Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2020 - Part II

 5 Steps to Future-Proof your Business Analysis Career

Presented by Erica Woods, Apex Systems

 

COVID-19 has irrevocably changed the economy and the way we work across all industries. As of late June, the International Monetary Fund reported that 10.4% of Americans are out of work, with much of Europe and North America seeing a similar rise in 2020 unemployment rates from 2019.* However, BBC News reported that LinkedIn hiring rates have increased as prevention measures eased in France and China:* although promising, how can you adapt to the current situation, while advancing your career towards an unknowable future? From remote work, to stronger domestic supply chains, the disruptions to the economy have made career planning difficult, no matter your industry.

 

How do you adjust as a business analysis professional to the lasting changes in the business sector? Discover how you can navigate an uncertain workforce and the move your career in the right direction.  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 18, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

  

 

Making Magic with Blended Teams

Presented by Becki Hyde, Vice President of Product & Design, Retrium

 

Developing software is a risky endeavor full of unknowns. Is the product viable? Is it desirable? Is it feasible? How can we answer these questions without taking months or years to get something shipped? Enter the Balanced Team and the magic of interdisciplinary work. While individuals can do great work alone, magic happens when roles work together to break through constraints–or innovate around them. Becki Hyde will share stories of how Balanced Teams deliver human-centered software in a world of ambiguity. From her experience as a practitioner and consultant, she’ll provide insights into how Balanced Teams work in practice, and the benefits of intentionally working at the intersection of roles.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 19, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

  

 

 

 

Little Slices of Big Truths for the Badass Professional

Presented by Bob “the BA” Prentis, CBAP

 

All too often, we hear of nice guys finishing last, and of the Badasses that trampled them on their way to the top. Who gets remembered? The Badass, of course! So does that mean that only the unscrupulous and aggressive can get to the top? No quite the opposite. The future leaders in the business analysis field will be those who are willing to embrace their inner Badass Business Analyst selves. They will come from all walks of life and approaches to business analysis. So how do you get there?

 

What does it mean to be a Badass Business Analyst? Is it an attitude? Just doing well at your job? Doing lots of unusual diagrams? There is more than one answer to these questions, and some of the answers may surprise you. Do you have what it takes to be a Badass? Do you think you are a Badass? Want to know for sure? Join Bob for an entertaining and more in-depth look into what makes a Badass Professional, how you can get to your Badass self, and maximize both your career and life potential. By the end of this session, you will be well into your Badass journey, and you will believe in your Badass self!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 19, 2020; 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: The Uncommon League, Bob the BA

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

Making Magic with Blended Teams

Presented by Becki Hyde, Vice President of Product & Design, Retrium

 

Developing software is a risky endeavor full of unknowns. Is the product viable? Is it desirable? Is it feasible? How can we answer these questions without taking months or years to get something shipped? Enter the Balanced Team and the magic of interdisciplinary work. While individuals can do great work alone, magic happens when roles work together to break through constraints–or innovate around them. Becki Hyde will share stories of how Balanced Teams deliver human-centered software in a world of ambiguity. From her experience as a practitioner and consultant, she’ll provide insights into how Balanced Teams work in practice, and the benefits of intentionally working at the intersection of roles.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 19, 2020; 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

EQ Is The New IQ: 10 Ways To Excel At Emotional Intelligence

Presented by Dustin Miller

 

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” – Aristotle.

It is said that individuals are hired for what they know and fired for who they are. While this seems like a grim perspective, it remains a hard reality backed by statistics across organizations and industries. In 2016, the World Economic Forum predicted that by 2020 “Overall, social skills such as persuasion, emotional intelligence and teaching others will be in higher demand across industries than narrow technical skills, such as programming or equipment operation and control.” They were eerily accurate in their prediction.

 

In this webinar you will learn:

 

• The difference between IQ, EQ, and personality.

• The tangible, hard, financial benefits of having high Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

• How brain function and chemistry impacts your EQ skills.

• Real-world, practical, day to day, applications of Emotional Intelligence.

• Advanced emotional observation skills like MicroExpressions, Advanced Listening, and the Japanese art of “Kuuki Yomenai” (Reading the Air).

• Practical tips, techniques, resources, and tools for improving your own EQ.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 19, 2020; 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT

Host: MAX Training    @MAXCincinnati

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

How to be Innovative Like a Successful Start-up in the Digital Era

Presented by Filip Hendrix

 

Innovation is hard. While ideas are cheap and plentiful, execution often falls short, and few ideas lead to valuable results within reasonable time and budget.

