Live Webinar August 26th, 2021 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514)

Testing too often gets no respect—too little time, too few resources, and increasingly omission from projects.

It may be hard to admit, but these all signal your testing process is perceived as failing to deliver needed value.

The key to gaining the respect you crave is to manage your testing process proactively so it cost-effectively produces results that everyone recognizes as valuable.

Learn:

• Identifying your REAL testing process and why managing it matters
• Keys to improving the value your testing produces
• Making it work in Agile projects, even ones without “testers”

Presenter: Robin Goldsmith (LinkedIn profile) author of Discovering Real Business Requirements for Software Project Success,  advises & trains business and systems professional on risk-based Proactive Software Quality Assurance and Testing™, requirements, REAL ROI™, metrics, outsourcing, project and process management.Robin is a subject expert for TechTarget’s SearchSoftwareQuality.com and a subject expert/reviewer for the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK v2).  Robin  writes the Unconventional Wisdom blog on TestHuddle.com and is publishing his next book shortly – Cut Creep—Put Business Back in Business Analysis to Discover REAL Business Requirements for Agile, ATDD, and Other Project Success. Make sure to check out GoProManagement.com Robin’s site!

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Increase The Value Your Test Process Delivers

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Live Webinar August 26th, 2021, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Inevitably in today’s world, speed to market and first to market strategies with the apps and services that run the world are top of mind for almost every development and product leader.

At the same time, no company can afford to sacrifice user experience just to ship new products out the door quickly.

To ship with confidence, more testing in staging and production environments must be done in less time. Faster development also means greater iteration.

Tests cannot become flaky due to constant and rapid changes to code repos, user stories, and databases. It is the only way that apps and services can be super responsive to customer needs and new market opportunities.

Although UI testing has come a long way since the first Selenium scripts were written, there are many parts of modern apps and services that UI testing can only validate inefficiently or not at all. Faster releases only exacerbate this final QA gap.

In this webinar, Sangit Patel, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Engineer at Sauce Labs, reveals how easily you can add API functional and end-to-end testing to existing workflows to close the gap. Sangit also demonstrates how replacing some UI testing with API testing can shorten testing times by 40% or more.

Key Takeaways:

1. Testing must never be a bottleneck: Supplement UI testing with modern API testing to significantly lower risk, boost developer velocity and increase certainty in stable release schedules.
2. API testing must provide complete coverage: Leverage best practices for building and automating API functional, end-to-end, and load tests from the most popular API spec formats including Postman collections, Swagger, and OpenAPI.
3. Get an exclusive sneak preview of the latest API Fortress platform from Sauce Labs that was built from the cloud up for developers and QAs who want a fast, simple and scalable solution to add modern API testing to UI testing.

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Closing The Final QA Gap: UI Testing Needs API Testing

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Live Webinar – August 24th 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Global Knowledge UK  (REP 1999)

Using Palo Alto Networks, PAN-OS, enterprises can build an IT Security Platform capable of delivering protection against all stages of the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle.

From Reconnaissance to Act on Objective, the PAN-OS Single-Pass Parallel Processing (SP3) engine combines efficient throughput with maximum data protection.

In this 1-hour webinar Ryan will describe how the SP3 Architecture can increase network traffic visibility and enable you to control your environment.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• What is the Palo Alto Networks “SP3” process?
• What does “Zero Trust” mean in network security?
• How does “PAN-OS” stay “current” with today’s threat landscape?
• What options are available to “test-drive” the PAN-OS against my IT Network?

Presenter: Ryan Sharpston (LinkedIn profile) Senior Technical Instructor joined Global Knowledge after 20+ years of telecom field installation and maintenance experience. Currently, Ryan trains Global Knowledge students world-wide on Network Security and Telecom Platforms. His courses include Palo Alto Networks, SonicWALL, and Avaya technologies. He also serves as the lead SME for GK integration and lab design for new course/environment updates. Ryan lives in Dallas Texas.

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Palo Alto Networks: Firewall Essentials

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Live Webinar August 23rd, 2021, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic planning should be a time of innovation and inspiration that solves current challenges and anticipates future success.

However, that is not the experience of most government CIOs, who have to juggle politics, administration changes, federated governance and complex funding models across diverse stakeholders.

In this webinar Cathleen E. Blanton, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Research VP will focus on what matters most for government CIOs and how you can efficiently and effectively use your agency’s strategic planning activities to elevate your value through pragmatic digital leadership.

Discussion Topics:

• Craft a good government IT strategy that has the right impact on the right people
• Strategy, strategic plan or roadmap: What’s the difference and why should you care
• Find out where and how you should start

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Craft A Pragmatic Government It Strategy That Resonates & Innovates

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Online Webinar  – Recorded February 17, 2021
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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The 3P’s to Success (Purpose, People, Performance) is a business philosophy promoted in the book ‘The Business of Portfolio Management – Boosting Organizational Value’.

The project economy can scale upwards so that value-based portfolio management becomes ‘a way of doing business’.

However, that needs to be integrated business objectives. That is best done via a modern light version of a balanced scorecard for planning and reporting purposes.

In this presentation Iain, Brian & Kimberly are focussed on the design, development, and deployment of a modern light balanced scorecard that allows for organizational-wide performance to be shown and communicated. EPMO and portfolio leaders in particular will benefit from its content and messages.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the organizational context of a BSC.
• Appreciate its contribution towards the achievement of organizational strategy and business objectives.
• Review and adopt a 6-step plan for implementation.
• Learn about a portfolio management approach.
• Appreciate the opportunities for EPMO and portfolio leaders.
• Gain insight on the various processes, tools and techniques that are applicable.

Presenters:

Kimberly Johnson (LinkedIn profile),

Brian Cohn (LinkedIn profile)

Iain Fraser (LinkedIn profile) understands the need for organisational change towards entities that are focused on exploring, planning, and delivering business value. Author of the best-selling business book ‘The Business of Portfolio Management – Boosting Organizational Value’. Today he uses his 30+ year professional and leadership experiences to craft his speaking, training, mentoring, and professional director activities.

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Determining A Balanced Scorecard:
Improving Business Performance & Reporting

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Live Webinar August 26th, 2021 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

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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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The 15 Essential Practices for Employee Experience:
What People Leaders Need To Know Now

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