Presented by Michele Gravelle, MA, Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group
Making business decisions is your most important function
as a leader and your riskiest. Your personal brand is made or broken by the
quality of your decisions. Are your decisions as solid as they could be?
In this webinar, you will learn how to apply strategic decision-making processes in order to reduce risk and choose the best course of action for the project, team, the organization, and you. You’ll learn the steps necessary in making strategic decisions align with business objectives as well as how to address a range of challenges that every leader encounters. Learning objectives include:
In this webinar, you will learn how to apply strategic decision-making processes in order to reduce risk and choose the best course of action for the project, team, the organization, and you. You’ll learn the steps necessary in making strategic decisions align with business objectives as well as how to address a range of challenges that every leader encounters. Learning objectives include:
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Distinguish between strategic thinking, planning and
decision making and identify when to use each skill appropriately
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Develop insight into your individual decision-making style
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Utilize tools for solving problems and making sound
decisions
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Systematically prepare for your most important decisions
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Determine the appropriate level of stakeholder involvement
in your decision-making process
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, February 2, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Service Design Fundamentals
for BAs and PMs
Presented by
John Parker, CEO at Enfocus Solutions
Services represent 78% of the US economy, and that
percentage just keeps growing. Information Technology (IT) plays a major part
in delivering services to customers. Most organizations manage IT by defining
and delivering services to business units, implementing IT service management
processes. Services offered are then described in a service catalog, enabling
customers to view what services are available and to request a service
electronically.
However, most organizations have done little in terms of improving their processes and practices for service design. Service Design is an innovative and emerging discipline in which user-oriented strategies and concepts are designed to make services work better for an organization and their customers. Service Design offers a competitive advantage for organizations by ensuring a better customer experience. Applying product design to services simply does not work. In this webinar, John Parker will present an overview of what service design is and the value an organization receives by placing more focus on service design:
However, most organizations have done little in terms of improving their processes and practices for service design. Service Design is an innovative and emerging discipline in which user-oriented strategies and concepts are designed to make services work better for an organization and their customers. Service Design offers a competitive advantage for organizations by ensuring a better customer experience. Applying product design to services simply does not work. In this webinar, John Parker will present an overview of what service design is and the value an organization receives by placing more focus on service design:
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What is Service Design?
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Why is Service Design so important?
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Co-Creation and Design
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Understanding the Customer and their Needs
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Understanding Contexts
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Understanding Service Providers
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Service Design: Implications for BAs
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Service Design: Implications for PMs
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Applying Service Design to IT Service Management (ITSM)
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Applying Service Design in an Agile Development Environment
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 5, 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EST
Host: Enfocus Solutions
@EnfocusSolution
Cost: Free
IIBA Certification Chat
Presented by
Rich Larson, CBAP, PMP
The event is a free chat session using webinar technology.
It features written questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from
Watermark Learning. Topics include anything related to IIBA's
certifications you want, ranging from the CBAP or CCBA application to the exams
to re-certification.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, February 6, 2015; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
EST
Host: Watermark Learning
@WatermarkLearn
Cost: Host
Presented by David Mantica
Over 250,000 people have become
certified in some form of Agile practice or flavor. The industry standard body
for Project Management, PMI, has introduced a certification for Agile (PMI-ACP
introduced officially in Jan 2013). Steven Denning has written a book about his
development of a new flavor of Agile for management and leaders called Radical
Management. IC Agile, a world-wide standards organization for Agile, is even
working on a designation for using Agile in marketing and product management.
I don't think there is much more proof
needed to show that this thing called Agile is here to stay. The reality
thought is the vast number of SDLC and business professionals might have heard
of it but really don't know what it is. Or they were given a small snap shot
picture of an element of how it works.
In this fast paced one hour web
seminar, we will take a very methodical approach to provide a full picture of
what Agile is, how it works, who is using it and how you can use it. We will
try to leave time for questions and will keep the session open an extra 10 mins
to cover questions. If you can't stay, the full answers to questions will be
provided on our blog and we will provide that link with the slides a few days
after the presentation.
We will cover the following topics:
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What is driving the need
to use Agile
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How management and workers
need to change to utilize Agile successfully
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Break down of what Agile
is
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The two fundamental
concepts of Agile: Self-organization and Iterating
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High level overview of the
Agile Practices and Organization
o Work vs Role
o Development unit / Business unit
o Scrum Master
o Product Owner
o User Story / task board / burndown
o Five levels of planning in Agile
o Estimating in Agile
o Sprint aka Iteration
o Definition of Done
o Retrospective
o Rolling to the next iteration
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A quick look at Agile
Flavors
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A look at who is using
Agile and How
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Roadblocks and Challenges
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Certification options
It will be a lot of information but
covered in an introductory and compare and contrast way to allow you to get an
objective picture based on your experience. Agile is not a panacea or a
methodology. At its foundation it is a way of working that permeates everything
you do at work. We will discuss how that is and what that means.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 10 2015;
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: ASPE Training @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Next Generation Business
Intelligence: Trends for 2015
Presented by
Ellie Fields, Ted Wasserman and Daniel Horn
Welcome to The Future—the one we’ve
been waiting for since 1989. No, we don’t have the hoverboards we were
promised. But there is still plenty to celebrate!
