Live Webinar May 28th 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1.5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Archimedes once wrote, “Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.” In Agile, the place to stand is testing, and the lever is test automation.

Are you using all the leverage that lever gives you?

Most organizations are missing some tricks, and not getting the full value of test automation. In this webinar, Rex will survey all the different ways you can—and should—take advantage of test automation as an Agile tester.

The best news: Many of these forms of automation involve tools that won’t cost you a dime! Spend some time learning about some high-ROI, proven best practices to reduce failure costs and increase quality

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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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Fully Leveraging Agile Test Automation

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Live Webinar – May 30th 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

IT administration tasks have usually required manual, point and click operations.

Those days are gone; not only is manual action no longer necessary, but your IT technologists can’t afford the time to manually do what can be easily automated and taken off their plate.

PowerShell provides an intuitive way to turn time-consuming grunt work into simple, repeatable, scriptable commands.

Is your organization taking advantage of PowerShell?  Your competitors are.

Learn: 

• What you can administer with PowerShell
• How to find and execute PowerShell commands
• Ways to format report information with PowerShell
• How to combine multiple PowerShell commands
• How to perform actions on remote computers using PowerShell

Presenter: Jared Thibodeau (LinkedIn profile) is a bilingual, cross-certified instructor with hands-on implementation experience and 20+ years of IT consulting &  teaching experience. From instruction to courseware customization and development, Jared has the skills in and out of the classroom to ensure success.  Jared is certified and has authored courses in Windows NT, Server 2000-2016, Windows XP-10, SharePoint 2007-2016, System Center, SCCM, SCOM, VMware and Hyper-V Virtualization, Cloud and many others.

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Taking Advantage Of Microsoft PowerShell

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Live Webinar – May 29th, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

While Low-Code development platforms are still in the early stages of adoption, many enterprise leaders are already pigeon-holing them — and may be missing out on their greatest potential.

While these platforms can unquestionably help enterprises relieve the development backlog, reduce costs, and improve efficiency, that’s just the beginning of the story. The real hero of the low-code epic: the limitless transformation of the customer experience.

Join Charles Araujo, Principal Analyst with Intellyx, and Mike Thompson, VP of Product Marketing with Kony for a live webinar discussion that will challenge your pre-conceptions about low-code and open your eyes to how you can leverage it to transform the essence of how you engage with your customers.

They will:

• Discuss the unique attributes of low-code that make it the ideal tool for experiential transformation
• Reveal how some organizations are already using it to create competitive differentiation
• Explore how Kony’s “Without Limits” approach is putting developers in the transformational driver’s seat.

Presenters:

Charles Araujo (LinkedIn profile) Principal Analyst Intellyx; is internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise & author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. Charles writes, speaks & advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. Also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation;  Charles is a sought after keynote speaker, a regular contributor to CIO.com & has been quoted or published in Time, InformationWeek, CIO Insight, NetworkWorld Computerworld, USA Today, & Forbes.

Mike Thompson (LinkedIn profile) VP of Product Marketing Kony for Quantum’s application development platform. Prior to joining Kony, Mike led the Systems Management business at SolarWinds focused on monitoring applications, servers, virtualization and storage. Mike has also led product management and product marketing teams for IBM covering cloud management and automation, storage management, and high availability products.  He has an MBA from the University of Texas and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Washington State University.

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To Infinity & Beyond:
Transforming The Customer Experience Without Limits
(With Low-Code)

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Live Webinar May 29th, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Today’s service environment requires a different type of frontline rep. Customers are more demanding than ever, and yet most organizations still hire candidates based on the same set of skills and abilities they were looking for five or even 15 years ago.

The latest Gartner research on frontline talent management revealed that a certain type of frontline rep performs significantly better when it comes to delivering a low-effort customer service experience. I

n this webinar, Lauren Villeneuve (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Principal, Advisory & Sarah Dibble, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Principal, Advisory; will explain why optimizing your hiring and talent management processes to focus on this type of rep will help your organization meet increasing customer demands without overburdening company resources.

Discussion Topics:

• Why skill sets and abilities we look for in frontline reps are often outdated
• Characteristics that closely correlate to a low-effort service experience
• Strategies to source, identify, hire, and onboard high-potential customer service reps

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Introducing The New High Performing Customer Service Rep

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