Sunday, November 18, 2018

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




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:

·        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: 

·        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

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