CHAPTER EVENTS
Topic: Practical Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive Leadership was developed out of Harvard University specifically around how human psychology, evolutionary biology, and behavioral economics impact leadership in the fast of fast-paced and ever-present change.
An Adaptive leader must change their approach to problem solving, testing, communicating, and executing. They must understand the implications of their work on the overall system and must constantly filter their work based on the value of the outcome it produces.
You must start thinking in terms of self-leadership and making leadership into a verb not a noun. This program will dig into the details of what Adaptive Leadership is and how to build the skills to utilize its techniques.
These skills are critical for the future of Business Analysis especially as the BA is being increasing asked to support the development of the “future state” and be the trusted advisor to ensure the value of that “future state” is properly defined.
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6:00 pm - 6:25 pm - Virtual Networking
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm - Chapter News
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm - Program
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm - Applying Adaptive Leadership in the IT BA role
Presented by: David Mantica, VP and General Manager, SoftEd
David Mantica has 25 years of business-to-business services, consulting, coaching, and training industry experience in roles from operations, service delivery, marketing, product management and executive management. Just recently he successfully sold his business-to-business training firm having taken it from $1.2m to $13m in seven years all done organically.
Currently David is current the VP and General Manager for SoftEd US, a leading provider of transformational training services, working to support companies embrace agile methods for achieving business results.
Along with his work at SoftEd, David provides business owner coaching services to several companies in the Raleigh-Durham area through DTM Services. He also provides pro bono career coaching services and presentations to individuals and organizations throughout the US.
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BA101 - Business Analysis Fundamentals Course
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Gain the key skills needed to be a successful business analyst. This course is designed for those new to the analyst role or those with experience seeking formal training. You’ll gain context for the role complete with a structured approach to provide value to your organization. This includes understanding business analysis terminology, the business analysis lifecycle, and how to perform core business analyst activities such as engaging with stakeholders. You’ll gain the fundamental skills needed to be a great BA including understand the integral parts of a business system and understanding the right solution for the right problem.
Get EEP level training at IIBA Chapter pricing!
By the end of this course you will be able to:
• Understand the value the business analyst brings to an organization • Understand typical responsibilities and activities of the role, and the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in the role • Understand some of the common pitfalls that can impact on the success in the role • Understand what makes up a system and able to identify system components for analysis • Understand the concept of scope as it applies to the analysis stage of a project • Produce effective requirements • Master the B5 as a technique used to refine understanding of a system’s context • Plan, conduct and follow up a structured investigative interview • Understand the value of modeling • Understand agile values, principles, requirements and the lifecycle and have practiced writing and elaborating good user stories and acceptance criteria • Recognize different review types and effectively provide and receive useful feedback
• Understand the value the business analyst brings to an organization
• Understand typical responsibilities and activities of the role, and the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in the role
• Understand some of the common pitfalls that can impact on the success in the role
• Understand what makes up a system and able to identify system components for analysis
• Understand the concept of scope as it applies to the analysis stage of a project
• Produce effective requirements
• Master the B5 as a technique used to refine understanding of a system’s context
• Plan, conduct and follow up a structured investigative interview
• Understand the value of modeling
• Understand agile values, principles, requirements and the lifecycle and have practiced writing and elaborating good user stories and acceptance criteria
• Recognize different review types and effectively provide and receive useful feedback
Content:
• Introduction to business systems analysis • Business systems analysis overview • Planning and scoping • Effective requirements • Business systems elements B5 • Elicitation • Interviews • Modeling overview • User stories • Reviews and feedback
• Introduction to business systems analysis
• Business systems analysis overview
• Planning and scoping
• Effective requirements
• Business systems elements B5
• Elicitation
• Interviews
• Modeling overview
• User stories
• Reviews and feedback
20 PD Hours | 20 CDUs
This professional development course is registered with IIBA® and qualifies for 20 Professional Development (PD) Hours toward IIBA® core certification and 20 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) toward retaining your existing IIBA core certification.
Instructor: Gina Schmidt, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA
Throughout Gina Schmidt’s career, she has successfully managed and participated in enterprise-wide multi-vendor projects while performing in a diverse number of roles. As a known expert and consultant in business analysis and project management, she has been engaged as a speaker and seminar instructor by many professional associations, including IIBA, PMI, BA World, Building Business Capability Conference, Women in Technology, We Build Character (non-profit CIO mentoring) and training companies, such as SoftEd. In addition to her current firm, VITINAR, she has been both an internal and external consultant at Lighthouse Consulting Partners, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AT&T. Gina has recently authored, Mastering Business Analysis Versatility: Seven Steps to Develop Advanced Competencies and Capabilities which is part of a Business Analysis Professional Development Series offered by J. Ross Publishing
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Topic: Defeat the Meeting Super Villains
In the United States alone, there are approximately 11 million business meetings every day and ineffective or unnecessary meetings cost organizations $37 billion every year.