 

- Shift from product thinking to customer thinking.

- Turn a “we believe” mindset into a “what are our assumptions & how can we validate them” mindset.

- Getting MVPs right: what do we need to build first?

 

Discover how to make the shift needed to guide idea development and help bring the most valuable ideas to fruition. Learn how the shift to digital helps BAs facilitate their organization’s innovation process, from ideation to value creation. How it enables innovation projects to follow a validation driven approach, building customer feedback and agility into the process right from the start.

 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, August 26, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Business Analysis Webinars for August 2020


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


Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2020 - Part II


CAJ 050-Edwin Van Der Geest-Don't play Chess, Shoot like Angry Birds
Presented by Edwin van de Geest, founder of protoyping.work

People are involved in organizational change initiatives view it as a regular part of doing business. It’s become a sort of joke to have a new initiative every year, as the momentum behind the older one fades away and people come and go from the organization. What if we stopped approaching organizational change like a long strategic game (chess) and instead, used an analogy of Angry Birds?

♖ Don’t play chess
♙ Long and tactical change strategies
♙ Analysis paralysis
♙ Complex and complicated
♙ Keeping the hierarchies in place

Shoot like Angry Birds Instead
🐦Eyes on the goal
🐦The target is the challenge (or tension)
🐦Shoot & miss: You’ll learn
🐦Adjust & shoot again: hit
🐦Next level: the new challenge ahead
As agilists, we work with others to co-create changes in their behavior, start thinking about small experiments, and… even prototypes. What if organizational change could be prototyped?

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday; July 20, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Coaching Agile Journeys
Cost: Free


 

Why Your Company Should be Excited About Business Analysis
Hosted by Keith Ellis, Chair at IIBA Board of Directors   
Panelists: Wilna Coetzee, Mohsen Akhavannia, Scott Rainey

Business Analysis is an important part of your organization but does your company and stakeholders know it? In this webinar panel discussion with corporate leaders, we discuss how business analysis is applied within an organization to make real, measurable differences and how to best leverage your business analysis team for better results.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 22, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free




You and your UX Professional
Presented by Summer Lawrence, Agile Trainer

We all want the ideal cross functional scrum team with all the UX skills and capabilities it needs to consistently produce valuable products. Most commonly UX is a shared service with part time availability. This hour Adam Deardurff, career UX pro, and Summer Lawrence PST, talk about maximizing the time with your UX SME and some tactics to move closer to integrating those rare UX skills onto your agile team.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 28, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Scrum.org
Cost: Free




Product Backlog Management - Overview, Challenges & Role of a BA
Presented by Sree Saideva Jagadeeswaren, CBAP, PSM

The rapid adoption of Agile to lead business transformations has also changed the way the requirements are managed, and the practice of business analysis keeps evolving. Are you wondering how to correlate the traditional waterfall method of requirements elicitation and management in the world of agile, the role of a BA to lead the transformation and achieve the end goal, then this webinar is your go to place? In this webinar, we’ll discuss how a BA can effectively manage and refine the product backlog, some of the challenges encountered and tricks of the trade to overcome it.

Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Thursday, July 30, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free




Trends in Cybersecurity
Presented by Ray Lugo, Instructor at Global Knowledge

Organizations and individuals are threatened with ever-growing cyber threats and must be prepared to address them. The more we are connected to networks, the more suspectable we are to attacks, therefore enterprises must stay current applying various cybersecurity measures and maintaining awareness of cybersecurity trends.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Drivers to cyber decisions
• Future trends and threats
• How connected are you, are you protected?
• Preparation to continue to remain relevant

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 30, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge
Cost: Free


Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Business Analysis Webinars for July 2020

Want to be IIBA Certified?
Presented by Adaptive US

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 webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 1, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS
Cost: Free




Azure Functions
Presented by Dustin Miller

You certainly have heard about Azure and Azure Functions by now. You know… little bits of code with no application infrastructure that automatically scale and have a very low cost. Those functions!

In this one-hour webinar, we will take a look at:
• Why use Functions instead of web services or other solutions
• Function costs
• How Functions auto-scale
• The 9 ways to trigger a Function
• The 7 languages you can use to write Functions
• The 2 hosting environments for Functions
• The parts of a Function: the code, configuration, and hosting
• How to create Functions in the Azure Portal, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and other editors
• Function best practices
  
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 2, 2020; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: MAX Training    @MAXtrain
Cost: Free
   



The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - Module 5
Presented by Marlene Barker, Senior Consultant at Veris

Want to effectively facilitate change in your organization? Looking to enhance your leadership skills? Organizations require strong leadership and as Business Analysis professionals we can facilitate the changes and lead our organizations through them! In this six-part series, using The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell as a “game book”, the goal of the presenters, five Business Analysis practitioners, will be to motivate existing leaders and inspire a new generation of Leaders!

