Live Webinar August 4th, 2022 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

The major part of the business analyst’s occupation is in creating diagrams and models of all sorts.

While a requirements document or any other rendering of requirements, for many business analysts their primary output, is actually a model of the solution to be delivered, when we think or talk about diagrams and models we usually think of charts and drawings.

Some of us love the idea of drawing squares and arrows and turning human business processes into diagrams on the whiteboard.

Some of us hate the very idea of drawing anything, much less a diagram or model. And those of us involved with agile see the diagrams and models being thrown up on the whiteboard as part of a developer swarm and then erased shortly thereafter.

And those of us working in the more traditional environment painstakingly create exact and accurate replications of business processes and proposed solutions which are then added to dozens or hundreds of others created in the past 20 years.

So the question the business analyst has to ask is “models, what are they good for?” Or perhaps, “are there any models that are worthwhile spending my time on even if not required by the SDLC?”

In this webinar Steven will try to answer those questions as well as provide an overview and lexicon of the models that business analysts generally use for better or worse.

Presenter: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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Diagrams & Models For Business Analysts

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Online Webinar  – Recorded April 4, 2022
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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The goal of our project execution engine is to deliver value to the organization. But we often don’t manage them that way.

We have learned in our factories to balance the capacity of the various steps in our processes and to limit the flow of jobs into the system. We see the inventory build-up and risk becoming obsolete before it can be consumed.

Why, then, do we treat our projects differently?

In this session Brian Cohn (LinkedIn profile),  & Mark Adler Madsen (LinkedIn profile) will talk about ways to meter the input to the project execution system to maximize the value of our output and dramatically reduce value lost to work that goes stale.

The core of the system is having a list of prioritized projects ready to execute and pulling when there is capacity to start another one. In an ideal world this will mean that we never need to trade priorities of the running projects – we’ve only put as many into the system as we can execute efficiently in parallel.

But the world isn’t ideal and there will still be conflicts between the running projects – though many fewer than before. When conflicts occur, we often prioritize ineffectually.

In this session they will talk about principles that can lead us to wiser decisions when choosing when and whether to give a project with a problem a boost.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify how constraints and bottlenecks limit value delivery
• Explain how prioritizing projects and starting projects only when there is available capacity enhances value delivery
• Describe how to choose which running projects to accelerate when there are conflicts

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Improving Project Flow Through Careful Dam Placement

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Live Webinar August 4th, 2022, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Organizations that create a cloud strategy gain the most from their use of cloud computing.

However, CIOs and vendor management leaders struggle with one question above all: How do we build a comprehensive cloud strategy?

More organizations are adopting a “cookbook approach” to building a cloud strategy, a one-service-at-a-time method.

In this cloud webinar David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio)   takes a “cookbook approach” to building cloud computing offerings on a spectrum, the cloud strategies of the megavendors, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM, and how you can devise your winning recipe for cloud strategy success.

David will take the most-pressing cloud strategy questions from you and your peers.

Discussion Topics:

• Is a cloud cookbook relevant if all workloads are on a single public cloud?
• Should you consider going product by product, rather than workload by workload?
• What are the typical business KPIs aligned to cloud adoption?

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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Ask The Expert:
The Gartner Cloud Strategy Cookbook 2022

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Live Webinar – August 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

The only reason they will want to escape your virtual training is because that’s the assignment!

Learning online is now commonplace. Unfortunately, engaging attendees to participate, to come on camera, and to unmute can be like “herding cats,” as the saying goes.

Establishing a comfortable, safe, and technically sound online learning environment is essential. Meaningful and relevant activities are the secret.

Like tasty treats and fresh catnip, attendees will be unable to resist actively participating in your virtual training when you use escape game strategies, irresistible learning activities, and a “never fail” debrief strategy to help them reflect! Invite participants to take charge of their learning and experience virtual training like they’ve never seen before.
 
Walk away with:

• An escape game sample to use as a template for making your own
• At least 2 more ready to use virtual learning activity examples
• 1 “never fail” debrief strategy to reflect on, validate, and encourage learning
• 1 job aid to assist you to make your own virtual learning activities

This webinar is based on her book Interact and Engage! 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, Webinars by Kassy LaBorie & Thomas Stone.

Presenter: Kassy LaBorie (LinkedIn profile) Director of Virtual Training Services for Dale Carnegie Training, is an indemand keynote speaker & leads a consultancy  to develop online training strategies for organizations . Her book Interact and Engage! 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, Webinars, has received rave reviews.  Previously Kassy served as the Product Design Architect and was a Master Trainer for InSync Training, & ExecuTrain.  Kassy also helped create the WebEx University.

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Escape Games & Other Irresistible Virtual Training Activities!

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