Live Webinar – March 1st, 2015 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

Agile Business Analysis – It’s coming to a team near you!

Or maybe you are already on a team as an Agile BA?

Angela and Ryland will answer your Agile BA questions and offer some nuggets .

Discuss Agile BA Topics like:

• What are the common challenges of an Agile BA?
• What’s my role with the Product Owner?
• Can I use my known BA techniques, or is it just User Stories?
• Do I work on multiple teams and project? Waterfall and Agile?
• Is there a middle ground? Sort of Agile BA?

Come listen in, ask questions, and discover more about being an agile BA.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Learn what are the common challenges of an Agile BA
• Discover the relationship the BA has with Product Owners
• Learn techniques to use as an Agile BA

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenters:

Ryland Leyton (LinkedIn profile) author of The Agile Business Analyst: Moving from Waterfall to Agile is a CBAP & consultant with Slalom Consulting;  an agile coach for the Atlanta IIBA nonprofit volunteer program and a frequent presenter at industry conferences. In the early part of his career, Ryland worked with strongly waterfall organizations & understands first hand the challenges of moving waterfall to agile. Ryland enjoys offering presentations & educational experiences teaching others to make the shift from waterfall to Agile principles.

Angela Wick (LinkedIn profile @WickAng) After more than 15 years of consulting, mentoring and teaching, Angela knows that great BAs transform organizations. Angela encourages BAs to be agents of change. She helps BAs develop the skills they need to inspire collaboration, creativity and innovation. Get free BA tips and trends by following Angela on Twitter  or by visiting AngelaWick.com.

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Agile BA Panel With Angela Wick & Ryland Leyton

Online Webinar – Recorded April 28, 2010
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

This is the 4th webinar in a 7 part  NetObjectives series: Business Driven Software Development

Check out:

• Info on the 1st webinar in the series on pduOTD
• Info on the 2nd webinar in the series on pduOTD
• Info on the 3rd webinar in the series on pduOTD

Recent experience reports show that Kanban is typically easier to implement and gets far superior results than Scrum.

Why is this?

This session describes the difference between these two approaches.

By contrasting both the different mindsets of Scrum and Kanban as well as the tools they provide, you will be better able to decide which process you should use and when.

Outline:

• Introducing Kanban
• Comparing the mindset of Kanban to Scrum
• When Kanban is a better choice than Scrum

Primary target audience of session: Directors to team leads
Also useful for: Anyone in the developer unit

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 6 – Time 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.6 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Team Agility: Scrum Or Kanban?

Live Webinar March 3rd, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Presented by:  Human Capital Institute
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Are The Roots Of Your Organizational Culture Generating Sustainable Excellence?

Whatever answer you choose, pause a moment for self-reflection and notice what you are paying attention to that supports your answer. Today’s workplace is perplexing to effectively navigate at every level of an organization.

This webcast introduces the inviteCHANGE difference. 

It will explore the leadership mindset essential to creating a climate for employee contribution that is simpler, inspired and agile which lead to desired results and growth.

Our 24/7, technology-enabled, cross-cultural, multi-generational environment has changed every rule but one, respect each other’s humanity.

However, being respectful is more challenging than ever as complexity activates uncertainly, volatility and ambiguity.

How will you choose to develop your leadership team
In the midst of change?

While technology eliminates separation and no matter where we are in the world we are electronically connected, relationships remain underdeveloped and this fosters a myriad of unnecessary dilemmas.
In this session Janet Harvey (LinkedIn profile) MA, MCC  CEO & President, Managing Director of Training, inviteChange, LLC wants you to yield your desired results by learning to shift relational development to equal partnership with transactional performance.

Unlock the creativity that abounds in your company through this revolutionary process.  Enliven your company’s opportunity for personal connection and rapport that creates ease in learning and produces energizing results.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.1 Plan Human Resource Management
• 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C “Self Directed Learning Activity” remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your “PDU Audit Trail Folder”

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs)

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Transform Complexity Into Contribution

Live Webinar March 1st 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

Distributed computing platforms such as Hadoop have created a unique class of performance problems. Issues such as resource contention, jobs running late, and the inability to troubleshoot prohibit organizations from realizing the full value of their investment.

The existing tools on the market today are insufficient to address these performance gaps.

Schedulers and monitoring tools are essential to get jobs on the cluster and to see what is happening (at the node level), but they offer no active control of jobs once they are running, and don’t go deep enough so you can understand what is happening at the job, user, or task level.

Most Hadoop admins have learned a set of “best practices” to address and mitigate this performance dilemma, such as manual tuning, cluster isolation, or adding new hardware, but most of these remedies are not sustainable long-term solutions.

Join Sean as he surveys some of these “best practices” and offer up some new ways to address the performance gap.

Sean will also tell you the warning signs to look out for, so you can assess the health and production readiness of your cluster.

In this webcast, Sean will examine:

• The reality of what the current tools in the ecosystem do before and after a job has run,
• The most common “best practice” approaches to improve performance and the positive and negative outcomes of each, and …
• A new approach to performance gains—how to use software to fill the gap of human capability.

This webcast is the first of four in a series exploring the Hadoop performance paradigm. In this series, Sean will discuss some specific limitations of distributed computing, and how to overcome them to increase ROI.

Presenter: Sean Suchter, (LinkedIn profile) CEO & Co-Founder—Pepperdata, has been working with Hadoop & distributed systems for more than 15 years. Sean was the founding GM of Microsoft’s SV Search Technology Center, where he led the integration of Facebook and Twitter content into Bing search. Previously Sean managed the Yahoo Search Technology Team, the first production user of Hadoop. Sean joined Yahoo through the acquisition of Inktomi. He holds a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time 8 – Quality

• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.4 Control Quality

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Overcome Limitations Of Distributed Computing With Real-Time Intelligence