View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Metrics
What is a kanban board? Learn how they can make a difference in your organization by enabling customer value through continuous delivery.
Find out how to capitalize on lean, agile project management techniques and avoid the dangers of multitasking.
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Metrics
The Engineer Webcast: Five Ways to Get More Engineering Time Out of Your Eng...Planview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Workcast
What keeps executives up at night?
"Are we working on the highest value products to meet our growth objectives and do we have the people to get it done?"
Learn about:
-resource management pain points
-capacity planning pain points
-the importance and difficulty of considering capacity in the planning process
-how to get more engineering time out of your engineers
-the top business risks of not addressing resource management and capacity planning with improved processes and tools
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Workcast
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Kanban20
Are you using an assortment of emails, tickets, and spreadsheets to manage projects?
Are tickets lost, resulting in frustrated customers?
Does management suffer from a lack of visibility into your team's workflow?
Learn how Kanban boards can help your organization manage projects more efficiently!
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Kanban20
Understanding the Priorities and tackling the Challenges of the PMOPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/PMOPrioritization
"Only 11% of managers believe that all their company's strategic priorities have the financial and human resources needed for success." -Harvard Business Review
Learn about IT organizations':
-top three strategic planning priorities
-top three strategic planning challenges
-whether or not continuous planning is the solution
-real challenges with annual planning
-the best solution for continuous planning
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/PMOPrioritization
Practical Project Collaboration for Product Owners and Scrum TeamsPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ScrumTeams
Learn the definitions of Sprint, Epic, User Story, and Task in scrum project management and about roles like Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum Team.
Find out about the perfect beginner's tool for implementing agile scrum into your organization and how it can be used outside of software development in marketing, sales, event planning, and more!
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ScrumTeams
Transforming Volvo: Creating a Single Source for the Enterprise PortfolioPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Volvo
Learn from this case study on creating a single source for the enterprise portfolio, including:
-why a portfolio tool is needed
-what capabilities are important to implement
-how implementation should take place
-lessons learned
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Volvo
Translating Strategy into Action with Enterprise Architecture WebinarPlanview
Jeff Ellerbee, Solutions Marketing Manager, Troux and author and former Gartner analyst Mark McGregor as they discuss why and how Enterprise Architects need to work closely with portfolio and project managers in order to deliver on the intended strategy.
Many enterprise architects mis-understand their business value and need ways to elevate EA in the eyes of their business colleagues. While most portfolio and project managers in an organization can easily recite their company strategy they are challenged to understand the meaning of that strategy and how it affects the choices they make. By working together enterprise architecture provide the meaning the PMO needs while closing the gap between the strategy and action that both groups need if they are to succeed in enabling the business to achieve its objectives.
Specifically learn how;
- The ideal connection points between enterprise architecture and the PMO work.
- Failure to increase cooperation could spell the end for both your EA and PMO initiatives.
- Planview is delivering cloud based solutions that address the needs of both architecture teams and the PMO individually and together.
To Listen to the Recorded Webinar Register Here:
http://planview.info/TranslatingStrategyEA
The Engineer Webcast: Five Ways to Get More Engineering Time Out of Your Eng...Planview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Workcast
What keeps executives up at night?
"Are we working on the highest value products to meet our growth objectives and do we have the people to get it done?"
Learn about:
-resource management pain points
-capacity planning pain points
-the importance and difficulty of considering capacity in the planning process
-how to get more engineering time out of your engineers
-the top business risks of not addressing resource management and capacity planning with improved processes and tools
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Workcast
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Kanban20
Are you using an assortment of emails, tickets, and spreadsheets to manage projects?
Are tickets lost, resulting in frustrated customers?
Does management suffer from a lack of visibility into your team's workflow?
Learn how Kanban boards can help your organization manage projects more efficiently!
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Kanban20
Understanding the Priorities and tackling the Challenges of the PMOPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/PMOPrioritization
"Only 11% of managers believe that all their company's strategic priorities have the financial and human resources needed for success." -Harvard Business Review
Learn about IT organizations':
-top three strategic planning priorities
-top three strategic planning challenges
-whether or not continuous planning is the solution
-real challenges with annual planning
-the best solution for continuous planning
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/PMOPrioritization
Practical Project Collaboration for Product Owners and Scrum TeamsPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ScrumTeams
Learn the definitions of Sprint, Epic, User Story, and Task in scrum project management and about roles like Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum Team.
Find out about the perfect beginner's tool for implementing agile scrum into your organization and how it can be used outside of software development in marketing, sales, event planning, and more!
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ScrumTeams
Transforming Volvo: Creating a Single Source for the Enterprise PortfolioPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Volvo
Learn from this case study on creating a single source for the enterprise portfolio, including:
-why a portfolio tool is needed
-what capabilities are important to implement
-how implementation should take place
-lessons learned
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Volvo
Translating Strategy into Action with Enterprise Architecture WebinarPlanview
Jeff Ellerbee, Solutions Marketing Manager, Troux and author and former Gartner analyst Mark McGregor as they discuss why and how Enterprise Architects need to work closely with portfolio and project managers in order to deliver on the intended strategy.
Many enterprise architects mis-understand their business value and need ways to elevate EA in the eyes of their business colleagues. While most portfolio and project managers in an organization can easily recite their company strategy they are challenged to understand the meaning of that strategy and how it affects the choices they make. By working together enterprise architecture provide the meaning the PMO needs while closing the gap between the strategy and action that both groups need if they are to succeed in enabling the business to achieve its objectives.
Specifically learn how;
- The ideal connection points between enterprise architecture and the PMO work.
- Failure to increase cooperation could spell the end for both your EA and PMO initiatives.
- Planview is delivering cloud based solutions that address the needs of both architecture teams and the PMO individually and together.
To Listen to the Recorded Webinar Register Here:
http://planview.info/TranslatingStrategyEA
How to Thrive in a Fast-Paced Environment - The Art of Quarterly Strategic Pl...Cprime
It’s very common for organizations (both Line-of-Business and IT) to conduct strategic planning activity and major decision-making on an annual basis.
This might have made some sense when the pace of business was more predictable, and change was slower and gradual. But in today’s business environment, change occurs far too rapidly for that to work in most industries.
If your organization has gone agile, then, in a way, you’ve already acknowledged and adjusted to that new reality by making a conscious decision to embrace iterative, continually improving production in order to thrive in this fast pace environment.
So, if sticking to an annual strategic planning cycle simply doesn’t work anymore, then what does?
A far better option is to handle strategic Portfolio planning on a quarterly basis. But this new way of thinking implies a significant culture change…
You'll learn about:
1. Drivers for moving to quarterly planning
2. Creating a new mindset and focus on quarterly strategic planning
3. Implementing quarterly check-in on a Portfolio of projects across the Enterprise
Join us to learn ideas, techniques and best practices to help you and your organization thrive in this new fast-paced business landscape.
Enterprise Dojos: Values, Principles, and Cultural PerspectiveCprime
When we talk about dojos there’s a tendency to focus on the mechanical aspects of the model — the workflow, method, short iterations, and immersive learning. Perhaps more important is understanding what models and principles actually make the dojo innovative and successful. In this webinar, our dojo experts will unpack the foundations of the dojo — the underlying models that make it work, the principles that guide our behaviors and choices, and how dojos help shift cultures from fixating on delivery to leveraging learning.
You will learn about:
- Theories and research that make the dojo model work: deliberate practice, spaced repetition, etc.
