Business Analysis Webinars for December 2018 - Part II

Regulatory Change Manager Live Product Demo

Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

Blueprint’s Regulatory Change Manager (RCM) is an enterprise-class platform that helps organizations in heavily-regulated industries easily manage compliance with the regulations that impact their business.

Fitting into your existing technology eco-system, RCM works to streamline, interrelate, and simplify the myriad of ever-changing regulatory and business information used to mitigate risk and ensure compliance.

Regulatory Change Manager is disrupting the market and helping to simplify a dynamic landscape of business and information risks, regulatory requirements and control activities.

Join us to see how RCM will help your organization regain control of regulatory changes and compliance.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 18, 2018; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Public Webinar Registration

 

 

Managing a Virtual Team

Presented by David Nicholls, IAG Consulting

The reality across many organizations is that managing geographically dispersed individuals on a “virtual team” becomes more and more viable every day. However, running a virtual team effectively is not as easy as setting up some fancy technology and managing remote individuals in the same way they’d be managed if they were collocated.

This one-hour webinar will explore the best practices that can be employed to overcome the inherent challenges of managing an effective and cohesive virtual team, as well as highlight many of the benefits which can be achieved using the virtual team management techniques that are currently used by IAG to manage our teams of consultants and client engagements across North America.

Participants will come away from this webinar with practical methods they can apply in their environment to help them communicate with, track progress on and improve results from the remote individuals and teams they manage.

Key content covered in the webinar:

·        Assessing the team and environment

·        Preparing for virtual communication and team management

·        Facilitation techniques for running virtual meetings

·        Leveraging tools and technology

·        Tracking individual/team progress

·        Resolving individual/team issues

·        Identifying areas for improvement

Get specific answers to:

·        “What steps can a manager take to prepare to manage their virtual team?”

·        “What facilitation techniques can be used to effectively elicit and communicate information in a virtual environment?”

·        “Can a manager “read” someone over the phone/ video-conference?”

·        “How can the technology at hand be leveraged and used effectively by a virtual team?”

·        “Which standard management techniques need to be enhanced (and how) to maintain control over and develop a strong virtual team?

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 19, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Webinar Registration

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: A 16-Month Agile Transformation Case Study

Presented by Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman, PMP, CBAP, SAFe Agilist

Join our Senior Instructor, Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman, for a one-time, complimentary session of our new case study webinar!

Many organizational objectives today include increasing the ability to adapt to a changing environment, strengthen and refine the core business and adopt a more market-centric and customer-focused experience. Once identifying that an agile transformation is the best way to accomplish these goals, you start training right? Right and wrong.

Find out why jumping right in can often cause more problems than solutions. In this specific scenario, team members had received various agile, scrum and Kanban training, but nothing consistent. This left the team confused and with an overall negative perception  that began to overwhelm any benefits of agile.

It became clear that a more structured approach to agile was needed. This included a focus on healthy teams, changing corporate culture, addressing bad behaviors and bad habits, changing how your reward and recognize success, trust and transparency, failing fast, just enough development, etc. Once these pain points were addressed, the transformation became full circle to include SAFe incorporation, KPI establishment, team restructuring and self-sustaining program development. Leave this presentation with a radical, yet consumable real-world approach to an agile transformation.

Roadmap

·        Review a 16-month real-world agile transformation roadmap

·        Understand the human aspect of an agile transformation

·        Identify how to overcome roadblocks that make an agile transformation unattractive

·        Discuss the importance of an organization-wide acceptance and adoption of the agile mindset

·        Address common transformation pain points and provide solutions

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 19, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: B2T Training    @B2T_Training

Cost: Free

Registration:   B2T Training Public Webinar Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for December 2018

Requirements Engineering for Cyber Security Requirements

Presented by: Mikael Lindvall

This webinar will discuss the process of identifying and defining security requirements based on qualifications of associated risk factors, attack surfaces, and future interoperability considerations.  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 4, 2018; 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements -- a process based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others --  and employing IAG's experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.  

This webinar will explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn't,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best. 

Participants will learn a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.

It will provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project. 

Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

·        The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies

·        Different Prioritization Techniques

·        Why Prioritize?

·        When to Prioritize Knowing

·        What to Prioritize

·        The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements

·        Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors

·        Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings

·        Rating Facilitation Methods

·        Next Steps

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 5, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

How to Use Design Thinking to Innovate Faster, Better and More Effectively  

Presented by Haywood Spangler, PhD, Founder and Principal at Work & Think, LLC

Design has become the “it” word and a defining element that can differentiate your business in an increasingly competitive world.

In an economy of rapid commoditization, keeping the customer “front and center” has become the most important factor to include in the innovation equation in order to maintain brand loyalty.

