U.S. Navy Reveals Keys to Leadership and High Performing Teams at PW&WCBA 2013

Carey Lohrenz knows what it takes to win in one of the highest pressure, extreme environments imaginable: in the cockpit at Mach 2, as the first female F-14 Tomcat Fighter Pilot in the U.S. Navy. Having flown missions worldwide as a combat mission-ready United States Navy pilot, Lohrenz is used to working in fast moving, dynamic environments, where inconsistent execution can generate catastrophic results. 

At ProjectWorld & World Congress for Business Analysts this September, Carey will share the U.S. Navy's lessons of leadership and creating high performing teams, and how they can be applied to any business. You'll learn best practices in planning, briefing, debriefing and adjusting processes to help manage the risks within your projects, and become a high performing organization.

Interested in more best practices and lessons learned in leadership and project teams? Through a full-day workshop dedicated to leadership and a half-day workshop dedicated to creating engagement in your project teams and a breakout track dedicated to PM and BA collaboration, PW&WCBA has it covered:

·         Retooling Leadership (through the lens of NeuroScience)
William Greenwald, Director, Performance Coaching and Advisory Practice, Humana Inc.

·         Successful Projects Across Borders: How to Achieve Team Unity
Malgorzata Kusyk, PMI Poland, Senior Project Manager, Thomson Reuters

·         Leading Virtual Teams in 2012: A Successful Methodology
Paul A. Capello, PMP, Program Management Consultant, RGP Healthcare

·         My Global Project Team is Not United...What Did I Do Wrong?
Edward Wisniewski, PMP, CSCP, Global Clinical Supply Project Manager, SHIRE HGT

·         Soft Skills for Effective Collaboration
Maureen McWhite, Business Applications Analyst, FedEx

And much more!

PW&WCBA

September 9-11, 2013

Disney’s Contemporary Resort

Orlando, FL

Mention code PW13LINK & Save 15% off the standard rate.

Register today: http://bit.ly/1bsswxa

Download the brochure for the full agenda and speaking roster:  http://bit.ly/1bsswxa Also, don't miss the Colorful, Creative & Collaborative: User Stories Unleashed webinar with Ellen Gottesdiener, Founder, Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting and PW&WCBA Agile Summit Chair on Thursday, June 27 at 1:00pm ET. Register here: http://bit.ly/11uBDbT

Best,

The PW&WCBA Team

#Project_World

Top Business Analysis Trends of 2013: BAs Will Become the New PMs through Agile

Modern businesses require effective business analysis in order to be successful in a competitive business world. Business analysis involves taking information gathered from a variety of sources and analyzing to forecast future trends, find ways to make improvements in business strategies, improve businesses operations, and make smart business decisions to improve the bottom line.

So, understanding key marketing areas is essential to helping a business generate revenue and cut down on excess waste.  According to Nancy Nee, vice president of Global Product Strategy, ESI International, there are some key business analysis trends that will be prominent in 2013.

Nee says that BAs will become the new PMs. From the Agile perspective, project management disappears and we focus on project leadership, project delivery, project execution. The role of the BA in agile is about delivering value from the user story perspective. “The role of a project manager become obsolete? Maybe, maybe not. Only time will tell,” she said.

In 2013, the focus of the BA will be more on upscaling themselves in the traditional role of what we know as PM. They will learn the skills of scheduling, planning, managing risk, controlling costs – so that they came become the new PMs of an Agile project.

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