Live Webinar – May 8th 2019 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hours 2 PDUs/CDUs
Provider: Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Key content covered in the webinar:

• Business Use Cases and Business Requirements
• Use Cases, the Application Life Cycle, and the Project Management Process
• The Components of a Use Case
• The Different Forms of Use Cases
• The Seven Steps to Writing a Business Use Case
• Detailed Use Case Modeling
• Tips for Eliciting Use Cases
• Use Cases and Business Rules
• Use Cases and User Stories in an Agile Approach
• Next Steps – What do you do when you’re done?

Get specific answers to:

• “Which comes first use cases or requirements? or What’s the difference between use cases and requirements?”
• “What is the difference between a business and a system use case”
• “How do you determine what the uses cases are for a system/project?”
• “How many use cases do I need?”
• “How detailed do the use cases need to be?”
• “What questions should I ask to build a good use case?
• “How many alternate flows do I need?”
• “When do I know I’m done?
• “What is the purpose of use case diagrams?”

Click to register for:
Writing A Business Use Case In 7 Steps

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Live Webinar – May 8th, 2019 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

1. Do you find yourself in meetings and wonder why you are there?
2. What can you do to change that?
3. How can you keep people from wondering the same thing at your

This session offers tips on planning and leading effective meetings. Good meetings don’t end when the scheduled time is up!

Consider how to follow up on meeting actions and decisions so the meetings will not be in vain. There is a key takeaway from this session that we too often overlook.

Make time for one more meeting to learn about meetings!

Presenter: Mary Holland (LinkedIn profile) is a Program Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions in Maryland. She has more than 30 years of experience in program, project, and operations management in scientific and technical organizations, including Dell, National Safety Council, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and NASA. Her experience has spanned corporate, federal and state government, and non-profit sectors. She is a leader, problem-solver, and mentor with a sense of humor. Mary enjoys collaborating with teams and stakeholders to develop strategies and products – building consensus among participants with disparate views, gathering information to solve problems, implementing solutions, developing staff, and driving financial results. Mary has a Master of Public Administration from The Ohio State University and is a PMP and CSM.

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!

Click to register for:
Leading Effective Meetings & Prioritizing Work Demands

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Live Webinar May 8th, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

As testers and quality leaders, many of us have a vision of how our testing processes and practices could be improved. But no matter how compelling your vision, success often depends more on execution than intention. So how do you make it a reality?

Quality leader Adam Satterfield will share the keys to effective execution, as well as the lessons learned from his own experience implementing new tools and processes to accelerate transformation.

Join this web seminar to learn how to turn your vision into reality with actionable steps …

Including:

1. Gaining support from peers and executives by humanizing pain points and quantifying business impact
2. Building and executing implementation plans for new processes and tools
3. Soliciting feedback and responding to objections and pitfalls along the way

If you can’t attend, if you register they will send you a link to the recording.

Presenter: Adam Satterfield, (LinkedIn profile) Director Of Testing & Quality Anthem, has been in the software testing industry for 20+ years. He has worked with several industries such as the military, SaaS, telecom, and health care. Adam enjoys leading and mentoring quality assurance teams as well as teaching testers how to find their inner testing star. Adam is currently responsible for creating quality standards and training teams on risk-based testing, ATDD, and session-based testing within Anthem.

Click to register for:
Transform Testing:
How To Turn Your Vision For Change Into Reality

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Live Webinar May 6th, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Oracle recently announced significant changes to how it is released, licensed and supported. For example, public patches for Java 8 have now ended and the Java 11 license restricts production deployments.

In this webinar, Gartner will cut through the confusion, hype and uncertainty around the new dynamics and offer strategies that Java adopters can leverage to maximize their Java investments moving forward.

Discussion Topics:

• How Oracle has changed the way that Java is released, licensed and supported
• The options Java adopters can leverage in reaction to these changes
• What are the possible inhibitors that could limit Java adopters’ choices in the short and long term

Click to register for:
Strategies To Maximize Your Java Investments

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