Whether you’re talking about cars, toothbrushes, office space or even the creation of an organization’s culture … Design Thinking gives you the tools to innovate, faster and better, in a customer-centric approach.

What You Will Learn

In this “must-attend” session, you’ll discover why Design Thinking has become the innovation method of choice across forward-thinking industries, and how best-in-class companies are applying it across their organizations.

You’ll also receive an overview of AMA’s Design Thinking course, including:

·        Exposure to the 10-step Design Thinking process and why it’s so important in a disruptive economy

·        How this rapid, collaborative process can help you and your team generate more customer-focused solutions

·        Steps you can take to integrate the process into your organization 

·        The realities of organizational culture, resistance to change and what you can do about it.

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 5, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:  AMA Public Webcast Registration  

How to get better results out of your customer journey map

Presented by Blueprint Software Systems

A customer journey map is a visual tool that displays how customers are obtained. The map is about visualizing how your customers experience the product and service along the way. The benefit of using a Customer Journey Map is that you can enhance your understanding of what motivates your customers and explore their needs and pain points.

Customer journey mapping combines two powerful instruments: storytelling and visualization. They are essential to the process because they effectively convey information in a way that is memorable, concise – creating a shared vision.

Join us in this webinar to learn how you can derive better results out of your customer journey map through:

·        Well-defined goals

·        Collaboration between Business and IT stakeholders

·        Storyteller’s Visual Solution Model

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, December 6, 2018; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free

Registration:   Blueprint Public Webinar Registration

  

IIBA Certification Chat

Presented by Rich Larson, PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Co-founder, 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 ECBA, CCBA, or CBAP application to the exams to re-certification.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, December 7, 2018; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EST

Host: Watermark Learning    @WatermarkLearn

Cost: Free

Registration:   IIBA Certification Chat Registration

5 Things You Must Know About Requirements Planning

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

Requirements Planning adds incredible value to the requirements process. More than simply creating another “work breakdown structure” document, this is an opportunity to address risks proactively and gain better stakeholder participation.  This session demonstrates how every component of a requirements plan adds value.

 

Learning Objectives:

1.      Illustrate the pitfalls of traditional approaches to Requirements Planning

2.      Deliver guidelines for making Requirements Planning a value-add activity

3.      Know what material must be present in a high quality requirements planning document

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:    IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

 

 

The Voice of Leadership

Presented by Jennifer Kahnweiler, PhD, Global Speaker and The Champion of Introverts

How Leaders Inspire, Influence and Achieve Results

No matter how compelling your vision or how brilliant your strategy, without strong communication skills, you may fail to get the attention and understanding of those you lead.

The ability to get buy-in, garner trust and inspire loyalty isn't a skill you have to be born with.

This preview of the AMA seminar The Voice of Leadership explains how this course helps you develop the skills to inspire others. In addition, this session gives you tactics you can start using immediately to become a more effective communicator.

What You Will Learn

·        How to get and hold your listener’s attention

·        Steps to ensure understanding

·        Ways to develop and use stories to get your message across

While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are required.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, December 12, 2018; 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST

Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free

Registration:   AMA Public Webcast Registration

Soft Skills: Essentials for Project Success

Presented by: Ruffin Veal

This webinar will provide practical tips and best practices to improve the professional soft skill development of PM personnel.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, December 13, 2018; 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

Business Analysis Webinars for November 2018 - Part II

20 Visio Tips in 60 Minutes

Presented by Scott Helmers, Partner at Harvard Computing Group

Most of us learned Visio by doing: a boss or a colleague said “Can you create an org chart of our division?” or “We need a flowchart of this process. By tomorrow.” or “Fred created this diagram before he left. Can you update it for Monday’s staff meeting?” We make do with what we know, but never had formal training or time to discover better techniques. This session will give you 20 tips and tricks to move you past where you are now and into a world of new features and enhanced productivity.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

·        Uncover hidden dialogs, techniques, and features in Visio

·        Learn keyboard shortcuts and ribbon tips that will make you a Visio power user

·        Turn Visio diagrams into business intelligence dashboards

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 20, 2018; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free

Registration:   BA Times Public Webinar Registration

What it Takes to be a True Lean Agile Project Manager

Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner at IAG Consulting

This webinar is for Project Managers looking to become more lean and agile in their organization/career, for those transitioning into an agile organization, or those supporting a transformation to a lean agile project management environment. We will address what lean agile project management really means and what the main differences are with traditional project management. We will explain essential concepts and aspects of project management from various methodologies including Scaled Agile (SAFe®), DSDM, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP. This webinar is ideal PMs seeking or supporting their PMI-ACP, or AgilePM® certification and qualifies for 1 PDU.