- What are the values and principles that are common to successful dojos
- How dojos help shift an organization from a culture of delivery to a culture of learning
This presentation presents a simple and direct model for Agile Portfolio Management based on four key concepts:
1. The type of work you're doing.
2. The portfolio governance model.
3. The project governance model (the shape of the project).
4. The size / number of Agile teams.
The deck presents simple, scalable, effective approaches to Agile Portfolio Management that are lighter than most Agile methods and are supported by Conteneo's Collaboration Frameworks. This deck also directly supports Conteneo's Strategy-Glue-Tactics framework for effective Agile Product Management.
From Project to Product: “Big Rock” Constraints and How to Overcome ThemCprime
Project-based thinking and process is often the largest inhibitor of achieving agility. It explains why the notion of ‘Project to Product' has gained such popularity to the point of becoming a buzzword in recent years.
Despite the enthusiasm about becoming a product-driven organization, many companies still hang onto their old project-based ways due to some “big rock” constraints, including funding and separation of IT and business.
So, what can you do to make a successful shift?
Join Anne Steiner, Cprime’s VP of Product & Technology, to explore the challenges you may face in your product agility journey and how to overcome them. We’ll explore:
- Common constraints you may encounter when shifting from project to product and how to address them
- How to shift to product based funding models
- The role of the product manager
- Benefits you’ll experience with true product agility
How Dojos Make an Impact: Practical, Real ExamplesCprime
In this webinar, we’ll share several stories of how dojos have created significant impact for our enterprise clients. We’ll cover the evolution of a couple large dojos we’ve helped lead sharing both quantitative and qualitative data, and what we’ve learned along the journey to tune and pivot dojos toward various needs -- product, workflow, and technical.
Join us on November 4 for Part 2 of our 3-part webinar series on Enterprise Dojos. David Laribee and Nate Ashford, pioneers of the dojo approach, will provide an experience report on the evolution of several large-scale dojos.
You will learn about:
- Our approach and lightweight framework for measuring dojo impact
- Journeys different dojos take in discovering, realizing, and measuring their value proposition
- How dojos adapt and evolve over a longer time-horizon
Agile Australia 2018 - Product Roadmaps in the self-driven car ageLeandro Pinter
This talk was given at Agile Australia 2018 about an alternative way of doing Product Roadmaps.
- Where product roadmaps came from and why we need it in the first place
- What’s changed since then and why it doesn’t work anymore
- The alternative to traditional roadmaps
- The components that make up a good product roadmap
- How to build an impact/outcome focused roadmap and stop thinking about features
- How to help your organisation to take the first steps towards an outcome driven culture
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Learnings from Ken France’s Personal Agility...Cprime
Download and watch the associated Webinar on Demand:
https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/planes-trains-and-automobiles-learnings-from-ken-frances-personal-agility-journey/
In celebration of the 20th year of the signing of the Agile Manifesto, Ken France, Agility Practice Leader and SAFe Fellow at Cprime, shares his professional journey which has been centered around application development and agility. He explains how planes, trains, and automobiles are directly tied to the long and winding road he traveled from being an application developer with a computer science degree to becoming the Agility Practice Leader at Cprime and SAFe Fellow.
This session highlights things he has learned and done along the way and he shares experiences and insights that may benefit others in their professional journey. This talk also features some “cameo” appearances from well-known industry icons who have influenced and supported him, specifically Grady Booch, Dr. Ivar Jacobson, and Dean Leffingwell.
This event was part of Agile 20 Reflect Festival, a global community-led agile event.
Go Live is Just the Start - Managing AX Improvement Projects | Carlo DiPucchioKatie Elliott
Improvement projects often don’t get the same level of attention as initial implementations. Learn how to manage the roll-out of upgrades, additional functionality, process improvements and ISV solutions.
A real case about the introduction of a Kanban Portfolio in a big company.
In the 5 minutes lightning talk at the Lean Kanban Southern Europe 2014 conference where I told my story as Agile Coach in Wolter Kluwer Italy.
Slides shows the actual status of implementation, goals reached and next challenges.
We are following an evolutionary approach where the change is done step-by-step together with all departments.
Making a Project a Complete Success with Post-Implementation Strategies | Jul...Katie Elliott
Going live is a huge accomplishment, but the journey has only just begun. Now that you’re operating in your new system, what are your plans to get the most of it and minimize disruptions? Hindsight is 20-20. Gain strategies from someone who lives in the post-implementation world. She not only knows the common pitfalls and setbacks, but will share tools and techniques of how to resolve and prevent them! Join Julie, NAV Support Lead to gain strategies, tools and techniques to succeed at making your vision a reality after go-live.
Julie Bilodeau
BDO Canada LLP
BDO Connections 2016 | Knowledge Pod
Addressing Disengagement: How to Run a Value-Driven Virtual SAFe Problem-Solv...Cprime
The importance of the Inspect & Adapt ceremony In SAFe™ cannot be understated. It enables every Agile Release Train (ART) to improve every Program Increment (PI), maintain its overall health and deliver business value.
This ceremony is made up of 3 parts: PI System Demo, Quantitative/Qualitative Measurement, and Problem-Solving Workshop. The Problem-Solving Workshop, a two-hour event, where all members of the ART typically participate in person, creates an unparalleled opportunity for people to collaborate and learn across teams.
But what happens when, due to public health concerns or other travel limitations, not everyone can be in the same room?
Conducting a virtual Problem-Solving Workshop may result in a lack of engagement on the part of participants due to distractions or inability to implement best practices. This could lead to suboptimal outcomes that fail to address the real problems teams need resolved to deliver value.
Join us for this action-oriented webinar, where you will learn to do more with less by breaking through the barrier of virtual impediments.
In this session, you will learn:
*From prep to close, how to convert an in-person Problem-Solving Workshop into an interactive engaging virtual event
*Best practices to mitigate the pitfalls and challenges of running a virtual Problem-Solving Workshop
*Suggestions for virtual collaboration tools and activities to conduct the workshop successfully
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 1: Facing the Challenges Head OnCprime
High performance organizations compete and thrive by responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative and modern business solutions. In order to achieve Enterprise Agility, data has to flow seamlessly, starting at the top with strategy and goals set by leadership, all the way through execution to the delivery of value. This journey, however, is fraught with business challenges.
Jira Align allows organizations to connect and align around common goals and objectives while providing actionable views and metrics to all stakeholders involved in the technology product lifecycle.
Download Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series on achieving Enterprise Agility with Jira Align. Jesse Pearlman and Alan Furlong will provide insights and best practices on how to face common enterprise agility challenges and pitfalls head on.
You will learn about:
- What a connected enterprise is and how that drives agility
- How businesses can refine product understanding, align corporate to product strategy, and optimize product roadmapping and planning
- How to communicate a strategic plan to positively impact delivery
Think Agility- Empowering Your Remote Workforce: A Cprime PanelCprime
Join Stedman Ng (SVP of Cloud Enablement), Ken France (VP of Scaled Agility), Anne Steiner (VP of Product Agility), Brandon Huff (VP of Technology), and Chris Knotts (Innovation Product Director of Training).
For many of us the world just flipped, all of a sudden, from in-person to remote. What hasn’t changed is the need to keep meeting and exceeding our business objectives. As a leader you’re asking yourself what you can do to minimize disruption and continue enabling your people to be successful.
In this presentation, we’ll discuss how Cprime is embracing and helping its clients embrace an attitude of:
*Don’t stop
*Keep going
*Agility matters more now than ever
*Technology solutions are your friend
*We will help
*You will emerge successful
These challenging times can bring about newly found resilience and incredible innovation. And it all boils down to your people and how well they work together.
