Live Webinar – July 22nd, 2020 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 – Guests Free (Open To The Public)

There is increasing recognition that Schedule Risk Analysis has an important part to play in producing more realistic forecast for future work completion.

There are two reasons that organizations still use to justify not adopting the technique:

1. There is a fear that the additional work to implement schedule risk analysis will outweigh the benefits.
2. The schedule is often imposed by the client and the contractor should just make do and deliver.

In reality, schedule risk analysis can be implemented without a massive re-estimation effort to capture three-point estimates and being forewarned regarding issues with client schedules gives an opportunity for addressing those issues before they occur.

In this session John Owen CEO of Barbecana Inc, will show how Barbecana’s Full Monte Schedule Risk Analysis add-on for Microsoft Project can improve your understanding of the uncertainty in any schedule before issues arise.

Topics will include initial implementation, sensitivity analysis, modelling risk mitigation, and using schedule risk analysis with Agile methodologies.

Presenter:  John Owen (LinkedIn profile) CEO of Barbecana Inc,  has 30+ years of experience with using, supporting, and developing project management software tools across multiple industries.  Before joining Barbecana John was Product Director for Scheduling and Risk tools at Deltek.  Barbecana specializes in producing software for schedule risk analysis with the aim of helping customers improve confidence in their schedules.

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Making Light Work Of Schedule Risk Analysis

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Live Webinar July 20th, 2020 – 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 month’s webinar, RBCS  is happy to welcome guest speaker, Adam Leon Smith.

AI is a complex topic and is the biggest technical renaissance to impact testing for at least two decades. Adam will talk about intrinsic quality issues with AI, challenges in testing AI-based systems, and new techniques and methods. In addition, he will cover emerging AI-enhanced testing tools that are yet to get much coverage.

Presenter: Adam Leon Smith (LinkedIn profile) CTO Dragonfly, with 20+ years experience is focused on testing, quality and AI. Adam works in environments, development, testing, quality and project delivery.  In addition to commercial experience, Adam is the chair of the British Computer Society’s Special Interest Group in software testing, and works with international standardization committees developing AI and quality-related standards.

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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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Quality & AI-Based Systems

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Live Webinar July 22nd, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

DevOps processes have become critical for organizations to release software as quickly as necessary in today’s fast-paced economy. The very name of “DevOps” calls out developers and operations.

But where does QA fit into that mix?

The answer is that QA plays an equal role in DevOps, and a shift to DevOps actually presents an opportunity for QA teams to play a more strategic role than previously alongside development and operations.

Join this web seminar to gain strategies for how to involve QA in your DevOps methodology and make them a strategic partner.

You will learn how to:

• Help define quality in DevOps
• Get proactive with design
• Strategize with test automation

Presenters:

Dave Denver (LinkedIn profile) Applause,  has 15+ years of experience in software engineering, consulting and DevOps implementations. He spent years in the financial sector building high performing DevOps and Agile teams, with a focus on quality. Dave made the jump to Solutions Consulting when he joined Perfecto in 2017 prior to coming to Applause.

Chris Doucet (LinkedIn profile) Applause, has over a decade of experience in software engineering. Chris was previously a solutions engineer at Electric Cloud, where he promoted DevOps best practices and techniques around release orchestration and deployment automation.

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

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QA’s Strategic Role In DevOps

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Live Webinar July 22nd, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Companies are looking to improve digital and low-cost channels as they feel pressure to optimize costs.

Yet despite adding new channels and capabilities, customers seem to demand more while cost improvements fail to fully materialize.

In this webinar  Devin Poole (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Advisory Director & Andrew Schumacher (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Principal, Advisory look at best practices from companies who have cracked the code and are delivering on the digital promise.

Discussion Topics:

• What a successful digital customer service strategy looks like
• What channels and capabilities you should invest in and which to exit
• How to make progress towards your customer experience and cost goals

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Transition To A Digital-First Service Organization

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Live Webinar July 23rd, 2020, 10:00 am – 11:00 am  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Organizations navigate heightened stakeholder expectations to take a stand on social and political issues, most recently and vividly illustrated by corporate statements condemning racism and pledging action. For many enterprises, engaging with racism and other societal issues feels difficult but necessary.

In this webinar Dean Vitté (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Director, Advisory & Elizabeth Kilbride (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Specialist, Research will delve into how corporate communications leaders can confidently establish and message their organization’s position for issues on which stakeholders may have deeply felt and divergent views.

Discussion Topics:

• Stakeholder expectations for organizations to engage with societal issues
• How audiences respond to organizational engagement with societal issues
• How you can maximize the positive response to your engagement with societal issues

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Establish Your Organizational Stance
On Societal Issues Like Racism

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Now Recorded

Live Webinar – July 23rd 2020 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Live Webinar – July 23rd 2020 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Panel Debate With Senior Leaders

You will hear about the key issues for senior leader involved in the governance of change from Financial Services, Postal, Oil and Gas, and Transport sectors.

You will also debate/discuss their views on the key findings and recommendations from APM‘s recent sponsor survey of project professionals involved in governance of change.

The finding and the recommendations from the sponsor survey include:

• The role of sponsors in the governance of change
• How well sponsors are held to account for successful outcomes of change
• The need for a sponsor competency framework
• Benefits of and approach to sponsor training
• Next steps for sponsorship in the project profession

This webinar is part of an engagement series throughout July to present the results of the sponsor survey and discuss/debate the implications with project professionals with experience in these areas working in the Financial Services, Postal, Oil and Gas, and Transport sectors.

Part 1 of the series:

• Sponsorship: How to enhance the role within the project profession

The APM Governance Specific Interest Group is engaged in improving investment outcomes through better governance of change, and promoting effective sponsorship is crucial in achieving this. APM has a number of publications and support material available through the APM for sponsors to help them achieve more successful business outcomes from major change.

Panelists:

Tim Carroll  (LinkedIn profile) practiced engineering & project management for the petrochemical sector early in his career. He then moved to the IT sector & over the past 20+ years until his retirement he worked in the financial service sector, as Group Head of Project Management for Standard Chartered Bank. Recently he has focused on regulatory change programmes including Basel II rules for risk management, US tax reporting regimes, the EU GDPR data protection regulations and the UK financial regulator’s Senior Managers Regime, which imposed governance requirements upon the organisation and its most senior leaders.

Nick Gray (LinkedIn profile) has spent his career working on complex major infrastructure programmes in the UK sponsoring & delivering enhancements at all stages of the lifecycle under a range of governance and management frameworks. His roots go back to London Underground as a graduate Civil Engineer and then Docklands Light Railway project managing a diverse range of jobs.  His highlights include sponsoring the iconic redevelopment of Kings Cross station and sponsoring the £5bn Thameslink Infrastructure Programme guiding 100 component projects as well as leading delivery of £780m of enabling activities.  He is now Programme Director covering risk and assurance in the Centre of Excellence for capital delivery.

Sarah Johnson, (LinkedIn profile) CEO Restoration & Renewal Sponsor Body; has spent the majority of her career working in senior roles in major infrastructure projects. She joined the R&R Programme as CEO for the Sponsor Body from High Speed 2 for the submission of a Bill to Parliament for the next phase of the scheme. In her current role, Sarah has overall accountability for the R&R Programme, overseeing a delivery authority and managing the relationship with both Houses of Parliament to determine the overall requirements for R&R.

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The Executive Sponsor Role

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