Live Webinar June 24th, 2021 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Why do so many software systems and physical products seem to have been designed by someone who has never used a product like that before?

This presentation explores that mystery!

You’ll see numerous examples of thoughtlessly designed products that violate nine principles of good design, along with some examples of particularly effective designs.

Studying such products reveals many lessons that can help designers, product development managers, and even consumers.

You’ll also see multiple techniques to help designers craft products with a focus on how consumers will use them, not just on their features.

Whether you’re a designer or just an interested and curious consumer — like me — you’ll find this presentation insightful and entertaining.

Presenter: Karl E. Wiegers (LinkedIn profile) Principal Consultant Process Impact has provided training and consulting services worldwide on many aspects of software development, management and process improvement.

Karl is the author of many books including:

• Software Requirements 2
• Practical Project Initiation: A Handbook with Tools (Best Practices)
  
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture,
• Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide
• Software Requirements
• More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice

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The Thoughtless Design Of Everyday Things

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Live Webinar – June 22nd, 2021- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

This question often comes up: “I am a project manager and our company is moving to agile or Scrum, does that mean I will now become a Scrum Master?”

In response, The answer-er hesitates and then give the unwelcomed answer of “It depends.”

And it really does depend.

1. The Scrum Master role is deep and wide.
2. Scrum Masters need to support their teams while working with the rest of the people in their organizations to build awareness and enable greater agility.
3. A Scrum Master’s job is not to manage a project or deliver status reports — duties that people associate with the role of a traditional project manager.
4. As a matter of fact, Scrum Masters may not get involved in status reports at all.

In this webinar, Eric Naiburg, (LinkedIn profile) COO, Scrum.org, will discuss the potential move to an agile way of working, the role of the Scrum Master, and what that means for people currently in the role of Project Manager.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenter: Eric Naiburg, Chief Operating Officer, Scrum.org &
co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortal. Eric is currently responsible for all aspects of marketing, support, outbound communications and operations for Scrum.org. Previously he held the role of director of marketing for INetU (now ViaWest). Before INetU, Eric was program director at IBM and Rational Software responsible for application lifecycle management (ALM), DevOps and Agile solutions Eric has held product management and marketing roles with other organizations including: Ivar Jacobson Consulting, CAST Software and Logic Works Inc. (Acquired by Platinum Technologies and CA), as product manager for ERwin.

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Should A Project Manager Become A Scrum Master?

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Live Webinar – June 24th, 2021 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

While modernization is essential to staying competitive in today’s IT landscape, businesses are modernizing at a much faster pace than the software needed to keep up with them.

74% of organizations fail to complete legacy system modernization. Whether attempting a full migration to microservices or trying to unwind a dependency on an old, expensive database, some analysis is required.

Having worked on teams modernizing legacy applications to microservices, we’ve noticed the same patterns keep resurfacing. If the data model is relatively clean, modernizing applications is fairly straightforward. If the data model is a mess, what’s built on top of it probably is too.

An application’s data model is its destiny.

Join SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein (LinkedIn profile) will moderate a discussion focusing on:

1. Mapping the data-to-code relationships
2. The impact data models have on the codebase
3. Why it’s important to understand the data model before modernization

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It’s Data First When Modernizing Applications

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Live Webinar June 24th, 2021, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

A Panel Discussion

User experience (UX) emerged over the last decade as a core competency for digital product teams.

It helped in driving the vision, strategy, product-market fit, screen design and overall experience. However, UX teams have yet to fully adopt agile practices that have been proven to increase the value and quality of product releases.

As a result, digital product teams suffer from miscommunication, poorly articulated features, unnecessary enhancements and misguided strategic decisions.

What if UX teams could integrate better with product and development teams and align to continuous delivery practices?

In this webinar,  Brent Stewart (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst & Arun Batchu (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst discuss DesignOps practices that enable software engineering leaders and their teams to establish operational compatibility between UX, product management and development, promote communication and formalize innovation.

Discussion Topics:

• Importance of user experience (UX) for digital product teams
• How DesignOps can bridge UX, product management and development
• Make innovation a formalized part of your software engineering process

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Bridge The Design-Development Divide

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