Join Cprime leaders, agilists, and technical experts, to learn how Cprime is adapting to these new circumstances, the lessons we learned, and how we can help you adjust, adapt and thrive. This will be an opportunity to ask questions and engage directly with Cprime experts and thought leaders to get your questions answered.
Some of the issue and recommendations covered include:
*The 5 steps you can take right now (as a leader)
*Maintain some sense of calm
*Be proactive; balance planning and action
*View this as an opportunity to accelerate change / transformation
*Embrace opportunities for innovation
Product Management is Not Enough for ScaleUp CPOs - Introducing Responsive PPMBecky Flint
You’ve reached product-market fit, your engineering teams are growing, your product teams are growing. Congrats! Now what? How do you manage autonomous, empowered teams that each have different goals to be measured against?
Dragonboat CEO & Founder, Becky Flint, shares how to bring effective portfolio management to your fast-growing companies to scale teams, deliver results, expand to new markets and innovate quickly.
From high-level strategic frameworks to real-world examples and tangible best practices for applying a portfolio management approach, attendees will walk away with a clear understanding of how to create an outcome-focused product organization that delivers results.
This presentation will cover:
- When portfolio management becomes essential to running your product
- Portfolio management in the context of autonomous teams and “big rocks"
- How to transform your product organization from “feature focused” to “outcome-focused”
Learn more at https://dragonboat.io/
The Feature-Less Roadmap: Using Themes and North Stars to Ground Your Product...ProductPlan
We’re all familiar with feature-based roadmaps. The challenge with this method is that the how and what often obscures the why. When teams adopt a feature-factory mindset, they ship far faster than they learn and create value.
Join our expert panel as we discuss how product managers can use themes and a north star metric to ground their product roadmaps. We’ll share actionable ways to create (and maintain) a feature-less product roadmap that you can present with confidence at your next stakeholder meeting.
Download the associated webinar on demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/implement-okrs-for-breakthrough-performance/
Numerous recent studies illustrate the woeful state of employee engagement, motivation and alignment in corporations across the globe. Engagement, Motivation and Alignment translate directly to measures of productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. Even employees with the best intentions are ineffective at best, destructive at worst if they’re working on the wrong things instead of producing outcomes that advance corporate strategy.
Successful strategy doesn’t come from defining a great strategy, it comes from deploying and executing a great strategy. Strategy deployment and execution must overcome the powerful force of entropy that produces strategy decay. Strategy decay causes the best strategy to become misunderstood and mis-implemented by your workers.
Join Dan and Evan as they illustrate powerful patterns and practices for maximizing alignment through OKRs, and will share the proven methods for maximizing knowledge-worker motivation and engagement, and share some simple models that demonstrate MASSIVE HARD FINANCIAL BENEFITS produced by mastering adaptive strategy through OKRs.
3 Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the linkage between employee alignment, motivation, and engagement
- Understand how the above three drive employee and organizational effectiveness
- Understand how OKRs combined with modern organizational leadership practices produce hard financial benefits and competitive advantage
Connecting Your Strategic Roadmap to the BacklogProductPlan
Product teams often struggle to prioritize the right features that give customers the most value. The backlog is essential to your process, but treating your backlog as your roadmap has several pitfalls. In this webinar, Jim Semick from ProductPlan and Michael Lauricella from Atlassian explain how your backlog and strategic roadmap can work better together.
10 Proven Military Strategies for Breakthrough Resource ManagementPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ProvenStrategies
Nowhere is there a richer source of strategies and tactics for how to apply limited human resources than in military history.
In this presentation, you will learn:
-how to gain speed and agility by limiting demand to a more manageable size and prioritizing better
-how to protect your resources from being over-booked, over-used, and burnt out
-why multitasking and "divide and conquer" often backfire
-what to do when business units are all clamoring for the same resources
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ProvenStrategies
How to Thrive in a Fast-Paced Environment - The Art of Quarterly Strategic Pl...Cprime
It’s very common for organizations (both Line-of-Business and IT) to conduct strategic planning activity and major decision-making on an annual basis.
This might have made some sense when the pace of business was more predictable, and change was slower and gradual. But in today’s business environment, change occurs far too rapidly for that to work in most industries.
If your organization has gone agile, then, in a way, you’ve already acknowledged and adjusted to that new reality by making a conscious decision to embrace iterative, continually improving production in order to thrive in this fast pace environment.
So, if sticking to an annual strategic planning cycle simply doesn’t work anymore, then what does?
A far better option is to handle strategic Portfolio planning on a quarterly basis. But this new way of thinking implies a significant culture change…
You'll learn about:
1. Drivers for moving to quarterly planning
2. Creating a new mindset and focus on quarterly strategic planning
3. Implementing quarterly check-in on a Portfolio of projects across the Enterprise
Join us to learn ideas, techniques and best practices to help you and your organization thrive in this new fast-paced business landscape.
Enterprise Dojos: Values, Principles, and Cultural PerspectiveCprime
When we talk about dojos there’s a tendency to focus on the mechanical aspects of the model — the workflow, method, short iterations, and immersive learning. Perhaps more important is understanding what models and principles actually make the dojo innovative and successful. In this webinar, our dojo experts will unpack the foundations of the dojo — the underlying models that make it work, the principles that guide our behaviors and choices, and how dojos help shift cultures from fixating on delivery to leveraging learning.
You will learn about:
- Theories and research that make the dojo model work: deliberate practice, spaced repetition, etc.
- What are the values and principles that are common to successful dojos
- How dojos help shift an organization from a culture of delivery to a culture of learning
This presentation presents a simple and direct model for Agile Portfolio Management based on four key concepts:
1. The type of work you're doing.
2. The portfolio governance model.
3. The project governance model (the shape of the project).
4. The size / number of Agile teams.
The deck presents simple, scalable, effective approaches to Agile Portfolio Management that are lighter than most Agile methods and are supported by Conteneo's Collaboration Frameworks. This deck also directly supports Conteneo's Strategy-Glue-Tactics framework for effective Agile Product Management.
From Project to Product: “Big Rock” Constraints and How to Overcome ThemCprime
Project-based thinking and process is often the largest inhibitor of achieving agility. It explains why the notion of ‘Project to Product' has gained such popularity to the point of becoming a buzzword in recent years.
Despite the enthusiasm about becoming a product-driven organization, many companies still hang onto their old project-based ways due to some “big rock” constraints, including funding and separation of IT and business.
So, what can you do to make a successful shift?
Join Anne Steiner, Cprime’s VP of Product & Technology, to explore the challenges you may face in your product agility journey and how to overcome them. We’ll explore:
- Common constraints you may encounter when shifting from project to product and how to address them
- How to shift to product based funding models
- The role of the product manager
- Benefits you’ll experience with true product agility
How Dojos Make an Impact: Practical, Real ExamplesCprime
In this webinar, we’ll share several stories of how dojos have created significant impact for our enterprise clients. We’ll cover the evolution of a couple large dojos we’ve helped lead sharing both quantitative and qualitative data, and what we’ve learned along the journey to tune and pivot dojos toward various needs -- product, workflow, and technical.
Join us on November 4 for Part 2 of our 3-part webinar series on Enterprise Dojos. David Laribee and Nate Ashford, pioneers of the dojo approach, will provide an experience report on the evolution of several large-scale dojos.
