Live Webinar – December 13th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Data Is Complex!

There are abbreviations, non-English words, companies entered into the name field, and parsing problems when domain values are blank.

Hand-coded rules will always introduce problems to the data steward and require extensive debugging.

Data Quality firms leverage thousands of customers to distill specific quality solutions and enable companies to leverage technologies that have proven success across many verticals.

So, should you build your own data quality solution, or buy one from a third party?

Attend this webinar to learn what to look for in a data quality vendor, and that not all of them are alike regarding features or price.

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Rescue Yourself From The Abyss Of
Data Complexity & Quality

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Live Webinar December 13th, 2016 – 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1/2 Hr  .5 PDU free
Provider: Brightwork

Creating a culture of collaboration within project teams is difficult, especially in distributed teams.

Leveraging the collaborative powers of SharePoint will get your teams connected and working together – regardless of their location.

Join this webinar for actionable insights on:

1. Setting up a SharePoint project team site and connecting team members.
2. Using reports and dashboards to track individual and project team progress.
3. Leveraging discussion boards to solve problems and share solutions.

Brightwork CEO: Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Eamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

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Cultivate Collaboration In Distributed Project Teams
Using SharePoint

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Live Webinar December 14th, 2016, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The perceived wisdom is that organizations should have dedicated cyber/information security teams.

Unfortunately, in too many cases, such teams are obstacles to business innovation, rather than enablers.

In this webinar Tom Scholtz (LinkedIn profile), Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst; demonstrates how the functions currently performed by typical security teams can be performed as effectively, if not better, by other existing teams and employees in the enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• Where in the enterprise most dedicated security functions can be delegated
• The advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy
• What you should do regardless of whether a strategy such as this is appropriate for your enterprise

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Disband Your Security Team Now!

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Live Webinar – December 13th 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
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.

Our brains have not evolved to match the needs
of white collared business environments.

In many cases the natural reaction your brain has to issues in business are the complete opposite of what you should or need to do.

Aside from this, no one trains or teaches on this subject. We brush it under the rug and just assume we will adapt or worse yet, assume it really isn’t a problem.

The reality is that this problem is an epidemic and shows up in the staggering increases in stress related illness and death and the exceedingly high level of disengaged workers.

It is staggering to see the number of business professionals who don’t even know what self-talk is and the dangerous effects it may cause if left unchecked.

In this web seminar David Mantica will get into the very heart of brain dysfunction when tied to business interaction.

Learn about:

• The physiology of emotional intelligence
• Affective forecasting and its impact on decision making
• Cognitive biases and its impact on day to day business interaction
• Neuroplasticity and change management
  • How hard it is to change?
• Your lazy brain: How stereotypes and decision patterns are developed
• Self-talk and stress

Within all these topics we will discuss techniques you can use to help you work around the innate limitations your brain causes. If we let our brains act instinctually against the business challenges we face each day, we limit our productivity and career growth.

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, in software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries.

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Your Brain & Business:
Learn How They Don’t Fit & What You Can Do About It

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Live Webinar – December 14th 2016 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hours  2 PDU free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This webinar provides a practical framework to measure and manage improvement in the area of business analysis and requirements.

This session will help any champion, sponsor or manager implement positive changes in the area of requirements and business analysis.

If your organization is implementing agile or lean practices, integrating ALM or RDM tools, aligning requirements practices with your PMP or SDLC, designing training for BAs, or setting up a Center of Excellence, this webinar will help you bring it all together.

 IAG will discuss the 6 critical components to a holistic program for maturity improvement:

1. Process standardization and improvement
2. Integration of best practices and techniques
3. Technology implementation
4. Competent staff resources
5. Quality deliverables yielding improved results
6. Infrastructure and organizational support

You will hear hard hitting statistics on the benefits of maturing your requirements management capabilities that you can use to help build a business case for your own improvement initiatives.

Learn dozens of key success factors and strategies for championing change throughout your organization’s business analysis and requirements management groups.

Go step by step, through the essential stages of a transformation program geared to improve any organization’s requirements practice.

Whether you have direct responsibility for your organization’s Business Analysis and Requirements Practice, or you are an advocate, a champion or a critical team member, you will undoubtedly take away ideas you can put to use to help improve your organization’s level of requirements management maturity.

Learning Objectives:

• How to start a requirements practice transformation program
• What is Requirements Management Maturity (RMM)
• How to assess your organizations current requirements practice using a Requirements Management Maturity Assessment (RMMA)
• How to use the RMM model to promote and drive change/improvement
• Understand key elements of an efficient project plan for improving your organization’s Requirements Practice
• What is the role of a Requirements Management Office

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Strategies To Requirements Definition &
Management Maturity

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

Midmarket IT leaders often fail to meaningfully communicate the value of IT to business leaders.

The story and supporting metrics are too often wrong. Midmarket IT leaders must learn how to craft and deliver the “value of IT” story to business leaders. It is time to change the IT “story”.

Discussion Topics:

• Why operational performance metrics do not communicate business value
• Why you need to determine what matters to your audience before crafting your value story
• How to tell executives about the impact of IT on business outcomes

Join Robert Naegle (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP and learn to communicate the business value of IT to your senior managers.

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Communicating The Business Value Of IT
To Midmarket Business Execs

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