Live Webinar – April 20th, 2017 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Can you hear Billy Joel playing the piano?
Do you even know who Billy Joel is?

On a serious note, understanding what it means to be agile can be a challenge.

Too often, teams think they can be agile by following the process or set of practices as defined by one of the agile approaches (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, etc).

This is just doing agile.

While a “just do it” approach might work in sports, using it in a development effort can result in the team simply using a new spin on the same old practices and achieving the same old results.

Teams adopt agile for a variety of reasons, but it’s not the process or set of practices that actually produce the results they seek.

There is a mindset that goes along with the approach. The most successful agile teams understand the need to adopt the agile mindset in addition in order to truly be agile.

In this session, you will learn specific techniques to adopt the agile mindset and what it means to be agile through the 4 key principles of Modern Agile.

Also, learn how your role may change with the mindset adjustment and how to help your team move from doing agile into an agile state of mind and actually being agile.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Identify the key ideas that form the agile mindset
• Define how you, your team and organization adopt the agile mindset
• Review how a team should be formed to get the most from agile

Presenter: Kupe Kupersmith CBAP®, (LinkedIn @Kupe) President B2T Training, B2T Training: Since its inception in 2000, B2T Training, has focused solely on providing business analysis training and professional development. As experts in the field, B2T Training continues to shape the Business Analysis discipline and the careers of BA professionals in major corporations across the globe through its high impact training sessions and valuable resources.

Kupe possesses over 20 years of experience in software systems development. He has served as the lead Business Analyst and Project Manager on projects in the Energy, television, sports management and marketing industries. Kupe, a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®), is also internationally known for his strong mentorship of business analysis professionals.

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In An Agile State Of Mind

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Live Webinar April 19th, 2017, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Retailers are increasingly investing in distributed order management systems to manage the complexity of order fulfilment brought about by the expansion of shopping options available to consumers.

To achieve optimal fulfilment performance, retailers need to not just react to consumer order requests, but also to forecast them, and in doing so, predict how consumers will shop.

Discussion Topics:

• How to use demand forecasting to understand not just how many of a product consumers may buy, but how they will carry out such purchases
• Why distributed order management systems may control many more supply chain operations in the future
• How the collective power of distributed order management and demand forecasting working in tandem can shape inventory strategies throughout the supply chain

Join Tom Enright (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director and learn how how demand forecasting optimizes distributed order management.

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How Demand Forecasting Optimizes
Distributed Order Management

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Live Webinar April 20th, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

When making the transformation to DevOps and agile, many organizations find it hard to meet tough product release schedules and to cope with large data sets. Triaging failures across multiple platforms has become tedious and time-consuming.

Reporting test-driven development (RTDD) is an innovative approach to agile testing that helps you write and implement tests with the end in mind (i.e., the test reports). RTDD puts structure, governance, and advanced capabilities into your test automation strategy.

RTDD enables the entire product team to collaborate and make data-driven decisions in real time, resulting in test scenarios and test suites that are structured and easy to manage.

Learn How To:

1. Use tagging and annotations to customize your test code
2. Easily filter big test data and drill down into specific failures per test, per platform, per result, etc.
3. Eliminate flaky tests by providing real visibility into failures
4. Use Jenkins and its Slack plugin to filter reports and quickly communicate status, allowing for data-driven decisions

Presenters:

Eran Kinsbruner (LinkedIn profile) Mobile Technical Evangelist Perfecto,  and author of The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality; & Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals: A Practical Guide From Industry Experts has extensive experience in the mobile testing market. Prior to Perfecto, he was the mobile testing CTO at Texas Instruments and project manager at Matrix, and he co-invented a test-exclusion automated mechanism for mobile J2ME testing at Sun Microsystems.

Tzvika Shahaf (LinkedIn profile) Director of Product Management Perfecto, focuses on quality intelligence and reporting and dedicates his time to help customers optimize their quality visibility and shorten their feedback loop cycle. He previously worked in business development and product leader roles at venture capital and startup companies.

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Drive Faster Quality Insights Through
Customized Test Automation Scripts

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Live Webinar – April 18th, 2017 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

The term ‘blended learning’ isn’t descriptive enough anymore.

Especially when we consider that learning takes place perpetually – even when the training department isn’t looking!

To become more of a partner with our business, we need make sure learning opportunities and content are where and when our learners need them.

If they are not, our learners will turn to search engines to find the information they need and hope for the best.

To stay relevant, the Learning and Development field needs to think beyond the ‘formal learning’ box, and consider the shifting characteristics of our learners.

Perpetual learning takes into consideration that everything we do, in every waking moment, is, or can be, an opportunity to learn.

Every time we read an article, click a link, or complete a task, we are learning something new or practicing/reinforcing a skill. Sometimes it is conscious, sometimes unconscious.

But…

It is STILL LEARNING. All the time. Perpetually.

This discussion will focus on:

• Incorporating the shifting characteristics of modern learners into learning design
• Designing learning campaigns that ‘connect the dots’ and consider what the learners bring to the table
• Becoming a trusted advisor to our learners by providing pathways through collaborative, perpetual learning experiences
• Building a relationship with learners that ensures they come to us (and the resources we provide in strategic learning hubs) first

Presenters:

Phylise Banner (LinkedIn profile) works closely with faculty, staff, students and IT managers to design, develop and deliver technology-based solutions. She embraces emerging technologies & creates communities of lifelong learners. A keynote speaker on the topics of information/experience design, creative hypertext,  instructional design, information visualization and GIS technologies, Phylise also teaches Digital Storytelling and Information Design online for Empire State College and SUNYIT. Her current research focuses on the use of Web 2.0 applications to establish community and visual presence in the online classroom.

Jennifer Hofmann,  (LinkedIn profile, @InSyncJennifer) is the president of InSync Training, and soon to be featured in Forbes Most Powerful Women issue (June 16, 2014.  She has most recently co-authored, with Dr. Nanette Miner, Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend That Fits, a book focused on taking advantage of distributed technologies to create the best blended training solution possible.  Jennifer is also is the author of The Synchronous Trainer’s Survival Guide: Facilitating Successful Live and Online Courses, Meetings and Events, Live and Online! Tips, Techniques, and Ready-To-Use Activities for the Virtual Classroom ), andhas contributed chapters to The Handbook of Blended Learning, The AMA Handbook of E-Learning, and The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals.  Follow Jennifer at her blog, Body Language In The Bandwidth.

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Modern Learning Is Perpetual Learning:
How Do We Become The “Google” of Learning?

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