Presented by Chris Knotts
For decades, application developers
and IT operations people have been set up in armed camps, often at odds with
each other and unable to trace sources of frustration to their root cause. The
business suffers while non-technical people wonder “what everyone in IT is
doing.”
DevOps is a grassroots movement
sweeping IT and project shops across the western world. Like any buzzword,
there’s no exact definition and lots of misconception. However, the underlying
forces and reasons behind the DevOps movement are clear. It’s an exciting and
heady brew of corporate culture shifts, IT worker empowerment, amazing new
tools, cloud computing capabilities, and movement towards a new vision of
enterprise IT capability which is unified, agile, and oriented around the needs
of the business. Properly understood, this movement reveals a world where it’s
possible to deploy code faster and more effectively than ever – continuously,
with an ethic of non-stop quality improvement and value for the business.
In this one-hour presentation, we will
take you on a tour of the DevOps movement and explain the massive potential
that lies behind it.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 2, 2014;
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Top Down Estimating Techniques for Early Project
Estimates
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
Management wants accurate early estimates to make decisions
on which projects to pursue. The problem is a lack of scope definition needed
for preparation of a detailed estimate. This webinar will discuss best
practices for preparing and communicating early project estimates. Techniques
for making early estimates will be reviewed along typical accuracy ranges.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 4, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host; @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 September
package: Four webinars for $39.95
Presented by Bob Galen and Chris Knotts
On the surface Scrum and agile
practices seem simple — don’t they? At heart, they are. In fact, “doing Agile”
is relatively straightforward. So why are so many organizations struggling to
effectively implement agility?
There are several culprits. During
this hour, ASPE expert and Certified Scrum Coach Bob Galen will address some of
these impediments, and take your Q and A in a free one-hour coaching clinic.
Come ready to listen to discussion and learn about:
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Estimation
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Release Planning
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Agile at Scale
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Done-ness
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Investing in Technical
Debt
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Engaging Leadership
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Enhancing Transparency
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Effective User Stories
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Team Buy-in
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MVPs
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Distributed Teams
If you’re struggling with various
aspects of agility, getting the return on your agile investment or stuck “going
it alone,” with no guide you through tough Scrum challenges, this free,
one-hour coaching session with a pragmatic and highly experienced agile
practitioner is for you! YOU create the Product Backlog for this workshop, so
bring your questions and challenges and let’s see what “being Agile” looks like
in the wild.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 4, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
A free chat session featuring
questions and live answers by an experienced CBAP from Watermark Learning.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Friday, September 5,
2014; 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Host: @WatermarkLearn
Presented by Steven Woodward, CEO and founder of Cloud Perspectives
Many
organizations are evaluating and migrating toward cloud computing solutions.
The innovation and business opportunities are substantial. The business
analysts are now required to become familiar with Cloud Computing concepts and
to recognize key opportunities and risks.
Steven Woodward
shares updates from many of the international cloud standards-related
organizations. In Canada, he leads several of the cloud computing initiatives
in both the private and public sectors.
Steven
describes key cloud ecosystems models, with policy, security, privacy, and
cultural considerations in the context of business analyst impact. Business
analysts in the cloud need to be aware of the various options and specifically
where they fit in the cloud ecosystem. Steven relates real-life practical
scenarios to emphasize cultural and business perspectives for cloud computing
opportunities and the benefits already quantified.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday; September 9, 2014; 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
EDT
Host: @IIBA
Cost: Free
Presented by Mike Beevers and Chris Knotts
Right now, the threat landscape for
companies and their information is unlike anything most business unit leaders
have seen before. Organizations are having sensitive data stolen every day, and
suddenly everybody bears some responsibility for maintaining security in their
area of responsibility. Corporate data is at stake, and so are the jobs of many
in charge.
So who is really in charge of security
now, and how can they manage it? In this one-hour presentation, Mike Beevers,
CISSP, walks us through where your head should be if you touch anything in your
organization that’s connected to sensitive information. He will touch on why
the security certifications of the last 15 years are no longer adequate
assurance of protection, and why we are seeing the traditional IT security role
dissolve into a need for someone more literate in overall security goals, and more
connected to the business side of incident avoidance, risk management and
intelligent response when something happens.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 9, 2014;
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Host: @ASPE_SDLC
Cost: Free
Coaching for the Time-Crunched Manager
Presented by
Michael Bungay Stanier, Founder and Senior Partner at Box of Crayons
The Four
Counterintuitive Truths About Effective Coaching
Coaching is an essential tool for managers and leaders to
increase the impact and engagement of their teams. Your organization flourishes
when people are self-sufficient and focused on the stuff that matters.
