Events

Monday, October 21, 2024 to Thursday, October 24, 2024; 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT Virtual education course | 4 sessions | 14 PDHs/CDUs How do you combine your business analysis skills with agile approaches and practices? Agile delivery teams need skilled business analysts that can bridge the gap between eliciting business requirements and just-in-time elaboration and collaboration. Our Agile Business Analysis course will provide you with the techniques and tools to become an effective Business Analyst equipped to support value delivery teams. This course focuses on how to deliver business value and ensure product fit demonstrating practices that work in an agile development process. You will leave with the required tools and approaches that will enable collaboration with teams and stakeholders to identify the most important aspects and features of a product or initiative. This course qualifies for 14 PDHs/CDUs for all IIBA® certifications. This course will contribute 14 PMI® PDUs towards your chosen certification (4 Power Skills and 10 Ways of Working). The ICP-APO Certification from ICAgile is granted on the successful completion of this course.

Michael Sipos is a Solution Architect at Amazon. He will share his insights regarding the potential that AI can bring to the public sector.

Monday, November 11, 2024 to Wednesday, November 13, 2024; 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST Virtual training course | 3 sessions | 14 PDHs/CDUs Design Thinking is a creative and iterative approach to defining, exploring and testing problems and opportunities for products and services. In this introductory course, we will cover the key principles, processes and toolsets that underpin design thinking whilst working through a case study that simulates a design challenge. You will walk through a design thinking process and learn how to apply it in your own context.

Join us for ABADD 2024. This year we will have 7 presenters and will once again have an in-person option. Webex will still be available for those who cannot make it to Albany.

Monday, December 2, 2024 to Thursday, December 5, 2024; 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST Virtual training course | 4 sessions | 14 PDHs/CDUs Are you looking to expand your skills in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform your business analysis and become a leader in leveraging emerging technologies? The future of business analysis lies at the intersection of human creativity and technological leverage. Our AI for Business Analysis course is an immersive and interactive journey to prepare experienced BA professionals for the AI-empowered future. Through real-world exercises with leading AI agents and tools, gain first-hand experience planning initiatives, analyzing requirements and devising solutions. You will learn methods of “prompt engineering” for using generative AI agents to produce key BA artefacts, research new subject matters, evaluate work, and conduct interviews with subject matter experts. Whilst balancing AI’s power to create content with human judgment, you will discover AI dialog techniques that will enable iterative and incremental analysis and development. This course qualifies for 14 PDHs/CDUs for all IIBA® certifications. This course will contribute 14 PMI® PDUs towards your chosen certification (10 Ways of Working and 2 Business Acumen).

Jennifer Battan will help us to unravel the mysteries of technique selection and learn how to better explore our product universe get to the right detail within analysis work.

Cindy Brummer returns to Albany to present to us the importance of ensuring everyone can utilize our solutions.

A needs assessment is a crucial step in chartering a project. It involves the activities required to gain a comprehensive understanding of the project. This includes clearly defining the business problem or opportunity the project aims to address, aligning the project with organizational goals and objectives, and identifying the value the project will deliver to the organization. A key aspect of this process is having a deep understanding of project stakeholders. Effective stakeholder identification and analysis are essential for gathering the right inputs and information, shaping recommendations, defining the project scope, and securing the appropriate approval for requirements to ensure completeness. Ben Furtaw will provide a back-to-basics overview and roadmap for completing a needs assessment while reviewing typical business analysis tasks and tools along the way.

In an age where data is the lifeblood of modern organizations, the need for robust data governance has never been more critical. Yet, as history has shown, adopting significant change can be quite challenging. This session draws compelling comparisons to the Meiji Restoration, which launched Japan into the modern era, urging participants to reevaluate their data management strategies. Just as the Meiji leaders enacted transformative reforms to advance their nation, contemporary business leaders must be prepared to evolve and innovate to fully leverage their data strategic capabilities.