Live Webinar March 1st 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 Laura Burford author of Project Management for Flat Organizations covers effective internal consulting skills, the differences between internal and external consulting, and qualities necessary to build trust within the organization.

Presenter: Laura Dallas Burford, (LinkedIn profile) MA, PMP, of LAD Enterprizes has led IT and business improvement programs; established PMOs and led the turn-around of troubled projects. Laura has authored and facilitated business, technical, and project management seminars and taught project management at a public university. Author of Project Management for Flat Organizations: Cost Effective Steps to Achieving Successful Results, one of ten 2013 Small Business Book Awards winners. Laura shares her consulting, managing and entrepreneur experiences through her project coaching, advising, and training services to help organizations successfully complete projects and develop their own expertise.

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Internal Consultant? Not Me.

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Live Webinar February 28th, 2017, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Discover the evaluation criteria
Organizations should consider
When selecting functional test tools

Today’s business and IoT applications have become extremely complex, forcing teams to rethink how to test them.

At the same time, teams are shifting toward agile processes and delivering applications more quickly.

To keep up, developers and testers must embrace continuous testing, continuous delivery, and DevOps. Implementing these continuous practices requires advanced automated functional testing tools that support test and automation design, API testing, open tool integration, and reporting.

In this interactive webinar you will:

1. Emerging development trends and functional test tooling capabilities required for continuous testing
2. How automated functional testing tools can be applied to agile environments, from business applications to IoT and embedded software
3. Deployment suggestions from a team successfully using automated functional testing

Presenters:

Diego Lo Giudice (LinkedIn profile) Vice President, Forrester Research Inc., contributes to and advises on Forrester’s offerings for Application Development & Delivery Professionals. Diego is a leading expert on SDLC processes and practices, covering topics such as agile development, agile and lean transformations, agile development sourcing strategies and services, agile testing practices and tools, DevOps, and software testing and quality, with a key focus on systems of engagement. Diego also covers software delivery metrics, artificial intelligence, and open source.

Marc Brown (LinkedIn profile) Chief Marketing Officer Parasoft, has 25+ years of technology leadership experience and extensive knowledge of software development and testing technologies. Marc’s expertise covers a broad spectrum of areas, including corporate brand management, product marketing and portfolio management, product management, and digitally driven customer engagement.

Mark Lambert (LinkedIn profile) Vice President of Products Parasoft, is responsible for delivering real value to the organizations adopting them. Mark leads a professional team that helps customers optimize their software development processes by applying technologies and methodologies to achieve their goals.

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Critical Functional Testing Capabilities For Today’s Business Applications

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Live Webinar February 28th, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Customer lifetime value models (CLVs) are powerful predictive models allowing a data scientist to forecast how much customers are worth to the business.

CLV models provide crucial inputs to inform marketing acquisition decisions, retention measures, customer care queuing, demand forecasting, etc.

Historical or retrospective CLV models focus only on the past and do not attempt to predict the future purchases of customers who have been acquired recently.

This could lead to severe bias and selection effects on estimated CLV.

In contrast, predictive CLV models are particularly valuable as they attempt to forecast the future value of a customer.

In this webcast, Jean-René Gauthier (LinkedIn profile) will explain the ins and outs of probabilistic models that can be used to quantify the future value of a customer, and demonstrate how e-commerce companies are using the outputs of these models to identify, retain, and target high-value customers.

Specifically, in this webcast, you will:

• Learn the difference between historical versus predictive CLV and why predictive CLV is a better approach
• Get an overview of the various predictive CLV modeling techniques and which ones apply to different business cases;
• Know the minimum data requirements to build a reliable CLV model
• Get a solid overview of probabilistic models for non-contractual business settings and understand the limitations of such probabilistic models.

In the second part of the webcast, Jean-René  will guide you through a hands-on Python tutorial on how to implement, train, and validate CLV models on a retail dataset.

Presenter: Jean-René Gautier, Lead Data Scientist, DataScience manages a team of data experts in developing algorithms and analytics models to solve customers’ unique business problems. He is also responsible for educating clients on these algorithms and models, ensuring that they are incorporated into the business to add maximum value. Prior to this Jean-René was a data scientist at AuriQ Systems where he focused on online marketing analytics and data engineering, often involving high-speed processing of massive data sets. He has a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology.

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An Intro To Predictive Modeling For Customer Lifetime Value

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Live Webinar March 1st 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

As machine learning gains traction in digital businesses, technical professionals must explore and embrace it as a tool for creating competitive advantage.

In this session Carlton E. Sapp Gartner Research Director discusses the benefits and pitfalls of machine learning, the requirements of its architecture, and how to get started.

Discussion Topics:

• The role of machine learning in business intelligence and analytic solutions
• The power of machine learning in driving analytics
• How to transform learned data into action rapidly to create competitive advantage

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Preparing & Architecting For Machine Learning

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