Live Webinar August 15th, 2018, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Internet of Things (IoT) will enable organisations to deliver differentiated digital business solutions and create innovative experiences.

In this webinar, Nick Jones (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, will identify 10 technologies which will be most important to IoT solutions through 2023 and factors that will determine their success.

Nick will also identify IoT technologies that are hyped but not yet mature enough for organisations to deploy.

Discussion Topics:

• Trends and technologies that will drive the future of IoT
• How organisations should choose technologies and vendors
• Challenges to avoid when selecting IoT technologies and vendors

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The Top 10 Technologies Driving The Future Of IoT

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 9th 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Everybody knows DevOps Is About
Bringing Dev & Ops Together

But DevOps is also about understanding value, fast delivery, automation, quality, and tuning complex adaptive systems in a way that optimizes the whole.

In The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win  there are a lot of parallels drawn between the world of mass manufacturing and IT engineering. But even though it’s a fantastic book, Gene Kim and his co-authors only scratch the surface of these parallels.

If we are actually going to apply them, we need more. The total quality revolution of manufacturing offers more lessons for IT engineering teams than most of us realize…way more than the taste we get in The Phoenix Project would suggest.

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) and learn the lessons can be summed up in one word: Lean.

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Where’s The Lean?

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Live Webinar August 14th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

In the software economy, innovation and speed are the new standards. However, teams cannot just focus on speed without considering the risk of delivering poor end-user experiences. How can teams create test strategies that prioritize and balance both quality and speed?

Join this web seminar to learn how teams can build strategies that balance the demands of a fast-moving release cadence with customer expectations for quality.

Learn How To:

1. Build test suites strategically to maximize impact
2. Cover all your bases without compromising time and resources
3. Audit your QA strategy by asking yourself five critical questions
4. Fix gaps and bottlenecks in your testing processes by adopting agile principles

Presenters:

Cambrie Marks (LinkedIn profile) is a Implementation Specialist with a demonstrated history of providing premium services and creative solutions to clients.

Jeff Pineda (LinkedIn profile) is an avid agile supporter and a CSM with a decade’s worth of experience working in quality assurance, project management, and production, mostly in the gaming space. Jeff has worked in the QA trenches, formed QA teams from the ground up for companies, and worked on day-to-day production operations for live titles while still managing teams. Jeff is passionate about challenging QA preconceptions determining how it could be done better and more efficiently, evangelizing agile principles and showing how powerful and adaptive they can be instead of just being catchy buzzwords. Jeff also has extensive experience with JIRA and Confluence.

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Developing With Quality In Mind:
A Blueprint To Power Up Your QA Strategy

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Live Webinar August 16th, 2018 – 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0.5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

For nearly ten years, RBCS has run a highly successful free webinar series, with almost 50,000 registrations from around the world.

In 2017, Rex Black introduced a short format webinar into the mix, the One Key Idea series that focus on delivering an intense shot of practical knowledge in a short package.

Now, in 2018, Rex continues to innovate. Rex is adding the Two Points of View at Two series to their monthly webinar rotation.  In each of these sessions, Rex will talk with another software luminary about topics of mutual interest, where the two have some different views.

After their talk, Rex will open the floor to questions. In 30 minutes, you’ll get powerful insights on important topics in software testing, software quality, and software engineering. Make it a point to join the conversation.

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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Two Points Of View At Two:
Short High Impact Talks About Testing

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Live Webinar August 14th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Processes for preparing data, analyzing data, building advanced analytics models, interpreting results and telling stories with data remain manual and prone to bias.

The problem compounds as data volumes increase and become more complex, making it difficult to determine the most relevant, accurate and actionable findings.

A new paradigm, augmented analytics, has emerged. Central to this development is machine-learning automation to augment human intelligence and contextual awareness by transforming how we create, interpret and share analytics.

In this webinar, Rita L. Sallam (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP  will discuss the impact of augment analytics and how you can plan for this disruption.

Learn how augmented analytics is crucial for unbiased, timely and accurate decisions and actions.

Discussion Topics:

• Augmented analytics capabilities and their ramifications for organizational and market disruption
• Ways augmented analytics will transform how analytics content is authored, shared and interpreted
• Adopting augmented analytics capabilities to modernize and drive digital transformation and innovation

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How Augmented Analytics
Is Transforming Data & Analytics

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Online Webinar  – Recorded January 10th, 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Projects are the mechanism to realize business strategy, create competitive advantage and achieve organizational transformation.

Important stuff, but most often, projects are being done in addition to ongoing business operations with constrained resources.

Therefore success is dependent on getting the right resources, spending your budget wisely, and keeping people focused and motivated to execute.

Warning signs that a project is headed to failure include missed deadlines, confusion, conflict and churning. All this can contribute to project manager and team burnout.

Effective project managers look for these early warning signs of failure and burnout so they can take corrective actions, but more importantly, they proactively work to avoid them.

In this webinar you will learn tips and techniques to:

• Cultivate a healthy environment for your project, your team, and yourself
• Create best practices you can rely on to drive the project forward
• Leverage relationships to support and motivate

About the Presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society™(MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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How To Avoid Project Failure & Burnout

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