Live Webinar September 13th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Our business world strives for gains, but our environmental and social world continues to change and impact that growth.

Businesses contend with risks such as explosive population growth and imminent scarcity of water and other natural resources.

Additionally, regulators, investors and consumers have new expectations for organizations’ roles in environmental protection- from curbing greenhouse gas emissions to banning single-use plastics that accumulate in our oceans.

Circular economy models enable businesses to achieve growth while conserving natural resources.

Supply chain organizations have an essential role in orchestrating the shift to circular economy.

Join this webinar for the first wave of Gartner research on this emerging topic.

In this webinar, Pam Fitzpatrick Gartner Research Director (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) will  explain what the shift to circular economy means for the supply chain and what you must consider in your strategic plans for the next five years and beyond.

Discussion Topics:

• Implications of the circular economy on supply chain’s role and strategic plans
• How companies are rethinking supply chain and enterprise strategy to enable circular business models
• Steps to take to prepare supply chain for a circular, sustainable future

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Achieve Supply Chain Growth While Reducing Environmental Impact

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Live Webinar – September 11th 2018 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 11th 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

APM’s Real World Project Management Series

There is a current trend that says agile methods remove the need for project managers.

This webinar will show why that is not the case, but that project managers need to consider what can be taken from the methods in order to be more agile.

The presentation covers:

• Brief outline of agile methods
• What tools and techniques project and programme managers found most useful
• Common ways to adapt and blend agile methods if full scale adoption isn’t feasible
• What not to do!

Susan is a practitioner herself, so her presentation will be grounded in practical findings which attendees can instantly implement across their projects. Susan will also describe materials which will continue to support those who adapt agile in their day to day life.

Presenter: Susan Clarke (LinkedIn profile) is passionate about supporting the next generation of IT PMs and  has been a member of the APM NW committee for several years. She is the author of research papers on agile development and project management, including APM white papers on the practical adoption of agile and scaled agile methodologies.

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How To Be Agile A Way Of Thinking More Than A Method

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Live Webinar – September 12th, 2018 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

In his twenty years working in project management, if there was a mistake to be made, Ed Killingsworth has managed to goof it up.

From accidentally sending personal hygiene emails to the entire company to flying to a meeting in the wrong state, it is a wonder he is still employed.

Attend this webinar and don’t be an Ed.

Presenter: Ed Killingsworth, (LinkedIn profile) PMP is a Senior Program Analyst,and scheduling guru currently working at System Studies & Simulation, Inc. (S³).  Ed  holds a BSBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and is currently pursuing his MBA at UAH.

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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This Webinar Goes to 11:
Lessons Learned In Project Management

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Live Webinar September 13th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

As testing shifts left, most organizations begin by focusing on continuous integration and continuous delivery, but too often they neglect the critical practice of continuous testing (CT). Continuous testing can reduce risk, improve response time to competitive and market events, and shorten time to deliver value to customers.

A successful CT implementation includes the right test automation framework for your unique environment and the ability to ensure your test code is always in sync with the product and product documentation, as well as metrics, measurement, and timely communications to keep you on track.

Join this web seminar to explore the essential components of a successful continuous testing environment.

Learn about these five crucial elements:

1. Framework: Open source, commercial, or a combination? Learn the pros and cons, and determine which test framework is right for you
2. Testing: Get a how-to guide for deciding which tests to automate and when to run them
3. Coding: Hear best practices for developing test automation code the right way to save time and reduce flakiness
4. Measurement: Identify KPIs that matter
5. Fast Feedback: Ensure the best possible mean time to resolution (MTTR)

Presenter: Eran Kinsbruner (LinkedIn profile) Mobile Technical Evangelist Perfecto,  and author of The Digital Quality Handbook: Guide for Achieving Continuous Quality in a DevOps Reality; & Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals: A Practical Guide From Industry Experts has extensive experience in the mobile testing market. Prior to Perfecto, he was the mobile testing CTO at Texas Instruments and project manager at Matrix, and he co-invented a test-exclusion automated mechanism for mobile J2ME testing at Sun Microsystems.

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Creating A Successful Continuous Testing Environment

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Live Webinar September 14th, 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)

The Agile Manifesto contains no mention of user acceptance testing (UAT).

With short iterations:

• Developers, testers and business analysts are working together on a daily basis churning out working product.
• Sometimes Acceptance Testing for each iteration can be mistaken for UAT.

Yet, UAT is best done by real business users or end users who have the knowledge to check the functionality not only for delivery as per the defined business requirements, but also to make sure it can support them in their daily tasks on the job.

Usually, business users take time out from their regular jobs to conduct user acceptance testing.

These users support the testing effort and return to their job when the UAT is completed. The problem is that not everyone is a good tester.

Business users without knowledge in testing often lack an eye for recognizing patterns and may be focused on using the application only for their particular task.

They may also not have a curious mindset to execute negative tests, things that the system should not do. Additionally, UAT usually happens at the end of the delivery cycle when it may be too late to correct any significant problems. That’s the last thing you want in Agile.

In this webinar, Philip Lew discusses how Agile ideals fall short when it comes to UAT and how to adapt Agile as well as traditional views on what UAT is in order to reach the overall quality objective of meeting business requirements through quality software.

Listen in as Phil breaks analyzes and breaks down the problems and then discusses strategies for implementing UAT through methods that can be adapted to each organization’s flavor of Agile.

Presenter: Philip Lew  CEO at XBOSoft, as a corporate executive, development manager, product manager, and software engineer, Philip has managed teams to tackle broken processes, develop solutions to difficult problems, and coached others be leaders, managers and experts. Leveraging his academic background in operations research, industrial engineering, and computer science combined with hands-on work experience with programming, predictive modeling, and algorithm development he works with clients and colleagues around the world to improve their software processes. Philip also speaks internationally on a broad range of technical and management issues that currently challenge the software engineering community.

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User Acceptance Testing In Agile Environment

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Live Webinar September 10th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Are you considering leveraging DevOps principles but are concerned about what that may entail for a medium to small sized enterprise (MSE)? In this webinar, learn more about DevOps, pitfalls to avoid and how to obtain value for an MSE from George Spafford Gartner Research Director (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio). George is one of the lead Gartner analysts on the human factors and process issues associated with the adoption of DevOps practices.

Discussion Topics:

• What is DevOps
• Key DevOps pitfalls to avoid
• How to start a DevOps journey

Click to register for: Midsize Enterprises: Get Value From DevOps

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