Live Webinar June 29th, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a majority of organizations to close offices and facilities worldwide.

Now, many are exploring strategies to bring employees back to the workplace safely and efficiently.

However, before employees can return, executives must address critical questions to determine how, and if, employees should return and when to leave again, if needed, to protect their safety.

Legal, compliance, and privacy leaders have important roles to play in the development of return to the workplace strategies.

In this webinar Drew Tanenbaum (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director, Advisory & Brian Kropp (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP looks at the legal, compliance and privacy implications as companies prepare their employees to return to the workplace with the potential of leaving again.

Discussion Topics:

• Short- and long-term legal implications, and strategies to address them
• How to address compliance risks, such as discrimination or harassment
• Balance employee privacy with employee health and safety

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Return To The Workplace:
Implications For Legal, Compliance, & Privacy

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Live Webinar – June 30th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 30th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Systems Thinking is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns rather than static ‘snapshots’. Systems Thinking is a discipline for seeing the ‘structures’ that underlie complex situations.

This presentation looks at some of the principles and techniques of Systems Thinking and illustrates their practical application to a real project; the launch of a new NHS website.

The talk covers not just Systems Thinking during design, but also linking all project elements and disciplines together during project execution to deliver overall success, despite all the hurdles in its way.

NHS technology projects have a poor track record of success, but this project was delivered on time, on budget and was so effective, it won four awards, including a Queen’s award for innovation.

Presenter:  Andrew Wright (LinkedIn profile) Founder Member of System Thinking SIG, has 30+ years’ experience in managing innovative and complex projects . He joined the University of Manchester as a Visiting Lecturer in 2011, & he teaches project management to organisations including Rolls Royce, E-ON, AMEC and Sellafield Ltd. He is a Fellow of APM and a Chartered Project Professional, active both as a member of the North West Branch committee, liaising with Corporate Partners, and as Secretary of the Systems Thinking SIG.

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Systems Thinking In Project Management:
A Case Study In Success For The NHS

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Online Webinar  – Recorded March 10th 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Findings From A Large-Scale Agile Development Program

This webinar is based on the article which won the Project Management Institute paper of the year award in 2019: Dingsøyr, T., Moe, N. B., and Seim, E. A., “Coordinating Knowledge Work in Multi-Team Programs: Findings from a Large-Scale Agile Development Program,” Project Management Journal, vol. 49, pp. 64-77, 2018. DOI: 10.1177/8756972818798980.

This article is available as open access check it out here.

Software development projects have undergone remarkable changes with the arrival of agile development approaches.

Although intended for small, self-managing teams, these approaches are today used for large development programs.

A major challenge of such programs is coordinating many teams. This case study describes the coordination of knowledge work in a large-scale agile development program with 12 teams.

The findings highlight coordination modes based on feedback, the use of a number of mechanisms, and how coordination practices change over time.

The findings can improve the outcomes of large knowledge-based development programs by tailoring coordination practices to needs over time.

Join Torgeir Dingsoyr (LinkedIn profile) and share his project managements “Lessons Learned!

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Coordinating Knowledge Work In Multiteam Programs:
Findings From A Large-Scale Agile Development Program

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Online Webinar – Recorded  June 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Human Capital Institute

Organizations are projecting to spend more than $1 trillion globally on digital transformation in 2020 to change their business and products and refine the customer and employee experience.

However, as many as 84% of those transformation projects fail. Lack of the right skills and capabilities of their people and leaders is a leading concern and reason why.

Organizations are looking for leaders with not only the right technical skills and understanding, but also with an adaptive and creative mindset; those with the ability to pivot and thrive amid unexpected change.

Korn Ferry has analyzed the traits, competencies and drivers of more than 511 best-in-class digital transformation leaders compared to a population of 4.5 million assessment data points to create a distinctive profile of the qualities needed for the digital age.

Join Melissa Swift (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Client Partner leader, Digital Advisory, Korn Ferry & Christoffer Ellehuus (LinkedIn profile) Divisional CEO, Korn Ferry in this webcast to learn how you can transform your leaders with the skills and mindset needed to thrive in the digital age and realize your organization’s growth objectives.

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Digital Leadership:
Best-In-Class Talent Profiles
For Leading In The Digital Organization

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Live Webinar – June 26th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 26th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

This is an interactive webinar to help you get more done without getting busier or burnt out.

So whether you’ve been furloughed, are busy juggling kids and work, or just want some productivity tips, you can move forward productively and decisively.

Does this sound familiar?

• The important job you need to do ASAP, but whenever you start it, you get distracted by other things.
• The clear day you thought you had, enabling you to catch up, but your phone kept pinging, the emails poured in and you fell further behind.
• The barrage of demands which besiege you every day, juggling kids, juggling work and other people’s expectations … and the future is SO uncertain. No wonder you can’t think straight.

Most of us already know that in order to be productive, we need to break our goals into smaller, actionable chunks, drink more water, and improve our social media habits.

But for all that we know about being productive, procrastination is worse than it has ever been in modern society, and according to research, the average person still watches over 20 hours of TV each week, checks his/her phone over 100 times per day, yet complains about feeling stressed, most often due to workload!

Kick procrastination in the pants is a transformational workshop to help people improve their habits and decision making, so they achieve exactly what they want, but without sacrificing their most precious things.

You will learn how to:

• Overcome procrastination once and for all using a powerful 3-step strategy.
• Master your self-discipline with just one simple change of habit: no more faffing about or working in ‘snail’ mode!
• Eliminate 4 hidden habits, which drain 2 hours of your time every day
• Overcome your Covid-19 procrastination sagas, so regardless of external events, you’re productive and proactive.

Presenter:  Andrew Pain (LinkedIn profile) is a TEDx speaker, productivity coach, blogger and campaigner. He serves people from all walks of life, including, the long term unemployed, ex-offenders, entrepreneurs, students and business leaders, helping them to take control of their time, so they achieve truly epic goals, but without sacrificing their most precious things. Andrew’s clients include; NHS, Compassion UK, RoSPA, Youth Offending Service and a range of schools, colleges and small/mid-sized businesses.

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Kick Procrastination In The Pants (Once & For All)!

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Live Webinar June 24th, 2020 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Key Message: Requirements Engineering (RE) skills are massively underestimated in many projects

• Today, software development must cope with multiple challenges:Increased complexity of system and environment
• New competitors that arrive in the digital market space
• Limited time-to-market for new products
• Stretched IT/ project budgets

Consequently, companies may switch to adaptive/agile approaches to address these challenges.

In the transformation phase from plan-driven to adaptive/agile approaches, they are often tempted to save time and effort when it comes to requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation.This often results in software that does not meet user expectations at all.

The reasons are unclear requirements at all stages of development:

• Designers and developers who do not know the actual needs and requirements
• Testers who cannot validate the solution due to missing requirements
• Product owners who have lost the overview of existing software capabilities

Even in an adaptive/agile world, requirements still need to be elicited, understood, documented, consolidated and managed – though perhaps to a lesser extent than in classical, plan-driven approaches.

When attending the webinar, you will:

• Understand the fundamental principles of RE.
• Learn how RE makes the difference in your projects.
• Learn how to find the best fitting RE approach for your project setup.

Presenters:  Stan Bühne (LinkedIn profile) is the Vice Managing Director of IREB GmbH. Stan has 15 + years of experience in requirements engineering, business analysis and project management. Before joining IREB he worked for different Consulting companies and was responsible for various IT and transformation projects.

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Applied Requirements Engineering:
How To Increase Project Success In Any Project Setting

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