Saturday, February 10, 2018

Business Analysis Webinars for February 2018 - Part II


Creating Project Teams to Realize Sustainability Benefits

Presented by: Kristina Kohl



In this webinar we will learn how to combine project management methodologies with social and environmental vision to reap shared benefits. 



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 13, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free




  





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, February 14, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free










FranklinCovey's Ultimate Loyalty: Building Teams That Wow Customers

Presented by Sandy Rogers, Global Customer Loyalty Practice Lead at FranklinCovey



7 Secrets to Winning Breakthrough Customer Loyalty



Are you engaging your team to win loyal customers for your organization?

Even as an experienced manager, you still may not be aware that more than 70% of what makes a customer experience great is the behavior of frontline employees. The truth is that great behavior doesn't happen without inspiration and accountability, and that requires a bottom-up approach—not the typical top-down corporate method. 

The bottom line?



If your employees are enthusiastic promoters of your organization, the sentiment will resonate with your customers too!



What You Will Learn



Attend this program for a preview of FranklinCovey’s seminar, Ultimate Loyalty: Building Teams That Wow Customers. Based on 20 years of research and hands-on learning with a wide range of organizations, this seminar provides a unique approach to building employee loyalty first, and then customer loyalty through the following:



·        Discovering the real "job to be done" for customers and employees

·        Giving and receiving feedback that builds people up

·        Inspiring your team to share their best thinking and ideas

·        Running effective loyalty team huddles



While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST

 Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free










Agile Scheduling with Rolling Wave Deliverable Roadmaps and Backlogs

Presented by: Johanna Rothman



In this webinar, we will discuss how you can sequence work, break apart features into features sets so you can create a minimum viable product, and use rolling wave deliverable-based planning.   



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, February 15, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free




  





The Art of the Interview: How to Improve Your Business Analysis Interviewing Skills    

Presented by Terrell Smith, Senior Trainer and Consultant at Corporate Education Group



Get more out of your requirements interviews and make better use of time for both you and your stakeholders with some simple but highly effective techniques that will dramatically improve your interviewing skills. This webinar will provide tips for business analysts on how to better facilitate interviews and elicit solid requirements. The key to this process improvement is making sure you ask the right types of questions by appropriate preparation, sequencing, and delivery. Interviewing is the cornerstone of elicitation techniques, and, when done properly, will reveal the answers you need.

You will learn how to:

·        Identify the right stakeholders to interview and what you need to know

·        Create a requirements questionnaire and prepare to ask the right types of questions

·        How to properly engage the stakeholder and build a relationship

·        Capture stakeholder responses

·        Plan for follow-up and maintain the relationship

·        Review lessons learned to improve for your next interview  

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Friday, February 16, 2018; 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free










Business Agility Innovations and Experiments at Riot Games

Presented by Ahmed Sidky, Riot Games



At Riot Games, we aspire to be the most player-focused game company in the world. Among many other things, this means that we are constantly innovating our Riot Operating System (aka “How We Work”) to enable us to deliver greater value to players by being agile and responsive. In this webinar, Ahmed Sidky, Head of Development Management at Riot, will share some “How We Work” innovations and experiments, beginning with an overview of what we do at Riot Games, followed by a deep dive of how we organize into audience-centric, cross-functional teams across the entire company (including our back office). Ahmed will also share how agile roles and responsibilities (aka The Riot Hats Model) are used to structure and provide clarity for team leadership roles. Lastly, he will present the latest iteration of Riot's strategic product management framework and how teams us it to balance a bi-directional (top-down and bottoms-up) workflow.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 20, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: Agile Alliance

Cost: Free

Registration:   Agile Webinar Registration









Improving Performance and Engagement Utilizing Adaptive Leadership

Presented by: Jamison Manion



In this webinar you will learn how to move beyond situational leadership to adaptive leadership so that you can more intuitively respond to the needs of others. 

  

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 20, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free










Telling Stories with Data

Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, Senior Consultant and Trainer at Corporate Education Group



Good decisions are made when executives and managers understand the story behind complex data. In this presentation, we look at how data can be presented visually in an impactful and compelling way that drives action and decision. Participants will learn about different chart types and how to summarize data in explanatory visualizations. Through many examples, the webinar will demonstrate how to create effective visualizations, such as charts and graphs, and make them easier to read and understand. It is geared towards anyone who wants to use visualizations to tell a story with data.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 20, 2018; 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST

Host: Corporate Education Group   @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free










Myth-busting The Path to Requirements Success

Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG Consulting



The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation.  Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success. 



The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world's leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome.  We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results and will discuss:

- The Facts of Performance:  What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
- Myth Busting:  there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
- Path To Success:  What activities can be taken to improve development success



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST

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, February 21, 2018; 11:00 am – 11:30 am EST

Host: Blueprint Software Systems    @Blueprintsys

Cost: Free










Bringing Intention to the Quality of Relationships

Presented by: Carrie O'Brien



This webinar will address specific steps we can take to raise the level of relatedness we experience with anyone who is critical to our success at work. 



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST

Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI

Cost: Free










FranklinCovey's 13 Behaviors of High-Trust Leaders

Presented by Steven M.R Covey, Cofounder of CoveyLink and FranklinCovey Global Speed of Trust Practice



Get a powerful introduction to the highly popular, hands-on seminar, The 13 Behaviors of High-Trust Leaders®, based on the international bestselling book The Speed of Trust, by Stephen M.R. Covey.
In this preview, you will discover how 13 powerful behaviors can help you break down barriers that keep your team stuck when there is an overall lack of trust in the organization.



You’ll come away understanding that everything you do takes more time and costs more money when there’s low trust between you and those you depend on (and those who depend on you!).



Over time, when there’s low trust, relationships decay, projects fail, customers go to competitors and initiatives under-perform. 



What You Will Learn



Join us to get a preview of what you can expect when you take The 13 Behaviors of High-Trust Leaders® seminar, including:



·        The power of trust as a key engine for driving performance and productivity 

·        What tools you can use to manage change and lead high-performing teams  

·        How to practice specific behaviors that increase trust 

·        That with increased trust comes increased personal credibility  

·        How you can influence your team to become high performing, agile, innovative and engaged



While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.



Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST

 Host: American Management Association    @AMAnet

Cost: Free






  



Top 10 User Story Tips!

Presented by Angela Wick, Founder and CEOl at BA-Squared, LLC



Discover 10 tips to make your user stories great! In this webinar we will look at common mistakes and challenges in user stories and tips to correct and avoid them.

Learning Objectives

·        Discover and see examples of the common mistakes in User Stories teams make

·        Discover and see examples of how to fix the common mistakes made with user stories

·        Learn the top 10 tips to get to high quality user stories and avoid the common mistakes.

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2018; 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST

Host: BA Times    @BATimes

Cost: Free










The Strategic Business Analyst: Aligning Projects with Organizational Goals  

Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP, Senior Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group



Projects are expected to address a business need and help an organization attain its goals. Business analysts are expected to ensure that a project fits into the business context. In this webinar, participants will learn how to conduct "enterprise analysis" in order to align projects with organizational goals. The webinar explains the main tasks of Enterprise Analysis according to the IIBA BABOK® Guide and then demonstrates select techniques, including root cause analysis, assessing capability gaps, defining solution scope, and leveraging business architecture frameworks, such as the Zachman Framework.



Learning objectives include:

·        Understand the Enterprise Analysis knowledge area

·        Conduct root cause analysis to determine business needs

·        Identify capability gaps using business architecture frameworks

 

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free










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, February 28, 2018; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting

Cost: Free

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