Archive for January, 2018

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Live Webinar January 31st, 2018 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

What does the passage of the new (USA) tax law mean for a gig economy increasingly characterized by a professional independent workforce?

A new provision allows sole proprietors, partnerships, and other pass-through entities to deduct 20 percent of their revenue from taxable income.

Designed as a mechanism to fuel small business growth, some argue it’s little more than a tax shelter for wealthy individuals.

While the full impact remains to be seen, what is clear is that the provision incentivizes independent contracting as an alternative to traditional employment.

  1. But what does that mean for the workers seeking to capitalize on these tax savings? And…
  2. How should employers prepare to acquire, classify, and manage talent under the new rules?

Neal Bhamre, Senior Vice President at TalentWave, & Roberto Cruz VP Compliance, Senior Legal Counsel, TalentWave as they explore the consequences of the new tax rules—both expected and unintended—on the independent workforce ecosystem.

Learn:

  • Details of the tax law changes impacting pass-through and corporate entities
  • The arguments for and against the pass-through provision
  • Potential benefits and risks of the pass-through provision:
    • Independent contractor perspective
    • Employer perspective
    • Third-party service provider perspective
  • How the tax plan may impact gig economy trends
  • Preparing for different talent acquisition and management models

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

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Decoding The (New USA) Tax Law’s Impact
On Independent Contractor Engagement

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Cloud Computing Primer For 2018

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Live Webinar January 30th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Cloud computing, in its many forms, has become an integral part of IT.

Even after over 10 years of cloud hype, confusion is still rampant.

In this webinar David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow (LinkedIn profileGartner bio)  explores best practices to help IT leaders, CIOs and IT professionals develop strategies to take advantage of cloud as they shift to digital business.

Discussion Topics:

  • How to understand cloud computing trends and identify opportunities
  • How to define and build a cloud strategy to meet enterprise needs
  • What you need to know about consuming, providing and brokering cloud services

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Cloud Computing Primer For 2018

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Live Webinar – January 24th 2018 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:

  • The Most Effective Prioritization Strategies
  • Different Prioritization Techniques
  • Why Prioritize?
  • When to Prioritize Knowing
  • What to Prioritize
  • The Six Steps to Prioritizing Business Requirements
  • Key Requirements Prioritization Success Factors
  • Facilitating Requirements Prioritization Meetings
  • Rating Facilitation Methods
  • Next Steps
Get Specific Answers to:
  • “How granular does my prioritization need to be?”
  • “How much time should we spend on prioritization?”
  • “Is prioritization done just once or iteratively?”
  • “What does prioritization mean if we’re Agile?”
  • “What should we prioritize? Requirements? user Stories? Use Cases?”
  • “What factors should we consider when prioritizing?”
  • “What is the best ‘scale’ to use for prioritization?”
  • “What is the difference between importance and priority?”
Participants Also Receive:
  • Presentation Material
  • Requirements Prioritization Template
  • Requirements Prioritization Example Worksheet
  • Sample Requirements Prioritization House of Quality Example

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Requirements Prioritization Best Practices

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Live Webinar January 24th, 2018 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

In this webinar you will learn the step-by-step process to move smoothly from a waterfall to an agile organization.

Agile is a relatively new methodology, and many organizations are embracing it as a more effective way to develop software and more.

Terrell will discuss how a majority of these organizations are applying the Scrum framework to implement agile.

Implementing a successful agile development process has the potential to transform a waterfall development organization from slow, mammoth releases to quick, iterative release cycles that deliver working products to the customer sooner.

Once an organization has a firm grasp of agile basics, moving from a yearly release cycle to a weekly build-release cycle, it will realize substantial benefits.

Terrell will cover:

  • What is agile and what is Scrum?
  • The Scrum Guide
  • Garnering management support for agile
  • Five levels of agile planning
  • Key players and roles on an agile team
  • The backlog – user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Agile estimation methods – story points and ideal hours
  • Just-in-time requirements – grooming the user stories
  • Sprints and sprint planning
  • Sprint review and demo
  • Retrospective and continuous improvement

Presenter: Terrell Smith (LinkedIn profile),, MPA, PMP, CBAP With over 25 years of experience in a wide range of project management and business analysis assignments, he brings concepts to life in a practical and easy to apply manner. Terrell has assisted clients in the development of project management methodologies, risk assessments, quality management, agile methods, problem solving, rescuing troubled projects, implementing business analysis best practices, and team building.

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Embracing Agile: A Step-By-Step Primer

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Technical Project Management Leadership Strategic & Business Management

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Agile: Leadership Required

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2018 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 you will learn about the four leadership concepts that can double the chances that your agile transformation will be effective.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled Software Process and Measurement Cast The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

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Live Webinar January 25th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

We are operating in a digital age with 4,000-year-old organizational technology: the hierarchy. Hierarchies, and their byproduct, bureaucracy, keep supply chains and staff from aspiring, challenging and transforming in a disruptive world.

Whether you’re looking to redesign one function or the whole supply chain, you need to look beyond hierarchies and organizational charts to be successful.

In this session Ken Chadwick (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP will outline how the future of work is changing to impact how we organize people.

ken will discuss how to upgrade your company’s approach to organization design to be successful in a dynamic and shifting marketplace.

Learn what can and should be done to unleash the power of people in the organization.

Discussion Topics:

  • Key drivers affecting how we organize supply chain
  • The challenges leaders must overcome in order to change
  • Five organizational design strategies to implement successful change

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Supply Chain Organization Design For A Digital Future

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