Saturday, October 9, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2021 - Part II

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What do employers look for when hiring for business analysis skills?

Presented by Jeff Geiger, Founder and Owner, J. Geiger Consulting

In this month’s meeting we will be talking with Jeff Geiger, founder and President of J. Geiger Consulting, a boutique consulting firm located in Northeastern Wisconsin. He will be answer questions we all want to know about:

1) What do employers look for when looking for someone with business analysis skills

2) What does a consulting firm look for when trying to match a customer with a business analyst resource

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 12, 2021; 7:00 am – 8:30 am EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

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A Few Things About The Internet of Things (IoT) – An Introduction

Presented by Henry Will 

In this webinar, you will be able to gain a better understanding of what IoT is, how it works, and where it’s used.

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Unchain the Blocks

Presented by Dr. Larry Dribin

Blockchain can solve many business and technology issues.  But blockchain is a complex technology, too. This webinar will teach you how the blockchain actually works, and will discuss the benefits and challenges involved in implementing the technology.

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Top Ten Meanest Scrum Anti-Patterns

Presented by Stefan Wolpers, Professional Scrum Trainer

Let us delve into the abyss of Scrum anti-patterns — from bad to really bad to ultimate, baddest anti-pattern imaginable — and what you as a Scrum practitioner can do about it. In this Scrum Pulse webinar, Professional Scrum Trainer Stefan Wolpers will bring his top ten Scrum anti-patterns for a 20-minute introduction to the topic: from using Scrum for the wrong reasons to lemon code to stuffing your Product Backlog to patronizing team members. And then, we will have a Q&A session addressing the Scrum anti-patterns that are most challenging to you. After all, you need to excel at many things to become a good Scrum Team at the same time. Failing, however, is significantly “simpler.”

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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How to Achieve 10X Growth in Your BA Career - Live Expert Discussion - US and Europe

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

Thousands of BAs Earn Significantly More with Us. Will You Be the Next? Attend the FREE IIBA Live Exam Prep Training with our expert faculty & Grab the LIGHTNING DEAL exclusively for webinar attendees! Offer will be announced at the end of the webinar!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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From Project to Product: Don't You Dare Mess With Planning

Presented by Anne Steiner

If you work in tech, you probably have a love/hate relationship with project planning. We dislike it because to get it right, we need to accurately predict the future, a largely impossible task. On the other hand, we like it because it gives business leaders the "predictability" they long for in order to make sound decisions that drive business growth.

Some in the agile community have resisted the need for planning, while others have simply encouraged planning in shorter cycles. As the shift from 
project thinking to product thinking becomes mainstream, we need to reconsider the impact on planning.

Join Anne Steiner, Cprime’s VP of Product & Technology, in this fourth installment of our Project to Product series. In this session, Anne takes a deep dive into planning and discusses how this changes for the better as we shift from project to product. We explore:

    • The difference between project plans and product horizons

    • Turning the Iron Triangle over: Time, Budget, Scope is still a "pick two"

    • How to estimate in ranges

    • Ways to create roadmaps and product horizons at the portfolio, product family, and product levels

    • The reasons to steer the conversation from "When will you be done?" to "What are we investing in next?"

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 14, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2: 00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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BAs on the Street with Yulia Kosarenko

Presented by Stephanie Hawkins, Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Yulia Kosarenko, Why Change Consulting

BAs on the Street is a new live event and video series in which we will have conversations with business analysis professionals in our local community to see what is going on in the local business analysis community. We will talk with business analyst all along the experience spectrum from those new to the profession to those with decades of business analysis experience. We will talk about the thrills and challenges of being a BA; and discuss the daily work of business analysts and where they may see the profession going in the future. We will then take questions from the audience.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, October 15, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

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Friday, October 1, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2021

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Promoting Data Driven Decisions

Presented by Kristina Kohl

 

In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage people analytics and machine learning to gather information that will allow you to make better people management decisions and improve organizational outcomes.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 5, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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Is Your Team Self Functioning, High Performing and Adding Value?

Presented by Deborah Herting

 

In this webinar, you will learn how to build teams in which all members are having their intrinsic and extrinsic needs met; and, where organizationally they are able to add value consistently.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 6, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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IIBA® Certification Chat

Presented by 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: Wednesday, October 6, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Watermark Learning     @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

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Building Business Analysis at Scale

Panelists: Keith Ellis, Damian Wilson, Gareth Jones, Tim Coventry

 

Business Analysis is a framework for solving business problems and capitalising on opportunities - enabling business to turn ideas to revenue, strategy to customer service, vision to product & strategy to implementation.

