ForumWebinar Series

Many organizations are unknowingly complacent and only incorporate significant changes when a crisis or imminent threat emerges. To correct this issue, we’ll explore the questions you need to answer first to avoid a crisis. 

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Thoughts to help you build a case for change 
• Examinations of tools to leverage in starting change awareness
• Ideas on how to proactively prepare for the future

Agenda:
Introductions | 5 minutes
Discussion | 40 minutes

Every business managing a portfolio of products must regularly evaluate the strategic positioning of each product as well as its ability to drive future revenues and profits. In this session, we’ll provide leaders responsible for managing a portfolio of products with four frameworks to critically evaluate a company’s product portfolio and develop an informed strategy moving forward.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Four valuable frameworks and how they can be applied to bring structure to a constantly-changing product landscape
• Best practices to help your company compete in the age of disruption
• How to chart a path that will help your company succeed

Agenda:
Introductions | 5 minutes
Discussion | 40 minutes

Incidents are an existential threat to businesses that build, operate, and consume technology services. Luckily, you can improve your overall organizational response to incidents with the following framework: Prepare, Respond, Review. This presentation will help you point your northstar toward the ideal state and change the narrative about incidents from blame to learning. 

In this webinar, you will learn:

• A framework for incident response that can be evolved over time
• Dysfunctions with traditional incident management and ways to correct them
• Real-world, right-sized patterns and examples that can be used for incremental improvements to incident responses 

Agenda:
Introductions | 5 minutes
Discussion | 40 minutes

There are a set of measurable leading indicators to achieve desirable outcomes in software quality. We’ll provide a framework to create high-quality code that will help ensure the best possible performance and end result from your team.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• The importance of adding to familiar software quality attributes with some less widely understood elements, such as the use of feature flags
• The most effective measures of software development and operations processes
• Commonly used measures of software quality that can be misleading

Agenda:
Introductions | 5 minutes
Discussion | 40 minutes

Balancing the high-risk investment of innovation with traditional business-as-usual tasks has always been tricky for corporations. Understanding the criticality of funding both innovation and business-as-usual means organizations must also use the right investment selection process, establish guardrails to avoid misuse, and meet fiduciary responsibility requirements.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Pitfalls of traditional funding models
• The “Three Horizons” model and why you should consider using it for investment assessments
• Why there is no one-size-fits-all funding strategy or process

Agenda:
Introductions | 5 minutes
Discussion | 25 minutes

When deploying Industrial DevOps at scale, we now must consider the criticality of designing technical architecture, team organization, and intentional culture architecture with dynamic learning and feedback loops.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Industrial DevOps principles that development organizations can use to bring power to those building large-scale, cyber-physical systems
• How to define a technical roadmap based on incremental solution development
• Best practices when addressing psychological safety and cultural barriers for organizational change

Agenda:
Introductions | 5 minutes
Discussion | 40 minutes