Live Webinar April 2nd, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Exploratory testing is a skilled, multidisciplinary style of testing. It treats test design, test execution, and learning as parallel, mutually supportive activities, so testers can find things they don’t know that they don’t know.

Exploratory testing isn’t new, but it has evolved thanks to agile methodologies and test automation.

Being able to self-manage your testing work and your learning—making discovery and reflection a habit—is what differentiates skilled exploratory testing from randomly putting activities together.

Exploratory testing frames thinking around the system and creating artifacts to support testing.

An hour of testing can be completely different in different contexts. With exploratory testing, we make the best possible use of our limited time with intelligent testing that delivers results.

You will learn:

1. What exploratory testing is and how it is done
2. Why you should include exploratory testing in your projects
3. How exploratory testing is conducted in agile environments, and its connection with test automation
4. How to deliver results in limited time with intelligent testing

Presenters:

Sérgio Freire (LinkedIn profile) is the Head of Solution Architecture for Xray, a Test Management app for Jira. Sérgio works closely with many different teams worldwide to help them achieve great, high-quality, testable products. He believes that by understanding how organizations work, processes & quality can be improved while development and testing can merge and act as a unique team, with a common goal: provide the best product that stakeholders need.

Maaret Pyhäjärvi (LinkedIn profile) Feedback Fairy& Lead Quality Engineer F-Secure, actually identifies herself as an empirical technologist, tester and programmer, catalyst for improvement, author / speaker,  community facilitator and conference organizer. You can catch her latest thoughts on her blog.

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Exploratory Testing Essentials

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Live Webinar – April 2nd, 2020 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

While there has always been a need to show the value of projects, today, there is even greater pressure to show value in terms that executives appreciate.

Sometimes that pressure comes before an investment is approved. Other times, there is a need to forecast an ROI based on participant perception of program content.

Occasionally, it is important to determine value of a program based on the predictive validity of test data. And, now and then, forecasting ROI on improved proficiency with critical skills is a useful pursuit as it helps demonstrate value in mathematical terms, when those all-important business measures are unavailable.

Forecasting ROI provides an indicator of the potential success of a program. It doesn’t replace the need to demonstrate the actual results. But it is a useful tool and one worth adding to the training evaluation toolbox.

Join Patti Phillips, CEO of ROI Institute, and Katharine Aldana, Learning Design Manager at Verizon as they describe four simple ways to forecast ROI for your programs.

After attending this webinar, you will be able to:

1. Explain the rationale for using ROI on a pre-project basis.
2. Present the forecast in a convincing way to senior executives.
3. Use forecasting as a routine process to secure project approval and build relationships with clients.

Presenters:

Katharine Aldana (LinkedIn profile) Learning /Development/Design Manager & Associate ROI Institue is a Design Manager for Verizon, responsible for training needs analysis, learning experience design strategy, and effectiveness evaluation for 3500+ employees. Katharine completed her ROI certification & has partnered with the ROI Institute, Inc., facilitating classes to broaden organizations’ understanding of the ROI methodology & how the framework can be applied early, during the initial planning process, to improve training effectiveness- not just measure it.

Patti Phillips, (LinkedIn profile) Ph.D.Is president / CEO of the ROI Institute. She is an expert in measurement and evaluation,and author of Measuring Leadership Development: Quantify Your Program’s Impact and ROI on Organizational Performance. Patti applies ROI Methodology to leadership development programs, coaching initiatives. Patti also authored over 30 books including her latest books: The Bottom Line on ROI: Basics, Benefits, & Barriers to Measuring Training & Performance Improvement and Measuring the Success of Coaching (to be released 2012, ASTD).

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Forecasting ROI:
4 Approaches To Assess The Potential Value
Of Your Training Programs

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Live Webinar April 1st, 2020 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

The COVID-19 pandemic is like an encroaching enemy on a healthcare system that’s already under stress and functioning at near-maximum capacity.

To keep that enemy from gaining any more strength, caregivers are steeling themselves on the front lines while others move to remote locations and do their level best to create economic value as they work from home.

