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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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:
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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
