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iRise Education Services is pleased to announce the availability of three new e-learning courses, all freely available for on-demand access. Please see the press release for more information, or go directly to the e-Learning Course page on iRise.com.
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Congratulations to valued customers Anders Jangbrand of CSC, Pete Dowling of UPS, and Ashley Hall, randomly selected from among the many e-learning course evaluation respondents who provided feedback on the iRise e-learning that launched back in August. Our three winners each received a $25 Amazon gift certificate with our compliments. Enjoy!
Customer feedback is extremely important to us as we look for ways to improve and expand our current training offerings (in fact, look for an announcement next week regarding our newest additions, which were largely the result of customer input). To show our appreciation to those of you who take the time to provide this feedback, we plan to repeat our random drawing each quarter. All you need to do to enter is complete one of our courses, and then follow the link to the online evaluation on the course launch page. You will be entered once for each course you evaluate. Happy learning!
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The iRise Professional Services team has created a tremendous resource that is a must download for all iRise Users. This new iDoc, called the iRise 6 – Common Samples, is comprised of 53 iRise examples covering a wide range of data functionality, RIA and advanced interactions. A few of the documented Samples include: accordion panes, alternate views, autopopulation, portlets, table behaviors, data operations, datasheet actions and search.
One happy iRise user who already downloaded the Common Samples iDoc had this to say, “This is one of iRise’s best pro-active customer service moves. So smart. Big props to those who built them in the PS Group.”
The iDoc is provided as a convenience for all users to learn advanced features and improve their knowledge of iRise. The iDoc is available for download from the iRise Users section of the Catalyze Community. You must be sign into the Catalyze Community and have iRise User Permissions to download the iDoc. If you are not yet a member of Catalyze or the iRise Users Communities, you can get more information and register from this link.
Here are the key links to the Common Samples documents in Catalyze.
Each Sample contains a description of the functionality, the degree of difficulty, steps to demonstrate the functionality and steps on how to build the simulation in iRise as noted below:
Enjoy! If you have any comments or questions about the Common Samples iDoc, please use the Common Samples discussion forum in Catalyze. And thank you iRise Professional Services.
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At the World Congress for Business Analysts (WCBA), Cynthia Sniezak from Disney Parks described how Disney Park’s IT Academy “Builds BAs and PMs That Any Business Sponsor Would Fight To Have On Their Project.”
First, I want to point that I love how Disney refers to all of their employees as Cast Members. It clearly demonstrates that everyone is part of the ’show.’
Disney views talent management as a business differentiator and the mission of the IT Academy is to “make our cast wildly successful.” Disney uses an approach they refer to as HILL which is an acronym for:
- Hire the very best
- Invest strategically
- Lease rising skills
- Lease setting skills
Cynthia also shared their “Leadership Framework At a Glance” which is a generic way to view all jobs on a consistent basis. The key elements of the framework are:
- Delivery and Action (delivery, initiative, organizational stewardship)
- Personal Dynamics (flexibility and adaptability, impact and influence, interpersonal understanding, relationship building)
- Managing Others (developing others, team leadership, teamwork)
- Thinking and Solving Problem (analytical thinking, conceptual thinking, technical expertise)
In terms of training, the IT Academy makes sure that their training is consistent for both the project managers (PMs) and business analysts (BAs). Their training is vendor-delivered (ACC Learning), aligned with the PMBOK and BABOK, and aligned with Disney business objectives. The core PM training is 11 days with 6 days of electives which is completed during an employee’s first 12 to 18 months with Disney. The BA training is a subset of the PM training.
Cynthia also shared some of the tips that they use to reinforce training which includes laminated cheat sheets, note cards and resources such as their internal BA group called BALOO and the external Catalyze community.
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