Live Webinar September 29th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Objective-C is the third most used programming language on the planet.

It is the language used to program applications on all Apple products.

This webinar by Tom Love (LinkedIn profile) the co-inventor of the language will describe its history and how it is currently being used in agile development projects.

Note:  The information we have from ITMPI states this session is a Technical PDU however our editorial committee believes this to be a Strategic & Business management PDU.  Please confirm the category when you take the session.

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The History Of Objective-C

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Live Webinar – Sept 28th, 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hours 2 PDUs/CDUs
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Key content covered in the webinar:

• Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
• Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
• The Components of a Use Case
• The Different Forms of Use Cases
• The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
• Detailed Use Case Modeling
• Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
• Use Cases and Business Rules
• Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
• Next Steps – What do you do when you’re done?

Get specific answers to:

• “Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What’s the difference between use cases and requirements?”
• “What is the difference between a business and a system use case”
• “How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?”
• “How many use cases do I need?”
• “How detailed do the use cases need to be?”
• “What questions should I ask to build a good use case?
• “How many alternate flows do I need?”
• “When do I know I’m done?
• “What is the purpose of use case diagrams?”

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Writing A Business Use Case In 7 Steps

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Live Webinar – September 29th 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 Hour  1 PDU Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown /ASPE (REP 2161)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Once the organization has gotten beyond the harvesting “low hanging fruit” common with the beginning of a continuous improvement initiative, improvement efforts may require more sophistication.

Lean Six Sigma, the marriage of the tools and concepts in Lean and Six Sigma, bridge that gap!

This session will introduce you to Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA), two of tools used to dial in value and further eliminate wastes when initial methods no longer provide gains and data or data capture is present or available.

Join Elena Gilbert in this session for an excellent introduction to statistical process control & measurement systems analysis.

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Lean Six Sigma:
Intro To Statistical Process Control &
Measurement Systems Analysis

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Live Webinar – September 30th, 2016 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 30th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

Join Dot Tudor (LinkedIn profile) in  this webinar to learn about the AgileBA (Agile Business Analysis) Handbook – published by DSDM Consortium – which offers useful, practical and comprehensive guidance on the role of the business analyst working in an Agile way.

AgileBA aims to give context to the business analyst role beyond the individual project, in relation to organisational mission and strategy, and to give additional depth and guidance for the business analyst role.

Effective business analysis skills are widely regarded in project management and product development circles as being critical in helping organizations to achieve their business goals.

With the project management industry seeing a boom in popularity of Agile approaches over recent years, AgileBA aims to address the need for clear and helpful guidance to support business analysts, particularly those operating in an Agile environment.

The Handbook also acts as reference material for the professional AgileBA certification from APMG.

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Best Practice For Business Analysts In An Agile World

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Live Webinar September 28th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Information security has long focused on looking out for the needs of the business.

In the Internet age, however, businesses regularly put consumers at risk by not adequately protecting their information.

Times are changing, and focusing security policies around limiting liability for the company isn’t adequate.

While there has been very limited liability for a business if the personal information of the consumer, the silent stakeholder, is stolen, that will soon change; the Federal Trade Commission now has the power to pursue companies that are not adequately protecting consumer information.

Businesses need to adjust their perception of what they are protecting and why.

Ric Messier explores the concept of risk in relation to information assets. By the end of this webcast, you’ll be able to appropriately determine protections for assets that are most at risk.

Topics include:

• Security 2.0: Policy and compliance
• Metrics
• Security 3.0: Understanding the landscape
• Modern adversaries
• Monetizing the victim
• Data protection
• Data loss prevention
• Ethical obligations

Presenter: Ric Messier (LinkedIn profile) GSEC, CEH, CISSP had his first experience on a global network called the BITNET in the early 1980s. Since then he has been hooked on security after unexpectedly exploiting a hole in a mail program on an IBM mainframe. In the 90’s Ric spent several years working on VOIP solutions and quickly became an expert in forensic investigations.  Ric regularly consults to law enforcement on their investigations. Ric lead a team developing a managed intrusion detection system offering at Genuity and provided security expertise to the implementation and use of session border controllers in their VoIP networ . With Ric’s expertise he is the defacto expert in performing penetration tests on products!

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Security 3.0:
Looking Out For The Silent Stakeholders

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Live Webinar September 28th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:   Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this “not to be missed” session Gary Cokins (LinkedIn profile), the preeminent organizational performance practitioner & best selling author, will describe how to complete the full vision of analytics-based enterprise performance management and improvement!

Enterprise performance management (EPM) is now viewed as the seamless integration of managerial methods such as strategy execution with a strategy map and its companion balanced scorecard (KPIs) and operational dashboards (PIs); enterprise risk management (ERM); driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts; product / service / channel / customer profitability analysis (using activity-based costing [ABC] principles); customer lifetime value (CLV); lean and Six Sigma quality management for operational improvement; and resource capacity planning.

Hear Gary Cokins describe why the adoption rate of EPM methodologies have been slow, as have the lessons learned to overcome obstacles and get buy-in.

Some of Gary’s Very Informative Books:

• Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance with Larry Maisel
• Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting in Uncertain Times American Institute of CPAs With Michael Coveney
• Strategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance  AICPA
• The Handbook of Supply Chain Costing Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals With co-authors
• Activity-based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide
• Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
• CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value With Information Technology
• Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis

About Gary Cokins:

Gary Cokins (LinkedIn profile) is an internationally recognized expert, sought after keynote speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems.

Founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina Gary has written numerous books and mentored individuals and organizations in performance management over the last 40+ years. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971 and his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC’s Link-Belt Division, Financial Controller and Operations Manager and in 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte consulting, and then KPMG consulting. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS). From 1997 until recently Gary was in business development with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

Gary’s two most recent books are Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap  and Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics .

His most recent book co-authored with Larry Maisel (LinkedIn profile) is Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance. Visit Mr. Cokins site at GaryCokins.com.

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What Barriers Slow Adopting Enterprise Performance Management Methods?

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