Live Webinar – May 17th, 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP 1811)
Duration 1 Hr  1 Cat A PDU/CDUs – Free  PDU / CDU

In this session, the entertaining and enlightening Kupe will be discussing Decision Making.

After this session, you will look at your role in a whole new light.  If you are one of the few that has never heard Kupe speak – it is an illuminating educational experience, a treat not to be missed!

Many organizations are faced with project execution and experience high cost overruns and challenges to deliver the anticipated value.

In working with many clients and reading study after study a root cause points to requirement issues.

It could be missing requirements, too many requirements, conflicting requirements, or multiple interpretations of the same requirement.

In the end this challenge and struggle relates to how organizations are making and communicating decisions before, during and after projects.

Decisions need to be made with the right information available at the right time.

One of your main responsibilities is to help others make better decisions, and to make decisions yourself. If decisions are not made during a project nothing can get accomplished.

Easier said than done right?

Making a decision, especially when there isn’t consensus can be interesting to say the least.

However, there are tools that can be used to help facilitate decision making – tools that will lead you and the team to the right decision.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• The Importance of Decision Making to increase the success of projects
• When you need to make decisions and the tools to help make them
• How you help others make decisions

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Kupe Kupersmith CBAP®, President B2T Training,

B2T Training: Since its inception in 2000, B2T Training, has focused solely on providing business analysis training and professional development. As experts in the field, B2T Training continues to shape the Business Analysis discipline and the careers of BA professionals in major corporations across the globe through its high impact training sessions and valuable resources.

Kupe Kupersmith (LinkedIn @Kupe) possesses over 14 years of experience in software systems development. He has served as the lead Business Analyst and Project Manager on projects in the Energy, television, sports management and marketing industries. Kupe, a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®), is also internationally known for his strong mentorship of business analysis professionals.

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Kupe Kupersmith’s – Decision Making:
Addressing the Question of Value

Live Webinar May 19th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar Louis Poulin focuses on risk management in general and on the estimation of risk-related financial losses, in particular.

Presenter: Louis Poulin (LinkedIn profile) is Partner and Chief Technology Officer of GRafP Technologies Inc. where he has been involved in assessing the capability of software development organizations and in developing risk management tools applicable to the field of information technology. He has extensive project management experience in fields encompassing software engineering, air navigation, explosives and weapons detection, and embedded command and control systems. He is the author of “Reducing Risk with Software Process Improvement” published by Auerbach Publications summarizing observations on risks and problems encountered by organizations involved in developing Information Technology solutions. Mr. Poulin served in the Canadian Navy as a Combat Systems Engineering Officer.

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Estimation Of Financial Losses Due To Project Risks

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Online Webinar – Recorded May 19th, 2016
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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In this webinar Chris Greco (LinkedIn profile) focuses on parents as both project managers, and the providers of future project managers (children).

The cases presented are based on real life examples of successful and failed projects and how they helped a prospective project manager learn from those projects.

This entertaining and informational webinar combines parenting with project management.   ( 1 Cat A opportunity )  The L.O.V.E. model for the project team – Using L.O.V.E. To Enhance Project Teams & Project Management  is briefly reviewed.

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An on-demand recording is  available at the link below.

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Parents As The Purveyors Of Project Managers

Live Webinar – May 19th 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 19th 2016, 4:00 – 5:00 BST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: TestHuddle.com

Test automation has been around almost as long as software has been developed.

In the age of Agile and the DevOps arena, having tests fully automated is increasingly becoming a key factor to the success of a project.

The best place for the creation of tests is the agile sprint team, where product owners, developers and QA’s work together.

Tests and their automation should be ready when a sprint is “DONE”!

However, more often than not teams find themselves in a situation where the functionalities under test are ready, but the tests are not.

In this webinar Hans Buwalda will go through a number of solutions a team can do to diminish this problem, and what actions to take when it happens.

Hans will discuss the following solutions:

• How one can apply better test design to drive better automation,
• A number of technical strategies, what developers and product owners can do to help, and
• How to handle the testing and automation work that is still left after a sprint has finished.

A key item in  handling the test automation work that is left over is that QA’s need to own the testing from the beginning, and should not get stuck in the work of previous sprints, since that will inhibit good cooperation with other team members, making matters worse.

Key Takeaways:

• Get more tests created and automated.
• Make automation manageable and maintainable.
• Keep the QA people in sync with their fellow team members.

Presenter: Hans Buwalda (LinkedIn profile) is with LogiGear, USA and  has been working with information technology since his teen years. Author of Integrated Test Design and Automation : Using the Testframe Method, Hans gained his experience as a developer, manager, and principal consultant for companies and organizations worldwide. Hans was a pioneer of the keyword approach to testing and automation, now widely used throughout the industry. His approaches to testing—action-based testing and soap opera testing—have helped a variety of customers achieve scalable and maintainable solutions for large and complex testing challenges. Hans is a frequent speaker at STAR conferences.

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
• 4.4 Monitor & Control 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’

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How To Get Automated Testing “Done”