Live Webinar January 19th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar Adolfo Villafiorita (LinkedIn profile) will look at some distinguishing characteristics of open source projects and what they can teach us from a management perspective.

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Source Development Projects:
A Management Perspective

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

• In an agile world do we still need requirements?
• How do requirements change in a world of agile development methods?
• What skills and tools do business analysts need to thrive in this space?

Agile methodologies have gained a lot of traction in recent years. Better risk mitigation and increased visibility into development have converted many waterfall aficionados.

Unfortunately, many agile pundits have singled out requirements as the source of bloat and inflexibility in the software development life-cycle, and some recommend not writing requirements at all.

The real goal of project managers, business analysts, developers, and users is project success. How, then, can business analysts work within agile methodologies and help them succeed?

What do requirements look like without all of the overhead? What is the right balance between agility and rigidity?

This presentation will answer these questions and provide tips and techniques analysts can use to add value in an agile world.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn specific techniques used to solve common problems with requirements in agile development cycles.
2. Participants will have a better understanding of the benefits and common problems with agile approaches.
3. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of the differences between a traditional requirements approach and agile approaches.

Presenters:

Joy Beatty, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Research & Development Seilevel, Joy Beatty has 15 years of experience in helping change the way customers create requirements with new requirements methodologies and training courses. She is a contributor to the core team for the new release of the IIBA BABOK^® Guide. She is a co-author of Visual Models for Software Requirements (Best Practices (Microsoft) and Software Requirements, 3rd Edition with Karl Wiegers

Candase Hokanson (LinkedIn profile) Senior Product Manager Seilevel, a requirements consulting firm that redefines how software requirements are created. Candase helps clients to clearly understand the desired business value of their projects and has cut up to 80% of project scope in unrelated or low priority requirements for multiple projects. Candase has also developed requirements for a variety of products such as: a management accounting and profitability application, a globally used consolidated sales tool and a globally used software portal where customers can access their digital products for a multi-billion dollar technology company.

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It’s An Agile World:
Requirements At The Speed Of Thought

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2017, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

For many years’ data and analytics leaders, particularly data and application architects, have assumed that data should be centralized or left distributed.

Data warehouses, data lakes, ERP systems and master data management represent differing degrees of centralization.

As a result, information governance, data sharing and integration efforts have had to cope with an “all or nothing” extreme.

To connect and link current and new ideas cogently, in this webinar, Andrew White (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) introduces the data hub strategy.

Discussion Topics:

• Why the “centralize it all” or “leave it at the edge” approaches need to be re-examined
• What a data hub is and the purpose and value of a data hub strategy
• How to get started with your data hub strategy

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To Hub Or Not To Hub:
That Is The Data Question

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Live Webinar January 19th, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Machine Learning is not new, but its application across memory-optimized distributed systems has led to an explosion in both the number and capability of its uses.

Pandora develops personalized content recommendations with machine learning algorithms, Tesla has produced the first widely distributed autonomous vehicle, and Amazon uses autonomous robots to move packages within its warehouses and even deliver packages.

When coupled with real-time data, advanced analytics approaches like machine learning and deep learning create immediate business opportunities.

Machine learning has never been more accessible—if your data pipelines support real-time analysis.

Attendees will learn tools and techniques for integrating machine learning models across industries and organizations. Steven Camiña, MemSQL Product Manager, will walk through critical technologies needed in your technology ecosystem, including Python, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and a real-time database.

The webcast also features:

• Live predictive analytics demonstration
• Examples of machine learning applications in the energy and supply chain industries
• Architectural diagrams and technology stacks from real-world use cases

President:  Steven Camiña (LinkedIn profile) is a Principal Product Manager at MemSQL. His experience spans B2B enterprise solutions, including databases and middleware platforms. He is a veteran in the in-memory space, having worked on the Oracle TimesTen database. He likes to engineer compelling products that are user-friendly and drive business value.

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Building The Ideal Stack For Machine Learning

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