Events

What does a BA interview look like? And what should it not? Learn ways to land a BA job of your dream (and what to avoid!).

Is there too much clutter preventing you from accomplishing your goals? Does the day come and go with you feeling like nothing was completed? Let’s clear the mess and work some productivity back into the routine! Let’s get out of the meeting overload and back to managing our projects! Let’s actually have time for quality analysis that provides valuable solutions! Let Jamie walk you through how simple productivity hacks can bring more time in your day for meaningful work. Let’s explore how to avoid “soul suckers” and energize you and your teams to be successful in delivering value daily!

What are the skill sets of the Modern Business Analyst? What perspectives do you need to have in an ever-evolving landscape? What expectations on job roles and responsibilities are you to have in a pivoting workforce? Come join Vince and Jamie as they discuss (and have plenty of FUN!) these very things and highlight key actions you can take now and ways to improve your skill sets so you find yourself successful wherever your analysis insights (and the world!) take you!

Join the Quad Cities PMI Chapter in learning top agile techniques! This is a hands-on interactive session for you to EXPERIENCE some of these amazing tools and how you can collaborate WITH your teams. We’ll take common agile techniques and learn how you can creatively apply them in all your working environments. Regardless if you’re using an agile methodology or just looking for more flexibility in your work, this session will engage you to shift your focus to value delivery. From daily work to long-term planning, these are the “hottest” and some of the best agile techniques you want (and need!) in your toolbox!

The number of women in leadership roles is growing in all industries and areas of business. As we seek to decrease the gender divide, skilled women leaders are essential for the success of any organization. But what does it mean actually to be a woman in a leadership position? What challenges exist and how do we overcome gender-bias obstacles and be seen as an asset to any team and organization?

Whether you are currently in a leadership position or seen as a leader in your community, learn
and practice skills that focus on driving actions, empowering others, and continually building yourself up as you remain a role model for your colleagues and build up the next generation of female leaders! Come share in a lively discussion that challenges masculine or feminine ways of thinking and working!

Canva is THE marketing tool people are using today. From small, independent woman-owned businesses to the leaders of major corporations, if you are in business, you are using Canva! But what exactly is this “amazing” tool? And I’m NOT a marketing person, so why would I care about this latest industry buzz?

From building presentations to even videos, Canva is all the rage because it actually not only does your work for you, but it is actually an easy to use and fun tool! Come see what this great tool can do for your daily work (and sanity) that makes you shine and really wow those you work with! Get some tips and tricks to shine no matter where you go in your career while seeing just how easy this great tool can be!

Data can help us answer so many questions, but only if we know how to successfully leverage the power of data. You do not need to be a technical expert with years of data analysis or be called a data scientist! You simply need to know some basics on how both your business and the data is set up. Then with a few good questions, you can pull together some powerful insights that help teams make informed decisions no matter what changes are being discussed!

In this session Jamie will walk you through how to approach using data to help you make informed decision-making. We’ll discuss how you can figure out what data you need to present viable recommendations to leadership. We’ll also list out the steps for working with the “data people” to get information that helps your decision-making processes.

Cybersecurity is everyone’s concern in today’s fast-paced, and ever-changing digital environments. Let Jamie guide you through how to ask the right questions to ensure you’re covering the valuable cybersecurity components necessary for successful technological projects. And even learn some great analysis approaches to any requirements work so that your solutions are successful for years to come.

Let’s dive into requirements from a view you’ve probably never seen. Come explore all the shapes, forms, and evolutions that captured requirements can take. And let’s get some hands on practice diving into HOW to pull out this information so that your facilitation session is never compared to a painful dental procedure! Join Jamie as she walks you through the very techniques you can immediately apply and great at requirements!

Mentors can be one of the best tools in your toolbox. But you can’t just walk up to anyone and ask for it…come Join Jamie and Vince to learn how to grow your tool box in this interactive and LIVE session!

What are the skill sets of the Modern Business Analyst? What perspectives do you need to have in an ever-evolving landscape? What expectations on job roles and responsibilities are you to have in a pivoting workforce? Come join Vince and Jamie as they discuss (and have plenty of FUN!) these very things and highlight key actions you can take now and ways to improve your skill sets so you find yourself successful wherever you analysis insights (and the world!) take you!

