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After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss’s head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles―counterintuitive tactics and strategies―you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life. Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion.

Scrum is a good start for organizations transitioning from waterfall, or predictive, methodologies to agile, or adaptive, methodologies. Many organizations quickly reach the limits of Scrum. This presentation reviews potential issues using Scrum and how to move beyond them to continue improving the quality and productivity of your Agile team.

Stress is especially high these days! If you believe that miscommunication within your project team is a source of stress, this interactiveonline workshop will help. Conflict is both common and uncomfortable. Even the most close-knit teams will encounter conflict on occasion. In some workplaces,conflicts are resolved quickly and easily; in others, it seems like disputes and arguments happen all the time - and fester, contributing todistrust and more conflict, in a vicious cycle. There are multiple steps project managers can take to create a culture where conflicts are minimized. Just as important, there are simple tipsmanagers can follow to handle the stress of a conflict with grace and fairness, and model curiosity to help teams build a more collaborativeculture.

Migration to the cloud is commonly driven by an enterprise’s ability to improve business and technical performance. These drivers can include increasing business agility, improving workforce productivity, gaining transparency in operational costs, and reducing risk. To help enterprises realize these benefits, AWS provides a detailed roadmap to accelerate the cloud migration planning and execution. The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is designed to help enterprises that are committed to a migration journey migrate existing workloads to Amazon Web Services. The presentation will provide attendees with an overview of the AWS MAP approach and processes, to include migration readiness assessment, migration planning, and operating model. Application migration options, migration tools, and customer experiences will also be presented in a forum that encourages attendee Q&A.

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