MODULE 5: A Leaders Lasting Value is Measured by Success
• The Law of Priorities
• The Law of Sacrifice
• The Law of Timing  
• The Law of Explosive Growth
• The Law of Legacy

“Leadership development compounds. The more you invest in people and the longer you do it, the greater the growth and the higher return.” John C. Maxwell

Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 7, 2020; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free




Want to be IIBA Certified?
Presented by Adaptive US

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 webinar, Adaptive experts discuss how to be IIBA certified in the very first attempt.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 8, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS
Cost: Free




Rethinking BPMN Part 3: The Business Rule Task and DMN
Presented by Razvan Radulian

In the first webinar of the "Rethinking BPMN" series, we talked about what GOOD Process Models are.
In the second webinar, we talked about a good PROCESS to model GOOD BPMN Processes.
In this webinar/whitepaper, the third in this series, we will talk about how to address the Spaghetti process models problem (unnecessarily complicated process models, due to the fact that they try to capture complex decisions using solely BPMN). We will see how to simplify such process models (using the Business Rule task in BPMN), without losing the ability to model complex decisions (using DMN). As before, we will analyze several examples to demonstrate theoretical concepts.

Topics/examples covered in this webinar:

• Why is process modeling (even when using BPMN) not the best way to model complex business rules/decisions? Introduce/analyze a Spaghetti process model.
• What is the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard and why was it created?
• What is the difference between Decision Requirements and Decision Logic? How do you model them (Requirements and Logic) in DMN? 
• Why is modeling Decisions in DMN a better option (than in BPMN)?
• What is a Business Rule Task (in BPMN) and why was it created?
• How do we combine BPMN and DMN to simplify process models/modeling and to achieve more precise and clear decision models?
• Lessons-learned: How can you apply all this information?

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 9, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training     @ASPE_Training
Cost: Free





The BA and Data Mining
Presented by Steve Blais, PMP, Consultant, Author, Teacher, Coach

Data mining has been considered the province of the data scientist and data analyst. But the data scientists and data analysts only solve the business problems that are given to them provided those business problems can be solved with data.  
Someone has to analyze the processes and conditions of the business to determine what the problems are and then determine whether data can solve those problems and answer the questions related to those problems. And that someone is the business analyst.  
This webinar provides guidelines to determining business problems that can be solved with data and provides the details of what data mining is all about. 

Topics: 
·        Business analyst or data analyst or data scientist? 
·        Determine the right data 
·        The process of getting value from data 
·        Produce actionable insights 
·        Provide the questions and interpret the answers

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 9, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDt
Host: Modern Analyst   @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free




IIBA® Certification Screen-side Chat
Presented by Bill Powers, CBAP and Bronson Zell, 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, July 10, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass
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; July 10, 2020; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free




CAJ Virtual Lean Coffee 010
Presented by Coaching Agile Journeys

Join us for our virtual lean coffee.
We will be dynamically creating our agenda from agile topics and discussing as time allows.
If possible, please join the discussion with your video turned on.
You can learn about Virtual Lean Coffee in this post from Mark Kilby

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, July 13, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Coaching Agile Journeys    @CoachingAgileJo
Cost: Free




Intro to Business Relationship Management
Presented by Dustin Miller

This brief introductory session is targeted towards anyone looking to gain knowledge of why and how to leverage a Business Relationship Management (BRM) capability to move IT (and other functions) to a converged strategic partner, driving exponential business results.

Areas reviewed include: An introduction to BRM Institute/Community; defining BRM and its key focus areas; convergence; short overviews on strategic partnering, culture, and value; relationship maturity model; top failure modes when implementing BRM.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: MAX Training    @MAXtrain
Cost: Free




Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Jim Sammons - Answering Your Toughest Questions about Scrum
Presented by Jim Sammons, PST

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it is difficult to master. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing. 
In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PST Jim Sammons will be available to answer any questions you may have live on this webinar. He is happy to answer any questions about challenges your Scrum Team is facing. Please bring your most pressing questions for this opportunity!