For both groups — our heroic caregivers in the field and the rest of us adapting to life at a social distance — it has never been more important to support each other and to ensure that our tools, technology, and workflows help us do so in the ways that matter most to keeping us healthy, sane, and connected.

In this respect, our technology has been failing our people even before this crisis hit. It has been too focused on burdening us with processes without empowering the experiences that lead to engagement, fulfillment, and true productivity. We have quickly lost the luxury of allowing this problem to persist.

In this webcast Scott Rigby PhD (LinkedIn profile) Behavioral Scientist, Founder/CEO, MotivationWorks  will demonstrate in practical and proven ways that will fight against burnout and build connection — even when working remotely — by ensuring we are prioritizing the needs and well-being of the employees who make success happen, both during this crisis and after it’s over.

This is an opportunity to finally commit to putting those needs at the center of your approach.

There are scalable solutions available today that can be deployed to all employees — remote or otherwise — to support their basic psychological needs by measuring what matters and inspiring actions proven to nourish core needs for autonomy, mastery, and relatedness.

Solutions that give clear feedback and support to managers and employees alike to ensure the connection, collaboration, and competence to thrive together.

These caring solutions are informed by the best behavioral science, proven to provide relief for burnout and disengagement, and supportive of a healthier adoption and use of technology to empower true success.

In this webcast, Scott Rigby a leader behind this behavioral science model will explain how to make use of this science and deploy technology in the right way to help your people NOW, when they — and all of us — need these crucial supports more than ever.

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Overwhelmed Employees, Burned-Out Clinicians, &
The COVID-19 Pandemic:
Strategies To Help Your People NOW!

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Live Webinar March 31st, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Test strategies should be as varied and tailor-made as the teams and organizations that need them, but far too often we see the same boilerplate and cliched strategy documents (if there is a strategy at all).

Strategy documents have developed a reputation for being too broad or vague to inspire action, or too inflexible to accommodate changing requirements. As a result, testing teams either lose sight of the broader vision or abandon the strategy document altogether.

We Can Change That!

Join Adam Satterfield, (LinkedIn profile) to learn useful tips for building a better test strategy, along with a helpful metaphor that can inspire a more creative approach.

Learn how to:

1. Lead a strategy session that encourages creative thinking and helps team members develop a shared sense of purpose
2. Create a solid test strategy that is flexible enough for agile, SAFe, and DevOps environments
3. Develop a layered approach to test automation that offers a solid foundation and accommodates additions and alterations

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.

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A Creative Approach To Building Better Test Strategies

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Live Webinar – April 2nd 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

In this series of webinars on Microsoft Azure, we begin with an explanation of exactly what a Cloud is. To fully understand and appreciate what Azure is, it is important that we understand what a Cloud is and what it is not.

In future webinars, Bert will examine how to migrate into Azure and then study the various services available in Azure.

Learn:

• Learn the definition of the word ”Cloud”
• Examine how Microsoft Azure fulfils that definition
• Examine how the Cloud is different than on-premise environments
• Examine what services in a Cloud are the same as on-premise networks

Presenter: T. Bert Penney BSc Throughout his career, he gained extensive knowledge and experience in various areas, including project management, technical support and software development using Oracle, Powersoft, Novell, and Microsoft products. Bert has also taught various computer courses at the post-secondary level, including software systems analysis and design methods, Microsoft network administration, Microsoft Visual Basic and MS Access programming and EDP auditing.

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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals:
Jump Start Your Azure Proficiency

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Live Webinar March 31st, 2020, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Every year, the most progressive senior research & development (R&D) executives partner with Gartner to share their expertise on the trends they must address in the year ahead.

In this webinar, Atul Dighe (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Advisory, will reveal the results from the 2020 R&D survey.

1. Walk away with best practices and insights for tackling these top priorities.
2. Find out how your 2020 objectives compare to what the survey finds.
3. Benchmark and assess your R&D plans,
4. Ask your questions on key trends, and …
5. Ensure you move fast and right across the coming months.

Discussion Topics:

• R&D executives’ most important challenges to address in 2020
• Where R&D executives anticipate they’ll need the most help
• Benchmark analysis of R&D objectives and plans for 2020

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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2020 Priorities For R&D Leaders

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