These organizations need a hero . . . a Superhero to rescue them from the meeting Super Villains that lurk in the hallways, in meeting rooms, and on conference calls. These evil-doers use their superpowers to destroy collaboration and delay projects.
You can be the Superhero that thwarts these villains and brings value back to meetings. In this interactive session, you'll discover the tools and tactics that will allow you to defeat these super villains and even turn them into allies.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm - Applying topic to IT BA Role
Presented by: Chris Saboe, Host at Mastering Business Analysis
Dave Saboe is an Enterprise Agile Coach, author, and podcaster. He is passionate about helping individuals, teams, and organizations do the best work of their lives. Dave has been in the Business Analysis and Project Management field for two decades and has led teams of Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and Coaches. He is a frequent industry speaker, including at the recent Bluegrass Business Analysis Conference. Dave helped create IIBA’s Agile Analysis certification exam. Through his podcast, Mastering Business Analysis, Dave helps Business Analysts learn new skills and advance in their careers.
BABOK® v3 Virtual Study Group
This spring, Bluegrass IIBA Chapter will once again host a virtual BABOK® v3 Study Group for those individuals interested in IIBA® core certification or learning the BABOK Guide to better their career.
Bluegrass IIBA Chapter will run the study group for 13 study sessions on Tuesday evenings through the spring and one final session on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Students should be prepared to spend 2 to 3 hours studying each week, plus the 2.5 hours study session on Tuesday evening. This study group will provide practice tests opportunity for students. ECBA practice tests are at the competency level for new business analysts; while the CCBA/CBAP practice tests are at a competency level for more seasoned business analysts. We ask students to begin studying early so it is a good idea to be registered at least one week prior to the first session. Students will be provided with course material, including an ECBA or CBAP Study Guide.
This is an instructor-led course. It will be instructed by Director of Certification Eric Neill, PMP, CSCP, CLTD; Vice President of Professional Development Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, AAC and President, Kathy Leigh, CBAP, and other CBAP instructors from the Chapter.
Please note that this study group is open to everyone internationally. Please understand that this course is taught in American English. Study sessions are at 6:00 p.m. EST. If you are not in the Eastern time zone of North America, you will need to translate this time to your time zone.
If you have any questions concerning this study group, please email Aaron at Professional@bluegrass.iiba.org.
35 PD Hours | 35 CDUs
This study group is registered with IIBA® and qualifies for 35 Professional Development (PD) Hours toward IIBA® core certification and 35 Continuing Development Units (CDU) toward retaining your existing IIBA® core certification.
Presented by:
Instructors:
Eric Neill, PMP, CSCP
Director of Certification
Certification@bluegrass.iiba.org
Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, AAC
Vice President of Professional Development
Professional@bluegrass.iiba.org
Kathy Leigh, CBAP
President
President@bluegrass.iiba.org
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-- Maria Kamendant, Senior Business Analyst, Xylem Inc.
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-- Toi Luu, Senior Business Analyst, City of Tulsa
“An informative journey that breaks the BABOK into bite-sized pieces for weekly ingestion. The instructors were excellent – very professional but highly personable in approach and delivery. The course was a gem!!”
-- Tina Bates, Business Analysts Consultant
“A truly inspiring learning experience, always be trained by professionals with hands-on knowledge about the subject they are teaching.”
-- Marius Popentiu
“This course was a great pace to cover the BABOK and prepare for taking the CBAP exam!”
-- Patrick Caruso, Intermediate Business Systems Analyst, Federated Hermes
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Topic: Business Analysis Tools & Techniques Course
Develop the essential tricks of the trade to become a valuable Business Analyst. In this highly interactive and practical program you’ll gain crucial tools and techniques covering use cases, modelling, logic tools and more to improve your capabilities and build your confidence. You’ll come away from this course with a toolkit of skills you can apply back in the workplace.
By the end of this course you will be able to: • Produce a use case diagram and a detailed use case description • Produce a process model of an end-to-end business process • Produce an entity-relationship diagram and a data dictionary • Build decision trees and decision tables to represent and clarify business rules • Use critical appraisal techniques to refine and improve a system specification • List the desirable contents of a business requirements specification
• Business Systems Analysis basics review • Use cases • Entity modelling • Additional modelling tools • Conditional logic tools • Process modelling • Critical appraisal and feedback
Prerequisites:
• BA101 - BA Fundamentals course or good understanding of general business analysis practices
• Some understanding of basic business practices
• Some understanding of capabilities and limitations of computer systems.
Methods Used:
Lecture is kept to the minimum necessary, most learning is achieved by applying the practices and techniques in group exercises and a case study.
14 PD Hours | 14 CDUs
This professional development course is registered with IIBA® and qualifies for 14 Professional Development (PD) Hours toward IIBA core certification and 14 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) toward retaining your existing IIBA core certification.
