Clear Communications on
Project Teams: Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Presented by Ken Hanley, KTH Program and Project
Management, Inc.
All the research and academia and lectures aside, it comes
down to two things:
1. Am I understanding?
2. Am I doing everything I can to make myself understood?
The world we work in isn’t so complicated as to require complex theorems and formula and lectures to figure it out: Ken will talk about the ‘basic stuff’, the day –to-day blocking and tackling of understanding and being understood that’ll make our work days better and more effective.
Through stories and anecdotes, advice and cautions (“Whatever you do, don’t do this dumb thing I did!”), questions and questionable quotes, Ken will take us through an hour of the ‘try this’ and ‘don’t do that’ that’s he’s learned over twenty years of working with PMs and BAs, and the people that PMs and BAs work with.
1. Am I understanding?
2. Am I doing everything I can to make myself understood?
The world we work in isn’t so complicated as to require complex theorems and formula and lectures to figure it out: Ken will talk about the ‘basic stuff’, the day –to-day blocking and tackling of understanding and being understood that’ll make our work days better and more effective.
Through stories and anecdotes, advice and cautions (“Whatever you do, don’t do this dumb thing I did!”), questions and questionable quotes, Ken will take us through an hour of the ‘try this’ and ‘don’t do that’ that’s he’s learned over twenty years of working with PMs and BAs, and the people that PMs and BAs work with.
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
·
Communicating clearly with technical people
·
How to Understand
·
How to be Understood
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 20, 2018; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Host: BA Times
@BATimes
Cost: Free
Registration: BATimes Public Webinar Registration
Inside Effective Business
Requirements Documentation
Presented by Rob Stewart, Senior Consultant, IAG
Consulting
This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation
issues showing examples of good documentation practices, and samples of
materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried
problems.
Learning
Objectives:
1. Know what material
must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how
documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to
simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information
at the right time.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 21, 2018; 10:00 am – 11:00 am
EDT
Host; IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting
Public Webinar Registration
Return On Process: Getting
Real Performance Results from Process Improvement
Presented by: Michael
West
If process improvement is to remain a viable and valuable
business pursuit, we need to start understanding and measuring how capability
affects business performance
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 21, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Webinar Registration
Three high-impact reasons to
extend TFS for requirements management leveraging BABOK Guide
Presented by Asif Sharif and Bob Savelson, Modern
Requirements
Millions of users across the biggest organizations worldwide
rely on the capabilities of Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS) every day
to define and deliver their products to market. Widely recognized as the
application lifecycle management (ALM) leader, TFS and its cloud offering
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) regularly turn up in Gartner and Forrester
market analysis reports as the top ALM suites.
Modern Requirements, in conjunction with IIBA, has developed
the BABOK® Guide template for TFS / VSTS that enables Business / Systems
analysts to Define, Manage and Analyze requirements in TFS, throughout the
application lifecycle.
Learning
Outcomes:
·
Learn how to leverage and automate the techniques outlined
in the BABOK v3.0 and build / maintain a repeatable process based on industry
standards
·
See how you can easily organize your work and comfortably
collaborate with technical & business stakeholders; textually and visually
·
Explore how to the bridge the gap between information and
document management
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 21, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Public Webinar Registration
Conquering the Challenge of
Adopting Lean and Agile Into Your Business Webinar
Presented by Michael Jebber, CSM, CSP, CSPO, SPC,
TwentyEighty Strategy Execution
Meeting Today’s
Business Demands With Lean and Agile
Today’s business environment is complex and hyper-paced. As expectations from customers, employees, shareholders, and the executive board continue to increase, the pressure for better, faster, cheaper, more innovative products and services is pushing the limits of what businesses can sustainably achieve.
For these reasons, and many others, businesses are turning to methods of operation like Lean and Agile to better adapt to the realities of today’s demands. The challenge? How do you successfully introduce a transformational operating technique into your business without compromising your strategy, and at the same time creating a high opportunity for early and sustained measurable success?
