Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2014

What Motivates Me: How to Take Control of Your Career
Presented by Adrian Gostick, Founding Partner of The Culture Works and Chester Elton, Leadership Consultant of The Culture Works

Aligning Your Work with What Makes You Happy

After analyzing the results of interviews with 850,000 people, researchers Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton found the key difference between those who are happiest and most energized at work is whether their work aligns with what motivates them.

But knowing what most motivates us isn’t easy. It’s often not what our culture tends to emphasize, things like status or money or even using our strengths.

The authors’ research shows that if people understand better what their motivators really are, they can make some relatively moderate changes within their careers that will make them much more engaged and happier.

What You Will Learn

Join us as the New York Times bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle and All In unveil their exciting new work, and offer an extensively-tested method to identify anyone’s unique blend of core motivators and then help them align more of their work with what drives them. Attend and you’ll learn:

·         How to identify your core set of motivators (they are different for each person)
·         How to enhance your value and accomplish more in your career with simple but powerful job-sculpting strategies
·         How to avoid blind spots and potential conflicts

Whether listeners are managers who are trying to get their people to be more productive and engaged or individuals looking to reignite their passion in their current job, this program will help them align the work they do every day with what truly motivates them.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday; October 1, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: American Management Association   @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration
 

 

Q and A – Data Skills for Business Analysts
Presented by Chris Knotts, PMP and Darrel Raynor, PMP

The information and decision-making duties of project professionals and business analysts get more complex every day. Data resources – and concerns – have become ubiquitous, and it's critical to stay on top of them. While BAs don't need to suddenly transform into data scientists, they must understand the data resources currently available, what they offer, and how they're being used. Most importantly, every BA should understand how data can be leveraged to deliver business value and project solutions in their own work.

This one-hour open Q&A session gives you a chance to get answers to common real-world data challenges. Join us as we talk with top-tier data expert Darrel Raynor. Darrel is a veteran project consultant and turnaround expert. He owns and runs www.dataanalysis.com and has provided consulting services to many dozens of Fortune and enterprise customers.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 1, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

 

 

What is ALM? The Value of Application Lifecycle Management
Presented by Jim Ferranti, System Engineer for Polarion Software

Do you wish your development teams could respond faster and with better quality to business opportunities and customer demands and drive innovation? Join us for this complimentary 45-minute webinar and learn how a unified Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution with a 100% browser-based, intuitive UI can help you unlock team synergies and accelerate collaboration across disparate teams.  

Learn about the benefits of managing all assets throughout the lifecycle and across projects, while maintaining full traceability to protect quality and automate proof of compliance.  
     
Agenda Topics:

·         Unlock synergies across distributed teams by working on common data
·         Improve efficiencies with full traceability and real-time transparency
·         Reduce costs by accelerating adoption and reducing IT burdens
·         Collaborate and exchange information in an agile way while staying compliant
·         Understand the benefits of effective licensing options including On-Premise, Hosted, and Saas

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 2, 2014; 11:30 am – 12:15 pm EDT

Host: @PolarionNews

Cost: Free

 

 

Effective Leadership in a Low Authority Environment
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP

This webinar will strengthen your ability to effectively work with project teams and other stakeholders to achieve project success when you do not have a large amount of formal authority. The types of power that can developed and used and how they influence leadership will be discussed. Specific project situations will be examined, along with suggested methods for getting the results you want.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 2, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95                                                      October – 5 Webinar Package: http://ow.ly/AZWVH 

 

 

The Steve Jobs Way – A case study on Innovation & Leadership
Presented by Eric Bloom, President of Manager Mechanics LLC

Developed with the support of Jay Elliot (Steve Jobs former advisor, SVP of Apple, and author of The Steve Jobs Way) this one day workshop will teach you valuable information about two of the biggest strategies necessary to be successful in any industry - Innovation and Leadership. Steve Jobs was a mastermind of innovation and revolutionized the way people communicate using Apple technology. Innovation pushes us to create new ways to achieve our goals while saving money, time, and producing better results. Ultimately, innovation teaches us to become more efficient, which is necessary to remain competitive. 

