Live Webinar June 15th, 2023 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

One of the ongoing questions in the business analyst profession from those who manage business analysts to the business analysts themselves is “how do we measure business analysts?”

Since much of the success that business analysts achieve is based, in good part, on the work that others perform (as are the business analyst failures) it is difficult to carve out specific metrics that the business analyst (or the business analyst’s manager) can point to which support their claim to success or not.

But there may be some critical success factors in the profession that determine whether a business analyst is performing successfully, with excellence, or just adequately. Or worse…

This webinar discusses the problems of business analyst metrics and how business analysts are typically measured in terms of their overall success.

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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Critical Success Factors For Business Analysts

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Live Webinar June 14, 2023 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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We have all faced the challenge before. We’ve been asked to solve a problem. Sometimes, the request is to actually implement a specific solution. Months of work and thousands of dollars of investment later, however, things don’t get any better.

All too often, the problem that presents itself at the outset of a project isn’t the real problem at all.

It might be a symptom of the problem. It may be proxy for the the real problem. At times, what we think we are doing is only tangentially related to the real work that needs to be done.

Digging out root causes is a skillset that matters. Taking the time to explore a problem before moving on to a solution is a vital capability. Figuring out what the actual problem is—and not what is described or perceived—is essential to ultimate success.

In this webinar, Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management provides essential insights into how to explore and evaluate problems, how to identify and explore causal relationships, and how to do the necessary but difficult work of getting to root causes.

If problem solving is essential to your role—and when it isn’t it?—this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.

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An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 72 hours of the live session.

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Digging For Root Causes

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Live IIL Webinar – June 15th, 2023 6:00 am – 7:00 am EDT
Live IIL Webinar – June 15th, 2023 1:30 am – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: AS8301

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The marketplace is always changing, and customers’ expectations are changing with it. Organizations need a Lean-Agile mindset to meet these changing demands.

They must also organize people and work around the accelerated flow of value. But how?

SAFe® 6.0 has guidance to help your organization meet these evolving demands:

• Strengthen the foundation for business agility
• Empower teams and clarify responsibilities
• Speed up value flow
• Enhance agility across the business
• Build the future with Al, Big Data, and Cloud
• Deliver better outcomes with Measure and Grow and OKRs

Learners will be able to:

• Identify the SAFe Lean-Agile Mindset, core values and principles
• Understand the Business Agility Value Stream
• Learn how to put SAFe to work in your enterprise
• Review how SAFe is performing for existing customers

Join Kumaresh Krishnamoorthy (LinkedIn profile) in this informative session.

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Introducing The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)® 6.0

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Live Webinar June 14th, 2023, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

CIOs have the opportunity to partner with leaders across the C-suite to improve business outcomes.

The key is to focus on each executive, develop an empathetic understanding of their critical outcomes and challenges, and then craft an offering to partner and deliver on business objectives.

In this webinar Irving Tyler (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst will help guide CIOs to construct leadership and IT value propositions for their C-suite peers to create and deliver the maximum business impact and advance their ambitions.

Discussion Topics:

• Construct a powerful offer and increase your executive opportunity
• Develop your engagement approach with tactical empathy
• Understand the key aspects of your executive leadership value to engage CxOs

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Achieve Maximum Value Of Technology For Your CxO Partners

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Live Webinar \ Now Recorded on  June 15st, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
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Extracting knowledge from various workers is a key competency required for the current project professional.

Whether it involves product requirements, user acceptance criteria, creating the definition of done, determining value of stories in a backlog, or obtaining executive critical success factors, the project professional delivers many artifacts that depend on input from various knowledge workers scattered throughout the organization.

In this session Lynda & David will focus on the approach the project professional must take to have effective elicitation sessions.  You must approach it from the knowledge worker perspective and be able to establish an environment of trust and psychological safety.

They will discuss the importance of humility and that you are eliciting information.

They  will discuss the importance of seeing that environment to facilitate active listening and interactive engagement.

They will also take a holistic approach to the elicitation including setting expectations, eliciting information, and providing feedback.

Finally, they will explore the impact that cultural intelligence is a factor in the overall elicitation and feedback.

Learning Objectives:

1. The importance of utilizing several components of human relationships including humility, empathy, respect, and gratitude.
2. Articulate the entire cycle of eliciting information from initial contact to knowledge exchange engagement, to paraphrase understanding, to follow-up.
3. Use Cultural Intelligence techniques to understand how knowledge extraction techniques must align with the culture of the knowledge workers.

Presenters:

Lynda Carter (LinkedIn profile) Author of The Practitioner’s Guide to Project Management: Simple, Effective Techniques That Deliver Business Value

David Davis, PMP PgMP (LinkedIn profile) is a self-proclaimed practitioner of WOW!  Dave Davis has enough credentials that all the associated acronyms would make a full bowl of vegetable soup.  A proven dynamic, creative, and enthusiastic leader.   Dave has the unique ability to share his experience in a light hearted effective style that educates and motivates.  He has shared his message in many web publications and presentations throughout Europe and North America. Few people can combine business intelligence with strong leadership and a sense for using structured Program Management to further a company’s strategy like he can. He stays on top of emerging technologies and its associated social impact, and knows what can benefit an organization.

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Empathy When Eliciting User Knowledge

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Live Webinar – June 13th 2023 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 13th 2023 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Successful stakeholder engagement rests heavily on the extent to which you can engage, understand, and connect with your stakeholders. Understanding and practicing empathy is key to achieving this.

In this webinar Rebecca Collings (LinkedIn profile) & Donna Unitt (LinkedIn profile) is the APM Enabling Change Specific Interest Group (SIG) Chair, will explore the concept of empathy, explain the value of empathy when engaging with stakeholders, provide ideas to help you practice empathy, and offer practical guidance on effective empathy mapping.

Empathy mapping will provide you with the ability to understand and connect with your stakeholders to reveal valuable information and insights.

Learn about the importance of connecting with your stakeholders and understanding what they think, feel, say and do so that you can structure your change for success.

Join this webinar to learn about the meaning and value of empathy, techniques to build your empathy ‘muscle’ and how to use empathy mapping for your projects.

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Empathy: The Secret Ingredient To Successful Change Engagement

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