You will learn about:
- Our approach and lightweight framework for measuring dojo impact
- Journeys different dojos take in discovering, realizing, and measuring their value proposition
- How dojos adapt and evolve over a longer time-horizon
Agile Australia 2018 - Product Roadmaps in the self-driven car ageLeandro Pinter
This talk was given at Agile Australia 2018 about an alternative way of doing Product Roadmaps.
- Where product roadmaps came from and why we need it in the first place
- What’s changed since then and why it doesn’t work anymore
- The alternative to traditional roadmaps
- The components that make up a good product roadmap
- How to build an impact/outcome focused roadmap and stop thinking about features
- How to help your organisation to take the first steps towards an outcome driven culture
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Learnings from Ken France’s Personal Agility...Cprime
Download and watch the associated Webinar on Demand:
https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/planes-trains-and-automobiles-learnings-from-ken-frances-personal-agility-journey/
In celebration of the 20th year of the signing of the Agile Manifesto, Ken France, Agility Practice Leader and SAFe Fellow at Cprime, shares his professional journey which has been centered around application development and agility. He explains how planes, trains, and automobiles are directly tied to the long and winding road he traveled from being an application developer with a computer science degree to becoming the Agility Practice Leader at Cprime and SAFe Fellow.
This session highlights things he has learned and done along the way and he shares experiences and insights that may benefit others in their professional journey. This talk also features some “cameo” appearances from well-known industry icons who have influenced and supported him, specifically Grady Booch, Dr. Ivar Jacobson, and Dean Leffingwell.
This event was part of Agile 20 Reflect Festival, a global community-led agile event.
Go Live is Just the Start - Managing AX Improvement Projects | Carlo DiPucchioKatie Elliott
Improvement projects often don’t get the same level of attention as initial implementations. Learn how to manage the roll-out of upgrades, additional functionality, process improvements and ISV solutions.
A real case about the introduction of a Kanban Portfolio in a big company.
In the 5 minutes lightning talk at the Lean Kanban Southern Europe 2014 conference where I told my story as Agile Coach in Wolter Kluwer Italy.
Slides shows the actual status of implementation, goals reached and next challenges.
We are following an evolutionary approach where the change is done step-by-step together with all departments.
Making a Project a Complete Success with Post-Implementation Strategies | Jul...Katie Elliott
Going live is a huge accomplishment, but the journey has only just begun. Now that you’re operating in your new system, what are your plans to get the most of it and minimize disruptions? Hindsight is 20-20. Gain strategies from someone who lives in the post-implementation world. She not only knows the common pitfalls and setbacks, but will share tools and techniques of how to resolve and prevent them! Join Julie, NAV Support Lead to gain strategies, tools and techniques to succeed at making your vision a reality after go-live.
Julie Bilodeau
BDO Canada LLP
BDO Connections 2016 | Knowledge Pod
Addressing Disengagement: How to Run a Value-Driven Virtual SAFe Problem-Solv...Cprime
The importance of the Inspect & Adapt ceremony In SAFe™ cannot be understated. It enables every Agile Release Train (ART) to improve every Program Increment (PI), maintain its overall health and deliver business value.
This ceremony is made up of 3 parts: PI System Demo, Quantitative/Qualitative Measurement, and Problem-Solving Workshop. The Problem-Solving Workshop, a two-hour event, where all members of the ART typically participate in person, creates an unparalleled opportunity for people to collaborate and learn across teams.
But what happens when, due to public health concerns or other travel limitations, not everyone can be in the same room?
Conducting a virtual Problem-Solving Workshop may result in a lack of engagement on the part of participants due to distractions or inability to implement best practices. This could lead to suboptimal outcomes that fail to address the real problems teams need resolved to deliver value.
Join us for this action-oriented webinar, where you will learn to do more with less by breaking through the barrier of virtual impediments.
In this session, you will learn:
*From prep to close, how to convert an in-person Problem-Solving Workshop into an interactive engaging virtual event
*Best practices to mitigate the pitfalls and challenges of running a virtual Problem-Solving Workshop
*Suggestions for virtual collaboration tools and activities to conduct the workshop successfully
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 1: Facing the Challenges Head OnCprime
High performance organizations compete and thrive by responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative and modern business solutions. In order to achieve Enterprise Agility, data has to flow seamlessly, starting at the top with strategy and goals set by leadership, all the way through execution to the delivery of value. This journey, however, is fraught with business challenges.
Jira Align allows organizations to connect and align around common goals and objectives while providing actionable views and metrics to all stakeholders involved in the technology product lifecycle.
Download Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series on achieving Enterprise Agility with Jira Align. Jesse Pearlman and Alan Furlong will provide insights and best practices on how to face common enterprise agility challenges and pitfalls head on.
You will learn about:
- What a connected enterprise is and how that drives agility
- How businesses can refine product understanding, align corporate to product strategy, and optimize product roadmapping and planning
- How to communicate a strategic plan to positively impact delivery
Think Agility- Empowering Your Remote Workforce: A Cprime PanelCprime
Join Stedman Ng (SVP of Cloud Enablement), Ken France (VP of Scaled Agility), Anne Steiner (VP of Product Agility), Brandon Huff (VP of Technology), and Chris Knotts (Innovation Product Director of Training).
For many of us the world just flipped, all of a sudden, from in-person to remote. What hasn’t changed is the need to keep meeting and exceeding our business objectives. As a leader you’re asking yourself what you can do to minimize disruption and continue enabling your people to be successful.
In this presentation, we’ll discuss how Cprime is embracing and helping its clients embrace an attitude of:
*Don’t stop
*Keep going
*Agility matters more now than ever
*Technology solutions are your friend
*We will help
*You will emerge successful
These challenging times can bring about newly found resilience and incredible innovation. And it all boils down to your people and how well they work together.
Join Cprime leaders, agilists, and technical experts, to learn how Cprime is adapting to these new circumstances, the lessons we learned, and how we can help you adjust, adapt and thrive. This will be an opportunity to ask questions and engage directly with Cprime experts and thought leaders to get your questions answered.
Some of the issue and recommendations covered include:
*The 5 steps you can take right now (as a leader)
*Maintain some sense of calm
*Be proactive; balance planning and action
*View this as an opportunity to accelerate change / transformation
*Embrace opportunities for innovation
Product Management is Not Enough for ScaleUp CPOs - Introducing Responsive PPMBecky Flint
You’ve reached product-market fit, your engineering teams are growing, your product teams are growing. Congrats! Now what? How do you manage autonomous, empowered teams that each have different goals to be measured against?
Dragonboat CEO & Founder, Becky Flint, shares how to bring effective portfolio management to your fast-growing companies to scale teams, deliver results, expand to new markets and innovate quickly.
From high-level strategic frameworks to real-world examples and tangible best practices for applying a portfolio management approach, attendees will walk away with a clear understanding of how to create an outcome-focused product organization that delivers results.
This presentation will cover:
- When portfolio management becomes essential to running your product
- Portfolio management in the context of autonomous teams and “big rocks"
- How to transform your product organization from “feature focused” to “outcome-focused”
Learn more at https://dragonboat.io/
The Feature-Less Roadmap: Using Themes and North Stars to Ground Your Product...ProductPlan
We’re all familiar with feature-based roadmaps. The challenge with this method is that the how and what often obscures the why. When teams adopt a feature-factory mindset, they ship far faster than they learn and create value.
