IIBA® Exam in The 1st Attempt

Presented by LN Mishra, President, Adaptive US

 

By the end of this webinar, you’ll know:

    • How IIBA certifications can play an important role in your BA career

    • How to pass IIBA exam in the 1st attempt

    • Adaptive support for IIBA Exam prep

    • Q&A

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Conducting Better Product Discovery

Presented by Hector Del Castillo

 

This webinar walks through a three-step process, sharing practical strategies that can help you facilitate the creation of valuable new products. We cover preparation, problem identification, creating ideas, testing and prototyping, and launching and scaling.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Managing Emotional Intelligence

Presented by Daniel Fay, PMP, PBA, Managing Director, BrenDaniel Productions Corp.

 

Everybody has at least one hot button. These are situations that well up our emotions and take control of the situation. To make it worse, there are people in our lives that just seem to know how to get at that hot button efficiently and effectively. Do you manage your emotions or do your emotions manage you? In this module, get tips to ensure that emotions do not manage the situation.

Learn how to identify and control stressful situations in your life. Strengthen your ability to take control during stressful, or emotionally charged situations. Get some key tips and a better understanding of why these situations are stressful, and what steps to get back on track.

If you find yourself in stressful situations, this webinar is important for you. If you feel that lack of managing your emotions has impacted your life, this webinar is critical for you.

Learning Points:
    • What is Emotional Intelligence
    • What are some of your Emotional Challenges?
    • The Emotional Intelligence Framework
    • Personal Competency versus Social Competency
    • Creating your Balance – Gaining control of your emotions

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 17, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2022

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Solving the Agile Estimation Conundrum the SiSE Way!

Presented by Carol Dekkers

 

This session introduces the SiSE process, together with the open-source SiSE guidebook and associated MS Excel® based-SiSE sizing template. Attendees will learn how SiSE uses best practices to quickly estimate requirements and build a credible and defensible cost estimate

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 1, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Best Practices for Data Migration Towards MBSE

Presented by Richard Watson, Director of Practice, Jama Software

 

Data is one of the most valuable assets for organizations, but are we giving it enough attention? The prospect of moving to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is tantalizing but often seems difficult when considering the move from existing engineering assets.

In this webinar, Richard Watson, VP Practice Director at Jama Software, will discuss this topic and give best practices on how to formalize the process of MBSE migration to reduce risk of data loss. He will also walk through the risks of legacy requirements management tools and provide solutions for migration.

In this session we will cover:

    • What MBSE is and how it differs from SysML

    • Benefits of building a common data model for engineering

    • How to approach moving data towards MBSE

    • Best practices for data migration when moving away from legacy solutions

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 2, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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Digital Transformation in Industry via Low-Code/No-Code Platforms

Presented by Arlene Minkiewicz

 

This webinar introduces low-code/no-code platforms. We will provide examples of their successful use in industry and offer guidance and rules of thumb for how to estimate on low-code/no-code projects.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 2, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Software Product Management

Presented by Dr. Christof Ebert

 

This webinar will introduce you to product management for software driven products, IT and services. We will cover the five major life-cycle phases: product strategy, concept, development, market entry, and product evolution. The role and competences of the software product manager will be outlined. There will be a case study.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 3, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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How to Succeed in Your IIBA® Exam in The 1st Attempt

Presented by LN Mishra, President, Adaptive US

 

By the end of this webinar, you’ll know:

    • How IIBA certifications can play an important role in your BA career

    • How to pass IIBA exam in the 1st attempt

    • Adaptive support for IIBA Exam prep

    • Q&A

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 3, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

Monday, January 24, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2022 - Part IV

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Why We Need to Focus On Success and Use an Engineering Approach to Achieve

Presented by Alan Shalloway

 

This webinar explores why so many organizations are not achieving success with Agile and outlines an approaching for remediating these common problems.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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The Costly Impact of Ineffective Requirements Management in the Medical Device Industry

Presented by Steven Meadows, Jama Software and Sandra Rodriguez, Axendia

 

Requirements management solutions enable the unification of siloed processes and data that often reside in outdated, disparate, and disconnected legacy systems. However ineffective and inefficient, the industry still relies overwhelmingly on static documents housed in Excel/Word and relies on manual processes that add significant risk to the development process.

