Saturday, April 2, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for April 2022

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8 Culture Hacks for a more Positive & Productive Team

Presented by Erica Woods and Cate Murray, Apex Systems

 

Did you know that overall performance can rise up to 56% when team members are in an optimistic and happy state of mind? In this highly interactive session, we’ll share our top 8 suggestions for how to take your culture to the next level, which will positively impact performance, job satisfaction, retention and even your recruiting efforts!

 

Learning Objectives

    • Understand importance of focusing on team building and culture development

    • Tangible easy-to-implement tips for building culture

    • Tips for increasing job satisfaction that drives productivity

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, April 4, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

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High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence

Presented by Richard Kasperowski

 

Want awesome teams that build great products? Great teams don’t happen by accident. And they don’t have to take a long time to build.

In this interactive session, Richard Kasperowski from With Great People, lays out the case for Continuous / Extreme Teaming. Session participants will join in a flight of fun learning activity-sets. These will give you a taste of team awesomeness and how to start when you go back to work.

Richard builds on the work of Jim and Michele McCarthy, Google, Bruce Tuckman, Gamasutra, Standish Group, Peter Drucker, and Melvin Conway. His learning activity-sets activities are short games, using elements from improvisational theater, The Core Protocols, Extreme Programming, and more.

Who should attend? Anyone who wants to create a great team and build great products. You’ll leave having embodied the essential elements of accelerated continuous team-building and maintenance.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2022; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Survival Knowledge Management: A Different Animal

Presented by Peggy Salvatore

 

In this webinar, we will review the state of the industry in Spring 2022 to evaluate whether your knowledge management plan is up to snuff and serving you in this time of HR upheaval.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2022; 11:00 am – 11:45 am EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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What Are the Top 10 Technologies to Watch in the Next 12 Months?

Presented by Don Shafer

 

As managers and technologists you need to get a grip on new technology before it hits. To that end, we will be discussing AI everywhere, Anything as a Service, Governance and Accountability, Virtualization, Sustainable Energy, Cybersecurity, Hyperautomation, Operate Anywhere, Predictive Analytics, Software Quality Standards, Smart Cities, Deep Fakes, Autonomous Vehicles, and even NFTs!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Context Diagrams: Your first and strongest go-to tool in your kit!

 

The context diagram is a key tool for use in every BA situation. It helps us focus on problems, capabilities, solutions, and stakeholders in a way that supports a breadth-before-depth thought process that is perfect for business analysts!

In this session we will talk about how using this technique will help you fully understand the scope of your solution at the right point in the project - the beginning! - so that you can collaborate with your project team as well as your internal & external customers. Context diagrams enable you to have powerful and collaborative conversations with your team: clarify scope boundaries with your project sponsor, scope and risk with your project manager, and technology solution issues with your technical professionals.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
    • Understand the purpose and value of the context diagram technique.
    • Be able to start creating context diagrams during your BA work.
   
• Apply agile analysis principles in support of this elicitation and modeling activity.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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A Simple, Effective Way to Start a Team With Agile That Can Adapt to Most Any Context

Presented by Alan Shalloway

 

This webinar presents a different way to get started with Agile at the team level. It presents a decision framework that is used to create a starting point and a method for selecting appropriate practices.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, April 7, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The 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, April 7, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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IIBA® Certification Chat

Presented by Dr. Susan Heidorn, Ed.D., CBAP, BRMP, AAC, Director of Business Solutions, 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, April 8, 2022; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning     @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Thursday, March 24, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2022 - Part III

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Software Development Pearls of Wisdom

Presented by Karl Wiegers

 

This webinar briefly introduces 24 of the 60 software development 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: Tuesday, March 29, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Emotional Intelligence:  An Essential Tool for Successful Digital Transformation

Presented by Susan Schwartz

 

During digital transformation projects, the only constant we can count on is unexpected change. In this webinar we will explore how Emotional Intelligence can help leaders flex, adapt, and pivot throughout such change.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 30, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller

Presented by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, Professional Scrum Trainers

 

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 Trainers 
Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges you or your teams are facing. Com prepared with questions for this fun, interactive session!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 30, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum. Org

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Saturday, March 12, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2022 - Part II

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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: Tuesday, March 15, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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A Practical Approach to Align and Deliver Adaptive Strategy

Presented by Dan Weikart and Corby James  

 

Leaders in organizations undertaking digital transformation need to connect emergent business strategy, execution, and financial management to move as quickly as the market demands.

 

In this webinar, we will discuss how to “set the table” for these aspects of your business to operate with agility and financial governance. We will also highlight how the alignment of process and technology with tools like Apptio Target process enables enterprise-wide alignment around outcomes for practical application of these principles. 