Join our expert panel as we discuss how product managers can use themes and a north star metric to ground their product roadmaps. We’ll share actionable ways to create (and maintain) a feature-less product roadmap that you can present with confidence at your next stakeholder meeting.
Download the associated webinar on demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/implement-okrs-for-breakthrough-performance/
Numerous recent studies illustrate the woeful state of employee engagement, motivation and alignment in corporations across the globe. Engagement, Motivation and Alignment translate directly to measures of productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. Even employees with the best intentions are ineffective at best, destructive at worst if they’re working on the wrong things instead of producing outcomes that advance corporate strategy.
Successful strategy doesn’t come from defining a great strategy, it comes from deploying and executing a great strategy. Strategy deployment and execution must overcome the powerful force of entropy that produces strategy decay. Strategy decay causes the best strategy to become misunderstood and mis-implemented by your workers.
Join Dan and Evan as they illustrate powerful patterns and practices for maximizing alignment through OKRs, and will share the proven methods for maximizing knowledge-worker motivation and engagement, and share some simple models that demonstrate MASSIVE HARD FINANCIAL BENEFITS produced by mastering adaptive strategy through OKRs.
3 Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the linkage between employee alignment, motivation, and engagement
- Understand how the above three drive employee and organizational effectiveness
- Understand how OKRs combined with modern organizational leadership practices produce hard financial benefits and competitive advantage
Connecting Your Strategic Roadmap to the BacklogProductPlan
Product teams often struggle to prioritize the right features that give customers the most value. The backlog is essential to your process, but treating your backlog as your roadmap has several pitfalls. In this webinar, Jim Semick from ProductPlan and Michael Lauricella from Atlassian explain how your backlog and strategic roadmap can work better together.
10 Proven Military Strategies for Breakthrough Resource ManagementPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ProvenStrategies
Nowhere is there a richer source of strategies and tactics for how to apply limited human resources than in military history.
In this presentation, you will learn:
-how to gain speed and agility by limiting demand to a more manageable size and prioritizing better
-how to protect your resources from being over-booked, over-used, and burnt out
-why multitasking and "divide and conquer" often backfire
-what to do when business units are all clamoring for the same resources
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/ProvenStrategies
Making the leap to Agile within Marketing: A practical success storyPlanview
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Agile
Learn about
-the challenges one marketing department faced and why they sought a change in the status quo
-what options and approaches they considered to help steer this change
-what made Agile an attractive option for marketing teams
-how to sell Agile internally and gain support from the top with buy-in from the team
-how to adopt agile into the workflow
-what benefits the marketing saw as a result of this change
-adding capacity planning
View the On-Demand Webcast! Planview.info/Agile
Agile Stage-Gate: A New Idea-to-Launch ProcessPlanview
Why Agile Stage-Gate?
-the world is faster, less predictable, and tougher, with more competition, uncertainties, and risks
-there's a need for more innovations, not just renovations: Our methods are too linear and rigid to handle more innovative and dynamic projects
-need for speed and agility: One size should not fit all
See how leading firms are reinventing their stage-gate systems to be Agile, adaptive and responsive, and accelerated. Learn about key lessons from Agile and find out how Agile can be built into each stage of the Stage-Gate model.
Portfolio Management Software: Picking the Right ProductsPlanview
Did you know?
-without portfolio management software, an average of 10% of budget is allocated to lower-value projects
-there is an average cost reduction of 25% in report generation and manual processes with a central system of records for products
-with PPM software, project duration decreases on average by 10%
Henkel, a global leader in consumer and industrial businesses, discusses the strategy and business of the product lifecycle. Learn how to drive value into the product lifecycle by picking the right projects / products and making them work, and how PPM software provides ROI. Find out about Key Performance Indicators Henkel used and how Planview plays a connective role in their innovation strategy.
Project Management In The Age Of Web 2.0Peter Horsten
Project management is changing. We need to go from very strict and formal ways of managing projects to a more flexible, a more Agile approach, while keeping the knowledge we have today about project management. New, web based, tools enable a different approach.
Customer-obsessed firms take an outside-in approach, relying heavily on collaboration, to deliver desirable products and services. Product, marketing, and technology teams exchange information with a wide circle of people, both internal and external to the company. Email remains the vehicle of choice: 77% of information workers use email for internal communication, while 76% use it for external communication with partners and clients. Over half of information workers are on email constantly. These interruption-driven activities reduce the amount of time spent on an actual task activity to a mere 18%. How does anyone get anything done?
Managing the chaos of work requires solutions that enable teams to have a centralized location to work collectively and share digital content deliverables such as documents, presentations, web content, and videos and capture the contextual conversations around the activities being performed. This webinar talks about the need for collaborative work management solutions and how they can bring greater productivity without adding extra work to the work you’re already doing.
An immersive workshop at General Assembly, SF. I typically teach this workshop at General Assembly, San Francisco. To see a list of my upcoming classes, visit https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/seth-familian/4813
I also teach this workshop as a private lunch-and-learn or half-day immersive session for corporate clients. To learn more about pricing and availability, please contact me at http://familian1.com
3 Things Every Sales Team Needs to Be Thinking About in 2017Drift
Thinking about your sales team's goals for 2017? Drift's VP of Sales shares 3 things you can do to improve conversion rates and drive more revenue.
Read the full story on the Drift blog here: http://blog.drift.com/sales-team-tips
Introduction to Scrum methodology:
– core values, roles, communication, the day-to-day of a scrum team, tools;
Practical demonstration of scrum’s core values;
Experience sharing on applying scrum in real projects;
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Hvorfor er digitale Kanban-tavler blevet så populære blandt projektledere?, M...Mediehuset Ingeniøren Live
Brugen af Kanban- og Scrum-tavler er steget eksplosivt. Hvorfor? Hvordan hjælper disse visuelle værktøjer mange slags organisationer til bedre samarbejde og effektivitet? Indlægget foregår på engelsk.
Effektiv ledelse skaber værdidrevne teams - Karolina Jackson-Ward Manager Cus...Mediehuset Ingeniøren Live
Inspireret af Lean, Agile metoder og forskning i motivation og produktivitet, får du viden og gode input til, hvordan du kan øge dit teams præstationer. Vi kommer blandt andet ind på:
Hvorfor er motivation så vigtig, og hvad driver os mennesker?
Hvordan formes adfærd (best practice)?
Hvilke faktorer betyder mest?
Hvordan kan du konkret hjælpe dit team med at udnytte sit fulde potentiale?
Maximize Business Results by Preparing Your Headcount Plan Within BudgetHuman Capital Media
When it’s time to conduct headcount planning and budgeting to maximize business performance, you want to ensure your team is built for success. Simple enough, right?
Well, maybe not. Sometimes, it can become a seemingly never-ending project. Let us show you how we can help with your headcount planning and budgeting needs!
Join this webinar, and we'll walk you through how to:
Visualize and evaluate your current workforce.
Align the finance team's budget with your goals.
Manage headcount and reporting relationships to maximize employee engagement.
Account for contingent workforce needs in helping drive business initiatives.
Compare and contrast multiple headcount plans.
Deliver your headcount plan for executive review.
The Importance of Centralizing Your Diversity and Affirmative Action Program ...Human Capital Media
If you have, or plan to have, a diversity and/or affirmative action program, there could be both internal or external pressures — such as increasingly stringent OFCCP audits — to properly document all records. It’s not always easy to have all the information and documentation readily accessible through manual recordkeeping.
Consequently, it’s now more important than ever to find an automated solution that creates a centralized place for all your documentation.
Participants will learn how to:
Eliminate manual recordkeeping.