Many organisations struggle to scale their business analysis services creating bottlenecks in software initiatives or worse, resorting to subpar capability to plug 'gaps' creating far greater problems for organisations.

In this panel discussion, the IIBA and Australian consulting firm, Business Analysis (BAPL) will discuss the importance and process of building business analysis at scale to enable organisations to be both agile and successful in software delivery.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 6, 2021; 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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How to Achieve 10X Growth in Your BA Career - Live Expert Discussion - US and Europe

Presented by LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

Thousands of BAs Earn Significantly More with Us. Will You Be the Next? Attend the FREE IIBA Live Exam Prep Training with our expert faculty & Grab the LIGHTNING DEAL exclusively for webinar attendees! Offer will be announced at the end of the webinar!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 7, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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An Introduction to Design Thinking for AI and Technology Services

Presented by Chris Knotts, Product Director, Cprime

 

This presentation will introduce you to the practice of design thinking, specifically as it applies in large organizational environments which incorporate advanced data technologies. Chris will walk you through the fundamentals, prerequisites, and basic principles behind using design thinking to create, test, and maintain artificial intelligence services in the real world.

You'll learn in this webinar:
    - Fundamental Design Thinking techniques as they apply to designing AI and advanced technology services
    - Examples of how leading technology providers marry design thinking to AI products
    - How to incorporate fast, continuous experimentation and testing into AI service design
    - Who on the team should b responsible for design thinking on technology and data teams
    - Organizational prerequisites for successful product management of technology which incorporates AI and machine learning

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 7, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Global Knowledge    @GlobalKnowledge

Cost: Free

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Enterprise Dojos: Values, Principles, and Cultural Perspective

Presented by David Laribee and Nate Ashford

 

When we talk about dojos there’s a tendency to focus on the mechanical aspects of the model -- the workflow, method, short iterations, and immersive learning. Perhaps more important is understanding what models and principles actually make the dojo innovative and successful. In this webinar, our dojo experts will unpack the foundations of the dojo -- the underlying models that make it work, the principles that guide our behaviors and choices, and how dojos help shift cultures from fixating on delivery to leveraging learning.

Join us on October 7 for Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series on Enterprise Dojos. David Laribee and Nate Ashford, pioneers of the dojo approach, will provide insight into the inner workings of the model.

You will learn about:

    • Theories and research that make the dojo model work: deliberate practice, spaced repetition, etc.

    • What are the values and principles that are common to successful dojos

    • How dojos help shift an organization from a culture of delivery to a culture of learning

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 7, 2021; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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BA Career Series: Data Science, What It Can Get You & How to Get Started

Presented by Criss Wilson; Data Scientist, McLeod Software

 

In this session, we will help you begin to understand data science projects and how they take raw data and turn it into remarkable insights. We will cover how companies who have invested in data warehouses can take the first steps toward working in the world of data science with minimal expense.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October, 7, 2021; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Birmingham IIBA Chapter and Bluegrass IIBA Chapter     @IIBABluegrass

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Sunday, September 26, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for September 2021 - Part V

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 Is What You Know Really True?

Presented by Peggy Salvatore

 

In this webinar we will discuss how to avoid wasting valuable resources retaining outdated information and how to qualify new information which may be coming from outside your organization, or from more experimental parts of your enterprise.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 28, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer - Evidence-Based Management

Presented by Mark Wavle and Chris Conlin

 

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 apply effectively. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing.


In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, PSTs Mark Wavle and Chris Conlin along with Patricia Kong from Scrum.org will take your questions about Evidence-Based Management (EBM) and content covered in the new Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence Based Management (PAL-EBM) training course! EBM is an Agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results. Mark, Chris and Patricia will be available on this session to answer all of your burning questions about measuring value, shifting to a more agile mindset, outcomes over outputs thinking and more!

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 29, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Why Your Project Will Be Late (and What You Can Do About It)

Presented by Payson Hall

 

In this webinar we reveal the mathematical truth behind what our intuition has told us all along about traditional schedules and offer insights to improve estimates and schedules going forward.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 29, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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5 Key Areas to Standardize: Start and Grow a Business Analysis Community of Practice

Presented by International Institute of Business Analysis  

 

Standardizing has been used for years in manufacturing, operations, finance, human resource, even in sales mainly for consistency and efficiency. As competition and complexity in projects and programs increases, the need for organizations to optimize productivity while reducing costs is driving the need to standardize business analysis practices.

Depending on the maturity level of your organization areas of standardization will vary.

