Live Webinar July 20th, 2018 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

Sometimes we allow ourselves to drown in work… Mary Thorn hears it all the time: testers complaining at retrospectives to their teams that they do not have enough time to test everything.

Mary often sees testers work overtime the last week of a sprint to ensure the definition of done is accomplished.

1. Why do they do this?
2. Why do we, as testers, enable the bad behaviors of “Scrummerfall” or a lack of whole-team ownership of quality?

Mary aims to arm testers with techniques that allow them to test smarter, not harder, and enable the testers and the team to have better conversations that make it clear what they are testing in the sprint.

Most importantly, she wants you to come out of her session being able to answer the question, “What are you not going to test this sprint?”

Take home some approaches that allow you to swim, not sink, by focusing your own and your team’s efforts.

Presenter: Mary Thorn (LinkedIn profile) Mary Thorn Consulting & Chief storyteller of the book Three Pillars of Agile Quality & Testing: Achieving Balanced Results in your Journey Towards Agile Quality,  During Mary’s 20+  years of experience with healthcare, financial, and HR SaaS-based products, Mary has held director, manager- and contributor-level positions in software development organizations.  A seasoned leader and coach in agile and testing methodologies, Mary has direct experience building and leading teams through large scale agile transformations. Mary’s special expertise is a combination of testing, DevOps, and agile scaling skills that her clients find incredibly valuable.

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Help! I am Drowning In 2 Week Sprints….Please Tell Me What NOT To Test!

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Live Webinar July 17th 2018 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

• What should testing accomplish and how do we recognize success?
• How should we approach testing?
• What specific activities need to be planned for each release, each project, each iteration?
• What risks can affect testing, and how can we manage those risks?
• How does lifecycle affect these documents?

These are critical questions for testers and test managers, yet often they go unanswered or have answers that aren’t fully thought through.

In this webinar, based on years of experience helping testers and test teams optimize their testing processes, Rex will discuss test policies, strategies and plans.

Join this webinar, illustrated with examples throughout, to learn concepts and ideas that you can apply to your testing processes right away.

In this free webinar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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Test Policies, Strategies & Plans

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Live Webinar – July 19th 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – July 19th 2018, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

DevOps is trending. More and more organizations are adopting this methodology because they’re experiencing first-hand the business benefits.

Join the movement!

In this webinar Barry Corless will help clarify and define DevOps, as well as show you how to bridge the gap between development and operations teams. This focus on teamwork and collaboration enables a higher number of software releases and improves business outcomes.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of:

• DevOps origins, business values and business outcomes
• DevOps core concepts
• How DevOps will regulate the business cadence, establish a meaningful value stream, and increase the stability and agility of the business

Presenter: Barry Corless (LinkedIn profile) is responsible for maintaining and developing Global Knowledge’s best practice portfolio to offer wider content and more competency-led activities.  He has been managing and delivering service management education and consultancy solutions since 1999. In addition to his role with Global Knowledge, he is currently ex-chair of itSMF (UK), former ITIL version 2 Chief Examiner for the APM Group, a current ITIL senior examiner and a fellow in the PrlSM Institute.

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What DevOps Can Mean For You & Your Customers

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Live Webinar July 16th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Many have embraced self-service data and analytics, but the success of implementations varies.

In this webinar Carlie J. Idoine (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research director will provide best practices and lessons learned to evolve your approach in a way that facilitates self-service at scale and eliminates self-serving methods.

Discussion Topics:

• Guide your self-service approach in the right direction
• Environments that best support a self-service approach
• The future of self-service data and analytics

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Achieve Self-Service Analytics At Scale

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