Online Webinar – Recorded  July 26, 2011
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU – 1 Cat A Free

In this informative presentation J. LeRoy Ward will describe the Levin-Ward competency model that you can apply immediately to help explore and reduce the complexity that is associated with your programs. Moreover, the model explains specific performance criteria that one should strive to meet and identifies the types of evidence to demonstrate success in each area.

LeRoy will discuss a five-step action plan for implementing the model based on numerous assessments conducted by ESI for organizations large and small.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Identify the six key performance competencies
• Discuss the eight personal competencies program managers require for success
• Assess program management competency using the Levin-Ward competency model
• Understand the five-step action plan for implementing the Levin-Ward model

Presenters:

J. LeRoy Ward, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, PgMP®, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy & Management, ESI International is the author of many publications including: theDictionary of Project Management Terms 3rd edition, thePMP Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide, Eighth Edition, Conversations on Passing the PMP® Exam,, the PgMP® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide, Fourth Edition.

Dr. Ginger Levin (LinkedIn profile) is also author of several Project Management books and materials including:

• Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers
• Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management Series)
• Implementing Program Management: Templates and Forms Aligned with the Standard for Program Management, Third Edition (2013) and Other Best Practices,
• Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management Series)
  
• PgMP® Exam Practice Test and Study Guide, Fourth Edition (ESI International Project Management Series)

Click to view Program Management Complexity: A Competency Model

Online Webinar – Recorded May 16th 2014
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

In the last couple of years, more and more organizations have switched to Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) as their preferred (often, the standard) way to capture, model, and analyze business processes.

There are several reasons for this trend:

• Simple notation: easy to learn and communicate with all stakeholders, on both the business and the technical sides
• Flexible: 3 levels of abstraction that allow modeling simple high-level processes (Descriptive level), analysis and optimization (Analytic level), and specifying complex processes for IT implementation and/or execution (Execution level)
• Showing the whole-picture + hierarchal structure: allows abstraction at high-levels and elaboration into further details, without losing the relationships between different process components
• Efficiency/reuse: projects and analysts reuse/elaborate same models as more details are added throughout the Solution/System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Widely adopted standard: common set of conventions and symbols, with no need to (re)invent the wheel
• Wide adoption by tool providers: virtually all major vendors, commercial or open-source, have adopted BPMN

In this seminar we will introduce core concepts and principles of Business Process Management (BPM) and BPMN and demonstrate how this knowledge will significantly improve Business Analysts’ ability to elicit/capture, analyze, manage, and communicate business and solution requirements.

Presenter: Razvan Radulian’s (LinkedIn profile) CBAP OCEB PMP passion has always been to help/coach people analyze and solve problems and to design & implement business/technical solutions. Razvan is fond of rescuing troubled projects, tackling the most challenging problems and delivering “impossible” solutions.  Rasvan holds on MS in Biochemistry from the University of Bucharest and an MBA from Duke University.

Click to register for Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN) Primer

Live Webinar June 29th, 2015 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar June 29th, 2015 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

So many test tools are bought, downloaded for free, built, or otherwise acquired in a given year, but how many of those tools are still successfully in use four or five years later?

It’s a depressingly small percentage. Many times, the root cause of tool failure was failing to understand the problem you were trying to solve with the tool in the first place.

In this webinar, Rex will describe a straightforward process that you can use to ensure that you capture a detailed set of requirements for your test tool, which can be used to evaluate tools and vendors.

By applying this process, you can improve your chances of avoiding the “failed test tool” syndrome!

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 2:00 am – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of Specifying Test Tool Requirements

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Specifying Test Tool Requirements

Online Webinar  – Recorded September 8, 2011
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A  – Free PDU

The US CIO’s 25-point plan and section 804 of the National Defense Authorization Act require the adoption of the modular approach.

Some federal project and program professionals have interpreted modular as Agile, and view it as the key to delivering better results at a faster rate.

Please join ESI for a discussion on the best practices and techniques of agile project management, which will enable you tol achieve real project performance and business benefits.

Speaker: Nancy Nee (LinkedIn profile), PMP, CBAP, CSM, ESI Executive Director of Product Strategy

Click to view Agile Project Management In Government

Live Webinar July 1st, 2015, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Although traditional testing models worked great for individual applications, today’s testers are challenged with ensuring mobile devices, smart appliances, media channels, developmental environments, and business applications all connect seamlessly.

To keep up, QA organizations must redefine test strategies to meet the demand for application agility through increased test automation, continuous testing, and repositioning QA from a quality gateway to a delivery accelerator.

Attend this web seminar to learn how to adapt your testing to meet the needs of today’s connected world.

Learn the five must-dos::

1. Organize testing in a lean way
2. Use shift-left and shift-right testing
3. Build a practice for testing skills
4. Reduce manual testing in favor of automation
5. Automate test data and environments provisioning

Presenters:

Diego Lo Giudice Vice President, Forrester Research Inc., primarily contributes to and advises on Forrester’s offerings for Application Development & Delivery Professionals. Diego is a leading expert on SDLC processes and practices, covering topics such as agile development, agile and lean transformations, agile development sourcing strategies and services, agile testing practices and tools, DevOps, and software testing and quality, with a key focus on systems of engagement. Diego also covers software delivery metrics, artificial intelligence, and open source governance.

Manas Chakraborthy (LinkedIn profile) Global Head of Testing Services, Mindtree, has more than two decades of experience in the industry and is an IT delivery transformation coach. He is a testing specialist and holds the patent for Test Factory in a Box, a shared services platform to carry out end-to-end testing. He was instrumental in creating the Automated NextGen Testing Framework (integrated with DevOps principles) jointly with HP. Manas launched and led testing as a service and has enabled organizations to set up testing centers of excellence. He helps assess IT process maturity by benchmarking it against quality frameworks like CMMI/TPI and TMMI.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 Five Must-Dos for Testing in a Connected World

Live Webinar – June 30th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

• Are you drowning in a sea of software tools data?
• Do you have reams of test past fail reports, dynamic run time testing defects, Static analysis defects, legacy JIRA backlog items, and customer reported bugs?
• How do you make sense of all of this data?
• If you make sense of it all how do you get all of that information to your developers?

DevOps Applied: A strategy to make sense of the proliferation of software data into a refined software development life cycle. Take the information you have, give it to the people who can make decisions about it, and drive better software quality and security.

Join Richard Jenny, (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PE, PMI-ACP veteran Program Manager and DevOps Director of Program Management at Overture Networks and Jeff Hildreth (LinkedIn profile) Territory Account Executive from Rogue Wave Software as they discuss the sources of software data and how they can be applied to the DevOps strategy of continuous improvement.

Inside INFO – Richard Tells Our Readers:

“This Webinar will have a heavy focus on data management with the Klockwork static analysis tool highlighted. I will be adding some color in examples of how we can use mined data to focus on product quality improvement.”

Click to register for Data Overload! DevOps: A Way To Create Order From Chaos