In this upcoming webinar we will look at how business analysis team leads and managers can start standardizing 5 key areas

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 29, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis   @IIBA

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

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

 

Agenda

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

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

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

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 29, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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Saturday, September 18, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for September 2021 - Part IV

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Agile 2.0

Presented by Denise Canty

 

Agile is on the brink of a new beginning, and this new version of Agile will address many of the weaknesses of the first. We call this new beginning Agile 2.0.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 22, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

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

 

Agenda

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

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

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

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, September 22, 2021; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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7 Definitive Steps to Success In Your IIBA Certification

Presented by LN Mishra, CBAP, AAC, CBDA, CPOA, President, Adaptive US

 

Achieving IIBA® certifications is a turning point for business analysts' careers. They are most sought after globally. They help business analysts unlock their potential to a myriad of opportunities. It also gives them a solid foundation to build a fantastic Business Analysis career.

This webinar is an initiative to assist the global pool of Business analysts in achieving IIBA certification on the first attempt.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 23, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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5 Steps For Greater Business Agility

Presented by Hector Del Castillo

 

This webinar will examine how business leaders can boost organizational agility in the face of unprecedented market shifts, exponentially changing buyer behavior, and new requirements for remote working.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 23, 2021; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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The Business Analyst and Systems Thinking

Presented by Steve Blais, PMP, PBA, Author, Teacher, Coach

 

Have you ever heard of a project, perhaps one of your own, that was successful in what it delivered, but caused unexpected consequences in other parts of the organization or collateral damage on other projects?

Everyone involved in a project has the goal of completing the project on time and within budget and having the results solve the intended problem. If the project is being executed in an agile or scrum-like manner, the focus will be on completing the backlog items within the given timebox or sprint. Everyone is too busy focusing on the immediate results and meeting the immediate deadlines to consider the overall impacts of the work that is being done or the organizational impacts of the results of that work. And that is good, because that is the essence of tactical thinking: focus on achieving the immediate goal. However, projects, and their results, do not exist in a vacuum and are always part of some larger system, not necessarily a computer system.

While the business analyst typically engages in some impact analysis during the problem or requirements definition stages or when assessing potential solutions, once the solution has been adopted and the project set in motion, no further thought is given to the complex system interactions of the organization and its people. Successful projects and initiatives have someone who keeps the Big Picture in mind to ensure the results achieve their intended goals without any negative impact elsewhere in the organization. The business analyst is the primary role that must apply system thinking to the overall solution. The business analyst can also look at the entire problem and solution domain and may suggest solution alternatives that require only a change in the way people think.

This webinar will acquaint you with the fundamental concepts and principles of system thinking which you can apply at your current and future projects as well as other aspects of your work and social life.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, September 23, 2021; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Business Analysis Webinars for September 2021 - Part III

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What does it mean to be a business analyst?

Presented by Yulia Kosarenko, Principal Consultant, Why Change Consulting

 

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

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

    • Required skills and competencies

    • How to “do business analysis”

    • Where do requirements come from

    • What are the deliverables of the business analysis process

    • What makes a business analyst successful

  

Audience: Public

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

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer

Presented by John Coleman, Professional Scrum Trainer

 

Scrum itself is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series, features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing.

In this episode of Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer, 
John Coleman will answer your burning questions about Scrum and the challenges your teams are facing. Bring your toughest Scrum challenges for this interactive experience with an expert!

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: Scrum.org

Cost: Free

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Systems Thinking: Practical BA Techniques for Business Agility

Presented by Adrian Reed, Principal Consultant, Blackmetric Business Solutions

 

The business environment is moving at a rapid pace.  More than ever we need the ability to quickly sense and respond to change, and there is increasing focus on enabling agility within organizations. Achieving agility can be tricky when working in large, seemingly bureaucratic, organizations with a whole legacy of technology, political and process issues that seemingly need resolving.  With tricky stakeholders and conflicting perspectives, change initiatives stall and our organizations risk falling behind market and customer expectations.

Business analysis is a crucial enabler that plays an important part in overcoming these issues and helping organizations strive towards achieving agility. As practitioners we can draw techniques and approaches from the world of systems thinking to help us.

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cincinnati IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: Free

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IIBA Certification Prep Webinar 

Presented by  LN Mishra, AdaptiveUS

 

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

 

Agenda

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

    • IIBA certification process

    • Tips for the examination

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

    • Q&A on IIBA Certifications

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: Adaptive US      @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

[REGISTER HERE]

 

 

 

 

Virtual Agile

Presented by Susan Parente

 

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

 

Audience: Public

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

Host: The Great IT Professional

Cost: Free

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