Join this webinar to learn:
·
The common obstacles organizations face in meeting demands
today, and recount how Lean and Agile have found their way into the business
community
·
Practical approaches to adoption that will minimize risk and
maximize opportunity for measureable success
·
How successfully blending Lean and Agile into your culture
is key to sustaining and improving your results year after year
The value provided by Lean and Agile is realized from the
approach used to leverage and integrate these philosophies and techniques
within a business, and not from simply introducing a new framework.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 22, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: TwentyEighty Strategy Execution
Cost: Free
Registration: TwentyEighty Public Webinar Registration
Agile Coaching: A Key to
High-performing Agile Teams and Projects
Presented by Michael Delis, Senior Trainer and
Consultant, Corporate Education Group
This webinar will offer a shared understanding of a
best-practiced Agile Coaching Competency Framework. Components and associated
agile coaching competencies will be defined and how to effectively apply the
framework to help agile teams and projects achieve high performance and
exceptional results will be presented.
Learning objectives include:
• Understanding of Agile Coaching Competency Framework Components
• Understanding of agile coaching competencies
Topics covered:
• Agile-Lean Practitioner
• Teaching/Mentoring
• Facilitating/Professional Coaching
• Technical/Business/Transformation Mastery
Learning objectives include:
• Understanding of Agile Coaching Competency Framework Components
• Understanding of agile coaching competencies
Topics covered:
• Agile-Lean Practitioner
• Teaching/Mentoring
• Facilitating/Professional Coaching
• Technical/Business/Transformation Mastery
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, March 22, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corp Education Group Webinar Registration
Fundamentals of Business
Analytics
Presented by Dr. Mark Griffin, Chair of IIBA Busines Analytics SIG
Business analytics is about turning data into insight and
using this insight to make better business decisions. Today the opportunity to
make better decisions is growing as technology is becoming increasingly
sophisticated and the amount of data available is growing. Business analytics,
when implemented correctly, are a source of competitive advantage for a firm.
Firms across all industries are taking advantage of business
analytics. In retail, automobile rental companies are using business analytics
to optimise repurchase through the choice of lighting and interior decoration
of their stores. Supermarkets are optimising purchase by analysing spending
patterns to decide where to place items within the store. Banks are saving
millions using business analytics to stop fraud before the charge has been
paid. Every company has the ability to harness the power of business analytics.
It is estimated that 96% of companies fail within their first ten years. The
chance of failure is higher if firms fall behind their competition by not
adopting business analytics.
This webinar will address the fundamentals of business
analytics. Specifically, it will address:
What data is.
How data has been/will be used.
How data can be used in a business context.
How to incorporate data analysis into your business.
What possible challenges may arise from the implementation
of business analytics.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Monday, March 26, 2018; 4:00 am – 5:00 am EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members-Only Webinar Registration
Managing Conflicts in
Projects
Presented by: Cecelia
Boggi
Through a fictitious project case study, this webinar will help the attendants to become aware of the need to prevent and manage conflicts, through self-awarenes and knowledge of other people.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute @ITMPI
Cost: Free
Registration: ITMPI Webinar Registration
Getting it Right: Best
Practices for Requirements Management
Presented by Dr. Martin Schedlbauer, Ph.D., CBAP,
OCUP, Senior Trainer and Consultant, Corporate Education Group
Requirements are at the core of any project, and, therefore,
must be carefully managed. In this webinar, you will learn the essential requirements
management practices, including the requirements life cycle from inception to
implementation, requirements management planning, and requirements management
tools. In addition, you will learn how to write SMART requirements statements
that are useful and actionable. Finally, we will contrast and compare the
traditional requirements management approach with agile requirements
management.