Coaching helps make that happen.
Getting managers to properly coach their employees is more
easily said than done. No one has time for long "touchy feely"
conversations. But wouldn't it be good if coaching could be practical and to
the point, as well as useful and empowering?
Join us for this provocative webinar that shares insights
and tools to help you make coaching a daily tool all your managers can use.
What You Will Learn
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How coaching drives engagement and increases employee
impact
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Tips for providing focused, results-based coaching in ten
minutes or less
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3 key coaching moments that are doable by all managers,
even those who are less people-oriented
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00
pm EDT
Host: @AMAnet
Cost: Free
Process Analysis and Redesign: The Key to Process
Improvement
Presented by
Paul Harmon, Co-founder and Executive Editor at Business Process Trends
A successful business process improvement program begins
with a proven, well-thought out process analysis and redesign methodology.
BPTrends Associates (BPTA) has developed a comprehensive, integrated approach
to process analysis and redesign that blends best practices from each major
process improvement approach. Those trained in any traditional approach will
discover things that are familiar and learn some new ideas that can ensure a
more complete analysis. Armed with a thorough analysis, you can develop a
design that is more likely to solve your organization’s problems and improve
performance.
This webinar will provide an overview of the BPTA Analysis and Redesign Methodology and demonstrate how it can help you focus on all considerations, resulting in a comprehensive analysis and an effective redesign. You will understand critical techniques like process scoping, flow modeling and developing business rules. And, you will walk away knowing how to solve employee and managerial performance problems, software requirements for IT and change management planning to ensure a successful project improvement program.
This webinar will provide an overview of the BPTA Analysis and Redesign Methodology and demonstrate how it can help you focus on all considerations, resulting in a comprehensive analysis and an effective redesign. You will understand critical techniques like process scoping, flow modeling and developing business rules. And, you will walk away knowing how to solve employee and managerial performance problems, software requirements for IT and change management planning to ensure a successful project improvement program.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
EDT
Host: @CorpEdGroup
Cost: Free
The Decision Model, a Powerful
Tool in the Business Architect’s Repertoire
Presented by
Ravi Singh, Knowledge Partners International
Knowledge Partners International
(KPI), originators of The Decision Model and thought leaders in Business
Requirements and Business Process Management, invite you to learn more about a
powerful tool you can add to your repertoire.
KPI’s unique practice, developed
through decades of leading enterprises to successful deployment of
mission-critical applications, combines aspects of modern requirements
gathering and agile project management.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00
pm EDT
Host: @KPIUSA
Cost: Free
Dealing With Project Risk Before They Become Issues
Presented by
MAX Training
Project Managers realize that
they must manage risks and issues in a timely and effective manner. However,
many project teams do not practice effective and continuous risk management
throughout the project life cycle, preferring to wait until the risk becomes
realized, and becomes an issue, before taking any action. This
presentation will discuss the differences between Project Risk Management and
Issues Management and review some tools and best practices that make both jobs
more effective. It will also cover some techniques and recommendations
for applying these tools.
In this webinar the presentation is to show the difference
between risks and issues. We will cover the following topic areas:
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How to best develop the effective mindset and attitude to
deal with them
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Learn risk management best practices, as well as risk
management tools and techniques
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Learn issue management best practices, and some effective
tools for identifying, assessing and controlling issues on a project.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 11, 2014; 12:00 pm – 12:45
pm EDT
Host: @MAXCincinnati
Cost: Free
An Implementation of Skill Sets Needed to Drive
Successful Interviews
Presented by Rick Clare, PMP, CBAP, CSM, MSPM
Interviews are often considered the best way of eliciting
detailed requirements, but they can be an expensive way of getting the job
done. If you are going to use them, use them right!. Come and learn
the best circumstances for using interviews, the communication and facilitation
skills needed to drive them, and the best-practice techniques for successfully
implementing them.
Audience: Public
Date/Time: Thursday, September 11, 2014; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EDT
Host; @PMCentersUSA
Cost: $14.95 September
package: Four webinars for $39.95
