Live Webinar – Wednesday October 26, 2011 1:00 – 3:30 PM EDT
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)
Presented by: Kent Beck Sponsored by : Urban{Code}
Duration: 2 Hours + QA – 2 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs

This 2 ½ hour virtual conference – hosted by Kent Beck, the developer of Extreme Programming, and moderated by Alan Zeichick, the founder of SD Times – explores Kanban with a goal of helping you understand how it works, how it can improve your agile processes, and help your organization write better software faster than ever.

Seats are limited for this free virtual conference, so sign up today!

Conference Description:

Unfamiliar with Kanban? You’ll learn all about it. Already going “lean”? You’ll walk away with tips, tricks and best practices to make your Kanban initiatives even more successful.

Lean software development is focused on removing inefficiencies and waste from your software development efforts.

Kanban is an increasingly popular system for scheduling your projects – it helps you define what to create, and how to limit your work items to ensure that applications are built on schedule and to very high quality.

Kanban – which originated as a just-in-time manufacturing process for Toyota – is synergistic with all development methodologies, including Agile methodologies like Scrum. Applying the lean principles of software development with Kanban actually makes your agile transition more effective.

Please join the SD Times Virtual Conference to learn all the answers – and best practices.

The Presenters:

Host – Kent Beck- Kent Beck, one of the industry’s best-known agile practitioners, is the founder and director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI).

Speaker – Aslam Khan- Aslam Khan, a noted agile software development expert, has two decades of professional experience covering software architecture and development using design patterns, agile methodologies and various static and dynamic programming languages.

Speaker – Henrik Kniberg- Henrik Kniberg is an agile and lean software development coach based in Stockholm.

Moderator- Alan Zeichick- Editorial Director of SD Times

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Leaders of Agile: Best Practices for Agile Development with Kanban

Live Webinar October 26, 2011 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Typemock

According to Forrester Research, “It’s time for software development professionals to stop sitting on the fence where Agile is concerned.” But, with so many failed efforts, IT managers and developer leaders are reluctant to try again and build an Agile development process without an effective plan and processes. In fact, a new study from SearchSoftwareQuality and Gartner shows that “Agile adoption has slowed significantly,” despite the productivity gains that Agile practices provide.

In this webinar, Typemock’s Product Manager, Gil Zilberfeld, will provide a roadmap to building effective Agile Development Processes, including:

• How do I get started? Building an Agile Strategy
• Scrum is not enough: XP isn’t just a version of Windows
• Basic Communication & Feedback Practices
• Three Times a Charm: Refactoring, Unit Tests, Continuous Integration
• How Not to Fail: What Not To Do

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click here to register for The Step by Step Guide to Building Effective Agile Development Processes

Live Webinar October 31, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: The Project Management Bookstore

• Do you work for a vampire?
• Or, as a project manager, does your project team see you as a vampire?

If you can feel your life being sucked out of you because of your job, the people you work with, or the creepy guy that wrecks your project you’re probably working for a vampire.

Vampires in the corporate world love the angst, complexity, and office drama that make you hate your job, kills your joy, and robs you of the passion you once felt in the work you do.

Based on his newest book, Vampire Management: Why Your Job Sucks, author and project management consultant Joseph Phillips will explore the five most common reasons why people hate their jobs. You don’t want to work for a vampire—and you certainly don’t want to become one. Project managers should attend this presentation to:

• Recognize the tell-tale signs of vampire managers
• Explore how to LEAD, NOT MANAGE project team members
• Learn strategies to fight back against office vampires
• Focus on completing projects rather than creating project drama
• Escape the corporate graveyard where vampires lurk forever and ever

Presenter:

Joseph Phillips, PMP, Project+, CTT+, is the Director of Education for Project Seminars, is author of the book PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, Third Edition (Certification Press) He has taught technical course since 1995 for various industries including health care, information sciences, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and architectural. Phillips has served as a project management consultant for organizations creating project offices, maturity models, and best-practice standardization.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Vampire Management: Why Your Job Sucks

Live Webinar October 27, 2011 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Decision Management Solutions

Decision Management Systems are the next generation of information systems. Agile, analytic and adaptive, Decision Management Systems put business rules and predictive analytics to work. Once the right decisions are identified, the core of a Decision Management Systems is a set of software components – Decision Services – that make these decisions accurately, reliably and responsively.

This webinar will introduce Decision Management Solutions proven approach to building decision services. Based on multiple client engagements, this approach uses the right mix of business rules management systems and predictive analytic technology to build effective decision services. Expanding on the analysis done to build your decision inventory, the approach identifies the core decision flow, rule sets and predictive analytic models you need. Applying best practices on decisions to drive effective implementation. Building a detailed understanding of decision structure, it ensures that rule management technology and detailed rule analysis is applied correctly, eliminating unnecessary costs.

CEO James Taylor (LinkedIn profile) will host this second of three how-to webinars on Decision Management Systems.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

Click here to register for How to Build Decision Management Systems: Part 2 Decision Services