Implement effective recordkeeping practices to make sure you’re prepared to answer internal questions or external audits.
Improve the effectiveness of outreach with an automated good faith efforts manager.
Allow your business managers to focus more on securing the right talent for your company, and less on administrative recordkeeping.
Over the years agile became a common way of software development. More and more companies adopt to the agile manifesto.
But there are some challenges on the way to become an agile organization. One is the question of how to deal with financial planning. The previous answer was: Budgeting. But butgeting does not scale with the velocity of agile projects. The idea to solve this problem exists much longer then the idea of agile itself: Go Beyond Budgeting.
In this presentation you will discover how the PMO is vital to delivering real business results to companies that are seeking to maximized return on their investments and accelerate performance.
5 ways successful CFOs will drive planning and performance in 2015Anaplan
Think you don’t have control of data and its effect on financial performance? Think again. Data volume is growing, data sources are multiplying, and the business environment is more volatile than ever. Leading edge CFOs are leveraging this new information to improve their planning, forecasting, and modeling efforts. They are breaking free from traditional processes and silos in favor of integrated and continuous planning. Could 2015 be the year your organization starts using FP&A to more positively impact your company’s business performance? View the slides from our webinar with Steve Player, managing partner, the Player Group.
InnoTech 2019 Agile Planning: 5 Steps to Agile Transformation Planning for Su...Darrel Raynor
Agile Planning: 5 Steps to Agile Transformation Planning for Success -
Many are or will be implementing Agile in some form or other. For some, they are on their second, third, or even fourth attempt to really integrate and leverage Agile. Where Agile implementations fail is rarely with developers or other project staff.
Executives and other Senior Leaders are often the cause of failure or excess friction due to their hope that Agile will simply be faster and cheaper without having to change the organization culture…
In this presentation we focus on the 5 Steps to planning a successful Agile transformation that you can take back and apply all at once or one by one over time.
Doing #noProjects in Large Organizations (Codemotion 2015)Unai Roldán
Doing PRODUCTs in Large Organizations
- Empower people: Create stable teams
- Focus on value: Organizing around value
- Flow, …flow faster!: Product development flow
Habitualmente dentro del mundo Agile se identifican las "corrientes" de #noEstimates o #noProject como tendencias a futuro y que en algunos casos parecen irrealizables, sobre todo en grandes organizaciones.
En la mayoría de las transformaciones en las que trabajamos a día de hoy, ya sea a nivel nacional o a mundial, venimos aplicando #noProjects dentro nuestros procesos de transformación.
La ponencia consistiría en compartir experiencias y lecciones aprendidas cuando hemos trabajado para eliminar los proyectos en grandes empresas, poniendo el foco en las personas en lugar de los proyectos, y permitiendo tener equipos estables que crecen día a día gracias a este enfoque.
Aunque pueda parecer un concepto muy teórico, #noProject puede ser una realidad si se crean los mecanismos necesarios dentro de las compañías y se dota a los equipos de herramientas para ser productivos y predecibles a largo plazo.
Unai Roldán
UST Global
There has been a lot of interest about Agile in recent years, mainly due to the success in the IT industry; however there is a lot of interest in applying the Agile methods to other types of environment, not just IT.
This conference uncovered some of the myths around Agile, discussed how Agile can be scaled to large complex projects, looked at case studies, talked about Lean Agile and fed back what governments think about Agile.
The presentations sparked some interesting debates, even between the speakers, but soon some common themes started to emerge from each of the presentation.
Agile is not a methodology – it is a way of thinking. There are Agile methods, ranging from project management methods to software development methods but the agile manifesto, which was mentioned almost be every speaker, does not actual prescribe anything.
Being agile is not an excuse to avoid doing things, like planning and risk management. Being agile has a lot of parallels to Lean – you do what needs to be done, no more and no less.
Agile is not new, Julius Caesar used agile, he just did not call it agile. There are a number of companies and projects who are agile, but did not realise it and jumped on the band wagon when a name was given to their behaviour.
Agile is about giving your customer what they want, regardless of what it says in the contract - they have the right to change their minds. Agile is about people and collaboration, not the processes or tools although these do help to be more agile.
After lunch, we had a presentation from Project Place and learnt about their latest collaboration tools, including KANBAN boards. The idea is not new, Toyota have been using them for decades, but they have been given a new digital face lift.
Finally, thank you to our sponsors Project Place, DSDM and APMG, to the speakers for giving up the valuable time for free, and to Anna and Nigel for their support in pulling the event together.
This APM event was co-organised by the ProgM and Governance SIGs in conjunction with our good friends at PWC. [Full write up: http://bit.ly/apmpwcsurvey]
As Miles Dixon and I introduced the evening, I knew that we were in for some fun as Karl Reilly @karl_reilly_pwc, our host, speaker for the evening and veteran of programme management, let it be known that he would ‘ask the audience’ to send in their votes using software called Poll Everywhere. [You only have to look at the website of this tool to realise just how engaging this can be for a live audience!]
As part of my introduction I threw out a couple of challenges. Firstly with the well-known saying ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’ - why should we trust what this survey from PWC says?
Also, “Isn’t it rather shocking that out of more than 3,000 respondents from more than 100 countries, only half [50%] agreed that ‘an appropriate baseline exists to measure all benefits for their organisation [projects and programmes]’
If this really is the case how can change commissioners possibly know whether they have got what they wanted in the first place?
The 4th PwC Global PPM Survey, conducted in 2014 looked at; trends, challenges, opportunities and opinions relating to the management of portfolios, programmes and projects.
During the evening we were invited to vote by text and web on our smartphones [one of those rare ‘don’t switch your phones off’ evenings] on various survey questions. The results and opinions of ‘we happy few’ were compared to those of the much larger global population.
So for example. On the question of “Where benefits are set, are they realised?” [Slide 12] illustrates the fact that audience opinion [yellow] is broadly similar with the global view [orange] this certainly wasn’t the same in every case and led to some interesting debate.
Sandie Grimshaw, who led the survey team, joined us part way through the session - after a long day at work. She says “The results are both interesting and enlightening, especially when considered with the findings of previous surveys, and also with the results that we find when PWC undertakes maturity assessments around the world on client programmes.
I believe our survey findings have provided a fresh perspective for executive teams, as well as giving PPM professionals evidence from which to re-evaluate their priorities and approach to delivering successful change programmes.”
Not being one to miss an opportunity, Alan Macklin, ProgM committee member and Deputy Chair of APM Board, stated APM’s desire to be involved in the next survey round 2015/16 as he sees it as an opportunity to extend our own work on Conditions for Project Success.
In addition, in a short infomercial, the audience were invited to attend our inaugural APM Benefits Summit [23-25 June] - partially in response to the survey’s findings on Benefits Management uptake!
Merv Wyeth
Paul Bamforth, UK Country Manager, Projectplace, presented a webinar on 7th October addressing how organisations can use digital technologies to increase collaborative working. He focussed on Lean and Agile methodologies.
Projektværktøjsdagen 2013 - Peter Weihe Wolfsberg, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting group.
PA Consulting Group har udviklet et nyt koncept for programledelse, som kaldes Visual Program Leadership. Konceptet ændrer radikalt vores måde at kommunikere og giver et langt bedre beslutningsgrundlag. Vores koncept er baseret på et programstyringssoftware fra Marstrand Innovation, kaldet Marstrand Planning Intelligence (MPI). Softwaret understøtter bl.a. produktbaseret planlægning. Det er et krav i Visual Program Leadership, at risici og problemer relateres direkte til leverancer eller produkter, dette krav understøttes af MPI. MPI er et meget effektivt værktøj i både planlægnings- og eksekveringsfaserne.
