Live Webinar – May 16th 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 16th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 BST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: TestHuddle.com

As Kevin Harris explains the topic of the webinar:

When I first started 18 years ago, the tester’s role was pretty simple – find as many bugs as you can. That was it. And I was pretty good at that – in my first few years I found literally thousands of bugs.

Many years later we like to think that we are much better testers than we used to be – more experienced, using more techniques and more tools to find bugs in more and more interesting ways.

We are often working on systems incredibly more complex than we ever used to, with more moving parts and more things that could go wrong.

And yet many of us are not raising anywhere near as many bugs that we used to.

So why is that?”

This webinar looks at 10 simple improvements in the way testers work which means that they’re now either catching bugs before they get to the test environment, or, even better, preventing them from happening in the first place.

Presenter: Kevin Harris (LinkedIn profile), NewVoiceMedia, UK – has been in Software Testing for more than 15 years, working in a variety of industries – loyalty, travel, health, Government, marketing and communications.  Kevin worked  in a variety of roles from Tester to Test Manager (via Developer, Business Analyst and Scrum Master), and is is specifically interested in the Agile Process and the positive effect it has had on the Development process. 

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’

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Striving for Zero Bugs on the Test Environment

Live Webinar May 17th, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course ID: MDW1258

Meetings are an opportunity to bring out the best in people in a collaborative, safe environment.

Meetings can also be an incredible waste of time and resources if they’re not managed effectively. Creating an effective meeting involves making a series of conscious choices, and also preparing, conducting, and following through.

This webinar concentrates on how to use meeting effectiveness tools and best practices to promote energizing, focused meetings that produce results; it also provides opportunities to discuss specific meeting challenges and how to successfully facilitate your way to resolution.

What You Will Learn:

• Foundation tools to set the stage for meeting effectiveness
• Steps and actions to successfully manage the 3 phases of a meeting: Before, During, and After
• How to prepare an action agenda
• Strategies to keep participants engaged and focused
• Facilitation skills and techniques to guide meeting interactions
• Guidelines and tips for managing difficult behaviors and situations

Presenter: Crystell Anthony, (LinkedIn profile) M.Ed., MBTI®, CAGS from Northeastern University, and a certified State Trainer for Massachusetts, is a Lead Consultant for Corporate Education Group and Principal and founder of her own consulting company, The Focus Group. Since 1979, Crystell’s training programs are known for containing simplified best practices for easy on-the-job applications and have been successfully installed in organizations across the globe.

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Less Pain, More Gain:
Best Practices for More Effective Meetings

Live Webinar – May 17th 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number and may need to be recorded as a Category C PDU. Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Leadership is evolving beyond traditional leadership skills, and it has never been so important.

In an era of constant change, digital disruption, increased employee expectations and rising business complexity, today’s leaders require more than the fundamentals.

In years past, leadership development focused on helping leaders set performance expectations, communicate effectively, provide feedback, coach and motivate their employees.

While these skills remain important, they are no longer sufficient to meet the business requirements of the 21st century.

Leaders now require skills and competencies to ensure that they also build highly pro-ductive teams, accelerate organizational results and transform customer experiences in a fast-paced, highly competitive and global working environment.

In this hour-long webinar, leadership consultant Kim Caughlin will reveal and discuss the new high-demand skills and competencies required to lead effectively in the 21st century.

Outline:

• Leading in complex times.
• Leading high-performance teams.
• Building your business IQ.
• Making effective business decisions.
• Leading innovation.
• Leading continuous change.

Presenter: Kim Caughlin  (LinkedIn profile) is a sought after facilitator and consultant for leadership and business solutions for Global Knowledge Canada. A learning & development professional with more than 15 years of experience, Kim helps organizations solve business problems in a pragmatic, practical and engaging way with her energy, enthusiasm and expertise.

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Delivering Results Through High-Impact Leadership

Live Webinar May 20th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Innovation … There is so much promise in this word, but many organizations are too focused on the “what” of innovation, rather than the “why.”

At times innovation becomes the goal rather than the means to the goal, with the misconception that innovation is a “one size fits all” approach.

Too often, many view project management as an innovation inhibitor.

This webinar is about making project management and innovation to co-exist through better understanding concepts around Kaizen and Kaikaku.

Kaikaku (Japanese for “radical change”) is a business concept concerned with making fundamental and radical changes to a production system, unlike Kaizen which is focused on incremental minor changes. Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Presenter: Ori Schibi (LinkedIn profile) president of PmKonnectors is a visionary leader, communicator, connector and author of  “Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success”.   Ori offers practical new ways of managing and dealing with projects, programs, business analysis and PMOs  including driving process efficiencies, software implementations, Agile Transformations, and project recoveries.

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Registration for this session is close to being full. If the registration is closed they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar.

An on-demand recording will be available at the link below
within 24 hours of the live session.

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Kaikaku: Projects In Innovative Environments

Live Webinar May 17th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar May 17th, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Although the business value dashboard (BVD) is still a new concept, interest in it is high. I&O leaders are looking for ways to not only show the impact they have on the business, but also to get to a value of conversation and show that I&O can be much more than just another operational cost.

With the help of Gary Spivak (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research Director learn about the primary concepts around building your next BVD, as well as understand how to evaluate and purchase appropriate tooling.

Discussion Topics:

• How a BVD will show the impact of I&O to the business
• How to create a BVD
• How to evaluate, select and implement your next BVD tool

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 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.’

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Business Value Dashboards:
Your Pathway To Business Impact Alignment

Live Webinar – May 17th 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 17th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 BST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: TestHuddle.com

Over the last 20 years Geoff Thompson has been involved in many Test Process Improvement projects.

Today the amount of change and improvement going on in testing is growing, so this is still a very important part of what testers have to do.

People complain that they can’t calculate any benefits, that testers won’t change and why do they need to deliver quick wins?

This presentation looks at how to make any improvement project a success, and it does this by using some fun case study examples looking at how Geoff has seen things go wrong, and from the depth of despair Geoff will look at how things can be made to be successful.

The title of this talk was something a very senior manager once said to Geoff, – How hard can it be write a new process, just do it and just put it on peoples desks, that’s all there is to it. It will just take you a couple of weeks.

Geoff believed him at first, but have since learned his lesson.

The techniques Geoff  will be discussing are just as appropriate in Waterfall as they are in Agile, and DevOps. Come and learn all about it!

Key Takeaways:

• Understand how to structure a process
• Understand the 8 steps to success
• Understand key success factors

Presenter: Geoff Thompson (LinkedIn profile) is the Consultancy Director for Experimentus. working globally Geoff has a real passion for software testing. He is a founder member of the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB), the TMMi Foundation, and the UK Testing Board and is currently the Secretary of the ISTQB and Chairman of The UK Testing Board. He co-authored the BCS book Software Testing – An ISEB/ISTQB foundation. In 2008 Geoff was awarded the European Testing Excellence Award.

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
• 8.3 Control Quality

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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Test Process Improvement: How Hard Can It Be?