Learning Objectives:

·        What does Lean Agile project management mean?

·        What are the principles of Agile Project Management?

·        When and why does Lean Agile Project Management makes sense?

·        What can I do to be Lean Agile?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 21, 2018; 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Webinar Registration

How to Become a Great Consultant

Presented by: Carl Pritchard

Whether you plan to move your career in a different direction or stay where you are, this webinar demonstrates - step-by-step- how you can transform yourself into consultant.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 27, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free

Registration:   ITMPI Public Webinar Registration

 

Fast Tracking Project Concepts

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting

So you’ve been assigned a complex, poorly defined project concept… now what?

Nothing is worse (or better) for a senior project manager or analyst than being handed a project that is:  strategic, very large, and way outside your comfort zone in complexity.  These projects will sometimes roll around the halls of big companies for months while they struggle to gain sufficient momentum and clarity to really move forward with a sense of purpose and direction. Let’s say one of these career-bruisers/-builders is yours?  What do you do next?

This session is about the tactics of early-stage project intake and clarification – getting clarity efficiently.

Learning Objectives:

1.      Inside the project intake process – why is intake so dysfunctional?

2.      The action plan – simple steps that drive project clarity and milestones that deliver benefit.

3.      Targeted result – time tested deliverables that work

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, November 28, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

Registration:   IAG Consulting Public Webinar Registration

Adaptive Project Leadership: Helping You and Your Teams Succeed in Disruptive Times  

Presented by Tim Wasserman, Chief Learning Officer at Strategy Execution

Complexity Is Here to Stay. How Should You Respond?

As organizations grapple with how to thrive in the midst of continual disruption, project leaders are challenged to be more responsive to unanticipated problems and resilient to unpredictable interferences. As projects become more critical, what "has always worked” in the project management field is no longer enough. Leaders with the right approach, methods, tools, and capability to drive project-based work are an organization’s most valuable asset and will continue to be moving forward.

What does it take to successfully lead across the intersection of strategy, work, and people in today’s complex world?

·        Identify the characteristics of today’s complex business environment and the importance of understanding the context in which you are operating

·        Explore how an adaptive mindset can help you and your teams navigate and solve problems in disruptive and unpredictable times

·        Define a holistic set of adaptive leadership skills that will guide your approach to unprecedented business challenges

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, November 29, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Strategy Execution   @2080StrategyEx

Cost: Free

Registration:   Strategy Execution Public Webinar Registration

  

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Presented by Bob Faw, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group

You need a good strategy to navigate the ever-changing landscape and get to great destinations. Strategy is the roadmap, and the people are the engine. How people feel about their jobs, each other, and your strategy can make or break it before you even start your journey. When people are motivated and steering toward your goals, great things are possible. If the culture is full of inhibiting factors, it puts the brakes on your movement that even the best strategies can't overcome. That is why Merck CEO Dick Clark once said, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast."

Learning objectives:

·        Understand how to integrate strategy and culture to create true synergy.

·        Strategy is the roadmap and the people are the engine – learn to rev up the people to traverse the strategy.

·        Ensure your change is not one of the 70% of strategic initiatives that fail due to misalignment with culture.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, November 29, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

Registration:   Corp Education Group Webinar Registration

Functional vs. Nonfunctional Requirements

Presented by Mark Monteleone, CBAP, PMP, Independent Consultant

In this webinar, Mark Monteleone describes and compares functional and nonfunctional requirements and how to document them using declaratives, user stories, and use cases in the context of software applications. Mark starts the webinar by briefly reviewing the source of business needs; enterprise analysis. He then lists four requirement levels. 

·        Business; needs that are required to compete or be in compliance 

·        Stakeholder; what stakeholder capabilities are needed to realize business needs 

·        Solution; what product or service requirements are needed to provide stakeholder capabilities and under what conditions are the capabilities effective and efficient 

·        Transition; what product or service requirements are needed to ensure a smooth change in implementing the new capabilities. 

With that quick background, Mark focuses the webinar by further decomposing solution requirements into functional capabilities and nonfunctional conditions and formally defines the word requirement. He highlights how these requirements are documented by business analysts using: 

·        Action Verbs for functional requirements with references to business rules, and 

·        Adjectives and nouns for nonfunctional requirements with embedded metrics.

Mark then shows how functional and nonfunctional requirements are documented using declaratives, user stories, and use cases. To ensure clarity, he wraps-up the webinar by providing several examples of functional capabilities paired with nonfunctional conditions using the above techniques.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, November 29, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Host:  Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst

Cost: Free

Registration:   Modern Analyst Webinar Registration