Online Webinar – Recorded December 1st, 2016
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

For most organizations, IT demand comes from many distributed sources and can be counted on to outstrip supply.

Textbook best practices crumble in the face of multiple competing and ever-changing priorities.

A few simple mindset adjustments, a bit of political savvy and practical frameworks for demand intake will enable you to realistically manage demand and extract value.

Discussion Topics:

• What an efficient IT demand intake process looks like
• How organizations can prioritize demand in complex organizations
• Who is involved in the prioritization and governance process for IT demand

Join Audrey L.Apfel, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Managing VP and learn the secret to prioritizing your “IT Demand”.

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The Secrets Of Prioritizing IT Demand

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Live Webinar August 23rd, 2017 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Brightwork

Effective project request management ensures any approved projects match your organization’s strategic goals. Depending on your organization’s size and type of projects, selecting the right projects can be quite tricky!

Make project request management easier with SharePoint.

Register for this webinar and learn how to:

1. Create and manage a pipeline of project requests
2. Travel through the project request life-cycle
3. Create projects sites based on approved requests
4. Configure the Project Request Manager for your local needs.

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Eamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

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Optimize Project Request Management Using SharePoint

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Live Webinar August 22nd, 2017, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Research shows (Forrester Research study) that thanks to the widespread adoption of agile practices and continuous testing, 80 percent of your overall testing efforts should be automated.

But how can your team realistically reach that lofty goal, and what role will your manual testers play?

Testing is the elephant in the room for continuous delivery.

However, no matter how complex your environment, it’s possible to deliver reliable continuous delivery by overcoming your test automation challenges and scaling testing within your DevOps pipeline.

Join this web seminar to learn how to transform your continuous testing strategy with scriptless automation using the success of GE’s Testing Center of Excellence as an example.

In this interactive webinar you will learn how to:

1. Automate tests fast and easily
2. Achieve continuous testing within your DevOps pipeline to go to production faster
3. Confidently empower your QA team and domain experts with automation specialization
4. Effortlessly switch to continuous testing for complex testing scenarios

Presenters:

Amol Adsule (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Director and Global Head of Testing CoE GE USA is a quality assurance leader and an effective communicator known for building strong relationships with business and technology teams. Amol has experience building and operating highly successful QA teams and practices for Fortune 500 companies. He has proven strategic and operational
leadership, with exceptional expertise for designing innovative solutions to increase quality and accelerate time to market while reducing costs.

Ashutosh Saitwal (LinkedIn profile) President & Chief Strategy Officer Qualitia Software  leads product management, marketing, UX, strategy, and knowledge management at Qualitia. Ashutosh started his career as an entrepreneur before moving into a corporate job. He co-founded consumer tech companies, is passionate about software quality, and strongly believes in helping transform the lives of testers. He has extensive experience in leading cross-functional teams in enterprise software business, and has played various leadership roles at Symantec, ZS Associates, IDeaS (SAS division), and Scala before joining Qualitia Software.

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Confidently Scale Your Test Automation
To Deliver Reliable Continuous Testing

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Live Webinar August 22nd, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Hear Whole Foods Describe
Their  Cloud Experience

Whole Foods Market, “America’s Healthiest Grocery Store”
Has A LOT of data to analyze.

With millions of customers, over 85,000 employees, and more than 450 stores, Whole Foods Market insists on quality, service and value for everything they do, and every part of their supply chain.

A company with a data challenge—and a culture—like that needs nothing less than the best – which is why their decision to move to a cloud-based analytic ecosystem is a model.

Join O’Reilly in an exciting, free-flowing conversation between Richard Beaver and Ken Casey (both at Whole Foods Market) with Doug Henschen (Constellation Research) as they discuss the journey from Whole Foods’ on-premises system to Teradata IntelliCloud™.

Come away with practical knowledge:

• Why they wanted the cloud for analytics
• What they considered in their selection process
• How the data and application migration transpired
• What they recommend to others considering the cloud

Walk away with a clear understanding of how your team can put a new shine on your organization’s analytic environment…in the cloud.

Presenters:

Richard Beaver, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Coordinator Enterprise Information Delivery Whole Foods Market;  has spent his entire career in enterprise information delivery. Prior to his current role, he was a Solution Architect at Teradata Corporation. His current role includes implementation and delivery of the Whole Foods Market data warehouse and he was instrumental in leading Whole Foods Market to Teradata IntelliCloud™.

Ken Casey, (LinkedIn profile) Senior Manager Data Warehouse & BI Tools Whole Foods Market; has spent over 12 years at the company and is an expert on their analytic ecosystem. Previously he was a Business Systems Analyst at AT&T.

Doug Henschen, (LinkedIn profile) Vice President & Principal Analyst Constellation Research an award-winning, Silicon Valley based research and advisory firm. His data-to-decisions research examines how organizations employ a multi-disciplinary approach to data analysis to adapt to digital disruption. Previously he held executive editor positions at InformationWeek, Intelligent Enterprise / TechWeb, Transform/Imaging Magazine, and DM News.

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Quality, Service, Value:
Whole Foods Talks About Move To Cloud For Analytics

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