Live Webinar – April 28th, 2020 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

When New Orleans became a hot spot for coronavirus, the city’s emergency response had to rapidly adapt and scale its operations to meet the changing needs of its communities, employees and customers.

Tyrell Morris (LinkedIn profile) the executive director of Orleans Parish Communication District, will join Ankit Shah (LinkedIn profile) of low-code platform provider Quick Base, to discuss how Morris and his team are leveraging that platform to:

1. Track incidents in real-time through their new self-quarantine registry, which allows symptomatic and self-isolating citizens to inform the parish
2. Provide real-time visibility to leadership by creating dashboards that integrate with the city’s GIS system for New Orleans’ mayor
3. Help the community share information through their new reporting system, where citizens can report illegal evictions and non-compliant businesses

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New Orleans 911 Scales COVID-19 Response With Quick Base

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Live Webinar – April 29th, 2020 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Due to the positive response to MPUG’s previous session regarding the use of macros in Microsoft Project, Ira Brown, a recognized Microsoft Project expert, will build on his last demonstration to show you even more exciting ways that macros can be used to automate this application.

The session, which is geared toward the Microsoft Project business user rather than a technical programmer, will provide practical, real-world illustrations for solving the common challenges a user faces when working with Microsoft Project.

Topics include:

• Recording and editing basic macros
• Assigning a macro to a button in the ribbon
• Creating a “zoom in/zoom out” macro to adjust text size in your project
• Creating automation to count the number of displayed tasks after a filter has been applied
• Creating automation to increase or decrease the work for a task by a specific percentage
• Creating a project status report in Microsoft Word
• Distributing your macros and custom ribbon to others

Attendees will receive a copy of the presentation materials and all of the sample macros created during this webinar!

Presenter: Ira Brown (LinkedIn profile) is the President and CEO of Project Widgets, a Microsoft Project Partner specializing in add-on products, implementation services, integration, training, and custom software development for Microsoft Project. He is a is a recognized Microsoft Project expert with over twenty years of experience.

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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Beyond Macros Revisited:
Automating Microsoft Project For Non-Techies Part 2

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Live Webinar – April 30th 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

In this session Graeme Purves will start with a general introduction to Microsoft SQL Server editions and versions.

Graeme will then highlight several scalability features of SQL Server. Next we will look at the High Availability Options of SQL Server.

Finally Graeme will look at Azure SQL deployment and Availability solutions.

In this webinar, you will learn:

1. Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server
2. What’s New in Microsoft SQL Server
3. Scalability
4. Performance
5. High Availability
6. Azure Options
7. Courses and Certification

Presenter: Graeme Purves  (LinkedIn profile) has been a technical instructor with IBM and Global Knowledge for 20+ years. He holds several certifications on a broad range of technologies and platforms:

1. MCSE Windows Server NT4 through 2016
2. MCDBA/MCSE SQL Server 6.5 Trough 2016
3. MCT Since 1997
4. Salesforce Administrator
5. CLE SUSE Linux
6. CNE/CNI Netware 3.2 trough 6.5
7. CIW Security Analyst

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Overview Of Microsoft SQL Server & High Availability Options

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Live Webinar April 28th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

• Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see how our teams will be working next year?
• How about five years from now?
• Will your team be twice the size, or half? What will your company’s expectations around automation be?
• Will we all be replaced by robots?

Although we can’t offer you a time-traveling DeLorean, we do have two experts who will present their predictions for the short- and long-term trends for testing teams.

Together Alan Richardson and Joe Colantonio have a breadth of experience working with test engineers and developers, and they will be able to shine a light into what we should expect to unfold for testers in the future.

Joe & Alan will talk about:

• What the testing teams of 2021 and beyond will look like
• The ways we can make sure our teams are keeping on top of demand
• How shifts in the way companies approach digitalization will affect testing teams
• How testers can prove their worth

Can’t attend the live event? No worries! Register now and we will send you the recording.

Presenters:

Alan Richardson (LinkedIn profile) Independent Agile Coach / Consultant, has 20+ years of professional IT experience, working as a programmer and at every level of the testing hierarchy from tester through head of testing. He helps improve your use of automation, agile processes, and exploratory technical testing. Author of four books including Dear Evil Tester: Provocative Advice That Could Change Your Approach To Testing Forever, Java For Testers: Learn Java fundamentals fast and Automating and Testing a REST API: A Case Study in API testing using: Java, REST Assured, Postman, Tracks, cURL and HTTP Proxies . Alan also creates online training courses to help people learn Technical Web Testing and Selenium WebDriver with Java. Alan posts his writing & training videos on EvilTester.com, and CompendiumDev.co.uk.

Joe Colantonio (LinkedIn profile) Founder of Test Talks Podcast,  TestGuild, a blog; & Guild Conferences Author, speaker, and test automation architect at a Fortune 100 company Joe is dedicated to helping you succeed with all your full-stack E2E automation, performance, and security testing efforts.

Click to register for:
Back To The Future:
Exploring How Software Testing Is Going To Change

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Live Webinar April 28th, 2020 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Technobility

It feels almost redundant to say this: we are living through what feels like an enormously unprecedented period. It’s not, wholly. The world has seen crises like this before.

But not often.

The magnitude—and the visibility—of the Covid-19 pandemic has taken over our imaginations, and our lives, in a way that few saw coming, and that many of us are struggling to manage.

1. Where will this end?
2. What does it mean for our lives and our work?
3. How do we navigate the unknown? And
4. How do we make sense of our current reality and prepare ourselves for what comes next?

These are hard questions to answer, and the specific answers will likely be different for different communities, different organizations, and different countries. We are living in a shared experience that is nonetheless being experienced differently.

In an effort to figure out how to make sense of where we are and where we are going,  Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management; revisits some of his earlier exploration on liminality.

He dives into what liminal means, and it relates to the reality and circumstances of our current global situation.

Most importantly, he unpacks what liminality can offer us as guidance for navigating—and living with—the uncertainty that we currently find ourselves in. Join us for an exploration of where we are now, and how we can use the tools of liminality to think about and navigate our current circumstances differently.

As always, spread the word to those who might be interested in this webinar. You’re welcome to point entire associations, companies and small countries to these links.

This webinar series is a de Jager & Co Limited &
Interthink Consulting  production

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We Are All Liminal Now!

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Live Webinar April 30th, 2020, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a majority of organizations to close office locations and facilities worldwide.

Leaders are now developing steps to take to bring their employees back to work safely and efficiently. Discover who should be involved in the returning to work process, the varying perspectives involved, and how organizations are preparing their facilities, leaders, employees, and policies for an effective return to work.

In this webinar an expert Gartner  cross-functional panel to address return-to-work challenges and how to solve them collaboratively.

Discussion Topics:

• Key components of a return-to-work strategy and decision-making
• Triggers to know when it is time to start the return to work
• Challenges and changes for human resources, real estate, legal and technology

Panelists:

Brian Kropp (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Distinguished VP
Elisabeth Joyce (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP, Team Manager
Igne Pupelyte (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director, Advisory
Drew Tanenbaum (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director, Advisory
Nicole Kyle (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Director, Advisory
Greg Li (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Director, Advisory

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

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Leading Through COVID-19:
Cross-Functional Strategy For Returning To The Workplace

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