Learning Objectives:

·         Adopt a new perspective on innovation thinking

·         Learn to be more efficient

·         Acquire the core principles and techniques that led to Apple’s success

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 2, 2014; 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: @BATimes

Cost: Free

 

 

Mastering Difficult Conversations
Presented by Dr. Mark Goulston, Former FBI Negotiation Trainer

Nobody likes to deliver bad news, discuss a sensitive subject or talk about a project or meeting that's gone wrong. The mere thought of these conversations can fill you with anxiety and distract you from your work. Join Dr. Mark Goulston, international best-selling author and former FBI hostage negotiation trainer, as he shares practical, hands-on techniques for taking the stress out of toughest employee discussions.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 2, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: Ziff Davis    @ZiffDavisB2B

Cost: Free

Registration:   Ziff Davis Events Registration


 

IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by  Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP

A free chat session featuring questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, October 3, 2014; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT

Host: @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

 

 

The Decision Model, a Powerful Tool in the Business Architect's Repertoire
Presented by Ravi Singh, Head of Architecture & Product Strategy for Sapiens DECISION

Sapiens DECISION invites you to learn more about a unique approach and powerful tool that enable more efficient and accurate requirements gathering.

Developed through decades of successful enterprise deployments, The Decision Model combines aspects of modern requirements gathering and agile project management to help bridge the gap between IT and the business.  

This webinar will provide insight into how The Decision Model (TDM) and Sapiens DECISION can help Business Architects conceptualize and build agile, dynamic, and flexible, business-driven solutions.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Monday, October 6, 2014; 10:00 am – 11:00 pm EDT

Host: @Sapiens

Cost: Free

 

 

Disciplined Agile Business Analysis
Presented by Scott W. Ambler, Senior Consulting Partner, Scott Ambler + Associates

Analysis is so important to agile teams they do it every day.  Every. Single. Day.  In some respects agile teams perform analysis in a very different manner than traditional teams, and in some respects in a very similar manner.  Agile analysis is collaborative and evolutionary in nature.  Disciplined agile analysis takes it up a notch to address the complexity factors agile teams face at scale.
In this webinar we will discuss how disciplined agile teams address analysis activities throughout the lifecycle.  You discover that the roles and responsibilities on agile teams are different than those on traditional teams, requiring both a mindset and a skill set change for business analysts.
 

Key learning points: 

·         Discover how disciplined agile teams approach analysis, and modelling in general  
·         Learn agile analysis and modelling strategies 
·         Discover how business analysts can transition to an agile environment

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 7, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free

 

 

Use Case - A Powerful Requirements Documentation Tool 
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM

Use Cases are a requirements documentation method that is gaining in popularity, particularly when an Agile development methodology is in use. Attend this webinar and see how simple the technique is, and learn the various methods and limitations that help define it. This webinar will be 30 minutes long followed by a live question and answer session with the instructor.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 7, 2014; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: Free

 

 

Lead with Humility: Lessons from Pope Francis
Presented by Jeffrey Krames, Best Selling Author of The Rumsfeld Way, 4 E’s of Leadership and more

Inspiring Lessons for Leaders Everywhere

When Fortune announced its list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded—not to a captain of industry—but to the new pontiff.

How did a man who spent his life laboring in slums far from the Vatican manage to do this and so quickly?

The answer lies in his humility—and the simple principles that spring from it.

Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis in March of 2012, he has shown the world a new way to lead. Not with bluster or bravado, but with humility and humanity. He has, without a doubt, been the most humble leader on the world stage of the modern era.

There isn’t even a close second.

What You Will Learn

As someone who has studied leaders and the topic of leadership for more than three decades, Jeffrey Krames has long believed that humility is the most under-rated of all leadership qualities.

This webcast explores how Francis has combined humility with power to become the most fascinating pontiff in modern memory. Then the program digs deeper to reveal the key business tenets that Pope Francis has exercised to create his own brand of leadership. Examples include:

·         Guard against insularity: Many heads of corporations and states fall prey to the “bubble” phenomenon, meaning that they feel imprisoned by the trappings of their positions. To make sure that Pope Francis did not lose his broad perspective, he put together a makeshift “board of directors.” Dubbed the Vatican-8, or V-8, these eight Archbishops from all over the globe serve as his consulting body. None of Francis’s 265 predecessors ever amassed such a consultative body.

·         Live on the frontier: To “live on the frontier” is to push the envelope and live outside of your comfort zone.

·         Run your organization like a field hospital: Francis feels very strongly that members of the clergy must go anywhere and everywhere, no matter the risk, to tend to their flocks. The same tenet works well in business. Instead of a reliance on email, Twitter, etc., what is needed are more face-to-face meetings.