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2020; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: Scrum.org
Cost: Free




Cybersecurity Analysis Virtual Study Group Series | Session 2
Presented by Ken Fulmer, Former CEO and President at IIBA

Session 2 | Enterprise Cybersecurity Concepts
The cybersecurity virtual study group webinar series is an exclusive benefit for IIBA members to help guide you through the key learning areas for the Certificate in Cybersecurity Analysis (IIBA®-CCA). Each session will cover the core concepts in cybersecurity. In the second session of the series, we will discuss and review Enterprise Cybersecurity Concepts.  

Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free




Where Do Business Analysts Fit into the Scaled Agile Framework?
Presented by Michael Roberts, ASPE Training

For many years, the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) has been a leading scaling methodology for large enterprises wanting to apply agile practices for large groups of individuals.  Published by Dean Leffingwell and his fellows at Scaled Agile Inc., they have had Fortune 1000 companies adopting the framework left and right as a way of working differently to adapt to market changes and implement a better way of working.  In the SAFe model however, the term “Business Analyst” doesn’t exist.  In this informative talk, we will discuss the SAFe 5.0 framework and provide some context on how Business Analysts would survive and thrive in such an environment/implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework.

We Will Cover:
·        Organizational challenges that are addressed by SAFe 5.0
·        An introduction to the SAFe framework “BIG Picture” 
·        How an Agile Release Train (ART) powers SAFe
·        How Business Analysts fit into the Scaled Agile Framework as team members, POs or PMs
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2020; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPE_Training
Cost: Free


 

I'm a BA Girl in an Agile World
Presented by Mindy Bohannon, CBAP, Managing Consultant at Excella

Do the Business Analyst's (BA) roles and responsibilities on an agile project differ from those on a waterfall project? Should the three amigos always include the analyst? At a minimum, the answer is certainly yes to both questions, although how the work is done depends on the team and project. During this session we will review how the role of a Business Analyst on an agile project can vary, and further discuss the impact on the development team and what makes a Business Analyst good at his/her job. All analysts bring excellent communication, collaboration, and trust to their work on project teams – but how we communicate and collaborate will differ.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 15, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass, Cincinnati, Palmetto IIBA Chapters    @IIBABluegrass   @IIBACincy   @PalmettoIIBA
Cost: Free




I'm a BA Girl in an Agile World
Presented by Mindy Bohannon, CBAP, Managing Consultant at Excella

Do the Business Analyst's (BA) roles and responsibilities on an agile project differ from those on a waterfall project? Should the three amigos always include the analyst? At a minimum, the answer is certainly yes to both questions, although how the work is done depends on the team and project. During this session we will review how the role of a Business Analyst on an agile project can vary, and further discuss the impact on the development team and what makes a Business Analyst good at his/her job. All analysts bring excellent communication, collaboration, and trust to their work on project teams – but how we communicate and collaborate will differ.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 15, 2020; 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT
Host: Bluegrass, Cincinnati, Palmetto IIBA Chapters    @IIBABluegrass     @IIBACincy   @PalmettoIIBA
Cost: Free




BA Observatory Preliminary Results: Understanding the Business Analysis Experience with an Agile Mindset
Presented by Prassede Colombo, CBAP and Cristina Patermoster, CBAP

The IIBA Italy Chapter has worked diligently to launch the BA Observatory this spring and will share some insights into the profession with IIBA Members. The BA Observatory is a survey designed to understand the level of knowledge, maturity and use of Business Analysis for companies and professionals around the world. Thanks to their work and the contribution of many business analysis professionals, they will present the survey insights in their preliminary results.

Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Thursday, July 16,2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free




A Golden Partnership - PMs, BAs, and POs
Presented by Peter Monkhouse, President at MonkArt

Organizations need great products to implement their strategy. They also need products that meet customers’ needs and demands. One of the challenges organizations have is how to align the roles to execute strategies better and produce more value for their customers. This presentation will explore the roles of project managers, business analysts, and product owners working together in partnership through the project and product lifecycles. We will first define the roles of project managers, business analysts, and product owners and their interactions. We will discuss how the roles fit into the product lifecycle to deliver value to customers. We will present the iterative product development approach through an example and why this approach is key to delivering value to customers. Then we will show how project managers, business analysts, and product owners support each other in the iterative approach to ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement and communications and getting feedback from customers. Through continuous feedback, integration, and product improvement will result in products meeting customer needs and organizations achieving their strategic objectives. This virtual presentation has been designed with interactive discussions and activities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
·        Describe roles of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners on projects
·        Apply the three roles to an effective iterative product development cycle
·        Understand how the three roles need to work together to improve communications and gather customer feedback

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, July 16, 2020; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times    @BATimes
Cost: Free