Live Webinar – August 30th, 2017 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Microsoft Project’s user interface has a lot in common with all of the Microsoft Office tools.

The more you understand the ins and outs of the interface, the more effective you’ll be in working with Project in your daily work. In this one-hour session, you’ll become an expert in the Quick Access toolbar, the Ribbon, columns, tables, filters, groups and views.

You’ll learn how to create and use command shortcuts that will save you time and confusion.

The topics covered in this online training are inspired by Chapter 1 of Sam Huffman’s upcoming book, Microsoft® Project Do’s and Don’ts.

Presenter: Ben Howard (LinkedIn profile) is author of “Microsoft Project 2013 Plain and Simple” and has worked for IBM, Dell, and Microsoft,and now runs his own EPM consultancy (Applepark Ltd).Ben’s current Microsoft TechNet webcast, User Controlled Scheduling in Project 2010, is ranked in the top 10. Ben is a regular contributor to the Project Server newsgroups, and publishes a blog based on Project Server scenario. Ben is also a Microsoft MVP award for Project Server.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Getting To Grips With The Project Interface

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Course Session – Certificate Provided
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 PDU
Provider:  UDEMY

Learn The Basics Of Financial Accounting In One Hour!
4.5/5 (1,609 ratings) 19,679 students enrolled

Learn accounting in 60 minutes. This is a brief introduction to accounting.  No prerequisite knowledge is required! With this class you will learn the basics of accounting and you can complete it in only one hour!

Do you want a professor that works the problems with you? Rather than just talks at you. Then this course is for you!

Learn:

• The Accounting Equation
• What T-Accounts are
• How T-Accounts and Journal Entries are related
• How to create a simple Balance Sheet
• How to create a simple Income Statement
• Debits and Credits
• How Cash is King

What Will I Be Able To Do?

1. Hold their own when talking with Accountants at their job
2. Understand the basics of accounting
3. Create a simplified Balance Sheet
4. Create a simplified Income Statement
5. Know the difference between a debit and a credit
6. Understand why Cash is King
7. Create Journal Entries
8. Calculate the Net Income of a Business
9. Make T-Accounts

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Financial Accounting: A Brief Introduction

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Live Webinar August 29th, 2017, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

In today’s agile environments, coding without testing in mind makes you unprepared for the velocity or the volume of changes required to attain continuous testing and delivery.

Employing a model-based testing approach gets testing on the fast track and lets you test at the speed of agile.

Unlike traditional testing approaches, model-based testing enables rigorous testing that fits into the same sprint, while allowing stakeholders—from testers and developers to business analysts—to stay in alignment and remain flexible.

Join Alex Martins and learn how to employ model-based testing techniques in four key areas of testing: requirements engineering, test design automation, agile testing, and test case optimization.

You will also learn how to overcome the key challenges developers and testers face, including:

• Ambiguous requirements
• Limited test coverage
• Test data bottlenecks
• Unavailable system components
• Lack of automation

Presenter:  Alex Martins (LinkedIn profile) CTO—Continuous Testing CA Technologies  has more than 18 years of experience in large-scale application design, development, and testing. Alex has been focused on software quality engineering and testing discipline as the pillars for DevOps transformations. From tester to practice leader in various technology companies such as EDS, IBM, HP, and Cognizant Technology Solutions, Alex built and ran several enterprise testing organizations in Latin America and the US for multiple clients. He led HP’s Global Testing Innovation capability, creating continuous testing offerings to support digital transformation initiatives, and was one of the innovation leaders in Cognizant’s mobile and IoT QA practice.

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4 Ways Model-Based Testing Can Help You Test
At The Speed of Agile

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Live Webinar August 29th, 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

If you’re a data scientist or engineer who needs to perform large-scale machine learning in Spark, you may face these challenges:

• Tuning Hyperparameters
• Efficient Parallelization
• Dealing with large regression models

TalkingData, China’s largest independent Big Data platform, has developed an open-source solution to these challenges — Fregata.

Join Andreas Pfadler, machine learning engineer at TalkingData, for this webcast as he walks through key challenges/solutions to large-scale machine learning and use cases for machine learning at TalkingData.

Andreas will introduce Fregata, a light-weight, large-scale machine learning library on Spark, which aims to tackle large-scale logistic regression and softmax regression problems involving hundreds of millions of training data records.

In this webcast, participants will:

• Get an overview of common challenges in large-scale machine learning
• Learn practical methods to address these challenges
• Get introduced to Fregata, Fregata, a light-weight, large-scale machine learning library developed at Talking Data

Presenter: Andreas Pfadler, (LinkedIn profile) Machine Learning Engineer, TalkingData  holds a PhD in mathematics and previously worked as a consultant in the financial industry. Andreas is passionate about math, machine learning, software architecture, and cooking. He currently lives in Beijing.

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Large-Scale Machine Learning In Spark

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Live Webinar – August 30th 2017 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This two-hour webinar for project managers and business analysts gets right to the point and covers the essential steps for prioritizing business requirements.

This process is based on industry best practices ranging from QFD, MoSCoW and others —  and employing IAG’s experience and proven techniques for practical requirements prioritization.

This webinar will:

1. Explain why prioritization is important, when it is needed (and when it isn’t,) when it should be done, what different strategies could be used and what techniques work best.
2. Give participants a practical process that is adaptable to various types of projects (from large to small) and a variety of environments from agile to waterfall.
3. Provide Project Managers and Business Analysts with a clear understanding of what they need to know, and what they need to do, to easily and effectively prioritize the product requirements for their next project.

Key Content Covered in this Webinar:

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

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Course Session – Certificate Provided
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 1 PDU
Provider:  UDEMY

Psychology & science!
Discover How 4 Brainstructures Control Our Emotions & Decisions

4.3 /5 (2,760 ratings)   –   6,425 students enrolled

What Will I Learn?

• A groundbreaking model of human behavior
• Understand the mechanism of stress: Discover what part of our brain is responsible for triggering stress
• Discover why we sometimes act in a very territorial way, which leads to peacock behavior, bullying and harassment
• Connect with your motivations: Learn the distinction between lasting and temporary motivations.
• Learn to recognize obsessive behavior and why it’s important to keep it under control
• Discover which part of your brain that is responsible for self-control, adaptation, willpower, focus, but also creativity and spirituality

Requirements

• A keen interest in human behavior is the only real prerequisite for this course
• No previous knowledge required – I will take you step by step through the different concepts, models and brainstructures presented in the course
• This course is an introduction to the Neurocognitive an Behavioral Approach. It’s purely informative
• Do not expect exercises to switch from one brainstructure to another as that is covered in my other, more advanced courses, which you will find here on Udemy as well

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Meet Your Brain:
A Short Introduction To Neuroscience

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