Live Webinar October 19th, 2016 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

The IIBA Leadership Series: A Study of “The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations” by James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Join IIBA as Jared Gorai explores the Fifth Practice of the book and uses his real life experiences to relate his Leadership experiences and how his leadership style has Encouraged the Heart!

In this Practice you will learn how Jared’s life and leadership experiences has helped others by Encouraging the Heart.

Presenter: Jared Gorai (LinkedIn profile) BA CBAP®  is a passionate Business Analyst for an Canadian Oil and Gas Company headquartered in Calgary Alberta. Jared is a Past President of the Calgary IIBA® Chapter and is currently the Deputy VP of Chapters for the IIBA®. He will take any chance possible to evangelize the role of the Business Analyst and will talk your ear off about it if you let him.

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IIBA Leadership Series – Practice Five:
Encourage the Heart

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Live Webinar October 18th, 2016 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

In a world run on data, analytics has become a fundamental part of everything we do.

Embedding widget-level analytics into apps, webpages and tools opens a world of product differentiation, greater product adoption, and improved user experience.

But you don’t need a data warehouse or a ton of IT or BI resources to implement a best in class embedded analytics solution.

With the right tools, you can build flexible data products that don’t require additional infrastructure costs or data prep.

Sisense provides business analytics tools that doesn’t necessitate expensive IT investments.

In this webcast, you will learn:

• How a single-stack BI architecture will speed time to implementation while saving on hardware and software costs
• How to define your requirements so your embedded analytics solution scales as your business does
• A fail-safe implementation strategy for successful implementation of embedded analytics in the minimal amount of time

Presenter: Aviad Harell, (LinkedIn profile) Co-Founder, VP OEM & Field Engineering, Sisense; brings his proven track record of bringing innovation and sustainable solutions to product life cycle, development, and customers despite the uncertainty and challenges that may come. He earned a BS in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, before co-founding Sisense, and has served as the Director of Products and Services.

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How Democratizing Embedded Analytics
Is Changing The BI Game

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Live Webinar October 12th 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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Managing Requirements Operational Excellence

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Live Webinar – October 5th 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

When it comes to software projects, there is a significant trend in enterprise IT departments to embrace shorter, more incremental cycles of work.

Schools of thought from the Agile, Lean and DevOps camps all promote these fast, small cycles – in some cases “projectizing” work at the task level which immediately gets merged with a larger system.

Although finite, time-boxed work is a familiar project management concept, there are tensions between the coveted speed to delivery of DevOps and Continuous Delivery style IT environments and the need for project management practices which enable sophisticated system engineering.

In this presentation Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile)  examines some of those tensions and discusses many of the fundamental dynamics contemporary project professionals should be aware of when navigating any environment that is impacted by trends in IT towards DevOps and Continuous Delivery.

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Mapping “Projectized” Work To Continuous DevOps-style Workflows

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Live Webinar – October 5th, 2016 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

So you’ve been assigned a complex,
poorly defined project concept
So now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is: strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity.

These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction.

• Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours?
• What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning objectives:

1. Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?
2. The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.
3. Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

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Fast Tracking Project Concepts

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Live Webinar September 28th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Data Preparation is the core of every analyst’s job and nearly every one of them works with or within Excel spreadsheets.

However, the increasing complexity of data required for driving business forward is above and beyond what spreadsheets are able to, or designed to, handle.

IT has been maintaining legacy databases and investing in Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc., alongside a Cloud initiative to keep up with business demands.

But are Business Analysts able to keep up with changing database technology with what they already have and use today? Using Toad, analysts can leverage their current expertise in Excel and prepare for their future data solutions.

Learn:

• Top drivers for adoption of NoSQL technologies
• Challenges with just using Excel-based analysis methods
• How to leverage Excel expertise to evolving technologies using Toad

Presenter: Julie Hyman (LinkedIn profile) Senior Product Manager Dell Software

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The Business Analyst’s Big (Data) Challenge!

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