Live Webinar October 12th, 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)

This webinar is based on a 2-day workshop titled “AGILE METHODS or How To Implement Them Without Courting Disaster”.

The full course provides participants with the knowledge required to fully understand & implement Agile methods, and Scrum in particular.

In this webinar Louis Poulin  looks at Agile methods, and SCRUM in particular, from an implementation perspective, based on observations made in the field as part of detailed appraisals of organizations that have succeeded or ailed at implementing such methods.

Louis will give an introduction & overview of the subjects that he presents in the 2 day course .

Pros and cons of Agile methods are discussed, along with the types of projects where they have proven most suitable.

Louis will also discuss each step of Scrum is and the artifacts that are used and produced during sprints are described.

Louis presents the challenges of implementing Scrum are, particularly in organizations that have been using other life cycles such as waterfall, and iterative and incremental.

The cultural transformation that Scrum entails, will also addressed.  This often constitutes a formidable obstacle for many organizations.

He will stress the importance of not discarding what your organization has accomplished but rather build upon past achievements to further improve performance.  The Full training course includes exercises where the Agile concepts are explored in more detail.

Finally, for organizations that have also aligned themselves with standards such as ISO 12207 and models such as the CMMI for Development, examples of meeting the intent of CMMI practices are also presented, based on organizations that have achieved Maturity Level 5 after having successfully adopted Scrum.

Topics are covered during the training:

• Agile principles
• Requirements and user stories
• Product and Sprint backlogs
• Estimation and planning
• Technical debt
• Roles and responsibilities:
  • Product owner,
  • Scrum master,
  • Development team,
  • Managers
• Scrum, product, release and portfolio planning
• Sprint planning, execution, review and retrospective
• Meeting the intent of CMMI specific practices up to Maturity Level 5 with Scrum

Presenter: Louis Poulin (LinkedIn profile) is Partner and Chief Technology Officer of GRafP Technologies Inc. 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” 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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What You Need To Know Before Going Agile

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Live Webinar – October 12th, 2016 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

“I have no time for learning & training”
“Must I attend this training?”

We hear the complaints of learners.
But what are we doing about it?

Many studies and experts tell us that training and learning must focus on improving performance. However, performance improvement has always been a nebulous or difficult goal to achieve through training and learning programs.

Bersin by Deloitte has released a recent study showing that training programs rank the lowest in the list that learners use to obtain knowledge to improve work.

The highest source of knowledge is from connections within the organization.

Skipping learning and accelerating expertise is the new “buzz”of new platforms, solutions and learning thought leaders. However, most solutions are stuck with “learning content and its tools and mindsets” and not on accelerating expertise.

In this session, Ray will discuss the following :

• What is significantly different about focusing on performance or expertise?
• What are the different types of expertise researches that have been found to work in rapidly changing organizations?
• What compelling transformation must content undergo?
• How do you help learners think and build expertise and not just learning?
• How do expertise development tools such as framing, channeling, sensing, problem-solving and others accelerate expertise?
• How do trainer, designer and coach skills get overhauled to become expertise accelerators?

Presenter : Ray Jimenez (LinkedIn profile) – Chief Learning Architect and Founder of Vignettes Learning and StoryImpacts.com, a systems development and consulting company specializing in e-Learning and Performance Systems, eLearning course development and interactive tools and social learning community platform.

Ray has over twenty years experience in the consulting and training industry. Author of 3-Minute e-Learning: Rapid Learning and Applications, Amazingly Lower Cost and Faster Speed of Delivery: Plus Online Demos, Templates, Videos, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories To Engage e-Learners (Scenario-Based Learning, Volume 1), and DIYEL 101 Tips for Do-It-Yourself eLearning. Ray teaches eLearning programs for the University of California, Irvine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center and Assumption University, Bangkok.  Visit Ray’s website and his blog.

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Skip Learning, Accelerate Expertise

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Live Webinar October 11th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Realizing the benefits of a digital business requires a technology and business architecture that incorporates people, businesses and things.

In this webinar Cathy Tornbohm (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) explores the required capabilities of technology and service providers in helping their customers transform and embrace emerging trends such as the economics of connections, robotic process automation and smart machines to achieve the full benefits of digital business.

Discussion Topics:

• The key building blocks for digital business architectures
• How to craft sales and marketing strategies for digital business architectures

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Architecting The Digital Business

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Live Webinar October 13th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Open source modules, and especially npm, are undoubtedly awesome.

However, they also represent an undeniable and massive risk. You’re introducing someone else’s code into your system, often with little or no scrutiny.

Each component may have vulnerabilities (~14% of them do), be compromised, or even be outright malicious.

Multiply that risk by hundreds of dependencies, and you have a recipe for disaster. In this webinar Guy Podjarny demonstrates how to mitigate this risk without losing productivity.

Guy shares data about risk, shows how to find and fix known vulnerabilities in npm dependencies, discusses how to prioritize the ones worthy of manual inspection, and suggests what to monitor in production.

Presenter: Guy Podjarny  (LinkedIn profile, @guypod Guypo) is founder of Snyk.io, building web security tools for developers& was previously CTO at Akamai & founder of Blaze.io. Guy’s research and writing focuses on web security and performance, often running large tests to reach data-driven conclusions. A frequent conference speaker, he writes at guypo.com and Medium, is the author of Responsive & Fast: Implementing High-Performance Responsive Design, and the creator of Mobitest.

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Techniques To Establish Your Data Lake:
How To Achieve Data Quality & Security

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