Every New Year we look forward to
sharing with you the top business intelligence trends to watch.
Join us for this 60 minute live
webinar exploring the top trends in business intelligence for the upcoming year
including:
·
Data governance becomes a
key area of focus
·
Social intelligence
competitive advantage balloons
·
Self-service rapidly
spreads throughout departments and organizations
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Data journalism investment
in data analytics magnifies
·
Cloud analytics—not just
for cloud data anymore
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday,
February 10 2015; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: Tableau Software
@Tableau
Cost: Free
Creating an Effective
Projects Portfolio
Presented by PM
Centers USA
Project management is about doing projects right. Portfolio
management is about doing the right projects. This webinar will discuss the key
elements of portfolio management including how projects are evaluated and
selected, and managing the portfolio. Best practices for portfolio governance
will be explained, along with effective techniques for portfolio risk
management.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday,
February 11 2015; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: PM CentersUSA
@PMCentersUSA
Cost: Free
Registration: PMCentersUSA
Complimentary Webinar Registration
Mastering
Business Analysis Through Practice and Certification
Presented by Barbara Carkenord, CBAP, PMP, PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP
Imagine an individual who combines technical
knowledge, requirement gathering skills, business acumen, analytical thinking,
and the ability to communicate at any level. This unique person is able to
understand and identify their organizations true opportunities, and adds value
by driving change and facilitating the implementation of business-driven
solutions. Sound familiar? We just described a business analyst, and if you
perform this type of work, it could be you.
In this one-hour webinar, Barbara Carkenord
will outline the seven (7) foundational steps required to excel in the business
analysis role, as featured in her worldwide best-selling book, Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis.
Each step details a necessary skill area, crucial to the success of any
business analyst in any organization or industry. As the business analysis
profession continues its rapid grown trend worldwide, it also gains attention
as a critical success factor in organizations. This has triggered several
internationally known professional organizations to offer business analysis
certifications which allow practitioners to demonstrate their skills and
receive formal recognition of their expertise. We will discuss three of the
most popular designations and how you could benefit from earning them. Join us
Thursday February 12th, 2015 at 12:00pm CST, seating is limited—reserve yours
today!
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, February 12, 2015; 1:00
pm – 2:00 pm EST
Host: RMC Project Management @RMCProject
Cost: Free
Registration:
RMC Project Webinar Registration
Expert Q&A – How to get from Agile, to Continuous Integration, to
Continuous Delivery, to Continuous Operation?
Presented by
Bryon Brewer and Chris Knotts
Continuous Operation: the holy grail of a product release!
We've seen tools pop up to enable it.
Microsoft TFS allows the fully Agile developer environment. Stuff like Jenkins
and Git allow highly streamlined version control and deployment. On the
operations side, admins can spool up countless new server instances in the
cloud, auto-configure them with ease, and seamlessly collaborate with their
developers.
We hear about companies like FaceBook
and Etsy releasing software to the production environment so often that it
becomes one steady flow of deployment, from development to customer-facing
release. Glitches can be fixed so fast…changes implemented so rapidly…that
applications are virtually updated in real time, without customers ever
knowing.
Meanwhile, the rest of us struggle
with the same old IT project challenges we've had for years: delays, inaccurate
requirements, version control issues. Problems during release and operations
that didn't show up in Dev. Is it reasonable to think that normal, everyday IT
shops can achieve the kind of results we read about on the DevOps blogs?
Join us for an hour of open Q and A
with our resident Agile release and TFS expert: Bryon Brewer. We will take
questions from the audience on all of these issues and more.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, February 13, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EST
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
BA Guide to Essential Agile Techniques
Presented by Marsha Hughes, PMP, CBAP, CSM/CSP
You will learn:
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How to build a vision
statement
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How to write user stories
to create a product backlog
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How to prioritize user
stories for releases using themes and the MoSCoW rules
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How to write acceptance
tests for user stories.
You'll also get a chance to ask
questions and get LIVE expert answers!
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, February 13, 2015; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Host: Watermark Learning @WatermarkLearn
Cost: Free
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