Live Webinar October 23rd, 2023, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

AI projects are highly diverse, not only in terms of the problems they address, but also in how assets are developed, packaged, deployed, and maintained.

The multitude of AI platforms support a wide range of use cases, but not all of them seamlessly integrate with software engineering practices and other operational systems.

As a result, multiple programs and processes often take shape in slightly different ways, making it challenging for AI and software engineering teams to maintain consistency and collaborate effectively. A distinguishing feature of high-performing organizations successfully leveraging AI is the strong partnership between AI and software engineering teams.

Join Anthony Mullen (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst  & Van L. Baker (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst to delve into the dynamics of this partnership that thrives on conversations revolving around shared objectives, goals, efficiencies, and growth in maturity.

Discussion Topics:

• Understand what a shared data pipeline looks like and how can you improve it
• Learn how software engineering and AI teams can share production duties
• Hear the AI skills software engineers require, and what software engineering skills are essential for AI engineers

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3 Urgent Conversations AI & Software Engineering Teams Must Have

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Online Webinar  – Recorded June 13th 2023
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

How can you collect deep insights from training participants (and others) to support your surveys or other training evaluation data? Try focus groups!

Focus groups offer the opportunity to go deeper and add detail and variety to a dataset – much more than would be obtainable with surveys alone.

A focus group is essentially a group interview or small group discussion during which a moderator asks questions in an interactive group setting where participants are encouraged to talk with each other as well as with the moderator.

They offer a great way to gather in-depth information about participants’ thoughts, feelings, experiences or opinions on a specific topic.

Learn:

• How to set up and prepare for focus groups and what to expect before, during and after focus group sessions.
• How to invite and encourage focus group participants to share their stories.
• How focus groups can be used to both develop surveys and to corroborate survey data

Presenter: Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., (LinkedIn profile) Custom Professional Learning, LLC, is a speaker, educator, and consultant with a passion for the science of teaching and learning, presentations, and asking questions. Through her talks, professional development workshops and university courses, Sheila teaches people how to make the most of professional learning and how to ask good questions, along with program evaluation, survey design, data visualization, audience engagement, and presentation design.  Sheila is also a Certified Presentation Specialist (CPS)™, Director of Education, Training and Advocacy at the Presentation Guild, and Senior Design and Facilitation Consultant with Evergreen Data.

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Using Focus Groups To Collect Quality Training Eval Data

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Online Webinar  – Recorded October 11th 2023
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider:  APMG International

Recording of APMG and Inprogress Design Labs webinar in October 2023, focusing on how Design Thinking (and particularly the DTMethod approach) can help to tackle high project failure rates.

Find out more about Design Thinking and DTMethod.

Time Stamps:

• Welcome, introductions and housekeeping 03:59
• Annual global project spend 04:45
• Measures of success 06:09
• Wasted project spending 09:44
• Why projects fail 13:50
• Designing Thinking in project definition 14:27
• The value of Design Thinking 15:30
• DTMethod – a fully integrated, proven methodology 16:24
• DTMethod rules 18:05
• Design Thinking (DTMethod) case study 35:30
• Outcomes of the Design Thinking process 38:14
• Benefits of DTMethod 43:07 Q&A 57:55 Wrap up and close

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Tackling High Project Failure Rates With Design Thinking

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Online Webinar  – Recorded May 29, 2019
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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The world is becoming a difficult place to work as a Project Manager.

We’re working globally, across time zones and cultures, with new technology, and industries and projects are losing money at a staggering rate (Every 20 seconds, nearly $1 million is wasted globally due to poor implementation of strategy – PMI Pulse of the profession 2018).

We need to adapt. As Project Managers, we are leading the way and bringing projects to success or failure.

• What can we do to change the statistics?
• How can we buck the trend of poor performance and reoccurring issues in projects?

We need to learn how to work in this new environment and how we can excel.

In this webinar Emily Luijbregts (LinkedIn profile) will show you how to do that by providing practical examples for how you can become a chameleon and succeed with complex projects.

Gain an understanding of why it is important to have an adaptive management style; obtain some ideas for how you can change your management style towards your team; and define personal changes that you need to make to lead your projects successfully.

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How To Be A Chameleon In Your Project:
Changing Your Management Style To Lead A Successful Project

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Live Webinar October 23rd, 2023, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The hype surrounding artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, largely driven by the release of specific generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard.

Most AI investments focus on isolated capabilities for single-use cases, missing the potential of integrating AI to tackle real business problems and unlock diverse applications.

Organizations risk falling behind competitors if they continue with ad hoc AI investments. Enterprise architecture (EA) leaders must quickly enable their organizations to strategically design, invest in, and integrate AI into their existing IT systems.

Join Lucas Kobat (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Principal to explore a five-phase framework for leveraging AI within your organization.

From identifying viable use cases to managing AI outputs, this framework offers a comprehensive approach to effectively incorporate AI into your operations and ensure you stay competitive in the AI-driven landscape.

Discussion Topics:

• Identify and align targeted business outcomes with AI opportunities
• Acquire the necessary data to fuel your AI model selection
• Continuously monitor and enhance deployed AI capabilities

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The Gartner 5-Phase Approach For
Enterprise Architecture Leaders To Master AI

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Online Webinar  – Recorded June 14, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

Creative avatars is a great way to represent typical employees or customers that you’re talking about in your training but it has always been hard to find a variety of avatars drawn in the same style and give those avatars the expressions you want to portray.

For example, a common situation is to show a before and after situation.

A customer might be frustrated before they buy your product and then, hopefully, be happy and you want to show an avatar expressing both those emotions.

PowerPoint cartoon characters give you all the tools you need to accomplish this.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• How to mix and match expressions, heads, bodies, and positions
• How to change colors – and what you can’t change
• How to create an avatar library to save you time when you use your avatars again

Ellen says using the cartoon people is fun! Come & enjoy.

Presenter: Ellen Finkelstein (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint presentation skills. One of only 37 Microsoft-appointed PowerPoint MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) in the world, Ellen is a lively, confident speaker who freely shares her substantial experience in order to help others. In her books and webinars, she addresses the full range of issues associated with creating effective presentations, including:

• PowerPoint for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects (Grades K-12)
• How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (How to Do Everything)
• AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible
• Flash Professional CS5 and Flash Catalyst CS5 For Dummies
• OpenOffice.org For Dummies
• Jakarta Struts For Dummies
• Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies
• Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies ®

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Creating Customizable Avatars With PowerPoints Cartoons

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