Case Study: Vasa Warship
Project
Presented by Cheryl Hill, PMP, Requirements Experts
The Vasa was a Swedish warship that was built over a period
of four years, 1625 – 1628…it sank on its maiden voyage
sailing all of 1300 meters before being toppled by a small gust of wind.
Sadly, the factors that lead to the Vasa project failure are many of the same
factors that challenge the projects of today.
In the 60-minute webinar, we introduce you to the Vasa
warship project. We will discuss the actions and decisions made by the
Executive Sponsor (Sweden’s King Gustav II) and project management that lead to
the project’s ultimate “failure”. We will draw parallels to today’s
project challenges and explore what you can do on you own projects to avoid
making the same mistakes. "Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it". George Santayana
Learning Objectives:
·
Understand the
factors that lead to project challenges and failure
·
Learn what you can do
during scope and requirements phases of the project so that you can help your
project teams navigate the challenges typically encountered on projects and
better position your projects for success
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, April 1, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: Requirements Experts @ReqExperts
Cost: $29.95
Registration: Requirements
Experts Webinar Registration
CBAP and CCBA Certification
Q & A
Presented by Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP, Watermark Learning
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, April 1, 2016: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST
Host: Watermark Learning
@Watermarklearn
Cost: Free
Registration: Watermark Learning IIBA Certification Chat
Registration
How Can Emotional
Intelligence Make Me a Better Business Analyst?
Presented by Terrell Smith, MPA, PMP, CBAP, Senior Trainer,
Corporate Education Group
Business Analysis, like most professions is fraught with
moments of uncertainty, anxiety, fear and all sorts of emotions, both positive
and negative. We often have to deal with stakeholders who at one point or the
other express feelings of project-related frustration based upon unmet
requirements. The ability to manage one's emotions and that of others is
necessary to become a mature Business Analyst (BA). This webinar will detail
how we can become more emotionally mature and grow our skillsets as a BA.
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is about identifying and understanding our own and
other people's emotions with the objective of channeling these emotions towards
a positive outcome. A BA with high emotional intelligence is able to decipher
their emotions as well as that of others to help form healthy working
relationships; allowing the successful identification of project requirements.
This webinar will focus on the key intersection of EI and BA, and how EI can be
applied to become a great BA. Topics will include the following:
·
What is EI and how does it compare to IQ?
·
Emotional IQ and the BA
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The four key components to EI
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Incorporating EI into your personal development plan
·
Moving from a good BA to a great one through improved EI
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, April 1, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corp
Education Group Webinar Registration
The Lean Enterprise: Intro to Massively Disruptive Innovation
Presented by Chris Knotts, ASPE Training
Regardless of what industry you're in,
today's large companies share some remarkably similar characteristics. We live
and die by these common denominators:
·
Heavy reliance on
technology, IT teams, and software
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Complex, unpredictable
organizational dynamics
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Siloed departments that
suffer from lack of communication
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Difficulty understanding
or predicting what customers and users want
·
Constantly changing and
uncertain marketing conditions
In the middle of this daunting mix, we
are called upon to constantly innovate or fall behind. But how? Is it even
possible to repeatably and methodically achieve this mythical
"innovation" that everyone talks about? We contend that it is. Join us
for a brief primer on Lean Innovation. We'll introduce you to the following:
·
Lean: what is it?
·
A brief history of lean
management principles
·
Lean thinking
·
Lean applied in today's
professions (IT, development, DevOps, project management) - Lean as a vehicle
for value creation
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Web
Seminar Registration
Product Management: From
Requirements to Business
Presented by Christof Ebert
The success of a product depends on the product manager.
This webinar introduces product management for software driven products, IT and
services.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Webinar Registration
Culture of Connection: Boost
Employee Engagement, Productivity and Innovation
Presented by Michael Lee Stallard, E Pluribus Partners
Why Connecting Your People Matters
Research demonstrates that there is a set of learnable
leadership behaviors that can ignite the workforce so individuals do more than
survive – they thrive. This webcast makes the case that connection is a
necessity to any organization that aspires to achieve sustainable superior
performance.
Join us to hear about three types of cultures in the workplace and how each
affects the productivity, health and happiness of employees and the
organizations they work in.
