Reboot Your Transformational Skills presented by David Mantica – Session 3 Introduction to Business Value Analysis 09/08/2020

Abstract:

NCPMI in partnership with SoftEd is offering the Reboot Your Transformational Skills series. These free sessions will be hosted online via ZOOM by David Mantica and his associates.   

This series of 5 sessions will be held Tuesdays for one hour 12pm – 1pm EST.

Introduction to Business Value Analysis

Agile is a great way to build solutions, products or software in a way to reduce waste, connect to need, and protect yourself for risk.  But you still have to understand what to build.  Several Agile teams are learning the hard way that their real value isn’t in following the science of the agile practices.  It is about picking the right things to build for the right reasons.  Without a strong Product Owner agile teams can start providing output that misses need or opportunities in much the same way waterfall projects.

Business Value Analysis looks at the way teams make decisions on what to build next. Usually this responsibility was left to the project sponsors (executives in the company) but the speed of change and the complexities of work systems is changing how decision on “what” are made.

This presentation takes a high-level look and provides professionals with a first step in understand the very esoteric concept of Value.  It can mean many different things based on someone’s perspective or position.  But this session will provide tangible ways to assess value and what critical thinking skills are used to support the decision process.  On top of that this session will discuss how to look at business direction and connect it the work planning you do. 

Understanding this critical topic is the key to long term product success especially at the program and portfolio level regardless of what methodology you use.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Registration is on a first come, first serve basis. These sessions will be led by David Mantica, one of our NCPMI Chapter sponsors.  You can attend all five sessions to earn a total of 5 PDUs and you will need to self-report.  By registering, you agree to share your contact information with the facilitator. Two days prior to the event, you will be emailed the URL to join the session. Be sure to log in to the website in order to get the member discount.

About the Speaker: David Mantica | VP & General Manager, Software Education USA LLC

David is an economist from his education, a Product Manager from over 20 years of experience and a business owner and executive from over 15 years of experience. Overall, David has 23 years of business-to-business services, consulting, coaching and training industry experience in roles from operations, service delivery, marketing, product management and executive management. Just recently he successfully sold his business-to-business training firm having taken it from $1.2m in 2005 to $13m by 2013.  
 
He has delivered over 400 presentations (face-to-face or web seminars) to over 15,000 professional and he has been the product manager or executive sponsor in the design, development and go to market strategy on over 350 training courses. He has an impressive portfolio of goal-driven successes identifying market opportunities in the training sector and responding with training product development initiatives. Services developed by his firms have addressed skills gaps in a range of industries, including: the software development life cycle, many IT topics, professional skills, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT and marketing.” 

Currently David is current the COO/ CRO for Revibe Technologies, the manufacture of the world’s first focus tracker wearable device