Saturday, May 18, 2019

Business Analysis Webinars for May 2019 - Part II


Bridging Organizational Divides with Team Collaboration Models
Presented by: Bruce Gay

This webinar explores tips and tricks from Organizational Design and associated collaboration models to bridge cross-team dysfunction. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 21, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free




Requirements Definition Best Practices for Business Intelligence Projects
Presented by Ross Little, Executive Managing Partner, IAG Consulting

This two-hour webinar gives an overview of key business intelligence and data warehouse concepts for Project Managers and Business Analysts. We will provide a simple, easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply process that analyzes and defines the business objectives, usage scenarios, questions and queries that will yield a conceptual multi-dimension model and form the basis of the business requirements for the data warehouse and business intelligence system requirements of your projects.

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 22, 2019; 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free




Finding Your Place in a New, Digital World
Presented by: Michael Milutis

This webinar will address the bewilderment that many of you feel when faced with new, difficult to understand technology trends and will give you the mindset you need to flourish in this new world.  

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 22, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free

 


AI Impacts Our Lives - What Do We Need to Keep in Mind?
Presented by: Harumi Urata-Thompson

As modern economies increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to make lives more effective and predictive, we explore qualitative obstacles to and solutions for developing unbiased and issue-free AI algorithms. 

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 23, 2019; 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Host: IT Metrics & Productivity Institute    @ITMPI
Cost: Free




The BA’s friend or foe? How to fit Requirements Engineering into Agility
Presented by Hans van Loenhoud, MSc Taraxacum

In the world of software development, requirements engineering has been recognized as an important discipline for the past couple of decades. Without proper requirements software development was bound to fail. But is this still true in the current Age of Agility?

Requirements engineering was a natural fit in the waterfall approach. It was an upfront activity in the first phase of the project, the analysis phase. In this stage the overall business requirements were elicited, documented and validated, and served as a contract for the remainder of the project. During functional design these business requirements were supplemented by user requirements and technical design added the system requirements.

Modern software development often follows agile approaches like Scrum and XP. The role of requirements engineering is less obvious in these instances. Given that there are no distinct phases, requirements engineering continues throughout the process and may be part of every iteration. Agile approaches are not very keen on upfront activities (‘Responding to change over Following a plan’) nor documentation (‘Working software over Comprehensive documentation’). As a consequence, developers tend to neglect requirements engineering in agile projects. They seem to believe that requirements engineering is some old-school thing that doesn’t fit into agility. Requirements are deemed to be the exclusive responsibility of the Product Owner which the rest of the team takes for granted. They often find out too late that this is a mistake.

In this webinar I will address four common misunderstandings about requirements engineering and agility:

·        Upfront is Evil
·        User Stories are Enough
·        Documentation is Waste
·        Only Working Software Counts

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 23, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Modern Analyst    @ModernAnalyst
Cost: Free




Move over Leadership Competencies – Make Room for Agility
Presented by Lorraine Leahy, Trainer, Coach and Consultant, Corporate Education Group

The debate continues as to what the next generation of leaders will need to be successful. While competency models have become the established standard we use to grow and gauge leadership capability, we must also equip our leaders with the ability to successfully navigate a VUCA (volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous) world. Current research indicates that the more “competent” our leaders get, the more likely they are to become fixated on what they’ve been good at in the past. As a result, even successful leaders can lose sight of what they need to become good at next for continued success. Like it or not, most of what worked for past generations does not work in today’s business environment. We have an agility gap.

This webinar will cover:

·        The Three Levels of Leadership Agility
·        The Character Strengths of Agile Leaders – Why These Strengths Make Us Better
·        The Four Super Skills of Agile Teams – How They Are Revolutionizing the Workplace
·        Putting It All Together – Assessing Leadership Agility: Developing Agility in Our Leaders and within Our Teams

Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, May 23, 2019; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup
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, May 29, 2019; 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT
Host: IAG Consulting    @IAGConsulting
Cost: Free


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