Michael Lee Stallard will share the wisdom contained in his
book, Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage
of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work, an
Amazon.com #1 seller.
What You Will
Learn
The Financial Times
praised Connection Culture as offering
“practical suggestions for employers who want to change their organizational
culture" and “[stories] about the companies who have got it right…are
memorable.” Join us to explore:
·
Six universal human needs to thrive at work
·
Three types of relational cultures in today's
workplace
·
How workplace cultures affect productivity, health and
happiness
·
Three elements of a connection culture
·
Practices that will help you and your team, department or
organization connect and thrive
Find out why employees in an organization with a high
degree of connection are more productive, more engaged, more collaborative and
less likely to leave. While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA
Webcast Registration
Make Lemonade out of Lemons:
Dealing with Difficult Employees
Presented by Casey Mitchell, Trainer and Consultant,
Corporate Education Group
It’s no secret that difficult employees can negatively
impact other team members, productivity and projects. It’s also no secret that
many managers struggle to deal with the problem effectively. Often, the
difficult person is ignored in hopes that the situation will somehow resolve
itself. The problem never goes away on its own, of course. Successful managers
address these kinds of situations before they become a distraction … or worse,
a full-blown crisis. They recognize the symptoms of difficult behavior, seek to
understand the motives and attitudes of the employee, and work with the person
to clarify expectations and move toward a resolution. When the situation is
addressed properly, a difficult employee can be transformed into a positive
influence. As the saying goes, "What do you do with a bowl full of lemons?
Make lemonade!"
This webinar will help you:
·
Go beyond your initial judgment and understand why someone
is being "difficult"
·
Gain a clear perspective of the problem
·
Use a non-confrontational and problem-solving approach to
the situation
·
Work with the employee to resolve the issue.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corp
Education Group Webinar Registration
Optimizing Requirements
Discovery
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant at IAG
Consulting
Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather
requirements? Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the
collection of business requirements and make projects less successful. Within
this session, participants get new data from IAG's research that quantifies the
cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong,
repeatable process. Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our
methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements. Finally, making
quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review
the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.
Learning Objectives:
1. Executive perspectives on making
requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing
requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements
competency development
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG
Consulting Public Webinar Registration
Toward a Learning Organization
through Agile Development
Presented by Jutta Eckstein
When regarded as part of a greater whole, agile initiatives
lead to sustainable improvement in areas such as interpersonal skills, personal
responsibility, and continuous learning.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 7, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Webinar Registration
The Effective BA - Going
from Good to Great! Collaboration, Not Toleration - There Is a Difference
Presented by Paula Bell, CBAP, Paula A. Bell Consulting,
LLC
How many times have you been on a project where you just
couldn't get into a good working relationship with someone on the team? In
order to be successful on projects, you have to collaborate with others, not
tolerate them. This can be challenging due to different personalities and
mindsets, but it’s essential to have these different perspectives,
personalities and mindsets to really create successful solutions. The word
"collaboration" is used loosely without effective execution of the
true meaning.
What attendees will receive out of this presentation:
·
How to build
effective relationships for collaboration
·
How to foster an
environment of collaboration
·
How to maintain those
relationships as there was an investment made to build them
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Friday, April 8, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA
Members Only Webinar Registration
Comparing Agile &
Traditional Business Analysis Approaches
Presented by Angela Wick, PMP, CBAP, BA-Squared, LLC
Are you sick of hearing that the
difference is that agile BAs use user stories and are more flexible? Let’s dig
deeper into what it takes to get to effective requirements in an agile,
traditional, or hybrid model of business analysis. We will explore the detailed
differences in the practices, timing, documentation, mindset, and approaches in
side by side comparisons. In this session we will explore the typical day,
week, and month of a BA on both types of projects. We will also look at approaches
to finding a balance when you need to find an approach that uses elements of
both traditional and agile.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
·
Understand the
similarities and differences requirements in traditional and agile teams
·
Dig deep into
differences other than user stories and flexibility
·
A deep look into the
day, week and month in the life of an Agile BA vs. Traditional BA
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Monday, April 11, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times
@BATimes
Registration: BA
Times Webinar Registration
The Future of Business
Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities
Presented by Jeff Scott, Business Innovation Partners
Interest in business architecture continues to accelerate
even as business architecture teams struggle for success. Business leaders are
just now beginning to see the value as business architects move into more
business centric roles. But the road ahead remains difficult. Most business
architecture practices are still struggling and the number of successful
initiatives remains small. Few best practices have emerged to guide the new
business architect. Though the challenges are great, the benefits are even
greater and the future is bright for professionals with the right skills and
ambition. This webinar will present a current state view of the business
architecture profession, the trends that will drive it forward, and the career
opportunities it offers.
