Online Webinar – Recorded September 26th, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The core of a product manager’s job is to understand customer needs and turning those into a prioritized roadmap and strategy. However, no amount of data gathering can bring certainty.

Product managers must seek out the highest quality data on those needs with the least investment needed on their part.

In this webinar Brian Doherty (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst will educate product managers on the tools available, including the Gartner Product Decisions, that can help them pinpoint customer needs as efficiently as possible and use the insights they gain from this process to improve their product roadmap and strategy.

Discussion Topics:

• Understand how the tool Gartner Product Decisions can help pinpoint customer needs
• Learn the elements to improve your product roadmap & strategy
• Gain actionable insights on how to better understand your customers

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Improve Your Product Strategy
By Better Understanding Your Customers

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 2022
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Digital product organizations deliver more software faster than ever, but they still struggle to satisfy their business customers and stakeholders.

Many organizations commit a great deal of time and resources to implementing agile and DevOps, with the goal of delivering business value faster.

Yet, too often, software engineering teams focus on how long it takes to create value, but fail to account for how much value is created.

This complimentary webinar will help IT and software engineering leaders take greater advantage of software development to generate more business value.

Keith Mann (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst will explore methods to assess value created through software development, and how you can use it to mature business capabilities and ultimately achieve the goals of the overall business strategy.

Discussion Topics:

• Establish metrics that shift your software development focus to value delivery
• Work with diverse business stakeholders to create a holistic definition of value
• Establish feedback loops to experiment, measure, learn and improve

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Take Greater Advantage Of Software Engineering To
Grow Business Value

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Online Webinar  – Recorded October 24th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

As organizations pursue their strategic goals, they likely maintain a project portfolio that is a mix of stable, definable projects built on proven procedures in addition to the more risky and undefined projects that are meant to create new products, services, or capabilities.

Project managers who can deliver results in an iterative fashion, with a high level of stakeholder involvement and increased customer feedback loops, are the first choice for these project assignments.  That is because they demonstrate facility with the new tools of the agile project manager.

Learning points covered in this webinar include:

• Picking the right methodology for the job
• Choosing what skills and relationships to enhance
• Understanding how project planning, tracking, and team management work in these hybrid settings
• Knowing your role in supporting organization change management

Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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The New Toolkit Of The Agile Project Manager 

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Online Webinar– Recorded October 2nd, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Cloud computing continues to be one of the most hyped terms in the history of IT.

Its hype transcends the IT industry and has entered popular culture, which has further increased hype and confusion around the term.

Definitions are critical to having productive conversations about cloud computing.

Join Miguel Angel Borrega (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst where CIOs and I&O leaders will understand both old and new terminology to plan effective cloud strategies.

Discussion Topics:

• Learn how cloud computing is evolving
• Understand the structure of a hype cycle and how to read it
• Discover relevant and trendy cloud computing technologies, and their main differences

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Break Through The Hype To Plan Effective Cloud Strategies

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 2nd, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Most hybrid-work practices were implemented in haste in 2020, and technology and management strategies from location-centric work are inefficient in a hybrid world.

Patchwork and piecemeal approaches are limiting the effectiveness of the leadership strategies and technology categories that will help make hybrid work successful.

Ongoing polarization of views on where work is best done and uncertain returns on investments in corporate space have forced hybrid work to descend into the trough of disillusionment.

Join Tori Paulman (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr. Director Analyst & Emily Rose McRae (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director Quantitative Analytics and Data Science to learn about the innovations that can help the public sector emerge from the trough with happier and more engaged workers.

Discussion Topics:

• Explore the unique needs for the public sector remote and in-person office
• Determine the right ways to motivate public sector employees to come to the office
• Maximize public sector employee productivity and retention

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Optimize The Hybrid Work Experience For Government Employees

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 3rd, 2023
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Data and analytics (D&A) leaders play a critical role in driving and overseeing major business changes to deliver enterprise value.

Clear, actionable change-management plans are essential for both proactive and reactive data-driven change.

The Gartner Chief Data Analytics Officer Agenda Survey for 2023 shows that the most successful D&A leaders outperform their peers by projecting an executive presence and building a strategic data and analytics function in an agile, repeatable, persistent way.

Join Alan D. Duncan (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst to understand how the D&A leadership role is evolving and what drives D&A organizational and team success.

Also, gain early visibility of Gartner’s future plans for data and analytics research, and how you can contribute to the direction of this critical work.

Discussion Topics:

• Develop an executive presence and raise your levels of influence
• Enhance organizational capacities and competencies for strategic decision making
• Shape data-driven business strategy to operationalize and deliver measurable stakeholder value

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6 Proven Steps To Become A Better D&A Leader

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