Learning objectives include:
Learning objectives include:
·
Understand the requirements management process
·
Learn how to write good requirements
·
Appreciate the value of a requirements management plan
·
Contrast plan-driven and change-driven requirements
management approaches
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 27, 2018; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
Registration: Corp Education Group Webinar Registration
Top 10 Things about Business
Architecture for BAs and PMs
Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner,
IAG Consulting
Business architecture is a strategic differentiator. However,
there are practical applications of tools and techniques that will support and
link business strategy to the tactical outcomes. By applying models and
standards the business analyst and the project managers benefit from the
alignment, clarity and re-usability of the business architecture. The
objectives of the webinar are to:
·
Explain why bother doing business architecture
·
Describe business architecture as a complementary and
supporting methodology to analysis deliverables
·
Demonstrate some cool tools PMs and business analyst could
use
·
Show you how to be a hero to your business, developers,
testers and customer
·
Provide a description of value Participants will acquire a
functional knowledge of business architecture. The adoption of business
architecture tools and techniques will support the management of requirements
& risk by establishing clearer scope.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 28, 2018; 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
EDT
Host: IAG Consulting
@IAGConsulting
Cost: Free
Registration: IAG Consulting Webinar Registration
Critical Thinking
Presented by Johannah (Jody) Jones, Ph.D., President,
Strategic Transformations
Steps to Making
Clearer and More Effective Decisions
In this fast-paced world, one thing is certain: We need
sharp critical thinkers who are able to size up a situation, realize the
potential where others may not, and seize opportunities through prompt decision
making.
We all perform some level of critical thinking in our
daily lives, yet most of us don’t really know what it entails or how we do what
we do.
This preview offers you a practical introduction to the
highly popular AMA seminar, Critical Thinking. We’ll introduce you to the RED model
of critical thinking and describe the basics of putting it into action using a
practical case study.
What You Will
Learn
AMA's Critical Thinking seminar walks you through making
reasoned judgments that are well thought out. Join us to get a preview of
how the seminar reveals the methods used to improve your ability to engage
in logical and rational thinking, including:
·
How the RED (Recognize assumptions, Evaluate arguments, Draw
conclusions) Model is used to get to a decision point
·
The importance of separating facts from opinions
·
Three steps you can take to apply critical thinking skills
right away
While attending this preview is FREE, reservations are
required.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 28, 2018: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: American Management Association @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Registration: AMA Public Webcast Registration
Live Storyteller Demonstration
Presented by Blueprint Software Systems
Agile processes alone cannot drive the business value you
need to continuously launch successful products to market. You need a tool that
bridges the gap between agile development and business objectives.
Storyteller helps you scale agile to the enterprise with
intelligent, automated, business-IT alignment. The new release of Storyteller
includes features that:
·
Add intelligence to the front end of the SDLC by
automatically discovering reuse opportunities
·
Orchestrate business agility and enforce alignment through
automation
·
Promote cross-departmental collaboration with persisted,
auditable feedback
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 28, 2018; 11:00 am – 11:30 am
EST
Host: Blueprint Software Systems @Blueprintsys
Registration: Blueprint Live Storyteller Demo Registration
Fundamentals of Business
Analytics
Presented by Dr. Mark Griffin, Chair of IIBA Busines Analytics SIG
Business analytics is about turning data into insight and
using this insight to make better business decisions. Today the opportunity to
make better decisions is growing as technology is becoming increasingly
sophisticated and the amount of data available is growing. Business analytics,
when implemented correctly, are a source of competitive advantage for a firm.
Firms across all industries are taking advantage of business
analytics. In retail, automobile rental companies are using business analytics
to optimise repurchase through the choice of lighting and interior decoration
of their stores. Supermarkets are optimising purchase by analysing spending patterns
to decide where to place items within the store. Banks are saving millions
using business analytics to stop fraud before the charge has been paid. Every
company has the ability to harness the power of business analytics. It is
estimated that 96% of companies fail within their first ten years. The chance
of failure is higher if firms fall behind their competition by not adopting
business analytics.
This webinar will address the fundamentals of business
analytics. Specifically, it will address:
What data is.
How data has been/will be used.
How data can be used in a business context.
How to incorporate data analysis into your business.
What possible challenges may arise from the implementation
of business analytics.
Audience: IIBA Members
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 28, 2018; 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
Host: International Institute of Business Analysis @IIBA
Cost: Free
Registration: IIBA Members-Only Webinar Registration
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