Live Webinar October 11th 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Why should it take months to determine project scope
And gather requirements?

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements and make projects less successful.

Within this session, participants get new data from IAG’s research that quantifies the cost of poor requirements and shows the impact on companies of a strong, repeatable process.

Attendees will see some of the techniques IAG uses in our methodology and proven successful on over 1,000 engagements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement is our specialty and this session will review the levers of change that IAG focuses on to deliver excellent results.

Learning Objectives:

1. Executive perspectives on making requirements change
2. Techniques for optimizing requirements discovery
3. The tactics of requirements competency development

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Optimizing Requirements Discovery

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Live Webinar – October 12th 2017, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

DevOps Is All The Rage But …

There is still much misunderstanding about how one can realize the promises of DevOps in one’s own organization.

Fortunately, the DevOps movement is rooted in principles much deeper than buzzwords.

Before the terms “Agile” and “DevOps” became common monikers, lessons from previous engineering endeavors were forming a rich source of lessons and methodologies to fuel both movements.

However, often the tie is not made between those precursor lessons and the seemingly “new” principles and practices of DevOps.

In this presentation Chris Knotts, PMP (LinkedIn profile) will review those foundations, explaining why they are so critical to any organization which hopes to realize success with DevOps or Agile principles at scale.

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Engineering Value:
The History of DevOps & Continuous Software Delivery

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Live Webinar – October 9th 2017, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Everybody knows DevOps Is About
Bringing Dev & Ops Together

But DevOps is also about understanding value, fast delivery, automation, quality, and tuning complex adaptive systems in a way that optimizes the whole.

In The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win  there are a lot of parallels drawn between the world of mass manufacturing and IT engineering. But even though it’s a fantastic book, Gene Kim and his co-authors only scratch the surface of these parallels.

If we are actually going to apply them, we need more. The total quality revolution of manufacturing offers more lessons for IT engineering teams than most of us realize…way more than the taste we get in The Phoenix Project would suggest.

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) and learn the lessons can be summed up in one word: Lean.

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Where’s the Lean?

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Live Webinar October 10th, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU/CDU
Provider: IIBA

What value do your projects have if the value of your deliverables is not meeting the expectations of your stakeholders?

Could it be that the problem lies in the predictive approach we have in meeting the customer needs after deployment?

In this webinar, Michael Boyle, CBAP describes what agile service delivery is, what challenge it addresses, the conditions required for its proper deployment and how it works.

Michael will also provide some examples of tools and techniques used and what kind of results you can expect in using this approach.

Participants will learn:

1. What agile service delivery is
2. When you can deploy this technique…. and when you can’t
3. How to assess the organization to see if the approach will bring value
4. New tools and techniques so that you can perform your duties better
5. A new way of ensuring benefits realization after deployment

Presenter: Michael Boyle (LinkedIn profile) Head of Procurro Solutions, acts as the bridge between the business and IT for various global organizations. Michael  focuses on Business Analysis, Agile Frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Lean & Kanban) and Project Management for both medium and large-sized multinational organizations. Originally from Los Angeles, he has been living in Vienna for the last 28 years and brings over 30 years of experience as a manager, trainer, coach, consultant, and practitioner, both regionally and globally.

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IIBA: Agile Service Delivery

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Live Webinar – October 3rd, 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Fast moving agile businesses need engaged teams that drive out faster testable insights for extremely reduced time from concept to cash.

NextGen Project Managers and Business Analysts meet this challenge with their own NextGen business competencies – to build shared understanding of trends, customer/market forces and organizational imperatives to drive fast value decision making.

They exert new forms of leadership to help teams of all kinds (IT and beyond) to seed their backlogs with innovative pre-flight tested, market ready ideas.

This series will be a four part deep dive into a competency wheel for new project leaders called the Discovery Leadership framework.

Developed by Kupe Kupersmith CBAP®, (LinkedIn @Kupe)President B2T Training, and Curtis Michelson (LinkedIn profile) with guidance from a global community, the framework is a holistic set of competencies grouped into four chunks.

• How far can we see – into the future, into the business and into the customer and market forces that impact us?

That’s the differentiating edge we’ll explore in this first session.

There are two lenses through which we’ll peer in this session:

1. The systems thinking lens and
2. The customer and design thinking lens.

Those two lenses drive us to three core outcomes:

1. Better problem statements or “hypotheses”,
2. Richer multi-perspectival value stories and
3. A laboratory for creating experiments to test your NextGen ideas.

Join Curtis Michelson in this deep dive into a competency wheel for new project leaders.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Five essential factors that must be in place for NextGen insight generation
• Four ways to get robust and timely customer insight
• Two tools you can use for generating valuable models

With the Course You Will Receive:

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

Presenter: Curtis Michelson (LinkedIn profile, @SpecsRex) is a Board officer of IIBA Central IIBA Florida chapter and brings a diverse professional background to bear on his consulting practice as a solo business analyst, speaker and trainer.With over 15 years in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as well as prior work in Marketing and Communications, he brings a wide-angle view to organizational change initiatives.

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NextGen Business Competencies
For PMs & BAs Part 1: Insight

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Live Webinar – Sept 27th 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

The optimal path to mature requirements practices is often obscured by misinformation. Register now to see how to make significant operational improvement in requirements maturity and select a path based on a strong foundation of research and quantified success.

The Business Analysis Benchmark is rapidly becoming the world’s leading source of information on the impact of requirements quality on project outcome. We are pleased to announce the release of the 2009 survey results.

Learn:

1. The Facts of Performance: What is the impact of requirements maturity on technology projects?
2. Myth Busting: there are many commonly held beliefs that prevent organizations from successfully making change.
3. Path To Success: What activities can be taken to improve development success.

Presenter: Rob Stewart,(LinkedIn profile) IAG Consulting

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Myth-Busting The Path To Requirements Success

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