Få inspiration af denne video:
http://youtu.be/tm6SbLodofI
AMPLIFY | Customer Engagement is a powerful customer value creation methodology available to mid-market companies seeing to gain a foothold on increasing customer loyalty, engagement, revenue and profitability growth, product development success and employee engagement.
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State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
My name is Nikki Glaser and I will be moderating today’s webcast.
Here’s what we have planned for today’s session:
First, I will go over a bit of housekeeping
Then we will move right into our Webinar on Kanban: From Basics to Metrics
At the end of today’s webcast we will host a brief question and answer session
Projectplace has been around for over 17 years and was one of the original SaaS offerings dating back to the late 1990’s along with the rise of companies like salesforce.com.
Our focus is on project collaboration and we provide a very easy-to-use but powerful cloud-based solution that enables teams around the globe to get things done.
To date there are over 1M+ registered users -- in organizations large and small, domestic and international, and from Media to Mining companies -- using Projectplace to manage over 175k projects.
Our parent company, Planview based in Austin TX, acquired Projectplace in the summer of 2014 and we are excited to bring provide this elegant and powerful project collaboration offering to North America as well as worldwide.
We have spent the last 17 years building and providing to our customers a unique offering brings together three distinct capabilities into one powerful project collaboration tool:
Basic project mgmt & execution – enables you plan the high level structure and timeline for the project – easy to use and understand whether you’re a PMI-certified project manager or an accidental one
Team & task collab – via Kanban boards, which provide a highly visual, easily digestible way to know who’s working on what and when – we will dig into this in much detail
Document mgmt – documents, even if not the ultimate deliverable, are always involved in projects and we take the hassle out of working with documents and trying to find the “FINAL FINAL” versions of things in your email
There are many, many tools out there that do one or two of these but we pride ourselves on being one of the very few that brings all of these capabilities into one tool that does more, not more tools
Before we jump into Kanban, let’s take a brief look at some of the principles and disciplines that gave rise to the phenomenon of Kanban and it’s popularity.
Lean & Agile are non-linear management techniques whose roots date back over 60 years ago
Lean comes from Toyota in 1960s, which spawned Kanban to keep production lines flowing
Agile inspired by Lean, gained popularity in software development and has evolved from Agile teams becoming now Agile organizations as it spreads into other departments such as marketing, budgeting & finance, etc
Lean and Agile are concepts that are a part of the same management megatrend, which focuses on perceived customer value and the following principles:
Efficiency – focusing on what our customers think is valueable, not what we think is
Self-organizing teams – let teams organize the work to execute, mgmt helps prioritize and break logjams
Transparency – fosters engagement within teams
Continuous improvement – always looking at current processes and workflows, evaluating via follow up meetings or ”retrospectives” to examine what worked, what didnt, what can be improved
Workflows – coupled with transparency, let every one see who’s working on what and where – the more visible something is, the more likely it is to be acted upon
Kanban – provides visual transparency into flow of work, popularized by software development teams that took Kanban from the physical world and made it digital
Looking specifically at Lean, lean is about:
Reducing waste, adding customer value – continuously looking at things that do not improve customer value, which leads to higher efficiency
Communication - encourage users to add value by commenting on documents, cards, posts etc
Visual mgmt tool – Kanban boards and cards to represent flow of work
Standardize – on what is working, ”templates”
Agile is about responding to change
The “big bang” approach to projects – whether software-related or other – is to plan, budget, execute – the classic waterfall model
Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t due to a whole host of reasons, typically involving budget, goals, time … etc
Waterfall cycles are typically very long cycles and since it’s extremely difficult to predict the future, results are often out of date by the time they arrive
By contrast, the agile way promotes the division of projects into shorter interactions towards a goal
This enables teams to check in with the customer at each interaction and adapt to changes as needed in shorter cycles
With this approach, the cost of failure is much lower when determined at the interactions as opposed to finding out at the end of the “big bang”
These shorter interactions are called Sprints
And sprints are just chunks of time -- typically 2 – 4 weeks in duration – that define a focused effort towards a specific goal in shorter timeframes
The example here shows a set of sprints across several of our own dev teams represented as cards aligned to activities on the Gantt Plan in Projectplace – something we call Gantt Reinvented
Sprints provide teams with focus and clarity as to what is expected of them and it becomes easier to keep stakeholders apprised of status and updates with these smaller, more manageable body of work
We often pride ourselves on our abilities to multitask
In fact you can find plenty of job postings from employers specifically stating “the ability to multitask” as a requirement
However, research shows that it comes at a cost -- and what suffers most are our innovative and creative abilities
Jumping too quickly between tasks – or context-switching -- leads to poor choices
Poor choices lead to regret and stress and overall unenjoyable work situation
This is what Kanban boards can help with
What is a Kanban board?
Kanban is derived from the Japanese words: kan = visual signal, ban = card
It’s origins date back to the 1950’s within the the Toyota Production System
Toyota introduced and refined the use of kanban in a relay system to standardize the flow of parts in their production lines
Line-workers used a kanban (an actual card) to signal steps in their manufacturing process and this became one of several tools Toyota developed to ensure that inventory was based on actual customer orders rather than managerial forecasts.
This highly visual nature allowed teams to communicate more easily on what work needed to be done and when.
Fast-forward to the 2000’s and agile software development teams have since evolved this concept into digital form, as you see here, and this way to organize and execute work is now common practice within Agile and Lean.
What makes Kanban effective?
Visualize Work - by creating a visual model of your work and workflow, you can observe the flow of work moving through your Kanban system. Making the work visible—along with blockers, bottlenecks and queues—instantly leads to increased communication and collaboration.
Limit Work in Process -By limiting how much unfinished work is in process, you can reduce the time it takes an item to travel through the Kanban system. You can also avoid problems caused by task switching and reduce the need to constantly reprioritize items.
Focus on Flow - remember that you want to focus on the flow of VALUE! If you have great flow but what’s being sent through isn’t valuable, you’ve missed the mark.
Continuous Improvement - Once your Kanban system is in place, it becomes the cornerstone for a culture of continuous improvement. Teams measure their effectiveness by tracking flow, quality, throughput, lead times and more. Experiments and analysis can change the system to improve the team’s effectiveness.
Stop starting and start finishing! Sounds like common sense right? If you have been conditioned into associating your value by what you have started, Kanban reminds you to stop starting and start finishing!
Here is one of the original kanban boards in Toyota.
Pictured here is a line worker moving cards along the board in the Kanban storage area at Toyota Motomachi Plant sometime around 1970
I bet he would have never imagined back then that this picture of himself and his Kanban boards would end up in a webinar in front of hundreds of people in the US…
While we now create cards and boards in our web browsers and mobile devices, and move cards along with drag and drop, the fundamental concepts remain the same.
An interesting psychological observation relating to Kanban is the Zeigarnik effect
Russian psychologist, Bluma Zeigarnik , noticed an odd thing while sitting in a restaurant in Vienna.
She noticed that the waiters seemed only to remember orders that were in the process of being served and when orders were completed, the orders evaporated from their memory.
