Sunday, December 16, 2018

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

 
 

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




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

Saturday, December 1, 2018

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




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




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




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

  


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




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

 
 


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




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