Live Webinar September 19th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar Arlene Minkiewicz will discuss the “Network of Things”: what is it, what are its enabling technologies, and what does the future have in store.

Presenter: Arlene F. Minkiewicz (LinkedIn profile @arleneMink) Chief Scientist at Price Systems, LLC With 30 + years of experience building cost models, Arlene is a software measurement expert dedicated to finding creative solutions focused on helping make software development professionals successful. Check out her Blog on the Pricesystems Site!

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Exploring The Network Of Things

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Live Webinar Sept 18th, 2018, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Performance testers were the pioneers of agile testing. In fact, their approach is more closely aligned to what the industry now refers to as exploratory testing.

Performance tuning involves using the scientific method to correct and integrate previous knowledge via an iterative process. Each iteration starts with a defined question and an explanatory hypothesis that can be tested in a reproducible manner. The process is essential to helping the tester measure, evaluate, and improve system performance.

Join this web seminar to explore what we can learn from performance testers’ interactive “tuning” approach.

Learn how to:

1. The key exploratory testing principles that performance testers swear by
2. Strategies for applying those principles to functional testing
3. Real-world examples of what these techniques look like in practice

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Presenters: 

Ingo Philipp (LinkedIn profile) MS Distinguished Evangelist at Tricentis, champions the methodologies, best practices, and technologies at the core of the company’s Continuous Testing solution. His insights on rethinking software testing and passion for elevating the role of the software tester have made him a sought-after speaker/author across the global software testing community. Previously Ingo worked as a theoretical astrophysicist in the field of high-energy particle physics and computational fluid dynamics at the University of Vienna and the Berlin Institute for Technology.

Tim Koopmans (LinkedIn profile) is a performance testing expert dedicated to making open source load testing tools and cloud testing infrastructure accessible to everyone. Tim engineered the Flood “shared nothing” architecture and holds the key to its unparalleled scalability and throughput. Tim also developed Ruby JMeter. Prior to Flood, & spent 10+ years as a performance and development consultant for companies across retail, finance, telecom, and government sectors.

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Optimizing Agile Testing:
What Functional Testers Can Learn From Performance Testers

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Live Webinar September 20th 2018 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

In this One Key Idea session, Rex will make the career path clear and answer your questions. Understand how the ISTQB career path can support your progress throughout your professional testing life.

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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Understanding The ISTQB Career Path:
The One Key Idea Series

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Live Webinar September 17th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

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There’s a lot of hype around DevOps, but do you really understand what it means for your organization or what it entails?

Increasing the speed of value delivery isn’t as simple as saying you are “doing” agile or DevOps. DevOps applies agile principles of discipline, collaboration, and early feedback to tasks.

“Being” DevOps requires everyone involved in product development lifecycle to change how they currently work and to expand their knowledge and capabilities into new areas.

In this webinar, Bill Holz (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) will help you understand and apply the keys for DevOps success at your organization.

Discussion Topics:

• What DevOps is and what it is not
• The keys critical to DevOps success
• How to build your DevOps practice into your software development lifecycle (SDLC)

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The Keys For DevOps Success

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Live Webinar – September 19th 2018 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 19th 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Despite committed effort and improvements across many aspects of project delivery, business results are poor. This webinar will introduce the ‘TOP Value Equation’™ to improve project value.

For more than 30 years, we have been fixing projects. Yet despite the committed effort by some of the brightest people on the planet and improvements across many aspects of project delivery …

For example:

• Adoption of project management methods and disciplines;
• Installation of project management software and tools;
• Increased numbers of highly skilled ‘specialists’:
  • architects,
  • change managers,
  • business analysts,
  • benefit managers allocated for even small projects;
• Finally, some increased focus on getting benefits and value from projects.

The results are, frankly, still not good.

When measured against the conventional success measures of “on time, on budget”, the generally quoted statistics indicate that around 30% to 40% of projects are successful.

But when measured against “did we actually get business results and value” as the measure of success, the results are far poorer (indeed depending on whose statistics are used, less than 5% or projects are successful in delivering value and results).

1. So, what is going wrong?
2. What do we have to do to improve the value delivered by projects?

in this webinar Alexandra Chapman will walk the attendees through where and how value is destroyed and therefore start to lay out a pathway to improve the value delivered.

It will explain how a simple mental model, the TOP Value Equation™, can be applied to make improved project value something that every business and project manager can achieve.

Presenter: Alexandra Chapman (LinkedIn profile) is a 30+ veteran with vast experience delivering major technology projects for organisations. With her late partner she has pioneered new learnable and teachable modls, tools, techniques and processes – TOP (Totally Optimized Projects) Thinking which was recognised for its innovative intellectual property by Gartner with a “Cool Vendor” award in 2011. She  teaches at Melbourne University on innovation and entrepreneurship with IT, writes for The CEO Magazine and was recognised by Cranfield School of Management as one of its 50 notable faces for its 50th anniversary celebrations.

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Why Better Project Management Can Never Fix Results
From Poor IT & Business Projects

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Live Webinar – September 19th, 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

Practically every IT organization does annual budgeting for major projects and operational efforts, and then monthly forecasting using a cost breakdown like Labor, Hardware, Software, T&E, Contingency, etc., and then they use a scheduling tool like Microsoft Project with detail tasks which isn’t organized that way.

Often the initial budget is prepared long before a task level plan even exists, sometimes before a project manager is assigned!

In this webinar Rich Murphy will address a method of solving this problem which is consistent with an organizations normal processes, essentially integrating spreadsheet based financial planning with a detail schedule.

The presentation will explain the benefits of having the budgeting, forecasting, and actual cost tracking process configured to suit corporate accounting while being able to integrate with the detail schedule planning and progress tracking approaches used by project managers.

This approach can be used with traditional “waterfall” project scheduling and techniques such as Agile.

Presenter: Rich Murphy has 35+ years of experience in the project management, commercial software development, and engineering fields. He began as the project controls engineer for a $4 billion power plant engineering and construction project. Since 1980, he has led the development of many leading commercial project management software systems. After Microsoft’s acquisition of one of his systems, Rich joined Microsoft, and participated in the development of Project Professional and Project Server. He was the original Solution CEO for Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management system. In 2002, Rich & his team formed EPK Group LLC, to build a comprehensive portfolio and resource management system based on Microsoft’s platforms. Their new product eventually became the EPM Live system. Rich continues as an independent consultant assisting clients with PPM systems. Currently he gives presentations and training sessions.

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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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Integrating “Top down” Budgeting & Financial Tracking
With Microsoft Project

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