 

Axendia conducted a research study focusing on the medical device industry's approach to requirements management with a goal to identify and analyze the drivers, barriers, trends, and value of requirements management across the product development lifecycle.

 

9 out of 10 (87%) Executives surveyed for this report admitted to having a ‘not effective or somewhat effective’ requirements management process.

 

In this webinar, Axendia’s Senior Industry Analyst, Sandra K. Rodriguez will share the outcomes of the research including:

    • The impact of having an ineffective requirements management process

    • The critical importance of requirements management to achieve improved patient outcomes, product quality, and time to market

    • The negative impact on budgets, verification and validation activities when relying on manual processes

 

Sandra will be joined by Jama’s medical and life science principal solutions lead, Steven Meadows, who will be sharing his experience and unique perspective on the above.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software    @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

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Achieving More with Data: The Critical Role of Business Analysis in Becoming a Data-Driven Organization

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

 

Big Data presents an enormous opportunity for business. Stakeholders can make better decisions when they have insights from data. How does your organization collect, share, mine and analyze data to inform your stakeholder? And how involved are business analysis professionals in your data analytics projects?

As part of IIBA’s Global Research, the Achieving More with Data research analyzes the forces shaping the use of data and analytics at companies.

In this panel discussion, Keith Ellis, IIBA Chief Engagement and Growth Officer and David Marco, president of EW Solutions and a global authority in data governance, will reveal and discuss key findings from the research and the critical role of business analysis in becoming a data-driven organization.

Key Learnings:
    - Impacts data analytics has on today's businesses and need to become a data-driven enterprise
    - The critical role business analysis plays in driving success in business data analytics in terms of ROI and performance gains
    - Essential skills and opportunities for business analysis professionals in business data analytics
    - How core business data analytics practices contribute to the quality of analytic activities

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)     @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Analytics-Based Enterprise Performance Management

Presented by Gary Cokins

 

In this webinar you will learn how the seamless integration of enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) methods that are each embedded with advanced analytics can exponentially increase your organization’s performance.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 26, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Cybersecurity for Business Analysis Professionals: Working in and with Security

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)

 

We’ll talk about how Business Analysis professionals can consider security when working on technology projects. We’ll also cover how to transition from Business Analysis to Security Analysis – transferrable skills, security functions to consider, and how to network with the security team.

  

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, January 26, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®)    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Sunday, January 16, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for January 2022 - Part III

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You Might Be An Agile Leader, If...

Presented by Bob Galen

 

Channeling his best Jeff Foxworthy, Bob Galen shares some patterns and anti-patterns that surround the leadership shift to more agile tactics and mindset that many leaders are facing and struggling to adopt.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 11:00 am – 11:45 am EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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How Effective Teams Can Scale Agile in the Enterprise

Presented by Chris Knotts, Cprime Learning

 

When the agile movement first saw broad adoption, there was tremendous success at the team level. It didn't take long for large organizations to run into challenges seeing that same type of success in larger, more complex initiatives. This presentation is an introduction to the expanded principles of agility intended to harness the effectiveness of agile teams and bring better organizational alignment to larger efforts built upon the effectiveness of highly agile teams.

This presentation focuses on how to expand the practice of agility to an enterprise level, based on the principles of lean and value stream management. Chris will review these key points:
    • Why highly performing agile teams are a good start towards implementing transformational work, but are only the beginning
    • How lean program and portfolio management enables enterprise-wide agility
    • The basics of how to prioritize, coordinate, and manage multiple streams of enterprise work
    • How and why finance and funding practices must change to align with enterprise agility
    • The difference between applying lean concepts for innovation and experimentation, vs. applying them to mainline work at scale

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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Your 2022 IT Risk Forecast

Presented by Michael Milutis

 

This live conversation between Don Shafer, Scott Stribrny, and Dr. Robert Charette will explore the many risks facing technology and business professionals in 2022, from unexpected failures in artificial intelligence and machine learning to talent shortages, technology debt, high profile cyber attacks, and more!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

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Influence and How to Advise and Motivate for Successful Results

Presented by Dave Davis, OhioHealth

 

You are in position to influence behavior of people competing project activities and advise key decision makers. How do you motivate workers and also advise executives? The answer is trust. This presentation will discuss trust and its importance to a project manager. Trust is not granted by title; it has to be earned. We will explore ways trust is earned, ways it is lost, and ways it can be rebuilt. Using a combination of life experiences, amusing anecdotes, and proven research, you will better understand how trust is the cornerstone soft skill for a distinguished project manager. Additionally, you will know how to build trust and respect among your team.

