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

COVID-19 presents a rare opportunity for the CIO to review everything from strategy down — a perfect time to revisit the Information and Technology (I&T) operating model to assure it is resilient enough to survive uncertainty. CIOs must be brave and accelerate operating model evolution from an efficiency focus to achieve sustainable cost optimization and digital transformation objectives.

Cost-cutting directives can cause CIOs to lose sight of the need to build an I&T operating model that can execute the new or emerging business strategy when the crisis is over.

In this webinar Deb Curtis (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst will help you look forward and move ahead by establishing a service- or value-optimizing I&T operating model that is focused on strategic business outcomes and is adaptive to cope with uncertainty.

Discussion Topics:

• What is an information and technology (I&T) operating model
• How an I&T operating model is connected to digital ambition
• How to overcome I&T operating model transformational challenges

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

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Ensure Your IT Operating Model
Is Resilient Enough To Survive Uncertainty

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Live Webinar – August 13th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – August 13th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

• Does your organisation sometimes struggle to sequence work?
• Would a simple model help you to make priority decisions?

If so, this is the webinar for you!

During this session Kay Overend, (LinkedIn profile) Radtac Principal Consultant – SPCT Candidate & Neru Obhrai, (LinkedIn profile) Radtac Principal Consultant – SPCT Candidate will briefly introduce the Scaled Agile Framework and the Lean Portfolio Management competency.

Kay & Neru will provide a practical guidance for using the SAFe recommended Weighted-Shortest-Job-First model to help you sequence your portfolio backlog.

They will discuss some of the tools that can be used to enable flow and increase visibility, and also demonstrate how one of SAFe’s key practices (Weighted Shortest Job First) can be applied to help you sequence your backlog for maximum economic benefit.

They will also share some practical next steps and recommendations about how you can take this learning back to your organisation.

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Sequencing Work For Maximum Economic Benefit
Using The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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Live Webinar August 10th, 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)

1. You know that testing and quality is important, right?
   • Okay, prove it.
2. Exactly how much money do you think testing saves?
   • Yes, that’s right saves.

Testing is often thought of as a regrettable cost center, something that must be funded to avoid some dimly-understood “bad stuff that could happen.”

In fact, software testing and other quality assurance activities save money. Typically, every dollar spent on testing saves eight dollars in the long run.

In this One Key Idea session, Rex will demonstrate the use of cost of quality, a technique known for over 50 years, using a real world case study and a spreadsheet you can download and use that same day.

Know The Value Of Your Testers!

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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Measuring The Value Of Testing Using Cost Of Quality

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Online Webinar – Recorded May 12, 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

No need to explain that times are crazy…we all get it. Organizations are desperate for timely and pertinent instruction as their people work from home.

It’s great that L&D is the function your staff demands but the budgets are slashed. Instead of doing the obvious – converting  your existing workshops into blah blah webinars – L&D must be innovative, nimble and uplifting to deliver quality learning while keeping the cost low.

LECTURE AS A LAST RESORT is still and always critical for growing practical skills!

Join Lou to discuss how great L&D practitioners are avoiding  ‘dialing it in’. Instead, learn how L&D can quickly and cheaply create new ways of helping people do their jobs well.

You’ll learn how to:

• Create learning experiences quickly within impossible situations
• Insert yourself into your organization before they know they need you
• Project confidence, caring and flexibility to your customers even when you don’t feel like it
• Build based on need: find relevant topic in new ways, not the same old stuff you already have
• Launch L&D drip campaigns using a strong topic and ongoing web artifacts

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou delivers learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

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L&D To The Rescue

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