This plays into the world of Kanban, in that we tend to remember uncompleted tasks rather than completed ones
When we move cards from leftmost or ”NOT STARTED” column into the next one, we are committing to complete this task
When we move cards to the rightmost or ”DONE” column, we signal that we have completed the task / checked the box and our brain is free to release that burden from our cognitive load
Projecting or representing a collective set of tasks onto a digital board works as a gathering point for teams to discuss current issues, problems and ”wins” to reach consensus and increase engagement.
The transparency that boards provide is great at instilling a sense of awareness and accountability…
But by representing tasks as cards on a board, there arises a “psychological projection effect”, where concerns and discomfort around tasks become more open and addressable when they are projected on a shared board
So challenges avoid becoming personal or prone to putting people into a defensive state…and it becomes more of a discussion around the card or task itself versus the assignee
Ok, so we’ve gone through the primer on the basics of Kanban, what it is, where it came from, the benefits and so on
For those of you have been putting Kanban into practice or are looking ahead to a world where your teams will have adopted Kanban steady-state..what about metrics?
How will you know if Kanban is working for you and what are the key measures and metrics we can use to identify what’s working ,where problems exist and overall how to get better?
One of the most common views into your Kanban activity is called Cumulative Flow.
Cumulative flow is a great, basic place to start and very simply it shows how cards are “flowing” through the boards over time on the way to being done
Seen here is an example that shows how many cards (or tasks) were present in each of the columns on a board at any given point in time and if the number of cards has been increasing or decreasing
As interesting as this may be, what else can I divine from this colorful illustration besides a basic overview of how work is flowing?
The bottom green line – the Done column – will naturally grow wider over time as cards are completed.
But keep an eye on your “planning” or early / leftmost columns and the work accumulation trends there (in this example, this would be the yellow and top lighter green areas)
If you see a widening of those planning areas, it could be indicating that your teams are having trouble starting or taking on new work.
Alternatively, if you see the middle lines getting thicker, you’re having trouble completing tasks and may need to “stop starting, and start finishing”
Within those middle bands – and depending on how intricate your columns are – cumulative flow might highlight accumulation in the “approval”, “review” or “test” columns, indicating that items are being completed but are not getting through to completion due to some intermediate approval stage.
So cumulative flow gives you a great way to keep tabs on the flow of work and makes it easy to spot those bottlenecks that are preventing things from moving forward.
Next up is Lead Time and Cycle Time.
As your teams adopt Kanban and become familiar and comfortable with it as a way to manage work, you will inevitably want to measure how well your teams are doing at completing tasks and figure out how to improve further.
This is what Lead Time and Cycle Time can help you do…with numbers.
Lead Time and Cycle Time are two time-based metrics that measure how long it is taking to get things done over time.
With Lead Time, the clock starts when a card is created and ends when the card is moved to the Done column.
With Cycle Time, the clock starts when a card is started and ends when the card is Done
Ideally, both Lead and Cycle Times are as small as possible…but being able to measure them and track them over time gives you the ability to spot problems that may be causing longer times.
Generally speaking, the example here shows a pretty positive trend, where this team had about a 2 month lead and cycle time when they were first getting started with Kanban on this particular project back in Aug.
It’s now Oct and we can see a nice downward trend where as of Mon they’ve managed to get down to 18 day Lead time and 16 day Cycle time.
If you see your times spiking or trending upward, what could it mean?
It might mean your teams are trying to take on too many cards or tasks at the same time and you can set lower WIP limits on your columns to help rectify that.
Or it might be the case that the cards you’re creating are representing larger tasks that may need to be broken down into smaller ones.
The combination of Lead & Cycle time plus Cumulative Flow can give you the information you need to see how your teams are performing, and if in fact they are getting better over time in completing work – or if bottlenecks and other factors may be getting in the way.
What about deadlines? How do we know if we will be able to hit our due dates when we use Kanban for our projects?
This is what a Burndown chart can answer.
Extremely popular in the world of Agile software development, a burndown chart shows the work remaining to reach a given goal versus time…and if work continues at the current rate, are we going to make it?
In this example, we see the number of cards completed in green versus the planned & in-progress cards on the orange line
We also see that this team has a current efficiency of completing just over 2 cards per day and at that rate, they will complete the project on Nov 3.
Now, with a target due date of Oct 12, if they want to meet that date they will need to significantly step up their current efficiency to north of 11 cards per day … or start jettisoning scope.
This burndown example adds the element of extrapolation from the work trends to provide guidance as to whether or not the goal will be reached in time
..and this visual can be easily consumed by team members and stakeholders regardless of whether or not they have advanced PMI/PMP project training.
Speaking of scope, how do we track scope and overall progress towards the completion of it?
As we just walked through burndown, we also have it’s close cousin burnup, which tracks work progress towards completion.
With a burnup chart, like the one seen here, we have a line that depicts the total amount of work or cards, in this case the blue line, and then the work completed line in orange.
So over time you can see the total amount of work versus work completed with the delta or distance between the two lines showing how much work is remaining.
When the two lines meet, which happened on Sept 29 in this case, all work has been completed and the project will be complete.
What else do we see on this chart?
We’re all no strangers to scope creep, I’m sure, and this example shows quite a bit of it, particularly around the start of this sprint around Sept 15 but then also around the 21st and 23rd where you see the spikes on the blue line.
Then in the 2 or 3 days leading up to the deadline for the sprint, we see the blue line dip downward indicating the jettisoning of tasks and removal of work in order to meet the deadline.
So scope, and it’s impacts to the project, is what a burnup chart can surface. In addition to showing you how close you are to completing a project at any given time, it helps us visualize and manage those inevitable scope creep items – additional features, tweaks and requests – are impacting the team’s ability to meet the end goal.
How can Kanban boards help you?
As we’ve seen, it enables teams to self-organize and take ownership of the tasks at hand
The visual nature of boards and cards increases transparency and enables all members to clearly see who’s working on what and when or where something is
You can use WIP limits to manage overloading of tasks by column on a board
Using just a handful of visual and easy-to-digest metrics, you can benchmark the progress of your teams, identify and address bottlenecks and problem areas, and watch the improvement unfold over time
As a result, you will see gains in efficiency towards delivering that perceived customer value and satisfaction
A couple examples from our customers who use Kanban and project collaboration in the wild:
One of our customers is a European auto manufacturer and they recently completed a very diverse, multinational project to improve transport safety standards and systems.
The project team consisted of 23 different companies involved with team members speaking 5 different languages.
They said “The web-based service provided by Projectplace helped us immensely during the implementation of these new safety standards : it is easy to use and is completely self-explanatory”
”We are using Projectplace for a number of different projects where team work is essential and the project members are based in several different locations.”"
Another German manufacturer of bathroom furniture uses Projectplace in their product development process which include both internal and external parties.
Fast, uncomplicated communication + simple document exchange were required to optimally support these product development processes and they stated that “Whenever any problems appear on the horizon, we are now able to react in advance to prevent them from occurring.”
Two more quick examples from our customer base:
An international power supply company needed to connect their IT teams across 17 different branch locations with project information.
They were able to save 20% of the cost on travel – and this global team now uses Projectplace to implement projects smoothly, on time and on budget.
And finally, a Danish beverage company managed a control systems replacement and automation project affecting 12,000 valves and pumps.
They said their usage of Projectplace in this effort exceeded all expectations and by using Projectplace they saved a full man-year on the project.
For more customer stores, information on Kanban and Projectplace, visit us at projectplace.com
You might also find interesting the recent review of our solution by NetworkWorld, where we received a 5 out of 5 rating in their Gearhead column.
And with that, we will now open up for a few questions from the audience….