Topic: Delivering Innovative Solutions- It’s not just about being Creative
“If the pace of change inside the organization is slower than the pace of change outside the organization . . . the end is near.” - Jack Welch, retired CEO, GE
In a world that is constantly moving forward, standing still is a sure way of falling behind. Innovation is not our best hope; it is our only hope for preserving our quality of life in an era of hyper competition. Successful innovation requires transformation. As a Business Analyst, you need to become a ‘go-to thinking partner’ in business transformation and help deliver innovative solutions to your organization’s key imperatives and strategies.
This session will provide an overview of a structured process for delivering innovation, and it is not just about being creative!
Presented by: Richard Branton, Vice President at Advanced Strategies
Richard Branton is the Founding Partner and Vice President of Advanced Strategies, Inc. He is a speaker, executive coach, facilitator, methodologist and trainer with more than 30 years of experience in enterprise transformation, including strategic planning, business reengineering, change management, portfolio management, governance, and leadership development.
Richard has presented at numerous leadership workshops and executive forums for IIBA, PMI and for Fortune 200 clients and large government organizations such as HCA, Aflac, Cummins, CDC, and State of New York, to name a few. In addition, Richard has led over four hundred one-on-one executive leadership action planning sessions for C-level executives. Because strategy and organizational structure are so intertwined with an organization’s mission and vision, Richard has developed a deep understanding of a myriad of clients’ directions and culture. Richard makes sure overall missions remain front and center while addressing specific challenges such as the need to deliver innovation in an ever changing and challenging competitive world.
Agile Analysis Virtual Study Group
Bluegrass IIBA Chapter will host a virtual Agile Analysis Study Group for those individuals interested in IIBA®-AAC certification or learning the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide to better their career.
Bluegrass IIBA Chapter will run the study group for 5 sessions on Thursday evenings beginning on June 17, 2021. This study group will provide 12.5 Professional Development (PD) Hours for those students seeking IIBA® core certification, and provide a practice test opportunity for all students. We ask students to begin studying early so it is a good idea to be registered at least one week prior to the first session. Students will be provided with course material, including an AAC Study Guide and study workbook.
This study group is an instructor-led course, and will be taught by Vice President of Professional Development, Aaron Whittenberger, CBAP, CSPO, AAC
Please note that this study group is open to everyone internationally. Please understand that this course is taught in American English. Study sessions are at 6:00 p.m. EDT. If you are not in the Eastern time zone of North America, you will need to translate this time to your time zone.
If you have any questions concerning this study group, please email Vice President of Professional Development, Aaron Whittenberger at Professional@bluegrass.iiba.org.
12.5 PD Hours | 12.5 CDUs
This workshop is registered with IIBA and qualifies for 12.5 Professional Development (PD) Hours toward IIBA® core certifications and 12.5 Continuing Development Units (CDU) toward retaining your existing IIBA® core certification or IIBA®-AAC certification.
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“Provides All the tools necessary to take you from study group to successful scholar, AAC certification”
“Big Value, Fast!!!”
“An excellent study group with incredible expertise from great people.”
“This study group was exactly what I needed to motivate myself and build the necessary confidence for taking the exam.”
“The Bluegrass Chapter is well organized, professional and an excellent BA resource!”
“A very productive way to spend Tuesday nights with friends.”
“The Bluegrass Chapter AAC Study Group is an excellent tool to prepare busy professionals to take the Agile Analysis Certification exam. It is a great companion to their BABOK study group.”
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BA410 - The Seasoned Business Analyst
As a Senior Business Analyst you may be involved in enterprise or strategic analysis, including project initiation activities, stakeholder engagement and mentoring teams with an expectation of delivering innovative solutions.
This course is designed to equip you with the tools and techniques for the strategic and consultative Business Analyst so your team can perform and excel in an VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) environment. Powerful training solution for practicing experienced Business Analysts who need to learn advanced techniques for dealing with executive management, influencing at all levels of the organization and adaptive leadership.
Understand techniques for working in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment Understand influencing up and down the organizational chart Understand techniques for communicating and presenting to executive management Apply learned techniques to your daily work
Adaptive Leadership for the Business Analyst Applying influencing techniques for critical decision making Presenting complex content and recommended solutions to executive management Making business requirements verifiable Using leadership skills regardless of position or authority How to present multiple solutions for consensus decision making
BA101 - BA Fundamentals course, and BA105 - BA Tools and Techniques, and Two and half years of business analysis experience, or Four years of business analysis experience. Detailed understanding generally accepted business analysis concepts and practices. Great understanding of business practices.
9 PD Hours | 9 CDUs
This professional development course is registered with IIBA® and qualifies for 9 Professional Development (PD) Hours toward IIBA® core certification and 9 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) toward retaining your existing IIBA® core certification.
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