Business Analysis Webinars for May 2017 - Part II

The Top Five Process Mistakes We Make
Presented by Beth Layman
 
This webinar, based on the presenter’s 30+ years of process and change management consulting, reveals the top reasons why our process improvement programs still often fail to deliver on these promises of improved performance and bottom line results.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 23, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Increasing the Effectiveness of Training with Serious Games
Presented by Jonathan Estes
 
Traditional methods of learning are becoming less adequate to impact behavior change. Integrating the experiential benefits of serious games into training programs can achieve better results. What’s needed is a breakthrough in the integration of serious games and associated telemetry and analytics for demonstrating performance impact. The value of training through serious games has the potential to improve learning outcomes, provide optimal interactivity among participants, help to measure outcomes, accelerate time to value, and increase the organization’s overall efficiency. In this presentation, Jonathan will share practical approaches for game development, research, and case studies demonstrating how serious games have the potential to empower organizations to meet their objectives more effectively.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 23, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Training Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Three Ways Business Analysts Enable Agile Success
Presented by Andrew Hayward and Garry McGouldrick, IAG Consulting
 
Attend this free one hour webinar with Andrew Hayward and Garry McGouldrick for a frank discussion about what Agile demands from a Business Analyst, how they can succeed, and how they can ensure their team succeeds.
 
There are a lot of misconceptions about Business Analysis in an Agile environment, and sometimes Business Analysts find it hard to adapt to the short iterations, just-in-time planning, and minimalist documentation and modeling that characterizes Agile development. This webinar will dispel some common myths about Agile, including the belief that Business Analysts aren’t welcome in Agile and explain why every development team needs excellent business analysis to be successful.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 24, 2017; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Benefits Identification and Tracking
Presented by Carlos Serra
 
The webinar will focus on two key areas of benefits realization management that many organizations are still finding challenging: benefits definition and benefits tracking.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 24, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
The Art of Business Improv: Embrace Change and Lead Dynamic Teams
Presented by Bob Kulhan, President, CEO, and Founder of Business Improvisations LLC
 
Learn How Improvisation Can Positively Impact Every Business Situation

This high-energy, interactive session demonstrates the tenets of improvisation and how they link to business in an incredibly entertaining and thought-provoking way. 

 
Delivered by Chicago-trained elite improv veteran (and author of Getting to "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv) Bob Kulhan, you’ll discover how Business Improv® techniques strengthen a skill set directly related to team trust, communication, creativity & innovation, influence, networking, adaptive problem solving, and conflict management.
 
Improvisation thrives at the moment when strategy meets execution.
 
It works because this approach addresses real-world business challenges. Bob’s secret recipe combines the psychology behind decision-making with the very best aspects of our own brand of customized, high-energy, experiential learning, which drives measurable and sustainable ROI.
 
What You Will Learn 
 

·         How to create a work environment that enables others to feel comfortable with creativity 

·         Advice for developing an aptitude for operating with a collaborative team

·         Ways to integrate ideas quickly while balancing reactions thoughtfully

·         How to proactively detect and respond to changes in your work environment

·         Tips to effectively shape interactions while being considerate of style, interest, culture, and focus of others in the exchange

 

While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: May 24, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association (AMAnet)
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA Webcast Registration
 
 
 
 
Power BI – Connecting to On-Premise Data Sources
Presented by Byron Brewer
 
The on-premises data gateway acts as a bridge, providing quick and secure data transfer between on-premises data (data that is not in the cloud) and the Power BI, Microsoft Flow, Logic Apps, and PowerApps services. In this webinar, we’ll learn how to install and setup the gateway, and build powerful dashboards and reports in Power BI that connect to your on-premise data.
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 24, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: ASPE Training    @ASPEinc
Cost: Free
Registration:   ASPE Training Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
IIBA Leadership Series: A Study of The 360 Degree Leader - Module Four: 360-Degree Leaders Practice to Lead Down
Presented by Jamie Champagne, President, Hawaii IIBA Chapter
 
IIBA® has passionate volunteers who continue to be a guiding vision of what it looks like to be a leader. They continue to highlight that leadership is the actual embodiment of qualities and traits and is not necessarily attached to a title or role. While authority is implied through the assignment of management titles, leaders in today’s organizations must learn to not only lead up but also lead down regardless if their position came with the title.  As part of our Leadership Series, utilizing John C. Maxwell’s “The 360 Degree Leader”, we will walk through seven key principles that help you in your role of leadership and “leading down” with those around you so that you may not only strive but succeed as a 360 Degree Leader.
 