Pope Francis’s ability to inspire the world is unprecedented in modern times. Join us as we explore the power of his methods and how anyone can take these lessons to lead with grace and greater authenticity.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 8, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: American Management Association   @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration
 

 

Stakeholder Management - A Key Skill Needed by PM's and BA's
Presented by Joe Lukas, PMP, PE, CSM, CCP

Do you know all of the stakeholders on your project? This webinar will discuss techniques to identify and analyze all project stakeholders, along with how to develop a plan for engagement of stakeholders and management of their expectations. Best practices for communicating with stakeholders will be discussed, along with how to deal with incompatible stakeholders expectations.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 9, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95                                                    October – 5 Webinar Package: http://ow.ly/AZWVH 

 

 

The Decision Model, a Powerful Tool in the Business Architect’s Repertoire
Presented by Ravi Singh, Head of Architecture for Sapiens DECISION

Developed through decades of successful enterprise deployments, The Decision Model combines aspects of modern requirements gathering and agile project management to help bridge the gap between IT and the business.  This Webinar will provide insight into how The Decision Model (TDM) can help Business Architects in conceptualizing and building agile, dynamic, and flexible business driven solutions.

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 14, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free

 

 

Self-Organized Team Primer: Not Just for Software Developers Any Longer
Presented by David Mantica

Even at its very foundation, the cornerstone of Agile is the concept of self-organization. Self-organization ultimately centers on professional skills, autonomy and empowerment. When executed correctly, it is a strong first step on the road to embracing multiple agile practices. If your team can't self-organize, it is a strong sign that your organization is not ready for agile.

In this web seminar the concept of self-organization will be explained in real terms using real examples. From there the components necessary for self-organized success will be discussed including:

·         A look at autonomy and the fears and risks associated with it
·         Critical attributes of team members
·         Critical attributes for managers and leaders
·         Team responsibilities
·         Manager and Leader responsibilities
·         Techniques to hire for team members who can fit in with self-organization
·         Failure points and tips to overcome those points

The final piece to this success is understanding that at the core of self-organization is trust. We will finish by discussing tactics and tips on how to develop trust from both the top down and bottom up.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October  14, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

 

 

10 Secrets that Can Make or Break Your Career
Presented by Mark Thompson, Chief Customer Experience Officer for Charles Schwab

The World’s Top Executive Coaches Share Their Secrets and Answer Your Toughest Questions!

You’re more challenged than ever with conflicting priorities, multiple teams and bosses. At the same time, the landscape has never been riper with opportunities for positive change in your role.

Don’t wait another moment – the time is NOW to get both world-class advice and practical tools you can use to keep your career on an upward path.

In this dynamic program, a top executive coach will lead a provocative discussion with the world’s most renowned coaches and two global CEO's: Virgin's Sir Richard Branson and GE's Jeffrey Immelt.

Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to ask ANYTHING and glean their sage advice.

What You Will Learn

·         How to assess your opportunities and manage your blind spots
·         Learn what world-class leaders do to stand out from the crowd
·         Tips for career planning and developing critical leadership skills that increase your focus and priority setting despite chaos at work
·         Make the right connections to foster cohesion and teamwork
·         How to execute your strategy with the appropriate set of tools & techniques
·         Enhance your competencies with greater emotional intelligence
·         Use different communication styles to increase your flexibility and effectiveness with each of your stakeholders
 

The program features input from World's Best Executive Coaches (by category):

- Marshall Goldsmith — CEO coach
- Mark Thompson — innovation leadership & engagement
- Maya Hu-Chan and Rita McGrath — retail strategy
- Carol Kauffman — psychology
- Subir Chowdhury — quality management
- David Ulrich and Lynda Gratton — HR
- Jim Collins and Jim Kouzes — leadership
- Gary Ranker and Howard Morgan — global mindset

And you'll hear from Virgin's Sir Richard Branson & GE's Jeffrey Immelt — global CEO's.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: American Management Association   @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Webcast Registration
 

 

Expert Q and A – Data Quality: How to Keep it Clean
Presented by Damian Herrick and Chris Knotts

It's a perennial problem for everybody: Over time, data quality degrades. Human error gradually accumulates, weird duplicates pop up, corruption happens – the list goes on.

How can we do better with our data hygiene and keep our quality standard high when it comes to our information? Data can be our most valuable resource, if it's a current, well-maintained repository of useful information. Taking small steps now – every day – can yield big payoffs in the future if those steps gradually amass a high-fidelity treasure trove of information that can be mined and modeled.