Transformation leaders, agile program management office leaders, IT Finance leaders and others with significant roles will benefit from this webinar.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

    • Deliver outcomes by connecting business strategy to team execution

    • Support strategy pivots by aligning OKRs to customer feedback and market demand

    • Reduce the mean time to pivot by frequent measurement against outcomes

    • Align Agile PMO with IT Finance on continuous financial planning that supports agile model

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 15, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime and Apptio   

Cost: Free

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Building a More Effective and Efficient Product Development Process

Presented by Colin White, Senior Consultant, Jama Software

 

An ideal product development process requires close collaboration between teams, up-to-date knowledge of applicable regulations, and an efficient requirements management platform for defining, verifying, and validating requirements. However, not every manager is convinced that his or her team needs to do a better job on requirements development and management, or that such an investment will pay off — despite numerous industry studies which indicate that requirements issues are a pervasive cause of project distress.

In this webinar, we’ll cover some of the ways our customers have used Jama Connect to improve not only their requirements, risk, and test management processes, but also their end-to-end product development process and outcomes.

 

Register for this webinar to learn more about how Jama Connect helps teams to:

 

    • Speed development with fine-grained, structured data

    • Spot bugs and problems sooner by improving visibility

    • Rethink linear development processes to work in parallel

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 16, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Jana Software    @jamasoftware

Cost: Free

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Customer-Centric Design: Creating a Product that Your Customer will Actually Value

Presented by Victoria Perry, Business Project Manager, Capital Group

 

Are you confident that you are solving the right problem? Building the right product? Is your backlog expanding with too many competing needs? How well do you really know your customer and what they value?

 

We are all familiar with business process workflows to outline the activities performed and interactions between teams, but have you considered product development tools like creating personas and a customer journey map? Join us as we take a step back from your traditional maps and diagrams to reflect on the humanity of your customers. What does a day feel like in their shoes? What are their biggest hurdles? What frustrates or exhilarates them? What are their hopes and dreams?

 

Business process flows are helpful tools, but often lack the human element. See the problem from your customer’s perspective, and you might find more creative and holistic solutions than you imagined! You might even discover you were trying to solve the wrong problem!

 

In this interactive session, learn how to upgrade and humanize your analysis. Have you used these tools before? Share your insights with our community, and let’s grow stronger together!

 

Whether you are building a product for an external customer or looking for ways to better understand your internal stakeholders, these tangible tools and templates will deepen your understanding of who your customers are and what they value, ultimately ensuring that you meet their real need and deliver value.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 16, 2022; 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cincinnati IIBA Chapter    @Bluegrass

Cost: Free

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Be Hopeful; Be Strong; Be Brave; Be Curious - How to Engage Your Strengths to Be Your Best You

Presented by Ruth Pearce

 

Be Hopeful; Be Strong; Be Brave; Be Curious. But how do you put that into practice and how does it help you as a project leader? At the end of this webinar you will walk away with practical understanding of how to apply this mantra at home, work and in your community!

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: The Great IT Pro

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What Certification Is Right For You: Developing Your Career Journey

Presented by Eno Eka and Laura Paton

 

Have you been thinking about getting certified as a business analysis professional?

According to the Global State of Business Analysis Report, professionals who hold at least one certification earn 12% higher than non-certified respondents. Maybe you’re looking for advancing your career with a specialization to pair with your experience? No matter if you’re looking to advance your career, earn a higher salary, or become specialized in your field, there are many avenues to explore in IIBA’s certifications.

In this webinar, our panelists will discuss the early stages of a person’s potential career journey and potential opportunities for the more experienced business analysis professional, and what certification is right for your career.

In this session we’ll cover:

    • How to start your career in business analysis
    • The areas a business analyst can specialize in
    • How certification benefits your career growth
    • How to develop in your career journey with professional certification

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 17, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

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

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, March 17, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for March 2022

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Business Analysis and Agile Methodologies

Presented by Sam Chin

 

In this talk, we will be exploring where business analysis has gotten lost in many applications of agile project methods and what we can do to combat the trend.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 3, 2022; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: The 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, March 3, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

Women in Business Analysis: International Women's Day 2022

Panelists: Trice Johnson, Laurence Biron, and Emily Midgley

 

Join IIBA’s women in business analysis webinar panelists as they share their experiences, challenges, and advice for breaking the bias. Regardless of where you are in your career, we all have stories to share. We all can celebrate and value difference for a world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Join the conversation.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 8, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

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

Cost: Free

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Understanding Business Data Analytics - a CBDA snapshot

Presented by Tom Tomosovic, ECBA, CBDA, AAC, CPOA, Business Analysis Trainer and Consultant

 

Data analytics are so important for businesses to understand the past, interpret the current, and charting the future, based on data. Business data analytics is the BA's role in the discipline.

 

The Certification in Business Data Analytics (CBDA) is one of four “specialty” certifications offered by the IIBA. Data Analytics is a domain that has garnered a great deal of attention as more and more organizations are seeking to become “data driven”. More than Data Analysts or Data Scientists, BAs have a unique opportunity to leverage their analysis skills to be a driving force in this transition.

 

This session will focus on understanding how core business analysis skills, combined with the ability to be agile and an understanding of the domain of data science and analysis can provide an organization with a path toward using their data assets to secure competitive advantage.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 8, 2022; 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST

Host: New York City and Bluegrass IIBA Chapters     @IIBANewYorkCity    @IIBABluegrass

Cost

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The Consultative Mindset

 

Demonstrating a consultative mindset is a defining characteristic of every senior level BA, and a should-do at any level of practice. Experienced BA managers and leaders look for it every time they interview or consider a promotion. At the same time, it remains one of those things that is hard to define, but we all know it when we see it!

