SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR – Highly Recommended
Live Webinar Jan 5th, 2017 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: ProjectManagement.com/Gantthead (REP #2488)
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There are many risk identification techniques that we can use to identify risks and yet brainstorming is the most commonly used technique.

Latest research studies into decision making and predictive capabilities give insight on additional techniques and practices which could improve our risk identification rates.

What quantitative and quantitative methods should we use to achieve the best results?

The focus in this interactive Q&A based session will be on how to improve risk identification rates from around 60% of identified risks to 85% of identified risks.

Presenter: Nicki Kons, BSc., MBA, MA, PMI-RMP, PMI-PMP, (LinkedIn profile)

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Risk Identification Techniques: Beyond Brainstorming

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SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR – Highly Recommended!
Live Webinar January 4th 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST or …
Live Webinar January 4th 2017 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

While much of testing and test management involves rational decision-making, measuring quality and providing testing services to the team, there are realms of the test manager’s job where psychology meets politics to form psychopolitics.

In this webinar, drawn from three decades of industry experience and materials in his best-selling book Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing, 3rd edition, Rex will discuss how psychology and politics can collide to make the test manager’s job…interesting.

Join in the discussion after the initial presentation with your own questions and stories about testing psychology, testing politics, and plain ol’ psycho-politics!

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of:
The Psychopolitics Of Test Management

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The Psychopolitics Of Test Management

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SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR
Live Webinar – Jan 4th, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Gaining adoption once an enterprise aggregates all their projects into a portfolio can be challenging.

Project Pro and Project Online/Server are really good out of the box however, your enterprise adoption strategy for Project Pro and Project Online/Server requires just a little bit more.

In this session Darrin will cover adoption strategies around shifting to a new tool, updating best practices and policies, training the team, surfacing new insights all while creating excitement for all of your users.

Presenter:  Darrin Lange, (LinkedIn profile) BAd PMP Director of Operations and Project Management at Advaiya, has 20+ years with diverse project management experience in the Information Technology industry. Working in leadership roles across diverse companies from Public Safety software companies to DaaS providers and Consulting, he has helped to shape company strategies. Darrin is now responsible for forming and facilitating cohesive teams, client interfacing, and liaising with stakeholders.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Project Online/Server Adoption Strategy

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SHORT NOTICE WEBINAR
Live Webinar January 5th, 2017, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Data and analytics leaders now come from all parts of the business.

Data and analytics programs are no longer being led exclusively by IT, but are created by and for other business leaders.

The integrated, connected, real-time nature of digital business requires collaboration between historically independent organizational units, and data and analytics programs are at the center of it all.

Join Debra Logan (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) VP & Gartner Fellow and learn about Gartner’s 2017 vision for the direction of analytics and data.

Discussion Topics:

• The trends impacting data and analytics, and the challenges and opportunities they create
• How leading organizations create and evolve their information and analytics strategies
• The leading practices in data and analytics programs

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Data & Analytics: Leadership & Vision 2017

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