Online Webinar – August 1st , 2013
Duration: 1.5 Hour Credits: 1.5 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Note: NetObjectives is an REP ( 3045) but this opportunity is a Category B PDU.

When teams decide to “go Agile” they invariably decide between Scrum or the Kanban Method.

This is often because both Scrum and the Kanban Method provide a straightforward approach to get started. However, our experience has shown us that this leaves several options off the table.

The reality is, one shouldn’t pick between two options.

One should look at the principles and foundations that underlie both and select what is correct for you.

While this might at first appear to be a daunting task, one that can’t be accomplished by someone new to Agile, it actually isn’t.

This webinar discusses these issues and provides a checklist for creating a hybrid process. Answers to a few questions can easily guide you to a custom-fit starting team approach.

Some of these questions are:

• Can cross-functional teams be created?
• Is there agreement to start with Acceptance Test-Driven Development
• How is management involved?
• Should we use iterations or a pure flow model?

In addition to making decisions, the webinar discusses why the following should be done regardless of whether you are doing Kanban or Scrum:

• Why you should use minimal business increments
• Why you need explicit policies
• Why the product/iteration backlog should be sequenced
• Why stories should be small
• Why you need demos and retrospections on a regular cadence
• How to timebox a la Scrum or at a story level
• Why you should have as few stories open as possible while maintaining productivity

By considering a few issues, one can start with a team software management method that is avoids much of the learning curve (read mistakes) that most teams new to Agile will have to overcome.

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

Click to register for Why Hybrid Methods are More Powerful than the Kanban Method or Scrum

Online Webinar – Recorded November 7th, 2013
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

• Is your company embracing TDD?
• Want to improve your skills?

Test Driven Development (TDD) ensures good design and better code with fewer bugs.

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Difference between unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)
2. Benefits of TDD
3. Problems and pitfalls and how to overcome them
4. Principles of TDD
5. How to test both new and complicated legacy code with TDD

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Intro to Test Driven Development (TDD)

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As we Start our 4th year – I recognize how blessed I have been to meet and chat with so many of our our AMAZING READERS readers around the world.

This year I concentrated on connecting with our members worldwide. We are now read in 181 countries and we have suggested almost 3500 PDU learning opportunities.

It is connecting with our incredible community and learning so much about and from them that is the reason that this venture is such a joy for me.

I genuinely want to thank all of our readers and our volunteers who make this site possible!

Thank you So Much – I have learned so much from you all!

– Martin Chernenkoff Editor PDU Of The Day

Our readers are of many diverse backgrounds and faiths and I wanted to find a way to best express my thanks and best wishes.

The lyrics of this song express my thoughts and my prayers to all of you so much better than I can express.

YOU ALL make this possible! Blessings to you all!

My Christmas Card To You

Written by Tony Romeo Sung by: David Cassidy Discography

To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

I’m looking out my window at the softly falling snow
that dances in the early morning light
I got my guitar right before me, strummin’ a beautiful sound
watching it a-comin’ down, all around
on the fields and the farms and the road to town

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a Christmas card to all the folks I love
Instead of lettin’ the postman bring it, I decided I’d rather sing it
especially for you, for you

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May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

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both now and the whole year through
it says so in my Christmas card to …

You and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

Recorded Webinar – Recorded February 26th 2013
Duration:1 hour Webcast – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Supporting business architecture as part of EA is of critical importance to organizations focused on delivering outcome driven EA.

By bridging the gap between strategy and execution and by illustrating the impact of business and IT changes, business architecture is a key to making EA relevant to business leaders

Discussion Topics:

• Why is supporting business architecture of critical importance?
• How does business architecture enable business transformation?
• What are the best practices for supporting business architecture?

Presenter: BetsyBurton, (LinkedIn profile) VP Distinguished Analyst

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 view Business Architecture Bridging Strategy and Execution

Recorded Webinar – Recorded February 27th 2013
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The dramatic, rapid convergence of communications, collaboration and social media, accompanied by new cloud delivery models, poses a critical challenge for CIOs and planners.

Significant opportunities and risks exist as Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Google and Avaya all compete. Enterprises must rethink their strategic vendor relations and business models.

Discussion Topics:

• What will be the key unified communications and collaboration (UCC) technology trends through 2013?
• Which solutions will deliver the greatest value to enterprises?
• How should enterprises develop their UCC road map?

Presenter:

• BernElliot, (LinkedIn profile) VP Distinguished Analyst
• David MarioSmith, (LinkedIn profile) Sr Research Analyst

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 10.3 Control Communications

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 Unified Communications and Collaboration: Driving Business Value

Online Webinar- Recorded October 1st, 2013
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

The real challenge of programming isn’t learning a language’s syntax—it’s learning to creatively solve problems so you can build something great. In this one-of-a-kind webcast, author V. Anton Spraul breaks down some of the ways that programmers solve problems and teaches you how to Think Like a Programmer.

In this webcast we answer the questions:

• What is “problem solving” for programmers, and why is it so important?
• Can it be learned, or do some people just “get it”?
• How can someone develop his or her problem-solving ability?
• What are some of the basic techniques of problem-solving for programmers?

Presenter: V. Anton Spraul (LinkedIn profile) has over fifteen years of experience teaching introductory programming and other topics in computer science. His latest book, Think Like a Programmer, is a distillation of the techniques he has honed over many one-on-one sessions with struggling programmers. He is also the author of Computer Science Made Simple.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 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 Problem Solving: The Missing Ingredient for New Programmers