Join us for a one-hour open interview with Triangle data guru Damian Herrick. Damian is a consulting partner on analytics and enterprise data analysis, and he will answer questions about how to maintain high quality standards when we work with our data.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: ASPE Training   @ASPE_SDLC

Cost: Free

 

 

Risk Management: A Proactive Approach to Handling Uncertainty
Presented by Bonnie Cooper, PMP, Corporate Education Group

Have you ever been caught off guard by an event you didn’t expect in your project or realized too late that you missed an opportunity to get a better result? Do you want to get better at spotting red flags or opportunities?

Effectively managing risks is a core project management discipline, and this webinar will introduce you to some tools and techniques for identifying risks, prioritizing them, analyzing their impact and devising responses. Practical tips will be shared for how to develop your own abilities to spot red flags, and assess people and situations beyond their appearances.


Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free



 

Vendor Showcase Webinar Series: From Idea to Production – Continuous Development Starts With an Idea, Not After Testing is Finished!
Presented by Huw Price, Managing Director, Grid-Tools

This webinar will draw on a new approach which is helping a global financial services company drive down real costs in software development by almost 30%.  It will illustrate how it is possible to build extremely accurate requirements and test cases that can be understood by the user, programmers and testers.   The webinar will explain how you use mathematical techniques to break processes down into clear smaller logical unambiguous requirements that can drive higher quality and faster development.  The presentation will show how Agile Designer can be used to calculate accurate development metrics and build matching test data.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 16, 2014; 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm EDT

Host: @IIBA

Cost: Free



 

The Agile Business Analyst
Presented by John Parker, CEO for Enfocus Solutions

The BA role significantly changes on agile projects. For example, requirements are no longer defined by the Business Analyst; they are defined by the Product Owner and the Team as user stories in the product backlog. The requirements continue to evolve as the Team has conversations with users of the software. BAs become much more strategic and work closely with the business to define and prioritize Features. They also work with the business to plan and manage business change. This webinar is specifically targeted at enterprises that have adopted agile at the Team level but are having trouble scaling agile to the enterprise. John will also discuss the soon to be released BA Body of Knowledge V3 from the IIBA and the related changes in the BA role. The following topics will be addressed in the webinar:

·         The role of the BA on agile projects
·         Business, Architectural, and Transformation Epics and Features
·         Defining requirements on agile projects
·         Changes in the BA role in IIBA’s BABOK V3
·         Challenges to scaling agile to the enterprise
·         Transforming Business Analysis role to a strategic role
·         Engaging stakeholders on agile projects
·         Using the BA to manage outsourced agile development
·         Making the organizational transformation from waterfall to agile

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 16, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @EnfocusSolution

Cost: Free



 

Strategic Leadership and Project Portfolio Management
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM

This webinar serves as a complement to the sessions on Leadership, Project Portfolio Management and the Career Paths for both PMs and BAs. It examines Portfolio Management in more detail, focusing on how an organization can take control of its entire body of project work through the creation of a High-value PMO. Such an entity operates at the highest levels of a company, and the skills of both BAs and PMs are essential for leadership success at this level. Come and see where you fit into such a picture and learn what you need to prepare yourself to be part of it.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 16, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: @PMCentersUSA

Cost: $14.95                                                       October – 5 Webinar Package: http://ow.ly/AZWVH 


 
 
 
Agile Analysis: An Interview with Kent & Kupe
Presented by B2T Training
Many agile related discussions in the business analysis community focus on the wrong things:
·         Which is better agile or waterfall?
·         Do you need a business analyst on a team using agile?
·         What’s the best tool for gathering and documenting requirements in agile?
This interview will NOT focus on these topics. At the end of the day, requirements are a means to an end. Unfortunately, many in the business analysis community treat requirements as their end product. They think their job is to produce these things called requirements. Agile is also a means to an end. The term agile is a handy label that has been warped into a marketing buzzword for a set of practices and techniques that are helpful, but not sufficient to truly satisfy the needs of stakeholders if not accompanied by the appropriate mindset; a mindset that encourages collaboration among stakeholders to deliver value in frequent increments with consistent reflection and adaptation. Join Kent and Kupe for 30 information-rich minutes that will be spent tackling these issues head on and discussing where teams should focus their attention. We’ll leave some time for Q&A, so let us know what questions you have as part of your registration below or chime in after the conversation.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, October 16, 2014; 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Host: @B2T_Training
Cost: Free
 
 


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