Key Takeaways:
·
Where business architecture is today and where it will be
tomorrow
·
Current business architecture challenges and opportunities
·
The opportunity for business analysts
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 12, 2016; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA
Members Only Webinar Registration
The Five Question Leader:
The Secret to Having More Impact
Presented by Michael Bungay Stanier, Founder of Box of
Crayons
A Simple Path to Powerful Leadership
Managers and leaders find themselves stuck in three vicious
circles. They’re frustrated by teams who have become overly dependent on them.
They’re overwhelmed by the amount of work they have to do. And they’re
disconnected from their own great work - the work that has impact, the work
that has meaning.
Sound familiar?
Breaking out of these vicious circles is simpler than you
might think.
Mastering five essential questions can help managers and
leaders increase the focus, courage and resilience they need to have more
impact in the work they do.
What You Will
Learn
In this practical, interactive and engaging webcast, you
will:
·
Discover the three vicious circles that keep managers – and
their teams – stuck
·
Understand how breaking out of these circles can help them
work less hard and have more impact
·
Learn the five core questions they need so they (and those
they lead) can focus on the work that matters
·
Hear the best coaching question in the world (and it has
just three words)
Participants will not only leave with a plan to do things
differently, but will also get access to a special Box of Crayons report: Four Surprising Phrases to Supercharge Your
Conversation and Boost Your Manager IQ.
This webcast is based on Michael Bungay
Stanier’s acclaimed book The Coaching Habit: Say Less,
Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever. While attending
this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA
Public Webcast Registration
Managing Project Politics and Personalities
Presented by Scott Bailey, ASPE Training
Do you ever wonder why people are constantly getting in the
way of project success? In many cases, the politics and personalities of our
stakeholders will cause our projects to fail… unless we learn to improvise.
Every personality is different, and every stakeholder has an agenda. In this
webinar Scott Bailey will present standard practices to manage stakeholders and
outline a strategy to manage politics and personalities throughout the lifetime
of a project.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Web
Seminar Registration
Role of the BA
in User Acceptance Testing
Presented by Alan Koch, ASPE Training
The Business Analyst (BA) role is
focused on understanding what the business needs and ensuring that our projects
deliver on those needs. And while the solution requirements are a natural
outcome of the BA's work, that "front-end" work is only the beginning
of the ways the BA can ensure that our projects deliver business value. User
Acceptance Testing (UAT) provides an important check to be sure that the
business needs have been fully and correctly met, and that they have been met
in a way that is acceptable to the business and the users. Participation in UAT
provides the BA with a significant opportunity to ensure that the solution
provides precisely what the business needs.
In this webinar, we will explore the
ways in which a BA can participate in UAT in order to ensure value delivery.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday,
April 13, 2016; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training
@ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Registration: ASPE Web
Seminar Registration
Outsourcing Requirements
Discovery
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant at IAG
Consulting
This session is for project managers that sometimes need to
contract externally for requirements discovery services in order to make their
project a success. This session shares hard facts, case studies, and a
wealth of experience in successful – and not so successful – contracting
approaches for the senior project manager. Supercharging a project by
accelerating the requirements discovery phase is a solid strategy – but how do
you ensure the company will get solid business value from the activity?
Learning
Objectives:
1. Effective analyst engagements
models that drive value
2. Red flags in your review
cycle: clear signals that you have, or will have, issues with your
requirements
discovery team.
3. Setting targets for timetable and
turnaround: what should you expect from a top notch analyst
team?
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2016; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Public Webinar
Registration
Business First, Project
Management Later!
Presented by Pablo Lledo
This webinar will discuss the importance of business skills
in evaluating whether our projects are worthwhile or not.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, April 14, 2016; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI
Public Webinar Registration
