Live Webinar – November 29, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

As companies work to migrate their software development approach from Waterfall to Agile, they often begin to discover that the limited set of tools offered by the Agile (or Scrum) framework alone do not satisfy organizational needs.

Larger projects, more teams, and limited resources are often the hallmark and impetus to implement a Lean development approach where value streams and waste elimination drive the creation of better products, more profitable efforts, and fully utilized resource teams.

In this web seminar we will discuss the process, function, and benefits of utilizing Kanban and Lean to streamline your efforts.

Presenter:
Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer,with 5 years of Agile experience effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities.

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Live Webinar – November 29, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hours Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: PushToTest

Workshop on Building High Scalable Applications with Service Components

Your choices for scalable and most productive platforms to build SOA, BPM, and Web applications are vital to your organization’s success.

The problems you need to solve are testing and evaluating applications and business processes that use Rich Internet Application (RIA, using Ajax, Flex, Flash,) JMS, and SOAP and REST Web Service interfaces.

You are not interested in lame “instant service development” schemes. Your application does not have a magical silver bullet that involves no work, no time, and no sense.

Join Frank Cohen, (LinkedIn profile) CEO and Founder at PushToTest and inventor of the TestMaker Open Source Test tool. This is ideal for CIOs, CTOs, Development and Test Executives, and IT managers.

Here is what they have for you:

• A comparison of developer productivity and performance on Oracle, IBM, and TIBCO
• A systematic, simple way to understand and implement effective tests of your application
• Test software to build tests and deploy to desktop, grid, and cloud environments
• A clear tutorial approach to the PushToTest methodology of building and repurposing tests to understand the correct functioning, performance, and scalability of your application
• An organized reference guide to the “best of the best” tips, techniques, patterns and antipatterns from PushToTest over the years, and how it all fits together

In other words, you don’t have to be Einstein to “get” this stuff.

Every attendee will receive fully working copies of the open source test tools, including Selenium, soapUI, PushToTest, TestGen4Web, and many others taught in this Webinar.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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’

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Live Webinar November 28, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

Strategy, planning and execution must be integrated in the new product-project development environment.

Some of the best ideas fail and talented teams struggle to compensate during the entire lifecycle. The void between strategy and execution detracts from the team’s focus resulting in decreased productivity, missed delivery dates, increased cost and loss of damage control with Customers.

A majority of the gap may be attributed to leaderships lack of soft skills, practical skills and voids in wisdom driven by the desire for speed. A small potion of the gap may be attributed to the inadequate use of appropriate tools by the teams.

The presentation will focus on the following 9 areas:

• Leadership
• The Portfolio
• Human Resource Capacity Planning
• Engaged Stakeholders
• Sustainable Infrastructure
• Integration
• Risks
• Adapting to Change
• Critical Decision Making & Governance

Objectives:

• How to identify signs of the S2E gap
• Methods and tools to fill the void
• Proven practical wisdom to face the gap head on

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Live Webinar November 28, 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Presented by: CollabNet
Duration: 1 Hour + 30 min Question Period 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU

When organizations adopt an agile approach to development like Scrum there is so much focus on the iterative nature of agile development that long range vision and strategic product design can get lost.

In this webinar, Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Process Mentor, Jimi Fosdick, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CST discusses the need to include long term product vision, coherent user experience and User Centered design and architecture along with specific best practices for achieving a coherent product that delights users.

Topics will include:

• Discussion of Product Vision and approaches to crafting a compelling overall vision for products
• Discussion of User-Centered/Value-Driven design and approaches to incorporating user experience (UX) and software architecture early in the development process
• Explanation of the pitfalls of a lack of vision and so-called “hybrid” models for incorporating UX and architecture into Scrum Projects

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

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

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.’

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Live Webinar November 28, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

With software systems an integral part of your business, it is critical that the investments you make carefully consider the economic impact of your decisions.

Whether you are developing a new application or spending to maintain an aging system, there are proven ways to control project costs and deliver quality code that has a positive benefit to your bottom line.

This webinar discusses a number of tools and measures to enable more financial based decision-making regarding software choices.

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Online Webinar
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization. IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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