As our world continues, organizations and their teams, locations, practices, and even technology and markets will also adapt and change. Employee toolsets and approaches will likewise be required to evolve, regardless of where and how the team performs the work. Connections still need to be fostered in trusting environments so that collaborative approaches to solving problems, delivering solutions, and delighting customers continue to be possible--and expected!

Gain deep insights into how to inspire teams to positively and proactively engage in projects to deliver real (and measurable) results. Techniques will be demonstrated and practiced with hands on exercises. You will learn how to tailor these approaches for working beyond in-person events so you are comfortable using in virtual and hybrid environments as well. This course will provide you with the tools to engage WITH your team members, letting them lead the charge to accomplish great things!

While we talked about finding mentors in May, are you looking for ways to mentor others? How do we do that when doing business analysis work? Join Jamie and Vince as we discuss what works (and does not!)

Is there too much clutter preventing you from accomplishing your goals? Does the day come and go with you feeling like nothing was completed? Let’s clear the mess and work some productivity back into the routine! Let’s get out of the meeting overload and back to managing our projects! Let’s actually have time for quality analysis that provides valuable solutions! Let Jamie walk you through how simple productivity hacks can bring more time in your day for meaningful work. Let’s explore how to avoid “soul suckers” and energize you and your teams to be successful in delivering value daily!

What are the skill sets of the Modern Business Analyst? What perspectives do you need to have in an ever-evolving landscape? What expectations on job roles and responsibilities are you to have in a pivoting workforce? Come join Vince and Jamie as they discuss (and have plenty of FUN!) these very things and highlight key actions you can take now and ways to improve your skill sets so you find yourself successful wherever you analysis insights (and the world!) take you!

Let’s dive into requirements from a view you’ve probably never seen. Come explore all the shapes, forms, and evolutions that captured requirements can take. And let’s get some hands on practice diving into HOW to pull out this information so that your facilitation session is never compared to a painful dental procedure! Join Jamie as she walks you through the very techniques you can immediately apply!

Your goal is to delight the customer. But who told you what the customer wants? If you actually get to interact with your customers, they often want the world on a silver platter with a giant EASY button! And that story is completely different from what marketing is promoting or what the technology team is saying is feasible. So how do you “think like the customer” in a way that drives viable solutions?

You get a toolbox full of creative (and fun!) techniques that help you think like your customer when they’re not in the room. Approaches and checklists and things you can immediately apply are all the tricks that Jamie has up her sleeves for you to put your customer at the center of your discussions. Come learn and engage and even get some practice with techniques that will help you ask the hard questions, support your team with “What if” scenarios, and walk through the entire customer journey so that they become part of the solution and not simply the consumer of a product.

We have all heard that change is “hard,” yet the world around us is constantly changing. People in businesses of all industries need to be able to grasp what change is and why it is essential to their organizations. The ability to see why others may not well receive change is crucial to being successful in your change approaches. Communication is key, and being able to measure and explain your changes can be almost as important as getting people to actually change.

This hands-on course teaches you how to build your change management plan not only on the tasks for completing your change but also on how you will engage with the people you work with. Change can bring all kinds of emotions, so a plan to work WITH stakeholders to help them deliver valuable change efforts is one of your keys to success.

The number of women in leadership roles is growing in all industries and areas of business. As we seek to decrease the gender divide, skilled women leaders are essential for the success of any organization.

Whether you are currently in a leadership position or seen as a leader in your community, learn and practice skills that focus on driving actions, empowering others, and continually building yourself up as you remain a role model for colleagues.

You are busy enough throughout the day just trying to get things done. Trying to improve a process seems only to require more effort. But what if it didn’t? And what if you could measure and show how small changes lead to cost and time savings?

This fast-paced course will introduce you to definitions of process improvement that are immediately actionable. Bring current work processes with you to use as real-world exercises. Discover how simple daily tasks - such as organizing and submitting forms, printing, filing, or scheduling - can be streamlined to add time back to your day. Hands-on practice will walk you step by step through processes that can be immediately applied to your teams and organizations for dramatic, measurable improvements.