This session will talk about what it looks like to embrace, develop, and recognize this in yourself and those you coach or supervise.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
*Understand the collection of attitudes, skills, and abilities that make up a consultative mindset.
*Be able to recognize a consultative mindset when you see it.
*Be able to grow and develop the consultative mindset in yourself and others.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 9, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

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

Cost: Free

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Machine Learning Approaches to Software Effort Estimation

Presented by Arlene Minklewicz

 

Data driven software effort estimation through analogy and regression analysis continue to be a staple in the software industry. In this session we will explore how more recent Machine Learning techniques can be applied to the same software data sets

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 10, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: The 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, March 10, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

The Roadmap from BA to PO: Detail Management to Vision Leadership

Presented by Tina Underhill, CSPO, Senior Product Consultant, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

 

Managing Requirements used to be the one thing that Business Analysts were masters at.  Having the skill-set to know exactly where to find what “others” know and how to ask stakeholders the critical questions to get those “nuggets” our development community is always so desperate to gain.
 
Times have changed and so should we.
 
Product Ownership is all about you taking the responsibility to look into where things can head and how the BA talent now can make those critical decisions to form a long-lasting strategy for not just the product you are now supporting; but, also for your long-lasting impact on business progression we all need for the future.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, March 10, 2022; 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST

Host: Greater Boston and Bluegrass IIBA Chapters      @IIBA_Boston    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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Sunday, February 20, 2022

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2022 - Part III

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Common Scrum Myths and How to Correct Them!

Presented by Mary Iqbal, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

The 2020 Scrum Guide provides only the necessary guidelines within which teams use Scrum to deliver value. Sometimes, myths about the guidelines of the Scrum framework can result in teams adopting practices which do not add value to the Scrum Team. By exposing these myths, you can help accelerate the delivery of value for your team. In this webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Mary Iqbal will discuss some of the most common myths about Scrum and how to correct them!

To determine which myths will be discussed in our upcoming webinar, please complete the optional survey in the Zoom form.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Boosting Resilience and Well-being

Presented by Christa Kirby, MA, LCAT, PMP, CSM, CSPO, Vice President of Talent Development and Leadership Practice Director, Corporate Education Group

 

How do we reclaim equilibrium and focus as we transition into the next-new-normal of hybrid work?  While we can’t control our external circumstances, there are some specific actions we can take to exercise agency and build peace of mind in the midst of adversity.  In this session, we’ll investigate science-based strategies for enhancing health and well-being.  Using a holistic 5-pillar model of resilience, we’ll examine various facets of the mind-body connection, including the relationship between psychological, social, and emotional health.  We will also explore ways to activate internal resources to deal with external pressures, creating a renewed sense of empowerment and possibility.

    • Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

    • Positive Stress, Negative Stress, and Burnout

    • The Biology of Stress

    • Boosting Resilience

    • Mindset and Locus of Control

    • Embracing Mindfulness

    • Connecting Intentionally and Building Team Health

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Corporate Education Group   @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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The Real Intent of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) — Keeping Up with Complexity

Presented by Cary Bryczek, Jama Software and Lou Wheatcraft, Wheatland Consulting

 

Today’s products are becoming increasingly complex and software intensive. This presents major challenges for organizations being able to effectively manage all the data, information, and artifacts across the lifecycle for these types of systems — and one of the key reasons that Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is fast becoming the standard approach to systems engineering for digital transformation today.

Since one size doesn’t fit all, an organization needs to assess the SE capabilities that best fit its domain, product line (degree of complexity), and culture. The level of SE capability an organization establishes needs to be tailored to the size and complexity of systems developed by the organization, whether small, medium, or large projects.

 

In this webinar, we will cover the following topics:

 

    • Challenges associated using 20th century document-based approach to Systems Engineering

    • What is MBSE?

    • What is the real intent of MBSE?

    • Is MBSE the same thing as SysML?

    • Benefits of implementing Systems Engineering from a data-centric perspective

    • How Jama Connect helps SE practitioners address these challenges

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Jama Software     @JamaSoftware

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

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 24, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

   

 

The Pace of Change is Upping our Game:
How People, Products and Companies Can Thrive in Times of Change

Presented by Anne Steiner, CEO, Cprime

 

Change can be a friend. Change can be a foe. In order to thrive in the current challenging business climate and successfully address shifting priorities, while addressing the global tech talent shortage, our products (and we) must be more adaptable than ever before.

Join Anne Steiner, CEO at Cprime, as she analyzes the impact of the accelerated pace of change on companies, products, and people and shares insights on how to adapt, embrace change, and achieve success in both the workplace and the marketplace.

In this session, you will learn:

    • How the measures of individual value and success are changing

    • How personal agility fuels business agility

    • How business agility fuels product agility

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 24, 2022; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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