Sunday, October 8, 2017

Business Analysis Webinars for October 2017 - Part II


Agile Service Delivery

Presented by Michael Boyle, Procurro Solutions



What value do your projects have if the value of your deliverables is not meeting the expectations of your stakeholders? Could it be that the problem lies in the predictive approach we have in meeting the customer needs after deployment?
 

In this webinar, Michael Boyle, CBAP describes what agile service delivery is, what challenge it addresses, the conditions required for its proper deployment and how it works. Michael will also provide some examples of tools and techniques used and what kind of results you can expect in using this approach.
 

Participants will learn:
 

• What agile service delivery is

• When you can deploy this technique....and when you can't

• How to assess the organization to see if the approach will bring value

• New tools and techniques so that you can perform your duties better

• A new way of ensuring benefits realization after deployment


Objectives: 



• Learn the importance of Agile Service Delivery

• Learn an alternative view of the Business Analysis role

• Understand the shift from documentation to facilitation

• Understand the importance of empowerment and accountability of your key stakeholders

• Learn methods to create processes that are more goal-oriented.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2017; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis     @IIBA

Cost: Free










NextGen Business Competencies for PMs and BAs Part 2: Decisions

Presented by Kupe Kupersmith, Kupe Talks



Fast moving agile businesses need engaged teams that drive out faster testable insights for extremely reduced time from concept to cash. NextGen Project Managers and Business Analysts meet this challenge with their own NextGen business competencies - to build shared understanding of trends, customer/market forces and organizational imperatives to drive fast value decision making. They exert new forms of leadership to help teams of all kinds (IT and beyond) to seed their backlogs with innovative pre-flight tested, market ready ideas

This series will be a four part deep dive into a competency wheel for new project leaders called the Discovery Leadership framework. Developed by Kupe Kupersmith and Curtis Michelson with guidance from a global community, the framework is a holistic set of competencies grouped into four chunks.

The future is here. Amazon and others are leading the way. What’s the secret? One piece is how they make high velocity, high quality decisions. Analysis paralysis and slow decision making is not what they do. They take risks, fail fast and learn. Today's environment requires organizations to deal with dynamic change by making high quality decisions at a speed most are not comfortable with.

To truly take advantage of the new insights discussed in the first of the series, we'll look into how to build a decision framework for your initiatives. A decision framework includes determining what decisions need to be made, who decides and decision criteria used. It does NOT end when you enact a decision. To 'keep it real', you need a mechanism to evaluate your decisions, learn, and, if necessary, adapt. All of this may seem easy, but it is far from easy. We'll end with showing how our cognitive biases like group think, confirmation bias, etc. play a major role in the process of making high quality decisions.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2017; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free










Optimizing Requirements Discovery

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, 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, October 11, 2017; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free








Live Storyteller Demonstration 

Presented by Blueprint Software Systems



Agile and DevOps processes have become popular with organizations that want to increase speed and realize value earlier. However, according to the PMI Pulse of the Profession 2016 survey, only 62% of projects met the original goals or business intent, and only 49% were completed on time.



Join us for a live and interactive webinar showcasing how Blueprint’s Storyteller can help you successfully scale your Agile and DevOps practice, that delivers tangible, measurable business value with faster release cycles.



In this webinar, you will learn how to:



·        Facilitate engagement and collaboration across the organization, making definition of business needs clear and easy

·        Align business, development, and operations through up-front automation

·        Write and automate effective and consistent user stories, test scripts, and more



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, October 11, 2017; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT

Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free










Capability Maps: Key Internal Business Architecture Perspective

Presented by: Chris Armstrong



Capability models have emerged as a business architecture best practice for describing the things that an organization does. This webinar will review the principles and benefits of capability mapping.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, October 12, 2017; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: IT Metrics and Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

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