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 24, 2017; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration
 
 
   
 
Critically Thinking Your Design DNA
Presented by Kupe Kupersmith
 
In this webinar, Kupe will share his experience and insights on how you and your team can thrive at the intersection of critical thinking and design thinking
 
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 25, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
Bulletproof Business Cases: 5 Critical Things Every Project Proposal Needs
Presented by Richard Larson, PMP, CBAP
 
Project teams often find themselves developing business cases for the performing organization. When asked to do so, it is critical to create a solid business case. All too often, project teams are asked to implement a solution before the underlying problem is known or assessed. No one likes working on misguided projects, or efforts that don’t meet business needs, or projects doomed for failure. Worst of all are projects that are cancelled because of lack of support or sponsorship. A well-defined business case helps prevent these issues.

An essential ingredient to successful projects is a clear and relevant business case. It provides both insights into and a proposed solution for important business needs. Bulletproof business cases contain feasible and effective ways of justifying and recommending projects that address business needs, both problems and opportunities.

Through this presentation, you will learn a repeatable process that starts with identifying business needs and ends with a bulletproof business case. You will discover how to apply each step in a 5-part method to developing business cases that was developed from the approach used for internal and external consulting work at our company. Help contribute to your organization’s bottom line with bulletproof business cases!

Learning Objectives: 

·         Describe the essential components of an effective business case

·         Plan a business case effort using an approach that helps you function as a trusted advisor to your organization

·         Avoid common pitfalls when recommending or justifying projects

·         Name the essential factors to analyze when exploring the feasibility of a business case

·         List the four most important cost-benefit analysis measures and what they are used for. 

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, May 26, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 PM EDT
Host: Watermark Learning
Cost: Free
Registration:   Watermark Learning Webinar Registration
 
 
 
 
 
Using Business Architecture to Track Agile Releases in a Digital Transformation
Presented by: Dr. Terry Roach, Founder of CAPSICUM Business Architects
 
As companies race to embrace the digital economy, transformation is sweeping across enterprise IT, in turn driving an appetite and support for strategic business architecture.
 
Strategic business architecture is coming into its own, and lighting the path for transformation, with maps plotting the maturation of critical business capabilities, value-streams, products and organizations underpinning an emerging digital business.
 
The principle challenge facing any transformation initiative is to clearly articulate the future state business model and the roadmap for getting there. From the outset and throughout the course of the digital transformation, architects will inevitably confront the question of:
 

·         How to identify, track and measure Business Capability improvements and maturation

·         across a portfolio of Agile solution delivery projects?

 
The greatest challenge is in reconciling the target business architecture with Agile solution delivery projects, and plotting a clear path forward for transformation towards the target state.
 
Learning Outcomes: This session will address the following topics:

·         The moving target of Enterprise Capability Maps in a transformation:

o   Do they represent the current state, target state, or transitional “milestone” states on the way to the target?

o   Or maybe all of the above?

·         Measuring the progress of transformation through Capability Assessments:

o   What are appropriate Capability Assessment Criteria?

o   How to assess the Current State, the Target State and all Transitional states in-between?

o   How to aggregate assessment ratings across a group of stakeholders?

·         Formulating the Transformation as a Portfolio of Agile delivery projects:

o   How to translate a future state vision into a scope of work for Projects, Sprints, Epics, User Stories and Tasks in an Agile Portfolio?

·         Managing the Roadmap to the Target-Operating-Model:

o   How to prioritize, sequence and align a complex set of solution delivery efforts across a Project Portfolio, with the Capabilities, Features and Value-Streams that are being transformed?

·         Analyzing and Tracking the Impact of Change

o   How to visualize the effect of an Agile release train on the maturity of Capabilities and Value-Streams on a transformation journey?

Drawing on a variety of real-world cases, this presentation will propose an integrated meta-model for agile business transformation, provide tangible, reusable project artifacts, and offer an invaluable template to guide business architects and agile practitioners as they lead their companies through the digital transformation journey.

 
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 31, 2017; 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration:   IIBA Members Only Webinar Registration