Live Webinar January 25th, 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 Alan will explain the concept of Lean-Agile Guardrails: 7 agreements made across an organization to speed the delivery of business value and increase predictability and quality.

Presenter: Alan Shalloway (Linkedin Profile & @alshalloway) is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With 40 years experience, Alan is a thought leader in Lean, Kanban, PPM, Scrum and agile design. He is the author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility,  Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design and Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development. Alan is a co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.

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Using Guardrails To Tie Business With IT

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Live Webinar January 24th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

We’re all in a race to innovate, but far too often, data is the bottleneck that keeps our application and project teams from delivering value at the pace we need. Data is expensive to manage, it’s vulnerable to theft and exploitation, and it’s extremely difficult to move.

According to a recent TechWell survey, nearly two-thirds of respondents said it takes too long to access test data. With a proper test data management (TDM) strategy, you can remove common constraints while maintaining a high level of quality.

Join Brett Stevens to learn how advanced IT teams are taking a new approach to TDM to meet the needs of today’s development and testing teams in order to unleash innovation at speed.

Learn how to:

• Hit industry benchmarks for TDM in terms of speed, quality, security, and cost efficiency
• Become an advanced TDM team in order to outperform your peers
• Leverage TDM to boost your DevOps, automation, and cloud efforts

Presenter: Brett Stevens Product Marketing Delphix, is a member of the product marketing team, and focuses on educating clients on the benefit of leveraging data virtualization across the lifecycle of their application projects. In his previous role on the business technology consulting team, Stevens worked with clients to map their data management pain points to use cases for Delphix.

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Data For The Digital Era:
Remove Data As A Constraint In The Race To Innovate

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2017, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The JavaScript framework landscape continues to evolve and improve, providing increasingly more benefit to Web and mobile application developers.

In this webinar, Brad Dayley (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director, explores the reasons why JavaScript frameworks improve productivity and how to choose the right one for each project.

Discussion Topics:

• Why there are different types of JavaScript frameworks
• What criteria are important in evaluating a JavaScript frameworks
• How to choose a JavaScript framework that fits the needs of your team and project

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Choosing The Right JavaScript Framework

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Live Webinar Januar 24th, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

 Most people are surprised to know that Spark works with Java!

Maybe they saw the initial Java code that used anonymous classes and dismissed it as an ungainly mess.

They were right—plain Java and Spark are ugly together. Then Java 8’s lambdas came along.

Now, instead of an ungainly mess, we get the tight syntax of lambda expressions offering code that is readable and testable. Best of all, it uses Java.

In this webinar Jesse Anderson demonstrates how to create Java lambdas and integrate them with Spark to process data. Then Jesse explains how to find Java resources about Spark and outlines the pros and cons for a Java developer to learn Scala.

Learning two big concepts at once is often a nonstarter. People learning Spark are often learning Scala at the same time. If we can remove one big concept (learning Scala), people will be more successful at learning Spark.

Learn:

• How Java can be used succinctly with Apache Spark
• What are Java 8 lambdas and how to use them
• How to use Java lambdas with Spark

Presenter:  Jesse Anderson (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Smoking Hand, is a creative engineer with many years of experience in creating products and helping companies improve their software engineering.  Jesse previously created big data and data science curriculum for Cloudera, leading instruction for thousands of people entering this field, and has played an active part within the Apache Hadoop community, creating many popular open source examples for big data use cases.

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Spark & Java: Yes They Work Together!

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2017 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

How project managers can communicate assertively to keep projects on time and under budget.

Picture this…. you are a project manager, wrapping up the weekly status meeting where you have just finished giving the pertinent details of the project and all tasks that need to be done.

The client sits back, smiles and says, “Seems like we are in good shape. You know, I bet if we slipped in this one little thing, it would make this project even better!”

“One little thing?” you think to yourself. This is the third “little thing” this month and you are feeling the panic of major scope creep.

The client is looking at you for an answer. Your emotions are taking over and you are struggling between what you would really like to say and what would be politically correct.

It’s a tough situation – What do you do?

You don’t want to be viewed as a pushover by your team or be the naysayer to your client.

For those who struggle with the challenge of what to say and how to say it, this webinar will give pointers on how you can communicate diplomatically in most situations.

This session will center on the use of stories, anecdotes and metaphors which are powerful tools that will enable you to connect to and influence stakeholders.

Benefits

• Gain real client communication insight from expert panel
• Learn how to connect and influence your stakeholders
• Become a skillful and diplomatic PM leader
• Earn 1 PDU for attending

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

Presenter: Diane BuckleyAltwies (LinkedIn profile) PM Expert &, CEO of Core Performance Concepts

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Storytelling For Project Managers

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Live Webinar January 25th, 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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Unfortunately, about one out of four development programs fail. Sixty-five percent of those that survive do not achieve all their goals.

A development program or project in trouble is distinct from a program encountering typical development difficulties.

Each day its performance seems to be worse, even when team members do not think it possible. A program or project with this problem can appear to be in free fall.

Thomas (Tom) Pavelko (LinkedIn profile) spent many years at a major aerospace company leading the successful recovery of important development programs.

Tom experienced firsthand what causes programs to stop achieving performance, cost, schedule, and quality commitments.

He refined ways to evaluate these programs, reorganize them to achieve their commitments and resurrect the morale of the team. Tom strives to lead these teams to enter a high state of productivity that he refers to as being “on step”.

In this webinar Tom will pull from the concepts of his new book, Project and Program Turnaround (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management).

Walk away being able to identify the essential fundamentals to execute a program turnaround effectively.

These include:

• Identifying the critical accomplishment that must be achieved next,
• Assigning each program responsibility to one person,
• Capitalizing on colocation and face-to-face communication,
• Recruiting problem solvers,
• Establishing team member commitments,
• Using team accomplishments to propel high team morale
• And more …

These are necessary to get the program team on step and successful.

The guidance provided in this session is applicable to all program or project genres, including nonprofit work, education, medicine, investment management, municipal management, construction and more.

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If the registration is closed  for this session they are at maximum capacity for the live webinar. An on-demand recording will be available at the same link below within 72 hours of the live session.

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Project & Program Turnaround

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