 

Learning Objectives

    • What is influence, and how does a project manager obtain and manage influence of critical behaviors?

    • What does it mean to be a trusted advisor and how does the project manager earn the right to advise executives.

    • What roles do Desire, Inspiration, and Ability play in achieving the end result

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: BATimes

Cost: Free

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Bringing Data to L.I.F.E. and Life to Data

Presented by Dr. Joe Perez, Chief Technology Officer, SolonTek Corporation

 

What does it mean to bring data to life? Does data take on a “LIFE” of its own, or does it have to be nurtured, prodded, refined, pushed, and pulled along the way? Why should we even care?  Marketing and customer experience expert Jay Baer once said, “We are surrounded by data, but starved for insight.”  Although it has been said that exabytes of new information are generated on a daily basis, how much of that data is actually meaningful? Does volume necessarily translate into value? What vision can we bring to bridge this gap?

 

A recent study involving more than 500 IT decision makers in the US and the UK found that businesses are missing out on $5.2 million in revenue due to untapped data.  Your data are only as powerful as the business decisions they fuel. In this session, discover the four “L.I.F.E.” pillars of relevant data that will bring meaning to these masses of numbers.  Catch the right blend of left-brain logic and right-brain ideas.  Recognize the value of answering questions you know and exploring questions you don’t know.  Find out how to turn obstacles into opportunities as you bring data to L.I.F.E. and life to data.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cincinnati IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass   @IIBACincy

Cost: Free

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Mastering Stakeholder Bias: The Key to PMO Success

Presented by Mark Perry

 

In this webinar, we are going to explain stakeholder bias and present tips and techniques for its application in both projects and PMO management.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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7 Steps To Reclaim Your Scrum Master Super Power

Presented by Nagesh Sharma and Ravi Verma

 

Over the years, we have trained, mentored and coached hundreds of Scrum Masters. As we reflect on our experience, one truth seems to stand out - many Scrum Masters we meet are driven by a purpose.

 

Being a Scrum Master is not just a job for them. It is a calling to help others. It is a calling to live by principles and values higher than the principle of survival. The Scrum Master is accountable for the Scrum Team's effectiveness and they are most fulfilled when they are truly honoring their calling.

 

Unfortunately, in some organizations that claim to adopt Scrum, a Scrum Master is not always fully respected and they are only responsible for scheduling meetings, typing up notes, and being a management enforcer to deliver on-time, on-budget and ever-increasing scope projects. Being trapped in such roles can really affect the morale of purpose-driven Scrum Masters and they are unable to really utilize their super power of supporting the Scrum Team. But what can Scrum Masters do to avoid this pattern? If you are interested in the answers to this question, please join us in this webinar.

 

In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainers Nagesh Sharma and Ravi Verma will share seven concrete steps that purpose-driven Scrum Masters can take to avoid and escape this trap while reclaiming their Scrum Master superpower.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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BA Career Series Webinar: Software Development Pearls of Wisdom

Presented by Karl Wiegers, Author, Principal Consultant at Process Impact  

 

Experience is a powerful teacher, but it’s also slow and painful. Software practitioners can’t afford to make every mistake others have suffered. You can compress the education and bypass much of the pain by absorbing lessons from others who have already climbed the learning curves.

 

Based on my more than 50 years of software experience and 25 years of helping software teams succeed in nearly 150 organizations, the book Software Development Pearls presents 60 lessons you can apply to projects regardless of the application domain, technology, development lifecycle, or your role. These pragmatic principles, perspectives, and practices cover six crucial domains of project success: requirements, design, project management, culture and teamwork, quality, and process improvement.

 

This presentation briefly introduces 24 of the 60 lessons and drills down into six additional lessons. Collecting such pearls of software wisdom can pay off quickly for anyone striving to build high-quality software products, whatever their project role may be.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: Bluegrass, Albany Capital District, Austin, Bay Area, Calgary, Cincinnati, DC Metro, 

Ottawa-Outaouais, and Phoenix IIBA Chapters                                                                            @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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